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... that nearly every person in Val Gagné, Ontario, died in the 1916
Matheson Fire, and the settlement was renamed to honour the heroic efforts of the parish priest?
... that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical
egg sacs?
... that the
oratorioSankt-Bach-Passion by
Mauricio Kagel, which premiered in 1985 for the tricentenary of
Bach's birth, "changed the game by making Bach himself the suffering protagonist"?
... that the song "Saving Light" was released as part of "Make Trance #1 Again", an initiative that encouraged fans to purchase the song on
Beatport to support an
anti-bullying charity?
... that according to Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, young well-connected stockbrokers in his firm were known as "orchids" because they were "beautiful but utterly useless"?
... that the siting of a trolley station in front of the new courthouse in
San Diego, California, was opposed by court officials and the county sheriff?
... that an army commander in the Banat Republic of 1918 claimed it could raise 40,000 troops against the
French Danube Army, but in reality it had less than 4,000?
... that New York City's Gowanus Canal is so heavily polluted that Enterococcus, which is found in human fecal matter, has been detected at more than 100 times above safe levels?
... that a unique geological formation, including
dacitic magma at approximately 1050°C (1920°F), was encountered at Puna Geothermal Venture in 2005 when drilling a new
geothermal energy well?
... that biochemist Chen-Lu Tsou was praised for criticizing his boss?
... that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide?
... that the Shadwell forgeries, crude 19th-century fake medieval artefacts, are now sought-after collectibles in their own right?
23 July 2018
00:00, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
John W. Brady
... that when
Texas judge John W. Brady(pictured) heard his sentence for murdering his mistress, he cried out: "I didn't do it; I didn't do it. I do not deserve that sentence"?
... that in ancient Indian stories, a person "can bend the cosmic forces to his will" through an "act of truth"?
... that more than 500 people were arrested at the Women Disobey protest in Washington, D.C. in June, including U.S. Representative
Pramila Jayapal and actress
Susan Sarandon?
... that the 63rd Street Line, a three-station subway line in
New York City, was initially described as a "tunnel to nowhere" because it had no connections to other subway lines in the borough of
Queens?
20 July 2018
00:00, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Zhou Jin Tang Ji, calligraphy by Zhu Yunming
... that Zhu Yunming, an iconoclast known for his "wild-cursive" calligraphy (example pictured), was born with eleven fingers?
... that Soviet
Jeltoqsan protester Qairat Rysqulbekov died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell less than a year after his death sentence was revoked?
... that Feras Antoon described one of his companies as "masters of the big-tit-MILF niche"?
19 July 2018
00:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Serra Cross
... that the Serra Cross(pictured) in
Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land?
... that Croatian concentration camp commander Vjekoslav Luburić's wife divorced him in 1957 after she was sent an anonymous letter detailing his crimes?
... that in its early years, the Indian National Theatre troupe travelled in two lorries and used them as a stage?
... that in Der goldene Drache, the ninth opera by
Péter Eötvös, five singers perform 18 characters, switching age and gender?
... that when she successfully auditioned for the EastEnders role of Louise Mitchell, actress
Tilly Keeper thought she was auditioning for another character?
... that Hu Wei became a division commander at the age of only 29, but soon suffered a setback at the
Battle of Dengbu Island?
... that during the Petticoat Revolution, Laura Starcher became mayor of
Umatilla, Oregon, while keeping her candidacy a secret from her husband—the current mayor—until the afternoon of election day?
18 July 2018
00:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
The Earthquake, 1792–1799
... that the five versions of Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours' painting The Earthquake(one version pictured) show his growing disillusion with politics after the
French Revolution?
... that the drinking game Hi, Bob may have been the first to use prompts from a
television show to initiate player action?
... that euthymia, a state of internal calm and contentment, is a goal of psychiatric intervention?
... that the 2016 song "Yōkoso Japari Park e", written by Masayoshi Ōishi, topped
Amazon Japan's soundtrack ranking and placed third on the country's
iTunes song chart?
... that the leech Theromyzon tessulatum is a parasite of waterfowl, invading their mouths, noses, and respiratory passages?
... that Yan Jizhou's 1957 film Early Morning Chill was repeatedly criticized in China for portraying traitors to the Communist revolution in a sympathetic light?
... that Theodora was dragged from a monastery and forced to become Empress of the
Byzantine Empire against her will?
13 July 2018
03:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Tina Strobos in 1941
... that Dutch psychiatrist Tina Strobos(pictured), who rescued over 100 Jewish refugees during
World War II, said that her grandmother was the only person she knew who scared the
Gestapo?
... that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration?
... that a
NIS20,000 offer by
Burger Ranch to distribute the Israeli video game series Piposh was turned down by the developers because they were vegetarians?
12 July 2018
01:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Mustafa Tamimi moments before being hit
... that the
Israel Defense Forces exonerated the soldier who killed Mustafa Tamimi with a tear-gas canister (incident pictured), saying the soldier had not seen "any people in the line of fire"?
... that of thrice-married composer Alma Mahler(pictured),
Tom Lehrer crooned, "Alma, tell us!/ All modern women are jealous/ Which of your magical wands/ got you
Gustav and
Walter and
Franz"?
... that the Vilama caldera volcano on the border between Bolivia and Argentina produced over 1,200 cubic kilometres (290 cu mi) of rock in a single eruption?
... that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor
Honorius on the end of a pole?
... that the 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations, which led to the imprisonment of high-ranking Buddhist monks, were seen by critics as being politically motivated?
... that creating human hair
wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore, and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the
Salt Lake Temple until 1967?
... that the Indian Peace Commission, established by the
United States Congress in 1867 to negotiate with and "civilize" Native American tribes, ultimately ushered in a decade of war?
... that Liu Yichang, considered the founder of Hong Kong's modern literature, wrote novels that inspired two award-winning films by
Wong Kar-wai?
... that during the
Boxer Rebellion, Xu Yingkui collaborated with other high-ranking Chinese officials to defy the declaration of war made by the
Qing imperial court on Western countries?
... that the ant species Zatania electra is named for the amber in which it was found entombed?
... that Carmen y Laura, sisters who formed a duo for mostly
Tejano music, learned to harmonize by singing together while doing chores in separate rooms?
... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed his estimates of the start times of three consecutive
lunar eclipses were accurate to within half an hour?
... that although he fought a war in Ningxia against the
Chinese government and was defeated,
Sun Dianying was appointed to a high-ranking military position just a month later?
... that New Jersey musician 070 Shake was featured in a
Vogue essay on rising queer stars in rap music?
... that a 2003 English court case ruled that someone who lies about having sharp items in their pocket while being searched can be charged with assault if the searcher is injured as a result?
... that Mary Walker overcame a tragedy and a serious injury to win the 2012 World
Barrel Racing Championship?
... that Tacora(pictured), Chile's northernmost
volcano, was the site of substantial
sulfur mining operations that were explicitly given to Chile in a
1929 treaty with Peru?
... that the
Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five" jokes about critics who rarely give perfect scores in their reviews?
1 July 2018
00:00, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Vera Gedroits with patients
... that Princess Vera Gedroits(pictured)—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield
laparotomy?
... that Number 12, an investigative documentary by award-winning journalist
Anas Anas, shed light on football corruption in
Ghana?
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 nearly every person in Val Gagné, Ontario, died in the 1916
Matheson Fire, and the settlement was renamed to honour the heroic efforts of the parish priest?
... that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical
egg sacs?
... that the
oratorioSankt-Bach-Passion by
Mauricio Kagel, which premiered in 1985 for the tricentenary of
Bach's birth, "changed the game by making Bach himself the suffering protagonist"?
... that the song "Saving Light" was released as part of "Make Trance #1 Again", an initiative that encouraged fans to purchase the song on
Beatport to support an
anti-bullying charity?
... that according to Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, young well-connected stockbrokers in his firm were known as "orchids" because they were "beautiful but utterly useless"?
... that the siting of a trolley station in front of the new courthouse in
San Diego, California, was opposed by court officials and the county sheriff?
... that an army commander in the Banat Republic of 1918 claimed it could raise 40,000 troops against the
French Danube Army, but in reality it had less than 4,000?
... that New York City's Gowanus Canal is so heavily polluted that Enterococcus, which is found in human fecal matter, has been detected at more than 100 times above safe levels?
... that a unique geological formation, including
dacitic magma at approximately 1050°C (1920°F), was encountered at Puna Geothermal Venture in 2005 when drilling a new
geothermal energy well?
... that biochemist Chen-Lu Tsou was praised for criticizing his boss?
... that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide?
... that the Shadwell forgeries, crude 19th-century fake medieval artefacts, are now sought-after collectibles in their own right?
23 July 2018
00:00, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
John W. Brady
... that when
Texas judge John W. Brady(pictured) heard his sentence for murdering his mistress, he cried out: "I didn't do it; I didn't do it. I do not deserve that sentence"?
... that in ancient Indian stories, a person "can bend the cosmic forces to his will" through an "act of truth"?
... that more than 500 people were arrested at the Women Disobey protest in Washington, D.C. in June, including U.S. Representative
Pramila Jayapal and actress
Susan Sarandon?
... that the 63rd Street Line, a three-station subway line in
New York City, was initially described as a "tunnel to nowhere" because it had no connections to other subway lines in the borough of
Queens?
20 July 2018
00:00, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Zhou Jin Tang Ji, calligraphy by Zhu Yunming
... that Zhu Yunming, an iconoclast known for his "wild-cursive" calligraphy (example pictured), was born with eleven fingers?
... that Soviet
Jeltoqsan protester Qairat Rysqulbekov died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell less than a year after his death sentence was revoked?
... that Feras Antoon described one of his companies as "masters of the big-tit-MILF niche"?
19 July 2018
00:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Serra Cross
... that the Serra Cross(pictured) in
Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land?
... that Croatian concentration camp commander Vjekoslav Luburić's wife divorced him in 1957 after she was sent an anonymous letter detailing his crimes?
... that in its early years, the Indian National Theatre troupe travelled in two lorries and used them as a stage?
... that in Der goldene Drache, the ninth opera by
Péter Eötvös, five singers perform 18 characters, switching age and gender?
... that when she successfully auditioned for the EastEnders role of Louise Mitchell, actress
Tilly Keeper thought she was auditioning for another character?
... that Hu Wei became a division commander at the age of only 29, but soon suffered a setback at the
Battle of Dengbu Island?
... that during the Petticoat Revolution, Laura Starcher became mayor of
Umatilla, Oregon, while keeping her candidacy a secret from her husband—the current mayor—until the afternoon of election day?
18 July 2018
00:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
The Earthquake, 1792–1799
... that the five versions of Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours' painting The Earthquake(one version pictured) show his growing disillusion with politics after the
French Revolution?
... that the drinking game Hi, Bob may have been the first to use prompts from a
television show to initiate player action?
... that euthymia, a state of internal calm and contentment, is a goal of psychiatric intervention?
... that the 2016 song "Yōkoso Japari Park e", written by Masayoshi Ōishi, topped
Amazon Japan's soundtrack ranking and placed third on the country's
iTunes song chart?
... that the leech Theromyzon tessulatum is a parasite of waterfowl, invading their mouths, noses, and respiratory passages?
... that Yan Jizhou's 1957 film Early Morning Chill was repeatedly criticized in China for portraying traitors to the Communist revolution in a sympathetic light?
... that Theodora was dragged from a monastery and forced to become Empress of the
Byzantine Empire against her will?
13 July 2018
03:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Tina Strobos in 1941
... that Dutch psychiatrist Tina Strobos(pictured), who rescued over 100 Jewish refugees during
World War II, said that her grandmother was the only person she knew who scared the
Gestapo?
... that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration?
... that a
NIS20,000 offer by
Burger Ranch to distribute the Israeli video game series Piposh was turned down by the developers because they were vegetarians?
12 July 2018
01:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Mustafa Tamimi moments before being hit
... that the
Israel Defense Forces exonerated the soldier who killed Mustafa Tamimi with a tear-gas canister (incident pictured), saying the soldier had not seen "any people in the line of fire"?
... that of thrice-married composer Alma Mahler(pictured),
Tom Lehrer crooned, "Alma, tell us!/ All modern women are jealous/ Which of your magical wands/ got you
Gustav and
Walter and
Franz"?
... that the Vilama caldera volcano on the border between Bolivia and Argentina produced over 1,200 cubic kilometres (290 cu mi) of rock in a single eruption?
... that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor
Honorius on the end of a pole?
... that the 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations, which led to the imprisonment of high-ranking Buddhist monks, were seen by critics as being politically motivated?
... that creating human hair
wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore, and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the
Salt Lake Temple until 1967?
... that the Indian Peace Commission, established by the
United States Congress in 1867 to negotiate with and "civilize" Native American tribes, ultimately ushered in a decade of war?
... that Liu Yichang, considered the founder of Hong Kong's modern literature, wrote novels that inspired two award-winning films by
Wong Kar-wai?
... that during the
Boxer Rebellion, Xu Yingkui collaborated with other high-ranking Chinese officials to defy the declaration of war made by the
Qing imperial court on Western countries?
... that the ant species Zatania electra is named for the amber in which it was found entombed?
... that Carmen y Laura, sisters who formed a duo for mostly
Tejano music, learned to harmonize by singing together while doing chores in separate rooms?
... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed his estimates of the start times of three consecutive
lunar eclipses were accurate to within half an hour?
... that although he fought a war in Ningxia against the
Chinese government and was defeated,
Sun Dianying was appointed to a high-ranking military position just a month later?
... that New Jersey musician 070 Shake was featured in a
Vogue essay on rising queer stars in rap music?
... that a 2003 English court case ruled that someone who lies about having sharp items in their pocket while being searched can be charged with assault if the searcher is injured as a result?
... that Mary Walker overcame a tragedy and a serious injury to win the 2012 World
Barrel Racing Championship?
... that Tacora(pictured), Chile's northernmost
volcano, was the site of substantial
sulfur mining operations that were explicitly given to Chile in a
1929 treaty with Peru?
... that the
Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five" jokes about critics who rarely give perfect scores in their reviews?
1 July 2018
00:00, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Vera Gedroits with patients
... that Princess Vera Gedroits(pictured)—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield
laparotomy?
... that Number 12, an investigative documentary by award-winning journalist
Anas Anas, shed light on football corruption in
Ghana?