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Mario Salcedo |
2022-08-06 |
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40,056 |
1,669.0 |
... that
Super Mario has spent more than a million dollars on cruises?
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Blåhaj |
2022-08-21 |
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39,652 |
1,652.1 |
... that since 2018,
IKEA's stuffed toy shark
Blåhaj has become a popular
Internet meme and an icon of the online
transgender community?
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Seven Natural Wonders of the UK |
2022-08-02 |
|
19,578 |
1,631.5 |
... that a survey found that only 10 per cent of Britons had heard of all
Seven Natural Wonders of the UK (one pictured)?
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Royce Williams |
2022-08-22 |
|
35,690 |
1,487.1 |
... that after U.S. Navy pilot
Royce Williams engaged in a solo dogfight with seven Soviet
MiG-15s during the
Korean War, he was ordered never to tell anyone about it?
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Shireen Abu Akleh |
2022-08-03 |
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17,807 |
1,483.9 |
... that according to investigations by independent press agencies, journalist
Shireen Abu Akleh (pictured) was killed by an
Israel Defense Forces bullet while wearing a blue "press" vest?
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Tailhook scandal |
2022-08-29 |
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16,162 |
1,346.9 |
... that an incident in the
Tailhook scandal involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?
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Toshiko Ueda
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2022-08-03
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10,391
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865.9
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... that
Toshiko Ueda (pictured), the author of the manga series
Fuichin-san, was still actively publishing new manga at the age of 90?
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Fuichin-san
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5,588
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465.6
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Total |
15,978 |
1,331.5
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Tenta, Cyprus |
2022-08-25 |
|
31,530 |
1,313.8 |
... that
Tenta's architectural remains, artefacts, human burials, flora and fauna (pictured) have been "virtually unchanged for two millennia"?
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Tony Hudgell |
2022-08-28 |
|
13,808 |
1,150.7 |
... that after suffering life-changing injuries as a baby, five-year-old
Tony Hudgell raised £1.7 million for a London children's hospital, and inspired English law changes on child abuse?
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Indira Devi of Kapurthala |
2022-08-20 |
|
25,847 |
1,077.0 |
... that in 1935, Indian princess
Indira Devi (pictured) secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters?
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Hazelwood massacre |
2022-08-14 |
|
25,732 |
1,072.2 |
... that the 1971
Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"?
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55 Water Street |
2022-08-19 |
|
24,156 |
1,006.5 |
... that
New York City's largest office building (pictured) is owned by an Alabama pension fund?
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Mining in ancient Rome |
2022-08-01 |
|
12,030 |
1,002.5 |
... that
Roman slave miners would rather die than work in the horrible
working conditions of the mines?
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Lee Wachtstetter |
2022-08-31 |
|
11,205 |
933.8 |
... that
Mama Lee lived for more than a decade on
a cruise ship?
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United Nations Secretariat Building |
2022-08-12 |
|
21,898 |
912.4 |
... that when the
United Nations Secretariat Building (pictured) was finished, its staff were described as "neither united nor very peaceful"?
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William George Carlile Kent |
2022-08-26 |
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21,153 |
881.4 |
... that
William George Carlile Kent (pictured) was court-martialled for disobeying deposed Governor
William Bligh's order to destroy
Sydney?
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Winifred Brown |
2022-08-30 |
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10,482 |
873.5 |
... that when
Winifred Brown (pictured) arrived for the
King's Cup air race in 1930, she was not allowed to stay at the aero club but still won the race?
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Lost Boy Larry |
2022-08-07 |
|
20,873 |
869.7 |
... that
a boy's voice over CB radio claiming to be within an overturned truck in New Mexico sparked a search-and-rescue mission 49 years ago today?
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M8 Armored Gun System |
2022-08-02 |
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10,412 |
867.7 |
... that eight years after the
U.S. Army canceled the
M8 Armored Gun System, the
82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
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Akron Baptist Temple |
2022-08-10 |
|
20,421 |
850.9 |
... that
Akron Baptist Temple (pictured) once featured 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) red lettering that flashed?
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people |
2022-08-16 |
|
20,148 |
839.5 |
... that according to researchers including
Stephen Hargarten, the slogan "
guns don't kill people, people kill people" is "scientifically inaccurate"?
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Rock Road massacre |
2022-08-21 |
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18,932 |
788.8 |
... that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the
Rock Road massacre?
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The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac |
2022-08-31 |
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9,388 |
782.3 |
... that
Oskar Kokoschka's painting
The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac was confiscated by the
Nazis after his work was labelled "
degenerate"?
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Flag of Gdańsk |
2022-08-07 |
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18,722 |
780.1 |
... that the use of the
flag of Gdańsk (pictured) was discontinued during World War II and was not restored until 1991?
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Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? |
2022-08-19 |
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18,242 |
760.1 |
... that sales declined after
Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? was renamed by its American publisher, so the original title was restored in subsequent editions?
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Charing Cross Trunk Murder |
2022-08-23 |
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17,922 |
746.8 |
... that a dead woman's knickers helped to solve the
Charing Cross Trunk Murder?
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Man from Del Monte (advertising campaign) |
2022-08-25 |
|
17,071 |
711.3 |
... that the
man from Del Monte never spoke on screen?
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Knowles Mill |
2022-08-11 |
|
16,565 |
690.2 |
... that in 2010, a blue poison bottle inscribed "not to be taken" was excavated from the wheel pit of
Knowles Mill?
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Siege of Petra (550–551) |
2022-08-18 |
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16,504 |
687.6 |
... that at the end of the
siege of Petra in 551 AD, the Romans discovered that there was yet another pipe beneath the ones they destroyed that was supplying water to the besieged garrison all along?
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Jieba |
2022-08-30 |
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8,070 |
672.5 |
... that a practice known as
jieba, in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
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Freya (walrus) |
2022-08-24 |
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16,040 |
668.4 |
... that
a walrus named Freya was spotted riding a
Walrus-class submarine, and later sank several boats in the
Oslofjord?
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Seminole burning |
2022-08-20 |
|
15,970 |
665.4 |
... that dozens of men were indicted for the
lynching-by-fire deaths of two
Seminole boys in 1898?
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Lauren Mitchell |
2022-08-29 |
|
7,902 |
658.5 |
... that in 2010,
Lauren Mitchell (pictured) became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a
world title?
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Daisy Belmore |
2022-08-03 |
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7,678 |
639.9 |
... that actress
Daisy Belmore disfigured her appearance for a character in a play so significantly that she was barely recognised in the street by audience members?
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Patsy Pulitzer |
2022-08-19 |
|
15,264 |
636.0 |
... that model
Patsy Pulitzer was called one of the "World's Loveliest Sportswomen" after catching a 1,230-pound (560 kg) black marlin, a then world-record fish for a woman?
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Thomas Jeremiah |
2022-08-18 |
|
14,620 |
609.1 |
... that
Thomas Jeremiah, a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
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Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer) |
2022-08-13 |
|
14,437 |
601.5 |
... that upon his rescue,
Alexander Armstrong retrieved his journal against his captain's orders, and its publication contradicted the captain's claims about their chances of survival?
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Bernard Toone |
2022-08-01 |
|
7,142 |
595.1 |
... that
Bernard Toone received a standing ovation after being berated by coach
Al McGuire to the point of tears?
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Sarah Pike Conger |
2022-08-01 |
|
7,136 |
594.6 |
... that
Sarah Pike Conger (pictured) helped
defend the international legations during the
Boxer Rebellion by making sandbags and carrying supplies?
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Chaz Stevens |
2022-08-22 |
|
14,260 |
594.2 |
... that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books,
Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the
Bible?
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Cursed to Golf |
2022-08-31 |
|
7,048 |
587.3 |
... that
Cursed to Golf has been referred to as the "
Dark Souls of golf" due to its difficulty?
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Tipping points in the climate system |
2022-08-03 |
|
6,986 |
582.2 |
... that the
Amazon rainforest may change into a
savanna once it passes a
tipping point?
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Eyes of Buddha |
2022-08-31 |
|
6,948 |
579.0 |
... that the
Eyes of Buddha is a
Buddhist symbol commonly painted on
stupas in Nepal?
|
Armored mud ball |
2022-08-30 |
|
6,858 |
571.5 |
... that
armored mud balls are formed underwater when fragments of clay or mud are rolled by moving currents, picking up a coating of gravel or pebbles that helps to stop them breaking down further?
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Milk's gotta lotta bottle |
2022-08-08 |
|
13,648 |
568.7 |
... that
milk's gotta lotta bottle?
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The Strike (Westinghouse Studio One) |
2022-08-07 |
|
13,509 |
562.9 |
... that "
The Strike" (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as
Rod Serling's best script he had written to date?
|
Arnold's Christmas |
2022-08-29 |
|
6,570 |
547.5 |
... that "
Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series
Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the
Vietnam War?
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From Where They Stood |
2022-08-03 |
|
6,499 |
541.6 |
... that the 2021 French documentary
From Where They Stood examines photographs secretly taken by inmates of
Nazi concentration camps?
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6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Confederate) |
2022-08-04 |
|
12,934 |
538.9 |
... that the
6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
|
AMTD Digital |
2022-08-17 |
|
12,920 |
538.3 |
... that
AMTD Digital had a market value greater than
the Coca-Cola Company,
Costco or
McDonald's after its stock price rose 21,000 percent in a matter of days?
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List of carillons of the British Isles |
2022-08-05 |
|
12,915 |
538.1 |
... that the
carillons of the British Isles were primarily constructed in the
interwar period?
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Donald Stockford |
2022-08-28 |
|
6,410 |
534.2 |
... that
the leader of the Quebec Hells Angels was acquitted of 13 murder charges because the star witness was unwilling to testify at trial and instead complained about how the Crown had cheated him?
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Phoenician arrowheads |
2022-08-13 |
|
12,621 |
525.9 |
... that the
earliest-known Phoenician inscriptions (examples pictured) were found near
Bethlehem?
|
Coyote en Ayuno |
2022-08-04 |
|
12,573 |
523.9 |
... that the first ray of sunlight on 23 April passes through the eye of the
Coyote en Ayuno (pictured), which was built to commemorate the founding of
Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico?
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Ruslana Pysanka |
2022-08-10 |
|
12,534 |
522.2 |
... that
Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program with
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, died as a refugee in Germany?
|
Ardwall House |
2022-08-23 |
|
12,449 |
518.7 |
... that
Ardwall House (pictured) has a
garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval
Pictish slab inscribed with a
Celtic cross?
|
Hank Goldberg |
2022-08-16 |
|
12,176 |
507.4 |
... that after
Hank Goldberg (pictured) was dismissed from
WIOD for publicly disregarding his program director's instructions, he joined its struggling rival, which ultimately surpassed WIOD in the ratings?
|
Rockwood & Company shipping department fire |
2022-08-30 |
|
6,050 |
504.2 |
... that the 1919
Rockwood & Company shipping department fire (location pictured) in New York City led to a flood of chocolate and butter sufficient to "float a rowboat for two blocks along
Flushing Avenue"?
|
Theatre Royal, Southampton |
2022-08-24 |
|
12,012 |
500.5 |
... that the
Theatre Royal, Southampton (pictured), which
Jane Austen visited in 1807, was described in 2013 as having "morphed into a hideous high-rise"?
|
Vladimirka (painting) |
2022-08-29 |
|
5,960 |
496.6 |
... that the subject of the painting
Vladimirka (pictured) is
a road that was used to transport prisoners to
Siberia on foot?
|
Jack Ferver |
2022-08-10 |
|
11,796 |
491.5 |
... that although some casting directors found
Jack Ferver difficult to believe as an 18-year-old, Ferver would later portray Little Lad in a
Starburst advertisement?
|
TV (song) |
2022-08-11 |
|
11,772 |
490.5 |
... that
a Billie Eilish song references the
Depp v. Heard defamation trial and
the overturning of
Roe v. Wade?
|
Stanley Stair |
2022-08-03 |
|
5,781 |
481.8 |
... that at 107 years old,
Stanley Stair of Jamaica was at the time of his death the last surviving Caribbean veteran of World War I?
|
The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha |
2022-08-02 |
|
5,770 |
480.8 |
... that about 1,000 years after it was made, a
stele of
The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha is worshiped as an image of a female Hindu goddess?
|
Don't Pay UK |
2022-08-18 |
|
11,492 |
478.8 |
... that
Don't Pay UK plan to encourage UK households to cancel their energy bill payments on 1 October 2022 if their pledge reaches 1 million signatures?
|
Lake Brunner |
2022-08-04 |
|
11,486 |
478.6 |
... that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of
Lake Brunner?
|
Poverty in ancient Rome |
2022-08-27 |
|
5,729 |
477.4 |
... that the
poor of ancient Rome were compared to dogs by the Roman writer
Martial?
|
WBKO |
2022-08-03 |
|
5,722 |
476.8 |
... that in 1969, unknown persons dynamited the tower of
a Kentucky TV station, leaving it leaning at a 15-degree angle?
|
David J. Brewer |
2022-08-02 |
|
5,652 |
471.0 |
... that according to
Theodore Roosevelt,
U.S. Supreme Court justice
David J. Brewer had "a sweetbread for a brain" and was a "menace to the welfare of the Nation"?
|
Daniel Arnoldi |
2022-08-26 |
|
11,214 |
467.2 |
... that in 1836, a jury ignored the judge's advice and found
Daniel Arnoldi guilty of assaulting a black man?
|
Lipstick Building |
2022-08-05 |
|
11,165 |
465.2 |
... that
a New York City office building was nicknamed for its resemblance to a lipstick tube?
|
Gyarah Murti |
2022-08-01 |
|
5,566 |
463.9 |
... that the
Gyarah Murti statue was featured on the
Indian 500-rupee note (pictured)?
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Taxation in ancient Rome |
2022-08-14 |
|
11,001 |
458.4 |
... that
taxation may have played a part in the
fall of the Roman Empire?
|
Michael Phillips (historian) |
2022-08-08 |
|
10,813 |
450.5 |
... that in 2022,
Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue
Collin College for retaliating against
protected speech?
|
Alena Analeigh Wicker |
2022-08-09 |
|
10,672 |
444.6 |
... that
Alena Analeigh Wicker is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
|
Juan José Cabezudo |
2022-08-23 |
|
10,658 |
444.1 |
... that
Juan José Cabezudo was an openly gay chef and street-food seller in 19th-century Lima?
|
Elizabeth Thorn |
2022-08-24 |
|
10,628 |
442.8 |
... that
Elizabeth Thorn was six months pregnant when she buried approximately one hundred fallen soldiers after the
Battle of Gettysburg?
|
William Pinckney |
2022-08-15 |
|
10,537 |
439.0 |
... that
William Pinckney was the second Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the second-highest decoration for valor in combat, after the Medal of Honor?
|
Venus in fiction |
2022-08-28 |
|
5,264 |
438.7 |
... that as the reality of
Venus's harsh surface conditions became known from the mid-20th century, the
early tropes of adventures in Venusian tropics gave way to more realistic stories?
|
Trevor Hill (producer) |
2022-08-17 |
|
10,470 |
436.2 |
... that in 1944, at the age of 18,
Trevor Hill was responsible for broadcasting
Eisenhower's D-Day announcement of the
Normandy landings?
|
Loli (district) |
2022-08-18 |
|
10,306 |
429.4 |
... that people in
Loli traditionally derive their social identity from the village in which they were born?
|
6th Military Police Group (United States) |
2022-08-23 |
|
10,210 |
425.4 |
... that the area of responsibility of the
6th Military Police Group includes all of the United States west of the
Mississippi River?
|
Donald Trump and American football |
2022-08-18 |
|
10,164 |
423.5 |
... that in 2018,
Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a
Super Bowl LII victory ceremony at the
White House after several players said they were not going to attend?
|
Tayaw kinpun |
2022-08-17 |
|
10,039 |
418.3 |
... that the traditional shampoo
tayaw kinpun (pictured) has been used by successive Burmese kings to wash their hair ritually to cast away evil, and augment their powers?
|
Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. |
2022-08-24 |
|
9,931 |
413.8 |
... that
Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. was the first time a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that a challenged statute failed the
rational basis test?
|
Wood type |
2022-08-15 |
|
9,891 |
412.1 |
... that
wood type for printing (example pictured) was invented in China, first mass-produced in the United States, and later exported back to China for use by
missionaries?
|
Franco-Greek defence agreement |
2022-08-15 |
|
9,794 |
408.1 |
... that the
Franco-Greek defence agreement is the first intra-
NATO defensive alliance?
|
A Book of Ryhmes |
2022-08-20 |
|
9,776 |
407.4 |
... that
a miniature book written by
a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million?
|
Zionism as settler colonialism |
2022-08-08 |
|
9,523 |
396.8 |
... that according to historian
Rashid Khalidi, "Israel has been extremely successful in
forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
|
Not My Responsibility |
2022-08-01 |
|
4,760 |
396.7 |
... that singer
Billie Eilish wrote and produced
a film that critiques body shaming?
|
Zeitenwende speech |
2022-08-31 |
|
4,684 |
390.3 |
... that Chancellor
Olaf Scholz has
announced a €100-billion investment in the German armed forces?
|
The Sofia |
2022-08-02 |
|
4,683 |
390.2 |
... that
the Sofia, a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
|
Clifford G. Grulee |
2022-08-30 |
|
4,618 |
384.8 |
... that
Clifford G. Grulee died while attending a dinner hosted by the
American Academy of Pediatrics in his honor?
|
Kyaymyin Mibaya |
2022-08-16 |
|
9,132 |
380.5 |
... that
Kyaymyin Mibaya was
King Mindon's youngest, last and richest queen?
|
Emma Hunter (telegrapher) |
2022-08-23 |
|
9,130 |
380.4 |
... that telegraph operator
Emma Hunter may have been the world's first
electronic commuter?
|
Flag of Barbados |
2022-08-01 |
|
4,514 |
376.1 |
... that the man who designed the
flag of Barbados also made the first few flags himself out of fabric from a department store?
|
Adrian Becher |
2022-08-12 |
|
8,876 |
369.8 |
... that during the First World War,
Adrian Becher received his second
Military Cross for leading the defence of a position for five days, despite having been buried by a shell explosion on the first day?
|
Corner chair |
2022-08-03 |
|
4,430 |
369.1 |
... that seats of some
roundabout chairs have corners?
|
Lechmere station |
2022-08-28 |
|
4,410 |
367.5 |
... that
Lechmere station was proposed for replacement in 1924 – yet was in use until 2020?
|
Stray (video game) |
2022-08-11 |
|
8,814
[a] |
367.2 |
... that a reviewer said that playing as a cat "is at least 50% of the appeal" of
Stray?
|
Mario Fiorentini |
2022-08-28 |
|
4,328 |
360.7 |
... that
Mario Fiorentini was Italy's most decorated World War II
resistance fighter?
|
Prosantosaurus |
2022-08-02 |
|
4,328 |
360.7 |
... that skeletons of
a Triassic marine reptile were discovered at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) above sea level?
|
The Corner That Held Them |
2022-08-29 |
|
4,292 |
357.7 |
... that the 1948 novel
The Corner That Held Them uses
subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the
Black Death?
|
Munida gregaria |
2022-08-05 |
|
8,532 |
355.5 |
... that shoals of
Munida gregaria, the gregarious squat lobster, can be up to 5 km (3.1 mi) long?
|
Moto Hagio |
2022-08-25 |
|
8,478 |
353.2 |
... that while
Moto Hagio's parents discouraged her interest in
manga as "an impediment to studying", she would go on to receive a
Medal of Honor for her contributions to the medium?
|
David Belchem |
2022-08-08 |
|
8,411 |
350.5 |
... that
David Belchem was awarded the
DSO for leading a tank regiment in Tunisia that took 749 prisoners?
|
Desert Reconnaissance Battalion |
2022-08-06 |
|
8,303 |
346.0 |
... that the majority of the members of the Israeli
Desert Reconnaissance Battalion are Bedouin Arabs?
|
Alice Kuperjanov |
2022-08-28 |
|
4,114 |
342.9 |
... that
Alice Kuperjanov (pictured) was one of the founders of the Estonian women's movement and assisted military efforts during the
Estonian War of Independence?
|
Mike Goodman |
2022-08-29 |
|
4,058 |
338.1 |
... that casino pit boss
Mike Goodman was the author of a book that sold over a million copies?
|
Suzie Zuzek |
2022-08-05 |
|
8,115 |
338.1 |
... that
Suzie Zuzek's impactful 1960s and 1970s textile designs for
Lilly Pulitzer dresses (examples pictured) were recovered from under floorboards?
|
William H. Davis (educator) |
2022-08-14 |
|
8,014 |
333.9 |
... that
William H. Davis (pictured) was the first teacher of
Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for
West Virginia governor in 1888?
|
PJ and Thomas |
2022-08-18 |
|
7,926 |
330.2 |
... that
PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an
HGTV show?
|
Irene Desmet |
2022-08-31 |
|
3,952 |
329.3 |
... that
Irene Desmet, a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
|
Eurovision Song Contest 1956 |
2022-08-30 |
|
3,917 |
326.4 |
... that voting in the
first Eurovision Song Contest was conducted in secret, with countries able to vote for their own entries, and only the winner of the contest being announced?
|
Edward N. Hall |
2022-08-18 |
|
7,786 |
324.4 |
... that
Edward N. Hall is known as the "father of the
Minuteman ICBM" but his brother
Ted was a Soviet spy?
|
List of roles and awards of Oscar Isaac |
2022-08-03 |
|
3,886 |
323.8 |
... that actor
Oscar Isaac contributed to the creation of his character's background history in the film
A Most Violent Year (2014)?
|
2003 La Paz riots |
2022-08-23 |
|
7,748 |
322.8 |
... that when the US government offered Bolivian president
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada US$15 million to help quell
riots in La Paz, he said that with that amount he couldn't even afford to pay for the cigars he smoked?
|
Chicago Rising from the Lake |
2022-08-21 |
|
7,648 |
318.7 |
... that the sculpture
Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the
Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter?
|
Tashfiniya Madrasa |
2022-08-03 |
|
3,804 |
317.0 |
... that the 14th-century
Tashfiniya Madrasa in
Tlemcen was demolished by
French colonial authorities in 1876?
|
Battle of Dunsinane |
2022-08-28 |
|
3,770 |
314.2 |
... that contrary to
Shakespeare's play,
Macbeth was not killed during the
Battle of Dunsinane?
|
Kit Malone |
2022-08-15 |
|
7,511 |
313.0 |
... that
LGBT rights activist
Kit Malone helped create the first
transgender organized marching group in the
Indianapolis Pride Parade's history?
|
2000 Pasay mayoral recall election |
2022-08-02 |
|
3,754 |
312.9 |
... that the "candidate of God" badly lost the
2000 Pasay mayoral recall election?
|
John Caffey |
2022-08-18 |
|
7,505 |
312.7 |
... that
John Caffey (pictured) was the first to describe the condition now known as
shaken baby syndrome?
|
Scilly Boys |
2022-08-26 |
|
7,487 |
312.0 |
... that the
Scilly Boys' idea to try and beat the transatlantic rowing record was started while they were at the
pub?
|
Alice King (novelist) |
2022-08-02 |
|
3,720 |
310.0 |
... that
Alice King overcame her disability to lead Bible classes and write eleven novels?
|
Robert Armour |
2022-08-02 |
|
3,690 |
307.5 |
... that
Robert Armour was entrusted with his children's inheritance from his dead wife, but used it to buy the
Montreal Gazette instead?
|
17 State Street |
2022-08-29 |
|
3,656 |
304.6 |
... that
17 State Street, near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
|
Ann Kiemel Anderson |
2022-08-02 |
|
3,622 |
301.8 |
... that American religious speaker
Ann Kiemel Anderson ran in two
Boston Marathons and two Israel marathons near the
Sea of Galilee to promote Christianity?
|
Seckinger High School |
2022-08-06 |
|
7,123 |
296.8 |
... that
Seckinger High School was created in 2022 with an
artificial intelligence–themed curriculum?
|
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament of India |
2022-08-17 |
|
7,076 |
294.9 |
... that
Gandhi's statue in the Indian parliament is frequently used as a protest site by
members of parliament?
|
Vanitas (The Case Study of Vanitas) |
2022-08-07 |
|
7,011 |
292.1 |
... that
Natsuki Hanae was chosen to voice
Vanitas to give the character more sexual appeal?
|
Mexican Pizza |
2022-08-09 |
|
6,978 |
290.8 |
... that
Taco Bell initially commissioned a
TikTok musical for their
Mexican Pizza?
|
Aquis Querquennis |
2022-08-29 |
|
3,478
[b] |
289.8 |
... that the Roman fort
Aquis Querquennis periodically emerges from a reservoir?
|
Herb Roedel |
2022-08-31 |
|
3,442 |
286.9 |
... that
Herb Roedel retired from
professional football after only one season to become an
engineer?
|
Abdülhamid Han (drillship) |
2022-08-16 |
|
6,858 |
285.7 |
... that Turkey's newly acquired fourth
drillship,
Abdülhamid Han, is able to drill up to 12,200 m (40,000 ft) and in a maximum water depth of 3,665 m (12,024 ft)?
|
Ken Russell (politician) |
2022-08-25 |
|
6,854 |
285.6 |
... that
Ken Russell went on international
yo-yo tours before turning to politics?
|
The Exposé |
2022-08-30 |
|
3,416 |
284.7 |
... that
The Exposé's false claims that
COVID-19 was created by
Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
|
Baer's pochard |
2022-08-28 |
|
3,407 |
283.9 |
... that
Baer's pochard (example pictured), found in eastern Asia, has seen a population decline of more than 99 percent in past decades, and is no longer
migratory in central and eastern China?
|
Tomoi (manga) |
2022-08-22 |
|
6,750 |
281.2 |
... that the 1985
manga series
Tomoi contains the first depiction of
HIV/AIDS in any literary medium in Japan?
|
Avelina Carrera |
2022-08-08 |
|
6,740 |
280.9 |
... that
Avelina Carrera (pictured) made her debut at the
Liceu in Barcelona in 1889, stepping in as Elsa in Wagner's
Lohengrin, and created the role of Maddalena in Giordano's
Andrea Chénier at
La Scala?
|
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault |
2022-08-01 |
|
3,352 |
279.3 |
... that
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution?
|
Brad White (defensive lineman) |
2022-08-29 |
|
3,339 |
278.2 |
... that
Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the
National Football League?
|
Henry Jackson (surveyor) |
2022-08-30 |
|
3,302 |
275.2 |
... that
Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?
|
Bill Hatfield |
2022-08-11 |
|
6,519 |
271.6 |
... that
Bill Hatfield, the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
|
Iron diplomacy |
2022-08-06 |
|
6,510 |
271.2 |
... that
Oleksandr Kamyshin, the head of
Ukrainian Railways, who runs the
iron diplomacy program that brings world leaders to
Kyiv by rail, carries his gun and his son's
stuffed owl with him?
|
Northup Avenue Yard |
2022-08-08 |
|
6,484 |
270.1 |
... that
Northup Avenue Yard in
Providence, Rhode Island, was described as "the finest in the
New Haven system"?
|
Crossmichael Parish Church |
2022-08-09 |
|
6,390 |
266.2 |
... that within the graveyard of the Category A–listed
Crossmichael Parish Church, there is a memorial (pictured) to William Gordon of Greenlaw that is itself
designated Category A in its own right?
|
Art collection in ancient Rome |
2022-08-31 |
|
3,183 |
265.2 |
... that
Pliny used the term insania to describe a
Roman art collector's love of citron tables?
|
Larry Kelley |
2022-08-28 |
|
3,154 |
262.9 |
... that
Heisman Trophy winner
Larry Kelley turned down multiple offers to play professional football to become a school teacher?
|
Sand Springs Railway |
2022-08-29 |
|
3,135 |
261.2 |
... that for decades, the
Sand Springs Railway gave all of its profits to a children's home?
|
Ashley Ellis |
2022-08-28 |
|
3,116 |
259.6 |
... that ballerina
Ashley Ellis started her own dancewear brand after her colleagues at
Boston Ballet asked her to make
leg warmers for them?
|
Johannesburg (song) |
2022-08-31 |
|
3,024 |
252.0 |
... that
Gil Scott-Heron's 1975 song "
Johannesburg" was banned in South Africa during
apartheid?
|
Flinders Reef (Coral Sea) |
2022-08-24 |
|
6,036 |
251.5 |
... that coral cores from
Flinders Reef capture environmental changes caused by the use of
nuclear weapons?
|
Currambine railway station |
2022-08-12 |
|
6,030 |
251.2 |
... that 11 years after it opened in 1993,
Currambine railway station was rebuilt 60 metres (200 ft) to the east?
|
Alice M. Hayes |
2022-08-27 |
|
3,006 |
250.5 |
... that British horse trainer
Alice Hayes rode a zebra sidesaddle in the late 19th century?
|
Aerodynamic Forms in Space |
2022-08-11 |
|
5,964 |
248.5 |
... that when creating
Aerodynamic Forms in Space in 2010,
Rodney Graham was inspired by photographs of misassembled toy model gliders he took in 1977?
|
Sejm of Central Lithuania |
2022-08-19 |
|
5,951 |
248.0 |
... that the main activity of the short-lived
parliament of Central Lithuania of 1922 was to request annexation by Poland?
|
Elizabeth Wagner Reed
|
2,444
|
101.8
|
Total |
5,907 |
246.1
|
Education for Economic Security Act |
2022-08-01 |
|
2,942 |
245.2 |
... that the
Education for Economic Security Act prohibited
secular humanism in
magnet schools?
|
Tigor Silaban |
2022-08-29 |
|
2,926 |
243.8 |
... that
Tigor Silaban vowed to work far from
Jakarta and not to open a private practice?
|
Rina Amiri |
2022-08-19 |
|
5,826 |
242.7 |
... that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls,
Rina Amiri, is a former refugee who told US Senator
John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"?
|
Crippled
|
2022-08-26
|
|
3,994
|
166.4
|
... that in
Crippled, author
Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an
austerity programme that began in 2010?
|
Frances Ryan
|
1,828
|
76.2
|
Total |
5,822 |
242.6
|
Little Rock campaign |
2022-08-09 |
|
5,818 |
242.4 |
... that after the
Little Rock campaign,
Union forces held three-quarters of
Arkansas?
|
Roman Bunka |
2022-08-11 |
|
5,802 |
241.7 |
... that the German guitarist
Roman Bunka (pictured) studied the Arabic
oud in Egypt and played in
Mohamed Mounir's band at the
Pyramids of Giza to celebrate entering the year 2000?
|
Tigris (roller coaster) |
2022-08-28 |
|
2,872 |
239.3 |
... that the design of the
train for the roller coaster
Tigris was revealed in the form of a
cake?
|
Leafpad |
2022-08-30 |
|
2,850 |
237.5 |
... that
Leafpad is a text editor for
Linux that is comparable to
Notepad for Windows?
|
Harris Computer Systems |
2022-08-15 |
|
5,676 |
236.5 |
... that
Harris Computer Systems specialized in making computers for
real-time simulation?
|
Windsor Street Gasworks |
2022-08-03 |
|
2,822 |
235.2 |
... that three gasholders at the
Windsor Street Gasworks were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team
Aston Villa?
|
International Institute of Modern Letters |
2022-08-30 |
|
2,816 |
234.6 |
... that the name of the
International Institute of Modern Letters has been criticised by its founder
Bill Manhire for being "almost at odds with the fine use of language"?
|
East Louisiana Railroad |
2022-08-28 |
|
2,799 |
233.2 |
... that the
East Louisiana Railroad, which removed
Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start
Plessy v. Ferguson, an attempt to overturn
segregation in the United States?
|
Blue Ridge Sanatorium |
2022-08-30 |
|
2,704 |
225.4 |
... that
Blue Ridge Sanatorium was once a prizewinning pig farm?
|
Sweet Vengeance Mine |
2022-08-27 |
|
2,688 |
224.0 |
... that the
Sweet Vengeance Mine was owned and operated by Black miners during the California Gold Rush?
|
Nintendo Entertainment System models |
2022-08-19 |
|
5,274 |
219.8 |
... that
Sharp Corporation produced three
official variants of
Nintendo's
Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
|
Esther Cuesta |
2022-08-29 |
|
2,632 |
219.3 |
... that
Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was
elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
|
Suay Sew Shop |
2022-08-28 |
|
2,600 |
216.6 |
... that
Suay Sew Shop plans to be owned by its sewers?
|
Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Red Line |
2022-08-12 |
|
5,144 |
214.3 |
... that after a 1968 split in the
Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist), the Black Line and
Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
|
A. O. Granger |
2022-08-26 |
|
5,134 |
213.9 |
... that amateur astronomer
A. O. Granger expanded his home to include the largest observatory and
telescope in the southeastern United States?
|
Federico Gatti |
2022-08-27 |
|
2,552 |
212.7 |
... that
Federico Gatti went from playing in the
Italian sixth division and doing menial jobs to joining
Juventus and playing for the
Italy national team?
|
I Pity the Poor Immigrant |
2022-08-05 |
|
5,078 |
211.6 |
... that
Bob Dylan's song "
I Pity the Poor Immigrant" uses phrases from the
Book of Leviticus?
|
Kaze wo Matsu |
2022-08-24 |
|
4,964 |
206.8 |
... that the lineups for two songs in the single "
Kaze wo Matsu" were determined by the century in which the singers were born?
|
Julian MacKay |
2022-08-08 |
|
4,934 |
205.6 |
... that
Julian MacKay moved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend the
Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
|
Bkub Okawa |
2022-08-09 |
|
4,858 |
202.4 |
... that
Pop Team Epic creator
Bkub Okawa is also a
virtual YouTuber?
|
Walter Nolen |
2022-08-27 |
|
2,426 |
202.1 |
... that
Walter Nolen was ranked by
ESPN and
USA Today as the number-one player in the 2022 college football recruiting class?
|
Fabio Miretti |
2022-08-24 |
|
4,761 |
198.4 |
... that
Fabio Miretti received a
standing ovation from
Juventus fans after his
Serie A debut as a
starter?
|
Danket, danket dem Herrn |
2022-08-27 |
|
2,336 |
194.7 |
... that the 18th-century "
Danket, danket dem Herrn", a thanksgiving
round based on
Psalm 106:1, has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German?
|
Peter Corby |
2022-08-31 |
|
2,308 |
192.3 |
... that
Peter Corby's electric
trouser press used technology designed for
Concorde?
|
Baya Gamani of Singu |
2022-08-14 |
|
4,612 |
192.1 |
... that
Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King
Mohnyin Thado, to defend the capital region of
Ava?
|
Jack Deloplaine |
2022-08-21 |
|
4,560 |
190.0 |
... that
Jack Deloplaine was nicknamed "Hydroplane" because of his running ability in wet conditions?
|
New Galloway Town Hall |
2022-08-01 |
|
2,278 |
189.8 |
... that
New Galloway Town Hall's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?
|
2022 National Arena League season |
2022-08-16 |
|
4,534 |
188.9 |
... that during the
2022 National Arena League season, a player hit a referee?
|
This Tender Land |
2022-08-16 |
|
4,482 |
186.8 |
... that
This Tender Land is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set in the 1930s and incorporating elements of Homer's Odyssey?
|
Youlgrave Waterworks |
2022-08-29 |
|
2,224 |
185.3 |
... that
Youlgreave in
Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by
its own private waterworks?
|
José Ramón Balaguer |
2022-08-04 |
|
4,400 |
183.4 |
... that
José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
|
Suleman Raza |
2022-08-07 |
|
4,386 |
182.8 |
... that
Suleman Raza was coincidently awarded an
MBE while his organisation Uplyft received the
Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the
2022 Birthday Honours?
|
For the Girls (song) |
2022-08-27 |
|
2,191 |
182.6 |
... that
Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully
LGBT cast while casting the video for her song "
For the Girls"?
|
Collingham Gardens |
2022-08-13 |
|
4,373 |
182.2 |
... that when reggae musician
Bob Marley was arrested in London for cannabis possession, he falsely told the police he lived in
Collingham Gardens?
|
Colonia Federal |
2022-08-02 |
|
2,161 |
180.1 |
... that the neighborhood of
Colonia Federal was built by employees of the Mexican
Secretariat of the Interior to create exclusive housing for civil servants?
|
William Savage (ornithologist) |
2022-08-02 |
|
2,154 |
179.5 |
... that American ornithologist
William Savage painted pictures of birds (example pictured) that he hunted or received?
|
Angelina (Bob Dylan song) |
2022-08-30 |
|
2,114 |
176.2 |
... that
Bob Dylan rhymes "
Angelina" with "
concertina", "
hyena", "
subpoena", "
Argentina" and "
arena"?
|
WPMT (Maine) |
2022-08-03 |
|
2,085 |
173.8 |
... that among the special events broadcast by the
Maine Television Network during its brief existence were a fashion show, a basketball tournament, and an
ordination ceremony?
|
6.0 system |
2022-08-11 |
|
4,170 |
173.7 |
... that the
6.0 system of judging
figure skating was replaced in 2004, as a response to
the scandal during the
pair skating competition at the
2002 Winter Olympics?
|
Jacob Saunders
|
2022-08-21
|
|
1,416
|
59.0
|
... that Canadian brothers
Graeme and
Jacob Saunders learned to sail at the
Chester Yacht Club, and campaigned a
two-person dinghy in the
2016 Summer Olympics?
|
Chester Yacht Club
|
1,408
|
58.6
|
Graeme Saunders (sailor)
|
1,295
|
54.0
|
Total |
4,118 |
171.6
|
Rufina Peter
|
2022-08-28
|
|
1,088
|
90.7
|
... that until
Rufina Peter and
Kessy Sawang's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament?
|
Kessy Sawang
|
953
|
79.4
|
Total |
2,041 |
170.1
|
Humanitarian impacts of U.S. sanctions against Iran |
2022-08-13 |
|
4,069 |
169.5 |
... that
U.S. sanctions against Iran have adversely impacted Iranian children with
epidermolysis bullosa, among other patients?
|
Thomas Peel Dunhill |
2022-08-04 |
|
4,006 |
166.9 |
... that
Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill used to milk the goats at St Vincent's Hospital?
|
Carl-Gustav Groth |
2022-08-03 |
|
1,997 |
166.4 |
... that
Carl-Gustav Groth was the first surgeon in Sweden to perform pancreas, liver, and
islet cell transplants?
|
Edward Duplex |
2022-08-11 |
|
3,988 |
166.1 |
... that in 1888,
Edward P. Duplex became the first African American to be elected a mayor in California?
|
Herb Wong |
2022-08-15 |
|
3,968 |
165.3 |
... that zoologist
Herb Wong wrote the
liner notes for more than 600 jazz albums, by his own count?
|
Sensory friendly |
2022-08-22 |
|
3,950 |
164.6 |
... that people with
sensory processing disorders often require
sensory friendly environments which are designed to accommodate their condition?
|
Claudia Winterstein |
2022-08-20 |
|
3,896 |
162.4 |
... that after
Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the
Berlin Wall, she led
her party as a member of the
Bundestag?
|
Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all |
2022-08-04 |
|
3,848 |
160.4 |
... that "
Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all", a Catholic hymn first published in 1687, is still commonly used for
Corpus Christi processions?
|
Highway 51 Blues |
2022-08-10 |
|
3,838 |
159.9 |
... that "
Highway 51", the closing track on
Bob Dylan's debut album, incorporated elements from earlier songs by
Curtis Jones,
Tommy McClennan, and
the Everly Brothers?
|
Fateh Muhammad Panipati |
2022-08-15 |
|
3,831 |
159.6 |
... that
Fateh Muhammad Panipati has been called the
al-Jazari of contemporary times?
|
Roland Jefferson |
2022-08-17 |
|
3,797 |
158.2 |
... that
Roland Jefferson, the first African-American botanist to work at the
U.S. National Arboretum, helped preserve the
famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C.?
|
St. Martinus, Hattersheim |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,878 |
156.5 |
... that when the new church of
St. Martinus (pictured) in
Hattersheim was built in 1915 with
Jugendstil elements, the architect incorporated parts from the earlier church?
|
Kamome Shirahama |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,874 |
156.2 |
... that
Kamome Shirahama, in addition to writing and illustrating her best-selling
Witch Hat Atelier manga series, has created variant covers for
DC Comics,
Marvel Comics, and the
Star Wars franchise?
|
Victória Pitts |
2022-08-19 |
|
3,738 |
155.8 |
... that
Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's
Il trittico at the
Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in
Gianni Schicchi?
|
Katja Husen |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,847 |
153.9 |
... that
Katja Husen was the speaker of the
Green Youth, a member of the
Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the
Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg?
|
Hani al-Rahib |
2022-08-04 |
|
3,648 |
152.0 |
... that Syrian novelist
Hani al-Rahib had a deaf-mute father and an illiterate mother?
|
Thomas Dickson Archibald |
2022-08-02 |
|
1,820 |
151.6 |
... that
Thomas Dickson Archibald, when speaking against increasing fines for violating liquor licenses, said "we need only go a step further and make the violation a hanging matter"?
|
Dawn Gan |
2022-08-06 |
|
3,620 |
150.9 |
... that Singaporean singer
Dawn Gan played herself in a television drama about aspiring singers?
|
WTVE (New York) |
2022-08-17 |
|
3,612 |
150.5 |
... that after the tower of
a New York state TV station was toppled by
Hurricane Hazel, it did not return to the air for more than 18 months?
|
WXIX-TV |
2022-08-23 |
|
3,574 |
148.9 |
... that the main studio of
a Cincinnati TV station occupies the one-time gymnasium of a former Black junior high school?
|
Maewa Kaihau |
2022-08-30 |
|
1,781 |
148.4 |
... that New Zealand composer
Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "
Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
|
Hussars of Junín |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,768 |
147.3 |
... that the decisive participation of a Peruvian
cavalry unit in the
Battle of Junín led
Simón Bolívar to rename them the
Hussars of Junín?
|
Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 |
2022-08-03 |
|
1,750
[c] |
145.8 |
... that Calvin Harris's 2022 album
Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 features nearly 20 collaborators, including
Justin Timberlake,
Snoop Dogg, and
Busta Rhymes?
|
Martha Wolfenstein |
2022-08-05 |
|
3,487 |
145.3 |
... that
Martha Wolfenstein wrote stories based on her father's experiences in a
Moravian
Judengasse?
|
Emma Reaney |
2022-08-19 |
|
3,430 |
142.9 |
... that
Emma Reaney is the only
Notre Dame Fighting Irish swimmer to win an
NCAA championship?
|
Balanda Atis |
2022-08-30 |
|
1,700 |
141.6 |
... that cosmetic chemist
Balanda Atis created the
foundation worn by
Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for
Lancôme?
|
Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,688 |
140.6 |
... that as women's
ski jumping was not then an Olympic event, Yoshiko Kasai participated as the only female test jumper at the
1998 Winter Olympics, as dramatized in
Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold?
|
A. K. M. Miraj Uddin |
2022-08-05 |
|
3,304 |
137.7 |
... that
A. K. M. Miraj Uddin set a Pakistani national record in the
pole vault by clearing 12 feet 2 inches (3.71 m) with a bamboo pole instead of a carbon-fiber pole?
|
Akbar Bhawan |
2022-08-09 |
|
3,232 |
134.6 |
... that
Akbar Bhawan, which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
|
You're No Good (Jesse Fuller song) |
2022-08-13 |
|
3,220 |
134.2 |
... that
Jesse Fuller's first release of his song "
You're No Good" was more than a year after
Bob Dylan had included it on
his debut album?
|
Spy Princess |
2022-08-08 |
|
3,208 |
133.6 |
... that
Spy Princess by
Shrabani Basu tells the story of
Noor Inayat Khan, a British secret agent in France who was executed by the Nazis?
|
The Scent of Joseph's Shirt |
2022-08-10 |
|
3,180 |
132.5 |
... that
The Scent of Joseph's Shirt was said by Iranian director and screenwriter
Ebrahim Hatamikia to reflect his perception of
waiting for Imam Mahdi?
|
Eliane Capobianco |
2022-08-30 |
|
1,572 |
131.0 |
... that
Eliane Capobianco's election to the
Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's
agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over
land reform policy?
|
Lillian Chase |
2022-08-13 |
|
3,099 |
129.1 |
... that
Lillian Chase became interested in diabetes after meeting the first patient to receive insulin, and went on to become an expert in the disease?
|
Adolphe Smith Headingley |
2022-08-12 |
|
3,072 |
128.0 |
... that British writer
Adolphe Smith Headingley popularised the singing of the socialist anthem "
The Red Flag" to the tune of "
O Tannenbaum" against the wishes of
its lyricist?
|
Colin Stubs |
2022-08-07 |
|
3,070 |
127.9 |
... that
Colin Stubs spent the prize money from his first international tennis title on an old
Volkswagen to travel around Europe?
|
Rana X. Adhikari |
2022-08-25 |
|
3,016 |
125.6 |
... that it was
Caltech experimental physicist
Rana X. Adhikari's idea to
build a gravitational-wave observatory in India?
|
Going Down Home with Daddy |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,484 |
123.6 |
... that the
Caldecott Honor–winning illustrations for
Going Down Home with Daddy contain
Adinkra symbols that represent various concepts in
Ghanaian culture?
|
Laura J. Crossey |
2022-08-06 |
|
2,967 |
123.6 |
... that
Laura J. Crossey has shown that
travertines (example pictured) are more likely to form when meteoric groundwater mixes with deeper groundwater from the Earth's mantle?
|
KUSI-TV |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,464 |
122.0 |
... that when the sale of
its San Diego TV station failed,
United States International University asked some of its employees to wait to pick up their paychecks?
|
Roslyn Lindheim |
2022-08-24 |
|
2,915 |
121.5 |
... that
Roslyn Lindheim, who designed hospitals, was the first architect to be elected to the
National Academy of Medicine?
|
Larry Jeffrey |
2022-08-03 |
|
1,438 |
119.8 |
... that Canadian professional ice hockey player
Larry Jeffrey had eleven knee surgeries in a span of nine years?
|
Divertimento (Bernstein) |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,412 |
117.7 |
... that at its premiere at
Symphony Hall,
Leonard Bernstein (pictured) described his suite
Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"?
|
Juanita Lascarro |
2022-08-09 |
|
2,819 |
117.5 |
... that Colombian singer
Juanita Lascarro became a
soprano at the
Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's
Ulisse?
|
Antar Lintas Sumatera |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,408 |
117.3 |
... that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi),
Antar Lintas Sumatera's
Medan-to-
Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
|
Two for the Knight |
2022-08-14 |
|
2,788 |
116.2 |
... that the
Manila Standard described the concert
Two for the Knight as the "biggest team-up of a foreign and local artist" in the Philippines?
|
Cello Sonata (Debussy) |
2022-08-22 |
|
2,778 |
115.8 |
... that
Claude Debussy (pictured) described his
Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a
Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher
Durand as of "almost classical form"?
|
Maya Pindyck |
2022-08-12 |
|
2,775 |
115.6 |
... that creating visual art led
Maya Pindyck to write poetry?
|
Touch the Sky Tour |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,368 |
114.0 |
... that
Kanye West performed an additional
Touch the Sky Tour date at the
University of North Carolina Wilmington after coming third in a student survey?
|
Gleaners Food Bank |
2022-08-17 |
|
2,719 |
113.3 |
... that
Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
|
Margono Djojohadikusumo |
2022-08-20 |
|
2,714 |
113.1 |
... that when
the deputy finance minister rejected his proposal to create a national bank,
Margono Djojohadikusumo tried again with
the Vice President?
|
Gian Franco Bottazzo |
2022-08-21 |
|
2,706 |
112.8 |
... that
Gian Franco Bottazzo (pictured) and
Deborah Doniach proved that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease?
|
Khalil Farah |
2022-08-14 |
|
2,622 |
109.3 |
... that hostile references towards
Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by
Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial
Sudanese Arabic?
|
Werner J. Dannhauser |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,308 |
109.0 |
... that political philosophy professor
Werner J. Dannhauser was the basis for a character in a
Saul Bellow novel?
|
WDDO (1240 AM) |
2022-08-29 |
|
1,288 |
107.3 |
... that radio station
WBML made its first broadcast just one hour after the funeral of its manager-to-be?
|
Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen |
2022-08-28 |
|
1,278 |
106.5 |
... that "
Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" is a 1697
Lutheran hymn, translated into English by
Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
|
Jinx (Crumb album) |
2022-08-07 |
|
2,552 |
106.3 |
... that the indie band
Crumb wrote
Jinx after a near-fatal car accident?
|
Thomas Yarborough |
2022-08-13 |
|
2,524 |
105.1 |
... that in 1948,
Thomas Yarborough became the first African American to be elected as a city council member in California?
|
Shanti Devi (social worker) |
2022-08-04 |
|
2,480 |
103.3 |
... that
Shanti Devi was awarded the
Padma Shri Award for her social work, including eradicating the
yaws disease in a village in
Odisha?
|
The Captain (miniseries) |
2022-08-20 |
|
2,474 |
103.1 |
... that
Derek Jeter discusses his biracial upbringing and experiencing racism in
Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s in
The Captain?
|
T. Mohandas Pai |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,226 |
102.1 |
... that Indian philanthropist and business executive
T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
|
Zahia Mentouri |
2022-08-06 |
|
2,442 |
101.8 |
... that
Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western
Algeria?
|
John Dique |
2022-08-29 |
|
1,214 |
101.1 |
... that
John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive
dialysis?
|
Bill Harkin |
2022-08-29 |
|
1,204 |
100.3 |
... that
Bill Harkin designed the original
Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which was built from scaffolding and plastic sheeting?
|
WNLR |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,184 |
98.7 |
... that
a Virginia radio station built a house to raise money for operations?
|
Fuente de la República |
2022-08-10 |
|
2,354 |
98.1 |
... that the idea for the
Fuente de la República arose after
Manuel Felguérez suggested a fountain to accompany his newly inaugurated
Puerta 1808 to the mayor of Mexico City?
|
Appraisal rights |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,174 |
97.8 |
... that shareholders who object to some transactions can use
appraisal rights to make the company buy their shares?
|
Curtis Imrie |
2022-08-09 |
|
2,340 |
97.5 |
... that
Curtis Imrie won three world championships as a
pack burro racer?
|
Sean Hurson |
2022-08-16 |
|
2,277 |
94.9 |
... that the coin used by
Gaelic football referee
Sean Hurson bears his initials and was presented to him by one of his umpires shortly before the latter died?
|
Dance in Suriname |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,120 |
93.3 |
... that there is an annual holiday for
dancing pallbearers in Suriname (examples pictured)?
|
Dwight Smith (baseball) |
2022-08-07 |
|
2,232 |
93.0 |
... that baseball player
Dwight Smith recorded a demo
rhythm and blues album during the 1993–94 offseason?
|
Everything We Need |
2022-08-01 |
|
1,100 |
91.7 |
... that
Kanye West recorded "
Everything We Need" as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"?
|
Mary Getui |
2022-08-10 |
|
2,189 |
91.2 |
... that Kenyan theologian
Mary Getui was named a
Moran of the Burning Spear?
|
Russell Strong |
2022-08-16 |
|
2,150 |
89.6 |
... that
Russell Strong pioneered multiple techniques for
liver transplantation, including splitting a donor liver between multiple recipients?
|
Acoustic Atlas |
2022-08-26 |
|
2,120 |
88.3 |
... that the
Acoustic Atlas at
Montana State University Library helped to create a
public domain archive of sounds from
Yellowstone National Park?
|
Barry Downs (architect) |
2022-08-31 |
|
1,032 |
86.0 |
... that Canadian architect
Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the
Expo 86 site in
Vancouver, the largest private development in North America at the time?
|
Jack Michaels |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,028 |
85.7 |
... that
ice hockey commentator
Jack Michaels began his career announcing an
ostrich race?
|
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari |
2022-08-27 |
|
1,006 |
83.9 |
... that
The Twins, a 1930 story by
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
|
Rogers Covey-Crump |
2022-08-17 |
|
2,006 |
83.6 |
... that
Rogers Covey-Crump, once the high tenor of the
Hilliard Ensemble, is known as a leading
Evangelist in
Bach's Passions?
|
Pramod Kapoor |
2022-08-05 |
|
2,000 |
83.3 |
... that Indian author and publisher
Pramod Kapoor was made a
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to promoting India's heritage?
|
Richard Peck (RAF officer) |
2022-08-20 |
|
1,933 |
80.5 |
... that the
de Havilland Mosquito was almost cancelled in 1940, but Air Vice-Marshal
Richard Peck persuaded Air Marshal
Wilfrid Freeman to continue the programme?
|
Jerold F. Lucey |
2022-08-03 |
|
946 |
78.8 |
... that
Jerold F. Lucey introduced
phototherapy to the United States as a treatment for jaundice in newborns?
|
Wheelie (song) |
2022-08-20 |
|
1,836 |
76.5 |
... that in the music video for her song "
Wheelie",
Latto shows off a diamond
cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler
Greg Yuna?
|
Concerto for Two Trumpets (Vivaldi) |
2022-08-02 |
|
914 |
76.1 |
... that the only
trumpet concerto by
Antonio Vivaldi is
for two trumpets?
|
Academy of Music (Sioux City, Iowa) |
2022-08-13 |
|
1,814 |
75.6 |
... that women's rights activist
Susan B. Anthony spoke twice at the now defunct
Academy of Music in
Sioux City, Iowa, during the 1870s?
|
Gilbert Eastman |
2022-08-22 |
|
1,809 |
75.4 |
... that American educator
Gilbert Eastman, who acted in and wrote
American Sign Language plays, won an
Emmy Award in 1993?
|
Henry Janzen |
2022-08-23 |
|
1,782 |
74.2 |
... that
Henry Janzen was the first coach to lead
his team to back-to-back
Vanier Cup championships?
|
Daniel Camargo |
2022-08-10 |
|
1,748 |
72.9 |
... that in his early career,
Daniel Camargo was cast to dance a lead role at the opening night of
Don Quixote at
Stuttgart Ballet, over the
principal dancers?
|
Freies Deutsches Hochstift |
2022-08-06 |
|
1,648 |
68.7 |
... that the
Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquired
Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt am Main in 1863, but did not fully restore it until 1926?
|
BlossomWatch |
2022-08-21 |
|
1,644 |
68.5 |
... that as part of its
#BlossomWatch campaign, the
National Trust plans to plant trees along a circular bus route in Birmingham?
|
Hold On Baby |
2022-08-12 |
|
1,605 |
66.9 |
... that the late
Foo Fighters member
Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of
King Princess's album
Hold On Baby?
|
Regina coeli (Mozart) |
2022-08-25 |
|
1,568 |
65.3 |
... that the last of
three Regina coeli settings written by
Mozart for
Salzburg Cathedral is scored for four soloists, choir and orchestra?
|
Missa brevis in C (Brixi) |
2022-08-12 |
|
1,552 |
64.7 |
... that the
Missa brevis in C by
František Brixi, an 18th-century
kapellmeister at
Prague Cathedral, was not published until 2004?
|
Arizona Public Media |
2022-08-02 |
|
772 |
64.3 |
... that in 1951, the
University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different
Tucson stations?
|
Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake |
2022-08-25 |
|
1,532 |
63.9 |
... that many fans of
Ayub Bachchu's
Bangladeshi rock watched the film Loot Toraj in theaters just to hear the love song "
Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake"?
|
Songbird Sings Legrand |
2022-08-01 |
|
726 |
60.5 |
... that
Regine Velasquez had to audition for composer
Michel Legrand before collaborating in the concert
Songbird Sings Legrand?
|
KUSD (AM) |
2022-08-14 |
|
1,452 |
60.5 |
... that when the
University of South Dakota started
a radio station, the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner
Ernest Lawrence?
|
El Financiero |
2022-08-02 |
|
687 |
57.2 |
... that the administration of
Carlos Salinas de Gortari barred
El Financiero from the Mexican presidential press plane for its reporting on foreign debt negotiations?
|
Songbird Sings the Classics |
2022-08-26 |
|
1,311 |
54.6 |
... that in the concert
Songbird Sings the Classics,
Regine Velasquez paid homage to the music of
Burt Bacharach,
Leonard Bernstein,
Michel Legrand,
Henry Mancini, and
Barry Manilow?
|
Iain MacNeal |
2022-08-21 |
|
1,286 |
53.6 |
... that when the Canadian
baritone
Iain MacNeal appeared as
Odysseus in Dallapiccola's
Ulisse at the
Oper Frankfurt, a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"?
|
Twenty (concert) |
2022-08-27 |
|
510 |
42.5 |
... that at the request of
Regine Velasquez, her former manager
Ronnie Henares directed the concert
Twenty?
|
George Verdak |
2022-08-26 |
|
994 |
41.4 |
... that
Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo dancer
George Verdak was awarded an honorary doctorate by
Butler University?
|
Huliya (poem) |
2022-08-22 |
|
896 |
37.4 |
... that
Nirmalendu Goon shared his doubts about
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's political decisions during the
1969 East Pakistan mass uprising in his poem
Huliya?
|
Scotch Symphony |
2022-08-28 |
|
424 |
35.3 |
... that
George Balanchine's ballet
Scotch Symphony, set to Mendelssohn's
Scottish Symphony, evokes the style of
La Sylphide, a
romantic ballet set in Scotland?
|
Salmo 150 |
2022-08-15 |
|
700 |
29.2 |
... that in a choral tour program titled Salmo!,
Bach's 18th successor first conducted
Salmo 150, an
a cappella setting of
Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer
Ernani Aguiar?
|