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... that the development of Thomas Jefferson Park was intended to help Italian Harlem, described as "for many years the black spot of Harlem"?
... that the 9th-century
Abbasid caliphal-Wathiq, whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century
Gothic fantasy novel Vathek?
... that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of
Wedgwood's main ceramics designers?
... that the
U.S. Supreme Courtwill decide whether a frustrated high-school student who
Snapchatted "fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything" can be suspended from cheerleading for a year?
... that
BTS's song "Blue & Grey" was originally intended to be included on band member
V's solo mixtape?
... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?
30 January 2021
12:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Pallas's cat
... that the Pallas's cat(example pictured) has up to 9,000 hairs per cm2 (58,000/in2) of fur?
... that after quarterback
Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow,
PETA sent him a letter filled with
football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
... that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of
an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?
... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
... that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
... that the Ringturm, a 65-year-old skyscraper in Vienna, has been wrapped by artists in summer, such as
Mihael Milunović's Vision(pictured) in 2017?
... that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim, caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
... that architect Piers Taylor had to carry the materials for building his award-winning home "Moonshine" over a 600-metre (2,000 ft) woodland incline?
... that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
... that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male
bond-trading business in the U.S.?
... that in Islamic art, the shamsa is found in places as diverse as on carpets, inside domes (example pictured), and forming the frontispiece of books?
... that the root of the slimflower scurfpea can be eaten raw or cooked, or ground up and used as an ingredient in bread-making?
... that with "Homura" and Leo-Nine,
LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since
Utada Hikaru?
... that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian
Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
... that The Magic of Chocolate's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century
abbess in
Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?
... that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England?
... that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch?
... that the Four Ds include demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation?
... that Setiadi Reksoprodjo, who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
... that after the Morning Star sank on
Lake Erie, the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
... that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the
boys' love genre for a general audience outside of
anime and
manga fans?
... that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo(pictured), Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home?
... that before the creation of Good Job!, Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with
Nintendo for about a decade?
... that the American writer Mark C. Yerger was honored by the veterans' organization of the
Waffen-SS for his works that embellished its history?
... that the Christuskirche in
Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
... that due to Brian Crabtree's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling,
Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from
martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese
LGBT slang?
... that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in
ancient Rome?
... that during the trial of
Francis Gary Powers, Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of
Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
... that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at
Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?
23 January 2021
12:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Vilma Núñez
... that the discrimination Vilma Núñez(pictured) experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist?
... that a U.S. secretary of commerce wrote of the Richards Building(pictured), "were there such a function as a public
incendiary, these buildings are among the first that should receive his official attention"?
... that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home,
David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a
sound stage, and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
... that
Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go?
... that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the
New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company?
... that Dominic Thiem, winner of the
2020 US Open, is the first player since the
2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
... that Charles G. Hopkins accompanied
Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe and the United States, where she visited Queen Victoria, Emperor Napoleon III, and President Andrew Johnson?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings, which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers'
text messages being superimposed on the screen?
... that "I Love You" by
2NE1 integrates traditional Korean
trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
... that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the
Nordics?
... that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular
gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
... that the Ur-Quan from the 1992
science-fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character design in modern games?
... that
Dua Lipa's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
... that the
Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform?
... that the 2017 book Priest of Nature analyses theological writings of
Isaac Newton(pictured) that were never published due to his heretical views?
... that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries?
... that the exact date of establishment of the Philippine embassy in Cairo is unclear, despite the Philippines having first named an ambassador to Egypt in 1960?
... that the IRT Powerhouse was intended to be the largest power generating station on earth when it was built in the 1900s?
... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69
rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
... that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on
Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
00:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Cantata rehearsal in the Dreikönigskirche, 2020
... that after the Dreikönigskirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)?
... that Fraser's Hill in Malaysia was previously a
tin mining area that was converted into a
hill station after the tin ore depleted in 1913?
... that when sports journalist Leo Monahan traveled overnight with the
Boston Bruins by train, he feared moving while sleeping and keeping one of the team's players awake?
19 January 2021
12:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Two kusarigamas
... that the kusarigama(examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a
JD degree and an
MBA in sports management?
... that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends, publishers were baffled by the game's
free-to-play business model?
... that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the
BDS charts in 15 years?
... that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in
Wisconsin?
... that Izaac Hindom, a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
... that in their 1962
postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and
Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
... that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
... that John Clark Mayden's images of African Americans were extolled by
James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?
... that according to a chaplain at
Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death?
... that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an
Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
... that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three
commanderies, and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
... that a mental-health hotline in
Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl?
... that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha, the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
... that Vine-Glo sold during
Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and
Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
... that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the
autism spectrum through
Therukoothu folk-theatre performances?
... that after releasing their debut album Black Focus, the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
... that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in
Georgia?
... that according to one critic, video-game designer Kitty Horrorshow does not exploit the
Lovecraftian "fear of the unknown", but instead the "fear of the familiar"?
... that the clouded leopard(example pictured) is the first cat that diverged from the
common ancestor of the
Felidae more than four million years ago?
... that Debbie Muir retired from
synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years?
... that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking
macaw named Fanchon, inspired by
Dolley Madison's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
... that
Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career?
... that the Index Thomisticus covered 10,631,980 words in fifty-six volumes and took an estimated one million hours to create?
16 January 2021
12:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Siegfried Pank
... that Siegfried Pank(pictured), the director of the International Telemann Association, was a cellist of the
Gewandhausorchester and professor of cello and
viol?
... that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to
Harvard and
USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California?
... that comedian Blaire Erskine's mock interview duped
Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally?
00:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Miniature from the book of hours of Joan of France
... that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical
apologist text, has not yet been translated to English?
... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
... that in The Autistic Brain,
Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the
DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
... that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from
Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the
Peace of Utrecht?
... that during Francis Reynolds's command of
HMS Augusta, the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?
00:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Model of Galactic Radiation and Background satellite 1 (GRAB-1)
... that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
... that
Canadian football broadcaster Ernie Calcutt coined the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning"?
... that television station WKAB-TV of
Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
... that M. P. Alladin depicted rural
Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
... that a
U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether
Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
... that "Fujiyama Mama", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?
13 January 2021
12:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Rosalbina Caradori as Zora, the slave girl
... that a few years after Pacini's opera La schiava in Bagdad premiered in Turin,
Rosalbina Caradori performed the title role of the slave girl (pictured) in London?
... that during Sir George Smith's term as
governor of Nyasaland, the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the
Nari Shakti Puraskar?
... that the music video for
Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
... that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River?
... that British businessman William Brooks Close and his two brothers started a colony in
Iowa while owning at times almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the best soil in the United States?
... that the developers of Paper Mario: Sticker Star de-emphasized a proper story because fewer than one percent of players found the plot of
the previous game interesting?
... that WhopperCoin attempted to turn a burger into an "investment vehicle"?
... that radio station WWBC in
Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the
Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
... that "Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
... that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the
Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment?
... that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition,
Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?
... that turbine manufacturer S. Morgan Smith Company made large gun lathes during World War I and large aircraft carrier, gun, and tank parts during World War II?
... that when
Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
... that while it is now considered a classic work of
girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
Clarence E. Willard, with a photographic effect showing his increase in height
... that
vaudeville performer Clarence E. Willard could add 7+1⁄2 inches (19 cm) to his height by stretching (pictured)?
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup will not feature any amateur rugby league teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that
gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
... that the largest
heroin seizure in the New York City Police Department's history occurred at the luxury apartment tower Central Park Place in 1993?
9 January 2021
12:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Santal 33
... that the social theory of
distinction could explain why the more popular the perfume Santal 33(pictured) became, the less some people liked it?
... that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress
Sarah Siddons?
... that in My Memoir, former United States first lady
Edith Wilson detailed how she became
Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
... that the
Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad consists of about 3,000 pages?
... that at the
Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played
Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of
Robert Wilson's Orlando?
... that during a spacewalk,
Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French
spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?
00:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Clara Bow
... that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film starClara Bow(pictured) was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career?
... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with
Siri?
7 January 2021
12:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange
... that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange(pictured) in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on
Crete for ten days?
... that KAVU-TV in
Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in
Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
... that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration(painting detail pictured), active in 16th-century
Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
... that in "Body",
Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist
Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?
5 January 2021
00:00, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
View of El Paso at Sunset (
c. 1922–1925)
... that View of El Paso at Sunset(pictured), a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at
El Paso High School?
... that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the
Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law
Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
... that Choctaw was one of only three semi-
whaleback ships ever built?
... that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by
Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
... that after
Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells
almond biscuits with
condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef
jerky if they show a
parking ticket?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a
Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
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 the development of Thomas Jefferson Park was intended to help Italian Harlem, described as "for many years the black spot of Harlem"?
... that the 9th-century
Abbasid caliphal-Wathiq, whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century
Gothic fantasy novel Vathek?
... that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of
Wedgwood's main ceramics designers?
... that the
U.S. Supreme Courtwill decide whether a frustrated high-school student who
Snapchatted "fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything" can be suspended from cheerleading for a year?
... that
BTS's song "Blue & Grey" was originally intended to be included on band member
V's solo mixtape?
... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?
30 January 2021
12:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Pallas's cat
... that the Pallas's cat(example pictured) has up to 9,000 hairs per cm2 (58,000/in2) of fur?
... that after quarterback
Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow,
PETA sent him a letter filled with
football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
... that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of
an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?
... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
... that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
... that the Ringturm, a 65-year-old skyscraper in Vienna, has been wrapped by artists in summer, such as
Mihael Milunović's Vision(pictured) in 2017?
... that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim, caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
... that architect Piers Taylor had to carry the materials for building his award-winning home "Moonshine" over a 600-metre (2,000 ft) woodland incline?
... that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
... that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male
bond-trading business in the U.S.?
... that in Islamic art, the shamsa is found in places as diverse as on carpets, inside domes (example pictured), and forming the frontispiece of books?
... that the root of the slimflower scurfpea can be eaten raw or cooked, or ground up and used as an ingredient in bread-making?
... that with "Homura" and Leo-Nine,
LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since
Utada Hikaru?
... that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian
Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
... that The Magic of Chocolate's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century
abbess in
Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?
... that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England?
... that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch?
... that the Four Ds include demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation?
... that Setiadi Reksoprodjo, who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
... that after the Morning Star sank on
Lake Erie, the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
... that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the
boys' love genre for a general audience outside of
anime and
manga fans?
... that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo(pictured), Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home?
... that before the creation of Good Job!, Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with
Nintendo for about a decade?
... that the American writer Mark C. Yerger was honored by the veterans' organization of the
Waffen-SS for his works that embellished its history?
... that the Christuskirche in
Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
... that due to Brian Crabtree's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling,
Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from
martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese
LGBT slang?
... that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in
ancient Rome?
... that during the trial of
Francis Gary Powers, Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of
Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
... that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at
Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?
23 January 2021
12:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Vilma Núñez
... that the discrimination Vilma Núñez(pictured) experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist?
... that a U.S. secretary of commerce wrote of the Richards Building(pictured), "were there such a function as a public
incendiary, these buildings are among the first that should receive his official attention"?
... that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home,
David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a
sound stage, and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
... that
Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go?
... that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the
New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company?
... that Dominic Thiem, winner of the
2020 US Open, is the first player since the
2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
... that Charles G. Hopkins accompanied
Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe and the United States, where she visited Queen Victoria, Emperor Napoleon III, and President Andrew Johnson?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings, which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers'
text messages being superimposed on the screen?
... that "I Love You" by
2NE1 integrates traditional Korean
trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
... that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the
Nordics?
... that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular
gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
... that the Ur-Quan from the 1992
science-fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character design in modern games?
... that
Dua Lipa's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
... that the
Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform?
... that the 2017 book Priest of Nature analyses theological writings of
Isaac Newton(pictured) that were never published due to his heretical views?
... that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries?
... that the exact date of establishment of the Philippine embassy in Cairo is unclear, despite the Philippines having first named an ambassador to Egypt in 1960?
... that the IRT Powerhouse was intended to be the largest power generating station on earth when it was built in the 1900s?
... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69
rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
... that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on
Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
00:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Cantata rehearsal in the Dreikönigskirche, 2020
... that after the Dreikönigskirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)?
... that Fraser's Hill in Malaysia was previously a
tin mining area that was converted into a
hill station after the tin ore depleted in 1913?
... that when sports journalist Leo Monahan traveled overnight with the
Boston Bruins by train, he feared moving while sleeping and keeping one of the team's players awake?
19 January 2021
12:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Two kusarigamas
... that the kusarigama(examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a
JD degree and an
MBA in sports management?
... that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends, publishers were baffled by the game's
free-to-play business model?
... that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the
BDS charts in 15 years?
... that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in
Wisconsin?
... that Izaac Hindom, a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
... that in their 1962
postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and
Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
... that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
... that John Clark Mayden's images of African Americans were extolled by
James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?
... that according to a chaplain at
Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death?
... that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an
Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
... that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three
commanderies, and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
... that a mental-health hotline in
Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl?
... that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha, the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
... that Vine-Glo sold during
Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and
Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
... that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the
autism spectrum through
Therukoothu folk-theatre performances?
... that after releasing their debut album Black Focus, the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
... that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in
Georgia?
... that according to one critic, video-game designer Kitty Horrorshow does not exploit the
Lovecraftian "fear of the unknown", but instead the "fear of the familiar"?
... that the clouded leopard(example pictured) is the first cat that diverged from the
common ancestor of the
Felidae more than four million years ago?
... that Debbie Muir retired from
synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years?
... that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking
macaw named Fanchon, inspired by
Dolley Madison's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
... that
Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career?
... that the Index Thomisticus covered 10,631,980 words in fifty-six volumes and took an estimated one million hours to create?
16 January 2021
12:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Siegfried Pank
... that Siegfried Pank(pictured), the director of the International Telemann Association, was a cellist of the
Gewandhausorchester and professor of cello and
viol?
... that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to
Harvard and
USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California?
... that comedian Blaire Erskine's mock interview duped
Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally?
00:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Miniature from the book of hours of Joan of France
... that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical
apologist text, has not yet been translated to English?
... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
... that in The Autistic Brain,
Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the
DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
... that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from
Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the
Peace of Utrecht?
... that during Francis Reynolds's command of
HMS Augusta, the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?
00:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Model of Galactic Radiation and Background satellite 1 (GRAB-1)
... that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
... that
Canadian football broadcaster Ernie Calcutt coined the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning"?
... that television station WKAB-TV of
Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
... that M. P. Alladin depicted rural
Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
... that a
U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether
Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
... that "Fujiyama Mama", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?
13 January 2021
12:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Rosalbina Caradori as Zora, the slave girl
... that a few years after Pacini's opera La schiava in Bagdad premiered in Turin,
Rosalbina Caradori performed the title role of the slave girl (pictured) in London?
... that during Sir George Smith's term as
governor of Nyasaland, the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the
Nari Shakti Puraskar?
... that the music video for
Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
... that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River?
... that British businessman William Brooks Close and his two brothers started a colony in
Iowa while owning at times almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the best soil in the United States?
... that the developers of Paper Mario: Sticker Star de-emphasized a proper story because fewer than one percent of players found the plot of
the previous game interesting?
... that WhopperCoin attempted to turn a burger into an "investment vehicle"?
... that radio station WWBC in
Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the
Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
... that "Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
... that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the
Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment?
... that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition,
Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?
... that turbine manufacturer S. Morgan Smith Company made large gun lathes during World War I and large aircraft carrier, gun, and tank parts during World War II?
... that when
Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
... that while it is now considered a classic work of
girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
Clarence E. Willard, with a photographic effect showing his increase in height
... that
vaudeville performer Clarence E. Willard could add 7+1⁄2 inches (19 cm) to his height by stretching (pictured)?
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup will not feature any amateur rugby league teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that
gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
... that the largest
heroin seizure in the New York City Police Department's history occurred at the luxury apartment tower Central Park Place in 1993?
9 January 2021
12:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Santal 33
... that the social theory of
distinction could explain why the more popular the perfume Santal 33(pictured) became, the less some people liked it?
... that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress
Sarah Siddons?
... that in My Memoir, former United States first lady
Edith Wilson detailed how she became
Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
... that the
Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad consists of about 3,000 pages?
... that at the
Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played
Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of
Robert Wilson's Orlando?
... that during a spacewalk,
Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French
spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?
00:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Clara Bow
... that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film starClara Bow(pictured) was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career?
... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with
Siri?
7 January 2021
12:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange
... that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange(pictured) in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on
Crete for ten days?
... that KAVU-TV in
Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in
Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
... that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration(painting detail pictured), active in 16th-century
Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
... that in "Body",
Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist
Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?
5 January 2021
00:00, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
View of El Paso at Sunset (
c. 1922–1925)
... that View of El Paso at Sunset(pictured), a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at
El Paso High School?
... that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the
Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law
Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
... that Choctaw was one of only three semi-
whaleback ships ever built?
... that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by
Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
... that after
Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells
almond biscuits with
condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef
jerky if they show a
parking ticket?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a
Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?