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... that California radio station KNCR was fined by the
Federal Communications Commission for moving its transmitter site without permission after being evicted?
... that it can be hard to know which Snake is which?
26 November 2021
12:00, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Doreen Nabwire
... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire(pictured) became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe?
... that
Charles Larson's The Emergence of African Fiction was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards?
... that there were so many facts in The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History that some reviewers wondered whether it was a chronicle rather than a history?
... that The Occupation of the American Mind sought to explore the United States' steadfast support for Israel in the face of the latter's controversial actions?
... that the police officers who murdered Jared Lakey on July 4, 2019, shocked him more than 50 times with
tasers even though he was unarmed and not combative?
... that Witi Ihimaera(pictured) decided to become a writer after reading a short story that was "so poisonous" he threw the book out of the window?
... that the undefeated 1963 and 1965 Saint John's Johnnies won NAIA Football National Championships under the leadership of a coach who won more games than any other in
college football history?
... that all charges against
John S. Marmaduke for killing a fellow Confederate general in a duel were later dropped?
... that Jean Pierson, the former CEO of
Airbus, once unbuckled his belt and dropped his trousers when pressed for a hard bargain while selling commercial jets?
... that a reviewer thought that the two-part "Friendship Is Magic" "[flies] off the rails in an orgy of oddly
Spielbergian effects and philosophizing" during its climax?
Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office aboard
Air Force One
... that
Lyndon B. Johnson(pictured) delivered the "Let Us Continue" address five days after assuming the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
... that pushbacks of migrants in the Aegean Sea have been described as "a human rights violation that encapsulates a will to eliminate a person's presence on the face of the planet"?
... that when Oregon journalist Larry Smyth was asked who he thought would win presidential elections, he invariably replied "the man who gets the most votes"?
... that Charles Larson became one of the first Americans to teach African literature, after working in Nigeria for the
Peace Corps to avoid the Vietnam draft?
... that the Filipino
fraternityAlpha Phi Beta has been involved in instances of violence, including getting mauled by rival fraternities, such as
Sigma Rho?
... that after he died in September 2021, John Boyden was revealed to have written under the pseudonym "Lunchtime O'Boulez"?
... that Cimbrian seeresses are said to have predicted the future by slitting the throats of war prisoners and studying how the blood trickled down into a cauldron?
... that the tributary Walnut Creek in Iowa was named for the
black walnut trees which once lined the creek before early settlers cleared them?
... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her
New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it?
... that men who refused, when challenged, to take an oath of loyalty to the government were not permitted to vote in the 1861 Maryland gubernatorial election?
... that although Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III died in 1975, his son only succeeded him in 2011?
... that Trictrac(board pictured) was the classic
tables game of France, just as
backgammon is of the English-speaking world today?
... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?
... that the telephone exchange in Craig's Court contains one of the entrances to the secret government tunnels under London?
... that Bob Ferry became
general manager of the
Washington Bullets by selling advertisements for its game programs, giving its upper management the impression that he "must know a lot about business"?
... that the tourist attraction Little Canada has a "Littlization Station" used to create scale 3D replicas of visitors to be placed in the exhibit?
... that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of
mammograms failing to detect
breast cancer?
... that the biggest Turdus is 23–28 centimetres (9–10 inches) in length?
... that when the New Jersey–born military officer Samuel Gibbs French sided with the South in the U.S. Civil War, residents of
Woodbury, New Jersey, hanged him in effigy and stormed his summer home?
... that while stealing Pablo Picasso's 1939 painting Woman's Head, the thief cut his hand and claimed to have wiped the blood on a 16th-century sketch that he flushed down the toilet?
... that the first train headlight was simply a bonfire on a train car pushed in front of a locomotive?
... that while The New York Times Building was designed to protect against terrorist attacks, planners did not consider that the façade could be climbed until several people scaled it?
... that Stembridge Gun Rentals supplied so many firearms to the film industry that when Chaplin producers asked for a rifle similar to that in Shoulder Arms, Stembridge had on hand the actual gun used?
... that Canadian
diverJeff Hirst won his event at the 1988 Canadian Championships despite having fractured his thumb five weeks before?
... that after discovering the mass graves of the Arnsberg Forest massacre, American soldiers ordered the entire local population to watch the exhumation?
... that the 1794 travelogue A Journey Around My Room contains details of the author's visits to his armchair and curtains?
... that when watercress algae grows on degraded coral reefs, coral larvae settle on the seaweed as readily as they do on the rubble substrate?
... that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife", and Alice, an "insatiable lover", in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway?
... that in the late 2000s the
Campbell Soup Company began producing a spicier canned cheese sauce in their California and Texas plants than they did elsewhere to cater for different consumer tastes?
... that the notorious
labor spy and killer Charles Lively was so successful infiltrating the coal miners union that he once posed for a photo with the famed labor activist
Mother Jones?
... that although the fruits of Cola verticillata are considered inedible, they contain
caffeine and are used to make a beverage?
... that upon hearing about a 600-worker
walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"?
00:00, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Susan Catania
... that Susan Catania(pictured) shocked male legislators by bringing her infant daughter to the floor of the
Illinois House of Representatives and nursing her baby in the women's restroom?
... that the Cello Sonata by
John Foulds features
quarter tones in the second movement, but it is uncertain if he introduced them in the 1905 version or the 1927 revision?
... that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"?
... that The West Wing episode "17 People" has an entire website created by a "superfan" with the sole purpose of explaining it?
... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the
Mashie Niblick?
... that the developers of the video game Golf Club: Wasteland jokingly announced that they would only sell one copy at a price of $500 million?
17 November 2021
12:00, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
The Kilmainham Brooch, late 8th or early 9th century
... that the design and form of the late 8th- or early 9th-century Irish Kilmainham Brooch(pictured) was influenced by both earlier
Pictish and contemporary
Viking art?
... that it was British classicist Courtenay Edward Stevens who suggested that Allied radio broadcasts during the Second World War use the opening notes of
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as a signature theme?
... that students and faculty from Fuchs Mizrachi School protested at Nazi guard
John Demjanjuk's home in 1993, objecting to his release from Israeli prison and residence in the United States?
... that Didi Gregoriustweets after every game his baseball team wins, and has dedicated
emojis for his teammates?
00:00, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Unity Dow
... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow(pictured) took legal actions as a
plaintiff,
legal counsellor, and
judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator?
... that surgeon Margaret Louden developed a treatment for people crushed by rubble during the
The Blitz, but her contribution was forgotten until the 1990s?
... that when a ban on developing the Hotel Macklowe was revoked two years early, some
New York City Council members said they did not realize that they had voted to rescind the ban?
15 November 2021
12:00, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Detail from the Bourbaki Panorama showing French soldiers piling arms
... that the 115-metre-long (377-foot) Bourbaki Panorama(detail pictured) depicts the internment of 88,000 French soldiers in neutral Switzerland at the end of the
Franco-Prussian War?
... that the paddle steamer Keystone State was rumored to be carrying gold when she sank?
... that Khin Maung Lat, a servant at the king's palace in
Ratnagiri, India, eloped with Princess
Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
... that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?
... that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that
diabetics were more likely to develop
depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic?
... that even though Australian citizens are no longer
British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
... that Samsi Sastrawidagda, Indonesia's first finance minister, once leased the
veranda of future president
Sukarno's house for his accountant's office?
... that the RADCAL satellite, designed to have a three-year lifespan, operated for almost twenty?
... that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
13 November 2021
12:00, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Corsi-Rosenthal Box
... that the Corsi-Rosenthal Box(example pictured) is a homemade air purifier that was designed during the
COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to more expensive air purification systems?
... that to reflect the neighbourhood's heritage as a songbird-watching community, Singapore's Mayflower MRT station is decorated with 22 bird sculptures?
... that Bagenal's Castle was originally thought to have been destroyed, but was rediscovered in 1996 in the premises of a bakery?
... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with
Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of
Levi's denims by his employees?
... that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from
meristematic tissues in
broad beans?
... that KMXO near
Abilene, Texas, aired the region's first Spanish-language radio program and later became its first full-time Spanish-language station?
... that hinges on arch bridges were introduced in 1858 and remain popular in modern civil engineering?
... that after men took all the 2021
Nobel Prizes for science, one of the selectors, Eva Olsson(pictured), said "we want to have more women nominated"?
... that thanks to the advocate general's opinion, one is likely to know the outcome of a court case before the
European Court of Justice before it even starts drafting the ruling?
... that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name so as to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?
8 November 2021
00:00, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Budge Patty
... that according to his brother, Budge Patty(pictured) would not budge?
... that the original release of
Jason Shiga's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
... that 125 years ago today, the lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher rescued the fourteen-man crew of the SS Commodore and three fishermen who had been stranded aboard her?
... that of the hundreds of hands stenciled at Cueva de las Manos as artwork (pictured), very few are right hands?
... that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO2 emissions currently caused by concrete?
... that the Columbus was a
disposable ship, built from large quantities of North American timber and intended to be sailed to London where she would be dismantled to avoid cargo import duties?
... that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the 1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a
Christmas tree covered in company hats?
... that melodies by Guillaume Franc, composed to French psalms published in
Geneva in 1542, are still in use in the 21st century?
... that Reply Corporation went from competing against
IBM with clones of the
PS/2 to selling upgrade motherboards for them?
... that a group of farmers discovered The Young Woman of Amajac while preparing to till a citrus field?
... that
Nintendo constructed a special retail box for The Incredible Hulk that features a comic strip built into its cover?
... that Grey Gowrie, while holding office under
Margaret Thatcher, described himself as "Irishman with a Scots name and a German wife, working, somewhat to his surprise, for a very English government"?
... that the type specimen of the icefish Pagetodes, a synonym of Cryodraco, was stolen and eaten by a cat before it could be preserved?
3 November 2021
00:00, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Topre conical keyboard switch spring
... that the conical-spring in Topre's capacitive keyboard switch (example pictured) was inspired by a
mosquito coil?
... that with a force of just 3,500 men, French lieutenant colonel Natalis Constant Darche was able to hold up the advance of the German
5th Army for three weeks at
Longwy in August 1914?
... that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica, is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil?
... that the New Amsterdam Theatre, once described as "a vision of gorgeousness", later had dead cats in the basement and mushrooms growing through the floor?
... that from 1960 to 1981, executions in
East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area?
... that the opera The Devil and Daniel Webster features a jury of ghosts made up of famous historical American figures who are now residents of Hell; including the pirate
Blackbeard?
... that Florissantia flowers were possibly pollinated by bats?