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Mike Sadler |
2024-02-20 |
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53,205 |
2,216.9 |
... that
Mike Sadler (pictured) guided nighttime raids on enemy targets as a
celestial navigator during the
Western Desert campaign?
|
Hanging Stone |
2024-02-02 |
|
25,980 |
2,165.0 |
... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the
Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below?
|
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald |
2024-02-15 |
|
44,344 |
1,847.7 |
... that six-tenths of a second is one reason that
a photograph (pictured) won a
Pulitzer Prize?
|
Qalaherriaq |
2024-02-06 |
|
13,677 |
1,626.6 |
... that teenage Inuk interpreter
Qalaherriaq (pictured) drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time?
|
Okunoin |
2024-02-29 |
|
38,708 |
1,612.8 |
... that the hall of worship of
Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns (pictured), two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years?
|
Flaco (owl) |
2024-02-18 |
|
36,952 |
1,539.7 |
... that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless,
Flaco (pictured) has been accused of being a peeping tom?
|
Donald H. Bochkay |
2024-02-01 |
|
16,866 |
1,405.5 |
... that fighter pilot
Donald H. Bochkay (pictured) shot down two jet-powered
Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven
P-51 Mustang?
|
Maxine North
|
2024-02-29
|
|
13,203
|
550.1
|
... that
Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of
her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced
bottled water to the country?
|
Robert G. North
|
11,080
|
461.6
|
Polaris drinking water
|
6,090
|
253.7
|
Total |
30,372 |
1,265.5
|
Babe Ruth Bows Out |
2024-02-01 |
|
14,264 |
1,188.6 |
... that
Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography?
|
Max Stephan |
2024-02-21 |
|
27,292 |
1,137.2 |
... that
Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp?
|
Johnny & Clyde |
2024-02-02 |
|
13,236 |
1,103.0 |
... that heist-horror film
Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"?
|
Dumb Woman's Lane |
2024-02-17 |
|
25,218 |
1,050.8 |
... that
Paul McCartney wrote a poem about
Dumb Woman's Lane (pictured)?
|
Pohang Space Walk |
2024-02-08 |
|
12,600 |
1,050.0 |
... that the steps of
Pohang Space Walk (pictured) represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia?
|
Frankee Connolly |
2024-02-27 |
|
25,149 |
1,047.9 |
... that
Frankee Connolly (pictured) signed to
Xenomania and took her first singing lessons – in that order?
|
Tove Jansson |
2024-02-08 |
|
12,500 |
1,041.7 |
... that artist
Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character
Snufkin on
a political philosopher whom she had dated?
|
Well he would, wouldn't he? |
2024-02-02 |
|
12,408 |
1,034.0 |
... that "
he would, wouldn't he"?
|
Ingush towers |
2024-02-26 |
|
24,418 |
1,017.4 |
... that
Ingushetia is often called the "land of towers" after the
Ingush towers (examples pictured), unique medieval monuments found throughout the region?
|
Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5 |
2024-02-12 |
|
23,646 |
985.2 |
... that
a law banning Native Americans from living in Seattle was voided when Seattle itself was abolished?
|
Cloaca (art installation) |
2024-02-28 |
|
23,297 |
970.7 |
... that, according to the artist, the
Cloaca art installations (example pictured) are "shit machines"?
|
Jenny Suo |
2024-02-07 |
|
9,538 |
953.9 |
... that at the age of 14,
Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to
GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws?
|
Cisco (wine) |
2024-02-01 |
|
11,426 |
952.2 |
... that
Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid
crack"?
|
Yi–Ta incident |
2024-02-06 |
|
7,845 |
933.0 |
... that from March to May 1962,
60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry?
|
George Roper (ship) |
2024-02-06 |
|
14,370 |
921.2 |
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the
George Roper ran aground (pictured) and was wrecked?
|
Amnya complex |
2024-02-28 |
|
21,484 |
895.2 |
... that
a Stone Age Siberian village is the oldest known fortification in the world?
|
1999 Tempe military base shooting |
2024-02-28 |
|
20,764 |
865.2 |
... that after the
1999 Tempe military base shooting, the
Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator?
|
Robert H. Brooks (soldier) |
2024-02-29 |
|
20,180 |
840.8 |
... that
Robert H. Brooks
passed as a white man to join an all-white unit?
|
Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart |
2024-02-22 |
|
20,060 |
835.8 |
... that
Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in
Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of
Francoist Spain?
|
Phomen Singh |
2024-02-05 |
|
9,855 |
821.2 |
... that
Phomen Singh (pictured), an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase?
|
Sun in an Empty Room |
2024-02-01 |
|
9,806 |
817.2 |
... that Edward Hopper wondered what
an empty room would look like with no one to see it?
|
António Corea |
2024-02-29 |
|
19,444 |
810.1 |
... that the slave
António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
|
Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor |
2024-02-07 |
|
7,764 |
776.4 |
... that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne)
Pilgrims' Cross (pictured), high on
Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses?
|
Jews in Madagascar |
2024-02-03 |
|
9,251 |
770.9 |
... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient
Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "
Malagasy secret"?
|
Gender and sexual minorities in the Ottoman Empire |
2024-02-28 |
|
18,460 |
769.1 |
... that due to 19th-century
French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks,
Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris?
|
Tilted Towers |
2024-02-05 |
|
8,778 |
731.5 |
... that
Fortnite's
Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
|
Mariia Vetrova |
2024-02-05 |
|
8,591 |
715.9 |
... that
Mariia Vetrova's
self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
|
The Drunkard's Progress |
2024-02-19 |
|
17,166 |
715.3 |
... that
The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
|
Clipperton Island case |
2024-02-05 |
|
8,378 |
698.2 |
... that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide
whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island?
|
Siege of Baghdad
[a] |
2024-02-10 |
|
12,736
[b] |
687.5 |
... that before
besieging Baghdad in 1258, the Mongol prince
Hulegu Khan ended a letter to
the city's ruler with the words "I will show you the meaning of the will of God"?
|
John Schrank |
2024-02-25 |
|
16,405 |
683.5 |
... that would-be assassin
John Schrank was foiled by a 50-page speech and a spectacles case?
|
Jonos |
2024-02-09 |
|
15,634 |
651.4 |
... that
Jonos offered
Gucci carrying cases with their Escort portable computers (example pictured) in 1982?
|
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings |
2024-02-04 |
|
7,660
[c] |
638.4 |
... that a bus-chase sequence in
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times?
|
Claire Rousay |
2024-02-04 |
|
7,298 |
608.1 |
... that
Claire Rousay (pictured) creates music using everyday sounds she records?
|
Beeper (company) |
2024-02-02 |
|
7,096 |
591.3 |
... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered
iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the
Beeper Mini app?
|
Stenka Razin (film) |
2024-02-25 |
|
14,148 |
589.5 |
... that the first Russian feature film,
Stenka Razin (poster pictured), depicts
the historical Cossack leader throwing a princess into the
Volga?
|
Let's All Go to the Lobby |
2024-02-01 |
|
7,070 |
589.2 |
... that
Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US
National Film Registry?
|
Imhotep (board game) |
2024-02-29 |
|
14,117 |
588.2 |
... that a review of the board game
Imhotep stated that it can be chaotic and "extremely mean"?
|
Statue of George Washington (Perth Amboy, New Jersey)
|
2024-02-11
|
|
11,172
|
465.5
|
... that
the terracotta statue of George Washington (pictured) by the Danish-American sculptor
Nels N. Alling was entirely funded by the local Scandinavian community?
|
Nels N. Alling
|
2,840
|
118.3
|
Total |
14,012 |
583.8
|
Taubaté pregnancy hoax |
2024-02-23 |
|
13,840 |
576.7 |
... that
Taubaté became the "city of lies" after a
2012 pregnancy hoax?
|
KOVR |
2024-02-20 |
|
13,612 |
567.1 |
... that the founder of
a California TV station opted not to name it for himself because the
call sign would have sounded like "cough"?
|
Delulu |
2024-02-21 |
|
13,583 |
566.0 |
... that "
delulu is the solulu" is a catchphrase?
|
Xiang Xuan |
2024-02-18 |
|
13,525 |
563.5 |
... that nine-year-old
Xiang Xuan was the youngest soldier to take part in the
Long March?
|
Nadia Smyrnytska
|
2024-02-11
|
|
8,834
|
368.1
|
... that Ukrainians
Nadia Smyrnytska,
Maria Kalyuzhnaya and
Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in
Kara katorga?
|
Maria Kalyuzhnaya
|
4,458
|
185.8
|
Total |
13,292 |
553.9
|
Prey (2022 film) |
2024-02-20 |
|
13,274
[d] |
553.1 |
... that
Prey is the first feature film to have a full
Comanche language dub?
|
40 Bank Street |
2024-02-03 |
|
6,581 |
548.4 |
... that
40 Bank Street (pictured), a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one?
|
Kirk Raymond Jones |
2024-02-03 |
|
6,480 |
540.0 |
... that
Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over
Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball?
|
Mount Hudson |
2024-02-16 |
|
12,954 |
539.7 |
... that the volcano
Mount Hudson repeatedly depopulated parts of South America?
|
Lancelot of Navarre |
2024-02-02 |
|
6,432 |
536.0 |
... that
King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son
Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it?
|
Anti-facial recognition mask |
2024-02-10 |
|
12,698 |
529.1 |
... that the use of high-tech surveillance to monitor protests and identify participants has led protestors to use
anti-facial recognition masks?
|
Valentine Strudwick |
2024-02-26 |
|
12,517 |
521.5 |
... that
Valentine Strudwick enlisted to serve in the First World War at 14 years old?
|
Kalmia Club |
2024-02-04 |
|
6,246 |
520.5 |
... that the
Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the
mountain laurel?
|
Dione arcuata |
2024-02-04 |
|
6,208 |
517.3 |
... that
eyelash seaweed may have been made
extinct by
a single 2016 earthquake?
|
Girl soldiers |
2024-02-18 |
|
12,416 |
517.3 |
... that former
girl soldiers may face higher rates of community rejection than former boy soldiers?
|
Hsinchu Kuang-Fu Senior High School |
2024-02-25 |
|
12,340 |
514.2 |
... that the principal of
a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a
Nazi-themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank?
|
Paul Pavelka |
2024-02-06 |
|
4,320 |
513.8 |
... that aviator
Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse?
|
Hackaball |
2024-02-01 |
|
6,078 |
506.5 |
... that children have programmed
Hackaball as a
Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
|
Anjali Lama |
2024-02-16 |
|
12,006 |
500.2 |
... that
Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with
Calvin Klein in 2019?
|
Megan Barton-Hanson
|
2024-02-04
|
|
4,886
|
407.2
|
... that
Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from
Love Island 4,
Celebs Go Dating, and
Ex on the Beach, but not
Hey Tracey!?
|
Hey Tracey!
|
1,059
|
88.2
|
Total |
5,945 |
495.4
|
Andy Dickerson
|
2024-02-17
|
|
6,356
|
264.8
|
... that
offensive lineman
Andy Dickerson is not to be confused with offensive lineman
Andy Dickerson?
|
Andy Dickerson (offensive lineman, born 1963)
|
5,521
|
230.0
|
Total |
11,876 |
494.9
|
The Waste Land |
2024-02-12 |
|
11,839
[e] |
493.3 |
... that
The Waste Land, considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, was described as "waste paper" when first published?
|
William Thomas Pike |
2024-02-02 |
|
5,824 |
485.3 |
... that
William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon,
published a biographical series (volume pictured), which includes traders, bishops, and
a lord mayor of London, but almost no women?
|
Sarah McCreanor |
2024-02-27 |
|
11,600 |
483.4 |
... that
Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under
hydraulic presses through dance?
|
Intramural burial |
2024-02-20 |
|
11,578 |
482.4 |
... that for several millennia, some humans buried
corpses in their houses?
|
Philipp Tanzer |
2024-02-24 |
|
11,540 |
480.8 |
... that
Philipp Tanzer has been an army medic, artist, firefighter, hairdresser, massage therapist, festival organiser, political candidate and gay porn star?
|
Carol Mutch |
2024-02-22 |
|
11,443 |
476.8 |
... that
Dr. Disaster's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011?
|
Black-billed magpie |
2024-02-01 |
|
5,674 |
472.9 |
... that
black-billed magpies are known to eat
ticks off
deer and other large mammals (example pictured)?
|
The Overlook (Alexander McQueen collection) |
2024-02-12 |
|
11,221 |
467.5 |
... that the
Alexander McQueen collection
The Overlook (Autumn/Winter 1999) featured a
Shaun Leane–produced corset made from coiled
aluminium (pictured)?
|
Anthony W. Case |
2024-02-21 |
|
11,182 |
465.9 |
... that the injuries
Anthony W. Case suffered in
a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to
astrophysics as a career?
|
Gilpatrick Hotel |
2024-02-27 |
|
11,118 |
463.2 |
... that former US president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in front of the
Gilpatrick Hotel in 1912?
|
Death and funeral of Babe Ruth |
2024-02-23 |
|
11,117 |
463.2 |
... that Life magazine said that
Babe Ruth's funeral was the "kind of tribute normally reserved for kings and presidents"?
|
Dieux du Stade |
2024-02-14 |
|
11,107 |
462.8 |
... that sales from
Dieux du Stade, a
nude calendar produced by the French professional
rugby union club
Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years?
|
Joseph S. Bartley |
2024-02-06 |
|
7,212 |
462.3 |
... that after
Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared
legally dead?
|
Agora Hills |
2024-02-07 |
|
5,468
[f] |
458.5 |
... that "
Agora Hills" is named after the location of the
ashram where
Doja Cat lived growing up?
|
Nadezhda Bantle |
2024-02-05 |
|
5,432 |
452.7 |
... that after
Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the
Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in
Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
|
SkyDoesMinecraft |
2024-02-03 |
|
5,397 |
449.8 |
... that
Minecraft YouTuber
SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
|
Mako Morino |
2024-02-01 |
|
5,328 |
444.0 |
... that voice actress
Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving
libero position?
|
Zanana |
2024-02-06 |
|
3,716 |
441.9 |
... that
zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza?
|
Avengers assemble scene |
2024-02-21 |
|
10,563 |
440.1 |
... that
Spider-Man was chosen as the last character to return in
Avengers: Endgame's
Avengers assemble scene because it was designed to be emotional for audiences?
|
Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo |
2024-02-10 |
|
10,311 |
429.6 |
... that CBS Sports said the
Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo "might just be the best in all of baseball"?
|
Tamer Balcı |
2024-02-27 |
|
10,204 |
425.2 |
... that Olympic
hammer thrower
Tamer Balcı was later cast in a movie as
Tarzan?
|
Eenoolooapik |
2024-02-15 |
|
10,202 |
425.1 |
... that
Eenoolooapik fell ill while kayaking through
Aberdeen in traditional
Inuit clothing?
|
Nevoid melanoma |
2024-02-01 |
|
5,092 |
424.3 |
... that unlike most skin cancers, a
nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape?
|
History of Christianity |
2024-02-22 |
|
10,171
[g] |
423.8 |
... that the growth of Christianity in 20th-century Africa has been termed the "
fourth great age of Christian expansion"?
|
Carachipampa |
2024-02-28 |
|
10,023 |
417.6 |
... that the volcano
Carachipampa is surrounded by a lake and a salt flat, and has a Mars-like environment?
|
Treasury General Account |
2024-02-26 |
|
10,000 |
416.7 |
... that the US federal government's "
checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024?
|
Yobidashi |
2024-02-02 |
|
4,995 |
416.2 |
... that
yobidashi often receive their trousers from
sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of
yokozuna or
ōzeki?
|
Laguna Honda Hospital |
2024-02-06 |
|
3,496 |
415.8 |
... that
Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big
almshouse"?
|
1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal |
2024-02-29 |
|
9,980 |
415.8 |
... that the
1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal cost 1.8 million Swiss francs, the equivalent of two yearly state budgets?
|
James Light (director) |
2024-02-19 |
|
9,942 |
414.2 |
... that
James Light was threatened by the
Ku Klux Klan when he staged a play with an interracial couple?
|
Sofia Vakman |
2024-02-17 |
|
9,929 |
413.7 |
... that
Sofia Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play?
|
Ibedul succession dispute |
2024-02-07 |
|
4,890 |
410.0 |
... that during the
ibedul succession dispute,
Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?
|
Geno (Super Mario RPG) |
2024-02-22 |
|
9,803 |
408.5 |
... that despite knowing of
Geno's popularity,
Super Mario RPG's
co-director wasn't sure why the character was popular?
|
Fionna Campbell (character) |
2024-02-02 |
|
4,892 |
407.7 |
... that
Fionna Campbell was created as
gender-swapped
Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting
her own show?
|
Maria Trubnikova |
2024-02-10 |
|
9,624 |
401.0 |
... that after dying in her daughter's arms in an asylum in 1897,
Maria Trubnikova (pictured) was remembered as the "heart and soul" of
feminist activism in Russia?
|
I'm God |
2024-02-06 |
|
6,240 |
400.0 |
... that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "
I'm God" to receive an official release?
|
Newquay Lifeboat Station |
2024-02-02 |
|
4,797 |
399.8 |
... that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the
slipway at
Newquay Lifeboat Station was one of the steepest in England?
|
Pamatan |
2024-02-15 |
|
9,400 |
391.7 |
... that
Pamatan is an undiscovered city on Lombok that was destroyed by the
1257 Samalas eruption?
|
Campus of the College of William & Mary |
2024-02-14 |
|
9,390 |
391.2 |
... that lovers on the
campus of the College of William & Mary are encouraged to cross the
Crim Dell bridge (pictured) together?
|
Stuart Memorial, Dunedin |
2024-02-14 |
|
9,382 |
390.9 |
... that despite various proposals, a
statue of a renowned Dunedin clergyman was not moved from its location adjacent to a brothel and two parking lots?
|
Max Glatt |
2024-02-07 |
|
3,902 |
390.2 |
... that addicts imprisoned in
Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist
Max Glatt, a former
Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
|
Heat Flow Experiment |
2024-02-09 |
|
9,359 |
390.0 |
... that the
Apollo 16
Heat Flow Experiment was disabled when astronaut
John Young tripped over a cable and tore it from its connector?
|
Mori Calliope |
2024-02-25 |
|
9,352 |
389.7 |
... that for at least 90 minutes,
Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer
Atlus to allow her to stream their game
Persona 3?
|
Ludwig Grass |
2024-02-07 |
|
4,646 |
389.6 |
... that in 1857
Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?
|
Chompi |
2024-02-03 |
|
4,649 |
387.4 |
... that the
Chompi
Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023?
|
The Anxious City |
2024-02-17 |
|
9,289 |
387.0 |
... that
The Anxious City introduced a recurring figure in
Paul Delvaux's paintings: a man who is ignorant of the pretty women and disasters around him?
|
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kaifeng |
2024-02-21 |
|
9,286 |
386.9 |
... that communist forces set up their headquarters at the
Sacred Heart Cathedral (pictured) during the 1948 battle for
Kaifeng in the
Chinese Civil War?
|
Site isolation |
2024-02-03 |
|
4,637 |
386.4 |
... that adding the
site isolation security feature made
Google Chrome use 10 percent more
RAM?
|
Takabb Anti-Cough Pill |
2024-02-04 |
|
4,614 |
384.5 |
... that the packaging of one Thai
throat lozenge features five
centipedes?
|
August Palmisano |
2024-02-12 |
|
9,206 |
383.6 |
... that when tavern operator
August Palmisano was killed in a 1978 car bombing, authorities suspected organized crime in Milwaukee?
|
Salmon Report |
2024-02-07 |
|
4,556 |
382.0 |
... that the
Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "
matron" from UK hospitals?
|
Elijah Hewson |
2024-02-05 |
|
4,500 |
375.0 |
... that
Elijah Hewson's band
Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of
his father's band
U2?
|
Training Season |
2024-02-15 |
|
8,996
[h] |
374.8 |
... that
Dua Lipa premiered "
Training Season" at the
66th Annual Grammy Awards, 11 days before its official release?
|
Silang tanmu |
2024-02-13 |
|
8,938 |
372.4 |
... that the Chinese play
Silang tanmu, which depicts a general returning home to visit his mother, was banned in
Tianjin in 1945 because it "distorted the normal ethics and morality"?
|
Ray E. Dillon Jr. |
2024-02-04 |
|
4,424 |
368.6 |
... that
Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during
World War II before becoming the president and CEO of
Dillons?
|
Yunè Pinku |
2024-02-06 |
|
3,098 |
368.4 |
... that
Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program
Pingu?
|
Advisory Neighborhood Commission district 7F08 |
2024-02-02 |
|
4,419 |
368.2 |
... that in
one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?
|
Native American Educational Services College |
2024-02-06 |
|
3,088 |
367.2 |
... that
a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
|
Richard Twine (sociologist) |
2024-02-01 |
|
4,397 |
366.4 |
... that sociologist
Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges
anthropocentrism by their mere presence?
|
Leilani Tominiko |
2024-02-25 |
|
8,788 |
366.2 |
... that New Zealand wrestler
Leilani Tominiko (aka. Candy Lee) has a signature move called the Candy Crush?
|
MyNoise |
2024-02-12 |
|
8,738 |
364.1 |
... that during the
COVID-19 pandemic, some former office workers used
myNoise to remind them of their workplace?
|
Poecilia vivipara |
2024-02-02 |
|
4,334 |
361.1 |
... that for the
southern molly,
sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
|
Princess Zelda |
2024-02-04 |
|
4,276 |
356.3 |
... that
Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite
Zelda Fitzgerald?
|
Gates of Heaven Synagogue |
2024-02-12 |
|
8,509 |
354.5 |
... that
the oldest surviving synagogue building in
Wisconsin was almost razed in the 1970s?
|
Tarcisio Martina |
2024-02-10 |
|
8,428 |
351.2 |
... that
Tarcisio Martina, the representative of the
Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate
Mao Zedong?
|
George Daniel |
2024-02-05 |
|
4,207 |
350.6 |
... that
George Daniel submitted
his band's demos as coursework while in college?
|
Sky Above Clouds |
2024-02-11 |
|
8,400 |
350.0 |
... that
Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by a large, blank white wall?
|
Twink Twining |
2024-02-04 |
|
4,200 |
350.0 |
... that Dr.
Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player?
|
Bob Bracken (settler) |
2024-02-24 |
|
8,342 |
347.6 |
... that the "
first settler of Asotin County" was the second?
|
Supie |
2024-02-24 |
|
8,243 |
343.5 |
... that food was left to rot outside after the supermarket
Supie went out of business?
|
Bdóte |
2024-02-09 |
|
8,188 |
341.1 |
... that
Bdóte, an area of sacred significance to the
Dakota people, centered on the confluence of the
Minnesota and
Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from
Minnesota?
|
Bambie Thug |
2024-02-18 |
|
8,180
[i] |
340.9 |
... that Ireland's
2024 Eurovision entrant
Bambie Thug describes their musical genre as "ouija pop"?
|
Hicklin Lake |
2024-02-08 |
|
4,062 |
338.5 |
... that artificial islands were deployed in
Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop
eutrophication?
|
Wakan, Oman |
2024-02-27 |
|
8,108 |
337.9 |
... that the mild climate in the remote mountain village of
Wakan in Oman allows the growth of fruits such as
pomegranates in an otherwise hot and dry country?
|
AtariWriter |
2024-02-07 |
|
3,368 |
336.8 |
... that the
AtariWriter
word processor for the
Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold?
|
To Zion |
2024-02-24 |
|
8,010 |
333.7 |
... that
Lauryn Hill's song "
To Zion" is about her decision not to
terminate her pregnancy despite facing pressure to do so?
|
Poecilia orri |
2024-02-13 |
|
7,852 |
327.1 |
... that male
mangrove mollies mate sneakily?
|
Michael Artiaga
|
2024-02-13
|
|
4,797
|
199.9
|
... that 13-year-old
Michael Artiaga won against his 15-year-old brother
Andrew in the final round of the 2020
Classic Tetris World Championship?
|
Andrew Artiaga
|
3,001
|
125.0
|
Total |
7,798 |
324.9
|
John Boswell (clergyman) |
2024-02-06 |
|
2,698 |
320.8 |
... that
John Boswell believed that the executed King
Charles I of England was a martyr?
|
Justin Yu |
2024-02-08 |
|
3,849 |
320.8 |
... that
Justin Yu, the current
Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in
MIT's video game orchestra?
|
Jessica Mak |
2024-02-09 |
|
7,668 |
319.5 |
... that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference,
Jessica Mak simply played music and released balloons in the audience?
|
María Esther Biscayart de Tello |
2024-02-23 |
|
7,614 |
317.2 |
... that all three of
María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were
forcibly disappeared during the
Dirty War in Argentina?
|
Joan Phillip |
2024-02-07 |
|
3,777 |
316.7 |
... that
Joan Phillip offered to give any
MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her
Saskatoon berry stick?
|
Misfat al Abriyeen |
2024-02-02 |
|
3,784 |
315.4 |
... that
Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the
World Tourism Organization in 2021?
|
Englewood Golf Club |
2024-02-20 |
|
7,506 |
312.7 |
... that for a while in the 1950s,
Englewood Golf Club was co-owned by four well-known comedians?
|
Hypericum foliosum |
2024-02-17 |
|
7,413 |
308.9 |
... that the
shining St John's wort owes its bright colors partly to
carotenoid compounds?
|
Holly Ringland |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,704 |
308.7 |
... that
Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the
COVID-19 pandemic?
|
Hometown Village |
2024-02-08 |
|
3,700 |
308.3 |
... that
Hometown Village is a community of
Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union?
|
Betty Lou Raskin |
2024-02-19 |
|
7,389 |
307.9 |
... that chemist
Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the
mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the
lab coat?
|
Cam McCormick |
2024-02-12 |
|
7,376 |
307.4 |
... that
Cam McCormick is thought to be the first
college football player to be granted a ninth year of
NCAA eligibility?
|
Emais Roberts |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,684 |
307.0 |
... that
Emais Roberts (pictured) administered the
COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country?
|
Logan Thompson |
2024-02-16 |
|
7,360 |
306.7 |
... that
Logan Thompson (pictured) is the first former
U Sports goaltender to start a
National Hockey League game in over 30 years?
|
Effective accelerationism |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,666 |
305.5 |
... that adherents of
effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted
technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war?
|
Maternity care deserts in the United States |
2024-02-24 |
|
7,134 |
297.2 |
... that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as
maternity care deserts?
|
Dora Goldstein |
2024-02-06 |
|
4,595 |
294.6 |
... that
Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of
alcohol addiction and
alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
|
Lake Fenwick |
2024-02-10 |
|
7,005 |
291.9 |
... that
Lake Fenwick suffers from an infestation of
Brazilian elodea?
|
Ioniță Tunsu |
2024-02-04 |
|
3,499 |
291.6 |
... that a street in
Bucharest was once named after
Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?
|
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Palestine |
2024-02-06 |
|
4,534 |
290.6 |
... that
intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making?
|
Mike "Hitman" Wilson |
2024-02-14 |
|
6,966 |
290.3 |
... that after
Shawn Christopher's "
Another Sleepless Night" was rereleased with
Mike "Hitman" Wilson's name removed, it charted 24 places higher on the
UK Singles Chart?
|
Open Source Tripwire |
2024-02-08 |
|
3,476 |
289.7 |
... that a computer system can contain
tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?
|
Baldwin–Reynolds House |
2024-02-05 |
|
3,464 |
288.6 |
... that the design of the
Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice
Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by
Andrew Jackson's home?
|
Conservation in Indonesia |
2024-02-05 |
|
3,436 |
286.3 |
... that
conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the
Dutch colonial period?
|
Marie Vuillemin |
2024-02-25 |
|
6,813 |
283.9 |
... that
Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the
Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang?
|
Lewis Pragasam |
2024-02-21 |
|
6,761 |
281.7 |
... that Malaysian percussionist
Lewis Pragasam was drumming to "
Joy to the World" at a Christmas concert when he suffered a fatal
heart attack?
|
Jørgensen's law
|
2024-02-18
|
|
4,214
|
175.6
|
... that
Ove Jørgensen, after giving his name to
a law of Homeric poetry, renounced
classical studies to write about
ballet?
|
Ove Jørgensen
|
2,533
|
105.5
|
Total |
6,748 |
281.1
|
Cora Agnes Benneson |
2024-02-24 |
|
6,714 |
279.8 |
... that
Cora Agnes Benneson (pictured), one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by
Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
|
Keshawn Banks |
2024-02-15 |
|
6,704 |
279.3 |
... that
Keshawn Banks's only
NFL appearance came in the
playoffs?
|
Matei Donici |
2024-02-09 |
|
6,613 |
275.5 |
... that
Matei Donici, a general in the
Imperial Russian Army, secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages?
|
Barley |
2024-02-13 |
|
6,564
[j] |
273.5 |
... that
barley was once used as a form of money?
|
Bridger Zadina |
2024-02-13 |
|
6,548 |
272.9 |
... that actor
Bridger Zadina became a national champion llama exhibitor when he was 11 years old?
|
Gurdev Singh Gill (physician) |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,270 |
272.5 |
... that
Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
|
Horned sungem |
2024-02-23 |
|
6,538 |
272.4 |
... that the
horned sungem (example pictured) is sometimes a
nectar robber?
|
Indian rhinoceros |
2024-02-29 |
|
6,532 |
272.2 |
... that an
Indian rhinoceros, sent as a gift to
Pope Leo X in 1515, was immortalised as
Dürer's Rhinoceros after dying in a shipwreck?
|
Harley Poe |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,214 |
267.9 |
... that
Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
|
Music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance |
2024-02-23 |
|
6,423 |
267.6 |
... that the
music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was designed to be reactive to the player's actions?
|
No Rome |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,202 |
266.9 |
... that the Filipino musician
No Rome took his stage name from people doubting his career choice?
|
Ian Begg (architect) |
2024-02-15 |
|
6,382 |
265.9 |
... that
Ian Begg, known for his work on
restoration of castles in Scotland, designed and built his own 20th-century
tower house to live in?
|
Storm Poly |
2024-02-01 |
|
3,183 |
265.2 |
... that
Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands?
|
Tish (2023 documentary) |
2024-02-01 |
|
3,168 |
264.0 |
... that the documentary
Tish uses sets from
Ricky Gervais's sitcom
After Life?
|
Jenny Cavnar |
2024-02-28 |
|
6,332 |
263.8 |
... that
Jenny Cavnar is the first female primary
play-by-play announcer in
Major League Baseball history?
|
Nia Archives |
2024-02-06 |
|
4,044 |
259.3 |
... that before becoming a
jungle musician,
Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist?
|
WNET (Rhode Island) |
2024-02-23 |
|
6,171 |
257.1 |
... that
a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning?
|
Black Souls (play) |
2024-02-04 |
|
3,073 |
256.1 |
... that
Annie Nathan Meyer's
Black Souls was one of the first "
lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
|
Gainsboro Branch Library |
2024-02-22 |
|
6,118 |
254.9 |
... that land for
a library built for African Americans in Virginia was donated by
Pope Pius XII?
|
Peter d'Hamecourt |
2024-02-15 |
|
6,100 |
254.1 |
... that
Peter d'Hamecourt was asked to pay for taxi fares with 24 cans of
Heineken?
|
Robert Alexander Neil |
2024-02-03 |
|
3,042 |
253.5 |
... that
Sunday lunch with
Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in
Cambridge"?
|
Native American genocide in the United States |
2024-02-18 |
|
6,038 |
251.6 |
... that because the
Cherokee people were deliberately routed through cholera-stricken areas,
their dislocation has been given as an example of
Native American genocide in the United States?
|
Stephen Gould (tenor) |
2024-02-07 |
|
2,515 |
251.5 |
... that
Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022
Bayreuth Festival:
Tannhäuser,
Siegfried and
Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
|
Tufted jay |
2024-02-27 |
|
5,976 |
249.0 |
... that almost all members of a flock of
tufted jays work together to build a nest?
|
Dane Hansen |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,972 |
247.6 |
... that
Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended?
|
Yun Hai |
2024-02-11 |
|
5,934 |
247.2 |
... that New York store
Yun Hai raised nine times its fundraising target to support Taiwanese farmers after China banned the import of their pineapples?
|
Maria Leshern von Herzfeld |
2024-02-26 |
|
5,894 |
245.6 |
... that
Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary
Peter Kropotkin?
|
Robert Beall
|
2024-02-05
|
|
1,653
|
137.8
|
... that
St Mary's Church in Nun Monkton, England, restored by
John Wilson Walton-Wilson, contains a
pulpit (detail pictured) carved by
Robert Beall?
|
John Wilson Walton-Wilson
|
1,272
|
106.0
|
Total |
2,926 |
243.8
|
The Seoul Press |
2024-02-26 |
|
5,848 |
243.6 |
... that
The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper created to justify
Japan's colonial rule of Korea?
|
Shiv Palekar |
2024-02-07 |
|
2,430 |
242.9 |
... that
Shiv Palekar is trained in both the
Suzuki method and
Butoh form of acting?
|
Shovel Knight Showdown |
2024-02-07 |
|
2,878 |
241.3 |
... that
Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the
Kickstarter of
the original game?
|
Kips Bay Towers |
2024-02-10 |
|
5,730 |
238.8 |
... that after the original developer of the
Kips Bay Towers sold off the buildings in 1962, his son bought them back a decade later?
|
Al Sweet |
2024-02-04 |
|
2,856 |
238.0 |
... that cornetist
Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on
hussars?
|
Black-capped chickadee |
2024-02-28 |
|
5,624 |
234.3 |
... that the
hippocampus of the
black-capped chickadee grows in the fall and shrinks in the spring?
|
Campbell's Soup Cans |
2024-02-18 |
|
5,551 |
231.3 |
... that
Campbell Soup considered suing
Andy Warhol for his
Campbell's Soup Cans theme, but then promoted it?
|
Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia) |
2024-02-05 |
|
2,758 |
229.8 |
... that enrollment at
a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years?
|
W. Seavey Joyce |
2024-02-13 |
|
5,511 |
229.6 |
... that
W. Seavey Joyce's presidency of
Boston College was dominated by frequent, large
student protests?
|
Threepence (New Zealand coin) |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,712 |
226.0 |
... that the
patu clubs on the
New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
|
N. D. Popescu-Popnedea |
2024-02-02 |
|
2,702 |
225.2 |
... that Romanian adventure novelist
N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial?
|
Wooden Warrior |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,690 |
224.1 |
... that elementary school students named the
Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
|
Charles J. Turck |
2024-02-12 |
|
5,256 |
219.0 |
... that
Charles J. Turck was accused of being a
communist spy during his time as president of
Macalester College?
|
2024 Masters (snooker) |
2024-02-07 |
|
2,608 |
218.7 |
... that after winning the
2024 Masters, snooker player
Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
|
South Bellevue station |
2024-02-09 |
|
5,246 |
218.6 |
... that completion of
South Bellevue station was delayed by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a workers' strike?
|
Waharoa (Aotea Square sculpture) |
2024-02-19 |
|
5,190 |
216.2 |
... that
Waharoa (pictured), a sculpture by artist
Selwyn Muru, was created to metaphorically turn
Aotea Square in
Auckland into the courtyard of a
Māori meeting house?
|
Carmen Valero |
2024-02-02 |
|
2,576 |
214.7 |
... that in 1976,
Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent
Spain at the Olympics?
|
Monique Ryan |
2024-02-16 |
|
5,002 |
208.4 |
... that
Monique Ryan ran for election to the
Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate?
|
Sukhbir Singh Gill |
2024-02-19 |
|
4,978 |
207.4 |
... that Indian
field hockey player
Sukhbir Singh Gill continued to play professionally after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006?
|
The Wind's Twelve Quarters |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,476 |
206.3 |
... that after
Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?
|
Jin Hao (swimmer) |
2024-02-09 |
|
4,948 |
206.2 |
... that swimmer
Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the
2001 National Games of China, causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)?
|
Calypso Cabaret |
2024-02-19 |
|
4,916 |
204.8 |
... that the performers in the Thai drag show
Calypso Cabaret impressed
Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities?
|
Pipe Lake–Lake Lucerne |
2024-02-14 |
|
4,888 |
203.7 |
... that the naturally connected
Pipe Lake and Lake Lucerne are the only
hydrilla-infested lakes in the state of
Washington?
|
Maria Olovennikova |
2024-02-14 |
|
4,874 |
203.1 |
... that
Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of
Narodnaya Volya?
|
Sewage discharge in the United Kingdom |
2024-02-04 |
|
2,402 |
200.2 |
... that
Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately
dumping sewage into the sea?
|
Mwaksy Mudenda |
2024-02-10 |
|
4,778 |
199.1 |
... that
Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first
Blue Peter episodes in her house?
|
Cliff Davis |
2024-02-11 |
|
4,758 |
198.2 |
... that
Cliff Davis spent $53 during his 1960 campaign for a seat in the
Wyoming House of Representatives?
|
Crassispira incrassata |
2024-02-14 |
|
4,720 |
196.7 |
... it has been suggested that
Crassispira incrassata may be a southern variation of
Crassispira bottae and not its own species?
|
The Tortured Poets Department |
2024-02-21 |
|
4,676
[k] |
194.8 |
... that
Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album,
The Tortured Poets Department, while accepting
a Grammy for her album
Midnights?
|
Balconcillo mutiny |
2024-02-25 |
|
4,614 |
192.2 |
... that the
Balconcillo mutiny is considered to be the first coup d'état in the
history of Peru?
|
Franz Jakob Späth |
2024-02-29 |
|
4,609 |
192.0 |
... that
Franz Jakob Späth's fortepianos were favorites of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them?
|
Civ-Alert |
2024-02-15 |
|
4,415 |
184.0 |
... that an editorial cartoon in
The Honolulu Advertiser called
Civ-Alert "Hawaii's Paul Revere"?
|
Tamara Milashkina |
2024-02-20 |
|
4,330 |
180.4 |
... that the Soviet
soprano
Tamara Milashkina performed alongside her husband
Vladimir Atlantov at New York's
Metropolitan Opera in 1975?
|
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 |
2024-02-07 |
|
1,800 |
180.0 |
... that
Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the
Oxford History of the United States series?
|
St James the Less, Pockthorpe |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,156 |
179.7 |
... that the church of
St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the
Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a
rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
|
Buddhism in Armenia |
2024-02-16 |
|
4,182 |
174.3 |
... that
Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's mother church,
previously had a Tibetan Buddhist bell?
|
Pupil Slicer |
2024-02-16 |
|
4,173 |
173.9 |
... that
Pupil Slicer's 2023 album Blossom draws inspiration from narratives in the video games
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and
Outer Wilds?
|
Ad fructus uberes |
2024-02-08 |
|
2,084 |
173.7 |
... that the
papal bull
Ad fructus uberes gave
friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of
secular clergy?
|
Julia Dorsey (athlete) |
2024-02-05 |
|
2,084 |
173.7 |
... that in 2022,
Julia Dorsey helped
North Carolina win
a national lacrosse championship and reach
the national soccer final?
|
Arthur Lewis Hall |
2024-02-23 |
|
4,162 |
173.4 |
... that from 1904 to 1911
Arthur Lewis Hall covered 17,479 miles (28,130 km), mostly on foot, to map the geology of the
Transvaal?
|
Adelaida K. Semesi |
2024-02-01 |
|
2,056 |
171.3 |
... that scientist
Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?
|
William Aditya Sarana |
2024-02-03 |
|
2,005 |
167.1 |
... that
William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?
|
WUXP-TV
|
2024-02-27
|
|
2,460
|
102.5
|
... that
TV stations in Nashville and
in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their
Fox affiliations in 1990?
|
WLMT
|
1,549
|
64.5
|
Total |
4,008 |
167.0
|
Hill Women |
2024-02-13 |
|
3,980 |
165.9 |
... that
Amrita Sher-Gil's painting
Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp (pictured)?
|
Margareth Rago |
2024-02-16 |
|
3,909 |
162.9 |
... that
Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "
feminist science"?
|
Nagagamisis Provincial Park |
2024-02-03 |
|
1,946 |
162.1 |
... that the
Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size?
|
Boundary Fire (2017) |
2024-02-26 |
|
3,882 |
161.7 |
... that the
Boundary Fire burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the
Coconino and
Kaibab National Forests in Arizona?
|
Vincent Marks |
2024-02-05 |
|
1,915 |
159.6 |
... that
pathologist
Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite
Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film
Reversal of Fortune?
|
Free and Candid Disquisitions |
2024-02-05 |
|
1,914 |
159.5 |
... that the only proposal from the 1749 book
Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the
Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle?
|
Margaret Donahue |
2024-02-20 |
|
3,806 |
158.6 |
... that
Margaret Donahue was the first female executive in
Major League Baseball?
|
American Anthropometric Society |
2024-02-01 |
|
1,898 |
158.2 |
... that
Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the
American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
|
Brad Kragthorpe |
2024-02-27 |
|
3,782 |
157.6 |
... that football player
Brad Kragthorpe played in an exhibition game named after his grandfather?
|
Something Like This |
2024-02-26 |
|
3,747 |
156.1 |
... that the album
Something Like This by
Ben Rector debuted at number one on iTunes' singer-songwriter album chart five minutes after its release?
|
Tatannuaq |
2024-02-11 |
|
3,642 |
151.8 |
... that
a species of butterfly was named in honor of
an Inuit interpreter?
|
Sun Haiyan |
2024-02-06 |
|
2,367 |
151.7 |
... that
Sun Haiyan is the first
Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the
Foreign Ministry of China?
|
Bosellia mimetica |
2024-02-24 |
|
3,568 |
148.6 |
... that the sea slug
Bosellia mimetica benefits from photosynthesis?
|
Sagyo Thu-Myat |
2024-02-08 |
|
1,734 |
144.5 |
... that the
Burmese Buddhist monk
Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the
Burmese calendar?
|
Nick Whiteside |
2024-02-07 |
|
1,708 |
143.3 |
... that
Nick Whiteside overcame a torn
Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023?
|
2023 AFL Women's Grand Final |
2024-02-06 |
|
2,228 |
142.8 |
... that a
Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a
jerrycan motivated her team during the
2023 AFL Women's Grand Final?
|
Frederick H. Bealefeld III |
2024-02-28 |
|
3,418 |
142.4 |
... that a great-grandfather and a grandfather of
a commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department also served in the department?
|
Lee Sung Jin |
2024-02-08 |
|
1,677 |
139.8 |
... that a COVID-19 bout forced
Beef creator
Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely?
|
Summa confessorum |
2024-02-09 |
|
3,350 |
139.6 |
... that
Thomas of Chobham's
Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on
penance in the
late medieval period?
|
Augustus Belknap |
2024-02-22 |
|
3,306 |
137.7 |
... that
Augustus Belknap led the first mule-drawn car from
Alamo Plaza to
San Pedro Springs Park, which developed into the first streetcar line in San Antonio?
|
Jessica Mutch McKay |
2024-02-17 |
|
3,250 |
135.4 |
... that
Jessica Mutch McKay hosted debates between the leaders of New Zealand's two major political parties?
|
Dean Crawford |
2024-02-08 |
|
1,624 |
135.3 |
... that Olympic gold medalist
Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a
rowing shell outside the students' union building at the
University of Victoria?
|
Episode 400 (Neighbours) |
2024-02-04 |
|
1,583 |
131.9 |
... that
the 400th episode of
Neighbours features the serial's first ever Christmas story?
|
Richard Smith (public historian) |
2024-02-17 |
|
3,068 |
127.9 |
... that public historian
Richard Smith called
Henry David Thoreau the "first punk rocker"?
|
William Winstanley Hull |
2024-02-19 |
|
2,942 |
122.6 |
... that
William Winstanley Hull's search for the original manuscript of the
1662 prayer book led to its later discovery?
|
Platt Report 1964 |
2024-02-05 |
|
1,444 |
120.3 |
... that the
Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify?
|
Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment |
2024-02-03 |
|
1,396 |
116.4 |
... that the
Apollo 14
Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of
water on the Moon?
|
William N. Salin |
2024-02-20 |
|
2,788 |
116.2 |
... that
William N. Salin was twice decorated with the
Sagamore of the Wabash?
|
Carmen Scheibenbogen |
2024-02-14 |
|
2,783 |
116.0 |
... that
Carmen Scheibenbogen was awarded the
German Cross of Merit for her work on
ME/CFS at the suggestion of patients and relatives?
|
D-Date |
2024-02-22 |
|
2,721 |
113.4 |
... that the Japanese boy band
D-Date promoted a song through a short film in which the audience had to guess who the traitor was?
|
Bryan Brinyark |
2024-02-08 |
|
1,323 |
110.2 |
... that
Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the
Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
|
Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) |
2024-02-01 |
|
1,280
[l] |
106.6 |
... that
Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the
Avengers in the mid-2000s?
|
Siam Niramit |
2024-02-07 |
|
1,064 |
106.4 |
... that during
Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
|
Walkelin |
2024-02-11 |
|
2,533 |
105.5 |
... that
Walkelin,
Bishop of Winchester, began the construction of the modern
Winchester Cathedral in 1079?
|
Heinrich Nidecker |
2024-02-11 |
|
2,513 |
104.7 |
... that
Heinrich Nidecker accused
Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract
Theory of Life?
|
Mary Clutter |
2024-02-23 |
|
2,506 |
104.4 |
... that
Mary Clutter used her directorial position at the
National Science Foundation to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them?
|
Karl Frederik Kinch |
2024-02-26 |
|
2,502 |
104.2 |
... that archaeologist
Karl Frederik Kinch identified the location of
Stagira, the hometown of
Aristotle?
|
Panos Katseris |
2024-02-24 |
|
2,446 |
101.9 |
... that in December 2022
Panos Katseris scored his first goal for the Italian club
Catanzaro less than a minute after
kick-off?
|
Seattle metropolitan area |
2024-02-25 |
|
2,426 |
101.1 |
... that the
Seattle metropolitan area includes two major volcanoes,
Mount Rainier and
Glacier Peak?
|
Pagtatag! |
2024-02-02 |
|
1,200 |
100.0 |
... that
SB19's second
extended play (EP),
Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
|
List of WNBA seasons
|
2024-02-17
|
|
1,252
|
52.1
|
... that some
WNBA seasons, including
this year's, have a break for the
Summer Olympic Games?
|
2024 WNBA season
|
1,144
|
47.6
|
Total |
2,395 |
99.8
|
John A. Roush |
2024-02-18 |
|
1,964 |
81.8 |
... that
Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during
John A. Roush's presidency?
|
Nurture (album) |
2024-02-01 |
|
891 |
74.2 |
... that
Porter Robinson chose the title
Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the
nature versus nurture debate?
|
Innocence (opera) |
2024-02-04 |
|
826 |
68.8 |
... that
Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera
Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
|