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... that since 1994, Team Taisan(2012 racecar pictured) has won eight team championships and four drivers' championships in the
Super GT Series?
... that Windmill Hill Cavern, which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
... that despite being persecuted as a convert to Judaism in Nazi Germany, Ernst von Manstein was given a full military funeral with
uniformed SS pallbearers?
... that Australasian gannets(example pictured) established a breeding colony on
Young Nick's Head after being attracted there by decoy birds and pre-recorded calls?
... that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, the founder of the
Qarmatian state in
Bahrayn, believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
... that Venezuelan director Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a
Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?
24 December 2018
12:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
St. Nikolai interior
... that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of
Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior (pictured)?
... that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
... that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic
antigen vaccine against
HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
... that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter
Gabriël Metsu, sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later?
... that New York City's Edgemere Landfill was declared a
Superfund environmental cleanup site after nearly 3,000
toxic waste drums were discovered during a routine excavation?
... that the music of Japanese dōjin artist Akari Nanawo has been viewed more than 9 million times on the video sharing site
Niconico?
... that the
springtailAllacma fusca can tolerate a 10% level of carbon dioxide for a few hours while Folsomia candida, which lives deeper in the soil, can survive under the same conditions more than six weeks?
... that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism or homosexuality?
... that when the
PokémonMeltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go, many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch?
... that the white-crested turaco has a wider range than Bannerman's turaco, perhaps because it was able to adapt to new habitats when climate change reduced forest cover?
... that viceroy-general Sam Lek of
Hanthawaddy retook
Donwun with just 300 troops by employing the same ruse used by rebel forces to seize the town a year earlier?
... that after the French-built Japanese submarine No. 14 was requisitioned by France and commissioned into its navy as Armide, the Japanese built their own No. 14 to the same design?
... that at age 62, Alice Harrell Strickland was elected the first woman mayor in the U.S. state of
Georgia on a platform to rid her town of "demon rum"?
... that billionaire businessman
Mark Cuban funded the operations of the investigative reporting site Sharesleuth by
short-selling the companies the site reported on?
... that in the five years since the disappearance of Heather Elvis, there have been several trials related to the case but her whereabouts are still unknown?
... that in German war crimes trials after World War II, Befehlsnotstand, the
necessity to obey orders, was successfully used as a defence, but was rarely justified?
... that Wang Guangying, the brother-in-law of Chinese President
Liu Shaoqi, was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
... that in 2011, the serra antwren was found 200 km (124 mi) further north than its previously known range, when it responded to recordings of its song?
... that singer-songwriter Sharon Dyall translated the song lyrics from the Disney film Frozen into Swedish?
... that the far-right newspaper National Zeitung received funding from the West German government?
... that the mace pagoda(pictured) was twice presumed extinct, but in each case reappeared in its natural habitat from seed after a wildfire?
... that Canadian radio and sports personality Jack Devine ended his broadcasts on
CJBQ by saying: "To play a sport, you must be one"?
... that an airplane carrying an emergency shipment of blood plasma for victims of the Lackawanna Limited wreck landed on a runway illuminated by automobile headlights?
... that a 2017 ruling of the
Supreme Court of India about the governance of
Delhi stated: "There is no room for absolutism and there is no room for anarchism also"?
... that at the Battle of Damme, a smaller English fleet captured 300 French ships and burned another 100?
... that in the late 19th century, Australian author
Louis Becke's infant daughter went on a trip to Tamakautoga without him?
... that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional
footballer?
... that Escher sentences such as "More people have been to Russia than I have" may initially be perceived as meaningful despite being ungrammatical nonsense?
00:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
A murder stone
... that murder stones(example pictured) were historically erected in the United Kingdom to mark the locations of unlawful killings?
... that Roz Young's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the
women's pages?
... that
Eratosthenes, the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, calculated the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy in the third century BC?
16 December 2018
12:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hakea pulvinifera
... that the shrub Hakea pulvinifera(pictured) was first described in 1962, believed extinct in 1971, and rediscovered in 1988?
... that when the student Li Xifan published articles criticizing the scholar
Yu Pingbo,
Mao Zedong praised the "nobody" Li and launched an attack on the "bigwig" Yu?
... that "House of the King" by
Focus has been a theme tune on British television twice?
... that chef Moshe Basson forages for wild plants and herbs in the
Jerusalem hills to use in his traditional regional cuisine at The Eucalyptus restaurant?
... that Ameenpur Lake is both the first water body and the first urban environment in India to be declared a Biodiversity Heritage Site?
... that an Armenian church in Istanbul was demolished in 1958 and rebuilt years later half as wide, to make room for the street?
... that Journal Herald columnist Marj Heyduck was photographed in a different hat for each of her daily columns, totaling more than 2,500 different hats?
00:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Agnes Ballard
... that architect Agnes Ballard(pictured) once said she designed "apartments, residences and hot dog stands"?
... that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy
sea mines in North Vietnam?
... that in 2016, a researcher used the Statcheck software package to scan more than 50,000
peer-reviewed psychology articles for statistical errors, and then posted the results on
PubPeer?
... that
Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier's transfer to
Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
... that the Nazi dentist Martin Hellinger(pictured), convicted of removing dental gold from victims at
Ravensbrück, was released in 1955 and given a special grant to reopen his dental practice?
... that the Indonesian video game Rage in Peace was loosely inspired by the works of Brazilian novelist
Paulo Coelho?
... that a research group led by
Amnon Marinov claimed in 2008 that the hypothetical element unbibium could be found occurring naturally in
thorium deposits?
... that Susanna Dinnage is expected to become the first female chief executive of the English
Premier League early next year?
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2019 album Treat Myself has been characterized as "filled with self-love anthems"?
... that the world's oldest known printed texts are 8th-century Buddhist charms called dharani preserved in Korean and Japanese temples?
... that David Hughson perambulated around London in the early 1800s?
... that
visual novel localization company Sol Press was formed because the founder was unhappy with the slow translation processes of other publishers?
... that until at least 2009, Chen Chuangtian's laboratory was the only one in the world that could make the
nonlinear optical crystal KBBF?
... that although the lyrics of
Bob Seger's song "Her Strut" were criticized for being misogynistic, they were inspired by Seger's admiration for
Jane Fonda?
... that Prunus kansuensis, the Gansu peach, has pits that are not pitted?
00:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Eyrewell ground beetle
... that the critically endangered Eyrewell ground beetle(pictured) is known from just one locality—a pine plantation in New Zealand which is currently being cut down and turned into dairy farms?
... that after he was diagnosed with a heart condition, rodeo cowboy Louis Brooks agreed to retire if he won a second
All-Around Cowboy title?
... that the construction of the Ceintures de Lyon was motivated by fear of an Austrian invasion?
... that Panzer Aces, a book series about World War II widely read in the US, was described as portraying "an almost heroic version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war crimes"?
... that the live concerts of the rock band Sumika feature performances by non-musicians such as painters, sculptors, architects, potters, and poets?
... that Edgecliff, an Illinois estate completed in 1930, had the highest residential property tax in
Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
... that Yang Kuo-shu, who earned the first PhD in psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese psychology and studied such phenomena as yuanfen, guanxi, and
face?
... that Adrien Agreste's superhero identity, Cat Noir, is a tribute to the comic book character
Catwoman?
... that while raising two young children, Li Minhua(pictured) became the first woman to earn a
Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at
MIT?
... that though Landsat 4 suffered a second failure in 1993 that stopped it from transmitting most scientific data, it continued broadcasting telemetry, tracking, and command data until 2001?
... that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which, also banned, discussed the topic of
film censorship?
... that Dennis Albaugh's collection of about 150 classic
Chevrolet convertibles includes all
Tri-Fives(1957 Bel Air pictured) and models from 1912 to 1975?
... that larvae of the beetle Meloe franciscanus trick male bees into landing near them by mimicking the pheromones released by a female bee?
... that Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi plays the
acoustic guitar and sings in a band with other government ministers?
... that the sea anemone Mesacmaea mitchellii uses the base of its column to burrow into the sediment?
... that 16-year-old artistic gymnast Ana Padurariu won silver on
beam at her first senior
world championships, becoming the second-ever Canadian world medalist on the apparatus?
... that in only its second season,
Atlanta United FC has reached the MLS Cup, which will be played tonight?
... that Zhang Yonglian, who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study
sperm?
... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather?
... that Jack Brooksbank, husband of
Princess Eugenie of York, was not given a peerage following his marriage, as there is no general precedent in Britain for a commoner to be given one on marrying a princess?
... that Comic Arts Brooklyn was inaugurated in 2013, following the cancellation of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival?
... that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
8 December 2018
12:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Wu Zhaonan
... that Wu Zhaonan(pictured), a comedian recognized by the government of Taiwan as a "national treasure", also created
Mongolian barbecue?
... that the wildlife of Iceland includes around 550 species of
lichen but no reptiles or amphibians?
... that in 1342, John FitzWalter accused men from
Colchester of invading and damaging his park at
Lexden, and soon after besieged Colchester for more than two months?
... that Fatih, originally named Deepsea Metro II, is Turkey's first
drillship?
... that Ramsen is a traditional Austrian and Bavarian
card game with the unusual feature of four permanent
trump cards(pictured) ranking just below the trump
Sow?
... that Russian anti-syphilis campaigner Volf Bronner was arrested during Stalin's
Great Purge and later executed?
... that Chevy Commons in
Flint, Michigan, is a former
Chevrolet factory being redeveloped into a park with restored grasslands, wetlands, and woodlands?
... that in 1919, missionary Henry Harness Fout reported his conclusion that a third of the Armenian population of Turkey had been exterminated in the
Armenian Genocide?
... that 79 years after
Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns, a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
... that one of the producers of the television series Disappearing World acknowledged that the episodes "more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one"?
... that over the course of 45 years of conservation work by ornithologist Helen Hays(pictured), the
tern population of
Great Gull Island increased tenfold?
... that ALQST is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation created by a former
Royal Saudi Air Force officer?
... that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"?
... that the hollow Pwllpriddog Oak is said to have been used as the hiding place of a king, a meeting spot for lovers, a pig sty, a duck roost, and a music venue?
... that The Atomic Tank(pictured) was subjected to the Operation Totem nuclear tests, but remained operational for another 23 years, including 15 months in the
Vietnam War?
... that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the
Holocaust?
... that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a
bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a
Fort Worth mayor?
... that on the 1939 American K2 expedition,
Dudley Wolfe and three
Sherpas died high on the mountain (K2 pictured) after the Sherpas had climbed from base camp to rescue Wolfe but he would not come down?
... that Ismail Amat was one of the highest-ranking
Uyghur politicians in the history of the People's Republic of China?
... that
Patti Smith's title for her second memoir, M Train, refers to a "mind train", the train of thought that "goes to any station it wants"?
... that Antonio Falzon is the earliest known
Maltese architect, but is often erroneously described as being Italian?
... that the British surgeon J. I. P. James parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia to provide medical support to the
partisan resistance, and operated in sheds and caves by candlelight?
3 December 2018
12:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Shannon Evans
... that the mother, grandparents, and great-aunt of basketball player Shannon Evans(pictured) helped him pay for
prep school?
... that Singer Presents...Elvis attracted 42 percent of the American television audience when it aired 50 years ago today?
... that Molly Morgan became the
mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived?
... that after Soviet air attacks damaged the fuel system of the Romanian
destroyerRegele Ferdinand in May 1944, an unsuccessful attempt was made to refuel the ship using a
bucket brigade?
... that the German torpedo boat T22, along with two other torpedo boats, was blown up by naval mines while laying a minefield?
... that Pachara Chirathivat was actually suffocating during a strangling scene in the 2012 film Countdown, but the film crew thought he was just acting?
... that Juma Butabika was appointed to high-ranking military positions in the government of Ugandan dictator
Idi Amin despite being considered
psychopathic, even by his colleagues?
... that Japanese singer Eir Aoi initially did not show her mouth in physical release images as she wanted to have a "mysterious aura" and emphasize her "powerful" eyes?
... that chiropractor Tim Robards appeared in the first season of Australia's version of The Bachelor?
... that volunteer firemen from the fire station in
Schäflohe claim to be the only people in the German district of
Upper Palatinate to play the traditional Bavarian card game of Lampeln?
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 since 1994, Team Taisan(2012 racecar pictured) has won eight team championships and four drivers' championships in the
Super GT Series?
... that Windmill Hill Cavern, which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
... that despite being persecuted as a convert to Judaism in Nazi Germany, Ernst von Manstein was given a full military funeral with
uniformed SS pallbearers?
... that Australasian gannets(example pictured) established a breeding colony on
Young Nick's Head after being attracted there by decoy birds and pre-recorded calls?
... that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, the founder of the
Qarmatian state in
Bahrayn, believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
... that Venezuelan director Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a
Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?
24 December 2018
12:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
St. Nikolai interior
... that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of
Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior (pictured)?
... that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
... that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic
antigen vaccine against
HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
... that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter
Gabriël Metsu, sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later?
... that New York City's Edgemere Landfill was declared a
Superfund environmental cleanup site after nearly 3,000
toxic waste drums were discovered during a routine excavation?
... that the music of Japanese dōjin artist Akari Nanawo has been viewed more than 9 million times on the video sharing site
Niconico?
... that the
springtailAllacma fusca can tolerate a 10% level of carbon dioxide for a few hours while Folsomia candida, which lives deeper in the soil, can survive under the same conditions more than six weeks?
... that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism or homosexuality?
... that when the
PokémonMeltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go, many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch?
... that the white-crested turaco has a wider range than Bannerman's turaco, perhaps because it was able to adapt to new habitats when climate change reduced forest cover?
... that viceroy-general Sam Lek of
Hanthawaddy retook
Donwun with just 300 troops by employing the same ruse used by rebel forces to seize the town a year earlier?
... that after the French-built Japanese submarine No. 14 was requisitioned by France and commissioned into its navy as Armide, the Japanese built their own No. 14 to the same design?
... that at age 62, Alice Harrell Strickland was elected the first woman mayor in the U.S. state of
Georgia on a platform to rid her town of "demon rum"?
... that billionaire businessman
Mark Cuban funded the operations of the investigative reporting site Sharesleuth by
short-selling the companies the site reported on?
... that in the five years since the disappearance of Heather Elvis, there have been several trials related to the case but her whereabouts are still unknown?
... that in German war crimes trials after World War II, Befehlsnotstand, the
necessity to obey orders, was successfully used as a defence, but was rarely justified?
... that Wang Guangying, the brother-in-law of Chinese President
Liu Shaoqi, was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
... that in 2011, the serra antwren was found 200 km (124 mi) further north than its previously known range, when it responded to recordings of its song?
... that singer-songwriter Sharon Dyall translated the song lyrics from the Disney film Frozen into Swedish?
... that the far-right newspaper National Zeitung received funding from the West German government?
... that the mace pagoda(pictured) was twice presumed extinct, but in each case reappeared in its natural habitat from seed after a wildfire?
... that Canadian radio and sports personality Jack Devine ended his broadcasts on
CJBQ by saying: "To play a sport, you must be one"?
... that an airplane carrying an emergency shipment of blood plasma for victims of the Lackawanna Limited wreck landed on a runway illuminated by automobile headlights?
... that a 2017 ruling of the
Supreme Court of India about the governance of
Delhi stated: "There is no room for absolutism and there is no room for anarchism also"?
... that at the Battle of Damme, a smaller English fleet captured 300 French ships and burned another 100?
... that in the late 19th century, Australian author
Louis Becke's infant daughter went on a trip to Tamakautoga without him?
... that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional
footballer?
... that Escher sentences such as "More people have been to Russia than I have" may initially be perceived as meaningful despite being ungrammatical nonsense?
00:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
A murder stone
... that murder stones(example pictured) were historically erected in the United Kingdom to mark the locations of unlawful killings?
... that Roz Young's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the
women's pages?
... that
Eratosthenes, the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, calculated the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy in the third century BC?
16 December 2018
12:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Hakea pulvinifera
... that the shrub Hakea pulvinifera(pictured) was first described in 1962, believed extinct in 1971, and rediscovered in 1988?
... that when the student Li Xifan published articles criticizing the scholar
Yu Pingbo,
Mao Zedong praised the "nobody" Li and launched an attack on the "bigwig" Yu?
... that "House of the King" by
Focus has been a theme tune on British television twice?
... that chef Moshe Basson forages for wild plants and herbs in the
Jerusalem hills to use in his traditional regional cuisine at The Eucalyptus restaurant?
... that Ameenpur Lake is both the first water body and the first urban environment in India to be declared a Biodiversity Heritage Site?
... that an Armenian church in Istanbul was demolished in 1958 and rebuilt years later half as wide, to make room for the street?
... that Journal Herald columnist Marj Heyduck was photographed in a different hat for each of her daily columns, totaling more than 2,500 different hats?
00:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Agnes Ballard
... that architect Agnes Ballard(pictured) once said she designed "apartments, residences and hot dog stands"?
... that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy
sea mines in North Vietnam?
... that in 2016, a researcher used the Statcheck software package to scan more than 50,000
peer-reviewed psychology articles for statistical errors, and then posted the results on
PubPeer?
... that
Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier's transfer to
Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
... that the Nazi dentist Martin Hellinger(pictured), convicted of removing dental gold from victims at
Ravensbrück, was released in 1955 and given a special grant to reopen his dental practice?
... that the Indonesian video game Rage in Peace was loosely inspired by the works of Brazilian novelist
Paulo Coelho?
... that a research group led by
Amnon Marinov claimed in 2008 that the hypothetical element unbibium could be found occurring naturally in
thorium deposits?
... that Susanna Dinnage is expected to become the first female chief executive of the English
Premier League early next year?
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2019 album Treat Myself has been characterized as "filled with self-love anthems"?
... that the world's oldest known printed texts are 8th-century Buddhist charms called dharani preserved in Korean and Japanese temples?
... that David Hughson perambulated around London in the early 1800s?
... that
visual novel localization company Sol Press was formed because the founder was unhappy with the slow translation processes of other publishers?
... that until at least 2009, Chen Chuangtian's laboratory was the only one in the world that could make the
nonlinear optical crystal KBBF?
... that although the lyrics of
Bob Seger's song "Her Strut" were criticized for being misogynistic, they were inspired by Seger's admiration for
Jane Fonda?
... that Prunus kansuensis, the Gansu peach, has pits that are not pitted?
00:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Eyrewell ground beetle
... that the critically endangered Eyrewell ground beetle(pictured) is known from just one locality—a pine plantation in New Zealand which is currently being cut down and turned into dairy farms?
... that after he was diagnosed with a heart condition, rodeo cowboy Louis Brooks agreed to retire if he won a second
All-Around Cowboy title?
... that the construction of the Ceintures de Lyon was motivated by fear of an Austrian invasion?
... that Panzer Aces, a book series about World War II widely read in the US, was described as portraying "an almost heroic version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war crimes"?
... that the live concerts of the rock band Sumika feature performances by non-musicians such as painters, sculptors, architects, potters, and poets?
... that Edgecliff, an Illinois estate completed in 1930, had the highest residential property tax in
Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
... that Yang Kuo-shu, who earned the first PhD in psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese psychology and studied such phenomena as yuanfen, guanxi, and
face?
... that Adrien Agreste's superhero identity, Cat Noir, is a tribute to the comic book character
Catwoman?
... that while raising two young children, Li Minhua(pictured) became the first woman to earn a
Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at
MIT?
... that though Landsat 4 suffered a second failure in 1993 that stopped it from transmitting most scientific data, it continued broadcasting telemetry, tracking, and command data until 2001?
... that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which, also banned, discussed the topic of
film censorship?
... that Dennis Albaugh's collection of about 150 classic
Chevrolet convertibles includes all
Tri-Fives(1957 Bel Air pictured) and models from 1912 to 1975?
... that larvae of the beetle Meloe franciscanus trick male bees into landing near them by mimicking the pheromones released by a female bee?
... that Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi plays the
acoustic guitar and sings in a band with other government ministers?
... that the sea anemone Mesacmaea mitchellii uses the base of its column to burrow into the sediment?
... that 16-year-old artistic gymnast Ana Padurariu won silver on
beam at her first senior
world championships, becoming the second-ever Canadian world medalist on the apparatus?
... that in only its second season,
Atlanta United FC has reached the MLS Cup, which will be played tonight?
... that Zhang Yonglian, who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study
sperm?
... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather?
... that Jack Brooksbank, husband of
Princess Eugenie of York, was not given a peerage following his marriage, as there is no general precedent in Britain for a commoner to be given one on marrying a princess?
... that Comic Arts Brooklyn was inaugurated in 2013, following the cancellation of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival?
... that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
8 December 2018
12:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Wu Zhaonan
... that Wu Zhaonan(pictured), a comedian recognized by the government of Taiwan as a "national treasure", also created
Mongolian barbecue?
... that the wildlife of Iceland includes around 550 species of
lichen but no reptiles or amphibians?
... that in 1342, John FitzWalter accused men from
Colchester of invading and damaging his park at
Lexden, and soon after besieged Colchester for more than two months?
... that Fatih, originally named Deepsea Metro II, is Turkey's first
drillship?
... that Ramsen is a traditional Austrian and Bavarian
card game with the unusual feature of four permanent
trump cards(pictured) ranking just below the trump
Sow?
... that Russian anti-syphilis campaigner Volf Bronner was arrested during Stalin's
Great Purge and later executed?
... that Chevy Commons in
Flint, Michigan, is a former
Chevrolet factory being redeveloped into a park with restored grasslands, wetlands, and woodlands?
... that in 1919, missionary Henry Harness Fout reported his conclusion that a third of the Armenian population of Turkey had been exterminated in the
Armenian Genocide?
... that 79 years after
Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns, a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
... that one of the producers of the television series Disappearing World acknowledged that the episodes "more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one"?
... that over the course of 45 years of conservation work by ornithologist Helen Hays(pictured), the
tern population of
Great Gull Island increased tenfold?
... that ALQST is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation created by a former
Royal Saudi Air Force officer?
... that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"?
... that the hollow Pwllpriddog Oak is said to have been used as the hiding place of a king, a meeting spot for lovers, a pig sty, a duck roost, and a music venue?
... that The Atomic Tank(pictured) was subjected to the Operation Totem nuclear tests, but remained operational for another 23 years, including 15 months in the
Vietnam War?
... that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the
Holocaust?
... that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a
bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a
Fort Worth mayor?
... that on the 1939 American K2 expedition,
Dudley Wolfe and three
Sherpas died high on the mountain (K2 pictured) after the Sherpas had climbed from base camp to rescue Wolfe but he would not come down?
... that Ismail Amat was one of the highest-ranking
Uyghur politicians in the history of the People's Republic of China?
... that
Patti Smith's title for her second memoir, M Train, refers to a "mind train", the train of thought that "goes to any station it wants"?
... that Antonio Falzon is the earliest known
Maltese architect, but is often erroneously described as being Italian?
... that the British surgeon J. I. P. James parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia to provide medical support to the
partisan resistance, and operated in sheds and caves by candlelight?
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Shannon Evans
... that the mother, grandparents, and great-aunt of basketball player Shannon Evans(pictured) helped him pay for
prep school?
... that Singer Presents...Elvis attracted 42 percent of the American television audience when it aired 50 years ago today?
... that Molly Morgan became the
mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived?
... that after Soviet air attacks damaged the fuel system of the Romanian
destroyerRegele Ferdinand in May 1944, an unsuccessful attempt was made to refuel the ship using a
bucket brigade?
... that the German torpedo boat T22, along with two other torpedo boats, was blown up by naval mines while laying a minefield?
... that Pachara Chirathivat was actually suffocating during a strangling scene in the 2012 film Countdown, but the film crew thought he was just acting?
... that Juma Butabika was appointed to high-ranking military positions in the government of Ugandan dictator
Idi Amin despite being considered
psychopathic, even by his colleagues?
... that Japanese singer Eir Aoi initially did not show her mouth in physical release images as she wanted to have a "mysterious aura" and emphasize her "powerful" eyes?
... that chiropractor Tim Robards appeared in the first season of Australia's version of The Bachelor?
... that volunteer firemen from the fire station in
Schäflohe claim to be the only people in the German district of
Upper Palatinate to play the traditional Bavarian card game of Lampeln?