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20 May 2025

00:00, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Javier Domínguez

... that Javier Domínguez (pictured), the current Magic: The Gathering world champion, likes to play more than he likes to win?
... that the author of The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! used the concept of leveling up in role-playing video games to show that a character was improving in magic?
... that the two women athletes Liechtenstein sent to the 1976 Summer Olympics were twins?
... that a 2023 coal mine workers' union election in Yellandu had a turnout of 98 percent?
... that William Arthur Ganfield often wore a red tie when Carroll College was running a deficit and a black tie when it was running a surplus?
... that Proceratosaurus is one of the oldest tyrannosaurs?
... that researcher Daniel Kokotajlo predicts that AI will be better than humans at "everything" by the end of 2027?
... that writer Jilly Cooper named a goat in her novel Jump! after a critic who revealed spoilers for an earlier work?

19 May 2025

00:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Vincent de Groof's flying machine

... that Vincent de Groof successfully tested his bat-like flying machine (pictured) in 1874, only to die after crashing it 10 days later?
... that the theatre which premiered a play about sex offenders had to hire additional security for its run?
... that visitors from various countries come to a temple to see a wild Chinese monkey named Xing Xing?
... that Fatima Hassouna was killed shortly after a documentary about her was announced for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival?
... that at a Destroy Lonely concert promoting an edition of his debut album, some fans entered his car?
... that Carl Jorgensen and Gust Zarnas were the first NFL players from Denmark and Greece?
... that in 1917 more than 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down New York City's Fifth Avenue in silence, accompanied only by the sound of muffled drums?
... that a Sicilian soldier killed his own family during an Ottoman attack on Gozo in 1551, to prevent them from being enslaved?
... that Costa Rica's most famous bull killed two men and loved mangos?

18 May 2025

00:00, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Bertoncelj at the 2015 European Games

... that Sašo Bertoncelj (pictured) competed on MasterChef Slovenia during his gymnastics career?
... that the Knox Mountain Hillclimb is considered very challenging due to every corner being off camber?
... that the works of Yaelokre have been compared to The Lord of the Rings, Gorillaz, and the illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are?
... that Camp Growden was envisioned to become a winter sports complex with toboggan runs?
... that Paddy Higson was known as the "mother of Scottish film"?
... that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode "The Robot Revolution" were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled?
... that Google searches for the word "fortnight" in the US increased by 868% on the release day of the song "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift?
... that the Green Bay Packers signed Tom Birney as their new kicker in 1979, even though he had not kicked a field goal in more than five years?
... that a 2015 issue of the Strawberry Newspaper features Hello Kitty discussing military conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine?

17 May 2025

00:00, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Bode Ioiô's taxidermied body

... that a liquor-drinking celebrity goat named Ioiô (pictured) won an election for city councilman in Fortaleza?
... that Beyoncé's "Formation" video topped Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
... that Jim Coffeen was the one of the first two quarterbacks for the Green Bay Packers, then served as the team's first public address announcer?
... that Score! by Jilly Cooper was criticised for its treatment of sexual violence?
... that the court-appointed receiver for a California TV station noted that the business "at least equal[ed] the most poorly managed companies I've seen"?
... that stage director Tina Packer has hired Black and Asian actors in traditionally White Shakespearean roles?
... that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth?
... that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate, after it fell into ruin?
... that Hamengkubuwono III was appointed crown prince of Yogyakarta while his father was also still crown prince?

16 May 2025

00:00, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

I. B. Donalson

... that fighter pilot I. B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat?
... that Alamat's "Maharani" made them the first Pinoy pop boy band to enter the Billboard Philippines Hot 100?
... that Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley was compiled over concerns that the stories would be lost?
... that swimmer Anja Margetić refused to participate at the Mediterranean Games after learning she would not be able to compete under the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that an Ohio TV station broadcast Little League baseball from a ballpark on the station grounds, known as "Telecast Field"?
... that cinematographer Jason Kwan, a frequent collaborator with Pang Ho-cheung, made his directorial debut by adapting a novella written by Pang?
... that Ireland won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, receiving their first European gold medal in athletics since 1998?
... that the first work of fan fiction featuring a romantic relationship between the Winchester brothers in Supernatural was published one day after the first episode aired?
... that The World's Biggest Gang Bang III was so popular that it crashed the server?

15 May 2025

00:00, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Norman Lykes House

... that the Norman Lykes House (pictured) was the last house that Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed?
... that Bosnian sitting volleyball players Sabahudin Delalić, Ismet Godinjak, Adnan Manko, Asim Medić, and Dževad Hamzić have won medals at every Paralympics this century?
... that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles are one of only two examples of wild big cats living in a megacity?
... that Nigerian academic James Nwoye Adichie was kidnapped in 2015?
... that around 80 percent of foreign tourists to the Indonesian province of Lampung in 2019 went to the town of Krui?
... that inmates from New York state prisons can be involuntarily committed at the Central New York Psychiatric Center?
... that the Marshal of France surrendered to the Black Prince after his keep was set on fire?
... that Rachel Chinouriri has dreamed of having a Little House with a partner since she was a child?
... that Jilly Cooper described her bonkbuster Appassionata as her "sex and Chopin" novel?

14 May 2025

00:00, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Artist's interpretation of Uncus dzaugisi

... that Uncus dzaugisi (pictured) is the oldest ecdysozoan, a group that contains arthropods, tardigrades, and nematodes, ever found?
... that after Joe Matesic was revealed to have played at Arizona State under his brother's name, the football coach resigned and the school was nearly expelled from the Border Conference?
... that Herbert Jacobs and his wife paid off the architect's fee for their house by charging visitors admission?
... that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team?
... that around 400 people tried to flee from Francoist Spain to Andorra through Juberri in 1937?
... that Samir Flores Soberanes was killed the day after he challenged the accuracy of information about a Mexican federal project?
... that Gustavo Santaolalla travelled from northern to southern Argentina in four years to experience folk music from the country's past?
... that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
... that Thelma Adams protested milk quotas in the United Kingdom by sitting in a bathtub of milk, while dressed as Cleopatra?

13 May 2025

00:00, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Smith in 2024

... that Charles Smith (pictured) has worked as a basketball coach at the same high school for the past 50 years?
... that Japanese electronic musician Camellia began producing music at the age of ten using his mother's computer?
... that a man is transformed into a woman for seven years in the medieval tale of The Abbot of Drimnagh, an uncommon example of gender-shifting in European folktales?
... that UCLA Bruins player Tyler Bilodeau cited his mother, who played in the WNBA, as "the reason I play basketball"?
... that the International Olympic Committee rejected recognition of the Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee as the nation's citizens hold dual citizenship?
... that actress Edna May Sperl's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage?
... that the Spanish anarchist Agustín Remiro worked as a foreign agent for MI6?
... that the FMV game Contradiction was made on such a low budget that its creator learned how to code instead of hiring a programmer?

12 May 2025

00:00, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Statue of the Rani of Jhansi in Solapur

... that the Rani of Jhansi (statue pictured) has been described as "the greatest heroine of Indian history"?
... that American-born Freddie Lish called playing for the Thai national basketball team, "my dream ever since I found out my mom was born in Thailand"?
... that Pakistani prime minister Mohammad Ali Bogra opposed the 1955 election to protect his political position?
... that nine days after his heart transplant, J. C. Walter Jr. merged his company Houston Oil & Minerals with Tenneco, then retired to his ranch and shortly after founded Walter Oil & Gas?
... that during his final known voyage, Lope Martín overthrew two captains before being marooned on Ujelang Atoll?
... that a Japanese governor wore a pregnancy simulation suit to encourage men to help out their wives at home?
... that the shooting of Eileen Quinn was referenced in the poetry of W. B. Yeats?
... that Victor L. King employed only black people from the South in 1917 at his new chemical plant in New Jersey to "prevent the entrance into the organization of any enemy aliens" during World War I?
... that Cory Booker delivered the longest recorded individual speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump?

11 May 2025

00:00, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Grave of Kyai Maja

... that the grave (pictured) of Javanese spiritual leader Kyai Maja at his exile near Lake Tondano has become a site for pilgrimages?
... that a North Carolina TV station was originally named after its attorney?
... that the anti-Francoist guerrilla Marcelino Massana pranked the Civil Guard captain who was trying to kill him by paying for his coffee?
... that in college, field hockey player Maxine Fluharty was coached by a former national teammate of her mother?
... that the filming sets of A New Old Play were visibly fake, with shaking white fabrics and plastic bags used to mimic turbulent waves?
... that Laurie Schipper, who was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2022, testified to support a woman who murdered her abusive husband?
... that Sobrevivendo no Inferno by Racionais MC's, which critiques police violence and systemic racism in Brazil, was required reading for a university entrance examination?
... that lawyer Jefferson Fisher went viral after sharing short videos providing practical communication tips recorded in his parked pickup truck in Silsbee, Texas?

10 May 2025

00:00, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Entrance to the Lavatory Madeleine

... that a public toilet in Paris (entrance pictured) is a French national heritage site?
... that a Wisconsin TV station claimed to have the only revolving stage in a TV studio east of California when it went on the air in 1953?
... that Jatin Chakraborty was sued by pop singer Usha Uthup after Chakraborty labelled her shows as "decadent"?
... that a special election in February 1963 put the first Republican in four decades into the Mississippi Legislature?
... that a Choquei Instagram post claiming that Lula had won the 2022 Brazilian election received more than 1.3 million likes before the official result was announced?
... that Gannon University's original American football program lasted only two years due to fan "apathy", despite going undefeated and holding scoreless six of eight opponents in its first year?
... that the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure may itself prevent pleasure?
... that the arsonist who burned down a golden Buddhist temple secretly removed one nail, then reinserted it, then removed it again?
... that carrot recorders, butternut squash trombones, and aubergine castanets are all instruments in the London Vegetable Orchestra?

9 May 2025

00:00, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Desert columbine flowers

... that mining engineer William H. Shockley found specimens that were used to describe Aquilegia shockleyi (pictured) and Lupinus shockleyi?
... that the only surviving autograph pages of one of Bach's chorale cantatas ended up in three libraries on two continents?
... that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 due to an "administrative error" by the U.S. government?
... that the Oregon Garden obtained the Gordon House because of a misunderstanding?
... that a statue of German-born missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz was commissioned by Prabowo Subianto, later president of Indonesia?
... that the murder of Patricia Jeschke resulted in the longest prison tenure for a wrongfully convicted American woman?
... that Belize's Toledo Progressive Party was accused of being funded by the government of Guatemala?
... that swimmer Yuri Hosei was studying at a restaurant when she learned that she had qualified to represent Palau at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year?

8 May 2025

00:00, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Sachertorte

... that there was a legal battle over whether Sachertorte (pictured) should have one or two layers of sponge?
... that a Nevada radio station once had a show that played Tongan music?
... that the seat of Muchipara in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was won by just nine votes?
... that queen parasitic ants can lay their own eggs inside of a host's colony?
... that Jim Aldred, with nothing to do after the beach season ended, developed ice hockey in Portugal?
... that the Bernard Schwartz House was built after Schwartz saw a plan by Frank Lloyd Wright in Life magazine?
... that Peter Sprenger was the first Liechtensteiner to summit Mount Everest?
... that the 2nd-century BC Aramaic inscription of Yanouh is the first attested use of Aramaic as a public language in Mount Lebanon?
... that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one?

7 May 2025

00:00, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Hisham's Palace

... that Hamdan Taha co-led excavations at Hisham's Palace (pictured), an early Islamic archaeological site in the West Bank?
... that according to researcher Treena Clark, indigenous drag performance can be seen as a strategy for cultural survival and resistance?
... that Venezuelan-American socialite Reinaldo Herrera's extensive connections led to Vanity Fair employing him to work as a fixer?
... that in North America, Europe and New Zealand, research funding is sometimes distributed by lottery?
... that Dennis Walker acquired millions of dollars' worth of sports memorabilia before being investigated for racketeering and selling unregistered certificates of deposit by the Oregon Attorney General?
... that people caught in the 2025 Belgrade stampede experienced a frightening aural sensation, leading to an accusation that the government used a sonic weapon against them?
... that Nahuel Carabaña turned around mid-race at the 2022 European Athletics Championships to help an injured competitor?
... that one reviewer described Polo by Jilly Cooper as a "frothy brew of sex, class and jodhpurs"?

6 May 2025

00:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Barbara Frischmuth

... that novelist Barbara Frischmuth (pictured) argues that humans should not presume to rule over other species?
... that Playboi Carti's song titled "2024" was first teased in 2023 and later officially released in 2025?
... that Avi Yemini is one of seventeen children who were raised in an ultra-Orthodox Chabad family?
... that Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter was staged by moving a corpse?
... that Soemartini was appointed as the chief of the National Archives of Indonesia after working in the agency for a year?
... that just two weeks after a Florida TV station began using a news helicopter, it crashed, killing two of three occupants?
... that Wen Chia-ling, despite her family's initial opposition to her becoming an archer, helped Taiwan's team achieve its best-ever finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
... that although the philosophical study of well-being dates back millennia, empirical research has intensified since the second half of the 20th century?
... that the 1982 film The Second November was filmed in colour, but shown in black-and-white until 2012?

5 May 2025

00:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

T. D. Bancroft

... that in an 1876 United States centennial publication, T. D. Bancroft (pictured) was the first person to write about Abraham Lincoln's relationship with his dog Fido?
... that a reviewer praised At Hope's Ravine by saying that singer Pat Hynes sounds "like he's being unbearably tortured whilst holding a pneumatic drill"?
... that Carlos Baxter was erroneously given 130 votes meant for his brother during the 1860 U.S. House of Representatives election?
... that during the Spanish Civil War, when the government fled the coming siege of Madrid, the Rosal Column detained several government ministers and accused them of cowardice?
... that Almeda Lambert provided detailed instructions for creating homemade meat substitutes, such as "Nutora" and "Nutmeato"?
... that Tao Asian Bistro was used by The New York Times to test new conversation-boosting features in Apple's AirPods Pro?
... that runner Mirsada Burić survived a concentration camp, an attempted rape, and snipers' bullets before she competed at the 1992 Olympics?
... that a former U.S. president helped dedicate the United Engineering Center, and a future U.S. president demolished it?
... that former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso has a museum dedicated to himself in his backyard?

4 May 2025

00:00, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Filodes fulvidorsalis drinking tears from a human eye

... that some insects drink the tears (example pictured) of their predators?
... that the Vatican's website was first made available in Latin under Pope Benedict XVI?
... that Blue Origin NS-31 recently became the first all-female spaceflight in 62 years?
... that a disused industrial pier was incorporated into a city park?
... that a cultivar of Aquilegia flabellata has been called "as beautiful as a columbine needs to be"?
... that George R. Dale was sent to prison by a judge whom he accused of being in the Ku Klux Klan?
... that the sled dog race Ivakkak features two mushers riding on the dog sled?
... that Major League Baseball's first Pride Night came about after a lesbian couple were removed from a Los Angeles Dodgers game for kissing?
... that people in parts of India, North America, and Africa marry tree trunks?

3 May 2025

00:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

J. J. Walser Jr. House

... that Chicago's deteriorating J. J. Walser Jr. House (pictured) has not been repaired because it is unclear who owns the house?
... that the lifeboat Sir William Hillary was sent to Dover in case of aircraft crashes, but did not save anyone from an aircraft in ten years' service with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
... that Martha Burgess's 1993 sculpture of two female World War II personnel kissing was inspired by the photograph V-J Day in Times Square?
... that on the first day of the 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état, President Miguel Trovoada emerged from hiding in his pajamas and nightgown?
... that Marcia Coyle, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for PBS News Hour, got her start in journalism by writing obituaries?
... that Dutch East India Company officials considered the inhabitants of the Bungku Kingdom to be "the fiercest of all Malukan peoples"?
... that Ardo Hansson was appointed to the committee overseeing the transition from the Soviet ruble to the Estonian kroon as a replacement for someone who fell ill?
... that Keurbos's placement within arthropods is uncertain, as its two surviving fossils lack limbs?
... that Green Thumb Industries produces cannabis on lands of a former prison?

2 May 2025

00:00, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Sanahin Bridge

... that the Sanahin Bridge (pictured) has stood intact for more than 800 years?
... that a tornado estimated to be one of the strongest on record planted maize crops in Greenfield, Iowa?
... that four generations of the British royal family had a summer barbecue at Inchnabobart?
... that the midnight shadow docket order in Tandon v. Newsom was called the most important religious free exercise decision in 30 years?
... that William Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?
... that only Greenland Dogs may race in Avannaata Qimussersua?
... that Bangladeshi singer Abanti Sithi has used plastic cups, foil paper and metal coins as musical instruments?
... that Marguerite McDonald performed the world's first laser correction surgery on the normal eye of a living human patient?
... that Donald Trump would "much prefer not having a picture than having this one"?

1 May 2025

00:00, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Sequoites dakotensis cone cast fossils

... that Sequoites dakotensis was first described from clay-filled casts (examples pictured) and not the original tree cones?
... that before becoming an actor, Jeremy Allen White trained in ballet, jazz, and tap dancing?
... that Laurence Sterne's journal of love letters reverses the found-manuscript literary device by claiming that his real diary is fictional?
... that Katsumaro Akamatsu, a founding member of the Japanese Communist Party, supported the expulsion of communists from the Japanese Federation of Labour?
... that Eleanor Island was first designated as a Migratory Bird Sanctuary and later as a National Wildlife Area to give it a stronger protection status?
... that Vermont politician William Baxter personally funded the construction of an Orleans County school, provided that the second floor was used for religious purposes?
... that a fictional character from Peg O' My Heart complained about his insomnia with netizens on Threads?
... that a candidate in the 1968 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware took his dog on the campaign trail?
... that an elderly Brazilian woman helped to arrest dozens of drug traffickers and corrupt police officers?