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Baba Anujka |
2019-09-19 |
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33,688 |
2,807.3 |
... that Serbian poisoner
Baba Anujka (pictured), aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor?
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LGBT-free zone |
2019-09-11 |
|
21,556 |
1,796.3 |
... that as of August 2019, around thirty
LGBT-free zones have been declared in Poland, including four south-eastern
voivodeships (depicted on map)?
|
Race to grow the hottest pepper |
2019-09-10 |
|
12,878 |
1,073.2 |
... that according to
Guinness World Records, the
Carolina Reaper (pictured) is currently the leader in the
race to grow the hottest pepper?
|
Jew with a coin |
2019-09-03 |
|
12,676 |
1,056.3 |
... that in some Polish homes, an
image of a Jew holding a coin (example pictured) hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the
Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
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Patricia Ortega
|
2019-09-08
|
|
6,828
|
742.1
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... that Venezuelan director
Patricia Ortega (pictured) has drawn strength from her film
Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals?
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Being Impossible
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2,890
|
314.1
|
Total |
9,718 |
1,056.2
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Salomon Klass |
2019-09-29 |
|
24,595 |
1,024.8 |
... that when a German colonel found out that Finnish captain
Salomon Klass (pictured) was Jewish, he said "I have nothing personal against you as a Jew" and gave him the
Hitler salute?
|
Joseph J. Himmel |
2019-09-06 |
|
12,135 |
1,011.2 |
... that
Joseph J. Himmel (pictured), once
president of Georgetown University, lived out his final years as a
recluse in the university's archives?
|
Bernard Adolph Schriever |
2019-09-22 |
|
23,392 |
974.7 |
... that when
Bernard Schriever (pictured) was promoted to general in 1961, General
Curtis LeMay looked at his four stars and said that had it been up to him, Schriever would not be wearing them?
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Sang de boeuf glaze |
2019-09-13 |
|
10,730 |
894.2 |
... that American potter
Hugh C. Robertson was left "nearly penniless" in 1889 by his years of attempts to recreate the Chinese porcelain
sang de boeuf glaze (example pictured)?
|
María José Cristerna |
2019-09-13 |
|
9,612 |
801.0 |
... that Mexican lawyer
María José Cristerna, known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
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Brooklyn Army Terminal |
2019-09-02 |
|
9,610 |
800.8 |
... that upon its completion one hundred years ago this month, the
Brooklyn Army Terminal (pictured) was the world's largest concrete building complex?
|
Xu Xiaodong |
2019-09-12 |
|
8,626 |
718.9 |
... that
Xu Xiaodong defeated a self-styled
kung fu master, who claimed to possess supernatural powers, in 20 seconds?
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Yeh Changti
|
2019-09-20
|
|
4,857
|
404.5
|
... that after
U-2 spy aircraft piloted by
Yeh Changti and
Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at
Area 51?
|
Chang Liyi
|
3,234
|
269.3
|
Total |
8,090 |
673.7
|
Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 |
2019-09-17 |
|
7,805 |
650.4 |
... that an unauthorized student pilot was in control of
Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 up until five seconds before it crashed?
|
Samragyee RL Shah |
2019-09-07 |
|
8,908 |
650.2 |
... that
Samragyee RL Shah (pictured) is the highest-paid actress in
Nepali cinema as of 2019?
|
Lynching of Jay Lynch |
2019-09-20 |
|
6,901 |
575.1 |
... that the death penalty in
Missouri was restored in large part due to the
lynching of Jay Lynch?
|
Eva Mudocci |
2019-09-10 |
|
6,837 |
569.8 |
... that English violinist
Eva Mudocci (depiction shown) was a muse to
Edvard Munch and
Henri Matisse?
|
Janice Kavander |
2019-09-20 |
|
6,705 |
558.8 |
... that
Janice Kavander (pictured) once sang both the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at a hockey game – in Sweden?
|
The woman who made up her mind |
2019-09-18 |
|
6,600 |
550.0 |
... that
Better Together's "
The woman who made up her mind" advert opposing
Scottish independence so upset politician
Sandra Grieve that she changed her mind and began supporting independence?
|
1275 British earthquake |
2019-09-11 |
|
6,438 |
536.5 |
... that
an earthquake on 11 September 1275 caused the destruction of the church on
Glastonbury Tor (tor and rebuilt church pictured) and was felt across England and Wales, but its
epicentre is unknown?
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Trial of Mary Fitzpatrick |
2019-09-19 |
|
6,405 |
533.8 |
... that when
rag sorter
Mary Fitzpatrick was tried for murder, the jury included six aristocrats and the judge was
Sir Henry Hawkins of the High Court, known as "
Hanging Hawkins"?
|
James Scott (obstetrician) |
2019-09-18 |
|
6,333 |
527.8 |
... that obstetrician
James Scott showed that certain diseases in newborns were caused by their mothers'
antibodies crossing the placenta?
|
Type 271 radar |
2019-09-26 |
|
12,528 |
522.0 |
... that one of the first
microwave radars, the British
Type 271 (Type 273Q pictured) on board
HMS Duke of York, led to the night-time sinking of the
German battleship Scharnhorst?
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Apple dumpling |
2019-09-01 |
|
6,250 |
520.9 |
... that when
Pehr Kalm explored North America in the mid-1700s, he reported being served
apple dumplings (pictured) at every meal?
|
Roman temple of Bziza |
2019-09-18 |
|
6,144 |
512.0 |
... that the
Roman temple of Bziza (pictured), dedicated to the
Semitic god
Azizos, was converted to a church by the
Byzantines?
|
Cova Foradà |
2019-09-06 |
|
6,017 |
501.4 |
... that a
Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the
Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
|
Kontorhaus District |
2019-09-03 |
|
5,932 |
494.3 |
... that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's
Kontorhaus District (building pictured)?
|
Johann Schwarzhuber |
2019-09-04 |
|
5,902 |
491.8 |
... that
Johann Schwarzhuber, the leader of the
Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first
Ravensbrück concentration camp trial?
|
Central Park |
2019-09-25 |
|
11,750
[a] |
489.6 |
... that in the 1860s, the land for New York City's
Central Park (pictured) was purchased for a higher price than was paid for
Alaska?
|
Narsaq stick |
2019-09-17 |
|
5,864 |
488.7 |
... that the
Narsaq stick was the first Viking Age
runic artifact discovered in
Greenland?
|
The Man (Taylor Swift song) |
2019-09-16 |
|
5,807 |
483.9 |
... that
Taylor Swift uses
Leonardo DiCaprio as an example to explain
sexism in her song "
The Man"?
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Implicature |
2019-09-19 |
|
5,729 |
477.4 |
... that an
implicature might tell you that the nephew of Mrs Jenkins, an old windbag, is standing right behind you?
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Carroll Street Bridge |
2019-09-18 |
|
5,720 |
476.6 |
... that the
Carroll Street Bridge is one of four remaining retractable bridges in the United States, and one of two in New York City?
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Ciepielów massacre |
2019-09-08 |
|
4,370 |
475.1 |
... that the
prisoner of war
massacre in Ciepielów is the most infamous instance of the
war crimes of the Wehrmacht committed during the
invasion of Poland?
|
John Hiller |
2019-09-02 |
|
5,692 |
474.4 |
... that after suffering a heart attack at the age of 27,
relief pitcher
John Hiller (pictured) made a comeback and broke
Major League Baseball's record for
saves in a season?
|
Chief of the Defence Staff (India) |
2019-09-06 |
|
5,504 |
458.7 |
... that India is creating the post of
Chief of the Defence Staff twenty years after it was officially suggested?
|
Dogū with palms pressed together |
2019-09-18 |
|
5,391 |
449.2 |
... that the
dogū with palms pressed together (pictured) is one of the five
dogū that have been designated
National Treasures of Japan?
|
Leo Skurnik |
2019-09-02 |
|
5,308 |
442.3 |
... that when offered the award of the
Iron Cross from Nazi Germany,
Leo Skurnik, a Jewish major in the
Finnish Army, refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
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47th Infantry Regiment (United States) |
2019-09-05 |
|
5,231 |
435.9 |
... that the fictional character
Forrest Gump was portrayed as serving during the
Vietnam War with the
47th Infantry Regiment?
|
Brigitte Kronauer |
2019-09-17 |
|
5,204 |
433.6 |
... that writer
Brigitte Kronauer (pictured), who won the
Georg Büchner Prize, the
Jean Paul Prize, and the
Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"?
|
Chen Shunyao |
2019-09-06 |
|
5,170 |
430.9 |
... that when
Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of
Tsinghua University, the future Chinese president
Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
|
KSUN (Bisbee, Arizona) |
2019-09-06 |
|
5,100 |
425.0 |
... that radio station
KSUN in
Bisbee, Arizona, sold its call letters to
a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
|
Ursula Boese |
2019-09-06 |
|
5,072 |
422.6 |
... that
Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the
Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's
Iocaste at
La Scala, and at the
San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
|
Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts |
2019-09-12 |
|
5,033 |
419.4 |
... that after making a breakthrough in the
decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs,
Jean-François Champollion (depiction shown) cried "I've done it!" and collapsed in a faint that lasted days?
|
Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics |
2019-09-06 |
|
5,000 |
416.6 |
... that the father of athlete
Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for
Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
|
Celso-Ramón García |
2019-09-06 |
|
4,986 |
415.5 |
... that
Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in
Puerto Rico?
|
History of the University of Texas at Arlington (1895–1917) |
2019-09-04 |
|
4,981 |
415.1 |
... that while
Carlisle Military Academy was nominally a
school for boys, it also accepted a "limited number of girls" (female students pictured)?
|
Ye Zhemin |
2019-09-16 |
|
4,965 |
413.8 |
... that a
sherd of pottery found by
Ye Zhemin (pictured) led to the identification of the kiln site for the rare
Ru ware of the
Song dynasty?
|
Jones Bar-B-Q Diner
|
2019-09-10
|
|
2,552
|
212.7
|
... that
Jones Bar-B-Q is old school, but
Jones Bar-B-Q is an American classic?
|
Jones Bar-B-Q (Kansas City)
|
2,398
|
199.9
|
Total |
4,951 |
412.6
|
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht |
2019-09-14 |
|
4,923 |
410.2 |
... that the
myth of the clean Wehrmacht persisted in Germany until the 1990s, when it was eroded by the
Wehrmacht Exhibition?
|
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Buckie |
2019-09-05 |
|
4,742 |
395.1 |
... that
James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a
Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the
Buckie Cathedral (pictured)?
|
Wu Guoqing |
2019-09-05 |
|
4,636 |
386.3 |
... that investigation by detective
Wu Guoqing, who was acclaimed as "China's
Sherlock Holmes", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
|
Misty Mountain |
2019-09-23 |
|
9,204 |
383.5 |
... that
Katharine Hepburn is said to have encountered snakes in the living room of
Misty Mountain?
|
Monowai (seamount) |
2019-09-17 |
|
4,402 |
366.8 |
... that
Monowai volcano is growing so quickly that it frequently collapses, generating landslides?
|
Alfonso Lam Liu |
2019-09-12 |
|
4,387 |
365.6 |
... that Mexican drug lord
Alfonso Lam Liu spoke over radio using a coded language, to prevent law enforcement from understanding his drug operations?
|
Pan Am Flight 7 |
2019-09-14 |
|
4,182 |
348.5 |
... that the cause of the 1957 crash of
Pan Am Flight 7 was never determined?
|
Sunset Park (Brooklyn park) |
2019-09-04 |
|
4,150 |
345.8 |
... that in its early years, New York City's
Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
|
KMCS (Kansas) |
2019-09-18 |
|
4,064 |
338.7 |
... that backlash over
Dodge City, Kansas, radio station
KTTL's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
|
Proposed United States purchase of Greenland |
2019-09-01 |
|
3,898 |
324.8 |
... that a 1946
United States proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark remained classified until the 1970s, when Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten discovered documents related to it?
|
Ełk riots |
2019-09-02 |
|
3,760 |
313.3 |
... that the
anti-Muslim
Ełk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on
kebab eateries?
|
Arnold Peter Meiklejohn |
2019-09-11 |
|
3,758 |
313.2 |
... that in 1945,
Arnold Peter Meiklejohn supervised the medical students at the newly liberated
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
|
On Her Shoulders |
2019-09-12 |
|
3,746 |
312.2 |
... that
a 2018 documentary depicts
Nadia Murad (pictured), who escaped
sexual enslavement by the
Islamic State, alerting politicians and journalists to the atrocities being committed in her native Iraq?
|
Enischnomyia
|
2019-09-04
|
|
2,250
|
187.5
|
... that the
bat fly
Enischnomyia (pictured) was first described from a specimen fossilized with
Vetufebrus malaria in its gut?
|
Vetufebrus
|
1,434
|
119.5
|
Total |
3,684 |
307.0
|
Samarjitsinh Gaekwad
|
2019-09-14
|
|
1,900
|
158.4
|
... that in 2013,
Sangramsinh Gaekwad and his nephew,
Samarjitsinh Gaekwad (pictured) – the unofficial Maharaja of
Baroda – settled a 23-year-long legal inheritance dispute worth more than
₹20,000
crore (US$3 billion)?
|
Sangramsinh Gaekwad
|
1,778
|
148.2
|
Total |
3,678 |
306.5
|
Veronika Ivanovskaia |
2019-09-11 |
|
3,668 |
305.7 |
... that when learning to play
pool,
Veronika Ivanovskaia stood on a crate of
Coca-Cola?
|
Mikhailovsky Garden
|
2019-09-09
|
|
2,444
|
218.3
|
... that
Carlo Rossi designed
a pavilion and
a bridge for his redevelopment of the
Mikhailovsky Garden (pictured) in Saint Petersburg?
|
Rossi Pavilion
|
540
|
48.2
|
Rossi Bridge
|
438
|
39.1
|
Total |
3,422 |
305.5
|
David Morgan (pilot) |
2019-09-05 |
|
3,658 |
304.8 |
... that
David Morgan, the most successful British fighter pilot in the
Falklands War, had a
hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
|
The Battery (Manhattan) |
2019-09-20 |
|
3,626 |
302.0 |
... that
the Battery in
Lower Manhattan contains
an old fort that later served as a theater, immigration processing center, and aquarium?
|
Max Auschnitt |
2019-09-11 |
|
3,620 |
301.7 |
... that billionaire
Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
|
Art Deco architecture of New York City |
2019-09-16 |
|
3,564 |
297.0 |
... that
Art Deco architecture of New York City was typified by the use of new metals, such as the stainless steel and aluminum of the
Chrysler Building (pictured)?
|
Ignacio Garriga |
2019-09-20 |
|
3,399 |
283.1 |
... that
Ignacio Garriga (pictured) is the first politician of African descent in the recently formed Spanish populist party
Vox?
|
Pumpkin Spice Spam |
2019-09-12 |
|
3,382 |
281.8 |
... that
Pumpkin Spice Spam is a legitimate product that started out as a joke on Facebook?
|
Empress Elisabeth Bridge |
2019-09-14 |
|
3,378 |
281.5 |
... that the
Empress Elisabeth Bridge (pictured), a
chain bridge over the
Elbe that opened in 1855, was named in honor of the newly married
Elisabeth of Austria?
|
Charles Sotheby (Royal Navy officer) |
2019-09-23 |
|
6,740 |
280.8 |
... that following an injustice suffered by the British consul,
Charles Sotheby trained his frigate's guns on the
Bey of Rhodes' house and opened fire?
|
Mary Welch |
2019-09-09 |
|
3,314 |
276.2 |
... that playwright
Eugene O'Neill stipulated that actress
Mary Welch had to gain at least 50 pounds (23 kg) for a role in his play
A Moon for the Misbegotten?
|
Battle of Sourton Down |
2019-09-10 |
|
3,295 |
274.6 |
... that at the
Battle of Sourton Down, a
Parliamentarian ambush by 108 soldiers successfully routed a
Royalist army of 3,600?
|
Kurtis Sport Car |
2019-09-13 |
|
3,262 |
271.8 |
... that in 1949, the
Kurtis Sport Car was driven by
National Hot Rod Association founder
Wally Parks to over 142.5 mph (229.3 km/h) on the
Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah?
|
George Bangs |
2019-09-27 |
|
6,492 |
270.5 |
... that
George Bangs's cemetery memorial features a
mail car (pictured), carved to scale, commemorating his leadership of the
Railway Mail Service?
|
Starrett City, Brooklyn |
2019-09-30 |
|
6,482 |
270.1 |
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its racial quotas, the management of
Starrett City left apartments empty, in an attempt to rent them at market rate, instead of renting them to black and Hispanic families?
|
Capture of Wakefield |
2019-09-27 |
|
6,446 |
268.6 |
... that during the
capture of Wakefield, some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was
hungover?
|
Newtonia hildebrandtii
|
2019-09-07
|
|
1,164
|
113.1
|
... that the
Lebombo wattle (pictured), the
water ironplum, and the
Zulu coshwood grow in the
Southern African Sand Forest, where they are often swathed in
pinhead orchids and other
epiphytes?
|
Microcoelia exilis
|
598
|
58.1
|
Drypetes arguta
|
534
|
51.8
|
Cola greenwayi
|
450
|
43.7
|
Total |
2,748 |
266.7
|
José Naranjo (scout) |
2019-09-16 |
|
3,192 |
266.0 |
... that
José Naranjo delivered the head of his own brother to
Diego de Vargas, the
Spanish governor of New Mexico?
|
Areyo Hoshikuzu
|
2019-09-30
|
|
4,240
|
176.7
|
... that before he wrote
Areyo Hoshikuzu, a
manga about demobilized soldiers in
occupied Japan, series creator
Sansuke Yamada was best known as a
gay manga artist?
|
Sansuke Yamada
|
2,007
|
83.6
|
Total |
6,247 |
260.3
|
Catherine S. Lutz |
2019-09-19 |
|
3,117 |
259.8 |
... that
Catherine Lutz was the first female general in the
Mississippi National Guard?
|
Enter the Anime |
2019-09-11 |
|
3,086 |
257.2 |
... that the interviewer in the documentary
Enter the Anime did not know anything about
anime?
|
Mary Ma |
2019-09-18 |
|
3,070 |
255.8 |
... that after
Mary Ma orchestrated
Lenovo's acquisition of
IBM's PC division, she was named by
Forbes as the 57th most powerful woman in the world?
|
Roper (company) |
2019-09-16 |
|
3,012 |
251.0 |
... that while the American company
Roper was the largest stove producer in the world, they also produced artillery shells during World War II?
|
Central Australia (territory) |
2019-09-18 |
|
3,008 |
250.7 |
... that the territory of
Central Australia existed only from 1927 to 1931?
|
The 1619 Project |
2019-09-18 |
|
2,948
[b] |
245.7 |
... that
The New York Times's
The 1619 Project, which aims to re-examine
slavery in the United States, was developed in collaboration with the
Pulitzer Center for use in schools?
|
Pernille Weiss |
2019-09-09 |
|
2,916 |
243.0 |
... that Danish
MEP
Pernille Weiss is a
sexologist?
|
List of Canadian comedians |
2019-09-05 |
|
2,907 |
242.2 |
... that the dark and fatalistic humour of
Canadian comedians has been attributed to the dangers of
Canada's climate and geography?
|
Mxmtoon |
2019-09-15 |
|
2,894 |
241.2 |
... that 19-year-old
mxmtoon, who records
lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
|
Industry City |
2019-09-17 |
|
2,856 |
238.0 |
... that
Bush Terminal, an
intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
|
Battle of Río Bueno |
2019-09-03 |
|
2,836 |
236.3 |
... that the
Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the
Battle of Río Bueno in 1654?
|
Thuy Trang |
2019-09-15 |
|
2,826
[c] |
235.5 |
... that
Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead?
|
Pandrosion |
2019-09-11 |
|
2,817 |
234.8 |
... that
Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than
Hypatia?
|
The Love Train |
2019-09-03 |
|
2,760 |
230.0 |
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2019
EP
The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
|
Halophila baillonis |
2019-09-16 |
|
2,756 |
229.7 |
... that
clover grass used to grow in the Pacific Ocean, but has not been seen there since a severe storm in 1996?
|
Slender glass lizard |
2019-09-17 |
|
2,704 |
225.3 |
... that there is a myth that the pieces of the broken tail of the
slender glass lizard can grow into new lizards?
|
When have we eaten from the same dish? |
2019-09-02 |
|
2,697 |
224.8 |
... that the Spanish idiom "¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato?" ('
When have we eaten from the same dish?') is used as
social commentary about poor manners or incivility?
|
IPhone 11 Pro |
2019-09-26 |
|
5,362
[d] |
223.4 |
... that the
iPhone 11 Pro is the first iPhone to feature a "Pro" designation, which was previously used only for larger Apple devices?
|
Fatwa |
2019-09-19 |
|
2,636 |
219.7 |
... that when
Osama bin Laden issued his 1998
fatwa proclaiming
jihad against the U.S. and its allies, many Islamic jurists stressed that he was not qualified either to proclaim jihad or to issue a fatwa?
|
United States Guards (1917) |
2019-09-05 |
|
2,623 |
218.6 |
... that US Attorney General
Thomas Watt Gregory accused the
United States Guards of imposing a "reign of terror" in
Butte, Montana?
|
Sergei Kirpichenko
|
2019-09-17
|
|
1,042
|
86.8
|
... that Russian ambassador to Egypt
Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of
Vadim, former KGB
resident to the country, and
Valeriya, a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
|
Vadim Kirpichenko
|
814
|
67.9
|
Valeriya Kirpichenko
|
758
|
63.1
|
Total |
2,614 |
217.8
|
Phyllanthus balgooyi |
2019-09-19 |
|
2,598 |
216.5 |
... that the
phloem sap of
Phyllanthus balgooyi contains up to 16.9 per cent
nickel by weight, giving it a bright green color?
|
Dacrydium guillauminii |
2019-09-10 |
|
2,584 |
215.3 |
... that there are believed to be fewer than 100 mature specimens of
Dacrydium guillauminii, which is considered
critically endangered?
|
Lothagam North Pillar Site |
2019-09-25 |
|
5,165 |
215.2 |
... that at approximately 5,000 years old, the
Lothagam North Pillar Site is thought to be the earliest and largest
monumental cemetery in eastern Africa?
|
Blessing in disguise (idiom) |
2019-09-14 |
|
2,570 |
214.2 |
... that in 1865,
Confederate losses during the
American Civil War were characterized as "
blessings in disguise"?
|
Zulu serotine |
2019-09-16 |
|
2,566 |
213.8 |
... that despite the
Zulu serotine bat having a widespread distribution in Africa, it is not known where it roosts during the day?
|
Mandy Fisher |
2019-09-06 |
|
2,556 |
213.0 |
... that
snooker player
Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill?
|
Hydnellum scabrosum |
2019-09-18 |
|
2,545 |
212.1 |
... that the cut flesh of the
bitter tooth mushroom smells of watermelon?
|
Yola Letellier |
2019-09-03 |
|
2,520 |
210.0 |
... that
Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in
Colette's story
Gigi?
|
Digital media use and mental health |
2019-09-05 |
|
2,500 |
208.4 |
... that research into
digital media use and mental health has found that females are more likely to be affected by
problematic social media use while males are more likely to have
gaming disorder?
|
Siege of Ghent |
2019-09-16 |
|
2,486 |
207.2 |
... that after the
Siege of Ghent, the victorious commander, the
Duke of Marlborough, claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
|
Phoulkon |
2019-09-28 |
|
4,942 |
205.9 |
... that the
phoulkon was a
shield wall formation of the
late and
East Roman army, which classical writers described as both a
testudo and a
phalanx?
|
Beaver Falls Cutlery Company |
2019-09-01 |
|
2,465 |
205.4 |
... that the
Beaver Falls Cutlery Company manufactured the "largest knife and fork in the world" of its time (pictured) in 1876?
|
Josh Yorwerth |
2019-09-18 |
|
2,458 |
204.8 |
... that
footballer
Josh Yorwerth received what is believed to be the longest doping-related ban in English football history?
|
Lady Burton's rope squirrel |
2019-09-17 |
|
2,458 |
204.8 |
... that
Lady Burton's rope squirrel (pictured) was named in honour of
Isabel Burton, wife of British explorer
Sir Richard Burton?
|
Julius Tahija |
2019-09-10 |
|
2,420 |
201.7 |
... that
Julius Tahija was the only Indonesian to receive an
Allied nation's highest military decoration during World War II?
|
Alex Paton (physician) |
2019-09-13 |
|
2,390 |
199.1 |
... that in his book ABC of Alcohol,
Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
|
Red yeast rice |
2019-09-09 |
|
2,388 |
199.0 |
... that
red yeast rice is used both in
traditional Chinese medicine and as a modern-day dietary supplement?
|
Italian Nettist Party |
2019-09-10 |
|
2,388 |
199.0 |
... that during the political campaign for the
1953 Italian general election, the
Italian Nettist Party promised voters a free daily supply of steak?
|
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau |
2019-09-11 |
|
2,379 |
198.2 |
... that Chinese-American mathematician
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau established the "Yau algebra" and the "Yau number"?
|
Maggy Hurchalla |
2019-09-22 |
|
4,720 |
196.7 |
... that after 78-year-old
Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her
kayaks were seized?
|
Petro Kilekwa |
2019-09-09 |
|
2,202 |
196.7 |
... that
Petro Kilekwa from Zambia was enslaved because his mother could not pay the ransom – eight yards (7.3 m) of
calico cloth?
|
Aleksei Grishin |
2019-09-05 |
|
2,317 |
193.1 |
... that
Aleksei Grishin (depiction shown) put his
2010 Winter Olympics gold medal—
Belarus' first gold in the Winter Olympics—up for auction to raise money for another person's surgery?
|
Zambrów massacre |
2019-09-28 |
|
4,618 |
192.4 |
... that in the
Zambrów massacre, during the September 1939
invasion of Poland, German
Wehrmacht soldiers murdered more than 200 Polish prisoners of war?
|
Fazzan Basin
|
2019-09-05
|
|
1,766
|
147.2
|
... that although the
Fazzan Basin in Libya currently averages less than 20 mm (0.8 in) of annual rainfall,
paleohydrological study shows that it has periodically contained a large lake?
|
Paleohydrology
|
524
|
43.6
|
Total |
2,290 |
190.8
|
Samsung Galaxy A90 5G |
2019-09-21 |
|
4,437 |
190.8 |
... that despite its large screen size, the
Samsung Galaxy A90 5G can be operated with one hand?
|
Japan National Route 280 |
2019-09-24 |
|
4,546 |
189.4 |
... that
National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into
Ezo?
|
Sebkha el Melah |
2019-09-03 |
|
2,254 |
187.9 |
... that the
endorheic salt lake
Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
|
Plymouth Lifeboat Station |
2019-09-10 |
|
2,246 |
187.1 |
... that the crew of
Plymouth Lifeboat Station saved a
flying boat during World War II?
|
Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior |
2019-09-11 |
|
2,230 |
185.8 |
... that in 1808,
Joseph LaBarge traveled from
Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to
St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?
|
Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition |
2019-09-19 |
|
2,230 |
185.8 |
... that
Leo Frobenius announced the discovery of the
lost city of Atlantis during his
Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition?
|
Megan Wynne |
2019-09-17 |
|
2,230 |
185.8 |
... that
footballer
Megan Wynne played for
Tottenham Hotspur while also working full-time in the club's human resources department?
|
Running to the Edge of the World |
2019-09-10 |
|
2,204 |
183.7 |
... that the video for
Marilyn Manson's soft-rock ballad "
Running to the Edge of the World" was widely condemned for its depiction of
violence against women?
|
Vailulu'u |
2019-09-17 |
|
2,171 |
180.9 |
... that the submarine volcano
Vailulu'u was named after a sacred rain and might become an island in the future?
|
Crotona Park |
2019-09-11 |
|
2,170 |
180.8 |
... that at around 127 acres (51 hectares) in size,
Crotona Park is known as the "Central Park of the South Bronx"?
|
Brad Leone |
2019-09-09 |
|
2,152 |
179.4 |
... that
Brad Leone, a chef and
YouTube personality at
Bon Appétit, started at the magazine as a self-described "glorified dishwasher"?
|
Scaly ground roller |
2019-09-04 |
|
2,134 |
177.8 |
... that the
scaly ground roller mostly eats earthworms and centipedes, but has been known to also eat frogs, lizards, and shrews?
|
David H. Buel |
2019-09-03 |
|
2,132 |
177.7 |
... that shortly after serving as
President of Georgetown University,
David H. Buel quit the
Jesuits and secretly married?
|
Bill's Old Bike Barn |
2019-09-28 |
|
4,258 |
177.4 |
... that when
Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his
Bill's Old Bike Barn?
|
Battle of Bovey Heath |
2019-09-22 |
|
4,226 |
176.1 |
... that during the
Battle of Bovey Heath,
Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
|
Hepatitis E |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,946 |
173.8 |
... that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for
hepatitis E?
|
Aristide Blank |
2019-09-25 |
|
4,118 |
171.6 |
... that a court in
communist Romania found banker
Aristide Blank guilty of high treason, based on his meetings with foreigners and notes from Blank's unpublished novel?
|
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge |
2019-09-15 |
|
2,056 |
171.3 |
... that the
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
|
Passing out (military) |
2019-09-08 |
|
1,710 |
170.9 |
... that
West Point cadets fill their hats with notes and other items for small children to collect after the hat toss (pictured) during their
graduation ceremony?
|
Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian |
2019-09-19 |
|
2,050 |
170.9 |
... that
Hurricane Dorian (pictured) was
the strongest hurricane on record to strike
the Bahamas?
|
Air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War |
2019-09-01 |
|
2,047 |
170.6 |
... that Libyan president
Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to
attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War, but his bomber instead hit
a game reserve and killed antelopes?
|
Defiant Development |
2019-09-06 |
|
2,040 |
170.0 |
... that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer
Defiant Development, everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
|
Honeynut squash |
2019-09-19 |
|
2,039 |
169.9 |
... that although
honeynut squash originated about forty years ago, it has only been in markets for four years?
|
Coney Island Cyclone |
2019-09-12 |
|
2,033 |
169.4 |
... that a mute coal miner is said to have spoken for the first time in several years after riding the
Coney Island Cyclone in 1948?
|
Wang Guodong (painter) |
2019-09-08 |
|
1,526 |
165.9 |
... that
Wang Guodong painted some of the world's most recognizable portraits, which inspired
Andy Warhol?
|
Assassination of Ali Sayyad Shirazi |
2019-09-02 |
|
1,982 |
165.1 |
... that
Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces,
was assassinated in 1999 by a
Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner?
|
Lover (Taylor Swift song) |
2019-09-02 |
|
1,972
[e] |
164.3 |
... that a critic described the song "
Lover" as a throwback to
Taylor Swift's "country days"?
|
Duthie's golden mole
|
2019-09-06
|
|
861
|
71.8
|
... that
Duthie's golden mole and the
long-tailed forest shrew are among the
wildlife of South Africa that are both
endemic and "
vulnerable"?
|
Long-tailed forest shrew
|
641
|
53.4
|
Wildlife of South Africa
|
437
|
36.4
|
Total |
1,939 |
161.6
|
Ringkirche |
2019-09-23 |
|
3,872 |
161.3 |
... that in 1894, the
Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the
Wiesbadener Programm of
Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)?
|
Kristina Tkach |
2019-09-05 |
|
1,928 |
160.7 |
... that a
Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian
pool player
Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
|
Darrington, Washington |
2019-09-30 |
|
3,842 |
160.1 |
... that funeral dinners are regularly attended by up to a quarter of the residents in
Darrington, Washington?
|
Lundy's Restaurant |
2019-09-28 |
|
3,830 |
159.6 |
... that following a
strike at
Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?
|
What Did You Eat Yesterday? |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,911 |
159.2 |
... that
What Did You Eat Yesterday? was one of the first pieces of mainstream Japanese media to substantially depict a
cohabiting gay male couple?
|
WBBY-FM |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,908 |
159.0 |
... that
WBBY-FM lost its license because the man who claimed to be its manager worked full-time at a car dealership 120 miles (190 km) away?
|
Kazuo Wada |
2019-09-16 |
|
1,900 |
158.3 |
... that
Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer
Yaohan, but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the
1997 Asian financial crisis?
|
Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt |
2019-09-06 |
|
1,896 |
158.0 |
... that the
Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt manage stages for
opera and
drama under one roof, in a building (pictured) incorporating the ruins of the bombed former playhouse?
|
The Ramble and Lake |
2019-09-23 |
|
3,781 |
157.5 |
... that
the Lake, completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's
Central Park?
|
Aleksandr Nosatov |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,855 |
154.6 |
... that Vice-Admiral
Aleksandr Nosatov was appointed head of the
Russian Naval Academy in 2016, but spent only one and a half months in the post?
|
Ernst Dammann |
2019-09-14 |
|
1,840 |
153.3 |
... that
Ernst Dammann, an early member of the
Nazi Party, was a founding figure of African studies in
East Germany – together with
Walter Markov, a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
|
Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit
|
2019-09-09
|
|
1,110
|
92.5
|
... that
Lučko Airport in
Zagreb, Croatia, is the helicopter base for
an anti-terrorist police unit that gave former member and
mixed martial arts champion
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović his nickname?
|
Lučko Airport
|
724
|
60.3
|
Total |
1,834 |
152.8
|
Petrocoptis pseudoviscosa |
2019-09-30 |
|
3,625 |
151.0 |
... that
falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
|
Willy-Brandt-Platz |
2019-09-30 |
|
3,614 |
150.6 |
... that a monumental
euro-sign sculpture (pictured) is installed at the
Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt, which was named in 1992 after
the former chancellor?
|
Winnie Quagliotti |
2019-09-10 |
|
1,796 |
149.7 |
... that
Winnie Quagliotti protested against the
Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a
possum-skin cloak and throwing a
wattle wreath into the sea at
Princes Pier?
|
John Deane (sailor) |
2019-09-29 |
|
3,578 |
149.1 |
... that
John Deane and his crew of the Nottingham Galley
cannibalised in desperation the ship's deceased carpenter when the ship wrecked on
Boon Island in 1710?
|
Matt William Knowles |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,785 |
148.8 |
... that American actor
Matt William Knowles was a "rotating mayor" of
Danzhai Wanda Village in
Guizhou, China?
|
2019 Tripoli shooting |
2019-09-06 |
|
1,778 |
148.1 |
... that a former member of
ISIS who was arrested in 2016 and released in 2017
attacked a police and army patrol in Tripoli, killing four people, in 2019?
|
Spread Eagle (steamboat) |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,776 |
148.0 |
... that in 1862, the pilot of the steamboat
Spread Eagle rammed into the Emilie in a desperate attempt to reach
Fort Benton first?
|
Beth Van Duyne |
2019-09-03 |
|
1,772 |
147.6 |
... that
Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of
Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a
zoning dispute?
|
Prospect Park (Brooklyn) |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,770 |
147.5 |
... that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's
Prospect Park?
|
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia |
2019-09-06 |
|
1,769 |
147.4 |
... that
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia began when a 17-year-old missionary arrived from England in 1840?
|
Habiba Alsafar |
2019-09-25 |
|
3,482 |
145.1 |
... that Emirati geneticist
Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
|
Cao Shuangming |
2019-09-06 |
|
1,740 |
145.0 |
... that General
Cao Shuangming was dismissed as Commander of the
Chinese Air Force after it suffered an excessive number of accidents?
|
Toby Graham |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,618 |
144.4 |
... that military historian
Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team?
|
Andrei Volozhinsky |
2019-09-24 |
|
3,451 |
143.8 |
... that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral
Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of
strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
|
Schreber's yellow bat
|
2019-09-20
|
|
864
|
72.0
|
... that although
Schreber's yellow bat is believed to be an
insectivore, the related
white-bellied yellow bat has been observed to eat dead bats in captivity?
|
White-bellied yellow bat
|
862
|
71.8
|
Total |
1,726 |
143.8
|
Betula leopoldae |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,720 |
143.4 |
... that the extinct birch
Betula leopoldae (leaf fossil pictured) is named after conservationist
Estella Leopold?
|
Thomas's rope squirrel |
2019-09-18 |
|
1,716 |
143.0 |
... that
Thomas's rope squirrel can communicate with other squirrels vocally or by stamping?
|
Hanna Kosonen |
2019-09-30 |
|
3,376 |
140.6 |
... that Finland's minister of science and culture
Hanna Kosonen is a world champion in
ski orienteering?
|
Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,906 |
139.1 |
... that the melody of the Christian hymn "
Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr" is written without
bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
|
The O.C. (professional wrestling) |
2019-09-08 |
|
1,275 |
138.6 |
... that
The O.C. is the "official, original, and only club that matters"?
|
Namib day gecko |
2019-09-10 |
|
1,658 |
138.1 |
... that the
Namib day gecko can sprint at 2.5 m/s (8 ft/s) in bright light?
|
Liu Wenxi |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,649 |
137.4 |
... that
Liu Wenxi's art is universally known in China?
|
Zhongli (state) |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,399 |
135.8 |
... that after the fall of the
state of Zhongli, its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
|
Gilberto Lerma Plata |
2019-09-08 |
|
1,331 |
133.1 |
... that former Mexican police chief
Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
|
Ai Fairouz |
2019-09-01 |
|
1,597 |
133.1 |
... that
voice actress
Ai Fairouz's interest in
anime and
manga was influenced by her reading the series
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in online
Skype sessions?
|
Sheep Meadow |
2019-09-27 |
|
3,194 |
133.1 |
... that
Sheep Meadow in New York City's
Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site?
|
Adriana Marais |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,596 |
133.0 |
... that South African
theoretical physicist
Adriana Marais was one of 100 candidates chosen for
Mars One?
|
House and Land |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,590 |
132.5 |
... that experimental folk band
House and Land have reinterpreted traditional ballads to remove
misogyny by focusing on female protagonists?
|
Ibuki Kido |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,582 |
131.8 |
... that among
Ibuki Kido's
voice acting roles is a vacuum cleaner?
|
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot
|
2019-09-01
|
|
788
|
65.7
|
... that the
Natal cycad and the
dune false currant are among the 1,900
endemic plant species found in the
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot?
|
Encephalartos natalensis
|
406
|
33.9
|
Allophylus natalensis
|
374
|
31.2
|
Total |
1,569 |
130.8
|
Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition |
2019-09-29 |
|
3,124 |
130.1 |
... that the
Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition served as cover for a secret
First World War espionage mission?
|
Pholiota squarrosoides |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,557 |
129.8 |
... that the mushroom
Pholiota squarrosoides (pictured) has decayed logs of the trees
Acer saccharum and
Tilia glabra in the
Great Lakes region of the US?
|
Younique |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,553 |
129.4 |
... that
multi-level marketing company
Younique was valued at US$1 billion at the time of its acquisition by
Coty?
|
Shore Theater |
2019-09-19 |
|
1,550 |
129.2 |
... that the
Shore Theater, originally designed to satiate "the great need in
Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
|
Samsung Galaxy A70 |
2019-09-14 |
|
1,529 |
127.4 |
... that the
Samsung Galaxy A70's triple-lens camera can create a
bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
|
Glory to Hong Kong |
2019-09-24 |
|
3,056 |
127.3 |
... that
some protesters have described "
Glory to Hong Kong" as the unofficial national anthem of Hong Kong?
|
The Annals of University College
|
2019-09-19
|
|
848
|
70.7
|
... that
William Smith was prompted to write
The Annals of University College after the
Court of King's Bench proclaimed the wrong person to be the founder of
University College, Oxford?
|
William Smith (antiquary)
|
668
|
55.7
|
Total |
1,516 |
126.3
|
Bert Cumby |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,515 |
126.2 |
... that according to
Bert Cumby, China used
thought reform on American
prisoners of war during the
Korean War as part of a plan to create support for China-friendly policies in the United States?
|
Nikolai Maksimov |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,515 |
126.2 |
... that in 2008, Vice-Admiral
Nikolai Maksimov was in charge of the largest Russian military manoeuvres in the Atlantic since 1991?
|
Crawley Edge Boatshed |
2019-09-21 |
|
2,936 |
126.2 |
... that it has been claimed that the
Crawley Edge Boatshed is the most photographed travel attraction in
Perth, Western Australia, ahead of
Elizabeth Quay,
Cathedral Square, and the
Swan Bells?
|
Caveira (Rainbow Six Siege) |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,726 |
126.0 |
... that in
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, the
player character
Caveira's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug?
|
William Rath |
2019-09-25 |
|
3,000 |
125.0 |
... that a mural of
William Rath depicts him drinking from a
Fountain of Youth?
|
Sanje mangabey
|
2019-09-08
|
|
649
|
70.5
|
... that the hard seeds of the
Guinea plum are dispersed by elephants, and crushed and eaten by
Sanje mangabeys?
|
Parinari excelsa
|
484
|
52.6
|
Total |
1,132 |
123.1
|
PATH (rail system) |
2019-09-01 |
|
1,476 |
123.0 |
... that the
PATH train system was sold to allow
the first World Trade Center in New York City to be built?
|
Kirsten Banks |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,466 |
122.1 |
... that Australian astrophysicist
Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her
Wiradjuri heritage while training at the
Sydney Observatory?
|
Hiram M. Chittenden |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,462 |
121.8 |
... that an hour and a half before fur trader Captain Joseph LaBarge died, he received a telegram from historian
Hiram M. Chittenden assuring LaBarge of the completion of his biography?
|
Venetica |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,452 |
121.0 |
... that one of the weapons in the video game
Venetica was named as a result of a contest?
|
Frank Tsao |
2019-09-03 |
|
1,448 |
120.7 |
... that Chinese entrepreneur
Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title
Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
|
Mount Moulton |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,426 |
118.8 |
... that ice almost half a million years old has been found on
a mountain named after a
sled dog driver?
|
Interstate 91 |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,330 |
118.7 |
... that after the
September 11 attacks, a seldom-staffed temporary border patrol checkpoint was installed on
Interstate 91 near
White River Junction, Vermont, about 100 miles (160 km) from the Canadian border?
|
Swan Lake fire |
2019-09-02 |
|
1,423 |
118.6 |
... that the lightning-caused
Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
|
Ivan Golunov |
2019-09-26 |
|
2,842 |
118.4 |
... that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist
Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the
Federal Security Service?
|
Black-tailed tree rat |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,410 |
117.5 |
... that nests of the
black-tailed tree rat resemble those of the
red-billed buffalo weaver?
|
2019 24 Hours of Le Mans |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,407 |
117.2 |
... that the No. 8
Toyota TS050 Hybrid won the
2019 24 Hours of Le Mans after its sister No. 7 car had a tyre pressure sensor system wiring fault that incorrectly indicated a front-right puncture?
|
Ziyad ibn Abihi |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,406 |
117.1 |
... that
Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (
dirhams pictured), the first governor of a unified Iraqi province, restarted the Muslim conquests in
Khurasan?
|
Magdalene Visaggio |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,294 |
115.5 |
... that comic books by
Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two
Eisner Awards and three
GLAAD Media Awards?
|
Kale Kye-Taung Nyo |
2019-09-01 |
|
1,385 |
115.4 |
... that Prince
Min Nyo of Kale seized the throne of
Ava by having his lover, Queen
Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his eight-year-old nephew, King
Min Hla?
|
Yella Beezy |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,382 |
115.2 |
... that
Yella Beezy's father was murdered when the rapper was 12 years old?
|
Tarzan of Manisa |
2019-09-08 |
|
1,058 |
115.1 |
... that the
Tarzan of Manisa planted thousands of trees on
Mount Sipylus in
Turkey?
|
Leila Ernst |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,378 |
114.8 |
... that
Leila Ernst barged into a dance audition to show theatre producer
George Abbott that she could sing and dance?
|
Fake news in India |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,376 |
114.7 |
... that
Facebook has to vet
fake news in India for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?
|
Peter Hamm |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,374 |
114.5 |
... that
Peter Hamm, a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14?
|
Embioptera |
2019-09-30 |
|
2,744 |
114.3 |
... that the silk made by
webspinners is produced from glands on their forelegs?
|
Doris Bergen |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,364 |
113.7 |
... that
Doris Bergen holds Canada's only
endowed chair in
Holocaust history?
|
Qiu Zhu |
2019-09-28 |
|
2,726 |
113.6 |
... that 16th-century Chinese painter
Qiu Zhu was known for her depiction of
Guanyin (pictured), the goddess of compassion popular among women?
|
Nora Houston |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,164 |
113.1 |
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at
Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for
women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
|
Ducks, Newburyport |
2019-09-14 |
|
1,354 |
112.8 |
... that the novel
Ducks, Newburyport by
Lucy Ellmann uses
stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages?
|
Trust Exercise (novel) |
2019-09-05 |
|
1,353 |
112.8 |
... that the novel
Trust Exercise was inspired by discussions about sexual abuse which followed the publication of the
Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape?
|
Pekarangan |
2019-09-21 |
|
2,606 |
112.0 |
... that
jackfruits and
chili peppers (pictured) are among the many crops planted in
Indonesian home gardens?
|
Anna Júlia Donáth |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,142 |
110.9 |
... that Hungarian
MEP
Anna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
|
Alicja Iwańska |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,322 |
110.2 |
... that
Polish resistance member
Alicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
|
St Andrew's Cross, Glasgow |
2019-09-11 |
|
1,320 |
110.0 |
... that
St Andrew's Cross in
Glasgow is also known as Eglinton Toll, as it was the entry point to an inland dock for
a canal established by
Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, in the early 19th century?
|
Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena |
2019-09-06 |
|
1,316 |
109.6 |
... that
Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in
Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
|
Filial piety in Buddhism |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,314 |
109.5 |
... that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of
filial piety?
|
Wynand Boshoff |
2019-09-18 |
|
1,312 |
109.4 |
... that South African Member of Parliament
Wynand Boshoff is the grandson of assassinated
apartheid-era Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd?
|
Katherine Stuart |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,312 |
109.3 |
... that during the
English Civil War,
Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from
Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London?
|
Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps |
2019-09-18 |
|
1,296 |
108.0 |
... that during the
First World War, the
Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"?
|
Semin Öztürk Şener |
2019-09-27 |
|
2,554 |
106.4 |
... that
Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian
aerobatic pilot?
|
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat |
2019-09-02 |
|
1,271 |
105.9 |
... that the
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat uses its hind feet to comb its fur and its tongue to wash its face, wing membranes, and genital region?
|
KSJU |
2019-09-26 |
|
2,527 |
105.3 |
... that after
KSJU radio was forced off FM and onto a cable system, students at the
College of Saint Benedict could not listen to it on campus, even though their activity fees supported it?
|
Celebes warty pig |
2019-09-22 |
|
2,522 |
105.1 |
... that the
Celebes warty pig has been domesticated and introduced into other Indonesian islands?
|
Jeni Bojilova-Pateva |
2019-09-26 |
|
2,506 |
104.4 |
... that
Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married?
|
C. G. Jung House Museum |
2019-09-05 |
|
1,245 |
103.8 |
... that psychoanalyst
Carl Jung could afford to build his mansion on
Lake Zürich (now the
C. G. Jung House Museum) after his wife
Emma inherited her father's fortune?
|
Sahraa Karimi |
2019-09-18 |
|
1,242 |
103.5 |
... that
Sahraa Karimi is the first and only woman in
Afghanistan who has a PhD in filmmaking?
|
WHRF (Maryland) |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,410 |
102.9 |
... that eight years to the day after it first signed on,
WVOB radio in
Bel Air, Maryland, lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's
guy wires?
|
Treaty of Potsdam (1805) |
2019-09-16 |
|
1,234 |
102.8 |
... that the
1805 Treaty of Potsdam committed Prussia to joining the
War of the Third Coalition, but was effectively ended by the
Battle of Austerlitz less than a month later?
|
Before Freedom: Nehru's Letters to His Sister 1909–1947 |
2019-09-24 |
|
2,435 |
101.5 |
... that the book
Before Freedom contains 38 years of letters from
Jawaharlal Nehru to his sister
Nan (both pictured), including some he wrote while imprisoned during
India's fight for independence?
|
Ralph Henry Gabriel |
2019-09-18 |
|
1,215 |
101.2 |
... that
Ralph Henry Gabriel founded the American Studies Department at
Yale University but later resigned in protest during the
Cold War?
|
Enteromyxum scophthalmi |
2019-09-12 |
|
1,212 |
101.0 |
... that the parasite
Enteromyxum scophthalmi causes a severe illness in farmed
turbot for which no cure is known?
|
Timebomb (Tove Lo song) |
2019-09-24 |
|
2,408 |
100.3 |
... that
Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "
Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
|
Norman Surplus |
2019-09-08 |
|
920 |
99.9 |
... that in June 2019, Northern Irish pilot
Norman Surplus became the first person to circumnavigate the globe using an
autogyro?
|
German Inner Africa Research Expeditions |
2019-09-23 |
|
2,396 |
99.9 |
... that
Leo Frobenius led 12
German Inner Africa Research Expeditions between 1904 and 1935?
|
WKBZ (1520 AM) |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,194 |
99.5 |
... that in 1975, a
field mouse knocked
Michigan radio station
WKJR off the air for 45 minutes?
|
Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela |
2019-09-19 |
|
1,189 |
99.1 |
... that the
Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela housed the first steam engine on
Tenerife?
|
Mary Ward (suffragist) |
2019-09-17 |
|
1,182 |
98.5 |
... that though she lacked her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish
suffragist
Mary Ward was the first woman to pass the
Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours?
|
Ole W. Grubb |
2019-09-17 |
|
1,181 |
98.4 |
... that former
Oregon state representative
Ole W. Grubb and his wife had nine children of their own and cared for about 160 foster children?
|
Mary van Kleeck |
2019-09-23 |
|
2,360 |
98.3 |
... that
Mary van Kleeck, a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the
American government during World War I?
|
Cuco (musician)
|
2019-09-19
|
|
717
|
59.8
|
... that
Para Mi, the debut studio album by
Cuco, touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
|
Para Mi (Cuco album)
|
455
|
37.9
|
Total |
1,172 |
97.7
|
Steve Sawyer |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,170 |
97.5 |
... that while
Greenpeace activist
Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the
Rainbow Warrior?
|
Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge |
2019-09-04 |
|
1,170 |
97.5 |
... that in 1877, the
Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge spent less than
Can$0.76 per week on the care of each resident?
|
Zenker's fruit bat
|
2019-09-08
|
|
537
|
53.7
|
... that
Zenker's fruit bat often forages in areas of forest where
Haumania liebrechtsiana grows, a plant favoured by gorillas and chimpanzees?
|
Haumania liebrechtsiana
|
438
|
43.8
|
Total |
974 |
97.5
|
Central Park Zoo |
2019-09-11 |
|
1,166 |
97.1 |
... that in 1874, the
New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the
Central Park Zoo?
|
Patricia Swallow |
2019-09-30 |
|
2,318 |
96.6 |
... that
Patricia Swallow led the
Wrens, served on the
Heron, and was vice president of the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society?
|
Steve McClellan |
2019-09-07 |
|
991 |
96.2 |
... that
Steve McClellan booked
Prince in the early 1980s, when
Minneapolis discouraged black musicians from playing downtown?
|
Lü Peijian |
2019-09-30 |
|
2,283 |
95.1 |
... that a few months after
Lü Peijian was appointed China's auditor general, he announced the discovery of more than US$1.6 billion worth of tax evasion, fraud, and waste?
|
Betty Paul |
2019-09-03 |
|
1,137 |
94.8 |
... that British actress and scriptwriter
Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera,
Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
|
Cole Sulser |
2019-09-17 |
|
1,134 |
94.5 |
... that
Major League Baseball player
Cole Sulser has two degrees in engineering from
Dartmouth College?
|
Thomas Frederick Chavasse |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,290 |
94.2 |
... that the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh suspended a bylaw to enable
Thomas Chavasse to apply for a surgeon's post?
|
Kaijin Akashi
|
2019-09-03
|
|
644
|
53.7
|
... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony
Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in
Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of
Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
|
Atsushi Fujiwara
|
484
|
40.4
|
Total |
1,128 |
94.0
|
Roberts Landing, California |
2019-09-07 |
|
1,282 |
93.6 |
... that the polluted
Roberts Landing on
San Francisco Bay, California, was cleaned up to create a housing development and a marsh, now home to the endangered
salt marsh harvest mouse?
|
Jan Fortune (writer) |
2019-09-24 |
|
2,219 |
92.5 |
... that American writer
Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in
Wellington, Texas?
|
Ye Zhupei |
2019-09-23 |
|
2,215 |
92.3 |
... that Filipino-born scientist
Ye Zhupei founded
chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister
Li Zhaoxing?
|
Zond 5 |
2019-09-08 |
|
848 |
92.2 |
... that two
Russian tortoises were aboard the
first spacecraft to return safely from a trip around the Moon?
|
Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali |
2019-09-03 |
|
1,102 |
91.9 |
... that
an endemic species of trout in
Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali became extinct after the
common carp was introduced in 1934?
|
String Quartet in A major (Bliss) |
2019-09-10 |
|
1,100 |
91.7 |
... that the
String Quartet in A major, composed by
Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
|
Agadzagadza |
2019-09-01 |
|
1,094 |
91.2 |
... that
Agadzagadza is a mythological trickster from
Nigeria who is responsible for bringing death to humankind?
|
Jennifer Foster |
2019-09-19 |
|
1,092 |
91.0 |
... that according to
Jennifer Foster,
Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods
in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
|
Jordon Garrick |
2019-09-09 |
|
1,087 |
90.6 |
... that footballer
Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in
rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
|
Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,086 |
90.4 |
... that the
Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition recorded 2,000 examples of
rock art?
|
Ba Congress |
2019-09-21 |
|
2,098 |
90.2 |
... that the
Ba Congress failed to prevent the
Allies of World War II from breaking off contact with
Draža Mihailović's
Chetnik movement?
|
Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams |
2019-09-20 |
|
1,074 |
89.5 |
... that African-American suffragist
Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the
National American Woman Suffrage Association?
|
Dorothy Christian Hare |
2019-09-16 |
|
1,072 |
89.3 |
... that
Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman
general physician to be elected a fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians?
|
Robert Michael Forde |
2019-09-13 |
|
1,046 |
87.2 |
... that
Robert Michael Forde made the first definitive observation of the cause of
sleeping sickness (parasites pictured) in human beings?
|
2017 World Women's Snooker Championship |
2019-09-17 |
|
1,042 |
86.9 |
... that the final of the
2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was the longest ever recorded best-of-11-
frames match, lasting over eight hours of playing time?
|
International Agrarian Bureau |
2019-09-02 |
|
1,035 |
86.2 |
... that the
International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
|
Clarence Ervin |
2019-09-03 |
|
1,034 |
86.2 |
... that
Clarence Ervin became the first African-American brigadier general in the history of the
North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015?
|
Margaret Puxon |
2019-09-22 |
|
2,048 |
85.3 |
... that the gynaecologist
Margaret Puxon, who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister?
|
Angolan slender mongoose |
2019-09-15 |
|
1,022 |
85.1 |
... that a dark form of the
Angolan slender mongoose is found to the south of the
Cunene River and a pale form to the north?
|
Petra Klingler |
2019-09-01 |
|
1,006 |
83.8 |
... that
Petra Klingler finished third in the Ice Climbing World Cup while climbing on one leg?
|
Samuel Charache |
2019-09-11 |
|
994 |
82.9 |
... that hematologist
Samuel Charache discovered the first effective treatment for
sickle cell disease?
|
Laidlaw Purves |
2019-09-01 |
|
990 |
82.5 |
... that London surgeon
Laidlaw Purves was described as the "fairy godfather of ladies' golf"?
|
Sergei Chernyshev (breakdancer) |
2019-09-10 |
|
985 |
82.1 |
... that Russian breakdancer
Sergei Chernyshev, the
2018 Youth Olympics B-Boys champion, competes under the nickname Bumblebee, after
a robot superhero in the
Transformers franchise?
|
Victoriano G. de Ysasi |
2019-09-26 |
|
1,966 |
81.9 |
... that at his death in 1881,
Victoriano G. de Ysasi owned a nearly complete collection of the stamps of Spain?
|
Scyller Borglum |
2019-09-21 |
|
1,858 |
79.9 |
... that
Scyller Borglum and
a deceased candidate both won the same election?
|
J. J. Stiffler |
2019-09-28 |
|
1,904 |
79.4 |
... that
J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from
NASA's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its
space probes?
|
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final |
2019-09-05 |
|
952 |
79.3 |
... that the
Women's World Cup and the
CONCACAF Gold Cup finals both involved the United States and were played on the same day?
|
Mathea Olin |
2019-09-10 |
|
948 |
79.0 |
... that
Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in
surfing?
|
Rhoptropus bradfieldi |
2019-09-23 |
|
1,893 |
78.9 |
... that the
metabolic rate of
Rhoptropus bradfieldi is about a quarter of that of other desert lizards?
|
Minye Kyawhtin of Pakhan |
2019-09-08 |
|
724 |
78.8 |
... that Prince
Tarabya Minye Kyawhtin ceded the throne of
Ava to his cousin Prince
Min Nyo after marrying
his deceased brother's favorite queen,
Shin Saw Pu, in return?
|
Douglas Morey Ford |
2019-09-21 |
|
1,823 |
78.4 |
... that in his novel A Time of Terror,
Douglas Morey Ford imagined anarchists attempting to overthrow the British government?
|
WGAG-FM |
2019-09-29 |
|
1,855 |
77.3 |
... that high school radio station
WGAG-FM had a yearly budget of US$200, which it raised by selling donuts and clearing lawns?
|
Marie Dacke |
2019-09-29 |
|
1,850 |
77.1 |
... that Swedish scientist
Marie Dacke discovered that
dung beetles can use the
Milky Way to navigate at night?
|
Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo |
2019-09-25 |
|
1,839 |
76.6 |
... that despite its title, the Venezuelan film
Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo ('Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo') also features street shots of the city of
Maracaibo?
|
I Turn My Camera On |
2019-09-12 |
|
918 |
76.5 |
... that
Spoon frontman
Britt Daniel was inspired by
Franz Ferdinand's 2004 song "
Take Me Out" while writing "
I Turn My Camera On", and was influenced by
Prince to sing it with
falsetto vocals?
|
Werner Müller (politician) |
2019-09-02 |
|
916 |
76.3 |
... that
Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies?
|
Siegel modular variety |
2019-09-11 |
|
912 |
76.0 |
... that
Siegel modular varieties naturally capture information about
black hole entropy in
string theory?
|
Sweetheart deal |
2019-09-29 |
|
1,817 |
75.7 |
... that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier
Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a
sweetheart deal?
|
Hong Kong Way |
2019-09-13 |
|
902 |
75.2 |
... that the
Hong Kong Way was a peaceful political campaign held in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the
Baltic Way?
|
Vernon A. Forbes |
2019-09-14 |
|
900 |
75.0 |
... that Oregon state legislator
Vernon A. Forbes drowned while fishing in an Oregon lake?
|
Damodar Ganesh Bapat |
2019-09-04 |
|
898 |
74.9 |
... that social worker
Damodar Ganesh Bapat helped around 26,000
leprosy patients?
|
1985 World Snooker Championship |
2019-09-21 |
|
1,734 |
74.5 |
... that the
1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom?
|
Essex on the Park |
2019-09-29 |
|
1,787 |
74.5 |
... that the 56-story
Essex on the Park in the
Chicago Loop was built on a former swimming pool?
|
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann |
2019-09-16 |
|
890 |
74.2 |
... that
lieder singer and voice teacher
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
|
2019 Riga Masters |
2019-09-07 |
|
761 |
73.9 |
... that several entrants in the
2019 Riga Masters professional
snooker event—including
the defending champion—missed the tournament because their flights were cancelled?
|
Guo Zhenqian
|
2019-09-10
|
|
452
|
37.7
|
... that
Guo Zhenqian and his successor,
Guo Shuyan, both ended their governorships of
Hubei prematurely due to disagreement with
the province's party secretary?
|
Guo Shuyan
|
433
|
36.1
|
Total |
886 |
73.8
|
Tachibana Shrine |
2019-09-11 |
|
884 |
73.7 |
... that
National Treasures at
Hōryū-ji include the
Tamamushi Shrine and images inside the
Tachibana Shrine?
|
George Fayad |
2019-09-20 |
|
875 |
72.9 |
... that
George Fayad is depicted in
a painting of eminent international surgeons that was shown at the
National Portrait Gallery in London?
|
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester |
2019-09-08 |
|
714 |
71.4 |
... that the
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ('So-called Left Radical Wind Band') played at demonstrations against nuclear power and
far-right politics, and at the
Berliner Philharmonie?
|
2018 Women's World Snooker Championship |
2019-09-26 |
|
1,708 |
71.2 |
... that
Ng On-yee won the
2018 Women's World Snooker Championship without losing a single
frame in all six of her tournament matches?
|
Jewish Democratic Committee |
2019-09-08 |
|
712 |
71.2 |
... that the
Jewish Democratic Committee and the
Romanian Communist Party together sent
Romanian Jews to Israel, hoping to make it a communist ally?
|
Tina Irwin |
2019-09-14 |
|
846 |
70.5 |
... that Canadian
dressage rider
Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt?
|
Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples |
2019-09-16 |
|
835 |
69.6 |
... that in 1991, the
Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples became Canada's first
national parish for
indigenous people?
|
Roman Polianskyi |
2019-09-16 |
|
834 |
69.5 |
... that
2016 Paralympics para-rowing gold medalist
Roman Polianskyi started experiencing symptoms of
Strumpell disease at the age of ten?
|
Su Shuyang |
2019-09-02 |
|
832 |
69.3 |
... that in
Su Shuyang's tragedy depicting the last day of
Lao She's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
|
Charles E. de M. Sajous |
2019-09-26 |
|
1,648 |
68.7 |
... that Philadelphia-based physician
Charles Sajous, called the "father of American
endocrinology", received the French
Legion of Honour and the Venezuelan
Order of the Liberator?
|
West Point High School (Arizona) |
2019-09-08 |
|
630 |
68.5 |
... that before opening
West Point High School, the
Tolleson Union High School District in Arizona was so overcrowded that it had to turn students away and use teachers' lounges as classrooms?
|
Patricia Marshall |
2019-09-02 |
|
814 |
67.8 |
... that
Patricia Marshall's role in the 1947 film
Good News was originally meant for
Gloria DeHaven?
|
Grover Powers |
2019-09-20 |
|
806 |
67.1 |
... that Yale University pediatrician
Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with
celiac disease?
|
Jewish Democratic Committee |
2019-09-30 |
|
1,596 |
66.5 |
... that the
Jewish Democratic Committee and the
Romanian Communist Party together sent
Romanian Jews to Israel, hoping to make it a communist ally?
|
Fred Thomas (bassist) |
2019-09-22 |
|
1,596 |
66.5 |
... that
bassist
Fred Thomas performed with
James Brown for over thirty years?
|
Yu Dunkang |
2019-09-21 |
|
1,543 |
66.3 |
... that when
Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of
Xuanxue?
|
Texas Reliability Entity |
2019-09-14 |
|
792 |
66.0 |
... that the
Texas Reliability Entity monitors the state's
electrical grid to ensure its reliability?
|
C. Doris Hellman |
2019-09-02 |
|
786 |
65.5 |
... that the work of
C. Doris Hellman on the
Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the
Copernican Revolution?
|
Yu Zhengui |
2019-09-08 |
|
646 |
64.5 |
... that Chinese Muslim scholar
Yu Zhengui worked as a
laogai labourer during the
Cultural Revolution?
|
Arizona Miner |
2019-09-04 |
|
774 |
64.5 |
... that the
Arizona Miner, a newspaper published in
Prescott,
Arizona Territory, changed its political leanings from
Republican to
Democrat and back again over a succession of owners?
|
Asian garden dormouse |
2019-09-14 |
|
762 |
63.5 |
... that the
Asian garden dormouse can enter
torpor, a state in which it may remain for several days?
|
Aama (film) |
2019-09-11 |
|
738 |
61.5 |
... that
Aama was the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal?
|
Jihan Wu |
2019-09-27 |
|
1,442 |
60.1 |
... that
Jihan Wu co-founded
Bitmain, the world's largest computer chip company for
bitcoin mining?
|
Kihaule's mouse shrew |
2019-09-05 |
|
716 |
59.6 |
... that
Kihaule's mouse shrew is named after the medical-entomological technician who collected the
type specimen from the
Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania?
|
Lu Yonggen |
2019-09-01 |
|
712 |
59.3 |
... that Professor
Lu Yonggen was named by
Harvard Kennedy School as the second most generous Chinese philanthropist of 2017 after donating his entire life savings to
South China Agricultural University?
|
In My Head (Ariana Grande song) |
2019-09-15 |
|
706 |
58.9 |
... that
Ariana Grande's song "
In My Head" includes a voicemail recorded by her best friend, Doug Middlebrook, because it suited the lyrics?
|
Yang Hongxun |
2019-09-17 |
|
703 |
58.6 |
... that
Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from
oracle bones?
|
Jebel ech Chambi |
2019-09-01 |
|
685 |
57.1 |
... that
Jebel ech Chambi, the highest mountain in Tunisia, is one of the few places in which the
Cuvier's gazelle survives?
|
The Black Cloth |
2019-09-25 |
|
1,368 |
57.0 |
... that the folk tales in
Bernard Binlin Dadié's
The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
|
Claude Ruggieri |
2019-09-08 |
|
564 |
56.4 |
... that
Claude Ruggieri described
pyrotechny as "a dark chaos which one cannot penetrate without the torch of chemistry"?
|
James Dundas-Grant |
2019-09-16 |
|
676 |
56.4 |
... that surgeon Sir
James Dundas-Grant conducted his own orchestra?
|
Zhang Baifa |
2019-09-04 |
|
672 |
56.0 |
... that after the
U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging the
IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the
2000 Olympics, the city's vice mayor
Zhang Baifa threatened to boycott the
1996 Olympics in Atlanta?
|
Johannes Latuharhary |
2019-09-19 |
|
670 |
55.8 |
... that according to
Johannes Latuharhary, the education system of the
Dutch East Indies in
Ambon, Maluku, was designed to create "scribes and clerks, soldiers and sailors"?
|
Trace (precipitation) |
2019-09-01 |
|
668 |
55.7 |
... that
trace amounts of snowfall account for up to 80 percent of all precipitation that falls in some areas of northern Canada?
|
Gurcharan Singh (cricketer) |
2019-09-14 |
|
656 |
54.6 |
... that cricket coach
Gurcharan Singh survived the
1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi with the help of his trainees?
|
Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute, Wq. 132 |
2019-09-12 |
|
648 |
54.0 |
... that
C. P. E. Bach's
Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute, composed around 1747 for
flauto traverso without
bass and printed during his lifetime, is one of the few significant pieces for solo flute?
|
Joshua Kelley |
2019-09-03 |
|
638 |
53.1 |
... that
UCLA football player
Joshua Kelley's career-high 289
rushing yards against
USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of
the schools' crosstown rivalry?
|
Vsevolod Kukushkin |
2019-09-25 |
|
1,242 |
51.7 |
... that Russian journalist
Vsevolod Kukushkin said the
Soviet Union national ice hockey team was nicknamed "The Red Machine" due to a Minneapolis newspaper headline?
|
Woody Myers |
2019-09-01 |
|
620 |
51.7 |
... that as state health commissioner of
Indiana,
Woody Myers supported the right of
Ryan White, a teenage boy with
HIV/AIDS, to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
|
Ephemera simulans |
2019-09-13 |
|
616 |
51.4 |
... that the
nymphs of the mayfly
Ephemera simulans are able to burrow?
|
The Urology Foundation |
2019-09-02 |
|
615 |
51.2 |
... that
The Urology Foundation carried out a survey of how often British men
check their testicles?
|
Alexander's bush squirrel |
2019-09-15 |
|
612 |
51.0 |
... that
Alexander's bush squirrel is named after Lieutenant
Boyd Alexander, a British Army officer, explorer, and ornithologist?
|
Love Not Money |
2019-09-05 |
|
610 |
50.8 |
... that themes of British band
Everything but the Girl's 1985 album
Love Not Money include sexism,
social and
economic stratification, and
The Troubles in Northern Ireland?
|
Wang Buxuan |
2019-09-14 |
|
609 |
50.8 |
... that research by Chinese professor
Wang Buxuan resulted in the doubling of
ammonia production at a major chemical plant in
Sichuan province?
|
Carlton le Willows Academy |
2019-09-19 |
|
606 |
50.5 |
... that
Carlton le Willows Academy alumni include cricketer
Mark Footitt,
Air Supply singer/guitarist
Graham Russell, and balloonist
Janet Folkes?
|
Noelle Campbell-Sharp |
2019-09-10 |
|
602 |
50.2 |
... that
Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in
County Kerry, Ireland, since 1991?
|
Gabriel Amavizca |
2019-09-29 |
|
1,168 |
48.7 |
... that in June 2019,
Hamilton Tiger-Cats placekicker
Gabriel Amavizca became the first non-Canadian or non-American player to score points in a
Canadian Football League regular season match?
|
Ulrike Sonntag |
2019-09-17 |
|
584 |
48.6 |
... that
Ulrike Sonntag, a
soprano at the
Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher
in Stuttgart, recorded an oratorio by
Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by
Lili Boulanger?
|
Der Club (talk show) |
2019-09-20 |
|
581 |
48.4 |
... that
Der Club, a weekly German-language talk show on
Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
|
Arthur Lennox Butler |
2019-09-07 |
|
492 |
47.8 |
... that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian were named after
Arthur Lennox Butler?
|
Donald Balfour |
2019-09-14 |
|
566 |
47.2 |
... that
Donald Balfour, who began working at the
Mayo Clinic as a pathology assistant, later became the director of the
Mayo Foundation?
|
Mou Zuoyun |
2019-09-14 |
|
565 |
47.1 |
... that twelve years after his death,
Mou Zuoyun became the first Chinese person to be inducted into the
FIBA Hall of Fame?
|
Commontime (album) |
2019-09-13 |
|
559 |
46.6 |
... that the
Field Music album
Commontime received media attention after
Prince tweeted about one of its songs?
|
Donald Douglas (surgeon) |
2019-09-20 |
|
544 |
45.3 |
... that
Sir Donald Douglas was President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and his son
Sir Neil Douglas was President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh?
|
Chen Jiayong |
2019-09-05 |
|
538 |
44.8 |
... that
Chen Jiayong was the first Chinese scientist to have a satellite named after him?
|
Henry Lewis (musician) |
2019-09-08 |
|
446 |
44.6 |
... that the African-American conductor
Henry Lewis conducted the
Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of America's
cultural diplomacy initiatives after
World War II?
|
Gao Heng (legal scholar) |
2019-09-15 |
|
536 |
44.6 |
... that after studying
excavated legal documents from the ancient
Qin dynasty,
Gao Heng concluded that Qin's sentence of
penal servitude was a lifelong punishment?
|
Vespro della Beata Vergine |
2019-09-27 |
|
1,058 |
44.1 |
... that in September 1610,
Monteverdi dedicated to
Pope Paul V his
Vespro della Beata Vergine, a complex
vespers composition which included the style of the
emerging opera?
|
Pouteria adolfi-friedericii |
2019-09-22 |
|
1,048 |
43.7 |
... that the African tropical tree
Pouteria adolfi-friedericii was named after a
German explorer?
|
Wang Jiafu |
2019-09-01 |
|
519 |
43.2 |
... that legal scholar
Wang Jiafu gave lectures to China's top leaders, including President
Jiang Zemin and Premier
Li Peng?
|
Dan MacKenzie |
2019-09-02 |
|
518 |
43.1 |
... that when
National Basketball Association revenue in Canada grew 224 percent in five years, vice-president
Dan MacKenzie attributed it to marketing strategy and the sport's appeal to young
Asian Canadians?
|
National Industrial Security Academy |
2019-09-07 |
|
438 |
42.6 |
... that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the
National Industrial Security Academy of India?
|
John Howland (doctor) |
2019-09-16 |
|
498 |
41.5 |
... that
John Howland established the United States' first full-time pediatric department at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital?
|
Charles Faroux |
2019-09-04 |
|
480 |
40.0 |
... that
motorsport official
Charles Faroux was also a three-time
French carom billiards world champion?
|
Hassan Maatouk |
2019-09-07 |
|
542 |
39.5 |
... that with 20 goals,
Hassan Maatouk is the
Lebanon national football team's joint top-scorer?
|
John Henry Wishart |
2019-09-24 |
|
922 |
38.4 |
... that in 1822
John Henry Wishart gave the first description in English of
type 2 neurofibromatosis?
|
M. Sreeshankar |
2019-09-28 |
|
906 |
37.7 |
... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian
long jumper
M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the
2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships?
|
Sirenen |
2019-09-03 |
|
452 |
37.7 |
... that in his opera
Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens,
Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a
musical saw, an
accordion, and a piano?
|
Aslı Canan Sabırlı |
2019-09-08 |
|
344 |
37.4 |
... that Turkish women's footballer
Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed
technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad?
|
WGBP-FM |
2019-09-22 |
|
839 |
35.0 |
... that
Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at
WGBP-FM?
|
Jerome Daugherty |
2019-09-24 |
|
802 |
33.4 |
... that the
Georgetown University School of Dentistry was established during
Jerome Daugherty's tenure as
university president?
|
Harry Buckwitz |
2019-09-09 |
|
365 |
32.6 |
... that as general manager of the
municipal theatres in Frankfurt,
Harry Buckwitz staged plays by Brecht including
Mutter Courage, and recruited
Georg Solti for
the opera?
|
Andrea Ihle |
2019-09-28 |
|
721 |
30.0 |
... that
Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera
Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt
Semperoper in Dresden?
|
17th Lok Sabha |
2019-09-15 |
|
346 |
28.9 |
... that
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians
Maneka Gandhi and
Santosh Gangwar, current members of the
17th Lok Sabha, have been elected to the
Indian lower house for the eighth time?
|
Northwestern Media |
2019-09-15 |
|
280 |
23.3 |
... that in 1949, the students of
Northwestern Schools underwrote the US$40,000 cost to build
KTIS in
Minneapolis, the first radio station of
Northwestern Media?
|
Palembang Light Rail Transit |
2019-09-04 |
|
262 |
21.8 |
... that the
Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
|
Dorothy Olsen |
2019-09-29 |
|
131 |
5.5 |
... that
Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
|
Kurds'komu bratovi |
2019-09-29 |
|
100 |
4.2 |
... that
a clandestinely-distributed poem about the
Kurds became a
Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
|