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16 April 2024

00:00, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Max Whitlock

... that Max Whitlock (pictured) is the most successful gymnast on the pommel horse at the Olympics, with two golds and a bronze?
... that ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants?
... that pianist and composer Josef Weiss created the first film score in the history of German cinema?
... that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
... that Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only one of his brothers, who together led a rebellion against the president of Peru, to survive a subsequent riot?
... that the heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo abandoned a brand-new mansion in New York City and refused to sell, rent, or maintain it?
... that even though he read the articles of sportswriter Bud Lea "religiously", Vince Lombardi often made his job difficult whenever he interviewed him?
... that the Comboio Presidencial, a train that carried the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro from 1890, had the Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
... that Kully Thiarai made a theatre in Doncaster a "living room" for the town?

15 April 2024

12:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Georgiana Bonser

... that British physician Georgiana Bonser (pictured) investigated whether chemicals used in the dyeing industry caused bladder cancer?
... that Nigeria's Muslim–Muslim ticket challenges the norm of religious balance in politics?
... that John Mulaney would change the Saturday Night Live character Stefon's lines before airing in order to make Bill Hader break character?
... that Palauan English only started emerging in 1962?
... that a Brazilian priest died while attempting to break the cluster-ballooning world record, in order to fund a spiritual rest-stop for truckers?
... that after years of development, the British thin-wing Javelin interceptor aircraft was cancelled in favour of purchasing the Canadian Avro Arrow?
... that the Jewish community of Dubrovnik grew due to the expulsions of Jews and Marranos from the Iberian peninsula?
... that alongside a 7th-century BC Phoenician shipwreck, two additional wrecks from various historical periods were unearthed in Bajo de la Campana, situated off the coast of Cartagena, Spain?
... that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team's 1973 winning season?

00:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Jennifer Martz (background) hitting

... that 25 years after her career ended, Jennifer Martz (pictured) remains second in NCAA Division III history in hitting percentage?
... that Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Green Bay Packers after the 1967 NFL season to focus on his role as the team's general manager?
... that Kameron Saunders is the only dancer in Taylor Swift's Eras Tour to have a spoken line?
... that Full Personality Expression was an organization for cross-dressers that was originally called the Hose & Heels Club?
... that Alda Milner-Barry, the older sister of World War II Enigma codebreaker Stuart Milner-Barry, worked for British military intelligence during World War I?
... that Geogaddi makes references to the Branch Davidians and their former leader, David Koresh?
... that the lyrics to Gen Hoshino's "Crazy Crazy" references members of the jazz group Crazy Cats through kanji?
... that the 2024 Hillhead by-election was the first by-election won by the Scottish Green Party?
... that Lou Novikoff asked if the ivy growing on the walls of Wrigley Field could be smoked?

14 April 2024

12:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Look from The Girl Who Lived in the Tree

... that Alexander McQueen created a fairy tale about a feral girl who becomes a princess for his autumn/winter 2008 collection The Girl Who Lived in the Tree (look pictured)?
... that an Iowa TV station paid Tom Brokaw, a future anchor of NBC Nightly News, $75 a week to work as a staff announcer and part-time newscaster?
... that a men's soccer team hired Jenna Winebrenner to analyze game film and practice with the squad?
... that shareholders of UDC Homes received two settlements over claims that executives sought to inflate its stock price and conceal financial information?
... that in Zaydi Shi'ism, the imamate was not inherited or appointed but had to be claimed by public summons for allegiance or even leadership of an armed revolt?
... that Meghan Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for a long time before they finally collaborated on the song "Been Like This" from her upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless?
... that Crossing a Line compares Palestinian political expression on either side of the Green Line between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories?
... that the town of Longlac was originally founded as a North West Company trading post circa 1800?
... that Syncletica of Alexandria, a 4th-century saint and Desert Mother, was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"?

00:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Aiming stone in Beşiktaş

... that the Beşiktaş aiming stone in Istanbul (pictured) marks the spot where in 1810 Sultan Mahmud II hit an ostrich egg 735.9 metres (2,414 ft) away?
... that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler has been compared to the trolley problem?
... that just seven years after being elected to a local school board, Nancy Ross was a candidate for Vice President of the United States?
... that Liechtenstein ceded the Ellhorn mountain to Switzerland in 1949?
... that the 17th-century Wolvesey Palace reuses a 15th-century chapel built on the remains of a 12th-century room from Wolvesey Castle?
... that despite commonly being caught with a hook and line, the holotype of the Rapa Nui lizardfish was instead collected with a spear?
... that Buellia aethalea, a species of fungus, is also known as the "darkened button lichen" due to the small black spots on its crusty grey surface?
... that TikTok rallied its users to protest a bill that would potentially ban the app?
... that Jack White worked for the New York Yankees – and for the New York Yankees?

13 April 2024

12:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Grave with the Hands

... that the Grave with the Hands (pictured) commemorates a married couple, divided by society and religion, with hands clasped over a cemetery wall after death?
... that Frank Jonet was appointed as the receiver of the Green Bay Packers from 1933 to 1935, helping to prevent the team from shutting down?
... that some faqih have suggested that vegetarian Muslims should replace the Eid sacrifice with donations or fasting?
... that Sarah Todd Cunningham was the first woman from the island of Hawaii to serve as a Hawaii territorial senator?
... that in 2023, car manufacturer Rivian acquired the historic Lynn Theatre in Laguna Beach, California, and converted it into its first showroom?
... that Max Eisenbud helped make Maria Sharapova the world's highest-paid female athlete for more than a decade?
... that the constructors of the Swift Orange Line were fined for breaching a landfill?
... that after Broadway musical composer Silvio Hein died in 1928, the pallbearers at his funeral included Irving Berlin, John Philip Sousa, and Jerome Kern?
... that the National Women's Basketball Association's methods of selling tickets were derided as "like something from grammar school"?

00:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

George W. Munroe

... that Broadway and vaudeville star George W. Munroe (pictured) was known for his comic female impersonations of elderly Irish women?
... that the Frank J. Wood Bridge is the seventh bridge built across the Androscoggin River to link the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine, since 1796?
... that singer and voice actor Yuki Sakakihara lived "[so] deep in the mountains of Okayama Prefecture" that it was difficult for him to go out for karaoke?
... that at the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits in July 1944, a Confederate flag dating to the American Civil War was raised over the town?
... that Drew Golz, who was Baseball Academic All-American of the Year and Soccer Academic All-American of the Year, became the first male student athlete to be named Academic All-American of the year for two sports at the same time?
... that four members of the interwar Czechoslovak Gendarmerie were killed in action against the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps during the Clash at Habersbirk?
... that scholars have called Liberty 5-3000, the heroine of Ayn Rand's Anthem, "an ideal Randian" and "a frivolous trophy wife"?
... that many employees of CSL Plasma are themselves plasma donors?
... that Issey Cross's 2023 song "Bittersweet Goodbye" uses a sped-up sample of a sped-up sample of a sped-up cover version, which itself interpolates a cover version of a traditional gospel song?

12 April 2024

12:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Akshayapureeswarar Temple

... that the Hindu god Shani is worshipped for protection from fear, accident, death and enemies in the 13th-century Akshayapureeswarar Temple (pictured)?
... that Independence Lost argues that most support for the American Revolution was non-ideological?
... that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady?
... that some people with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome can lose the ability to speak?
... that Premier Maurice Duplessis, angry at the fact that the federal government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the provinces, once demanded that Ottawa "return our loot"?
... that with a population of 1,500, Millstreet in County Cork, Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the Eurovision Song Contest when it staged the 1993 event?
... that the mansions in the Herodian Quarter contain frescoes with burn marks and charred wooden beams, serving as evidence of Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD?
... that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia?
... that Turkish sport shooter Şimal Yılmaz, who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, had a shooting range in her living room?

00:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

... that the architect of the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center (pictured) thought of stacked nagaya houses while designing it?
... that after going winless in its first season in 2022, Sydney made the finals in the 2023 AFL Women's season and won its first finals match?
... that Rasmus Paludan caused a global controversy by burning the Quran?
... that more than one million applications for the Canadian Dental Care Plan were approved in its first three months?
... that footballer Wyll Stanway was a National Counties cricketer and a football centre-back before becoming a goalkeeper?
... that James McChord is considered to be the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?
... that "Entre el Mar y una Estrella" by Thalía was crowned the best number-one Latin hit of the year 2000 in a survey conducted by Billboard?
... that Geoffrey Cuming edited what has been called a gramophone librarian's "Bible"?
... that a 2000 documentary exposed the secret support of female genital mutilation by Norwegian imams?

11 April 2024

12:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Game Boy Color connected to a cell phone via an adapter

... that the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal allowed players to trade and battle over mobile networks using an adapter (pictured)?
... that Jacques Loew started the worker-priest movement after working as a longshoreman and realizing the distance between the priesthood and the working class?
... that Barcelona Femení were unbeaten in their first season in 1971 when their captain announced that she would leave football?
... that Thomas Young, a professor of midwifery, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Prestonpans?
... that Giorgio Moroder co-wrote and recorded a poem about seduction in Italian for Kylie and Garibay's self-titled EP?
... that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup?
... that 28 Jews hid in Verteba Cave for almost six months during the Holocaust?
... that Joseph Drummond, a key figure of New Brunswick's branch of the NAACP, staged a sit-in at a local barbershop whose owner proclaimed that he had "never cut a colored person's hair in 55 years"?
... that 1 + 1 = 1, according to some forms of non-Diophantine arithmetic?

00:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Oakland California Temple

... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit Oakland California Temple (pictured) as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution?
... that Will Tschetter had the highest scoring average in Minnesota in basketball and won the state discus throw championship?
... that within the Armenian Rite, it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the chrism known as myron?
... that because karaoke sounds like the Japanese word for 'coffin', Shigeichi Negishi called his karaoke machine prototype the "Sparko Box"?
... that the developers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas walked out of the Game Developers Choice Awards after winning nothing?
... that Wilner Burke was the director of the Lumberjack Band, the marching band of the Green Bay Packers, for 42 years?
... that as part of the Apollo 17 Biostack experiment scientists found that cosmic rays could cause brine shrimp larvae to grow two abdomens or have short limbs?
... that actress Mattie Edwards was made a US deputy marshal at the age of sixteen?
... that the design on a New Zealand coin was incorrectly alleged to represent a "personified phallus"?

10 April 2024

12:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Sturmabteilung officer burning confiscated books on 10 May 1933

... that in just one night, thousands of books on the experiences and medical care of transgender people in Nazi Germany were burned (pictured) for being "un-German"?
... that Gerald McGinnis founded his first medical device company from his own home, working at night and using his kitchen oven as a kiln?
... that during the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries, Alan Cranston scheduled his advertisements in Iowa around airings of The Day After?
... that there is one male for every 31 females in an E. interjectus colony, and each female can start its own colony?
... that during the Syrian revolution, anarchist Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local opposition councils?
... that the first extant deer discovered in the 21st century is only 38 centimetres (15 in) tall?
... that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
... that a 2010 documentary claimed to expose how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates Western society from within?
... that some ethical theorists believe that all moral claims are false?

00:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile

... that the whereabouts of the painting Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (pictured) were unknown for more than 100 years?
... that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Ossetians?
... that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
... that Cliff Christl, who became the Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250 oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
... that at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
... that the positive reception for Until Dawn, developed by Supermassive Games, caught Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
... that the Seattle Storm had a ten-season streak of playoff appearances?
... that Stan Brakhage's film Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
... that Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for Cap'n Jazz's only album, Shmap'n Shmazz, during his first experience with psilocybin mushrooms?

9 April 2024

12:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Ramadan prayers

... that Muslims believe that giving to the poor on the last Friday of Ramadan (prayers pictured) will bring them wealth and blessings during the year and in the future?
... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
... that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks?
... that Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the Synodal Way, but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
... that Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is based on ten years of field research in the Israeli-occupied West Bank?
... that Golden Horse Awards–winning film composer Luming Lu worked as a cram-school tutor before pursuing a career in music?
... that a Ramadan television show featured riddles, music, choreographed dance routines and "fantastical narratives"?
... that football executive Ray Walsh also had a "murderous" forehand?
... that Androsaemum androsaemum is botanically unacceptable, but Aniculus aniculus is perfectly valid?

00:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Riley Jackson

... that on her first trip abroad, Riley Jackson (pictured) won the Golden Ball as the best player of the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship?
... that the word algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of bonesetting?
... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti?
... that Illieston House, a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
... that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison?
... that in the 3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
... that the historian al-Rushati was martyred during the fall of Almería in 1147?
... that female Eriopis connexa beetles prevent sibling cannibalism by laying unfertilized eggs?
... that Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz was enrolled in the military at the age of ten?

8 April 2024

12:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Aphaena submaculata

... that Aphaena submaculata (pictured) uses specialized mouthparts to suck the sap of trees?
... that Canadian peacekeepers participated in every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989?
... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery?
... that one Potteries derby game was decided by a goal scored twelve seconds into the match?
... that Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner Louisa Mak is a Cambridge law graduate?
... that as part of the Apollo 17 Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment, the heads of five mice were each cut into 1600 slices to look for brain lesions?
... that U.S. presidential candidate Johnny Buss owns one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country?
... that Florida State's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation?
... that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes?

00:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Hibiscus Rising

... that Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a 9-metre-tall (30 ft) artwork in Leeds, commemorates David Oluwale, a Nigerian man who drowned in 1969 after police harassment?
... that Ellen Bernstein was called the "birthmother of Jewish environmentalism"?
... that Charlotte FC opened their third season with their third manager?
... that Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving veteran of the Liechtenstein military, which was disbanded in 1866?
... that a new high school for the Pasco School District had to expand with portable classrooms within eight years of opening?
... that food stylist Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in Labor Day?
... that a local newspaper hosted a beauty pageant to celebrate the opening of New York City's Queensboro Bridge?
... that Donna Taggart's cover of Jenn Bostic's "Jealous of the Angels" charted at No. 85 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart after being featured in an episode of the cooking competition Great British Menu?
... that the metaverse has been described as "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts"?

7 April 2024

12:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Camilo Cienfuegos (left) and Fidel Castro (right)

... that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos (pictured) freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that in the first Romanian universal chronicle, Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of Olympian deities"?
... that Rodney, Mississippi, became a ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
... that Wayne Jacobs said that without football he would have been "dead by 30, or in prison"?
... that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
... that a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from Slaughterhouse-Five?
... that Centre College co-president Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while Robert J. McMullen, the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
... that a Japanese island has rapidly fluctuated in size?

00:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Dirham of Eretna with an inscription in the Uyghur script

... that the Eretnid dynasty that ruled central and eastern Anatolia during the 14th century was founded by Eretna (coin pictured), an Ilkhanid officer of Uyghur origin?
... that in 2021 Krisztofer Mészáros became the first Hungarian male gymnast in 22 years to qualify for a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around final?
... that Maggio di Accettura, a festival in Italy dedicated to the Christian martyr Saint Julian, might have pagan origins or be linked to Langobard history?
... that WFMT classical music radio host Don Tait owned such a large collection of recordings that he had to buy a house and have its floor reinforced to accommodate the weight?
... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
... that Rachelle Ann Go debuted in the West End and Broadway revivals of Miss Saigon portraying the role of a bargirl?
... that Nicki Minaj reacted to Megan Thee Stallion's "Hiss" with a 3,100-character Twitter diatribe and a diss track?
... that a San Diego State coach called Darius Durham "the best high school guy we've ever signed"?
... that Bangiales, an order of red algae, contains both the oldest-known sexually reproducing organism and the seaweed used to make sushi wrappers?

6 April 2024

12:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

The Feast of Bacchus by Philips Koninck

... that The Feast of Bacchus (pictured) went viral following a football game?
... that George Schollenberger was so well known as a high-school football coach that teams in the National Football League sometimes asked for his opinions?
... that as the title character in Marcelle, actress Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier?
... that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa?
... that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters, giant anteaters, and jaguars to the country?
... that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala, Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?
... that a Minneapolis TV station had newscasts that were "about as popular as the measles" with "sickening theme music"?
... that Alfred Cowles stopped publishing his stock market newsletter as he could not predict the stock market?
... that Sans was crowned as "Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman" on the same day that Elizabeth II died?

00:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Jean-Emmanuel Depraz

... that Jean-Emmanuel Depraz (pictured) won a Magic: The Gathering world championship using three cards depicting the player who beat him in 2021?
... that the ancient Jewish town of Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the Hasmonean family, built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
... that Kassiane Asasumasu coined the term neurodivergent in 2000?
... that having specific rather than vague goals tends to increase motivation and performance?
... that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
... that although some of the players on Liberty Christian Preparatory School's eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
... that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
... that Ariana Grande's song about Saturn returns, as well as SZA's and Kacey Musgraves's, were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
... that the phrase "togs, togs, undies" was popularised in New Zealand by an advertisement for Trumpet ice cream cones?

5 April 2024

12:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Untitled (2012–2013) by Aleksandra Waliszewska

... that gothic painter Aleksandra Waliszewska (artwork pictured) works with The Vampire's Wife?
... that the Seattle SuperSonics had consecutive seasons with identical records under different head coaches?
... that Alison Frantz's photographs played a crucial role in the decipherment of Linear B?
... that saving the Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40 Judas goats?
... that Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey, the only female member of the New Guinea Council, arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
... that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand?
... that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake?
... that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia?
... that the fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to steal food from other animals?

00:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

White-tailed jay

... that the white-tailed jay (example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by pre-Columbian trade?
... that Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
... that people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the unearthing of ancestral corpses?
... that Shel Kaphan was the first employee of Amazon?
... that the anniversary of the Singh v Canada decision is observed as Refugee Rights Day?
... that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language?
... that the Mars Society's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming?
... that one of the first female officers of the Milwaukee Police Department later served as chief of the department?
... that in semantics, antonym is an antonym of synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym?

4 April 2024

12:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hell Gate Bridge

... that in 2005, a magazine estimated that the Hell Gate Bridge (pictured) could last a thousand years if humans disappeared?
... that an Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts?
... that Wayne Cook tied the UCLA single-game record for touchdown passes in consecutive weeks en route to their first Rose Bowl in eight years?
... that the Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create Holyoke, Massachusetts' "own version of New York City's Central Park"?
... that, after Randy Travis lost most of his singing ability to a stroke in 2013, James Dupré has sung his songs for him in concert?
... that Video Seven released the first VGA video card with video RAM?
... that Émile Gilliéron was accused of making Minoan frescoes look like Vogue models?
... that a group of death row inmates filed a lawsuit when the U.S. government refused to confiscate their states' lethal injection drugs?
... that slave trader Jourdan Saunders greatly profited from a Louisiana law banning slave trading?

00:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Teleseme

... that hotel guests in the 1890s could use a teleseme (example pictured) to order cocktails and call manservants?
... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
... that the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter's primary accelerometer was based on those operational on SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
... that Bell Tea, founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
... that in one year, a team of Canadian All-Stars twice played against the U.S. college football national champion and came within one point of winning each game?
... that Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the Indonesian Communist Party's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
... that the Van Tran Flat Bridge was restored in 1984 using original construction techniques from the 1860s?
... that George E. Mylonas visited Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king Agamemnon?
... that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect?

3 April 2024

12:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Barren Island

... that Barren Island (pictured), located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India?
... that Irish International Brigader Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the Battle of Lopera during the Spanish Civil War?
... that the Brazilian social media page Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of Old Tupi, a dead language?
... that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
... that Greenpeace v. Eni is the first climate change lawsuit filed against a privately owned company in Italy?
... that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register?
... that the novel series Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group?
... that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?
... that an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks?

00:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Lviv headquarters of the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav

... that the Lviv branch of the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav (building pictured) was the main publisher of Polish literature in the Soviet Union by 1941?
... that TV Guide criticized Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction?
... that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally?
... that illustrator Abigail Larson once designed a wine-bottle label for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum?
... that the Indonesian city of Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of Medina"?
... that John Holahan recalled both being called a "lunatic" by his school's president for seeking a football game at night and being told afterward by the president, "I was the lunatic, not you"?
... that Beyoncé released a country ballad and an uptempo country pop western song on the same day?
... that some fans of Genshin Impact have referred to the character Paimon as "emergency food"?
... that an extinct French scarab beetle was discovered in a Prague factory?

2 April 2024

00:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Artist's impression of a ray cat

... that color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future?
... that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary?
... that the charm quark made physicists eat hats?
... that ur mum has an eleven-second scream?
... that the White Dagoba at Lianxing Temple was probably not originally made of an enormous pile of salt?
... that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history?
... that when Olivia Rodrigo spilled her guts, her obsession came out?
... that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies?
... that a blizzard helped end the Cold War?
... that Colin Mackay, the political editor at Scottish Television, was "very sad" when Colin MacKay, the political editor at Scottish Television, died?

1 April 2024

00:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Sodankylä Old Church

... that Sodankylä Old Church (pictured) is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland?
... that due to his Hungarian background, composer Henri Berény was banned from living and working in Paris during World War I and his home was seized by the French government?
... that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat?
... that Ruth Gottesman donated $1 billion to ensure free tuition for all students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine?
... that Gabriel García Márquez asked his sons to destroy Until August, but they instead published it after his death?
... that Zig Jackson is the first contemporary Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress?
... that hundreds of actors and other artists, as members of Artists4Ceasefire, are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
... that Ernie Shore pitched a combined no-hitter with Babe Ruth?
... that actor Corey Feldman knocked his own tooth out at Shank Hall?

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