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30 June 2017
00:47, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
N. lecontei larvae
... that larvae of the red-headed pine sawfly(pictured) are gregarious, and when they have defoliated a tree, move as a group to a neighbouring one?
... that under Operation Temperer, thousands of
British Army troops can be deployed to support police in guarding key sites in the UK against terrorist threats?
... that
RCA's only astronaut, civilian Bob Cenker, narrowly avoided catastrophe during his mission on Space Shuttle Columbia, which experienced several launch-pad aborts and almost exploded?
... that the South Korean government tried to
metricate the country unsuccessfully four times before finally criminalizing traditional Korean units in 2007?
... that Alfred Starbird directed the
Operation Dominic nuclear tests which "significantly enhanced the security of the nation and the free world"?
... that the Thunderbolt was damaged by lightning and then destroyed by a hurricane?
... that the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale has been used in court cases to determine how suggestible a person will be during interrogation?
... that Indian legislator Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala urged the government to relax the helmet rules for motorcyclists due to the high temperatures of the summer months?
... that Warkworth's Chronicle, covering the years 1461 to 1474, reports on the double bleeding of
Henry VI and a headless man who cries, "Bowes, bowes, bowes"?
26 June 2017
00:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Beer can chicken
... that proponents of beer can chicken(pictured) claim that the grilling method enhances the chicken's texture and flavor, while others are skeptical of its efficacy?
... that the Battle of Bamber Bridge began when white American
military police arrested a black
USAAF soldier in an English village
pub (pictured), and ended with a
mutiny that left one dead and seven injured?
... that the ground-dwelling redthroat bird can imitate the sound of a
crested pigeon in flight?
... that since being introduced in the mid-1990s, the red turpentine beetle has destroyed six million trees in China?
... that the 2017–18 RFU Championship will feature a college team that climbed from the bottom tier of English rugby to the second tier within 13 years of its formation?
... that during the 1691 papal conclave, cardinals burned down their sleeping quarters in the Vatican while playing cards?
24 June 2017
01:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Cortinarius orellanus
... that the toxic nature of the fools webcap(pictured) was discovered only after 102 people in
Bydgoszcz were poisoned in 1952?
... that the first soundtrack album from How I Met Your Mother, titled How I Met Your Music, was originally released only through iTunes because the creators considered CDs to be "too 1992"?
... that Giovanni Gribodo, an architect in the Italian
Art Nouveau Liberty Style, also published 42 scientific papers describing 377 new taxa of
Hymenoptera?
... that stew peas with rice was declared to be "the best dish made in Jamaica" by The Gleaner in 1992?
... that Helen Sandoz sometimes wrote editorials for the lesbian magazine The Ladder from the perspective of her cat?
23 June 2017
01:37, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Cardinal Agagianian
... that Cardinal Agagianian(pictured), leader of a small Eastern church, was twice a serious papal candidate?
... that Washington State Route 522 has been named as one of the most dangerous highways in the United States?
... that a famous painting by Liu Guandao portrays
Kublai Khan as an "aging and obese man"?
... that Casualty producers worked with the Association of Air Ambulances for over half a year on the special episode "Too Old for This Shift"?
... that Öget Öktem Tanör, Turkey's first neuropsychologist, was charged with "terrorism propaganda" in 2017 for signing a petition?
... that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine, assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
... that in the Southern Hemisphere, all willow sawflies are female, while in the Northern Hemisphere both males and females occur?
... that in 1980, the American Meat Institute tried to ban turkey ham products from being labeled as such?
22 June 2017
01:52, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Arm & Hammer logo
... that Austin Church and John Dwight were the first to commercially manufacture
baking soda in the United States, and the former was first to use the
Arm & Hammer trademark logo (pictured) for selling it?
... that the Supreme Court of Canada held that it was unreasonable for there to be a 44-month delay between the filing of charges and the trial?
... that the ant Cephalotes alveolatus(pictured) is distinguished by its clubbed hairs?
... that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine, assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
... that Cephalotes caribicus worker ants had semitransparent expansions on their bodies, possibly for protection?
... that Jennie Anderson Froiseth, an anti-
polygamy crusader during the 1800s, published a book about the experiences of women in polygamous marriages?
... that "Lofsöngur", the national anthem of
Iceland, was composed in an
Edinburgh town house (pictured)?
... that to portray events of The Blair Witch Project as real, its actors were listed on the
IMDb website as "missing, presumed dead"?
... that pathologist Walter Lazarus-Barlow pricked his thumb during a postmortem examination and lost an arm as a result?
... that Violet Lake, a high-elevation lake on the slope of the
West Maui Mountains, was believed to be the home of the Hawaiian lizard goddess Kihawahine?
... that letters written by Abigail Franks(pictured) to her son in England are peppered with family gossip, local politics, and observations on the state of
Judaism in 18th-century
colonial New York?
... that arson in royal dockyards was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
... that a
Munchausen by proxy expert says the murder of Dee Dee Blancharde, discovered two years ago today, is the first instance he knows of where the abused child killed the abusive parent?
... that Michelangelo had
Sebastiano del Piombo paint his Raising of Lazarus(detail pictured) to outdo his rival Raphael, but Raphael's painting was judged superior?
... that Shinnyo was the first fully ordained
bhikkhuni for several hundred years?
... that 154 flights of stairs in New York City will cost $150 million to $200 million?
... that in 1907, George H. Brimhall permitted
Brigham Young University students to paint the letters "B", "Y", and "U" on the mountain nearest to campus, but the work was only partially completed and it became
Y Mountain?
... that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844, they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
... that the red-billed quelea is the most numerous undomesticated bird species on earth, with an estimated population peaking at 1.5 billion?
... that bae is a term of endearment popular on social media and in contemporary song lyrics?
12 June 2017
00:00, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Flock of red-billed queleas
... that the red-billed quelea(flock pictured) is the most numerous undomesticated bird species on earth, with an estimated population sometimes peaking at 1.5 billion?
... that Jon Anabo was half of the "best 1-2 quarterback punch on the West Coast"?
... that the death toll in a 2016 mass methanol poisoning in
Irkutsk, Russia, led the Associated Press to call it "unprecedented in its scale"?
... that the original 7th-century elements (detail pictured) of the Japanese Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandala remain better preserved than the replica created approximately 600 years later?
... that during the
Martial Law,
Imelda Marcos prevented local screenings of the film Insiang as it did not depict a "beautiful view" of the Philippines?
... that Biswa Ranjan Nag has contributed to the development of a
Monte Carlo method for the computation of the coefficient of velocity?
... that the
pilots for Apollo Gauntlet and Hot Streets were released online by
Adult Swim, who gave viewers the opportunity to rate each using five buttons marked with reactions?
... that the Minar in the centre of the
Sassanid circular city of
Gōr may have been an observation tower, a water tower, part of a temple, a symbol of the new government, or a combination of these?
8 June 2017
00:00, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Kiełbasa szynkowa, a Polish ham sausage
... that ham sausage(example pictured) is a part of Polish, German, British, and American cuisine?
... that Edward Dalton created New York City's first ambulance service?
... that unmated female Diprion similis produce only male offspring while mated females produce young of both sexes?
... that Albert P. Halfhill is considered the father of the
tuna packing industry and was the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick?
... that
Andrew Jackson's objection to a renewed embargo between the United States and West Indies in the wake of the 1827 North Carolina hurricane helped him win the presidency a year later?
... that Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous
Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of
her political party?
... that fans of the
Atlanta Braves were asked to stop doing the tomahawk chop with foam tomahawks, as it was viewed as a mockery of Native Americans?
... that Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous
Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of
her political party?
... that the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England?
... that the role of Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
... that according to the 2009 book Pinoy Capital, a significant number of Filipino Americans in Daly City, California, preferred to be identified as
Filipinos?
... that freight derailments occurred at both of Wachusett's predecessor stations?
... that mezzo-soprano Eva Randová was nominated for the
Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House?
... that the cyberpunk science-fiction genre was named after the 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" by
Bruce Bethke?
... that anchovy paste has been used for centuries to provide flavor for foods and as a source of nutrition?
... that Mary Florence Potts patented various styles of cold-handle clothes irons that were the most popular irons ever used?