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... that Mair von Landshut's prints (example shown) "resemble whimsical stage sets, and are endowed with an unreal character, like something from a fairy tale"?
... that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in
Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute?
... that the innkeeper worm catches its food with a net and then swallows the net?
27 February 2019
12:00, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Mouth and tentacles of the spotted wobbegong
... that prey of the spotted wobbegong(pictured) have been known to approach its mouth and nibble on its tentacles?
... that Edris Allan, the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan, the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted?
... that Yu-chien Kuan fled China using a stolen Japanese passport, was jailed in Egypt, and then became a
sinologist and advisor to the German chancellor?
... that in 1407, Admiral
Zheng He's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of
Chen Zuyi, who had occupied
Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
... that the Payún Matrú volcano, last active about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest
Quaternary lava flow on Earth?
... that in 1832, sugar planter Hamilton Brown argued that slaves in Jamaica were better off than the poor in Britain?
00:00, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Thatched barnacles (left) and channeled dog winkles (right)
... that the channeled dog winkle drills into shells of the thatched barnacle(both species pictured) and injects a toxin to gain access to the soft parts?
... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian
LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
... that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville, Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in
Gippsland?
... that British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud describes his 2017 film My Pure Land as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan"?
25 February 2019
12:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Abby Franquemont
... that
hand-spinning writer Abby Franquemont(pictured) spent her early childhood in
Peru, where women "spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in"?
... that
Portland'sMAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by
Bechtel?
... that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet
Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with
Trotskyists?
... that after sailors from HMS Sickle(pictured) boarded a small enemy ship, they brought 1,000 oranges and lemons from the ship's cargo back to their submarine?
... that actor
Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry, in a style he dubbed "The
Ferret"?
... that the voice of the Erckel's francolin has been described as "an insane cackled laughter"?
... that Gaspar Jiménez, who was indicted in 1981 for a bombing attack on radio newscaster Emilio Milián, was later convicted for plotting to assassinate Cuban president
Fidel Castro?
... that the rare, much sought after record in Deadwax has killer sound?
... that the Neo-Bechstein was a pioneering
electric grand piano in which the mechanics of the piano were no longer involved in the direct production of sound?
... that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a
drug cartel?
... that, influenced by the
Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"?
Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Maidby
Nicolas Régnier
... that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene(example shown) reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the
plague?
... that the
springtailOrchesella cincta moults repeatedly throughout its life, with feeding and reproductive phases alternating?
... that
British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in
Yorkshire?
... that after being captured and imprisoned by British Major Lionel Bostock, the
Nuer prophet Garluark was restored to his former position as ruler of a region of
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan?
... that fares on Tacoma Link are covered by a subsidy from local businesses?
... that for 25 years, pedestrians in
Hudson Heights, New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
... that Major General Gao Changqing performed China's first fully
robotic cardiac surgery?
... that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least
coke" and was named the "
pig iron king"?
... that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and
rope tricks?
... that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an
Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
... that Joseph Jenckes Sr., a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine
patent in America?
... that the historical
card game of Briscan has been described as a "Gothic extravaganza", squeezing "a truly phenomenal range of scores and melds" from a 32-card pack?
... that Louis Dreller was decorated by both the United States and Brazil for designing and building World War II warships?
... that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia?
... that Twitter
satiristColdwar Steve creates most of his works on a phone while travelling to work by bus?
... that artificial alternatives to DNA called
XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms?
... that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with
Ichneumonidae?
... that the head of the emperor goose(pictured) frequently turns from white to reddish-brown in summer, due to its feeding in tidal pools with
iron oxide?
... that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the
National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation?
... that the population of Kunság(banner pictured) was "almost entirely wiped out" during the
Ottoman occupation, before recovering through re-colonization?
... that the OK gesture(pictured) can stand for the
evil eye, the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a
scuba diver is safe?
... that Stephen Twinoburyo, a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the
2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
... that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
... that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the
American Revolution, but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
... that Guth'sAu Bois de Boulogne(shown) depicts a fashionable crowd, including the courtesans
Liane de Pougy and
La Belle Otero?
... that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country?
... that Eidyn, a
Brittonic district of the Early Middle Ages in present-day Scotland, is the source for
Edinburgh's name?
... that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, once a
war refugee, founded a
nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
... that construction on the Thessaloniki Metro triggered the largest-ever
archaeological dig in northern Greece, unearthing more than 300,000 individual artefacts?
... that when
Willem Kloos said to
Jacques Perk that they were the only two young talented poets in the Netherlands, Perk mentioned his childhood friend Augusta Peaux as a third?
... that after the release of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, charity shops in Washington D.C. reported a 66% increase in donations?
13 February 2019
00:00, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Kamehameha III,
c. 1849
... that Hawaiian king
Kamehameha III(pictured) relied on American and British advisors to fill his cabinet?
... that after recapturing escaped Luftwaffe prisoners, the British officer Guy Dury is said to have remarked: "one really has to take off one's hat to them ... I really regret having to lock them up"?
... that William Hoskins, the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
... that Japanese
voice actressKaede Hondo decided to pursue a career in acting due to a misunderstanding?
... that Earth's circumference around
the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres or 21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60)
nautical miles, because it was used to define those units of measurement?
... that after a
mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer?
11 February 2019
00:00, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)?
... that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the
Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"?
... that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
... that James Park Woods was awarded the
Victoria Cross in 1918 for leading a small squad in the capture of a "very formidable" enemy post and the subsequent repulsion of multiple counterattacks?
... that Roy Inwood was awarded a
Victoria Cross in 1917 for several actions including the capture of a German strongpoint and a machinegun nest, mostly singlehanded?
... that MLS Cup 2005 featured the same teams and ended with the same scoreline as
MLS Cup 2002?
... that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin, and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?
... that
Juan Gabriel's own
cover of "Así Fue", which he originally composed for
Isabel Pantoja, was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States?
... that Alexina Maude Wildman's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s?
... that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode "One" so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
... that Marshmello was listed by Forbes as one of the ten highest-paid DJs, with $21 million in earnings in the twelve months before June 2017?
... that when taxonomist
Gloria Galeano first saw pictures of the newly discovered Sabinaria magnifica she described it as "the most beautiful of all Colombian palms"?
... that educator
Joseph Forbes had twenty-four children and two wives?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst
Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"?
... that the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu's public debut at the age of 12 featured his own compositions?
5 February 2019
00:00, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
David Johnson
... that photographer David Johnson(pictured) was the first African-American student of
Ansel Adams?
... that the cable ship Alert almost completely isolated Germany from the worldwide telegraph network by cutting its
submarine telegraph cables just hours after the outbreak of
World War I?
... that cases against 9,700 Kashmiri youth in India were withdrawn by the government as part of its "healing touch" policy for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that "
Joy to the World" is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96, "Sing to the Lord a new song"?
... that in 1956, German
civil servantErica Pappritz co-wrote a book on
etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how
Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas?
... that after a nearby railroad station burned down, 12 horses pulled the old Caldwell station on rafters to the site to replace it?
... that members of the British Parliament are entitled to free snuff from the Parliamentary snuff box, despite it being illegal to distribute it for free elsewhere?
... that Ugandan military commander Isaac Maliyamungu reportedly wept after witnessing how much destruction his country's army had caused in Tanzania?
... that the restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 locomotive was set back when an employee stole thousands of pounds of brass fittings to sell as scrap?
2 February 2019
00:00, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Loschbour man
... that
DNA testing suggests that Loschbour man(pictured), an 8,000-year-old human skeleton found in Luxembourg in 1935, had dark skin?
... that Grand Central Palace, a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
... that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a
professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script?
... that the lead singer of the English rock band
The 1975 wrote the song "Sincerity Is Scary" in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
... that when Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother
Peter, they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
... that Crooked Billet was the site of the first house in London that had a telephone, as well as electricity for illumination, boiling a kettle, and ironing?
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.
... that Mair von Landshut's prints (example shown) "resemble whimsical stage sets, and are endowed with an unreal character, like something from a fairy tale"?
... that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in
Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute?
... that the innkeeper worm catches its food with a net and then swallows the net?
27 February 2019
12:00, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Mouth and tentacles of the spotted wobbegong
... that prey of the spotted wobbegong(pictured) have been known to approach its mouth and nibble on its tentacles?
... that Edris Allan, the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan, the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted?
... that Yu-chien Kuan fled China using a stolen Japanese passport, was jailed in Egypt, and then became a
sinologist and advisor to the German chancellor?
... that in 1407, Admiral
Zheng He's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of
Chen Zuyi, who had occupied
Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
... that the Payún Matrú volcano, last active about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest
Quaternary lava flow on Earth?
... that in 1832, sugar planter Hamilton Brown argued that slaves in Jamaica were better off than the poor in Britain?
00:00, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Thatched barnacles (left) and channeled dog winkles (right)
... that the channeled dog winkle drills into shells of the thatched barnacle(both species pictured) and injects a toxin to gain access to the soft parts?
... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian
LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
... that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville, Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in
Gippsland?
... that British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud describes his 2017 film My Pure Land as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan"?
25 February 2019
12:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Abby Franquemont
... that
hand-spinning writer Abby Franquemont(pictured) spent her early childhood in
Peru, where women "spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in"?
... that
Portland'sMAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by
Bechtel?
... that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet
Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with
Trotskyists?
... that after sailors from HMS Sickle(pictured) boarded a small enemy ship, they brought 1,000 oranges and lemons from the ship's cargo back to their submarine?
... that actor
Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry, in a style he dubbed "The
Ferret"?
... that the voice of the Erckel's francolin has been described as "an insane cackled laughter"?
... that Gaspar Jiménez, who was indicted in 1981 for a bombing attack on radio newscaster Emilio Milián, was later convicted for plotting to assassinate Cuban president
Fidel Castro?
... that the rare, much sought after record in Deadwax has killer sound?
... that the Neo-Bechstein was a pioneering
electric grand piano in which the mechanics of the piano were no longer involved in the direct production of sound?
... that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a
drug cartel?
... that, influenced by the
Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"?
Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Maidby
Nicolas Régnier
... that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene(example shown) reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the
plague?
... that the
springtailOrchesella cincta moults repeatedly throughout its life, with feeding and reproductive phases alternating?
... that
British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in
Yorkshire?
... that after being captured and imprisoned by British Major Lionel Bostock, the
Nuer prophet Garluark was restored to his former position as ruler of a region of
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan?
... that fares on Tacoma Link are covered by a subsidy from local businesses?
... that for 25 years, pedestrians in
Hudson Heights, New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
... that Major General Gao Changqing performed China's first fully
robotic cardiac surgery?
... that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least
coke" and was named the "
pig iron king"?
... that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and
rope tricks?
... that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an
Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
... that Joseph Jenckes Sr., a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine
patent in America?
... that the historical
card game of Briscan has been described as a "Gothic extravaganza", squeezing "a truly phenomenal range of scores and melds" from a 32-card pack?
... that Louis Dreller was decorated by both the United States and Brazil for designing and building World War II warships?
... that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia?
... that Twitter
satiristColdwar Steve creates most of his works on a phone while travelling to work by bus?
... that artificial alternatives to DNA called
XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms?
... that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with
Ichneumonidae?
... that the head of the emperor goose(pictured) frequently turns from white to reddish-brown in summer, due to its feeding in tidal pools with
iron oxide?
... that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the
National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation?
... that the population of Kunság(banner pictured) was "almost entirely wiped out" during the
Ottoman occupation, before recovering through re-colonization?
... that the OK gesture(pictured) can stand for the
evil eye, the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a
scuba diver is safe?
... that Stephen Twinoburyo, a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the
2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
... that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
... that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the
American Revolution, but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
... that Guth'sAu Bois de Boulogne(shown) depicts a fashionable crowd, including the courtesans
Liane de Pougy and
La Belle Otero?
... that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country?
... that Eidyn, a
Brittonic district of the Early Middle Ages in present-day Scotland, is the source for
Edinburgh's name?
... that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, once a
war refugee, founded a
nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
... that construction on the Thessaloniki Metro triggered the largest-ever
archaeological dig in northern Greece, unearthing more than 300,000 individual artefacts?
... that when
Willem Kloos said to
Jacques Perk that they were the only two young talented poets in the Netherlands, Perk mentioned his childhood friend Augusta Peaux as a third?
... that after the release of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, charity shops in Washington D.C. reported a 66% increase in donations?
13 February 2019
00:00, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Kamehameha III,
c. 1849
... that Hawaiian king
Kamehameha III(pictured) relied on American and British advisors to fill his cabinet?
... that after recapturing escaped Luftwaffe prisoners, the British officer Guy Dury is said to have remarked: "one really has to take off one's hat to them ... I really regret having to lock them up"?
... that William Hoskins, the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
... that Japanese
voice actressKaede Hondo decided to pursue a career in acting due to a misunderstanding?
... that Earth's circumference around
the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres or 21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60)
nautical miles, because it was used to define those units of measurement?
... that after a
mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer?
11 February 2019
00:00, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)?
... that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the
Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"?
... that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
... that James Park Woods was awarded the
Victoria Cross in 1918 for leading a small squad in the capture of a "very formidable" enemy post and the subsequent repulsion of multiple counterattacks?
... that Roy Inwood was awarded a
Victoria Cross in 1917 for several actions including the capture of a German strongpoint and a machinegun nest, mostly singlehanded?
... that MLS Cup 2005 featured the same teams and ended with the same scoreline as
MLS Cup 2002?
... that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin, and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?
... that
Juan Gabriel's own
cover of "Así Fue", which he originally composed for
Isabel Pantoja, was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States?
... that Alexina Maude Wildman's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s?
... that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode "One" so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
... that Marshmello was listed by Forbes as one of the ten highest-paid DJs, with $21 million in earnings in the twelve months before June 2017?
... that when taxonomist
Gloria Galeano first saw pictures of the newly discovered Sabinaria magnifica she described it as "the most beautiful of all Colombian palms"?
... that educator
Joseph Forbes had twenty-four children and two wives?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst
Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"?
... that the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu's public debut at the age of 12 featured his own compositions?
5 February 2019
00:00, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
David Johnson
... that photographer David Johnson(pictured) was the first African-American student of
Ansel Adams?
... that the cable ship Alert almost completely isolated Germany from the worldwide telegraph network by cutting its
submarine telegraph cables just hours after the outbreak of
World War I?
... that cases against 9,700 Kashmiri youth in India were withdrawn by the government as part of its "healing touch" policy for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that "
Joy to the World" is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96, "Sing to the Lord a new song"?
... that in 1956, German
civil servantErica Pappritz co-wrote a book on
etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how
Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas?
... that after a nearby railroad station burned down, 12 horses pulled the old Caldwell station on rafters to the site to replace it?
... that members of the British Parliament are entitled to free snuff from the Parliamentary snuff box, despite it being illegal to distribute it for free elsewhere?
... that Ugandan military commander Isaac Maliyamungu reportedly wept after witnessing how much destruction his country's army had caused in Tanzania?
... that the restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 locomotive was set back when an employee stole thousands of pounds of brass fittings to sell as scrap?
2 February 2019
00:00, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Loschbour man
... that
DNA testing suggests that Loschbour man(pictured), an 8,000-year-old human skeleton found in Luxembourg in 1935, had dark skin?
... that Grand Central Palace, a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
... that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a
professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script?
... that the lead singer of the English rock band
The 1975 wrote the song "Sincerity Is Scary" in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
... that when Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother
Peter, they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
... that Crooked Billet was the site of the first house in London that had a telephone, as well as electricity for illumination, boiling a kettle, and ironing?