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... that after the Battle of Adys, the peace terms offered to the defeated
Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
... that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for
the Rolling Stones' "
Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
... that the pasquinade, a form of
satire usually in verse or prose, is named after
Pasquino, a
Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
... that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on
Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with
sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
... that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
... that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an
ozone hole?
... that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the
University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a
4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the
Tuskegee Airmen?
... that by the end of the Addled Parliament, which
James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
... that
Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
... that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in
Bronze Age China?
... that during the Mercenary War,
Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
... that at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), Jakob Nacken(pictured) was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
... that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
... that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
... that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German
contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
... that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales
steam coal in the London and international markets?
... that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one
killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
... that
punk pioneer band
X's 2020 album Alphabetland, released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles, was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
26 April 2020
12:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Rendering of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as designed
... that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a
Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
... that
footballerJamal Farhan, who was banned for life by
FIFA after punching
a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
... that
costermongers are named after the costard, a variety of apple that they sold?
... that the first act passed by the
New Zealand Parliament was the "Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
00:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Dana Fischer
... that nine-year-old Dana Fischer(pictured) is the youngest winner of a cash prize at a
Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix, beating 94 percent of the mostly adult players in 2020?
... that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by
Rick Sylvester in
Yosemite Valley, the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
... that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around
alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
... that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
... that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its
all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
... that the
CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
... that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in
Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
... that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?
00:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Ulrich Mohr
... that when seeking to board an enemy ship, German naval officer Ulrich Mohr(pictured) once disguised himself as a British officer?
... that the HP Slate 21 is an Android
tablet with a 21.5-inch (550 mm) screen?
... that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
... that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear
PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with
Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
... that when US president
Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister
Tony Blair, the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?
... that Upāli(statue pictured), the Buddha's learned low-caste disciple, was ordained before his friends of royal blood to humble their pride?
... that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own
station wagons?
... that the
play-by-mail gameBeyond the Stellar Empire was part of the "stomping ground" of the genre's top players, allowing them to govern a space colony or join a space pirate band?
... that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
... that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since
Friedrich Karl Ginzel's work in the early 20th century?
... that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
... that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian
market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
... that Ulrich Stranz composed Musik für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 for piano and orchestra, which premiered in Munich with
Margarita Höhenrieder as the soloist in 1983?
... that 18
spans of the Kobe Route collapsed in 1995 (pictured) due to the unprecedented strength of the
Great Hanshin earthquake and various structural flaws?
... that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for
women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
... that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of
Mesopotamia?
Easter eggs from Kateryna Skarzhynska's collection
... that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100
Ukrainian Easter eggs(examples pictured)?
... that the 2019 Ukrainian teen drama Early Swallows was responsible for a 600-percent increase in calls to a mental-health helpline?
... that when the
College of the Pacific started a radio station, it had to settle for the
call signKCVN because a police facility held the rights to KCOP?
... that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson
Niki's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
... that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead, director
Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?
... that local residents complained about "potentially hazardous waste" being dredged from Peel Marina on the
Isle of Man in 2015, only for toxic
cadmium to be found there five years later?
... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central
Scottish Highlands?
... that Moldavian leader Nikita Salogor called for an expansion of the borders of
Soviet Moldavia in 1946, which may have led to his removal from office later that year?
... that professional journalists commended a student reporter at
Sacramento radio station KERS for refusing to reveal her source for a story about California governor
Ronald Reagan not paying taxes?
18 April 2020
00:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Bessie Van Vorst depicted as a pickle factory worker
... that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst(depicted) worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s?
... that Oxford Circus was once London's busiest pedestrian crossing?
... that 7,000 residents of
Brighton, England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?
... that King
Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
... that
Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter(pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking
psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the
CIA?
... that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the
Isle of Wight?
... that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the
Battle of the Nile?
... that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case, a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of
New Orleans?
... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
... that Charles W. Lyons was the only
Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have been president of four different colleges?
... that
British Rail's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
... that some ants herd scale insects(example pictured)?
... that according to biographer Steven Fenberg, Jesse H. Jones was the second most powerful person in America during the Great Depression and World War II?
... that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 metres (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
... that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
... that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of
Solomon's Temple?
... that Cheung Chung-kiu has agreed to buy
2–8a Rutland Gate(pictured) in London for more than £200 million, making it easily the most expensive house sold in the UK?
... that after residents near Sunswick Creek broke down its tide gates in 1916, the New York City health commissioner claimed that they "prefer to live like hogs"?
8 April 2020
00:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
View with Weather Forecast (1931)
... that Teikō Shiotani photographed View with Weather Forecast(shown) from his upstairs window, exaggerating the
curvature of the horizon by bending the photographic paper under the
enlarger?
... that although Constance Kies was a nutrition scientist, she
majored in English, and
minored in history, geography, library science, and home economics?
... that Kissena Creek originates from a New York City swamp that remained undeveloped through 2000?
... that during the American Civil War, Zachariah A. Rice wrote more than 63 letters to his wife, offering insight into the military life of a
Confederate cavalry officer?
... that a shootout broke out at Pompton Junction station in New Jersey in 1874 over $600 worth of stolen metal and clothing?
... that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using
grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls?
... that ice hockey goaltender Cale Morris won Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year after going undrafted into the
United States Hockey League?
... that after ceasing operations, the owner of television station KETX in
Tyler, Texas, was sued for nearly $6,000 in unreturned film rentals?
... that Diether de la Motte, who taught composition and music theory in Berlin and Vienna, wrote an opera that premiered at the
Staatsoper Hannover in 1970?
... that at its peak, the Canadian
softcore pornography series The Baby Blue Movie was seen by nearly two-thirds of the Toronto viewing audience in its time slot?
... that when the
shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex, were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key?
... that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem "Gwerz Skolan", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals?
... that station staff had to throw snowballs to knock the ice off the aging transmitter of radio station KWCR-FM at
Weber State University in Utah?
... that the 1996 racing video game Monster Truck Madness was designed to accurately simulate
monster-truck events such as drag tracks and enclosed circuit races?
... that Canadian ice hockey player Aggie Kukulowicz was followed by a
KGB agent for six years and never spoke with him, but reportedly once bought him an ice cream cone?
... that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still
emit steam?
... that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller, who was also an accomplished
blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
... that the CEO of CEPI, a key organisation in the race to develop a
vaccine for COVID-19, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
... that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for
Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of
County Cork?
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 after the Battle of Adys, the peace terms offered to the defeated
Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
... that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for
the Rolling Stones' "
Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
... that the pasquinade, a form of
satire usually in verse or prose, is named after
Pasquino, a
Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
... that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on
Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with
sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
... that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
... that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an
ozone hole?
... that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the
University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a
4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the
Tuskegee Airmen?
... that by the end of the Addled Parliament, which
James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
... that
Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
... that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in
Bronze Age China?
... that during the Mercenary War,
Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
... that at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), Jakob Nacken(pictured) was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
... that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
... that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
... that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German
contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
... that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales
steam coal in the London and international markets?
... that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one
killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
... that
punk pioneer band
X's 2020 album Alphabetland, released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles, was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
26 April 2020
12:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Rendering of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as designed
... that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a
Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
... that
footballerJamal Farhan, who was banned for life by
FIFA after punching
a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
... that
costermongers are named after the costard, a variety of apple that they sold?
... that the first act passed by the
New Zealand Parliament was the "Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
00:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Dana Fischer
... that nine-year-old Dana Fischer(pictured) is the youngest winner of a cash prize at a
Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix, beating 94 percent of the mostly adult players in 2020?
... that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by
Rick Sylvester in
Yosemite Valley, the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
... that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around
alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
... that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
... that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its
all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
... that the
CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
... that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in
Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
... that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?
00:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Ulrich Mohr
... that when seeking to board an enemy ship, German naval officer Ulrich Mohr(pictured) once disguised himself as a British officer?
... that the HP Slate 21 is an Android
tablet with a 21.5-inch (550 mm) screen?
... that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
... that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear
PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with
Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
... that when US president
Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister
Tony Blair, the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?
... that Upāli(statue pictured), the Buddha's learned low-caste disciple, was ordained before his friends of royal blood to humble their pride?
... that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own
station wagons?
... that the
play-by-mail gameBeyond the Stellar Empire was part of the "stomping ground" of the genre's top players, allowing them to govern a space colony or join a space pirate band?
... that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
... that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since
Friedrich Karl Ginzel's work in the early 20th century?
... that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
... that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian
market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
... that Ulrich Stranz composed Musik für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 for piano and orchestra, which premiered in Munich with
Margarita Höhenrieder as the soloist in 1983?
... that 18
spans of the Kobe Route collapsed in 1995 (pictured) due to the unprecedented strength of the
Great Hanshin earthquake and various structural flaws?
... that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for
women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
... that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of
Mesopotamia?
Easter eggs from Kateryna Skarzhynska's collection
... that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100
Ukrainian Easter eggs(examples pictured)?
... that the 2019 Ukrainian teen drama Early Swallows was responsible for a 600-percent increase in calls to a mental-health helpline?
... that when the
College of the Pacific started a radio station, it had to settle for the
call signKCVN because a police facility held the rights to KCOP?
... that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson
Niki's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
... that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead, director
Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?
... that local residents complained about "potentially hazardous waste" being dredged from Peel Marina on the
Isle of Man in 2015, only for toxic
cadmium to be found there five years later?
... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central
Scottish Highlands?
... that Moldavian leader Nikita Salogor called for an expansion of the borders of
Soviet Moldavia in 1946, which may have led to his removal from office later that year?
... that professional journalists commended a student reporter at
Sacramento radio station KERS for refusing to reveal her source for a story about California governor
Ronald Reagan not paying taxes?
18 April 2020
00:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Bessie Van Vorst depicted as a pickle factory worker
... that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst(depicted) worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s?
... that Oxford Circus was once London's busiest pedestrian crossing?
... that 7,000 residents of
Brighton, England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?
... that King
Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
... that
Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter(pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking
psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the
CIA?
... that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the
Isle of Wight?
... that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the
Battle of the Nile?
... that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case, a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of
New Orleans?
... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
... that Charles W. Lyons was the only
Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have been president of four different colleges?
... that
British Rail's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
... that some ants herd scale insects(example pictured)?
... that according to biographer Steven Fenberg, Jesse H. Jones was the second most powerful person in America during the Great Depression and World War II?
... that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 metres (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
... that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
... that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of
Solomon's Temple?
... that Cheung Chung-kiu has agreed to buy
2–8a Rutland Gate(pictured) in London for more than £200 million, making it easily the most expensive house sold in the UK?
... that after residents near Sunswick Creek broke down its tide gates in 1916, the New York City health commissioner claimed that they "prefer to live like hogs"?
8 April 2020
00:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
View with Weather Forecast (1931)
... that Teikō Shiotani photographed View with Weather Forecast(shown) from his upstairs window, exaggerating the
curvature of the horizon by bending the photographic paper under the
enlarger?
... that although Constance Kies was a nutrition scientist, she
majored in English, and
minored in history, geography, library science, and home economics?
... that Kissena Creek originates from a New York City swamp that remained undeveloped through 2000?
... that during the American Civil War, Zachariah A. Rice wrote more than 63 letters to his wife, offering insight into the military life of a
Confederate cavalry officer?
... that a shootout broke out at Pompton Junction station in New Jersey in 1874 over $600 worth of stolen metal and clothing?
... that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using
grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls?
... that ice hockey goaltender Cale Morris won Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year after going undrafted into the
United States Hockey League?
... that after ceasing operations, the owner of television station KETX in
Tyler, Texas, was sued for nearly $6,000 in unreturned film rentals?
... that Diether de la Motte, who taught composition and music theory in Berlin and Vienna, wrote an opera that premiered at the
Staatsoper Hannover in 1970?
... that at its peak, the Canadian
softcore pornography series The Baby Blue Movie was seen by nearly two-thirds of the Toronto viewing audience in its time slot?
... that when the
shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex, were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key?
... that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem "Gwerz Skolan", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals?
... that station staff had to throw snowballs to knock the ice off the aging transmitter of radio station KWCR-FM at
Weber State University in Utah?
... that the 1996 racing video game Monster Truck Madness was designed to accurately simulate
monster-truck events such as drag tracks and enclosed circuit races?
... that Canadian ice hockey player Aggie Kukulowicz was followed by a
KGB agent for six years and never spoke with him, but reportedly once bought him an ice cream cone?
... that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still
emit steam?
... that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller, who was also an accomplished
blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
... that the CEO of CEPI, a key organisation in the race to develop a
vaccine for COVID-19, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
... that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for
Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of
County Cork?