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31 January 2022
12:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Umar Zahir
... that Umar Zahir(pictured) built both an island of trash and an island of hope?
... that
Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of "Gold Digger" from a female point of view?
... that in 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that
lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought?
... that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for
Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country?
... that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career?
... that the Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by
Charles Dickens as "the worst inn that ever was seen"?
... that the vegan-food brand Squeaky Bean produces food that does not contain beans?
30 January 2022
12:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Obverse of a double florin
... that the double florin(example pictured), a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the
crown and because the
crown on it was too small?
... that when journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it?
... that the Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports?
... that Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a
jockstrap?
... that when baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise?
... that
Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage?
... that
David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged
Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
... that
Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher(pictured) after they were misattributed to her boss?
... that the Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature
the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager?
... that Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the
gamelan instruments of
Java for eight years?
... that the Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the
Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
... that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre(pictured) was painted over due to a broken foot?
... that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of
Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of
Chamonix?
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand?
... that John William Kiser(pictured), who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
... that DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television?
... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
... that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
... that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at
The Masters?
... that the artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
00:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
... that
Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at
Sissinghurst(pictured) as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer
Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
... that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing
his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the
COVID-19 pandemic?
... that larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals?
... that Mary Healy, an international speaker on
faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014
sabbatical?
... that in 2021,
Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
... that Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult?
26 January 2022
12:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Jessen's icosahedron
... that Jessen's icosahedron(pictured) has been used for both the "Skwish" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a "super ball bot" to cushion space landers on other planets?
... that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
... that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
... that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
... that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
00:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
60 Wall Street
... that J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption?
... that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra,
Raminta Šerkšnytė used a
vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
... that Charles Thaddeus Russell's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
... that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?
... that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved
life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
... that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the
slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
... that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the
Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
... that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe(pictured) became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song?
... that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a
touchdown celebration?
... that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
... that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the
Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal?
22 January 2022
12:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Freedom
... that the 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture Freedom(detail pictured) offers visitors a photograph opportunity?
... that
calypsonianMighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
... that archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist interprets a
Migration Period belt buckle (pictured) found at Finnestorp as a depiction of a mythological scene known from the Old Norse poem Völuspá?
... that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism, professor of religion Anthea Butler called
American evangelicalism a pro-
Trump, "nationalistic political movement"?
... that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British
24th Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at the
Battle of Isandlwana?
... that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
... that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the "B-52 bomb pocket"?
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
... that the 28th Virginia battle flag(pictured) is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
... that after first alerting authorities to the
Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
... that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first "
primitive man" film ever made and created a
prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
... that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
... that the surname Waering is Anglo-Saxon, but
Waring may be Norman?
... that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician
Charles Evers?
... that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the
Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
... that whilst serving as the
Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
... that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
... that economist and
anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
... that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
... that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for
the same benefactor?
... that from 1996 to 2019,
Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement?
... that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss
Frank Hague, Hague had Van Riper charged with
check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
... that
Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
... that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
... that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at
Bellevue Hospital in New York?
... that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
... that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for
UCLA in college and professionally for the
Raiders, are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the
Super Bowl?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that
Roswell, New Mexico, radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
... that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of
Mount Everest, climbing alone from the
South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
... that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of
3D platformers and increased
grey matter in the brain?
... that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
... that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
... that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?
12 January 2022
12:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Motoo Ōtaguro
... that music critic Motoo Ōtaguro(pictured) held private piano concerts in his own residence despite not being a professional musician?
... that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a
serial film that had sound?
... that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
00:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Marquois scales
... that entry to the British Royal Military Academy required the use of a drawing triangle(examples pictured) with a completely different purpose from those used today?
... that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
... that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
... that the
Gujarati poem "Shav Vahini Ganga" criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright,
Eugene O'Neill, whose widow objected?
... that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi, once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against
Alibaba Group's CEO?
00:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Depiction of Osnas winning the Cross of St. George
... that Russian-Jewish medical student Leo Osnas won the first
Cross of St. George of the First World War by saving his regiment's colours from capture (pictured)?
... that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
... that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to
VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
... that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and
WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his
royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
... that Vancouver-based
binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the
2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train (example pictured), a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
... that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
... that the music hall song "Let's All Go Down the Strand", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
... that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
... that the
play-by-email game TribeNet, launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to
beekeeping?
... that while preparing for War Horse, theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?
9 January 2022
12:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Poster for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign
... that the first black female candidate for a major party's U.S. presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm(campaign poster pictured), is largely credited for paving the way for future candidates Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
... that American martial artist John Giordano, who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to
kabuki theatre?
... that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their
tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
... that The Travelers were made to represent emigrants who have left a part of themselves behind?
... that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?
00:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Johanna Quaas
... that Johanna Quaas(pictured), the world's oldest competitive gymnast, did a
tandem skydive from about 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) in 2016, dedicating it to Queen
Elizabeth II?
... that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after
Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
... that when Stefan Keil moved to
Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as
Saint Nicholas?
... that the Mark Hellinger Theatre(pictured) has been occupied by the
Times Square Church since 1989, when its then-owner said the church's five-year lease will "pass before you know it"?
... that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
00:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Madonna and Child statue in Nothgottes
... that Nothgottes(interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the
Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of
Cistercians from Vietnam?
... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the
Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
... that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood?
... that WTVK in
Knoxville, Tennessee, won a years-long battle to move from
UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?
6 January 2022
12:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Mike Gapes
... that a pro-EU explanation of how
Baileys is made, given by British MP Mike Gapes(pictured), was described as being "infinitely
memeable" and giving him a "bizarre online infamy"?
... that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
... that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the
Battle of Bunker Hill?
... that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from
pegmatite rock?
... that Mally Nydahl, "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
... that more than 20 of
Ernst Plischke's designs for the Abel Tasman Monument(pictured) in New Zealand's Tarakohe were rejected before he designed a tall, tapering column referencing the Greek funerary
stele?
... that the economy of Reineh, now in northern Israel, was so strong in the
Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
... that
Junji Ito had no particular ending in mind while writing Sensor?
... that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the
American Revolution?
... that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
... that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the
Long March?
... that Interstate 90 is the longest
freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
... that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a
ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?
... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
... that clashes between the
Myanmar military and local armed groups broke out in Lay Kay Kaw six years after it was established as a "town of peace" between the parties?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
First African Baptist Church in Christian Street Historic District
... that the proposed Christian Street Historic District(building pictured), originally settled by Irish immigrants, is also known as "Black Doctors' Row"?
... that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner?
... that Dash for Cash, an event in which teachers competed to grab
one-dollar bills to pay for school supplies, was criticized for being dehumanizing?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan(pictured)?
... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the
Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
... that Lou Swarz became famous for her "One Woman Show" involving monologue performances as various characters, including
Phillis Wheatley and
Sojourner Truth?
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.
Did you know...
31 January 2022
12:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Umar Zahir
... that Umar Zahir(pictured) built both an island of trash and an island of hope?
... that
Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of "Gold Digger" from a female point of view?
... that in 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that
lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought?
... that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for
Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country?
... that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career?
... that the Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by
Charles Dickens as "the worst inn that ever was seen"?
... that the vegan-food brand Squeaky Bean produces food that does not contain beans?
30 January 2022
12:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Obverse of a double florin
... that the double florin(example pictured), a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the
crown and because the
crown on it was too small?
... that when journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it?
... that the Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports?
... that Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a
jockstrap?
... that when baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise?
... that
Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage?
... that
David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged
Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
... that
Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher(pictured) after they were misattributed to her boss?
... that the Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature
the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager?
... that Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the
gamelan instruments of
Java for eight years?
... that the Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the
Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
... that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre(pictured) was painted over due to a broken foot?
... that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of
Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of
Chamonix?
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand?
... that John William Kiser(pictured), who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
... that DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television?
... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
... that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
... that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at
The Masters?
... that the artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
00:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
... that
Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at
Sissinghurst(pictured) as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer
Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
... that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing
his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the
COVID-19 pandemic?
... that larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals?
... that Mary Healy, an international speaker on
faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014
sabbatical?
... that in 2021,
Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
... that Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult?
26 January 2022
12:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Jessen's icosahedron
... that Jessen's icosahedron(pictured) has been used for both the "Skwish" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a "super ball bot" to cushion space landers on other planets?
... that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
... that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
... that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
... that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
00:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
60 Wall Street
... that J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption?
... that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra,
Raminta Šerkšnytė used a
vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
... that Charles Thaddeus Russell's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
... that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?
... that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved
life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
... that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the
slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
... that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the
Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
... that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe(pictured) became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song?
... that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a
touchdown celebration?
... that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
... that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the
Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal?
22 January 2022
12:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Freedom
... that the 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture Freedom(detail pictured) offers visitors a photograph opportunity?
... that
calypsonianMighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
... that archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist interprets a
Migration Period belt buckle (pictured) found at Finnestorp as a depiction of a mythological scene known from the Old Norse poem Völuspá?
... that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism, professor of religion Anthea Butler called
American evangelicalism a pro-
Trump, "nationalistic political movement"?
... that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British
24th Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at the
Battle of Isandlwana?
... that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
... that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the "B-52 bomb pocket"?
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
... that the 28th Virginia battle flag(pictured) is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
... that after first alerting authorities to the
Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
... that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first "
primitive man" film ever made and created a
prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
... that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
... that the surname Waering is Anglo-Saxon, but
Waring may be Norman?
... that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician
Charles Evers?
... that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the
Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
... that whilst serving as the
Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
... that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
... that economist and
anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
... that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
... that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for
the same benefactor?
... that from 1996 to 2019,
Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement?
... that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss
Frank Hague, Hague had Van Riper charged with
check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
... that
Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
... that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
... that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at
Bellevue Hospital in New York?
... that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
... that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for
UCLA in college and professionally for the
Raiders, are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the
Super Bowl?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that
Roswell, New Mexico, radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
... that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of
Mount Everest, climbing alone from the
South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
... that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of
3D platformers and increased
grey matter in the brain?
... that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
... that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
... that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?
12 January 2022
12:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Motoo Ōtaguro
... that music critic Motoo Ōtaguro(pictured) held private piano concerts in his own residence despite not being a professional musician?
... that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a
serial film that had sound?
... that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
00:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Marquois scales
... that entry to the British Royal Military Academy required the use of a drawing triangle(examples pictured) with a completely different purpose from those used today?
... that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
... that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
... that the
Gujarati poem "Shav Vahini Ganga" criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright,
Eugene O'Neill, whose widow objected?
... that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi, once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against
Alibaba Group's CEO?
00:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Depiction of Osnas winning the Cross of St. George
... that Russian-Jewish medical student Leo Osnas won the first
Cross of St. George of the First World War by saving his regiment's colours from capture (pictured)?
... that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
... that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to
VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
... that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and
WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his
royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
... that Vancouver-based
binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the
2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train (example pictured), a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
... that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
... that the music hall song "Let's All Go Down the Strand", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
... that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
... that the
play-by-email game TribeNet, launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to
beekeeping?
... that while preparing for War Horse, theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?
9 January 2022
12:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Poster for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign
... that the first black female candidate for a major party's U.S. presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm(campaign poster pictured), is largely credited for paving the way for future candidates Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
... that American martial artist John Giordano, who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to
kabuki theatre?
... that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their
tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
... that The Travelers were made to represent emigrants who have left a part of themselves behind?
... that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?
00:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Johanna Quaas
... that Johanna Quaas(pictured), the world's oldest competitive gymnast, did a
tandem skydive from about 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) in 2016, dedicating it to Queen
Elizabeth II?
... that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after
Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
... that when Stefan Keil moved to
Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as
Saint Nicholas?
... that the Mark Hellinger Theatre(pictured) has been occupied by the
Times Square Church since 1989, when its then-owner said the church's five-year lease will "pass before you know it"?
... that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
00:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Madonna and Child statue in Nothgottes
... that Nothgottes(interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the
Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of
Cistercians from Vietnam?
... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the
Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
... that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood?
... that WTVK in
Knoxville, Tennessee, won a years-long battle to move from
UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?
6 January 2022
12:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Mike Gapes
... that a pro-EU explanation of how
Baileys is made, given by British MP Mike Gapes(pictured), was described as being "infinitely
memeable" and giving him a "bizarre online infamy"?
... that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
... that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the
Battle of Bunker Hill?
... that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from
pegmatite rock?
... that Mally Nydahl, "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
... that more than 20 of
Ernst Plischke's designs for the Abel Tasman Monument(pictured) in New Zealand's Tarakohe were rejected before he designed a tall, tapering column referencing the Greek funerary
stele?
... that the economy of Reineh, now in northern Israel, was so strong in the
Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
... that
Junji Ito had no particular ending in mind while writing Sensor?
... that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the
American Revolution?
... that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
... that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the
Long March?
... that Interstate 90 is the longest
freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
... that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a
ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?
... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
... that clashes between the
Myanmar military and local armed groups broke out in Lay Kay Kaw six years after it was established as a "town of peace" between the parties?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
First African Baptist Church in Christian Street Historic District
... that the proposed Christian Street Historic District(building pictured), originally settled by Irish immigrants, is also known as "Black Doctors' Row"?
... that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner?
... that Dash for Cash, an event in which teachers competed to grab
one-dollar bills to pay for school supplies, was criticized for being dehumanizing?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan(pictured)?
... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the
Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
... that Lou Swarz became famous for her "One Woman Show" involving monologue performances as various characters, including
Phillis Wheatley and
Sojourner Truth?