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... that structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like
Ebola are spread?
... that the New York Public Library Main Branch(pictured), whose stacks contain an estimated 2.5 million volumes, uses "book trains" to carry books to patrons?
... that Jack Roxburgh introduced legislation on this day in 1964 to declare
ice hockey Canada's national game, after disproving the myth that
lacrosse held that distinction?
... that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling
durian", Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
... that Eagle Woman(pictured) is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the
Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States?
... that Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the
libretto for Schubert's Fierrabras, and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
... that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin folate, is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with
spina bifida and other
neural tube defects?
... that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained
big cats, mostly lions and tigers, for the film Roar?
... that before becoming the first woman general in the army of the Ivory Coast, Akissi Kouamé initiated the appointment of midwives to the army health service?
... that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film Girl on the Third Floor?
... that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's
Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia?
... that after the owner of Delaware radio station WNRK died before he could put it on the air, his widow was interviewed on the station's first day of broadcasting?
... that German stock trader Dirk Müller is known as "Mr.
DAX"?
... that the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was created in 1793 to replace civilian contractors, who sometimes abandoned their artillery in battle?
... that in the 1970s, London's Earl's Court Square(houses pictured) was the location of two brothels and the site of the "Battle of Earl's Court" between rival poets?
... that Ugandan air force commander Andrew Mukooza may have been murdered because he helped defeat a coup attempt?
... that industrialist John Mason Loomis, a
Union Army colonel in the
American Civil War, fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
... that the 6000
mAh battery on the Samsung Galaxy M30s is the largest ever for a Samsung smartphone?
... that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
... that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in
Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
... that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao, the
Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
... that the warehouse beetle usually develops within about two months, but may enter an active
diapause and take two years?
... that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma?
... that the grand prize of the Miss'd America pageant was once a
Burger King crown and a bouquet of dead roses?
22 October 2019
00:00, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Dabusun Lake
... that Dabusun Lake(pictured) is the largest remaining lake in China's Qarhan Playa, which 30,000 years ago held a single lake spreading over at least 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi)?
... that despite its name, the Pere Marquette Lumber Company ranked among the largest salt and lumber producers in the state of Michigan?
... that one of the
Buddha's chief female disciples, Uppalavanna, is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors?
21 October 2019
00:00, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
Franz Halder
... that Franz Halder(pictured), a former chief of staff of Nazi Germany's army, was the only German to be decorated by both Adolf Hitler and an American president?
... that at 2.5 miles (4.0 km), New York City's South Beach Boardwalk was cited as the fourth longest boardwalk in the world in 2010?
... that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an
HIV/AIDS scandal in China?
... that two years after going on the air, WBCE radio switched from
country to
gospel music because too many stations in western Kentucky had country formats?
... that Lee Eun-soo was South Korea's seventh female
general officer and the first in the legal branch?
... that
Sevastopol had no official coat of arms from 1917 until 1969, but two official coats of arms from 1993 until 2000?
... that Kang Woo-kyu hid a grenade between his legs to pass through the Russian–Japanese border and try to assassinate the Japanese
governor-general of Korea?
... that to create the Great Northumberland Forest, up to a million trees are due to be planted between 2020 and 2024?
... that according to dietician Amy Brown, a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
... that satellites in a geostationary orbit appear stationary in the sky to a ground observer?
... that in 2011, Nitehawk Cinema(pictured) successfully lobbied to overturn a
Prohibition-era liquor law that prevented movie theaters in New York from serving alcohol?
... that
tenorEnea Scala has appeared in roles by
Rossini, most recently in the title role of Otello, an opera which requires at least five tenors?
... that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man?
... that more than 4 million videos on
TikTok feature the song "Mia Khalifa" – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists?
... that governors Liu Tianfu and Liang Lingguang were both considered reform pioneers who propelled the economic development of
Guangdong in the 1980s?
... that radio station WPSA at
Paul Smith's College began life in the basement of a dormitory that had previously been a meat market?
... that the
nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in
Keith, Moray, Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars?
... that in Among the Lost, a 2018 novel by Mexican author Emiliano Monge, the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's Inferno and the testimony of real-life people?
... that Julie Dretzin has narrated
audiobooks using Russian accents for some characters and
Maine accents for others?
... that the Archer Avenue subway took 16 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and was cut back to a fraction of its original length?
... that the Australian Aboriginal community of Ali Curung is named after the nearby ancestral Alekarenge ("
dingo-associated")
Dreaming sites?
... that the murder of Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was considered unsolvable for having too many suspects?
... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's Special Area Games Scheme to scout for field hockey players?
14 October 2019
00:00, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
16th-century Tibetan painting of Rāhula
... that a discourse given by the Buddha to his only son, Rāhula(depiction shown), became one of the seven Buddhist texts recommended for study in the
inscriptions of Emperor Aśoka?
... that it took more than 5,000 Philippine soldiers with land, air, and sea support, as well as millions of
pesos, to end the uprising of Hadji Kamlon?
... that after reforming the
army of the Sasanian Empire, the officer Babak is said to have insisted that King
Khosrow I wear his armor and participate in the military parade like all the other warriors?
... that American historian Susan L. Mann won the
Fairbank Prize for exploring the roles of elite women and same-sex social relationships in Chinese history?
... that up to 60,000 people were displaced during the War of the Peters?
... that the upper level of New York's 63rd Street Tunnel took 20 years to open, while the lower level is still under construction after nearly half a century?
... that Polish entomologist Sergiusz Toll amassed a collection of about 8,000 bird eggs and 12,000 butterflies and moths while in
Bydgoszcz?
... that a snake chased a mouse into the transmitter of Nebraska radio station KWRV in 1962, knocking it off the air for two hours?
... that professor of English Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the
right to vote?
... that the Sheepscar
tannery, run by John Joseph Willson of the Willson Group of artists in
Leeds, England, was at one time the largest in the country?
... that after 1.5 million rounds played over the history of the
PGA Tour, the first 58 was shot by
Jim Furyk(pictured)?
... that director
Avi Belkin said the title of his 2019 documentary Mike Wallace Is Here once constituted "the four most-dreaded words in the English language"?
... that Scottish poet Sorley MacLean once called upon the
Red Army to invade his homeland?
... that the sexual characteristics of the Hollow Dogū, a
National Treasure of Japan, are so mixed that the
Jōmon figurine has been said to "transcend gender"?
... that Russian vice-admiral Vladimir Kasatonov has been involved in crew search-and-rescue operations for three submarines: K-219(pictured), Komsomolets, and Kursk?
... that a review of
the London Group's 1936 exhibition noted that many works seemed "perverse and downright silly", but those by Ruth Doggett(portrait shown) formed "welcome oases of sense and sensibility"?
... that handicapped army veteran Ma Ning became a pilot and later Commander of the
Chinese Air Force after being inspired by a novel about a double amputee
flying ace?
... that under the governorship of Ye Xuanping,
Guangdong grew economically prosperous and increased its independence from Beijing, earning him the nickname "Emperor of the South"?
... that the New York City neighborhood of Mill Basin, once a desolate swampland, now contains multi-million-dollar homes?
... that Elizabeth, Lady Echlin, a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted?
... that in 1863, Captain Joseph LaBarge(pictured) made a trip up and down the
Missouri River aboard his steamboat, exceeding existing records for speed and distance?
... that B. M. Kutty was called to a meeting with Pakistani prime minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after writing him a letter from prison?
... that New York City's Rockaways' Playland amusement park was closed because of an eightfold increase in insurance premiums?
... that Adele Zay successfully led a campaign in 1894 for
Transylvanian authorities to recognize kindergarten and handicraft teachers so that they were entitled to pensions?
... that the waniguchi gong is named after its resemblance to the mouth of a crocodile or alligator?
... that falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its racial quotas, the management of Starrett City left apartments empty, in an attempt to rent them at market rate, instead of renting them to black and Hispanic families?
... that a few months after Lü Peijian was appointed China's auditor general, he announced the discovery of more than US$1.6 billion worth of tax evasion, fraud, and waste?
... that the silk made by webspinners is produced from glands on their forelegs?