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Did you know...

28 February 2021

00:00, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Washington Bridge

... that the first vehicle on New York City's Washington Bridge (pictured) crossed it without permission?
... that Dick Callahan received his first opportunity as a PA announcer after claiming that he announced all the games at his high school, even though he had actually never announced a game before?
... that the GPT-2 artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence?
... that, after former president Abdurrahman Wahid, Rusdy Mastura was the second Indonesian public official to apologize for the mass killings of 1965–66?
... that the 1928 recording by Jimmie Rodgers of "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" influenced a line in Johnny Cash's song "Folsom Prison Blues"?
... that Samuel Pepys wrote of Royal Navy Commissioner Sir Thomas Hervey: "a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy"?
... that by 2001, almost 2000 Trees For Life volunteers were growing 1.5 million plants every year?
... that winners of the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway, such as Shane Stewart, are given a scepter, robe, and crown, and pose on a throne in victory lane?

27 February 2021

00:04, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Wilhelm Knabe

... that Wilhelm Knabe (pictured), a co-founder of the Greens in Germany and a "green" mayor of Mülheim, participated in Fridays For Future with the slogan "Opa For Future"?
... that the 1960 film The Purple Gang has an introduction by Congressman James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman?
... that while Gerry House worked at Kentucky radio station WCBR, the owner, a pastor, asked him whether he wanted to donate his salary?
... that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
... that 17q12 microdeletion syndrome, an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, is thought to be a major genetic risk factor for autism and schizophrenia?
... that Lee M. Hollander pioneered the translation of the works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard into English?
... that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by "a pub team from Essex"?

26 February 2021

00:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Contempra telephone

... that the first telephone designed in Canada, Nortel's Contempra (example pictured), became so famous it was featured on a stamp?
... that at the time of her death at age 90, Lilliane Brady was the mayor of Cobar Shire and the longest-serving female mayor in New South Wales's history?
... that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia's debut album Source, which incorporates reggae, cumbia, calypso, hip-hop, and soul, is an ode to her musical history?
... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's National Theatre, performed in all of Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
... that Roy Brown, credited with downing the Red Baron, suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome?
... that in 2019 Joel Farabee became the first player born in the 2000s to become a Philadelphia Flyers player?
... that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens?
... that the Language Integrator is a peep show intended only for inhabitants of the 82nd century to use?

25 February 2021

00:00, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam

... that Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam (pictured), Governor of Anguilla, attended her own swearing-in ceremony remotely due to quarantine restrictions?
... that Ismith Khan's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians?
... that translator and journalist Frederika Randall, who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
... that New York City's Western Union Telegraph Building was built on land once owned by Thomas W. Evans, dentist to French emperor Napoleon III?
... that with compositions such as Con brio, clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
... that Tailors' Hall, a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
... that the UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?
... that Troy, Montana, has flying squirrels?

24 February 2021

00:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Humphrey Bogart in Brother Orchid (1940)

... that after signing his first movie contract, Humphrey Bogart (pictured) boasted: "I'm going to become the biggest movie star Hollywood's ever seen"?
... that American band the Body's album I've Seen All I Need to See opens with a reading of the poem "The Kaleidoscope" by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn?
... that Cajun accordion musician Sheryl Cormier has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe?
... that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women?
... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis?
... that as part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement, the US agreed to recognize Morocco's claim to Western Sahara?
... that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York, Kofi Annan, future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
... that the medieval Breton Gwerz Santes Enori tells the story of a woman who sacrificed a breast to cure her father, and is rewarded with a golden breast?

23 February 2021

00:00, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

George Washington by John Trumbull

... that John Trumbull finished his painting George Washington (pictured) before he was arrested for high treason?
... that the creator of a video depicting the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which featured Indonesian politically satirical song "Ampun Bang Jago", denied that it was politically motivated?
... that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre?
... that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo, the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
... that Dav Pilkey wrote the children's book The Paperboy, which received a Caldecott Honor, in fifteen minutes?
... that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof?
... that a commercial for the food delivery app Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku went viral on YouTube in 2013, and was described by journalists as "bizarre"?

22 February 2021

00:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Robert C. Pringle as Chequamegon

... that the tugboat Robert C. Pringle (pictured) was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
... that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with Kurt Masur, and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, where he had taught for decades?
... that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson, who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
... that the documentary Change the Subject is about lobbying efforts to replace the term "illegal aliens" with "undocumented immigrants" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings?
... that in 1897, former slave George Dinning was the first black man to successfully sue a mob of the Ku Klux Klan?
... that Lloyd Percival's The Hockey Handbook was credited as being used by Soviet Union national ice hockey team coach Anatoly Tarasov?
... that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that the wind phone in Japan was set up to allow people to talk to the dead?

21 February 2021

00:00, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Pelican Rock at Martin's Beach

... that access to Martin's Beach (pictured) has been the subject of a contentious battle between a Silicon Valley billionaire and the State of California?
... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad?
... that the owner of Walsall F.C. described victory at the 2001 Football League Second Division play-off Final as the greatest day in the club's history?
... that after finishing his term as Indonesia's minister of agriculture, Sjarifuddin Baharsjah was immediately succeeded by his wife?
... that Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls called for the abolition of birth alerts?
... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized shorthorn cattle?
... that the whaleback barge 115 became the last Great Lakes shipwreck of the 1800s?
... that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"?

20 February 2021

00:00, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Lucy Monroe

... that Lucy Monroe (pictured), the "star-spangled soprano", estimated that she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" over 5,000 times?
... that the cover of Red Meat Republic, a book on the history of beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of butcher paper?
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party?
... that the war in Uganda (1986–1994) involved rebel armies led by a prophetess, her father, spirits, "Hitler", ex-ministers, and Joseph Kony?
... that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians, a live variety show, after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians?
... that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the tignon a "mark of distinction"?
... that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Keith Gill's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing?

19 February 2021

00:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

1847 caricature of Barnett Nathan

... that Barnett Nathan (caricature pictured) was famous for dancing the hornpipe, while blindfolded, on a stage covered with eggs and teaware?
... that Shandon Castle was destroyed in the Siege of Cork in 1690, and sandstone from its ruins used to build the Church of St Anne in 1722?
... that baseball pitcher Dennis Rasmussen nearly had to have his foot amputated when he was 14 years old?
... that the Ćmielów Porcelain Works are Poland's oldest porcelain works, and Europe's largest thin-walled-china works?
... that Biserka Cvejić, a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida?
... that the theme song for the tabletop role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. was described by a reviewer as "sound[ing] like the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs"?
... that Francesca Coppa, a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
... that Pliofilm, a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings?

18 February 2021

00:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Arik Brauer in front of his painting, 2009

... that Universalkünstler Arik Brauer (pictured) created paintings in Fantastic Realism, songs in Austropop, stage sets for the Paris Opera, and house facades in Austria and Israel?
... that the 1888 eruption of Ritter Island reduced the 780-metre tall (2,560 ft) volcano to a height of just 140 metres (460 ft)?
... that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes"?
... that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity?
... that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
... that 23 Wall Street has been called one of the "big little buildings of Wall Street"?
... that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory, about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a market economy, received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
... that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"?

17 February 2021

00:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Rice's whale washed up at Everglades National Park

... that the newly described Rice's whale (example pictured) is one of the most endangered cetaceans, with fewer than 50 adult individuals believed to remain?
... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
... that the Babakale Castle supplied water to the Ottoman Navy before the fleet set sail on campaigns?
... that Dorothee Manski, a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera, gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927?
... that Willa Cather's final story, The Best Years, contains references to her previously published novels?
... that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues?
... that a 9-metre tall (30 ft) Malt Shovel in Burton upon Trent might actually be a scoop?

16 February 2021

00:00, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Puppet show at Expo 67

... that Micheline Legendre organized Canada's first puppetry festival (pictured) in conjunction with the 1967 World Expo in Montreal?
... that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana?
... that the administrator of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Mimie Wood, correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
... that Stalin considered invading the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan in the last days of World War II?
... that Utah radio stations KSUB and KSUB-FM both suffered tower collapses before going on air—39 years apart?
... that Austrian stamp collector Adolf Passer sold most of his collection to concentrate on wooing his future wife?
... that the Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern Palestine?
... that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA, was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?

15 February 2021

00:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Strängnäs stone

... that the Strängnäs stone (pictured), long considered a forgery, is probably authentic?
... that the silent film The Honeymoon Express was reported to have been withdrawn from release despite being screened later in 1926?
... that Elizabeth Pulane Moremi became regent of baTawana after the death of her husband Moremi III?
... that the picture book Maiden & Princess, in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight, in which a prince and male knight do the same?
... that the church led by Ernest T. Campbell sponsored Marina Oswald, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, to study at the University of Michigan?
... that the vocalist in "Erlkönig", published as Schubert's Op. 1, portrays four characters that differ in vocal register, rhythm, and harmony?
... that François Henri Mouton fought for the Sikhs during the First Anglo-Sikh War whilst on leave from the French Army?
... that a scene from the music video for "End Game" features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake, a reference to her reputation as a "snake"?

14 February 2021

00:00, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Al Pacino as Frank Serpico

... that Serpico was filmed in reverse, and Al Pacino (pictured) had to be shaved as the shooting progressed?
... that Ekkehard von Kuenssberg turned down an invitation to join the SS and migrated to Britain, carrying a hockey stick and a tennis racquet?
... that High Point has been described as "the severed head of some Japanese giant robot"?
... that the dance choreography for Babymetal, Perfume, Nosaj Thing's "Cold Stares" music video, the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, and the Japanese 2016 viral sensation "Koi Dance" were all created by MIKIKO?
... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
... that after winning the 1814 Battle of Champaubert, Napoleon instructed his representative at the Congress of Châtillon peace negotiations to "sign nothing"?
... that civil rights lawyer Deborah Archer is the first African-American to be president of the American Civil Liberties Union in its 101-year history?
... that in the 1970s a saxophonist led Major Surgery at a pub in South London?

13 February 2021

00:00, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves

... that Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves (pictured) is "virtually unique in art of the period" in depicting African-American slaves as "independent agents of their own freedom"?
... that music educator Siegfried Borris was dismissed from the Musikhochschule Berlin by the Nazis, but after World War II became a professor there and president of the Deutscher Musikrat?
... that the Boeing 247 DZ203 flew for United Airlines and the RCAF before the RAF used it to perform the world's first completely automated approach and blind landing?
... that Mother Oya, born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years?
... that the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer was fortified to protect the town from Vikings and Saracens?
... that fashion designer Monika Tilley's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that the Taylor Swift song "Gorgeous" features an introduction voiced by James Reynolds, daughter of actress Blake Lively and actor Ryan Reynolds?
... that New Zealand ornithologist Arthur Pycroft ate a huia about two years before the last confirmed sighting of that bird species?

12 February 2021

12:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Virol jar

... that Virol (jar pictured) was dispensed by the Virol Lady in British primary schools in the 1940s?
... that during his 2020 campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O'Toole made a platform catering to Quebec nationalist voters?
... that the Knoxville Raceway will host the first NASCAR nationally sanctioned race in its 120-year history in 2021, joining a race at Bristol Motor Speedway as dirt-track races on the NASCAR Truck Series schedule?
... that Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint was the prefect of Marne from 1800 to 1838, surviving numerous regime changes?
... that after winning the 2013 Football League One play-off Final, Yeovil Town were promoted to the second tier of English football just ten years after being a non-League club?
... that Jackie Robinson Park was selected as the site for a pool in Harlem after a 1935 riot?
... that a manga series by Nanae Sasaya is credited with influencing the adoption of new Japanese child-abuse laws?
... that the Bernie Sanders mittens meme has raised nearly $2 million for Vermont charities?

00:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Thomas catching Mary's belt

... that medieval depictions of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (example pictured) often show her dropping her belt to Thomas the Apostle as she rises?
... that Daryn Pittman was the first American to win the World Series Sprintcars championship and the first Oklahoman to win the World of Outlaws title?
... that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York, was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist, and a landscape architect from Harvard?
... that the earliest book in English of Sudanese literature is the memoir of Selim Aga, who was born in 1826 and sold as a slave, but published his autobiography in "faultless idiomatic English"?
... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
... that despite boasting it was the most powerful television station in the Midwest, Missouri's KACY left the air because it could not secure the right to carry network programs?
... that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets?
... that if a student at Kemptville Agricultural School had a problem to solve, the standard advice was to ask Mr. George?

11 February 2021

12:00, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Facade of the Attara Kacheri, Bangalore

... that unable to demolish the colonial-style Attara Kacheri (pictured), Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Chief Minister of Mysore, instead ordered that the Dravidian-style Vidhana Soudha be built opposite it at a slight elevation?
... that Konrad Rupf, a long-term singer of the Leipzig Opera, made his stage debut in 1955 as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and appeared as Tevje in Fiddler on the Roof in 2000?
... that after Amanda Gorman recited the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of US president Joe Biden, she gained Twitter followers at a faster rate than the president?
... that some members of Napoleon I's Guards of Honour considered themselves to be hostages of the emperor?
... that a seven-figure deal was made for Soman Chainani's debut book The School for Good and Evil to make a film adaptation less than two weeks after the book's publication?
... that Hilda Ellis Davidson played an important role in rescuing the field of folklore studies from its eccentric postwar image?
... that Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is the first wind farm to be built in U.S. federal waters?
... that Billy Kee was going to include "Wembley" in the name of his child who was being born during the 2014 Football League Two play-off Final if he scored?

00:00, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Gwendolyn Garcia dancing to "Mabuhi!"

... that Gwendolyn Garcia (pictured), the governor of the Philippine province of Cebu, has a signature song?
... that one of Finland's longest unsolved crimes, a 1987 murder on board the cruiseferry MS Viking Sally, is going to court after 33 years?
... that American Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon underwent surgery at UPMC Presbyterian to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen in January 2001?
... that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova, a pioneer in Russian decadence, allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic?
... that members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of New Zealand were known as Tuis, after a native bird?
... that Sibongile Khumalo, who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?
... that solar radio emission was first observed in 1942 during World War II by British radar operators?
... that New Zealand geneticist Neil Gemmell hunted the Loch Ness Monster to show how science works?

10 February 2021

12:00, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Plate of the Sèvres Egyptian Service

... that Empress Joséphine rejected the second Sèvres Egyptian Service (plate pictured), given as a divorce gift by Napoleon?
... that while held in a concentration camp, Zhu Min sabotaged Nazi cartridge boxes by spitting into them?
... that "People" by the 1975 was written as a response to the passing of Alabama's controversial abortion ban?
... that Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles included a storm chaser, an arms dealer, and a cult leader?
... that surgeon Herbert Haxton proved that the kneecap was not just to protect the knee but also important for straightening the leg?
... that the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990?
... that the young of Coquerel's coua leave the nest after about nine days when still covered with down and unable to fly?

00:00, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

HOE hit-to-kill missile

... that hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy per kilogram of TNT?
... that Ruth Wright Hayre's philanthropic program Tell Them We Are Rising was named after a phrase said by her grandfather, which also inspired the poem "Howard at Atlanta"?
... that Japan National Route 350 serves remote Sado Island without any bridges connecting it to its termini on Honshu?
... that Cyclone Meena was the first of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands in February 2005?
... that 2021 New York City Comptroller candidate Zach Iscol was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery during the Second Battle of Fallujah in the Iraq War?
... that the Texabama croton was nearly simultaneously discovered at Fort Hood and Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in 1989?
... that Nilüfer Verdi is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey?
... that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final, Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"?

9 February 2021

12:00, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Bottle of Un Jardin sur le Nil

... that the perfume Un Jardin sur le Nil (pictured) was inspired by green mangoes?
... that comedian Atsugiri Jason became the first non-Japanese finalist on the R-1 Grand Prix in 2014?
... that the Cook Islands Local Defence Force was expected to "uphold the prestige of the Cook Islands" by putting up a token resistance if the islands were invaded?
... that Liolaemus sarmientoi is one of the two southernmost species of lizard in the world?
... that Zeyan Shafiq developed KashBook during an Internet ban in the Kashmir Valley, operating without a virtual private network?
... that Sucker Punch Productions had trouble finding a publisher for their debut video game, Rocket: Robot on Wheels?
... that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser?
... that all dialogue in the film Nostos: The Return is in a made-up language based on ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Latin?

00:00, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Newspaper cartoon of Mary Aldis published in 1897

... that "noted controversialist" Mary Aldis (depicted) tried to get Auckland City Council to stop a woman being fired from a cannon in 1887?
... that Jimmie Rodgers's appearance on The Singing Brakeman made him the first country musician to be featured in a film?
... that the new chairman of the BBC has a twin sister who is a leading judge?
... that the 1989 book Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science examines the role of happenstance in the history of science?
... that the manufacturing of knife cutlery at Babakale in Turkey goes back to the 1720s, started by masters who immigrated from Kazakhstan?
... that gospel pianist Rudy Atwood, heard on Old Fashioned Revival Hour radio broadcasts of the 1930s to the 1960s, attributed his hymn arrangements to the influence of J. S. Bach?
... that the Bangkok neighbourhood of Bang Rak is home to Buddhist temples, mosques, a Chinese shrine, and the city's Catholic cathedral?
... that station officials climbed the 500-foot (150 m) tower of the first WFMZ-TV, smashed a bottle of champagne against the top, and christened it "Miss Ultra High"?

8 February 2021

12:00, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French

... that Daniel Chester French resigned from the United States Commission of Fine Arts to create his most famous public sculpture, Abraham Lincoln (pictured)?
... that the empty Shibuya Crossing featured on the series Alice in Borderland was filmed on a large green-screen set outside Tokyo?
... that Abudureheman Abulikemu was the first boxer from Xinjiang to compete at the Olympics?
... that New York New York is noted as among the first yaoi manga series to depict social realism in its treatment of gay identity?
... that Gabriel Sterling has debunked Donald Trump's allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election?
... that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
... that Blackpool became the most successful club in the history of English Football League play-offs when they won the 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final against Exeter City?
... that the 1st Weather Squadron, the 2016 Weather Squadron of the Year, reports on future battlefield weather conditions and assists during natural disasters?

00:00, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Monumento a la Raza

... that part of the remains of Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt rest next to his Monumento a la Raza (pictured)?
... that Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo, a former ambassador of Indonesia to Japan, authored the first book about Japan in the Indonesian language?
... that Mortimer Taube designed his Uniterm indexing system for easy automation, and then built a punched-card version as the IBM 9900?
... that there are other causes of climate change in Brazil besides the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest?
... that Ronald Graham, president of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, also became president of the International Jugglers' Association?
... that Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip synched the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape in Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine?
... that the music video for Harry Styles's song "Lights Up" was interpreted as a "bisexual anthem" by critics and viewers due to it being released on National Coming Out Day?
... that John Atcheler claimed to be "Horse Slaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria"?

7 February 2021

12:00, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Mimbres fish pot, c. 1000–1150

... that Pueblo pottery (example pictured) has been created by Pueblo people and their antecedents in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico for almost two thousand years?
... that Leon Rains, a bass singer who studied in New York City and Paris, took part in the world premiere of Salome and an early recording of Tannhäuser?
... that the Australian Army named a programme to acquire new armoured vehicles after an Australian horse?
... that thousands of football players are trafficked every year?
... that Bambang Suryadi, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, was buried with the flag of the party above him?
... that "Me & You Together Song" by the 1975 was originally intended for the soundtrack of German, a film that lead singer Matthew Healy was writing?
... that Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech?
... that the largescale four-eyes does not have four eyes?

00:00, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Hall of Famer Phyllis Stadler

... that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included a WASP pilot, a World War II Marine, a "Chickie", a Hall of Fame lacrosse player, a world-champion softball player, an All-College basketball player, the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States, a professor and a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and a resident of Atlantis (pictured)?
... that "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
... that Driveways director Andrew Ahn said that the experience of directing a script he did not write improved both his writing and directing?
... that helicopters from Acer cascadense were found in Moose Mountain?
... that in the beginning of the 18th century, an estimated 2,100 Cherokee people inhabited more than sixteen Cherokee settlements in villages east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
... that Duo Yun Xuan held the first art auction on the Chinese mainland?
... that AFC Wimbledon were promoted for a sixth time since their formation in 2002 when they won the 2016 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs?

6 February 2021

12:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Lithograph of Innisfallen Abbey after Crofton

... that artist Frances Emilia Crofton had lithograph copies made of eight of her paintings (example pictured), and sold them for charity?
... that former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Frank J. Van Dyke was born in Penang, Straits Settlements, British Malaya, in 1907?
... that Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated his Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs to a Danish princess who became Empress of Russia?
... that stocks of mustard gas, thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997?
... that Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?
... that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets?
... that the first scene of the 2010 film The Social Network took 99 takes to finish?
... that when the chimpanzee Sami escaped from the Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on?

00:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley

... that the decision not to include a duck with the statue of Sir Nigel Gresley (pictured) led to "possibly the most acrimonious argument in the long, pedantic history of the railway hobbyist"?
... that F. Andrieu was the composer of Armes, amours/O flour des flours, a double ballade lamenting the death of his colleague Guillaume de Machaut?
... that Proton 3, launched on 24 March 1966, was one of the first satellites equipped to look for quarks?
... that Sarran Teelucksingh was the first person of Indian descent elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago?
... that Jerome Robbins's ballet In the Night is set to four nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin?
... that German fighter ace Kurt Wolff decorated his room with machine guns from planes he shot down?
... that it took authorities only one day to repair damage on Japan National Route 116 following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake?
... that Barbara Danish wrote The Dragon and the Doctor in 20 minutes?

5 February 2021

12:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Rānui Ngārimu

... that Rānui Ngārimu (pictured) helped weave Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004?
... that the Music City Grand Prix will cross the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, making it one of the few auto races to cross a significant body of water?
... that after losing the Battle of Kinghorn in 1332, the Earl of Fife was "full of shame" at being defeated by such a small force?
... that 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia resigned as Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department after budget cuts forced a 60-percent reduction in public trash basket pickups?
... that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies?
... that the eagle on top of the Monumento a la Raza in Mexico City was originally cast for the Federal Legislative Palace's dome?
... that lawyer and press freedom advocate Frank LoMonte helped pass legislation in 14 U.S. states outlawing censorship of student media by school administrators?
... that the Willie Nelson Statue in Austin, Texas, was unveiled on 420 day at 4:20 p.m.?

00:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

A Reading from Homer

... that everything in A Reading from Homer (pictured) is classicist but not everything is ancient?
... that the Bangladesh women's team won the first One Day International cricket match they played?
... that Benedict Joseph Fenwick was unable to generate interest in opening the College of the Holy Cross in the wilderness of Maine and so founded it instead in Worcester, Massachusetts?
... that the opposing managers watched the penalty shootout that decided the 2015 Football League Two play-off Final together?
... that Radio City Music Hall organist Richard Leibert eloped twice with the daughter of a U.S. congressman?
... that the documentary Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe explores the life of the musician who signed "Ireland's fastest ever record deal"?
... that the video game Wild Woody contains an Easter egg that displays a topless mermaid if certain items are collected in order?
... that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia?

4 February 2021

12:00, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

First-issue stamp of the Ottoman Empire (1863–1865)

... that Mehmet Ismet Başaran's research into the first stamps of the Ottoman Empire (example pictured) was hampered by the loss of the official records?
... that after twelve years of attempts, Kyle Larson won the Chili Bowl Nationals back-to-back in the first two years when he participated under his own team?
... that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
... that the Remsen Cemetery, one of the few remaining private burial grounds on Long Island, contains the remains of an American Revolutionary War colonel and his family members?
... that journalist Charles Mayer proposed an election procedure change in his attempt to become president of the National Boxing Association?
... that See You in the Cosmos, published as a children's book, has adult themes throughout?
... that Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern, a 1965 album and song that Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote and sang to his guitar, anticipated the opposition of the student movement?
... that although Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met, Whitman once wrote "I love the President personally"?

00:00, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Schloss Freudenberg

... that Schloss Freudenberg (pictured) and its park in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim offer an exhibition for the senses, with a Dunkelbar for drinking in darkness?
... that when New York City's Harlem Ship Canal Bridge had to be replaced, it was floated down the river to become the University Heights Bridge?
... that Anna Utenhoven, who was buried alive in 1597, was the last person executed for heresy in the Low Countries?
... that after NBCUniversal shut down KMAS-TV in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, its chief engineer suggested it be donated to his former employer, Rocky Mountain PBS?
... that the English and French agreed to a draft treaty in 1354 to end what was to become the Hundred Years' War, but the French reneged and the war continued for a further 101 years?
... that Wahsayah Whitebird's Communist Party membership was not publicly known until after he was elected?
... that Valentina, with her song "J'imagine", brought France its first victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest?
... that Elsa Schiaparelli prevented Salvador Dalí from adding mayonnaise to her lobster dress?

3 February 2021

12:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Pelican Portrait

... that the Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (pictured) is named for the pendant on her breast in the form of a pelican in her piety?
... that Hamilton Fish Park, whose pool was used for Olympic practice, was one of the New York City Parks Department's "worst problem areas" by the 1970s?
... that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, including Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling?
... that the extinct mooneye fish Hiodon woodruffi was not described until 1978, although the earliest finds date to 1906?
... that in 1781, Dutch rear admiral Willem Krul was determined to fight a British fleet with a single warship and died?
... that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"?
... that My Love from the Star's popularity led to it being discussed at China's National People's Congress?
... that journalist Tom Fitzgerald reportedly held the Guinness world record for "the accumulation of complimentary raincoats, Panasonic radios and Cross pens"?

00:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela

... that F. W. de Klerk's speech announcing the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela (both pictured) was given 31 years ago today?
... that the film poster for Looking for Magical Doremi appeared in an episode of Healin' Good Pretty Cure to promote the film?
... that although Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him?
... that the Regent of Thousand Islands is the only regent in Indonesia to be appointed by the governor instead of being elected by the people?
... that journalist Kelsey Piper sees her Vox column as a way to popularize discussion of global catastrophic risks?
... that Distichia muscoides provides good grazing all-year-round in the High Andes for domesticated llamas and alpacas, and non-native livestock?
... that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in Los Angeles?
... that a reviewer from Eurogamer considered King of Crabs to be the "best crab-based Battle Royale" video game he had ever reviewed?

2 February 2021

12:00, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Monk and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (middle) showing Canada's gift to President Gerald Ford

... that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)?
... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?
... that the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons was first awarded for the detection of bladder cancers in the dye industry?
... that the music style of singer-songwriter Kui Lee featured a blend of traditional Hawaiian music, jazz, blues, and rock and roll?
... that in a rare leapfrog appeal the UK Supreme Court decided that insurance companies can be liable for business losses arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that after the lynching of her son, Beulah Mae Donald successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan, winning a $7 million judgment?
... that Naimur Rahman took six wickets for 132 runs in the very first test Bangladesh played in 2000?
... that Twitter and Discord use snowflakes as unique identifiers for their messages and users?

00:00, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

The Troopie

... that the Rhodesian Light Infantry's statue The Troopie (pictured) was smuggled out of Rhodesia following the establishment of Zimbabwe prior to the regiment's disbanding?
... that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda?
... that one student's entire semester at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in 1979 consisted of programming its student radio station WGBW?
... that children's writer Israel Wachser died in Kryve Ozero while defending the local Jewish population from a pogrom?
... that the men of Wood's Missouri Cavalry Battalion made defenses out of cotton during the Battle of Pine Bluff?
... that Aicha Mekki was one of the very few crime reporters and female journalists in Morocco during the Years of Lead in the latter half of the 20th century?
... that cricketer Hasan Ali was picked as a wildcard at the 2021 Pakistan Super League players draft?
... that the 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 million m³) of asbestos waste at the BoRit Asbestos Superfund site in Ambler, Pennsylvania, was known colloquially as the "White Mountains" by local residents?

1 February 2021

12:00, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

... that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured) is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress?
... that in Denial of Violence, Fatma Müge Göçek argues that Armenian Genocide denial is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state?
... that the Septet for trumpet, strings and piano was composed by Camille Saint-Saëns for a mathematician?
... that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle?
... that despite a $34 million advertising campaign in the United States by General Mills, their breakfast cereal snack Fingos only lasted from 1993 to 1994?
... that the northern water dragon migrated from New Guinea into Wallacea less than one million years ago?
... that American educator Alan T. Busby was the first African-American student to attend the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1918?
... that a journalist lived for a year using only goods made in Canada?

00:00, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Veiled Vestal

... that the sacred flame carried by the Veiled Vestal (pictured) in the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice has been described as representing Elizabeth Bennet's "virginal sexual desire"?
... that Joseildo da Silva beat Roy Dooney at the 1991 Chicago Marathon by six seconds in the slowest winning time for 10 years?
... that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"?
... that Astoria Park was intended to be New York City's first large park with active recreational facilities?
... that the tomb of Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan was desecrated by British forces after the Battle of Omdurman in 1898?
... that "Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit", for New Year in the current Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, takes two stanzas from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone, a third stanza and refrain from 1969, and a 1529 popular melody by Luther?
... that the Strax affair started in the library?
... that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison, was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?