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... that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important
Greek educational institution in
İzmir,
Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
... that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of
Nigeria's
Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be
caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
00:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Bill McKown(pictured) went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a
NavyE-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and
Distinguished Eagle Scout?
... that
Glee co-creator
Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
... that Harrisburg, now a
ghost town in
Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to
grasshopper plagues and
floods?
12:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
... that James E. Winner Jr. created
The Club(pictured in use), an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
... that after the Norwegian
monitorMjølner ran aground in 1869 the
court of inquiry found the ship's commander and
pilot liable for the repairs, but the
parliament cancelled the debt two years later?
... that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the
architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
... that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000
ft to show that it would not suffer
vapor lock from using
automotive fuel as a power source?
... that the ADEOS IIsatellite(artist's drawing pictured), which cost 70 billion
yen (US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the
solar panel malfunctioned?
... that Linda G. Tucker wrote that portrayals of criminal black men perpetuate the view that "a
nigger is not a person so much as a form of behaviour"?
... that as a
Major League Baseballscout for decades, Al LaMacchia would not use computers, radar guns or stop watches as scouting tools, saying "I trust my eyes ... Been good so far"?
12:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney(pictured) was the subject of
Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to
Arras"?
... that an irrigation dam
failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of
Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing
US$500,000 in damage?
... that the case of
Charles Stuart, a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax?
... that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known
spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known
biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as
Kevlar?
06:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Meyrick Helmet(pictured) combines the shape of a Roman
auxiliary helmet with Celtic
La Tène style decoration?
... that golden-flowered Australian native
daisyXerochrysum bracteatum(pictured) was developed into a wide variety of colours in
Arnstadt, Germany, in the 1850s?
... that the insignia of the 84th Infantry Regiment in the
French Army carried the words "UN CONTRE DIX" (One Against Ten) to commemorate the regiment's successful defence in the Battle of Graz in 1809?
... that a TV ad "I'm not lovin' it" has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it
vegetarian"?
... that one Keeper of the Archives at
Oxford University in the early 20th century criticised his predecessors' "fatal inability" to "destroy things when they are done with"?
... that one-third of the structures in
Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a
flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
... that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking, as a protest against what she saw as the rise of
broccoli, exercise and
Starbucks?
... that
fighting crickets are provided with female company before the fight, stimulated with
tickling during the fight, and buried in silver coffins after it?
12:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
... the
Laotian national ritual of the baci(pictured) involves tying strings around a person’s wrist to preserve good luck?
... that advertising executive Gene Case developed the "Thanks. I needed that." face slapping campaign for Mennen's
Skin Bracer aftershave and the Dragnet-inspired "tum-ta-tum-tum" for
Tums antacid?
... that Skënder Muço was one of the founders of the first battalion of the antifascist resistance movement of
Balli Kombëtar in
Vlorë?
... that the serial
sex offenderBatman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in
Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?
... that the leak of nine-year old singer
Willow Smith's single "Whip My Hair" was covered by Billboard, Time, and
CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000
YouTube views?
00:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Black False Hellebore(pictured) is a toilet cleaner which may be a cure for cancer?
... that double leg amputee Bob Wieland finished the
New York City Marathon in three days and crossed America in three years, eight months, and six days—all while walking on his hands?
23 September 2010
18:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
... that it is uncertain where adult speartooth sharks(pictured) live, as none have been captured?
... that Lucius Walker blamed
Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
... that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by
World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for
Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
... that the British
breastwork monitorHMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral
G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
... that after the county
cricket match between
Yorkshire and
Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
... that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops-class monitors were rated the worst in the
Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
... that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris, who served as
Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
... that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?
... that
American diplomat R. Smith Simpson wrote in 1962 that many students interested in joining the
Foreign Service knew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
... that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the
Ontario–
Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
... that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for E. G. Swain'sStoneground Ghost Tales, is based on
Stanground, Peterborough, where Swain himself was Vicar?
... that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 millionDeutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?
... that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by
Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
... that Seymour Pine, who led the
NYPD raid that triggered the
Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?
20 September 2010
18:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
... that many prisoners escaped from the Allen County Jail(pictured), which was hailed as the best
jail in southeastern
Kansas upon its completion?
... that artist William W. Fenn, although
blind, was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that in 1553–54, while seeking a northern passage from England to the
Indies,
Richard Chancellor established a trade route to Russia through the White Sea(pictured) instead?
... that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century
medievalmanor house he had moved brick by brick from
Sussex to the
Kent border?
... that radio mogul John Lynch initially played
football for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
... that ten years after releasing an
entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band
Yes won their first
Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?
19 September 2010
18:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Norcon pillbox(pictured) has been described as "possibly the most dangerous, cheap and nasty of all pillbox designs"?
... that author and
wine educator Karen MacNeil's book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
... that Canpotex manages the entire
Saskatchewanpotash-exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
... that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa'sMMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a
no contest or a
disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
... that Larry Ashmead wrote the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, with such people as Stan Dupp, a dentist named Dr. Fang and
Jaime Cardinal Sin(pictured) of the
Philippines?
... that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in
Norway?
... that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge
silver deposits were discovered near
Carlisle?
... that the family of Oskar Höcker, a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater, included three more writers: his brother Gustav, his son Paul Oskar, and his granddaughter Karla?
... that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle'skeep has a different dimension?
... that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
... that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including
gas meters, dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
... that according to legend,
Tomorr Mountain in Berat County(pictured) was personified by a giant who fought his brother for the love of a young woman, who weeped over their deaths to create the
Osum River?
... that former World Champion and record holder in
weightlifting,
Ymer Pampuri, was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
... that of his internment in
Sachsenhausen, Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?
... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the
Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the
Mounth crossings?
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of
antinomianism by his congregation in
Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
... that
BMW advertising executive Jack Pitney convinced the company to market the
Mini(pictured) in the U.S., despite concerns that American buyers would not buy cars that small given the popularity of
SUVs?
... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
... that
Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the
Torre Mayor(pictured) and the Mexican headquarters of
HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in
World War II?
... that Romstrade is the largest construction company in
Romania?
... that, as president of
U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less
terracotta cup from
North India and
Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
... that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional?
... that C. Joseph Genster of
Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the
Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG
Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
... that independent musician and
podcasterGeorge Hrab has customized his album
packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?
... that
Romanian police officer Virgil Ardelean avoided having to take sides in the
1989 Revolution by feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
... that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as
rabbi of
Baltimore's
Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
... that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
... that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during
World War I?
... that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in
architecture, sculpture, music and
literature?
... that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional
mixed martial arts record?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo", (pictured) was tested by
ducking as part of her trial for
witchcraft?
... that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on
Sheridan's The Rivals?
... that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's
official language, but later translated back to it instead?
... that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese
prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of
William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
... that Bob Topp helped the
New York Giants defeat the
Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
... that
Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in
Siena, are written in gold?
... that, during the
Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his
Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown,
Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
... that
Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?
12:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Hōshō(pictured) served as a repatriation transport after the end of
World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
... that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
00:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
... that
Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream(pictured) "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the
Toastmaster?
... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that Jackson Gillis, a
screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that Michel Montignac developed a
glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his
Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted
variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different
species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of
World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s,
New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial
proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian
Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river
monitorAlagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in
Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
... that the
gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-classmonitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
... that Nathan Redmond became
Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
... that
Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the
Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland
high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
... that a British rider at the
Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
... that in 1861, a local
Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?
... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the
exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in
Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the
Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about
theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
... that the Brazilian river
monitorPará was so badly damaged after
passing the Paraguayan fort at
Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare
cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional
arch bridge?
... that
Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland
British soil?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd
chief of
Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century
chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye,
Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when
Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of
Assam?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the
Stanford red"?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in
Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to
Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of
Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville(pictured), the first woman to climb
Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
... that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important
Greek educational institution in
İzmir,
Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
... that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of
Nigeria's
Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be
caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
00:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Bill McKown(pictured) went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a
NavyE-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and
Distinguished Eagle Scout?
... that
Glee co-creator
Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
... that Harrisburg, now a
ghost town in
Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to
grasshopper plagues and
floods?
12:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
... that James E. Winner Jr. created
The Club(pictured in use), an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
... that after the Norwegian
monitorMjølner ran aground in 1869 the
court of inquiry found the ship's commander and
pilot liable for the repairs, but the
parliament cancelled the debt two years later?
... that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the
architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
... that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000
ft to show that it would not suffer
vapor lock from using
automotive fuel as a power source?
... that the ADEOS IIsatellite(artist's drawing pictured), which cost 70 billion
yen (US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the
solar panel malfunctioned?
... that Linda G. Tucker wrote that portrayals of criminal black men perpetuate the view that "a
nigger is not a person so much as a form of behaviour"?
... that as a
Major League Baseballscout for decades, Al LaMacchia would not use computers, radar guns or stop watches as scouting tools, saying "I trust my eyes ... Been good so far"?
12:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney(pictured) was the subject of
Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to
Arras"?
... that an irrigation dam
failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of
Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing
US$500,000 in damage?
... that the case of
Charles Stuart, a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax?
... that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known
spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known
biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as
Kevlar?
06:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Meyrick Helmet(pictured) combines the shape of a Roman
auxiliary helmet with Celtic
La Tène style decoration?
... that golden-flowered Australian native
daisyXerochrysum bracteatum(pictured) was developed into a wide variety of colours in
Arnstadt, Germany, in the 1850s?
... that the insignia of the 84th Infantry Regiment in the
French Army carried the words "UN CONTRE DIX" (One Against Ten) to commemorate the regiment's successful defence in the Battle of Graz in 1809?
... that a TV ad "I'm not lovin' it" has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it
vegetarian"?
... that one Keeper of the Archives at
Oxford University in the early 20th century criticised his predecessors' "fatal inability" to "destroy things when they are done with"?
... that one-third of the structures in
Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a
flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
... that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking, as a protest against what she saw as the rise of
broccoli, exercise and
Starbucks?
... that
fighting crickets are provided with female company before the fight, stimulated with
tickling during the fight, and buried in silver coffins after it?
12:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
... the
Laotian national ritual of the baci(pictured) involves tying strings around a person’s wrist to preserve good luck?
... that advertising executive Gene Case developed the "Thanks. I needed that." face slapping campaign for Mennen's
Skin Bracer aftershave and the Dragnet-inspired "tum-ta-tum-tum" for
Tums antacid?
... that Skënder Muço was one of the founders of the first battalion of the antifascist resistance movement of
Balli Kombëtar in
Vlorë?
... that the serial
sex offenderBatman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in
Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?
... that the leak of nine-year old singer
Willow Smith's single "Whip My Hair" was covered by Billboard, Time, and
CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000
YouTube views?
00:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
... that Black False Hellebore(pictured) is a toilet cleaner which may be a cure for cancer?
... that double leg amputee Bob Wieland finished the
New York City Marathon in three days and crossed America in three years, eight months, and six days—all while walking on his hands?
23 September 2010
18:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
... that it is uncertain where adult speartooth sharks(pictured) live, as none have been captured?
... that Lucius Walker blamed
Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
... that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by
World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for
Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
... that the British
breastwork monitorHMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral
G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
... that after the county
cricket match between
Yorkshire and
Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
... that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops-class monitors were rated the worst in the
Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
... that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris, who served as
Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
... that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?
... that
American diplomat R. Smith Simpson wrote in 1962 that many students interested in joining the
Foreign Service knew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
... that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the
Ontario–
Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
... that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for E. G. Swain'sStoneground Ghost Tales, is based on
Stanground, Peterborough, where Swain himself was Vicar?
... that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 millionDeutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?
... that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by
Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
... that Seymour Pine, who led the
NYPD raid that triggered the
Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?
20 September 2010
18:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
... that many prisoners escaped from the Allen County Jail(pictured), which was hailed as the best
jail in southeastern
Kansas upon its completion?
... that artist William W. Fenn, although
blind, was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that in 1553–54, while seeking a northern passage from England to the
Indies,
Richard Chancellor established a trade route to Russia through the White Sea(pictured) instead?
... that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century
medievalmanor house he had moved brick by brick from
Sussex to the
Kent border?
... that radio mogul John Lynch initially played
football for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
... that ten years after releasing an
entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band
Yes won their first
Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?
19 September 2010
18:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Norcon pillbox(pictured) has been described as "possibly the most dangerous, cheap and nasty of all pillbox designs"?
... that author and
wine educator Karen MacNeil's book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
... that Canpotex manages the entire
Saskatchewanpotash-exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
... that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa'sMMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a
no contest or a
disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
... that Larry Ashmead wrote the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, with such people as Stan Dupp, a dentist named Dr. Fang and
Jaime Cardinal Sin(pictured) of the
Philippines?
... that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in
Norway?
... that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge
silver deposits were discovered near
Carlisle?
... that the family of Oskar Höcker, a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater, included three more writers: his brother Gustav, his son Paul Oskar, and his granddaughter Karla?
... that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle'skeep has a different dimension?
... that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
... that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including
gas meters, dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
... that according to legend,
Tomorr Mountain in Berat County(pictured) was personified by a giant who fought his brother for the love of a young woman, who weeped over their deaths to create the
Osum River?
... that former World Champion and record holder in
weightlifting,
Ymer Pampuri, was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
... that of his internment in
Sachsenhausen, Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?
... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the
Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the
Mounth crossings?
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of
antinomianism by his congregation in
Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
... that
BMW advertising executive Jack Pitney convinced the company to market the
Mini(pictured) in the U.S., despite concerns that American buyers would not buy cars that small given the popularity of
SUVs?
... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
... that
Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the
Torre Mayor(pictured) and the Mexican headquarters of
HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in
World War II?
... that Romstrade is the largest construction company in
Romania?
... that, as president of
U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less
terracotta cup from
North India and
Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
... that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional?
... that C. Joseph Genster of
Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the
Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG
Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
... that independent musician and
podcasterGeorge Hrab has customized his album
packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?
... that
Romanian police officer Virgil Ardelean avoided having to take sides in the
1989 Revolution by feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
... that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as
rabbi of
Baltimore's
Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
... that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
... that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during
World War I?
... that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in
architecture, sculpture, music and
literature?
... that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional
mixed martial arts record?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo", (pictured) was tested by
ducking as part of her trial for
witchcraft?
... that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on
Sheridan's The Rivals?
... that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's
official language, but later translated back to it instead?
... that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese
prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of
William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
... that Bob Topp helped the
New York Giants defeat the
Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
... that
Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in
Siena, are written in gold?
... that, during the
Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his
Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown,
Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
... that
Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?
12:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
... that the Hōshō(pictured) served as a repatriation transport after the end of
World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
... that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
00:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
... that
Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream(pictured) "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the
Toastmaster?
... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that Jackson Gillis, a
screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that Michel Montignac developed a
glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his
Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted
variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different
species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of
World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s,
New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial
proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian
Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river
monitorAlagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in
Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
... that the
gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-classmonitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
... that Nathan Redmond became
Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
... that
Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the
Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland
high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
... that a British rider at the
Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
... that in 1861, a local
Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?
... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the
exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in
Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the
Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about
theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
... that the Brazilian river
monitorPará was so badly damaged after
passing the Paraguayan fort at
Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare
cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional
arch bridge?
... that
Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland
British soil?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd
chief of
Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century
chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye,
Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when
Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of
Assam?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the
Stanford red"?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in
Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to
Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of
Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville(pictured), the first woman to climb
Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?