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... that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the
Rigveda?
... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?
... that the mountain Piotruś in the
Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint
John of Dukla is said to have rested?
... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in
Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain
unstudied?
... that
Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
... that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a
fault has moved?
... that the Ombla River near
Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the
Adriatic Sea?
... that
2012 Australian weightlifting OlympianSeen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?
00:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam(pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of
steelhead trout?
... that
William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
... that the Japanese release of
"Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
... that six bankers spent more than
£44,000 on wine at
Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?
... that
Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011?
... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the
2012 Summer Olympics?
... that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for
FOX about his experiences as a single father?
... that by its third volume, the
mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator
Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the
2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1971, Governor
Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit
Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
... that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?
... that in June 2012,
Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
... that pale spear-nosed bats(pictured) have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human
primates?
... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
... that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in
San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
... that German
dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
... that the title of the
Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a
bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?
24 June 2012
17:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats (pictured) were designed to confuse observers in
U-boats with their
dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
... that over five hundred
Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in
Hokkaidō?
... that
Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet
leaked online?
... that the 2012 election for mayor of
Gaborone,
Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
... that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?
... that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?
08:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the call of the Red-necked Avocet(pictured) has been likened to a dog barking?
... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
... that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother,
Queen Agnes?
00:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
... that twenty Bahraini health workers (some pictured)were sentenced to up to fifteen years' imprisonment by a
military court in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?
... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the
Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
... that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish
cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?
... that the judges in Salinger v. Random House found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?
... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?
... that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in
Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?
... that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her
local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?
08:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces (pictured) that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?
... that Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in
Prague, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
... that Australian archer Jesse McDonald has had a goal of making the
Summer Olympics since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
... that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning
Glendower House?
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African
fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from
Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that
simians first evolved in Asia?
... that the name of the 1983
Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
... that three ten-foot-high (3 m)
bronze horses (one pictured) in the
City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to
Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?
... that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a
carnivoran and a
loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct
adapiform primates?
... that Bozh, the first
Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and
crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading
Ostrogoths?
... that
National League's 1934 Most Popular
UmpireDolly Stark(pictured) created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?
... that Samestate had two top-20 songs – "Hurricane" and "Shadows" – on the
Christian CHR chart?
... that
Roy Lichtenstein's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
... that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic
archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's
recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?
... that the third digit in the
banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?
08:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
development of the Ten Broeck Triangle(houses on Hall Place, pictured) in
Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?
... that while flying accidents were commonplace at
RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?
... that the 2012 deployment of Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier
Enterprise(pictured)?
... that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
... that
Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe
Osiris' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world?
... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the
2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it?
08:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the Centripetal Spring Armchair of 1849 (pictured), one of the first modern
office chairs, was unsuccessful outside the US because it was considered immorally comfortable?
... that communist politician Rustam Effendi wrote the first Indonesian stage play?
... that the Japanese
art filmMegane, described as "an ode to the pleasures of unhurried living", was given its name after the director realized most characters wore glasses?
... that stock car racer Joey McCarthy started racing at age ten?
... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church(pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"?
... that Australian multiple swimming world record holder Benard Kieran took up swimming while serving time aboard a reformatory ship?
... that
Cheap Trick's song "Southern Girls" is about girls in southern Canada, but the title was changed because writer
Rick Nielsen didn't like the sound of "Southern Canadian Girls"?
... that exposed oak beams in the plantation house at Walnut Grove reveal
Roman numerals marking where
joists are to be attached?
... that when Cape Cod's village of Long Point, Massachusetts(pictured) became a
ghost town, its residents took their houses with them – by floating them across the harbor?
... that
Roy Lichtenstein's Happy Tears was acquired in 1964 and not resold until 2002, when it established a new record for the auction price of a Lichtenstein work?
... that actor
Alex Papps was still being recognised as his Home and Away character Frank Morgan twenty years after he originally departed the series?
... that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that
feminism has achieved its goals?
... that in The Wedding Dance(pictured), a 1566 oil painting by
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the movements of the people show that they are acting inappropriately or in an epitome of rustic buffoonery?
... that despite not playing
football before he was 10 years old, Zymer Bytyqi became the youngest player in
Tippeligaen aged 15 years and 261 days?
... that the title of the Japanese-language album 20 [Twenty] by South Korean
rock band
F.T. Island refers to the
average age of the band members?
... that a character in the British
farceSimple Spymen remarks he needs "a thin moustache on the top lip and a pointed beard on the bottom" to pass for a Frenchman?
... that the racehorse
Parisot, winner of the 1796
Epsom Oaks, was named after French ballet dancer Mademoiselle Parisot(pictured), whose performance created a stir in London that year?
... that satirist Abdul Samay Hamed was attacked by a knife-wielding man, but succeeded in disarming his attacker?
... that an 1888 letter written by Weldy Walker(pictured), the second African American in
Major League Baseball, was called "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete"?
... that An Ruzi was made ruler of
Qi despite being just a little boy, but was killed by his older brother Duke Dao of Qi after less than a year on the throne?
... that "No Me Ames", a duet by American recording artists
Jennifer Lopez and
Marc Anthony, is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta?
... that over one thousand shelters were opened to accommodate
evacuees from Hurricane Bud?
... that Bronwyn Oliver's 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 metres (52 ft) high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders?
00:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
Neltje Blanchan's 1897 book Bird Neighbors used photographs of stuffed birds (red-winged blackbird pictured) because contemporary cameras could not take good photographs of living ones?
... that
Australian OpalTess Madgen's U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships?
... that the German National Library of Economics, with over 4 million items and 46 kilometers of shelf space, is the world's largest economics library?
... that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf, born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of
New South Wales"?
... that Thomas Dick,
Superintendent of
Otago Province in New Zealand, "distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance"?
... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the
Australian Opals?
... that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman
Clement Vallandigham's arrest and trial by military commission by means of
habeas corpus?
... that in State v.Ben Kuhl(mugshot pictured), precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just
fingerprints?
... that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?
... that
wood wasps and their fungal
symbionts, Amylostereum fungi (pictured), may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?
... that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of
Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?
... that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?
... that in Nguyen v. INS, the
US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
... that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in
Rihanna's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
... that Snurge was the first
maiden to win the
St. Leger Stakes for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?
00:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
... that Stanisław Klimecki(pictured) served as the
President of
Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the
Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?
... that 12-year-old
Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the
holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?
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 while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the
Rigveda?
... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?
... that the mountain Piotruś in the
Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint
John of Dukla is said to have rested?
... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in
Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain
unstudied?
... that
Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
... that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a
fault has moved?
... that the Ombla River near
Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the
Adriatic Sea?
... that
2012 Australian weightlifting OlympianSeen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?
00:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam(pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of
steelhead trout?
... that
William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
... that the Japanese release of
"Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
... that six bankers spent more than
£44,000 on wine at
Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?
... that
Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011?
... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the
2012 Summer Olympics?
... that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for
FOX about his experiences as a single father?
... that by its third volume, the
mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator
Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the
2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1971, Governor
Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit
Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
... that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?
... that in June 2012,
Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
... that pale spear-nosed bats(pictured) have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human
primates?
... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
... that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in
San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
... that German
dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
... that the title of the
Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a
bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?
24 June 2012
17:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats (pictured) were designed to confuse observers in
U-boats with their
dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
... that over five hundred
Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in
Hokkaidō?
... that
Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet
leaked online?
... that the 2012 election for mayor of
Gaborone,
Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
... that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?
... that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?
08:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the call of the Red-necked Avocet(pictured) has been likened to a dog barking?
... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
... that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother,
Queen Agnes?
00:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
... that twenty Bahraini health workers (some pictured)were sentenced to up to fifteen years' imprisonment by a
military court in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?
... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the
Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
... that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish
cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?
... that the judges in Salinger v. Random House found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?
... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?
... that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in
Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?
... that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her
local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?
08:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces (pictured) that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?
... that Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in
Prague, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
... that Australian archer Jesse McDonald has had a goal of making the
Summer Olympics since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
... that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning
Glendower House?
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African
fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from
Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that
simians first evolved in Asia?
... that the name of the 1983
Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
... that three ten-foot-high (3 m)
bronze horses (one pictured) in the
City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to
Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?
... that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a
carnivoran and a
loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct
adapiform primates?
... that Bozh, the first
Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and
crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading
Ostrogoths?
... that
National League's 1934 Most Popular
UmpireDolly Stark(pictured) created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?
... that Samestate had two top-20 songs – "Hurricane" and "Shadows" – on the
Christian CHR chart?
... that
Roy Lichtenstein's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
... that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic
archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's
recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?
... that the third digit in the
banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?
08:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
development of the Ten Broeck Triangle(houses on Hall Place, pictured) in
Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?
... that while flying accidents were commonplace at
RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?
... that the 2012 deployment of Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier
Enterprise(pictured)?
... that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
... that
Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe
Osiris' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world?
... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the
2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it?
08:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
... that the Centripetal Spring Armchair of 1849 (pictured), one of the first modern
office chairs, was unsuccessful outside the US because it was considered immorally comfortable?
... that communist politician Rustam Effendi wrote the first Indonesian stage play?
... that the Japanese
art filmMegane, described as "an ode to the pleasures of unhurried living", was given its name after the director realized most characters wore glasses?
... that stock car racer Joey McCarthy started racing at age ten?
... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church(pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"?
... that Australian multiple swimming world record holder Benard Kieran took up swimming while serving time aboard a reformatory ship?
... that
Cheap Trick's song "Southern Girls" is about girls in southern Canada, but the title was changed because writer
Rick Nielsen didn't like the sound of "Southern Canadian Girls"?
... that exposed oak beams in the plantation house at Walnut Grove reveal
Roman numerals marking where
joists are to be attached?
... that when Cape Cod's village of Long Point, Massachusetts(pictured) became a
ghost town, its residents took their houses with them – by floating them across the harbor?
... that
Roy Lichtenstein's Happy Tears was acquired in 1964 and not resold until 2002, when it established a new record for the auction price of a Lichtenstein work?
... that actor
Alex Papps was still being recognised as his Home and Away character Frank Morgan twenty years after he originally departed the series?
... that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that
feminism has achieved its goals?
... that in The Wedding Dance(pictured), a 1566 oil painting by
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the movements of the people show that they are acting inappropriately or in an epitome of rustic buffoonery?
... that despite not playing
football before he was 10 years old, Zymer Bytyqi became the youngest player in
Tippeligaen aged 15 years and 261 days?
... that the title of the Japanese-language album 20 [Twenty] by South Korean
rock band
F.T. Island refers to the
average age of the band members?
... that a character in the British
farceSimple Spymen remarks he needs "a thin moustache on the top lip and a pointed beard on the bottom" to pass for a Frenchman?
... that the racehorse
Parisot, winner of the 1796
Epsom Oaks, was named after French ballet dancer Mademoiselle Parisot(pictured), whose performance created a stir in London that year?
... that satirist Abdul Samay Hamed was attacked by a knife-wielding man, but succeeded in disarming his attacker?
... that an 1888 letter written by Weldy Walker(pictured), the second African American in
Major League Baseball, was called "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete"?
... that An Ruzi was made ruler of
Qi despite being just a little boy, but was killed by his older brother Duke Dao of Qi after less than a year on the throne?
... that "No Me Ames", a duet by American recording artists
Jennifer Lopez and
Marc Anthony, is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta?
... that over one thousand shelters were opened to accommodate
evacuees from Hurricane Bud?
... that Bronwyn Oliver's 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 metres (52 ft) high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders?
00:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
... that
Neltje Blanchan's 1897 book Bird Neighbors used photographs of stuffed birds (red-winged blackbird pictured) because contemporary cameras could not take good photographs of living ones?
... that
Australian OpalTess Madgen's U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships?
... that the German National Library of Economics, with over 4 million items and 46 kilometers of shelf space, is the world's largest economics library?
... that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf, born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of
New South Wales"?
... that Thomas Dick,
Superintendent of
Otago Province in New Zealand, "distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance"?
... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the
Australian Opals?
... that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman
Clement Vallandigham's arrest and trial by military commission by means of
habeas corpus?
... that in State v.Ben Kuhl(mugshot pictured), precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just
fingerprints?
... that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?
... that
wood wasps and their fungal
symbionts, Amylostereum fungi (pictured), may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?
... that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of
Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?
... that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?
... that in Nguyen v. INS, the
US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
... that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in
Rihanna's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
... that Snurge was the first
maiden to win the
St. Leger Stakes for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?
00:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
... that Stanisław Klimecki(pictured) served as the
President of
Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the
Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?
... that 12-year-old
Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the
holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?