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Jackie Summers |
2020-09-16 |
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37,327 |
3,110.6 |
... that
Jackie Summers (pictured) quit his corporate job to pursue a "lifelong dream of day-drinking professionally"?
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Migration (Bonobo album) |
2020-09-23 |
|
25,900 |
2,158.3 |
... that the artwork for the 2017
Bonobo album
Migration was captured in four hours?
|
Melinda Plowman |
2020-09-18 |
|
17,420 |
1,776.0 |
... that child actress
Melinda Plowman (pictured), who appeared in many early television shows, was one of the original
Mouseketeers?
|
Light Vessel 72 |
2020-09-15 |
|
21,192 |
1,766.0 |
... that
Light Vessel 72 (pictured), which helped mark the route to the
Normandy landing beaches, has lain in a Welsh scrapyard since 1973?
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Malibu Mafia |
2020-09-06 |
|
17,262 |
1,438.5 |
... that married actors
Joanne Woodward and
Paul Newman (both pictured) fronted for the
Malibu Mafia?
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Jim Watkins (businessman) |
2020-09-21 |
|
15,820
[a] |
1,318.3 |
... that
Jim Watkins founded a super PAC to back politicians who support the
QAnon conspiracy theory, furthering belief by experts that he has close ties to, or is, Q?
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List of British colours lost in battle |
2020-09-14 |
|
15,694 |
1,307.8 |
... that the
last British colour lost in battle was in 1880?
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Lydia Mendoza |
2020-09-10 |
|
15,462 |
1,288.5 |
... that when
Tejano singer
Lydia Mendoza (pictured) was a child returning to Texas with her parents in 1920, border agents immersed her and other Mexican children in gasoline baths?
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George V's 1911 hunting trip in Nepal |
2020-09-01 |
|
14,687 |
1,223.9 |
... that in 1911,
George V (pictured)
killed 21 tigers, 8 rhinos, and 1 bear in Nepal?
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Islam in the Arctic |
2020-09-03 |
|
14,505 |
1,208.8 |
... that despite an extensive history of
Islam in the Arctic, the first mosque (pictured) in the Canadian Arctic was only built in 2010?
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Battle of Leptis Parva |
2020-09-10 |
|
13,956 |
1,163.0 |
... that after the
Battle of Leptis Parva, the losers were spared—except for their commander, who was tortured to death?
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United Kingdom–India bus routes |
2020-09-18 |
|
10,648 |
1,085.7 |
... that in 1957, a
bus ride from Calcutta to London cost £65?
|
Ground Swell |
2020-09-22 |
|
12,503 |
1,041.9 |
... that the buoy in
Edward Hopper's 1939 painting
Ground Swell (pictured) alludes to impending doom, possibly the beginning of World War II?
|
Pierre David (mayor) |
2020-09-17 |
|
12,315 |
1,026.2 |
... that the heart of
Pierre David was found in a Belgian fountain in August 2020?
|
August 2020 Midwest derecho |
2020-09-11 |
|
11,722
[b] |
976.9 |
... that the
August 2020 Midwest derecho destroyed millions of acres of
Iowa corn (pictured) and soybean crops in just 14 hours?
|
London garotting panics |
2020-09-20 |
|
10,898 |
908.1 |
... that during the Victorian-era
London garotting panics, some citizens wore studded leather collars to protect themselves from attack?
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Azalea (chimpanzee) |
2020-09-24 |
|
10,842 |
903.5 |
... that the
Korea Central Zoo houses
a chimpanzee that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day?
|
Stella Immanuel |
2020-09-02 |
|
10,699 |
891.6 |
... that
Stella Immanuel claims that space alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that
reptilians run the United States government, and that she uses
hydroxychloroquine to cure
COVID-19?
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Neccio |
2020-09-02 |
|
10,643 |
886.9 |
... that although nowadays
neccio (pictured) is considered a dessert, peasants used to eat it with salty food?
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Beulah Ream Allen |
2020-09-28 |
|
21,222 |
884.2 |
... that American volunteer civilian physician
Beulah Ream Allen (pictured, right) survived three Japanese internment camps in the Philippines during World War II?
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Betty Danko |
2020-09-10 |
|
10,472 |
872.6 |
... that stuntwoman
Betty Danko earned $35 for riding the Wicked Witch's smoke-spewing broomstick in the 1939 film
The Wizard of Oz, and was hospitalized for eleven days after it exploded on her?
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Playhouse 90) |
2020-09-30 |
|
20,902 |
870.9 |
... that
Leon Uris called
Rod Serling's
In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned?
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Jewish war conspiracy theory |
2020-09-04 |
|
10,101 |
841.8 |
... that the Nazis
blamed the Jews for starting World War II?
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Flag of Western Australia |
2020-09-27 |
|
19,670 |
819.6 |
... that the direction of the
black swan on the
flag of Western Australia (pictured) was corrected in 1953, even though this issue was identified 17 years earlier?
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Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers |
2020-09-11 |
|
9,780 |
815.0 |
... that
a twice-lifesize statue (pictured) on the
Scarborough seafront serves as a memorial to a man who helped liberate
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
|
Autobahnkirche Siegerland |
2020-09-09 |
|
9,700 |
808.4 |
... that
Autobahnkirche Siegerland (pictured), a 2013
road church on the
A 45 that looks like a piece of folded paper, is always open?
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Three Brothers (jewel) |
2020-09-02 |
|
9,678 |
806.5 |
... that the
Three Brothers was part of the
English crown jewels for more than 90 years, but was lost to history after
Charles I tried to pawn it?
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Death of Angira Pasi |
2020-09-24 |
|
9,422 |
785.2 |
... that residents of
Devdaha, Nepal, decided that
a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist?
|
The Vertical Earth Kilometer |
2020-09-09 |
|
9,376 |
781.3 |
... that
a brass rod with a length of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) was inserted into the ground as a permanent art installation in
Kassel, Germany?
|
Elijah Thomas Webb Residence |
2020-09-13 |
|
9,365 |
780.4 |
... that the
Elijah Thomas Webb Residence (pictured) was built with a family fortune amassed after John Webb discovered
lead when plowing a corn field?
|
Elastomeric respirator |
2020-09-07 |
|
9,337 |
778.1 |
... that
elastomeric respirators are used not only to
protect against COVID-19 and
tear gas, but also as fashion items (example pictured)?
|
Singer Building |
2020-09-10 |
|
9,202 |
766.8 |
... that the
Singer Building, the world's tallest building when completed, later became the world's tallest building to be demolished?
|
Liberty Tower (Manhattan) |
2020-09-08 |
|
9,178 |
764.8 |
... that New York City's
Liberty Tower (pictured), now a residential building, was once occupied by
Franklin D. Roosevelt's law office and by German spies plotting to intervene in World War I?
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Genocide justification |
2020-09-03 |
|
9,081 |
756.8 |
... that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was
a justified act of self-defense?
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Shooting of Greg Gunn |
2020-09-03 |
|
9,010 |
750.8 |
... that eight judges recused themselves from proceedings following the
fatal shooting of Greg Gunn?
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Alienation (speech) |
2020-09-06 |
|
8,766 |
730.5 |
... that "
a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings"?
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Axe (gamer) |
2020-09-07 |
|
8,601 |
716.8 |
... that
professional Super Smash Bros. player
Axe (pictured) is known for a "lightning-quick" style of play with
Pikachu, which enables him to predict his opponent's attacks and swiftly retaliate?
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Sister exchange |
2020-09-11 |
|
8,394 |
699.5 |
... that in some societies,
your spouse's sibling is also your sibling's spouse?
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Judith Sims
|
2020-09-17
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6,770
|
563.7
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... that even though
Judith Sims of
TeenSet magazine was touring with
the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them?
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TeenSet
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1,488
|
123.9
|
Total |
8,258 |
687.6
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Revolt of the Admirals |
2020-09-29 |
|
16,271 |
678.0 |
... that in 1949 the
admirals were revolting?
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2 Hours Doing Nothing |
2020-09-12 |
|
8,006 |
667.2 |
... that in a
viral video of a man
doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times?
|
Franklin La Du Ferguson |
2020-09-03 |
|
8,001 |
666.8 |
... that
Pomona College's "missing president",
Franklin La Du Ferguson (pictured), is the only past president not honored by the college with a portrait?
|
Inuit clothing |
2020-09-17 |
|
7,996 |
666.3 |
... that modern studies have shown that the characteristic fur-trimmed hood on traditional
Inuit skin clothing (example pictured) is more effective at preventing heat transfer than manufactured
winter clothing?
|
Lynching of Irving and Herman Arthur |
2020-09-01 |
|
7,877 |
656.4 |
... that almost a century after African-American brothers
Irving and Herman Arthur were burnt alive at a fairground in
Paris, Texas, their names were listed on
a lynching memorial?
|
Tri-City Pavilions |
2020-09-23 |
|
7,834 |
652.8 |
... that the $10 million
Tri-City Mall in
Mesa, Arizona, began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
|
Fort Trump |
2020-09-10 |
|
7,605 |
633.8 |
... that US diplomats asked Poland not to name their new military base
Fort Trump lest it be perceived as a vanity project and not a serious military proposal?
|
Cockfighting in India |
2020-09-15 |
|
7,467 |
622.2 |
... that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than
₹900
crore (US$130 million) was wagered on
cockfighting (example pictured) in
Andhra Pradesh in just three days?
|
Los Arcos Mall |
2020-09-21 |
|
7,436 |
619.7 |
... that the site of
Los Arcos Mall was dubbed the "most divisive piece of property" in the history of
Scottsdale, Arizona?
|
Hamilton McWhorter III |
2020-09-04 |
|
7,260 |
605.0 |
... that
Hamilton McWhorter III (Congressional Gold Medal pictured) was the first
F6F Hellcat pilot to achieve double-ace status?
|
Battle of Ticinus |
2020-09-16 |
|
7,252 |
604.4 |
... that cavalry of both sides at the
Battle of Ticinus fought on foot?
|
Rusco Tower |
2020-09-07 |
|
7,200 |
600.0 |
... that when his widowed mother remarried, James Gordon seized
Rusco Tower and imprisoned her to ensure that she did not make it over to her new husband, whom he later killed?
|
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing |
2020-09-23 |
|
7,120
[c] |
593.3 |
... that
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the worst-ranked video game of all time on
Metacritic and
GameRankings?
|
Misogynist terrorism |
2020-09-07 |
|
7,086 |
590.5 |
... that
misogynist terrorism is listed as a "rising threat" by counter-terrorism researchers?
|
Statue of Lenin at Finland Station |
2020-09-21 |
|
7,029 |
585.8 |
... that in April 2009 a bomb blew a hole in the buttocks of the
statue of Lenin at Finland Station, Saint Petersburg?
|
Meri Avidzba |
2020-09-27 |
|
13,659 |
569.1 |
... that during the Second World War,
Abkhazian female pilot
Meri Avidzba flew 477 combat sorties and dropped 63 tonnes of bombs onto the enemy?
|
Third Punic War |
2020-09-25 |
|
13,602 |
566.8 |
... that the
Third Punic War between Rome and Carthage ended in the complete destruction of Carthage and the death or enslavement of all of its citizens?
|
History of Flagstaff, Arizona |
2020-09-22 |
|
6,786 |
565.5 |
... that
a flag pole named a city?
|
Names of the United States |
2020-09-20 |
|
6,737 |
561.4 |
... that
the name "United States" was originally plural, but gradually transitioned after the
Civil War to a singular noun?
|
A479 road |
2020-09-08 |
|
6,676 |
556.4 |
... that the
A479 is one of Wales's most dangerous roads?
|
Winston Churchill |
2020-09-23 |
|
6,642
[d] |
553.5 |
... that
Winston Churchill (pictured) was a keen amateur
bricklayer, constructing buildings and garden walls at his home,
Chartwell?
|
Sylvester–Gallai theorem |
2020-09-17 |
|
6,574 |
547.4 |
... that among proofs of the
Sylvester–Gallai theorem,
Kelly's has been praised as "simply the best", but also criticized as "like using a sledge hammer to crack an almond"?
|
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman |
2020-09-01 |
|
6,470 |
539.1 |
... that in 1977, three ex-members of
the Byrds formed
a rock supergroup partly modeled after
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
|
Franz Leuninger |
2020-09-16 |
|
6,437 |
536.4 |
... that
Franz Leuninger, a Catholic trade unionist in
Silesia who ran against the Nazis for election to the
Reichstag in 1933, was executed in March 1945?
|
Harold Willens |
2020-09-11 |
|
6,154 |
512.8 |
... that U.S. Marine Corps captain
Harold Willens returned four
samurai swords to Japan after 27 years?
|
Spirit Soldier rebellions (1920–1926) |
2020-09-21 |
|
6,124 |
510.3 |
... that Chinese peasants mostly armed with spears and swords repeatedly defeated modern warlord armies during the
Spirit Soldier rebellions?
|
Statue of Almanzor, Algeciras |
2020-09-01 |
|
6,054 |
504.5 |
... that the Spanish city of
Algeciras took down
a statue of a medieval Islamic Spanish ruler for restoration in 2013 and has yet to put it back?
|
Miss and Mister Supranational |
2020-09-12 |
|
6,038 |
503.1 |
... that
Jenny Kim's victory in the 2017
Miss Supranational beauty pageant (finalists pictured) marked the first time that a contestant representing South Korea won a major international pageant?
|
Karen people in the United States |
2020-09-17 |
|
6,007 |
500.2 |
... that the 2017
Bishop Maginn High School baseball team largely consisted of
Karen refugees?
|
Li Guangchang |
2020-09-18 |
|
5,174 |
499.9 |
... that sect leader
Li Guangchang ruled as self-proclaimed emperor for five years in the 1980s before being arrested by the Chinese police?
|
Osthofen concentration camp |
2020-09-18 |
|
5,084 |
491.2 |
... that at
Osthofen concentration camp, the camp doctor declared all new arrivals healthy and medically fit for imprisonment, even if they had been mistreated before?
|
Pomona College Organic Farm |
2020-09-01 |
|
5,892 |
491.0 |
... that the first
superadobe earth dome (replacement pictured) at the
Pomona College Organic Farm was built by students without authorization and was demolished by the college administration?
|
The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus |
2020-09-13 |
|
5,890 |
490.9 |
... that
The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus was described as a "giant step forward for the field of working class intellectual history"?
|
Decent interval |
2020-09-24 |
|
5,882 |
490.2 |
... that a historical theory argues that
Nixon sought a
decent interval between American withdrawal and South Vietnamese collapse to avoid becoming the first president to lose a war?
|
Among the Sierra Nevada, California |
2020-09-24 |
|
5,829 |
485.8 |
... that
Albert Bierstadt's landscape painting
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains (pictured) was removed from its frame and glued to an interior wall when
Locusts on Hudson was rebuilt?
|
Kumbharia Jain temples |
2020-09-21 |
|
5,822 |
485.2 |
... that only
five Jain temples (one pictured) remain in the
Kumbhariya district of
Gujarat out of hundreds that were destroyed by volcanic activity?
|
The Broken Kilometer |
2020-09-10 |
|
5,802
[e] |
483.5 |
... that the 500 brass rods that make up
Walter De Maria's
The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years?
|
Maypole in the Strand |
2020-09-08 |
|
5,796 |
483.0 |
... that the
Maypole in the Strand ended up being
Isaac Newton's telescope stand?
|
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk |
2020-09-23 |
|
5,725 |
477.1 |
... that after the
Rockaway Boardwalk (pictured) was destroyed in
Hurricane Sandy, a radio ad campaign using the Ramones song "
Rockaway Beach" was aired to draw visitors to the adjacent beach?
|
2019–2020 Department of Homeland Security appointment disputes |
2020-09-14 |
|
5,679 |
473.2 |
... that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Secretary of Homeland Security
Kirstjen Nielsen
swore in the wrong person as her successor?
|
Internal exile in Greece |
2020-09-26 |
|
11,290 |
470.4 |
... that after the
Greek Civil War, 20,000
leftists were
exiled to the island of Gyaros, dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?
|
American logistics in the Northern France campaign |
2020-09-09 |
|
5,570 |
464.2 |
... that
American logistics in the Northern France campaign was impacted by a critical shortage of
jerrycans, more than 2 million of which had been discarded or abandoned in Normandy?
|
Tom Corbin |
2020-09-23 |
|
5,556 |
463.0 |
... that
South Carolina state senator
Tom Corbin once referred to women as a "lesser cut of meat"?
|
Anti-gender movement |
2020-09-05 |
|
5,554 |
462.8 |
... that the
anti-gender movement claimed that the proposed
2016 Colombian peace agreement was "an instrument to impose gender ideology"?
|
Club Feathers |
2020-09-18 |
|
4,536 |
462.5 |
... that two
Molotov cocktail attacks have set
Club Feathers on fire?
|
KissAnime |
2020-09-04 |
|
5,520
[f] |
460.0 |
... that by the time it closed this year,
KissAnime was described as the world's most popular illegal anime streaming site?
|
Manned Orbiting Laboratory |
2020-09-20 |
|
5,402 |
450.2 |
... that a 1966 test flight (pictured) of a Gemini B spacecraft for the
Manned Orbiting Laboratory was the first time an American space capsule intended for human spaceflight had flown in space twice?
|
Religion and authoritarianism |
2020-09-17 |
|
5,402 |
450.2 |
... that conventional religion
is positively correlated with authoritarianism?
|
HMS Junella |
2020-09-25 |
|
10,766 |
448.6 |
... that during the
Falklands War, a fishing trawler served in the Royal Navy as
HMS Junella?
|
Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people |
2020-09-19 |
|
5,246 |
443.4 |
... that according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Pope John Paul II's canonisation of
Chinese martyrs
hurt the feelings of the Chinese people?
|
Auxiliary label |
2020-09-15 |
|
5,284 |
440.3 |
... that a 2006 survey found that only 7.6 percent of participants were able to understand an
auxiliary label with complex instructions?
|
The Red Caboose Motel |
2020-09-12 |
|
5,258 |
438.2 |
... that
the Red Caboose Motel has the largest privately owned collection of railroad
cabooses in the world?
|
WFAD |
2020-09-06 |
|
5,195 |
432.9 |
... that
Vermont radio station
WFAD was ordered to shut down just two weeks after it launched?
|
MS Nordic Ferry |
2020-09-21 |
|
5,172 |
431.0 |
... that the merchant vessel
MS Nordic Ferry was awarded a
battle honour for service in the
Falklands War?
|
Badnam Basti |
2020-09-08 |
|
5,160 |
430.0 |
... that a print of
Badnam Basti, often described as India's first
gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been
lost for 40 years?
|
General Order No. 1 (Gulf War) |
2020-09-14 |
|
5,134 |
427.8 |
... that
General Order No. 1's broad definition of "sexually explicit" material led to a ban on
bodybuilding magazines and underwear catalogues for U.S. personnel during the
Gulf War?
|
Havering hoard |
2020-09-08 |
|
5,130 |
427.5 |
... that the first item of the
Havering hoard, the largest Bronze Age hoard found in London, was discovered by a 23-year-old archaeologist only four weeks into a temporary contract?
|
S&M2 |
2020-09-23 |
|
5,096 |
424.7 |
... that
S&M2 is the highest-grossing rock
cinema event of all time?
|
Mathos |
2020-09-01 |
|
5,094 |
424.5 |
... that after the army he served in mutinied,
Mathos became the leader of a 90,000-strong force in a war against
ancient Carthage?
|
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission |
2020-09-16 |
|
5,082 |
423.5 |
... that after
Ohio fined a woman $100 for not putting her name on a political
leaflet, her estate
appealed the fine all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court?
|
Johnny Doughboy |
2020-09-02 |
|
5,022 |
418.5 |
... that in the 1942 film
Johnny Doughboy, former child stars
Bobby Breen, "
Alfalfa", and "
Spanky" play themselves as members of a club of Hollywood "has-beens"?
|
2020 World Series |
2020-09-29 |
|
9,790
[g] |
407.9 |
... that the
2020 World Series will be the first to be held at one ballpark since
1944?
|
Zofia Poznańska |
2020-09-24 |
|
4,894 |
407.8 |
... that
Zofia Poznańska, cipher clerk to the Red Orchestra espionage group, was captured in Belgium by the Abwehr in 1941 and hanged herself in prison in 1942?
|
Twilight of Democracy |
2020-09-12 |
|
4,860 |
405.0 |
... that the book
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism has been described as a "bleak account of the West's slide toward tyranny"?
|
Churchill caretaker ministry |
2020-09-24 |
|
4,860 |
405.0 |
... that the
Churchill caretaker ministry reduced the British bacon
ration from four ounces (110 g) to three ounces (85 g) per week?
|
Capture of Sedalia |
2020-09-22 |
|
4,750 |
395.9 |
... that eyewitnesses at the
Battle of Sedalia reported seeing Confederate soldiers riding barefoot because their boots were full of plundered
whiskey?
|
Heartbroken Angels |
2020-09-05 |
|
4,688 |
390.7 |
... that "fap" as an
onomatopoeia for masturbation originates from the manga series
Heartbroken Angels?
|
WAP (song) |
2020-09-03 |
|
4,679
[h] |
389.9 |
... that a U.S.
Republican candidate criticized rappers
Cardi B and
Megan Thee Stallion's song "
WAP", stating that it made him want to "pour holy water" in his ears?
|
Convent of Santo Domingo (Valencia) |
2020-09-24 |
|
4,634 |
386.2 |
... that the
Convent of Santo Domingo (pictured) in
Valencia, founded in 1239 as a church, is now used as a
Spanish Army headquarters?
|
Melati Suryodarmo |
2020-09-16 |
|
4,549 |
379.1 |
... that
Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter?
|
Jane Stanley (died 1803) |
2020-09-08 |
|
4,548 |
379.0 |
... that footpaths in
Knutsford, England, built intentionally narrow by
Jane Stanley to prevent 18th-century couples walking arm-in-arm, were only replaced in 2014?
|
Mew Island Lighthouse |
2020-09-22 |
|
4,529 |
377.4 |
... that the large
hyperradiant lens used in the
Mew Island Lighthouse is now on display in the
Titanic Quarter of
Belfast as The Great Light (pictured)?
|
Battle of Dunbar (1650) |
2020-09-03 |
|
4,509 |
375.8 |
... that having routed their Scottish opponents at the
Battle of Dunbar 370 years ago today, the cavalry of the English
New Model Army sang the
117th Psalm?
|
Len Lanzi |
2020-09-20 |
|
4,500 |
375.0 |
... that
Len Lanzi
was legally fired by the
Boy Scouts of America after coming out as gay?
|
Bennett Building (New York City) |
2020-09-26 |
|
8,951 |
373.0 |
... that the
Bennett Building, once one of New York's most prominent buildings, is probably the world's tallest building with a cast-iron facade?
|
Together for McGovern
|
2020-09-08
|
|
2,822
|
235.2
|
... that
Shirley MacLaine (pictured) served as an
usher at her brother
Warren Beatty's political concert
Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show
Star-Spangled Women for McGovern?
|
Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver
|
1,652
|
137.7
|
Total |
4,474 |
372.9
|
Jews and the American Slave Trade
|
2020-09-06
|
|
2,998
|
249.9
|
... that the 1998 books
Jews and the American Slave Trade and
Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade rebut the earlier work
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, calling it a "handbook of hate" and "nine parts fable"?
|
Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight
|
1,434
|
119.5
|
Total |
4,432 |
369.3
|
Onkar Singh Kalkat |
2020-09-12 |
|
4,431 |
369.2 |
... that Major
O. S. Kalkat stumbled upon plans of an invasion of Kashmir in 1947, but no one believed him until the invasion actually started?
|
Coventry ring road |
2020-09-12 |
|
4,430 |
369.1 |
... that driving on
Coventry ring road has been likened to a
roller coaster and a
Scalextric?
|
Ferranti F100-L |
2020-09-23 |
|
4,408 |
367.3 |
... that the 16-bit
Ferranti F100-L was the first
microprocessor designed in Europe?
|
Godwin Sule |
2020-09-04 |
|
4,342 |
361.9 |
... that Ugandan commander
Godwin Sule was reportedly run over by one of his own tanks, contributing to the Ugandan defeat during the
Battle of Lukaya?
|
Northwest Branch Trail |
2020-09-16 |
|
4,314 |
359.5 |
... that
Theodore Roosevelt considered a portion of the
Northwest Branch Trail to be one of his favorite places?
|
Ōzushima |
2020-09-14 |
|
4,294 |
357.8 |
... that the island of
Ōzushima is the site of
a museum (pictured) commemorating the
Japanese suicide-attack submarines used during World War II?
|
Galatians 3:28 |
2020-09-03 |
|
4,262 |
355.2 |
... that the verse "
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" was left out of the
slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
|
À la poupée |
2020-09-02 |
|
4,214 |
351.1 |
... that it sometimes took
Mary Cassatt and a printer eight hours to make eight or ten coloured prints using
à la poupée inking (example pictured)?
|
1964 split in the Communist Party of India |
2020-09-13 |
|
4,187 |
348.9 |
... that the
1964 split in the Communist Party of India was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
|
The Fuccons |
2020-09-28 |
|
8,333 |
347.2 |
... that the
sketch-comedy series
The Fuccons stars a cast consisting solely of mannequins?
|
Greece in the Council of Europe |
2020-09-30 |
|
8,300 |
345.8 |
... that Greece is the only state to have
left the Council of Europe?
|
Bronx Skate Park |
2020-09-09 |
|
4,136 |
344.6 |
... that
Bronx Skate Park was built to prevent accidents in a nearby
McDonald's parking lot?
|
Tomás Yepes |
2020-09-18 |
|
3,550 |
342.9 |
... that
Tomás Yepes (work pictured) settled a lawsuit his elder sister brought against him by giving her some religious paintings?
|
Gorkha Bridge |
2020-09-04 |
|
4,112 |
342.7 |
... that construction of the 195 m (640 ft)
Gorkha Bridge in Nepal reconnected seven remote villages and reestablished a portion of a popular hiking trail?
|
Phantom border |
2020-09-19 |
|
4,088 |
340.2 |
... that "
phantom borders" left behind by the
partitions of Poland by imperial powers have an impact on which political parties Polish citizens vote for?
|
Susan Lydon |
2020-09-17 |
|
4,048 |
337.3 |
... that
Susan Lydon wrote about
fake orgasm and real
addiction?
|
Du Shuzhen |
2020-09-23 |
|
4,004 |
333.6 |
... that
Du Shuzhen was the first woman in
Henan, China, to perform the
Hajj?
|
Mercury pressure gauge |
2020-09-16 |
|
3,989 |
332.4 |
... that
mercury pressure gauges as tall as 23 metres (75 ft) have been built to measure very high pressures?
|
S.T.H. |
2020-09-13 |
|
3,988 |
332.4 |
... that the founder of the pornography
zine
S.T.H. once joked that it was "the only gay-sex magazine funded by the U.S. government"?
|
Japan–Ming trade-ship flag |
2020-09-17 |
|
3,985 |
331.9 |
... that
a flag was used to facilitate trade between
Momoyama Japan and
Ming China?
|
Mineko Nomachi |
2020-09-11 |
|
3,962 |
330.2 |
... that Japanese essayist
Mineko Nomachi's 2006 book I'm Queer But I'm An Office Lady details her experience as a transgender woman in a
pink-collar job?
|
No Sad Song |
2020-09-10 |
|
3,960 |
330.0 |
... that
Helen Reddy said that her single "
No Sad Song" sold poorly "because it put down men too much"?
|
Essop Moosa |
2020-09-23 |
|
3,950 |
329.1 |
... that
Essop Moosa, who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white
soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
|
Fatah Jasin |
2020-09-21 |
|
3,949 |
329.1 |
... that
Japanese occupying forces reportedly sentenced
Fatah Jasin to death, but Japan surrendered and Indonesia became independent before he could be executed?
|
Monghyr Mutiny
|
2020-09-07
|
|
2,430
|
202.5
|
... that
Sir Robert Fletcher rose to command the
East India Company's
Madras Army, despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766
Monghyr Mutiny?
|
Robert Fletcher (East India Company officer)
|
1,508
|
125.7
|
Total |
3,938 |
328.1
|
Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
2020-09-19 |
|
3,930 |
327.0 |
... that U.S. senator
Strom Thurmond's aides set up a bucket for him to relieve himself during
his 24-hour filibuster?
|
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building |
2020-09-23 |
|
3,922 |
326.9 |
... that the
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building's main banking hall was described as "the one real asset" of a nearly bankrupt New York City in the 1970s?
|
Kathy Arendsen |
2020-09-22 |
|
3,914 |
326.1 |
... that
Kathy Arendsen had a windmill fastball pitch timed at 96 miles per hour (154 km/h)?
|
Necessary in a democratic society |
2020-09-29 |
|
7,824 |
326.0 |
... that the
European Court of Human Rights has ruled that burqa bans may be "
necessary in a democratic society"?
|
LaNada War Jack |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,882 |
323.5 |
... that
LaNada War Jack, a leader of the
Third World Strike at
UC Berkeley and the
Occupation of Alcatraz during her student days, is today a
distinguished professor of Native law and governance?
|
Francisco Herrera (baseball) |
2020-09-03 |
|
3,873 |
322.8 |
... that Los Angeles Dodgers
ball boy
Chico Herrera became a fan favorite after making impressive plays in
pre-season games, and inspired the catchphrase "Don't Run on Chico"?
|
Zoo key |
2020-09-13 |
|
3,868 |
322.3 |
... that
Trunkey the Elephant has been teaching kids about zoo animals for over 50 years?
|
Joker (2019 film) |
2020-09-14 |
|
3,862
[i] |
321.8 |
... that President
Donald Trump watched the 2019 film
Joker with his friends and family at the
White House and reportedly enjoyed it?
|
Rihanna |
2020-09-01 |
|
3,848
[j] |
320.7 |
... that
Rihanna was asked to stay at the
Def Jam Recordings office until 3:00 a.m. in order to sign a contract, so that she would not sign with another label?
|
Kabul City Center |
2020-09-20 |
|
3,820 |
318.3 |
... that
Kabul City Center is the only building in Afghanistan that is equipped with working
escalators?
|
Zolotarev polynomials
|
2020-09-20
|
|
2,530
|
210.8
|
... that
Zolotarev polynomials were introduced in 1868, but not applied to
Zolotarev filters until 1970?
|
Achieser-Zolotarev filter
|
1,283
|
106.9
|
Total |
3,813 |
317.8
|
Earl's Court tube station |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,802 |
316.8 |
... that a one-legged engineer rode the escalators at
Earl's Court tube station on their first day of operation to reassure passengers of their safety?
|
Spokane and British Columbia Railway |
2020-09-18 |
|
3,106 |
316.7 |
... that the "
Hot Air Line" was so-called due to shaky financial backing and grandiose claims?
|
Paul Elias Alexander |
2020-09-30 |
|
7,497 |
312.4 |
... that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr.
Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the
coronavirus?
|
Romajë |
2020-09-23 |
|
3,740 |
311.6 |
... that excavations in
Romajë have revealed double-edged axes thought to have been related to
sun worship?
|
Workplace impact of artificial intelligence |
2020-09-08 |
|
3,738 |
311.5 |
... that the
hazards of artificial intelligence include
algorithmic bias,
blaming humans for machine errors, and
human–robot collisions?
|
Hokitika Clock Tower |
2020-09-16 |
|
3,731 |
310.9 |
... that the
Hokitika Clock Tower (pictured) on the
West Coast of New Zealand's South Island serves the unusual dual purpose of a war memorial and a town clock?
|
Willenhall House |
2020-09-04 |
|
3,716 |
309.6 |
... that all that remains of
Willenhall House in north London are the gateposts?
|
Oxford Circus panic |
2020-09-19 |
|
3,646 |
308.1 |
... that sixteen people were injured while fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the
Oxford Circus panic?
|
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
2020-09-08 |
|
3,691
[k] |
307.6 |
... that the teaser trailer for
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features fragments of an interview with real-life
KGB defector
Yuri Bezmenov?
|
My Michael |
2020-09-14 |
|
3,650 |
304.2 |
... that
My Michael, a novel by Israeli author
Amos Oz set in
Jerusalem of the 1950s, was reviled by critics as being "politically dangerous and subversive"?
|
Yusuf II of Granada |
2020-09-11 |
|
3,647 |
303.9 |
... that a Christian writer claimed to have seen
Yusuf II of Granada putting on a poisoned
tunic, which caused the Sultan's death within thirty days?
|
Casa Fuerte de Adeje |
2020-09-01 |
|
3,636 |
303.0 |
... that the
Casa Fuerte de Adeje was built in
Tenerife in the 1550s to protect a sugar mill against pirates, but the complex was destroyed by fire in 1902 and has yet to be rebuilt?
|
High School (1940 film) |
2020-09-14 |
|
3,617 |
301.4 |
... that many of the teen actors in the
Jane Withers comedy film
High School had been guests at her thirteenth birthday party?
|
Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete |
2020-09-27 |
|
7,205 |
300.2 |
... that the Spanish town of
Cadrete removed
a bust of the ruler who built its castle, for causing "division and confrontation"?
|
Etching revival |
2020-09-19 |
|
3,558 |
296.1 |
... that the
etching revival that began in the 1850s (work pictured) ended when prices collapsed after the
1929 Wall Street crash?
|
Marcos jewels |
2020-09-02 |
|
3,551 |
295.9 |
... that ousted Philippine president
Ferdinand Marcos and his wife
Imelda left 400 pieces of
unlawfully acquired jewelry in
their palace and were caught smuggling out another $5–10 million worth of gems?
|
Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School
|
2020-09-05
|
|
1,349
|
112.4
|
... that
Juan Mateos and
Alonso Martínez de Espinar, both writers on hunting in
Spanish Baroque literature, are depicted in
Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School (pictured) by
Diego Velázquez, whose
half-length portrait of Mateos was similarly identified from an engraving by
Pedro Perete, son of
Pieter Perret?
|
Alonso Martínez de Espinar
|
510
|
42.5
|
Juan Mateos (courtier)
|
502
|
41.9
|
Don Juan Mateos
|
489
|
40.8
|
Pieter Perret
|
338
|
28.2
|
Pedro Perete
|
336
|
28.0
|
Total |
3,524 |
293.7
|
Secret Treaty of Vienna |
2020-09-06 |
|
3,514 |
292.9 |
... that in the 1815
Secret Treaty of Vienna, Britain and Austria sided with their former enemy France against former allies Prussia and Russia?
|
Matchstick Marvels Museum |
2020-09-10 |
|
3,491 |
290.9 |
... that Iowa's
Matchstick Marvels Museum has large models created out of thousands of matchsticks that are glued one at a time?
|
Mucuna urens |
2020-09-16 |
|
3,440 |
286.7 |
... that irritant hairs on the seed pods of the
horse-eye bean have traditionally been used to get rid of intestinal worms?
|
Japan National Route 58 |
2020-09-19 |
|
3,443 |
286.5 |
... that it was once illegal for civilians to pass U.S. military vehicles on
Japan National Route 58?
|
Ryūkyū Disposition |
2020-09-20 |
|
3,394 |
282.8 |
... that the
Ryūkyū Disposition saw the former
Ryūkyū Kingdom incorporated into the nascent
Empire of Japan?
|
Indian Society for Cultural Co-operation and Friendship |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,379 |
281.6 |
... that the
Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet
Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?
|
Mary Schenck Woolman |
2020-09-25 |
|
6,751 |
281.3 |
... that early
vocational-education advocate
Mary Schenck Woolman (pictured) obtained her first teaching position as a result of her "harsh" review of a sewing manual?
|
Frank Howard (Louisiana politician) |
2020-09-01 |
|
3,350 |
279.2 |
... that
Frank Howard was the oldest sitting member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives by 2016?
|
1 Wall Street Court |
2020-09-15 |
|
3,344 |
278.6 |
... that
1 Wall Street Court, a
condominium building, was once the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa
futures market?
|
KCFT-TV |
2020-09-19 |
|
3,282 |
277.3 |
... that 54 years ago today, California television station
KCFT-TV went off the air when
General Electric showed up with a moving van, a locksmith, and a court order to repossess equipment?
|
Jawdhar |
2020-09-03 |
|
3,320 |
276.6 |
... that the memoirs of the
eunuch chamberlain
Jawdhar are one of the most important sources on the history of the
Fatimid Caliphate in the mid–10th century?
|
Milan Mazurek |
2020-09-13 |
|
3,296 |
274.7 |
... that in September 2019, far-right politician
Milan Mazurek became the first Slovak parliamentarian to lose his seat due to a crime after comparing
Romani children to "animals in the zoo"?
|
Gary Moore |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,283
[l] |
273.6 |
... that
Gary Moore bought
Peter Green's
Gibson Les Paul for around £100?
|
John H. Dudley |
2020-09-12 |
|
3,282 |
273.5 |
... that
John H. Dudley and his wife both worked on the
Manhattan Project, but did not tell each other because of security restrictions?
|
Phyllium bilobatum |
2020-09-26 |
|
6,493 |
270.5 |
... that the leaf insect
Phyllium bilobatum (pictured) can defend itself by spraying a foul-smelling liquid?
|
List of members of the National Assembly of Kenya, 2017–present
|
2020-09-15
|
|
1,006
|
83.8
|
... that
the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including
Samuel Arama, 47
county woman representatives including
Gladys Boss Shollei and
Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including
Dennitah Ghati?
|
County woman representative
|
506
|
42.2
|
Dennitah Ghati
|
458
|
38.2
|
Sabina Wanjiru Chege
|
456
|
38.0
|
Samuel Arama
|
450
|
37.5
|
Gladys Boss Shollei
|
364
|
30.3
|
Total |
3,242 |
270.1
|
Mutual Reserve Building |
2020-09-27 |
|
6,432 |
268.0 |
... that the
Mutual Reserve Building was described as "a law office slum" and a 1920s center of the "personal injury underworld"?
|
Battle of Chippenham |
2020-09-11 |
|
3,175 |
264.6 |
... that the
Battle of Chippenham was part of a coordinated strike by
Guthrum and
Ubba to take
Wessex?
|
Weathering with You |
2020-09-24 |
|
3,167
[m] |
263.9 |
... that the
anime film
Weathering with You was inspired by climate change affecting Japan?
|
Hamiyet Yüceses |
2020-09-28 |
|
6,318 |
263.2 |
... that when Turkish singer
Hamiyet Yüceses lamentingly sang an
Ottoman classical song after her husband's death in a submarine accident, many people thought she had composed the song herself?
|
Myrichthys maculosus |
2020-09-04 |
|
3,138 |
261.5 |
... that the
tiger snake eel uses its well-developed sense of smell to locate prey buried in the seabed?
|
Division slice |
2020-09-05 |
|
3,117 |
259.8 |
... that the Soviet Army during the early Cold War had a smaller
number of military personnel per division than the US Army, partly because it used civilian labourers and anti-aircraft gunners?
|
Aldersbach brewery |
2020-09-15 |
|
3,114 |
259.5 |
... that
Aldersbach brewery was founded more than 750 years ago at
Aldersbach Abbey in
Lower Bavaria?
|
Supplied-air respirator |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,085 |
257.1 |
... that
supplied-air respirators, unlike
N95 masks, can be used in atmospheres that are oxygen-deficient or
immediately dangerous to life or health?
|
Alex Anderson (quilter) |
2020-09-16 |
|
3,078 |
256.5 |
... that
Alex Anderson became interested in quilting after finishing her grandmother's quilt, which had been started decades earlier, for a college credit?
|
Ricardo Morales (intelligence agent) |
2020-09-12 |
|
3,068 |
255.7 |
... that
FBI informant
Ricardo Morales, who testified against Cuban militant
Orlando Bosch in 1968, shared a hotel with Bosch in 1976?
|
Farooq Khan |
2020-09-09 |
|
3,039 |
253.2 |
... that
Farooq Khan headed the Kashmiri
Special Operations Group credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?
|
Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ |
2020-09-27 |
|
6,069 |
252.9 |
... that
Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ uses
MSG in its
spice rub, calling it a "flavor maker"?
|
David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs |
2020-09-15 |
|
3,004 |
250.3 |
... that
Travis Denning illegally used
David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs's identity before including him in a music video?
|
Lebanese cuisine |
2020-09-06 |
|
2,996 |
249.7 |
... that many dishes in
Lebanese cuisine can be traced back thousands of years to eras of Roman, Greek, Persian, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, and Phoenician rule?
|
Yumeji Takehisa |
2020-09-25 |
|
5,988 |
249.5 |
... that
Nihonga artist
Yumeji Takehisa was arrested in connection with
a plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji of Japan?
|
Injector pen |
2020-09-11 |
|
2,982 |
248.5 |
... that
injector pens increase
patient adherence in part by reducing the stigma surrounding injecting medication in public?
|
Cliché verre |
2020-09-29 |
|
5,870 |
244.6 |
... that
Eugène Delacroix's only work in the semiphotographic
cliché verre
printmaking technique depicts a tiger at bay (pictured)?
|
Reynolds Brothers |
2020-09-07 |
|
2,933 |
244.4 |
... that the founder of
Reynolds Brothers retired as chairman on his 100th birthday?
|
Fall Guys |
2020-09-08 |
|
2,926
[n] |
243.9 |
... that elements of the video game
Fall Guys were inspired by the game shows
Takeshi's Castle and
Total Wipeout?
|
Paradise (nightclub) |
2020-09-18 |
|
2,510 |
242.5 |
... that
Hurricane Sandy blew the roof off
Paradise?
|
Turbopolsa |
2020-09-02 |
|
2,895 |
241.2 |
... that
Turbopolsa is the only player to win four
Rocket League Championship Series titles?
|
Jesus Is King |
2020-09-04 |
|
2,882 |
240.1 |
... that
Kanye West asked the collaborators on his album
Jesus Is King not to engage in
premarital sex?
|
Felimida krohni |
2020-09-10 |
|
2,872 |
239.3 |
... that the sea slug
Felimida krohni (pictured) can sequester
toxins from the sponges on which it feeds?
|
Thomas David Morrison |
2020-09-13 |
|
2,827 |
235.6 |
... that a witness said he saw
Thomas David Morrison wearing glasses in the
Upper Canada Rebellion, but his defence attorney said Morrison wore sunglasses and would not have worn them at night?
|
WHUM-TV |
2020-09-05 |
|
2,827 |
235.6 |
... that
WHUM-TV featured a cooking show hosted by a woman who did not know how to cook and scoured for recipes at the local public library?
|
Jeffrey Kimball (historian) |
2020-09-24 |
|
2,820 |
235.0 |
... that historian
Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
|
Tony Furst |
2020-09-17 |
|
2,804 |
233.6 |
... that the
Detroit Lions' tackle
Tony Furst saw combat action in the
Guadalcanal campaign and later became a florist?
|
Leslie Goonewardene |
2020-09-14 |
|
2,772 |
231.0 |
... that while
Leslie Goonewardene was one of the largest landowners in Sri Lanka through inheritance, he re-introduced inheritance tax to the country?
|
Spilosoma obliqua |
2020-09-22 |
|
2,756 |
229.6 |
... that the
jute hairy caterpillar is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?
|
Theresa Plummer-Andrews |
2020-09-22 |
|
2,720 |
226.7 |
... that
Theresa Plummer-Andrews sorted
Bob the Builder's budget?
|
List of Indian chess players |
2020-09-25 |
|
5,438 |
226.6 |
... that India has
66 chess grandmasters?
|
Robert B. Landry |
2020-09-18 |
|
2,220 |
226.3 |
... that
Robert B. Landry was the United States Air Force aide to President
Harry S. Truman?
|
Beit Harambam Congregation |
2020-09-16 |
|
2,691 |
224.2 |
... that
the largest Sephardi synagogue in
Northeast Philadelphia is primarily composed of Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates?
|
Freedom University |
2020-09-29 |
|
5,376 |
224.0 |
... that at civil disobedience events, undocumented students from
Freedom U wear painted
monarch butterfly wings symbolizing migration's naturalness and their immigrant experience?
|
Marie Wittman |
2020-09-20 |
|
2,683 |
223.6 |
... that
Marie "Blanche" Wittman, formerly a
hysteria patient of
Jean-Martin Charcot, contracted
radiation-induced cancer while working for
Albert Londe?
|
Hardi (politician) |
2020-09-17 |
|
2,678 |
223.0 |
... that
Hardi dissuaded the
Communist Party of Vietnam from inviting
their Indonesian counterparts to a party congress in Hanoi?
|
Mucuna gigantea |
2020-09-18 |
|
2,293 |
221.5 |
... that seeds of the
sea bean can be dispersed for long distances by ocean currents?
|
Cuca Roseta |
2020-09-21 |
|
2,655 |
221.2 |
... that Portuguese
fado singer
Cuca Roseta has a black belt in
Taekwondo?
|
KXPL |
2020-09-23 |
|
2,644 |
220.4 |
... that less than 18 months after being launched, radio station
KFNA of
El Paso, Texas, declared bankruptcy after its format failed to attract listeners?
|
Jewish views on lying |
2020-09-15 |
|
2,630 |
219.2 |
... that according to the Hebrew Bible, a perjurer should
receive the same punishment he sought to inflict on the falsely accused?
|
Walter Mears |
2020-09-22 |
|
2,616 |
218.0 |
... that
Walter Mears has compared
Donald Trump to
populist senator
Huey Long?
|
Cristian Montaño |
2020-09-10 |
|
2,610 |
217.5 |
... that
Cristian Montaño spent 18 months out of English football after being sacked and arrested on criminal charges that were never proven?
|
Gemmi Fault |
2020-09-15 |
|
2,600 |
216.6 |
... that the
Gemmi Fault is a
geological fault in Switzerland that was active in the last 10,000 years?
|
Night Patrol |
2020-09-08 |
|
2,598 |
216.5 |
... that
The Unknown Comic in the 1984 film
Night Patrol is a real-life stand-up comedian?
|
2channel |
2020-09-07 |
|
2,596 |
216.3 |
... that
4chan owner
Hiroyuki Nishimura claims that
2channel, once "Japan's most popular online community", was stolen from him?
|
Anandalahari |
2020-09-13 |
|
2,574 |
214.5 |
... that the
anandalahari (pictured) is an Indian
chordophone musical instrument used by religious singers of the
Baul faith?
|
De quinque corporibus regularibus |
2020-09-18 |
|
2,094 |
213.5 |
... that
a book on polyhedra by
Piero della Francesca fell victim to "probably the first full-blown case of plagiarism in the history of mathematics" when
Luca Pacioli copied it in his
Divina proportione?
|
NHL 21 |
2020-09-14 |
|
2,545 |
212.1 |
... that
NHL 21 marks the second time that
Alexander Ovechkin (pictured) has appeared on the cover of an
NHL video game, the first being
NHL 07?
|
Monghyr Mutiny Medal |
2020-09-02 |
|
2,512 |
209.3 |
... that a medal depicting
Minerva, sometimes identified as the East India Company's
Monghyr Mutiny Medal, may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
|
Crystal Dangerfield |
2020-09-09 |
|
2,493 |
207.8 |
... that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016,
ESPNW ranked
Crystal Dangerfield as the best
point guard?
|
St. Johannes Evangelist |
2020-09-19 |
|
2,449 |
207.0 |
... that
St. Johannes Evangelist, a former abbey church built in
Cappenberg in the 12th century, houses the
Barbarossa reliquary (pictured)?
|
Roy James Carver |
2020-09-08 |
|
2,480 |
206.7 |
... that American industrialist
Roy James Carver's company supplied self-priming pumps to the United States and Allied Forces navies during World War II?
|
Jacoba Atlas |
2020-09-18 |
|
2,119 |
204.7 |
... that among rock critic
Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker?
|
Bertha Park High School |
2020-09-16 |
|
2,442 |
203.5 |
... that when
Bertha Park High School opened, all pupils were provided with
iPads, but had to lock their own phones in lockers?
|
Not Our First Goat Rodeo |
2020-09-22 |
|
2,428 |
202.3 |
... that in the album title
Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the term goat rodeo refers to a chaotic event in which many things must go right for the situation to work?
|
2020 American athlete strikes |
2020-09-17 |
|
2,424 |
201.8 |
... that
professional athletes protested by refusing to play in response to high-profile police shootings of Black people in 2020?
|
Hong Kong Logistic Support Regiment RLC |
2020-09-22 |
|
2,420 |
201.7 |
... that the
Hong Kong Logistic Support Regiment RLC was nicknamed the "1000-Day Regiment" as its 1,181 days of service made it possibly the shortest-lived peacetime regiment in the British Army?
|
Jeanne Humbert |
2020-09-24 |
|
2,420 |
201.7 |
... that writer
Jeanne Humbert was repeatedly arrested for spreading information about
birth control and
abortion after they were banned in France in 1920?
|
Shibuya Route |
2020-09-15 |
|
2,420 |
201.6 |
... that Tokyo's
Shibuya Route is key to the plot of the novel
1Q84, where it contains a fictitious stairway to another reality in its storyline?
|
1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election |
2020-09-19 |
|
2,402 |
199.9 |
... that in the
1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election, two future U.S. presidents opposed each other?
|
WPCE |
2020-09-04 |
|
2,377 |
198.1 |
... that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station
WHIH, anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million?
|
Rosemary Barton (politician) |
2020-09-01 |
|
2,366 |
197.2 |
... that Ulster Unionist Party politician
Rosemary Barton highlighted concerns of intimidation from Gaelic football fans towards those who do not follow the sport?
|
Gibson Kyle |
2020-09-21 |
|
2,348 |
195.7 |
... that
Newcastle architect
Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to
Richard Grainger?
|
Madison Belmont Building |
2020-09-30 |
|
4,671 |
194.6 |
... that the
Madison Belmont Building contains one of the first Art Deco designs in a building in the United States?
|
Suki Seokyeong Kang |
2020-09-03 |
|
2,330 |
194.2 |
... that multimedia artist
Suki Seokyeong Kang paints a
gouache painting every day as part of her work?
|
Licett Morillo |
2020-09-19 |
|
2,294 |
193.9 |
... that
Licett Morillo closing
Prada's fashion show was compared to an actor winning an
Oscar?
|
Dell Loy Hansen |
2020-09-15 |
|
2,290 |
190.8 |
... that sports team owner
Dell Loy Hansen purchased a
rare dime for $1.3 million?
|
Sheffield Star Walk |
2020-09-10 |
|
2,286 |
190.5 |
... that finishers of the
Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of
Oxo?
|
Acanthurus nigricauda |
2020-09-20 |
|
2,284 |
190.4 |
... that the colour of the
blackstreak surgeonfish changes according to its mood?
|
Vlashnjë |
2020-09-14 |
|
2,251 |
187.6 |
... that in 2005, prehistoric rock art paintings symbolic of the cycle of life were found in
Vlashnjë, Kosovo?
|
1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game |
2020-09-03 |
|
2,246 |
187.1 |
... that the
Indiana Hoosiers' victory in the
1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in
NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
|
Switched on Pop |
2020-09-04 |
|
2,217 |
184.8 |
... that in
Switched on Pop, a musicology professor uses the
Britney Spears song "
Oops!... I Did It Again" to explain
counterpoint?
|
Shadows Over Shanghai |
2020-09-20 |
|
2,214 |
184.5 |
... that the 1938 film
Shadows Over Shanghai incorporates footage of the bombing of the city during the
Second Sino-Japanese War, which was then underway?
|
Champ de Mai |
2020-09-01 |
|
2,210 |
184.2 |
... that despite its name, Napoleon's
Champ de Mai ceremony took place in June?
|
Jean Kurt Forest |
2020-09-03 |
|
2,203 |
183.6 |
... that
Jean Kurt Forest played violin in German film orchestras in the 1930s, defected to the
Red Army in 1945, and composed operas and film scores from 1954 onwards?
|
Kano (Japanese musician) |
2020-09-26 |
|
4,398 |
183.3 |
... that
anime musician
Kano's
Virtual YouTuber 3D model is based on an avatar she uses in official artwork?
|
Ampersand's Entertainment Guide |
2020-09-21 |
|
2,193 |
182.8 |
... that
Wolfman Jack helped finance his nephew's
Ampersand magazine?
|
Tolzey Court |
2020-09-27 |
|
4,384 |
182.7 |
... that
Bristol's medieval
Tolzey Court saw a surge in popularity in the 1960s because it had lower fees than the
High Court or
County Court?
|
Acanthurus polyzona |
2020-09-12 |
|
2,189 |
182.4 |
... that
zebra tangs often associate with shoals of
convict tangs?
|
Paraconcavistylon |
2020-09-30 |
|
4,356 |
181.5 |
... that the
Eocene-age plant
Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
|
Alfred Gilbert |
2020-09-07 |
|
2,176 |
181.4 |
... that sculptor
Alfred Gilbert fled England twice—once for love, once for money?
|
1932 Detroit Wolves season |
2020-09-26 |
|
4,244 |
176.8 |
... that the
1932 Detroit Wolves won the
pennant with an outfielder, first baseman, shortstop, and two pitchers who were all inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame?
|
James R. Shepley |
2020-09-05 |
|
2,095 |
174.6 |
... that World War II war correspondent
James R. Shepley has been called the "father" of
HBO?
|
Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden |
2020-09-21 |
|
2,093 |
174.4 |
... that the rhythm of "
Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden", a Dutch hymn translated into German, has been compared to a
tango?
|
Saefullah |
2020-09-30 |
|
4,166 |
173.6 |
... that
Saefullah was acting
governor of Jakarta for 40 hours?
|
Bare-shanked screech owl |
2020-09-07 |
|
2,076 |
173.0 |
... that the nesting of the
bare-shanked screech owl has only been studied once, within the cavity of an
oak tree?
|
Sarika Kale |
2020-09-16 |
|
2,072 |
172.7 |
... that
Sarika Kale, a
kho kho player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
|
Paguristes cadenati |
2020-09-15 |
|
2,042 |
170.2 |
... that the hermit crab
Paguristes cadenati can help keep a
reef aquarium clean?
|
Home Life Building |
2020-09-21 |
|
2,004 |
167.0 |
... that the
Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by
Frank J. Sprague?
|
Hasdrubal, son of Hanno |
2020-09-10 |
|
1,997 |
166.4 |
... that of the four
set-piece land battles during the 23 years of the
First Punic War,
Hasdrubal took part in three as a general?
|
Maria Kownacka |
2020-09-15 |
|
1,986 |
165.5 |
... that Polish children's author
Maria Kownacka wrote for an underground children's magazine during the
Warsaw Uprising?
|
Confederate Memorial State Historic Site |
2020-09-24 |
|
1,986 |
165.5 |
... that a chapel at the
Confederate Memorial State Historic Site was formerly used for both religious services and the production of alcohol?
|
1903 FA Cup Final |
2020-09-23 |
|
1,980 |
165.0 |
... that during the
1903 FA Cup Final, a
cinematograph was sited on top of one of the stands?
|
Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery |
2020-09-12 |
|
1,972 |
164.3 |
... that
a gallery of 80 paintings near
Meiji Shrine in Tokyo commemorates the life and times of the
Meiji Emperor, including his
viewing of cherry blossoms (depicted)?
|
Bartosz Staszewski |
2020-09-12 |
|
1,968 |
164.0 |
... that the Polish activist
Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "
LGBT-free zones"?
|
Peanuts Gallery |
2020-09-18 |
|
1,686 |
162.9 |
... that
Peanuts Gallery, a 1997 piano concerto by
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, portrays
Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"?
|
Joaquín Bilbao |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,950 |
162.5 |
... that
Joaquín Bilbao first studied drawing, watercolour, and law before launching a career as a sculptor with works such as the equestrian statue of
Ferdinand III of Castile (pictured) located in
Plaza Nueva, Seville?
|
20 Exchange Place |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,935 |
161.2 |
... that the
City Bank–Farmers Trust Building had a shooting gallery in the basement for the guards protecting the bank vault to practice in?
|
Dick Bond (Washington politician) |
2020-09-03 |
|
1,925 |
160.4 |
... that in 1975,
Dick Bond introduced legislation to ban the sale of intoxicating beverages on university, college, and community campuses in
Washington?
|
Calvin Royal III |
2020-09-20 |
|
1,917 |
159.8 |
... that though
Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a
principal dancer with the
American Ballet Theatre?
|
1872 Londonderry City by-election |
2020-09-24 |
|
1,916 |
159.7 |
... that the
1872 Londonderry City by-election was the first parliamentary election held by
secret ballot in Ireland?
|
Kanon Shizaki |
2020-09-06 |
|
1,906 |
158.8 |
... that
Kanon Shizaki, the second
voice actress for
BanG Dream!'s Rinko Shirokane, was quickly embraced by fans and her
Roselia bandmates, as her shyness mirrors her character's personality?
|
St. Michael, Fürth |
2020-09-01 |
|
1,884 |
157.0 |
... that the tower of
St. Michael, a church begun in the 12th century, dominated
Fürth's skyline for centuries?
|
Perspectiva corporum regularium |
2020-09-21 |
|
1,880 |
156.7 |
... that
Perspectiva corporum regularium, a 1568 book of engraved
polyhedra, demonstrates visually the medieval theory that the complexity of the physical world comes from
four basic elements?
|
Direction of prayer |
2020-09-06 |
|
1,877 |
156.4 |
... that Jewish homes in the
Diaspora often feature a
mizrah wall hanging (example pictured) to indicate the
direction of prayer towards Jerusalem?
|
Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,862 |
155.2 |
... that
Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley was allowed to stand as a candidate for a seat in the senate of the
Territory of Hawaii in 1920, but was legally prevented from holding the office if she won?
|
Dairy in India |
2020-09-14 |
|
1,857 |
154.8 |
... that nearly half the milk produced in India,
whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from
buffaloes?
|
L'Estampe originale |
2020-09-28 |
|
3,666 |
152.8 |
... that the 74 artists who created the 95 original prints for the subscription portfolio
L'Estampe originale included
Toulouse-Lautrec,
Gaugin,
Renoir,
Rodin,
Pissarro,
Whistler,
Redon, and
Bonnard?
|
Randall Lane (journalist) |
2020-09-26 |
|
3,649 |
152.0 |
... that
The New York Times named
Forbes magazine editor
Randall Lane one of the 922 most powerful people in America?
|
CENTOS (charity) |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,822 |
151.8 |
... that during World War II, the Polish-Jewish charity
CENTOS cared for orphans in the
Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland?
|
Carlos Jáuregui (activist) |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,807 |
150.6 |
... that
Argentinian LGBT-rights activist
Carlos Jáuregui had
a station named after him on the
Buenos Aires Underground?
|
Hoshimachi Suisei |
2020-09-13 |
|
1,804 |
150.3 |
... that
Hoshimachi Suisei was part of the first live studio performance by
virtual YouTubers in Japanese radio history?
|
Aurora: Beyond Equality |
2020-09-04 |
|
1,802 |
150.1 |
... that
Alice Sheldon authored two stories in the
feminist science fiction collection
Aurora: Beyond Equality, as the editors were unaware that her two pseudonyms represented the same person?
|
Hymeniacidon kitchingi |
2020-09-17 |
|
1,799 |
149.9 |
... that a 10 cm3 (0.6 cu in) sponge
Hymeniacidon kitchingi can filter 22.5 L (5 imp gal; 6 U.S. gal) of water per day?
|
Broadway–Chambers Building |
2020-09-11 |
|
1,788 |
149.0 |
... that the design of the
Broadway–Chambers Building received a medal from the
Paris Exposition of 1900, addressed solely to "Monsieur Broadway-Chambers, Etats-Unis"?
|
Muljadi Djojomartono |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,786 |
148.8 |
... that
Muljadi Djojomartono once said that
Sukarno would have been an
Islamic prophet had he been born in 571?
|
Valdemārs Klētnieks |
2020-09-16 |
|
1,760 |
146.6 |
... that the Latvian Boy Scout handbook, written in 1933 by
Valdemārs Klētnieks, was destroyed by communists during the
Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940?
|
Moop Mama |
2020-09-15 |
|
1,750 |
145.9 |
... that
Moop Mama, a band of seven brass players, two drummers, and a rapper, began "guerilla concerts" in Munich's
Englischer Garten in 2009?
|
Thomas Holden (general) |
2020-09-19 |
|
1,710 |
144.5 |
... that although Major General
Thomas Holden was twice elected to the
Continental Congress, he does not seem to have taken up his seat?
|
Robert F. Utter |
2020-09-26 |
|
3,466 |
144.4 |
... that
Robert Utter resigned from the
Washington Supreme Court in protest of
the death penalty?
|
Semahat Özdenses |
2020-09-13 |
|
1,713 |
142.8 |
... that the gravestone of
Semahat Özdenses, a singer and composer of
Ottoman classical music, was erected seven years after her death?
|
WRAY-TV (Indiana) |
2020-09-23 |
|
1,712 |
142.7 |
... that after shutting down in 1954, Indiana television station
WRAY-TV was activated once a year to air the annual
March of Dimes telethon?
|
Origins of the Hermit Friars of the Order of Saint Augustine and Their True Establishment Before the Great Lateran Council |
2020-09-04 |
|
1,710 |
142.5 |
... that
a 1618 work by scholar
Juan Márquez claims that
Saint Francis of Assisi (depicted) was probably an
Augustinian hermit?
|
Surface tone |
2020-09-03 |
|
1,690 |
140.8 |
... that
Rembrandt's later prints make great use of
surface tone, by leaving a thin film of ink on parts of the printing plate?
|
KHive |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,680 |
140.0 |
... that the hashtag
#KHive, used by an online support community for
Kamala Harris which defends her from racist and sexist attacks, is a play on a hashtag used by fans of
Beyoncé?
|
Jim Drucker |
2020-09-15 |
|
1,668 |
139.0 |
... that
Jim Drucker, the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the
Continental Basketball Association and the
Arena Football League?
|
8th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,666 |
138.8 |
... that the Confederate Army's
8th Missouri Infantry Regiment was considered a cavalry regiment, an infantry regiment, and an infantry battalion at different points of its existence?
|
Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,658 |
138.1 |
... that upon opening at
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in 1976,
Python was the first
roller coaster in Florida to feature
inversions?
|
Diguetia |
2020-09-11 |
|
1,656 |
138.0 |
... that female spiders of the genus
Diguetia
stridulate while mating, and make a noise loud enough for humans to hear when they are harassed?
|
Handle with Care (Natalie Lauren album) |
2020-09-19 |
|
1,630 |
137.7 |
... that on the single "Bra Off" from
Natalie Lauren's album
Handle with Care, Lauren points out that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or
sexism when they do not wear a
bra?
|
Kitaharima Seiya |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,652 |
137.6 |
... that
sumo wrestler
Kitaharima Seiya reached the
top division 85 tournaments and 14 years after making his debut?
|
Typhoon Yancy (1990) |
2020-09-03 |
|
1,636 |
136.4 |
... that the path of
Typhoon Yancy wobbled in a
trochoidal pattern as it approached Taiwan?
|
United States Public Health Service reorganizations of 1966–1973 |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,623 |
135.2 |
... that the
U.S. Public Health Service was once
reorganized eight times in seven years?
|
Vera Little |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,623 |
135.2 |
... that
Vera Little from
Memphis, Tennessee, was for four decades a member of the
Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she appeared as Bizet's
Carmen and in the world premiere of Henze's
Der junge Lord?
|
Durbin Feeling |
2020-09-11 |
|
1,619 |
134.9 |
... that
Durbin Feeling was named a
Cherokee National Treasure for his contributions to the preservation of the endangered
Cherokee language?
|
Foreign funding of NGOs |
2020-09-10 |
|
1,615 |
134.6 |
... that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed
foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?
|
Mübeccel Argun |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,606 |
133.8 |
... that
Mübeccel Argun, a Turkish-language presenter for the
BBC World Service in London for 25 years, was formerly a physical-education teacher and one of the first female athletes in her country?
|
Mahmoud Dicko |
2020-09-06 |
|
1,605 |
133.8 |
... that
imam
Mahmoud Dicko, one of the most influential political figures in Mali today, announced that he was leaving politics despite never having run for office?
|
Underwater hockey in Turkey |
2020-09-11 |
|
1,582 |
131.9 |
... that the
Turkey men's U23/U24 team won the
CMAS World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships in 2019 for the third time in a row, becoming the only national team to accomplish this?
|
Nellie Weekes |
2020-09-21 |
|
1,576 |
131.3 |
... that
Nellie Weekes ran for public office even before women received the right to vote in
Barbados?
|
Sikri Mata Temple |
2020-09-12 |
|
1,576 |
131.3 |
... that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of
Sikri Mata Temple during the
Indian Rebellion of 1857?
|
Jane Fonda's Workout |
2020-09-25 |
|
3,111 |
129.6 |
... that
Jane Fonda paid for her political activism with the profits of her
Workout videos?
|
List of international goals scored by Alfredo Di Stéfano |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,545 |
128.8 |
... that Alfredo Di Stéfano
scored 6 international goals for Argentina and 23 for Spain?
|
Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature |
2020-09-09 |
|
1,542 |
128.5 |
... that a painting of Ekaterina (pictured), officer
Adam Laxman's vessel on his 1792 expedition to Japan, may be found at
Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature in
Hokkaido?
|
Vinmont Veteran Park
|
2020-09-20
|
|
772
|
64.4
|
... that
Vinmont Veteran Park traces its name to
Robert Weinberg, whose German surname translates to Vinmont in French?
|
Robert Weinberg (urban planner)
|
768
|
64.0
|
Total |
1,540 |
128.4
|
Scarborough Town Hall |
2020-09-17 |
|
1,530 |
127.4 |
... that the only statue of a public figure in
Scarborough is a memorial to
Queen Victoria outside
its town hall (pictured)?
|
From Space I Saw Earth |
2020-09-18 |
|
1,248 |
127.2 |
... that
From Space I Saw Earth by
Daníel Bjarnason was commissioned by the
Los Angeles Philharmonic to be performed with three conductors simultaneously?
|
John Badham (sportscaster) |
2020-09-18 |
|
1,246 |
127.1 |
... that Canadian sportscaster
John Badham reported on the
1976 Summer Olympics canoe and kayak events despite having no knowledge of the sport?
|
Guilandina bonduc |
2020-09-25 |
|
3,039 |
126.6 |
... that the seeds of
Guilandina bonduc, commonly known as
nickernuts, are buoyant and remain viable while being dispersed by ocean currents?
|
Laura Marholm |
2020-09-21 |
|
1,505 |
125.4 |
... that some works by the Baltic-German writer
Laura Marholm were part of "feminist literary criticism", known as
gynocriticism, 70 years before the term was coined?
|
Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku |
2020-09-20 |
|
1,505 |
125.4 |
... that the 1997 Polish box-office-hit comedy
Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku criticizes Polish and American myths such as the
American Dream?
|
Bridges Hall of Music |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,504 |
125.4 |
... that the
pipe organ of the
Bridges Hall of Music at
Pomona College consists of 3,519 pipes, and weighs 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg)?
|
Thomas Clapham |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,504 |
125.3 |
... that all three of the
pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur
Thomas Clapham in
Leeds and
London failed due to debt and were sold for housing?
|
Interstate 5 in Washington |
2020-09-14 |
|
1,488 |
124.0 |
... that
Interstate 5 in
Seattle has express lanes that
reverse direction to follow commuting patterns?
|
1919 Detroit Stars season |
2020-09-24 |
|
1,474 |
122.8 |
... that the
1919 Detroit Stars, a
Negro league baseball team, included three players who were later inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame?
|
Hildegard Uhrmacher |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,472 |
122.7 |
... that
Hildegard Uhrmacher, a
coloratura soprano who appeared as Mozart's
Konstanze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's
Marie, titled her 2006 autobiography Hilde, du schaffst das (Hilde, you'll manage)?
|
Hollywood Women's Political Committee |
2020-09-20 |
|
1,462 |
121.8 |
... that the
Hollywood Women's Political Committee was formed in 1984 to help elect
Geraldine Ferraro (pictured), the first U.S. woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party?
|
1831 Londonderry City by-election |
2020-09-28 |
|
2,897 |
120.7 |
... that the
1831 Londonderry City by-election was the second of three in that constituency within nine months, all of which were won by
Robert Ferguson?
|
WJJZ (AM) |
2020-09-14 |
|
1,448 |
120.7 |
... that New Jersey radio station
WJJZ lost its
license over an unauthorized payment of $25,000 to a competing applicant for its frequency?
|
Akira Fudo |
2020-09-09 |
|
1,432 |
119.3 |
... that
Go Nagai toned down the character of
Akira Fudo, a human-like demon, in the manga
Devilman in order to convey an anti-war message?
|
Holothuria hilla |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,422 |
118.5 |
... that when the sea cucumber
Holothuria hilla reproduces by
fission, the regenerated part is often paler in colour than the original one?
|
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,402 |
116.9 |
... that the 2000 anime film
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! draws inspiration from
WarGames,
Speed, and
Dr. Strangelove?
|
Aeolidiella alderi |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,394 |
116.2 |
... that the nudibranch
Aeolidiella alderi attacks
sea anemones with the stinging cells it has already acquired from other anemones?
|
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw |
2020-09-29 |
|
2,776 |
115.6 |
... that "
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw", an
elegy for
Richard Crashaw, is considered one of
Abraham Cowley's finest poems?
|
William Fraser (architect) |
2020-09-30 |
|
2,762 |
115.1 |
... that
William Fraser won a commission in 1896 to design a memorial in
Mauchline honouring Scottish poet
Robert Burns, which incorporates a tower (pictured) in the
Scottish baronial style?
|
Kerr Hewitt |
2020-09-04 |
|
1,375 |
114.6 |
... that in both his 2010 film roles,
Kjartan Hewitt's characters notably attend a
Broken Social Scene concert?
|
Stuart Threipland |
2020-09-04 |
|
1,302 |
108.5 |
... that
Stuart Threipland's 18th-century medical chest is preserved in the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh?
|
Claire Etcherelli |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,300 |
108.4 |
... that French novelist
Claire Etcherelli's 1967 novel Elise, or the Real Life gained a brief cult following and was adapted into
a 1970 film?
|
Asa Bafaqih |
2020-09-08 |
|
1,289 |
107.4 |
... that a protest against the trial of Indonesian journalist
Asa Bafaqih drew some 1,000 journalists and supporters, and a fire-brigade band?
|
Khochu Peremen |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,286 |
107.2 |
... that the 1986 Soviet song "
Khochu Peremen" is frequently sung by opponents of
Alexander Lukashenko during the ongoing
2020 Belarusian protests?
|
Early contractor involvement |
2020-09-01 |
|
1,278 |
106.5 |
... that the adoption of
early contractor involvement was a recommendation of the 1994
Latham Report into systemic failings in the
British construction industry?
|
William H. Strayer (Oregon legislator) |
2020-09-14 |
|
1,262 |
105.2 |
... that
William H. Strayer was the only
Democrat in the
Oregon State Senate in 1931?
|
James Edwin Campbell (poet) |
2020-09-25 |
|
2,510 |
104.6 |
... that
James Edwin Campbell, the first president of
West Virginia State University, was among the first African-American poets to write poems in the
African-American vernacular dialect?
|
Gold Record (album) |
2020-09-24 |
|
1,252 |
104.3 |
... that
Bill Callahan recorded his album
Gold Record in just one week?
|
History of the Eurovision Song Contest |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,248 |
104.0 |
... that in
Eurovision Song Contest history, over 1,500 songs, representing
52 countries, have been performed?
|
Tash Farrant |
2020-09-10 |
|
1,244 |
103.7 |
... that during the
2018 Women's Cricket Super League,
Tash Farrant took a
hat-trick, but her team still lost the match?
|
Florence Wickham |
2020-09-23 |
|
1,242 |
103.5 |
... that after
contralto
Florence Wickham made her debut
in Germany, she was engaged for an American tour as Kundry in Wagner's
Parsifal?
|
Royal B. Lord |
2020-09-01 |
|
1,238 |
103.1 |
... that
Royal B. Lord collected money for the 1931
Army–Navy Game at Yankee Stadium in
Evangeline Booth's tambourine?
|
Thomas Edward Wilkinson |
2020-09-10 |
|
1,233 |
102.8 |
... that
Thomas Edward Wilkinson was made
Bishop of Zululand after his predecessor in South Africa,
John Colenso, was excommunicated?
|
Joel (The Last of Us) |
2020-09-15 |
|
1,226 |
102.2 |
... that the young
Troy Baker was cast as the older
Joel Miller in
The Last of Us because of his voice and movement?
|
Rudolf Hindemith |
2020-09-07 |
|
1,218 |
101.5 |
... that cellist, composer, and conductor
Rudolf Hindemith was the brother of the famous
Paul Hindemith, with whom he played in the
Amar Quartet, but later used pseudonyms to hide the relation?
|
Folklore (Taylor Swift album) |
2020-09-20 |
|
1,217
[o] |
101.4 |
... that William Bowery, who co-wrote two songs on
Taylor Swift's album
Folklore, appeared to have no online presence, and is possibly a pseudonym?
|
Angie Turner King |
2020-09-21 |
|
1,215 |
101.2 |
... that
West Virginia State College professor
Angie Turner King was an educator and mentor to entomologist
Margaret S. Collins and
NASA mathematician
Katherine Johnson of
Hidden Figures?
|
Aoimori Park |
2020-09-17 |
|
1,197 |
99.8 |
... that
Aoimori Park features plants that are symbolic of each municipality in
Aomori Prefecture?
|
Johnny Frisbie |
2020-09-08 |
|
1,188 |
99.0 |
... that
Florence "Johnny" Frisbie's 1948 autobiographical children's novel, Miss Ulysses of Puka-Puka, was the first published literary work by a
Pacific Islander woman author?
|
Cheye Alexander |
2020-09-14 |
|
1,125 |
93.8 |
... that
Cheye Alexander became a professional
footballer despite suffering acute knee pain as a teenager due to
Osgood–Schlatter disease?
|
Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust |
2020-09-05 |
|
1,124 |
93.7 |
... that the poem "
Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust" was first
set to music by Schubert, and became a popular German
Volkslied with the melody by
Carl Friedrich Zöllner?
|
Augmented renal clearance |
2020-09-01 |
|
1,121 |
93.4 |
... that some medicines, such as
vancomycin, may require higher doses in critically ill patients, due to
augmented renal (kidney) clearance?
|
The Greek Case |
2020-09-22 |
|
1,116 |
93.0 |
... that the European Commission of Human Rights
found in 1969 that the
Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the
Council of Europe?
|
Nerotalanlagen |
2020-09-26 |
|
2,220 |
92.5 |
... that
Nerotalanlagen, a park along a creek in
Wiesbaden, was built in the late 19th century to enhance the town's spa quality?
|
Biemna variantia |
2020-09-06 |
|
1,103 |
91.9 |
... that the sponge
Biemna variantia broods its young, and can also reproduce by budding and fragmentation?
|
Total Freedom |
2020-09-09 |
|
1,092 |
91.0 |
... that six years before releasing
Total Freedom,
Kathleen Edwards quit creating music and opened a coffee shop called Quitters?
|
WJWL |
2020-09-11 |
|
1,079 |
89.9 |
... that a purchaser of Delaware radio station
WJWL called the transaction "the longest deal in my lifetime"?
|
Simone Schröder |
2020-09-09 |
|
1,072 |
89.3 |
... that
contralto
Simone Schröder performed as a soloist at the
Bayreuth Festival while she was still studying, and went on to sing there in three different productions of
Parsifal?
|
2017 EFL Trophy Final |
2020-09-18 |
|
920 |
88.8 |
... that
Coventry City won the
2017 EFL Trophy Final, earning their first major trophy since winning the
1987 FA Cup Final, despite being relegated from
League One to
League Two that season?
|
William B. Jordan |
2020-09-28 |
|
2,123 |
88.5 |
... that with no prior work experience,
William B. Jordan turned the
Meadows Museum's collection into the most prominent collection of Spanish art outside Spain?
|
D'Alton Corry Coleman |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,061 |
88.4 |
... that
D'Alton Corry Coleman was the first
Canadian Pacific Railway president who was not listed in
Burke's Peerage, and was described by
Maclean's as "the Great Commoner"?
|
Hanna Ludwig |
2020-09-08 |
|
1,055 |
87.9 |
... that
Hanna Ludwig appeared in the title role of
Der Rosenkavalier at the
Vienna State Opera, and in five roles at the first
Bayreuth Festival after World War II?
|
Toys for Bob |
2020-09-19 |
|
1,042 |
86.7 |
... that the game developer
Toys for Bob created
Star Control after its founders
Fred Ford and
Paul Reiche met at
Starflight creator
Greg Johnson's house for a game night?
|
Tonicella marmorea |
2020-09-28 |
|
2,078 |
86.6 |
... that the
chiton
Tonicella marmorea was first described from Greenland by the Danish naturalist
Otto Fabricius, who spent five years as a missionary in the country?
|
Theodor Scheidl |
2020-09-02 |
|
1,012 |
84.4 |
... that
Theodor Scheidl, who participated in the
pentathlon at the
1906 Olympic Games and in the 1928
Bayreuth Festival, appeared as Scarpia in Puccini's
Tosca to celebrate his 75th birthday?
|
Thanasit Jaturaput |
2020-09-06 |
|
992 |
82.6 |
... that prior to his singing career,
Thanasit Jaturaput was an international exchange student in
Boise, Idaho, through the
AFS Intercultural Programs?
|
James Barney Marsh |
2020-09-27 |
|
1,906 |
79.4 |
... that bridge designer
James Barney Marsh gave
Archie Alexander, the first African American to graduate as an engineer from the
University of Iowa, his first job?
|
Campaign for Economic Democracy |
2020-09-28 |
|
1,890 |
78.8 |
... that
Tom Hayden used his
Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a
rent-control measure in
Santa Monica, California?
|
WSZE-TV |
2020-09-27 |
|
1,886 |
78.6 |
... that the owner of
WSZE-TV started an air-taxi service to bring program tapes to
Saipan?
|
Grinding Stone (album) |
2020-09-16 |
|
931 |
77.6 |
... that blues-rock guitarist
Gary Moore did not follow up his 1973 debut solo album
Grinding Stone for another five years?
|
Vaccine Safety Net |
2020-09-19 |
|
910 |
76.9 |
... that to help counteract misleading online information on vaccines, the
Vaccine Safety Net provides a list of scientifically reviewed websites?
|
Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey |
2020-09-13 |
|
917 |
76.4 |
... that
greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey might be reduced by the introduction of
a national electric car?
|
Kurt Szafranski |
2020-09-04 |
|
914 |
76.1 |
... that
Kurt Szafranski, who was responsible for the success of the
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1935 where he co-founded the
Black Star photo agency?
|
The Times Are Racing |
2020-09-06 |
|
912 |
76.0 |
... that a portion of the 2017 ballet
The Times Are Racing is inspired by the video game
Dance Dance Revolution?
|
1928–29 Cardiff City F.C. season |
2020-09-06 |
|
856 |
71.4 |
... that, during
their 1928–29 season,
Cardiff City F.C. were relegated from the
First Division of the
Football League despite conceding the fewest goals in the league?
|
Selah (Kanye West song) |
2020-09-01 |
|
848 |
70.6 |
... that before the
Sunday Service Choir's "Revelations 19:1" rendition was released,
Kanye West sampled it on his song "
Selah"?
|
Beth Langston |
2020-09-12 |
|
834 |
69.5 |
... that
Beth Langston has played for the
England women's cricket team six times: twice in 2013 and four times in 2016?
|
WZHR |
2020-09-30 |
|
1,650 |
68.8 |
... that the owners of Florida radio station
WPAS blamed an
Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down?
|
Alasdair Macintosh Geddes |
2020-09-19 |
|
813 |
67.7 |
... that
Alasdair Geddes worked on the
WHO's
smallpox-eradication programme in Bangladesh five years before diagnosing the world's
last fatal case of smallpox in Birmingham, England?
|
Edward B. Foley |
2020-09-06 |
|
781 |
65.1 |
... that
Edward B. Foley described the
blue shift, a phenomenon in US elections showing that
provisional ballots are more likely to be for Democrats and can change projected results after election day?
|
Johanna André |
2020-09-11 |
|
766 |
63.8 |
... that
Johanna André, who appeared in
dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's
Isolde, took part in the 1882 world premiere of
Parsifal?
|
WKXL |
2020-09-13 |
|
750 |
62.5 |
... that radio station
WKXL in
Concord, New Hampshire, was started by
a sitting governor and is owned by
a former senator?
|
William R. Watson |
2020-09-24 |
|
736 |
61.3 |
... that when
William R. Watson retired from his gallery for contemporary art in Montreal, one of his artists wrote: "You have known, and been a good friend to nearly all the artists"?
|
2003 World Snooker Championship |
2020-09-03 |
|
709 |
59.1 |
... that
Mark Williams won the most successive
frames at the
2003 World Snooker Championship, despite losing the first two?
|
The Live Debut – 1990 |
2020-09-17 |
|
706 |
58.8 |
... that
Mariah Carey covered
Aretha Franklin's rendition of "
Don't Play That Song" at
The Live Debut – 1990?
|
Prix Gémeaux |
2020-09-10 |
|
691 |
57.6 |
... that three
Prix Gémeaux categories for best drama were created after a boycott by Quebec production studios?
|
Hainer Hill |
2020-09-29 |
|
1,347 |
56.1 |
... that
Hainer Hill, who took hundreds of photographs documenting Brecht's
Berliner Ensemble, created the stage design for Hindemith's
Mathis der Maler at the new
Opernhaus Dortmund in 1966?
|
John Peele Clapham |
2020-09-11 |
|
674 |
56.1 |
... that in 1833, English magistrate
John Peele Clapham edited a children's hymn book which had numerous editions and a wide circulation?
|
2018 EFL League Two play-off Final |
2020-09-04 |
|
670 |
55.8 |
... that
Coventry City's promotion following the
2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was their first for 51 years, since they were guided into the
1967–68 Football League First Division by
Jimmy Hill?
|
Doris Willens |
2020-09-12 |
|
664 |
55.3 |
... that writer
Doris Willens,
Lee Hays of
the Weavers, and actor
Alan Arkin were all
Baby Sitters?
|
Cyrus G. Baldwin |
2020-09-07 |
|
662 |
55.2 |
... that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of
Pomona College,
Cyrus G. Baldwin, built
the first hydroelectric power station with
high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?
|
Joseph el-Ruzzi |
2020-09-06 |
|
658 |
54.8 |
... that Patriarch
Joseph el-Ruzzi promulgated the use of the
Gregorian calendar in the
Maronite Church, the first
Eastern Christian church to do so, in 1606?
|
Three Pieces for Orchestra (Berg) |
2020-09-13 |
|
649 |
54.1 |
... that
Alban Berg dedicated his
Three Pieces for Orchestra "with immeasurable gratitude and love" to his teacher,
Arnold Schönberg, for his fortieth birthday in September 1914?
|
Klaviermusik mit Orchester |
2020-09-12 |
|
637 |
53.1 |
... that
Klaviermusik mit Orchester, a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by
Paul Hindemith, was first performed in 2004 by
Leon Fleisher and the
Berlin Philharmonic?
|
Matthias Hölle |
2020-09-08 |
|
635 |
52.9 |
... that
Matthias Hölle, a regular bass singer at the
Bayreuth Festival, appeared in the world premieres of Stockhausen's
Donnerstag aus Licht and
Samstag aus Licht at
La Scala in Milan?
|
August Göllerich |
2020-09-13 |
|
628 |
52.4 |
... that
August Göllerich wrote a biography of the composer
Anton Bruckner, having been his student, secretary, and friend?
|
Inner Song |
2020-09-13 |
|
606 |
50.5 |
... that the album
Inner Song by
Kelly Lee Owens features
John Cale singing in Welsh?
|
Didier Roustan |
2020-09-29 |
|
1,114 |
46.4 |
... that in 1995, French journalist
Didier Roustan helped set up a world footballers union with
Eric Cantona and
Diego Maradona?
|
Hermann Deiters |
2020-09-24 |
|
532 |
44.4 |
... that
Hermann Deiters translated
Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven and published it in German before it appeared in English?
|
Christian Dierstein |
2020-09-14 |
|
514 |
42.9 |
... that
Christian Dierstein has played world premieres as the
percussionist of
Trio Accanto, which also includes a saxophonist and a pianist?
|
University Press Limited |
2020-09-09 |
|
498 |
41.5 |
... that
University Press Limited has won the
National Book Centre Award of
Bangladesh sixteen times since 1981?
|
WNLC (AM) |
2020-09-13 |
|
498 |
41.5 |
... that radio station
WNLC in
New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the
1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
|
Leonhard Lechner |
2020-09-20 |
|
497 |
41.4 |
... that
Leonhard Lechner, who trained as a chorister in Bavaria under
Orlande de Lassus, composed a
Passion for choir in 1593 that strongly influenced the genre?
|
Polyphonia |
2020-09-11 |
|
469 |
39.1 |
... that the title of the ballet
Polyphonia is a reference to
micropolyphony, a kind of musical structure developed by composer
György Ligeti?
|
Restoration (Lecrae album) |
2020-09-16 |
|
466 |
38.9 |
... that prior to the release of his album
Restoration in August 2020,
Lecrae decided to leave
Columbia Records to be independent again?
|
Limbo (Aminé album) |
2020-09-05 |
|
448 |
37.4 |
... that
Aminé delayed the release of the music video for the song "Riri" from his album
Limbo in order to participate in the
George Floyd protests?
|
Sechs Lieder, Op. 59 (Mendelssohn) |
2020-09-17 |
|
402 |
33.5 |
... that
Felix Mendelssohn subtitled
Sechs Lieder, Op. 59, six songs for four voices setting poems by
Eichendorff and others, "Im Freien zu singen" ("To be sung outdoors")?
|
WDOM |
2020-09-06 |
|
360 |
30.0 |
... that
Providence College president
Brian Shanley invited
Rhode Island Public Radio to broadcast over the college's station,
WDOM, in the wake of
Hurricane Sandy?
|