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... that Green Street may have been named after a man who fell down a well?
... that Clark Hubbs was notorious for his collection of clothing depicting fish?
... that Michigan state highway M-343 between
Kalamazoo and
Richland was part of the
M-43 highway for a century until Kalamazoo wanted to assert control over several streets in the city's downtown?
... that Buddhists consider the precept against killing any living being the most important of the five basic ethical precepts?
... that Huang Yihe created the CCTV New Year's Gala, which has become the most-watched television show in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018?
... that the scaled piculet is a fairly common bird, but may be undercounted because of its unobtrusive behaviour?
... that when she took office, Kate Gallego was the youngest and the only woman mayor of any of the ten largest cities in the United States?
... that when directing Der Ring in Minden, Wagner's Ring Cycle at
a municipal theatre, Gerd Heinz focused on the psychology in the interactions of the characters?
... that at the premiere of The End, audience members shouted at the film and threw their chairs?
28 May 2019
00:00, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Hedewig
... that the traditional north German
card game of Fipsen is played in the village of
Thedinghausen for currant buns called Hedewigs(example pictured)?
... that during construction of the tower for
Oklahoma City's KLPR-TV station, a worker was trapped 200 feet (60 m) in the air for more than an hour?
... that before she became an expert on wild animals, Hope Ryden was an international flight attendant and used her long layovers to observe wildlife in Africa and Asia?
... that New York City's 23rd Street once contained the city's largest residential complex and the world's largest hotel?
... that hundreds of houses for artisans, built by George Worrall Counsel in the Gloucester suburb of
Clapham in the 1820s, were demolished a century later during
slum clearance?
... that
brown trout in the vicinity of Cline Falls can reach 20 in (51 cm) in length and weigh as much as 8 lb (3.6 kg)?
... that Troy is the first Turkish opera composed by a foreigner, the Romanian conductor Bujor Hoinic?
... that in 2007, a painting (shown) of British socialite and
real tennis player William Marshall Cazalet was sold at auction for US$1.8 million?
... that Greek pop band Nostradamos won the best new composer and performer prize at the 1972
Thessaloniki Song Festival with their song "Dos Mou to Heri Sou" ('Give Me Your Hand')?
... that hints of female discrimination in biblical times were discovered in an ancient Persian cemetery excavated from Tel Qiri in northern Israel?
... that during World War II, Wang Daheng quit his doctoral studies to help develop optical glass in the UK, and later became the "father of
optical engineering" in China?
... that approximately 4,000 handmade personalised patchwork skirts have been registered as official national liberation skirts(example pictured) in the Netherlands?
... that the German architect Konrad Püschel was conscripted into the
Wehrmacht during World War II, held as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Union, and returned home weighing only 40 kg (88 lb)?
... that
bailiffs who heard champion bubblegum-blower Susan Montgomery Williams popping gum in a courthouse hallway thought a .38 caliber pistol had been discharged?
22 May 2019
00:00, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
Princess Natalya Golitsyna
... that Princess Natalya Golitsyna(pictured) acquired the nicknames the "Moscow Venus" and the "Queen of Spades"?
... that the Nubra River rises from the
Siachen Glacier, the second longest non-polar glacier in the world?
... that
Fields Medal-winning mathematician Klaus Roth performed so poorly on the
Mathematical Tripos that his tutor suggested he take "some commercial job with a statistical bias"?
... that novelist Ismith Khan's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not based in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?
... that when several of the small bivalve molluscs Lasaea rubra occupy the same rock crevice, they are likely to be
clones?
... that on the day Bill Aylett was first elected to the
Australian Senate, he knocked down a voter with his car?
20 May 2019
00:00, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Grünbaum–Rigby configuration
... that although the Grünbaum–Rigby configuration(pictured) has been studied since 1879, it was not depicted in its realization as three overlaid
heptagrams until 1990?
... that more than twenty species of
cetaceans have been stranded on the mudflats of Bahía Lomas?
... that Mary Stuart Fisher, a
Temple University professor of
radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself?
... that
Luciano Burti's 111
G crash at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix led to a ban on creating holes in racing helmets for drinking tubes and radio communication wires?
... that the motto of Midleton College, Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna, is a mistranslation of a line from a Greek play by
Euripides?
... that the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island banned automobiles for more than a decade starting in 1908?
19 May 2019
00:00, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Edwin Clarke
... that Edwin Clarke(pictured) combined research into the structure, functions, and diseases of the
human nervous system with "impressive rhythm on the dance floor"?
... that Kyrgyzstani author Tugelbay Sydykbekov won the
Stalin Prize in 1949 for the novel People of our Time, which simultaneously embraced Soviet-style communism and traditional culture including Islam?
... that South African Willem Botha adapted the 2008 Latvian
Eurovision entry as an Afrikaans song for the
Springboks rugby team, and helped to produce the 2013 Belarusian Eurovision entry?
... that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in
Limburg Cathedral?
... that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in the
Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's
York University?
... that Xiong Zhaoren, whose battle experience was adapted into two films, lived to 107, the longest among China's founding generals?
... that for the first six months that
Janis Ian performed the song "At Seventeen", she closed her eyes because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her?
... that some ancient trees of the olive cultivar Bidni have been recognised as "national monuments" in
Malta?
... that basic economy fares can cause airline passengers to pay more to fly?
... that after Chief Justice Xiao Yang implemented reforms requiring all capital punishment cases to be reviewed by the
Supreme Court, death sentences in China dropped by 30% in a year?
... that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius co-ruled with his adoptive brother
Lucius Verus in the first joint rule between Roman emperors, and later co-ruled with his own son
Commodus?
... that Japanese singer Alisa Takigawa's debut song "Season" was originally a demo that was not intended to be her debut release?
... that 53,034 people attended the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final, a record for a standalone women's sporting event in Australia?
... that in the first successful
kidney transplant in the UK, the surgeon James Ross harvested the kidney which was transplanted into the donor's twin brother?
... that Noel Marshall directed and starred with his family in Roar, promoted as "the most dangerous movie ever made" for its many on-set injuries to the cast and crew working with more than 100 big cats?
... that in 1990, Forbes named Carmen Thomas one of the 100 most influential women in Germany for running Hallo Ü-Wagen, a weekly travelling
talk radio show with audience participation?
... that Chinese mathematician Leetsch C. Hsu and his American colleague
Henry W. Gould began collaborating years before formal relations were established between their countries?
... that Shirou Emiya was initially conceived as a female character but was changed to a male in order to fit the demographic of the visual novel Fate/stay night?
... that according to legend, Welsh nobleman Hywel Sele was killed by
Owain Glyndŵr and his body hidden in the hollow of a tree?
... that Fight the New Drug's advocacy against pornography uses what The Atlantic describes as "a just-some-of-the-facts approach"?
... that James Curle, a Scottish mining engineer in South Africa, argued that the white race was being out-bred by other races?
... that the Pan Inuit Trails Atlas database depicts traditional place names and routes in the
Canadian Arctic used by the
Inuit, showing connections between their communities from Greenland to Alaska?
... that newly-elected parliamentarian Gadeer Mreeh will be the first
Druze woman to serve as a member of the Israeli
Knesset?
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2014 song "I'll Be Home" did not debut on the Austrian charts until January 2019?
... that to emphasize the pseudo-Japanese style of Doki Doki Literature Club! the characters were given Japanese names, with the exception of Monika, who was given an English name to hint at her individual nature?
... that
Wayne Gretzky offered journalist Jay Greenberg a private interview after the latter was unable to ask questions during a press conference following "
The Trade"?
... that despite Shrub's Wood Long Barrow in Kent being nearly 30 m (100 ft) high, it was not discovered until about 1970?
... that Xing Shizhong was promoted for his performance in the
Sino-Vietnamese War and later served as president of a university that trains China's top military officers?
... that
Rosana Sullivan, director of the animated
shortKitbull, said that she identified with the kitten in the film?