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... that the Astoria Riverfront Trolley(pictured), which runs along the Columbia River in
Astoria, Oregon, uses a 1913 trolley car acquired from an art museum in Texas?
... that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne(detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
... that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a
lighthouse, The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
... that in 1958, while working for a
CIAfront organization in Taiwan, William Beale flew the aircraft that bombed several Indonesian cities and sank
KRIHang Tuah off the coast of Borneo?
... that the student-led Shifang protest successfully derailed construction of a $1.7 billion
copper smelting plant in southwest China?
... that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the
1908 Summer Olympics, he was paraded through
Hull on the back of a fire engine?
... that Agneta Matthes and her husband (pictured), who ran factories in
Delft producing yeast, perfume, and margarine, developed a workers' housing area in
garden city style, Agneta Park?
... that the Madrid Codex, one of only three surviving pre-Columbian
Maya books, contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist
Maya priests in their ceremonies?
... that
American football placekicker Lou Groza laid down a piece of tape to line up
field goals before doing so was outlawed by the Lou Groza Rule in 1950?
... that
Olympic road cyclistShara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that May Justus' 1963 book New Boy in School, a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural
Appalachia, was "probably the first" book on
racial desegregation for young readers?
... that it was at Tasitolu that
East Timor declared its independence in 2002?
... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored
Mary Dyer(pictured) to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a
Quaker martyr?
... that John R. Tunis, who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the
Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
... that as of 2011, Catequilla is said to be "the only important pre-Inca site in Ecuador to have been commercially exploited"?
... that
William & Mary women's soccer, coached by John Daly, is one of two
NCAA Division I women's soccer programs that have never had a losing season?
... that the Great Polish Map of Scotland(portion pictured) was the brainchild of a Polish war veteran and is claimed to be the largest terrain relief model in the world?
... that so-called bath salts, a class of
designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain
mephedrone, which was first synthesised in the 1920s?
... that the German architect
Hermann Muthesius noted in 1904 that it was "considered downright inadmissible" for the toilet to be in a British
bathroom, rather than a room of its own?
08:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
... that sérandite(pictured) was discovered in Guinea and described in a
French journal, and the type material resides in Washington, D.C.?
... that John Wilson Crawford, a Brigadier in the
Australian Army, was nicknamed "cake eater" because of his strict adherence to formal protocols for official social functions?
... that "Diwali", a 2006 episode of The Office, was credited with helping introduce American audiences to
Indian customs?
... that the three original members of the British pop group
Sugababes have reformed, and are known as Mutya Keisha Siobhan?
... that the cream nut fruit may trap an inexperienced
monkey?
... that critics denounced Indonesian Muslim leader Fakih Usman as the "Dutchman with the black ass"?
... that the Vegetarian Finch has a disproportionately large
gizzard and a long
intestine to help it digest the leaves and buds which it regularly eats?
... that
Slovenian actor Polde Bibič played over 150 theatre and over 30 film roles?
... that on January 15, 1861, Florida militia colonel William Henry Chase demanded the surrender of
Fort Pickens at
Pensacola, Florida, which he had designed and constructed as a U.S. Army captain?
... that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of
Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of
cannibalism?
... that the Ballarat Miners introduced a women's team to the club in 2000?
... that the Spanish secretly supported the Mexican Republicans against the French at the Battle of Barranca Seca?
... that before award-winning author and poet Peter Spiegelman started writing, he spent 20 years on
Wall Street and was a vice president of
J.P. Morgan?
... that the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe makarorae(pictured) was described by two New Zealand mycologists known to assist police in prosecuting those who illegally collected the species?
... that the Vinkovci Treasure, consisting of 48 items of 4th-century
Roman silverware found in March 2012, has been called one of
Croatia's most important archaeological finds?
... that in 1965, the American Thoroughbred Roman Brother, a particularly small horse that was nicknamed "Mighty Mite", became the first horse sold at a public auction to be named
Horse of the Year?
... that Chinese artist Song Dong responded to the destruction of historic buildings in
Beijing by creating an edible city?
... that the melody of "Government Hooker", a song from
Lady Gaga's Born This Way, was originally an unused track created by DJ White Shadow in collaboration with DJ Snake?
... that
Oakland Athletics manager Steve Boros was criticized for his pioneering use of an Apple II computer to guide his managerial decisions in 1983?
... that Professor Clive Finlayson has theorized that the genetic similarities between
Neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor?
... that the Swedes withdrew from the nearly won 1627 Battle of Tczew due to the wound received by their king,
Gustav II Adolf?
00:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
... that 67% of pregnant women have claimed to have a higher level of smell sensitivity, whereas 14% have claimed to have phantom smells(olfactory system pictured)?
... that Patty Gasso has led the Oklahoma Sooners softball team to seven appearances in the Women's College World Series, including a national championship in 2000 and a second-place finish in 2012?
... that Begaljica derived its name ("fleeing town") from the constant fleeing and returning of the population amid attacks on the village by the Ottoman army?
... that
Confederate General
John Bell Hood appointed Colonel Moses Wright Hannon an acting brigadier general after Hannon's men seized more than 1,000 cattle from the Union Army?
... that
North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol, whose hit songs include "Excellent Horse-Like Lady" and "She is a Discharged Soldier", is said to have been romantically linked with leader
Kim Jong-un?
... that tarbuttite(pictured) was named for the director of a company?
... that Nurnaningsih was the first Indonesian actress to appear half nude in a film?
... that Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant to the U.S., is charged with murder because the child she was pregnant with died as a result of her suicide attempt?
... that Lyons Demesne, the estate of the late
Ryan Air boss
Tony Ryan, has been cited as a "Georgian treasure" and "Ireland's most significant estate"?
... that a 400 kg (880 lb) statue of the Berlin bear was removed from the city administrative building Altes Stadthaus(pictured) and given to the
East Berlin zoo in 1959?
... that children of maternally sensitive mothers scored higher in math and phoneme knowledge than those who had a history of lower maternal sensitivity?
... that because there is no water in the Albert Goldfield in
New South Wales, miners relied on wind to separate gold from dirt in a "tedious and unhealthy" method called dry blowing?
08:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
... that the homestead of the New Zealand politician Arthur Rhodes(pictured) is today the administration building of
Rangi Ruru girls' school?
... that paranormal claims investigators Bryan & Baxter do not investigate the paranormal, but rather the legitimacy of the paranormal claims made by others?
... that
Melanie Vallejo admitted in an interview that she had not done much preparation before auditioning for the role of Sophie Wong in the Australian television series Winners & Losers?
... that Anna Green Winslow wrote a series of letters to her mother that she combined into a diary, which provides a rare window into the life of an affluent teenage girl in colonial Boston?
... that the Siljan Ring, a very large
impact crater in central Sweden, has been the site for two attempts at commercial exploitation of natural gas and oil based on the theory of
abiogenic petroleum?
... that Mina Salman'sharbour, in
Bahrain, was initially unsuitable for
ocean liners and that these ships had to
anchor up to 6 km (3.7 mi) offshore until the construction of a deep-water
wharf in 1962?
... that Hameen Ali received the
Disney Sports Spirit Award, awarded annually to the "most inspirational" college football player who overcomes adversity?
... that Millennium's "Monster" features the song "Goodbye Charlie" by
Bobby Darin, whose music is often used by the episode's writers?
... that mass defection of their Mexican auxiliaries led to the defeat of the French Army at the Battle of San Pedro?
... that Waste Not is an exhibit by Chinese artist
Song Dong that illustrates modern Chinese history and the story of his late mother's life through 10,000 of her personal possessions?
00:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
... that the smooth flower coral(pictured) only lives up to its name at night?
... that leucophoenicite is so named for its purple-red color?
... that the Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising ended without a decisive battle having been fought?
14 July 2012
16:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
... that a female state legislator proposed making Dorothy's Rooms(bathroom pictured), the last brothel in
Helena, Montana, a historical landmark?
... that "Did you know that
Big 5 stopped selling handguns in March 1986?", regarded as the Perry Mason moment of the first
Menendez brothers trial, resulted from a tip phoned in by a
Court TV viewer?
... that in the 2010 season, in addition to playing
football for
Afturelding, John Andrews also coached the club's women's team, reserve team and
feeder club at the same time?
... that composer Robert Russell Bennett's work Symphonic Songs for Band was premiered by the 112-member Kappa Kappa Psi-Tau Beta Sigma National Intercollegiate Band in 1957?
... that the performances in the Body of Proof episode "Talking Heads" of Kathy Searle as the person who dismembered the murder victim and
Kelly AuCoin as the murderer were both praised?
... that Hollywood stunt coordinator and second unit director Allan Graf played offensive guard for the undefeated NCAA national champion
USC Trojansfootball team in 1972?
... that the 1899 play Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929
Child Marriage Restraint Act, called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
... that the hadran prayer recited after studying a tractate of the
Talmud is an expression of love and friendship between the student and the tractate?
... that 50 new E-class Melbourne trams will be the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, with the last locally built Melbourne tram a
B class built in 1994?
... that
Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years?
... that in 405, during the fall of the Western Roman Empire, manpower was so scarce that Roman soldiers were urged to allow their personal slaves to fight beside them?
11 July 2012
16:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
... that the constellation of Corona Australis contains one of the closest star-forming regions (pictured) to the solar system?
... that, despite spending almost their entire lives underground, Cape mole rats nonetheless have
activity cycles linked to day and night?
... that comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi went from earning 20 millionyen a month to earning virtually nothing, only to then become Japan's top television personality?
... that the "Family Bible" was used as toilet paper?
... that the spurious text of Matthew 16:2b–3 is not found in the New Testament codices 852, 994, 1073, 1074, 1080, 1093, and 1216, but it is in codices 873 and 905, although marked as doubtful?
... that
plant ecologistFakhri Bazzaz was ranked as one of the ten "Most Cited Scientists in Environment/Ecology, 1992–2002"?
... that missionary William McClure Thomson documented the Galilee earthquake of 1837 in the best-selling The Land and the Book?
... that video game publisher Inscape's founder
Michael Nash chose the company's name "to focus on multimedia's capability to transport us to compelling inner landscapes"?
... that three aircraft belonging to Gatari Air Service were seized after its president director was implicated in a fraud case?
... that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in
Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?
... that one of the most popular Polish cabarets, Pod Egidą, performing since 1967, has faced persecution from the communist authorities in the
People's Republic of Poland?
... that the mushroom Stropharia semiglobata(pictured on llama dung) has been recorded growing on the feces of a wide range of herbivores, including rabbits, bears, and wallabies?
... that despite being one of the most common
polypores in the eastern United States, the fungus Antrodia serialiformis was not recognized as a distinct species until 2009?
... that for the 1884 hanging of five Bisbee Massacre murderers in
Tombstone,
Arizona, invitations were sent out by the sheriff, and tickets were sold for
grandstand seating?
... that Japanese anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii published 172 medical research papers that reported falsified data, including 126 papers described as being "totally fabricated"?
... that the
Maya city of Kinal in northern
Guatemala possessed an unusually complex acropolis but is noted for its complete absence of sculpted
stelae and altars?
... that, according to the Cholodny-Went model, the roots of plants grow downward and the shoots grow towards light because of the plant hormone
auxin?
... that, originally discovered in 1873, Tutwiler's spleenwort became one of the world's rarest ferns in 2007?
6 July 2012
16:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
... that former
Albany, Georgia, mayor Bill McAfee(pictured) participated in a 13-game baseball tour of Japan in 1929 before embarking on a five-year career in Major League Baseball?
... that at the end of
World War I the
British Cabinet decided to give Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India each 100 aircraft as an Imperial Gift?
... that British cyclist Liam Phillips put his selection in doubt for the
2012 Summer Olympics when he broke his collarbone at the 2012
BMX World Championship?
... that Luis Ghilardi, a former Italian officer of
Garibaldi, fought alongside the Mexican Republicans to repulse the French fleet in the Battle of Acapulco?
... that Don Eaddy(pictured) was an All-American baseball player, All-
Big Ten basketball player, and halfback for the football team at the
University of Michigan?
... that "New Day" by
Alicia Keys has been called her most powerful number to date?
... that Margarete Mitscherlich and her husband Alexander Mitscherlich co-authored Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern (The Inability to Mourn) in 1967, and she alone wrote Die Radikalität des Alters (The Radicality of Age) in 2010?
... that
2012 Australian rhythmic gymnastics Olympian Janine Murray had difficulties getting to school while growing up in Zimbabwe because of petrol shortages?
08:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
... that some Mexican
curanderos use the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe hoogshagenii(pictured) to
divine the location of objects or animals that have been lost or stolen?
... that
Tasma Walton was immediately interested in the part of Claudia Leigh because her occupation as a criminal profiler was not a straightforward police role?
... that despite the 1940s exterior of The Dupont Hotel in
Washington, D.C., the hotel has a modern interior after being renovated in 2009?
00:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
... that the rare
MoldavianBull's Head stamp (pictured) was on sale for less than four months in 1858, and that about half of them were destroyed by fire in 1874?
... that a number of Ohio Republicans refused to vote for
Mark Hanna for senator in 1898, and he was elected by the legislature with only the minimum 73 votes?
... that more than one million comments about Feng Jianmei's forced abortion had been registered within four days of family members uploading a picture of her dead child to
Sina Weibo?
... that
tadpoles of the green burrowing frog need to grow rapidly because the temporary pools in which they develop soon dry up?
... that
Rick Ross was to be featured on
Jennifer Lopez's song "Run the World", but his rap was removed from the song shortly before its commercial release?
... that the sports film The Wind Chaser was compared to a soap commercial?