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31 October 2015
12:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Rheithrosciurus macrotis
... that the "vampire squirrel" (pictured) of Borneo, which is reputed to eat the livers and hearts of chickens and deer, has the largest-known tail-to-body-size ratio of any mammal?
... that when Lawrence Joseph Bader returned from the dead, he ruined his wife's wedding plans?
00:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Trinity Mountains in Boise National Forest
... that mammals present in the Boise National Forest(pictured) include mule deer, elk, moose, black bear, pronghorn, mountain lion, coyote, bobcat, yellow-bellied marmot, beaver, and gray wolf?
... that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients?
... that Montignac is the main centre for visiting
Lascaux and other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley in France?
... that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in
Oaxaca, Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free?
... that the romantic comedy film Obvious Child was praised for its portrayal of abortion?
... that Rosamind Julius and her husband were the entrepreneurs behind the world's most commercially successful chair?
... that Dana Records switched back from vinyl to
shellac for its 78-rpm records because dealers complained their product was too durable?
... that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"?
... that Hettesheimer Run was historically used as an industrial water supply, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
... that the premiere of
Aaron Copland's Connotations, on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
... that although the town clerk, Edward Hart, wrote the
Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial
New Netherland?
... that in 1933, accountant and furniture importer Louis Fles wrote an anti-Nazi radio address that was so strident, it was banned by the Dutch government?
... that Ethel Mairet has been called "the mother of English hand-weaving"?
... that the Umaid Bhawan Palace was constructed in 1928 to assist famine-stricken farmers by employing 2,000 to 3,000 people as builders?
... that 95 years after the first documented use of the name "Boile Run" for a tributary of the
Susquehanna River, government officials recommended adopting it?
... that Ernst Beyeler, "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010?
... that Keizō Hayashi(pictured) was a Japanese civil servant and general officer who was instrumental in the founding of the
Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1954?
... that the typical habitat of the Tumbes sparrow is dry scrub, open dry woodland, and semi-desert?
... that
Armenian nationalist revolutionary Aram Manukian organized two successful resistances against the Turks in a three-year period?
... that an international jazz festival is held annually in the French town of Souillac?
... that monks who wanted to live a life of solitude in the 16th-century "desert" hermitages founded by Thomas á Jesu had to apply and meet strict criteria?
... that the counter at the London
sushi restaurant The Araki is made from 200-year-old wood donated by musician
Ryuichi Sakamoto?
00:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Fizeau's experiment, experimental setup
... that the Fizeau experiment(setup pictured) was one of the key experimental results that shaped
Einstein's thinking about relativity?
... that the suspect who was subdued by six men during the train attack heading to Paris was shown on television in handcuffs at trial (prior to conviction), which is illegal in France?
... that Chilly McIntosh, who was nearly assassinated for agreeing to sell
Creek tribal lands, later became a respected and influential figure in the Creek Nation?
... that Emilie von Berlepsch(pictured) described herself as "fighting against the prejudice that wants to grant women neither a will of their own nor the courage to express it"?
... that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of
PepsiCo North America Nutrition?
... that a town councillor in Ermua was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist movement
ETA in 1997?
... that exhibits in the DakshinaChitra museum highlight cultural aspects of the
Brahminical people, and the craft traditions of heritage homes (examples pictured) of
South India?
... that Isabelle Eberhardt's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse?
... that in "Spit & Eggs", an episode of Veronica Mars, director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film?
... that Tracy Dahl's voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"?
... that despite having the highest per capita GDP of all African nations,
Equatorial Guinea is ranked one of the lowest countries by measure of the quality of life due to corruption?
... that the Goa Vikas Party, which has two seats in the 40-member
legislature of the Indian state of
Goa, is a part of the ruling coalition in the state?
... that television presenter Suzanne Sjögren was selected as Sweden's sexiest woman by the men's magazine Slitz in 2001?
... that the name of crescentina bread is derived in part from the Italian word
crescere, which means "to grow?"
23 October 2015
13:41, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Hounds on the Scent
... that Norwegian painter Karl Uchermann is known for his many portraits of dogs (example pictured)?
... that although players can use created characters in Sword Art Online: Lost Song's story mode, the story will progress as if protagonist Kirito had been used?
... that
Roddy Piper and
Keith David, who throw punches at each other in They Live (1988), provided their voices for "The Red Throne" in which their characters engage in a similar fight?
... that Forte Tenors met in person only two days before their audition for America's Got Talent—their first-ever performance together?
... that the diversion of mine seepage away from Furnace Run in the 1950s reduced the stream's ability to carry away waste?
... that social activist Natwar Thakkar, who has been working in the Indian state of
Nagaland since 1955, is known as "Nagaland's Gandhi"?
... that Melipona beecheii bees were considered by the Mayan Indians to be an endowment of their god
Ah-Muzen-Cab and were the focus of many Mayan religious ceremonies?
... that a street in
Rome is named after female Italian mathematician Pia Nalli?
... that Derby Racecourse remained closed after the Second World War because the local council feared racing would "bring the wrong sort of people into the town"?
19 October 2015
12:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Barrage Vauban, October 2012
... that the principal defensive function of the Barrage Vauban in
Strasbourg was to enable the flooding of all the lands south of the city, making them impassable to the enemy?
... that a previously unknown script found on an altar at the Grakliani Hill archeological site in
Georgia is 1000 years older than any other script in the
Caucasus?
... that Mayfield Mall, now a Google office building, was the first air-conditioned enclosed mall in Northern California?
... that Teddy's Bigger Burgers' business plan was formulated during casual backyard barbecues?
18 October 2015
12:14, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Bathers Along the Shore, 1910
... that American artist Louise Upton Brumback(painting pictured) said of artists as teachers that "the great ones won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach"?
... that queens of the fossil ant Pachycondyla petiolosa are described as being heavy and massive?
... that Split, the debut novel by
Swati Avasthi, an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards?
... that
DEC's VT1000X terminals were designed for simplicity after the firm found their expensive
workstations were being used mostly as glorified text terminals?
... that the
Dwarakadhisa Temple(pictured), a five storied edifice in Dwarka, has a 78-metre (256 ft) spire on which is hoisted a large flag with symbols of the sun and moon?
... that the iPhone 6S features technology known as 3D Touch?
... that in 1911, journalist Mabel Potter Daggett wrote that practicing yoga leads to "marital infelicity, insanity, and death"?
... that Russian-American singer-songwriter Olga Bell's album Krai was sung entirely in Russian?
... that in 1904 Hermann Pauly described the
Pauly reaction, which detects the presence of two amino acids in proteins?
... that an unfinished ending was found for
Satoshi Kon's
manga series Opus after his death and included in the collected volume?
... that 20th-century Indian Islamic scholar Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee advocated the need to incorporate modern reforms in
Islamic law without compromising on the "essential spirit of Islam"?
... that for conventional computers,
Landauer's principle gives a nonzero lower bound on energy per step, but the energy usage of reversible cellular automata can be arbitrarily close to zero?
... that even on −50 °C (−58 °F) days when other offices in
Yellowknife close, the Greenstone Building(pictured), opened ten years ago today, is warm enough for workers to stay at their desks?
... that upon her introduction in 1987, Ruth Archer stood out from the other female characters featured in The Archers as she was a farmer and a feminist?
... that the production of
Chablis wine in the department of Yonne was devastated in the nineteenth century by
powdery mildew, Phylloxera and the development of the railways?
... that the Lutheran composer Andreas Raselius wrote the first German-language cycle of Gospel
motets for use throughout an entire year of church services?
... that in Gunfright, the player takes the role of a
sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating
outlaws who are scattered throughout the settlement?
... that E. E. Holman's gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the
National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory (pictured)?
... that
genetics researcher and
MIT professor emeritus Mary-Lou Pardue once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead?
... that the velvet-fronted grackle joins other birds in small, noisy flocks and sometimes forages on floating vegetation on lakes?
... that in the war against
Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"?
... that construction materials for the Waste House(pictured) included floppy disks, VHS cassettes, bicycle inner tubes, old jeans and 20,000 toothbrushes?
... that the protagonist of the 2005 film Anniyan is a
grim reaper-style serial killer whose website depicts all the punishments that await sinners in hell?
... that the fossil ant Myanmyrma has mandibles almost as long as its head?
... that greening the barren forest of Arabari was brought about by setting up
Joint Forest Management committees between local villagers and government?
... that Cyclone Rusty caused sustained gales that affected
Port Hedland for a record-breaking 39 hours straight?
... that Trigona corvina is a highly aggressive species of stingless bee?
... that traditional gunplay and vehicle gameplay featured in the Far Cry series were removed in Far Cry Primal because the latter is set in
prehistory?
... that Isaac Dripps invented the railroad locomotive cowcatcher?
... that the bomb vessel HMS Endeavour was so inaccurate that the
Royal Navy sold it after less than two years of active service?
03:30, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Horse cheekpiece with winged sphinx
... that scenes on
Iron AgeLuristan bronzes(example illustrated) from Iran include "odd-looking demons and animals apparently involved in cultic and mythological activities"?
... that Luther Atwood invented "coup oil", the first oil extracted from coal?
... that female Exoneura robusta, a species of Australian "reed bee," will often co-found a new colony with other unrelated females?
... that 30 years after joining the
Royal Bank of Canada as a teller, Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries?
... that Slovak sociologist and politician Anton Štefánek campaigned for the unification of the Czechs and Slovaks and promoted the concept of
Czechoslovakism?
... that
Arvo Pärt composed De profundis, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West?
... that a blast ball is a type of hand grenade used by police for riot control?
6 October 2015
22:03, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Aram Karamanoukian
... that Aram Karamanoukian(pictured) became a
Syrian general after surviving the
Armenian Genocide and was awarded medals from Egypt, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, and France?
... that juvenile caimans have relatively shorter snouts and larger eyes than adults?
... that the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine was established this year after amendment of a 1917 law that had given the University of Washington "sole authority" to offer medical education in the state?
... that the number of people living in a farm in Brugherio was recorded by a saint?
... that when the author of Scarface Nation bought Scarface pajamas, they "kind of freaked out" his wife?
09:48, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
M/V Leschi
... that the
fireboatLeschi can be used as a pumping station to allow firefighters to draw seawater in the event of a disaster that destroys Seattle's water mains?
... that basketball player Jordan Sibert transferred to
Dayton to get more playing time?
... that the music video for "Runnin' (Lose It All)" was performed by two
freedivers who had to hold their breath for up to six minutes at a time while shooting?
5 October 2015
19:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
A typical exhibit at Michigan Heritage Park
... that the Michigan Heritage Park(typical exhibit pictured) is an outdoor attraction that spans 10,000 years of Michigan history?
... that organised crime is alleged to take place in the Italian provinces of Catanzaro and Crotone?
... that the actress Ester Textorius(pictured) performed in a number of
operettes, and though successful, never considered herself a good enough singer for such roles?
... that in 2015, the river interlinking project involving inter-basin transfer of surplus water from the Daman Ganga River was approved for implementation?
... that the fossil ant Pachycondyla? messeliana was only tentatively placed into the genus Pachycondyla due to the conditions of preservation?
... that although he only moved to English football in 2015,
Everton's Leandro Rodríguez scored in a league match against
Liverpool three years earlier?
... that Professor Xiaoxing Xi was arrested on charges of having sent restricted technology to China, but was exonerated when scientists found that the prosecutors had misunderstood the evidence?
4 October 2015
18:53, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
2WD 1:10 scale radio-controlled off-road buggy
... that the 1:10 radio-controlled off-road buggies(pictured) were so popular in the 1980s that toy companies cashed in by producing their own inexpensive ready-to-run toy versions?
... that in 1890, Henry Lowenfeld, a Polish immigrant, established the UK's first brewer of non-alcoholic beer, in
Fulham, London?
... that in 2013, Marcus Cooper bought seven houses in central London, to allow the creation of a £200 million "supermansion", selling them and the project to fellow property developer
Christian Candy in 2014?
... that the Dutch composer Johann Wanning wrote the first known musical
epithalamium—a poem written for a new bride heading to the marital bedchamber for the first time?
... that in May 2004, rains falling at rates of up to 4 inches (10 cm) per hour caused flash flooding on Moneypenny Creek?
... that the James Beard Public Market will be located near the former site of the
Portland Public Market, which was the largest supermarket in the United States when it was built in 1933?
... that the Puccio family, who were involved in kidnappings and murders in Argentina in the 1980s, are the subject of the film The Clan and the TV series Historia de un clan?
Paul Newman (left) and Melvyn Douglas (right) in Hud
... that although
Paul Newman(pictured) and director
Martin Ritt conceived the eponymous lead of Hud as morally repugnant, they were astonished to find young audiences warming to the character?
... that Algerian filmmaker Nadia Labidi is also a politician who served as Minister of Culture from May 2014 to May 2015?
... that when Turtle Rock Studios was established, it was housed in a garage?
... that
Cao Yanhua won her first national table tennis championship after only two months of training under world champion Zhou Lansun, who she said was like a devil?
... that the lesbian romantic coming-of-age drama, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), was the first film for which three artists received the
Palme d'Or?
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.
31 October 2015
12:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Rheithrosciurus macrotis
... that the "vampire squirrel" (pictured) of Borneo, which is reputed to eat the livers and hearts of chickens and deer, has the largest-known tail-to-body-size ratio of any mammal?
... that when Lawrence Joseph Bader returned from the dead, he ruined his wife's wedding plans?
00:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Trinity Mountains in Boise National Forest
... that mammals present in the Boise National Forest(pictured) include mule deer, elk, moose, black bear, pronghorn, mountain lion, coyote, bobcat, yellow-bellied marmot, beaver, and gray wolf?
... that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients?
... that Montignac is the main centre for visiting
Lascaux and other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley in France?
... that Dutch architect Tonny Zwollo was featured in Life magazine for building 35 schools in
Oaxaca, Mexico, and convincing the community members to help build them for free?
... that the romantic comedy film Obvious Child was praised for its portrayal of abortion?
... that Rosamind Julius and her husband were the entrepreneurs behind the world's most commercially successful chair?
... that Dana Records switched back from vinyl to
shellac for its 78-rpm records because dealers complained their product was too durable?
... that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"?
... that Hettesheimer Run was historically used as an industrial water supply, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
... that the premiere of
Aaron Copland's Connotations, on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
... that although the town clerk, Edward Hart, wrote the
Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial
New Netherland?
... that in 1933, accountant and furniture importer Louis Fles wrote an anti-Nazi radio address that was so strident, it was banned by the Dutch government?
... that Ethel Mairet has been called "the mother of English hand-weaving"?
... that the Umaid Bhawan Palace was constructed in 1928 to assist famine-stricken farmers by employing 2,000 to 3,000 people as builders?
... that 95 years after the first documented use of the name "Boile Run" for a tributary of the
Susquehanna River, government officials recommended adopting it?
... that Ernst Beyeler, "the greatest art dealer since the war", left a collection worth at least $1.85 billion when he died in 2010?
... that Keizō Hayashi(pictured) was a Japanese civil servant and general officer who was instrumental in the founding of the
Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1954?
... that the typical habitat of the Tumbes sparrow is dry scrub, open dry woodland, and semi-desert?
... that
Armenian nationalist revolutionary Aram Manukian organized two successful resistances against the Turks in a three-year period?
... that an international jazz festival is held annually in the French town of Souillac?
... that monks who wanted to live a life of solitude in the 16th-century "desert" hermitages founded by Thomas á Jesu had to apply and meet strict criteria?
... that the counter at the London
sushi restaurant The Araki is made from 200-year-old wood donated by musician
Ryuichi Sakamoto?
00:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Fizeau's experiment, experimental setup
... that the Fizeau experiment(setup pictured) was one of the key experimental results that shaped
Einstein's thinking about relativity?
... that the suspect who was subdued by six men during the train attack heading to Paris was shown on television in handcuffs at trial (prior to conviction), which is illegal in France?
... that Chilly McIntosh, who was nearly assassinated for agreeing to sell
Creek tribal lands, later became a respected and influential figure in the Creek Nation?
... that Emilie von Berlepsch(pictured) described herself as "fighting against the prejudice that wants to grant women neither a will of their own nor the courage to express it"?
... that Debra Crew surprised business observers when she became president of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company only two months after being named president of
PepsiCo North America Nutrition?
... that a town councillor in Ermua was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist movement
ETA in 1997?
... that exhibits in the DakshinaChitra museum highlight cultural aspects of the
Brahminical people, and the craft traditions of heritage homes (examples pictured) of
South India?
... that Isabelle Eberhardt's first story, published in 1895, was about a medical student's physical attraction to a woman's corpse?
... that in "Spit & Eggs", an episode of Veronica Mars, director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film?
... that Tracy Dahl's voice has been described as "filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light"?
... that despite having the highest per capita GDP of all African nations,
Equatorial Guinea is ranked one of the lowest countries by measure of the quality of life due to corruption?
... that the Goa Vikas Party, which has two seats in the 40-member
legislature of the Indian state of
Goa, is a part of the ruling coalition in the state?
... that television presenter Suzanne Sjögren was selected as Sweden's sexiest woman by the men's magazine Slitz in 2001?
... that the name of crescentina bread is derived in part from the Italian word
crescere, which means "to grow?"
23 October 2015
13:41, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Hounds on the Scent
... that Norwegian painter Karl Uchermann is known for his many portraits of dogs (example pictured)?
... that although players can use created characters in Sword Art Online: Lost Song's story mode, the story will progress as if protagonist Kirito had been used?
... that
Roddy Piper and
Keith David, who throw punches at each other in They Live (1988), provided their voices for "The Red Throne" in which their characters engage in a similar fight?
... that Forte Tenors met in person only two days before their audition for America's Got Talent—their first-ever performance together?
... that the diversion of mine seepage away from Furnace Run in the 1950s reduced the stream's ability to carry away waste?
... that social activist Natwar Thakkar, who has been working in the Indian state of
Nagaland since 1955, is known as "Nagaland's Gandhi"?
... that Melipona beecheii bees were considered by the Mayan Indians to be an endowment of their god
Ah-Muzen-Cab and were the focus of many Mayan religious ceremonies?
... that a street in
Rome is named after female Italian mathematician Pia Nalli?
... that Derby Racecourse remained closed after the Second World War because the local council feared racing would "bring the wrong sort of people into the town"?
19 October 2015
12:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Barrage Vauban, October 2012
... that the principal defensive function of the Barrage Vauban in
Strasbourg was to enable the flooding of all the lands south of the city, making them impassable to the enemy?
... that a previously unknown script found on an altar at the Grakliani Hill archeological site in
Georgia is 1000 years older than any other script in the
Caucasus?
... that Mayfield Mall, now a Google office building, was the first air-conditioned enclosed mall in Northern California?
... that Teddy's Bigger Burgers' business plan was formulated during casual backyard barbecues?
18 October 2015
12:14, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Bathers Along the Shore, 1910
... that American artist Louise Upton Brumback(painting pictured) said of artists as teachers that "the great ones won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach"?
... that queens of the fossil ant Pachycondyla petiolosa are described as being heavy and massive?
... that Split, the debut novel by
Swati Avasthi, an Indian American writer and teacher, was published in 2010 and received a plethora of awards?
... that
DEC's VT1000X terminals were designed for simplicity after the firm found their expensive
workstations were being used mostly as glorified text terminals?
... that the
Dwarakadhisa Temple(pictured), a five storied edifice in Dwarka, has a 78-metre (256 ft) spire on which is hoisted a large flag with symbols of the sun and moon?
... that the iPhone 6S features technology known as 3D Touch?
... that in 1911, journalist Mabel Potter Daggett wrote that practicing yoga leads to "marital infelicity, insanity, and death"?
... that Russian-American singer-songwriter Olga Bell's album Krai was sung entirely in Russian?
... that in 1904 Hermann Pauly described the
Pauly reaction, which detects the presence of two amino acids in proteins?
... that an unfinished ending was found for
Satoshi Kon's
manga series Opus after his death and included in the collected volume?
... that 20th-century Indian Islamic scholar Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee advocated the need to incorporate modern reforms in
Islamic law without compromising on the "essential spirit of Islam"?
... that for conventional computers,
Landauer's principle gives a nonzero lower bound on energy per step, but the energy usage of reversible cellular automata can be arbitrarily close to zero?
... that even on −50 °C (−58 °F) days when other offices in
Yellowknife close, the Greenstone Building(pictured), opened ten years ago today, is warm enough for workers to stay at their desks?
... that upon her introduction in 1987, Ruth Archer stood out from the other female characters featured in The Archers as she was a farmer and a feminist?
... that the production of
Chablis wine in the department of Yonne was devastated in the nineteenth century by
powdery mildew, Phylloxera and the development of the railways?
... that the Lutheran composer Andreas Raselius wrote the first German-language cycle of Gospel
motets for use throughout an entire year of church services?
... that in Gunfright, the player takes the role of a
sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating
outlaws who are scattered throughout the settlement?
... that E. E. Holman's gender was deliberately disguised to secure architectural contracts, like those for the
National Park Seminary's Aloha Dormitory (pictured)?
... that
genetics researcher and
MIT professor emeritus Mary-Lou Pardue once declined a PhD and convinced her department to give her a master's degree instead?
... that the velvet-fronted grackle joins other birds in small, noisy flocks and sometimes forages on floating vegetation on lakes?
... that in the war against
Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE, Samsi was defeated and was said to have fled the battlefield like a "wild she-ass of the desert"?
... that construction materials for the Waste House(pictured) included floppy disks, VHS cassettes, bicycle inner tubes, old jeans and 20,000 toothbrushes?
... that the protagonist of the 2005 film Anniyan is a
grim reaper-style serial killer whose website depicts all the punishments that await sinners in hell?
... that the fossil ant Myanmyrma has mandibles almost as long as its head?
... that greening the barren forest of Arabari was brought about by setting up
Joint Forest Management committees between local villagers and government?
... that Cyclone Rusty caused sustained gales that affected
Port Hedland for a record-breaking 39 hours straight?
... that Trigona corvina is a highly aggressive species of stingless bee?
... that traditional gunplay and vehicle gameplay featured in the Far Cry series were removed in Far Cry Primal because the latter is set in
prehistory?
... that Isaac Dripps invented the railroad locomotive cowcatcher?
... that the bomb vessel HMS Endeavour was so inaccurate that the
Royal Navy sold it after less than two years of active service?
03:30, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Horse cheekpiece with winged sphinx
... that scenes on
Iron AgeLuristan bronzes(example illustrated) from Iran include "odd-looking demons and animals apparently involved in cultic and mythological activities"?
... that Luther Atwood invented "coup oil", the first oil extracted from coal?
... that female Exoneura robusta, a species of Australian "reed bee," will often co-found a new colony with other unrelated females?
... that 30 years after joining the
Royal Bank of Canada as a teller, Zabeen Hirji became chief human resources officer with responsibility for nearly 79,000 employees in 50 countries?
... that Slovak sociologist and politician Anton Štefánek campaigned for the unification of the Czechs and Slovaks and promoted the concept of
Czechoslovakism?
... that
Arvo Pärt composed De profundis, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West?
... that a blast ball is a type of hand grenade used by police for riot control?
6 October 2015
22:03, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Aram Karamanoukian
... that Aram Karamanoukian(pictured) became a
Syrian general after surviving the
Armenian Genocide and was awarded medals from Egypt, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, and France?
... that juvenile caimans have relatively shorter snouts and larger eyes than adults?
... that the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine was established this year after amendment of a 1917 law that had given the University of Washington "sole authority" to offer medical education in the state?
... that the number of people living in a farm in Brugherio was recorded by a saint?
... that when the author of Scarface Nation bought Scarface pajamas, they "kind of freaked out" his wife?
09:48, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
M/V Leschi
... that the
fireboatLeschi can be used as a pumping station to allow firefighters to draw seawater in the event of a disaster that destroys Seattle's water mains?
... that basketball player Jordan Sibert transferred to
Dayton to get more playing time?
... that the music video for "Runnin' (Lose It All)" was performed by two
freedivers who had to hold their breath for up to six minutes at a time while shooting?
5 October 2015
19:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
A typical exhibit at Michigan Heritage Park
... that the Michigan Heritage Park(typical exhibit pictured) is an outdoor attraction that spans 10,000 years of Michigan history?
... that organised crime is alleged to take place in the Italian provinces of Catanzaro and Crotone?
... that the actress Ester Textorius(pictured) performed in a number of
operettes, and though successful, never considered herself a good enough singer for such roles?
... that in 2015, the river interlinking project involving inter-basin transfer of surplus water from the Daman Ganga River was approved for implementation?
... that the fossil ant Pachycondyla? messeliana was only tentatively placed into the genus Pachycondyla due to the conditions of preservation?
... that although he only moved to English football in 2015,
Everton's Leandro Rodríguez scored in a league match against
Liverpool three years earlier?
... that Professor Xiaoxing Xi was arrested on charges of having sent restricted technology to China, but was exonerated when scientists found that the prosecutors had misunderstood the evidence?
4 October 2015
18:53, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
2WD 1:10 scale radio-controlled off-road buggy
... that the 1:10 radio-controlled off-road buggies(pictured) were so popular in the 1980s that toy companies cashed in by producing their own inexpensive ready-to-run toy versions?
... that in 1890, Henry Lowenfeld, a Polish immigrant, established the UK's first brewer of non-alcoholic beer, in
Fulham, London?
... that in 2013, Marcus Cooper bought seven houses in central London, to allow the creation of a £200 million "supermansion", selling them and the project to fellow property developer
Christian Candy in 2014?
... that the Dutch composer Johann Wanning wrote the first known musical
epithalamium—a poem written for a new bride heading to the marital bedchamber for the first time?
... that in May 2004, rains falling at rates of up to 4 inches (10 cm) per hour caused flash flooding on Moneypenny Creek?
... that the James Beard Public Market will be located near the former site of the
Portland Public Market, which was the largest supermarket in the United States when it was built in 1933?
... that the Puccio family, who were involved in kidnappings and murders in Argentina in the 1980s, are the subject of the film The Clan and the TV series Historia de un clan?
Paul Newman (left) and Melvyn Douglas (right) in Hud
... that although
Paul Newman(pictured) and director
Martin Ritt conceived the eponymous lead of Hud as morally repugnant, they were astonished to find young audiences warming to the character?
... that Algerian filmmaker Nadia Labidi is also a politician who served as Minister of Culture from May 2014 to May 2015?
... that when Turtle Rock Studios was established, it was housed in a garage?
... that
Cao Yanhua won her first national table tennis championship after only two months of training under world champion Zhou Lansun, who she said was like a devil?
... that the lesbian romantic coming-of-age drama, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), was the first film for which three artists received the
Palme d'Or?