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... that the four sons of Horus(pictured) were believed to have protected deceased people in
the afterlife by creating a specialized connection with the deceased's internal organs?
... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
30 May 2023
00:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Carbatinae
... that the carbatinae(examples pictured), shoes worn in ancient Greece and Rome, were single pieces of leather tied onto the foot?
... that of approximately 140 men stranded after a shipwreck on Wager Island in 1741, only 36 returned alive to Britain, according to Rear Admiral C. H. Layman?
... that the 2003 book The Reconstruction of Nations describes how "national reconciliation is possible after even the most terrible conflicts", including ethnic cleansing?
... that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier, a French missionary-botanist in China who also built
Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
... that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple?
28 May 2023
00:00, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Marvin Harrison Jr.
... that one
NFL scout compared watching Marvin Harrison Jr.(pictured) to "window shopping at a Lamborghini dealership for the model that doesn't come out until next year"?
...that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of
Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
... that the Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern, the
funicular railway with the highest transport payload capacity (215 tonnes), was built to move four transformers 882 m (2,894 ft) uphill?
... that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated
Lichtenstein?
27 May 2023
00:00, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
French soldier wearing the pantalon rouge
... that French Army infantrymen wore red trousers(example pictured) from 1829 until 1914?
... that the show Protection Court continued to air episodes during an investigation launched by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission alleging that litigants were filmed without their consent?
... that the late-Victorian Pagan Review lasted for a single issue and all of its content was written by one person?
26 May 2023
00:00, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Dierk Raabe
... that Dierk Raabe(pictured) received €2.5 million from the European Research Council to work on
Green Steel?
.... that Prodigy Math Game was initially created as a school project?
... that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in
Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
... that film critic and censor D. I. Suchianu wanted Romanian moviegoers to cease "falling asleep whenever they're not shown a naked breast [or] a hip that's getting some action"?
25 May 2023
00:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Luo Wenzao
... that Luo Wenzao(pictured) became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
... that actress
Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza(pictured) when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that Japanese singer Noa became interested in music after watching the 2006 film High School Musical?
... that
Aristotle's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought in the
Western world for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic?
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "
Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?
... that makwerekwere is the South African equivalent of "
barbarians", an offensive and derogatory slur used to refer to foreigners?
... that Marisa Anderson organized and participated in multiple cross-country walks to raise awareness for various political causes?
... that the 1943 North Texas Aggies went from "kitchen maid" to "queen of the ball" when the Marine Corps sent players from major universities "tumbling onto" the campus?
... that Montserratian playwright Edgar Nkosi White only wrote his first play after he was dared by actor
Martin Sheen?
... that Cusrow Baug in
Mumbai had only a few tenants in the 1950s even at a low rent of 40
rupees per month?
... that in 1956, a Las Vegas TV station may have been the only 24-hour TV station in the U.S.?
... that a photograph inspired by one of
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"?
... that
John Sebastian composed the song "Rain on the Roof" after he spent a night listening to the rain with his wife?
... that when the dance permit for El Monte Legion Stadium was revoked,
Johnny Otis accused the local city council of racism and, with the
ACLU and
NAACP, successfully reversed their decision?
... that British designer
Alexander McQueen partied so hard that he accidentally abandoned the entirety of his second collection among a nightclub's rubbish?
... that according to scholarship published in 2023, Maria de Knuijt, rather than her husband, was actually the main patron of Dutch painter
Johannes Vermeer(work pictured)?
... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to
expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that Celine-Marie Pascale's work focuses on how
race and
class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
... that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy, the game set a new record on
Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
... that the miniseries In the Best of Families was based on the book Bitter Blood which in turn is a recount of the real life murders of Fritz Klenner?
... that an
FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "snake woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the N54 road in the Republic of Ireland cannot be reached without first travelling through
Northern Ireland?
... that grantees of ranchos of Los Angeles County submitted hand-drawn maps known as diseños(example pictured) when making their land claims to the U.S. government?
... that medieval Muslim historians blamed al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah for the loss of much of
Palestine to the
crusaders but, in reality, he played no role in the
Fatimid government during that period?
... that if you went to an
anime convention in the 2000s, you might have been hit by a yaoi paddle(example pictured)?
... that Liberian minister of information Joe Mulbah was suspended by President
Charles Taylor after a fist fight with the deputy minister of information?
... that Constantin Bivol, who championed land reform in
Bessarabia, could only locate half of his ten
dessiatins of ancestral farmland, noting that "God only knows where the rest of them are"?
... that
Fred Rogers created and hosted a television documentary series titled Old Friends ... New Friends due to his concern that older generations were getting more isolated from younger generations?
... that a court ordered Jonathan Jacob Meijer to stop donating sperm or pay a €100,000 fine per donation?
... that Edemariam Tsega published a book about his father while
Aida Edemariam, Tsega's daughter, published a book about Tsega's mother in the same year?
... that after seeing a broken car,
A.B. Quintanilla proclaimed his desire to make the song "La Carcacha" about it?
... that during his career in
Surabaya, Radjamin Nasution worked as a customs official, an alderman, a doctor, a football club's president, and the city's mayor?
... that the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island's starving koalas?
... that author John Green fundraises for
Partners In Health by selling shirts with an image of his mustachioed face called "Pizza John"?
8 May 2023
12:00, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Marie Meyer looping the loop, 1925
... that Marie Meyer's aerobatic stunts included standing on the upper wing of a biplane while it looped-the-loop (pictured)?
... that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy?
... that across his thirty-six collections, fashion designer
Alexander McQueen contemplated religion, told fairy tales, and criticized the fashion industry?
... that while studies have shown anti-trespass panels do reduce intrusions into rail track areas, there is concern that they could also trap trespassers on the tracks?
... that Beibeilong was one of the largest
oviraptorosaurs, with an estimated adult length of about 7.5 m (25 ft) and body mass of around 1.2 t (2,600 lb) or 2 t (4,400 lb)?
... that one of the longest civil trials in Utah history, with 1,000 exhibits, concerned the purchase of a Salt Lake City TV station?
... that Vice Admiral Ernst Scheurlen was killed in action a month before the end of the Second World War in Europe while leading a hastily raised division of naval troops in defence of Germany?
... that in a rapid decline, Computer Applications, Inc. went from the second-largest independent software firm in the United States to being bankrupt and subject to liquidation?
... that the Greyster is a type of sled dog favored especially for dryland racing like
canicross and
bikejoring?
... that during her coronation,
Caroline of Ansbach's dress was reportedly so covered in jewels that she required a pulley to lift her skirt for her to kneel?
6 May 2023
12:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Westminster Abbey
... that before today, 39 English and British monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey(pictured) since 1066?
... that as a college football player, Frank LeMaster changed from being a
fullback to the starting
halfback, to reserve halfback, to
tight end, to
linebacker, back to halfback and then linebacker again?
... that the documentary Lynch/Oz incorporates hundreds of film clips to illustrate the influence of The Wizard of Oz on the work of filmmaker
David Lynch?
... that 19th-century American evangelist
Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball?
... that the destroyed plinth of
Gürdal Duyar's nude sculpture Güzel İstanbul contained
reliefs of a fig, a pomegranate, a honeysuckle and a bee to represent different aspects of
Istanbul?
... that Caity Baser followed up her 2022 singles "Friendly Sex", "X & Y", and "Kiss You" with "Friendly Sex (Angrier)", "X & Y (What I Didn't Say)", and "Kiss You, Pt. 2", respectively?
... that Percy Kelly hoarded his drawings and paintings until the end of his life, saying that his cottage would someday "upstage
Beatrix Potter's home"?
... that respected travelling bandleader Otto Schwarz and his Bavarian String Band were interned in
Douglas, Isle of Man, during World War I?
... that when part of New York City's Hotel Riverview became a theater, some people thought that the hotel's overflowing toilets and leaky ceilings were part of the show there?
... that Filipina actress Angel Aquino has been described as a "perennial villainess" for portraying several antagonistic roles on television?
... that the purple shore crab has evolved to survive in oxygen-deprived waters?
... that before joining the girl group
XG, Japanese singer Amy Harvey won the most awards when she participated in a modeling contest?
... that the court in BP Refinery v Tracey upheld a decision to reinstate an employee fired by
BP for posting a meme video from the 2004 film Downfall?
... that a beer named after the
barley variety Golden Promise was not brewed using the variety?
00:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Poster for Island of Lost Souls
... that in 1935
Paramount wanted to reissue the film Island of Lost Souls(poster pictured) but was denied by the
Hays Code, due to the film's excessive horror?
... that for several decades, Soviet actress Maria Vladimirovna Mironova acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple on stage with her real-life husband?
... that a monument to honor the Jewish artist
Jozef Israëls was destroyed during World War II, but the pieces were saved and it was restored and unveiled in 1946?
... that nearly two years after getting into a serious car accident that sidelined him for a full season, football player Juice Scruggs returned to the field, and was named All-
Big Ten one year later?
... that New York City's Mansfield Hotel was developed by two neighbors from
Vermont, one of whom later served as Vermont's governor?
... that Mary Taft said in 1799 that stopping women from "bring[ing] souls to Christ" would, one day, be unbelievable?
... that Nebraska TV station Big 8 was a big bust, losing nearly $5 million between 1983 and 1986?
... that a fantasy novel by Irish poet and author Sarah Maria Griffin was sent to around 200,000 ticket-holders of the music festival
Tomorrowland?
... that a gameplay demonstration of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six boosted its popularity when it accidentally showed
AI teammates rescuing hostages by themselves?
... that Wanda Wesołowska has named 40 genera and 572 species of animals?
... that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
00:00, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Male pygmy swordtail
... that female pygmy swordtails prefer male Panuco swordtails, which
court them, to males of their own species (pictured), which merely sneak up on them?
... that
Patrick O'Brian's Testimonies received reviews that variously described it from "clumsy in construction to the point of amateurishness" to "rare and beautiful"?
... that to film the series Quarterback, the NFL allowed quarterbacks to wear microphones for every game of
the 2022 season?
... that Indonesian politician Muhammad Rapsel Ali founded a motorcycle racing team?
... that at the trial of the Rumrich spy case, US Army deserter Guenther Rumrich stated he was instructed to determine how many US soldiers were based on the country's east coast?
... that the main village set of the 2019 horror film Impetigore was so remote that the crew had to build toilets and a path for vehicles?
... that Uncle Waffles learned how to DJ during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and then retired from being an
Eswatini TV presenter once her music career took off?
... that after bailing out of his aircraft over France, Stanley Browne was able to evade any German soldiers searching for him with the help of local villagers?
... that
quantum materials researcher Tina Brower-Thomas's attempts at chemistry as a youth led to her concoctions eating holes into her coat?
... that Džuvljarke written by
Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the
LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that
Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"?
... that a New Mexico TV station went on the air "a day late but ... not a single program short"?
... that three years prior to this month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?
... that former
East Java provincial secretary Trimarjono was known for his habit of standing in front of the governor's office lobby every morning?
... that the 12th-century Lundie Kirk was left as "a charred roofless shell" after a fire in November 2022?
... that goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, who has lived in England, Africa and the US, has been chosen to play
soccer for the Republic of Ireland?
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 four sons of Horus(pictured) were believed to have protected deceased people in
the afterlife by creating a specialized connection with the deceased's internal organs?
... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
30 May 2023
00:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Carbatinae
... that the carbatinae(examples pictured), shoes worn in ancient Greece and Rome, were single pieces of leather tied onto the foot?
... that of approximately 140 men stranded after a shipwreck on Wager Island in 1741, only 36 returned alive to Britain, according to Rear Admiral C. H. Layman?
... that the 2003 book The Reconstruction of Nations describes how "national reconciliation is possible after even the most terrible conflicts", including ethnic cleansing?
... that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier, a French missionary-botanist in China who also built
Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
... that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple?
28 May 2023
00:00, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Marvin Harrison Jr.
... that one
NFL scout compared watching Marvin Harrison Jr.(pictured) to "window shopping at a Lamborghini dealership for the model that doesn't come out until next year"?
...that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of
Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
... that the Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern, the
funicular railway with the highest transport payload capacity (215 tonnes), was built to move four transformers 882 m (2,894 ft) uphill?
... that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated
Lichtenstein?
27 May 2023
00:00, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
French soldier wearing the pantalon rouge
... that French Army infantrymen wore red trousers(example pictured) from 1829 until 1914?
... that the show Protection Court continued to air episodes during an investigation launched by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission alleging that litigants were filmed without their consent?
... that the late-Victorian Pagan Review lasted for a single issue and all of its content was written by one person?
26 May 2023
00:00, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Dierk Raabe
... that Dierk Raabe(pictured) received €2.5 million from the European Research Council to work on
Green Steel?
.... that Prodigy Math Game was initially created as a school project?
... that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in
Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
... that film critic and censor D. I. Suchianu wanted Romanian moviegoers to cease "falling asleep whenever they're not shown a naked breast [or] a hip that's getting some action"?
25 May 2023
00:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Luo Wenzao
... that Luo Wenzao(pictured) became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
... that actress
Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza(pictured) when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that Japanese singer Noa became interested in music after watching the 2006 film High School Musical?
... that
Aristotle's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought in the
Western world for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic?
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "
Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?
... that makwerekwere is the South African equivalent of "
barbarians", an offensive and derogatory slur used to refer to foreigners?
... that Marisa Anderson organized and participated in multiple cross-country walks to raise awareness for various political causes?
... that the 1943 North Texas Aggies went from "kitchen maid" to "queen of the ball" when the Marine Corps sent players from major universities "tumbling onto" the campus?
... that Montserratian playwright Edgar Nkosi White only wrote his first play after he was dared by actor
Martin Sheen?
... that Cusrow Baug in
Mumbai had only a few tenants in the 1950s even at a low rent of 40
rupees per month?
... that in 1956, a Las Vegas TV station may have been the only 24-hour TV station in the U.S.?
... that a photograph inspired by one of
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"?
... that
John Sebastian composed the song "Rain on the Roof" after he spent a night listening to the rain with his wife?
... that when the dance permit for El Monte Legion Stadium was revoked,
Johnny Otis accused the local city council of racism and, with the
ACLU and
NAACP, successfully reversed their decision?
... that British designer
Alexander McQueen partied so hard that he accidentally abandoned the entirety of his second collection among a nightclub's rubbish?
... that according to scholarship published in 2023, Maria de Knuijt, rather than her husband, was actually the main patron of Dutch painter
Johannes Vermeer(work pictured)?
... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to
expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that Celine-Marie Pascale's work focuses on how
race and
class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
... that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy, the game set a new record on
Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
... that the miniseries In the Best of Families was based on the book Bitter Blood which in turn is a recount of the real life murders of Fritz Klenner?
... that an
FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "snake woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the N54 road in the Republic of Ireland cannot be reached without first travelling through
Northern Ireland?
... that grantees of ranchos of Los Angeles County submitted hand-drawn maps known as diseños(example pictured) when making their land claims to the U.S. government?
... that medieval Muslim historians blamed al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah for the loss of much of
Palestine to the
crusaders but, in reality, he played no role in the
Fatimid government during that period?
... that if you went to an
anime convention in the 2000s, you might have been hit by a yaoi paddle(example pictured)?
... that Liberian minister of information Joe Mulbah was suspended by President
Charles Taylor after a fist fight with the deputy minister of information?
... that Constantin Bivol, who championed land reform in
Bessarabia, could only locate half of his ten
dessiatins of ancestral farmland, noting that "God only knows where the rest of them are"?
... that
Fred Rogers created and hosted a television documentary series titled Old Friends ... New Friends due to his concern that older generations were getting more isolated from younger generations?
... that a court ordered Jonathan Jacob Meijer to stop donating sperm or pay a €100,000 fine per donation?
... that Edemariam Tsega published a book about his father while
Aida Edemariam, Tsega's daughter, published a book about Tsega's mother in the same year?
... that after seeing a broken car,
A.B. Quintanilla proclaimed his desire to make the song "La Carcacha" about it?
... that during his career in
Surabaya, Radjamin Nasution worked as a customs official, an alderman, a doctor, a football club's president, and the city's mayor?
... that the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island's starving koalas?
... that author John Green fundraises for
Partners In Health by selling shirts with an image of his mustachioed face called "Pizza John"?
8 May 2023
12:00, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Marie Meyer looping the loop, 1925
... that Marie Meyer's aerobatic stunts included standing on the upper wing of a biplane while it looped-the-loop (pictured)?
... that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy?
... that across his thirty-six collections, fashion designer
Alexander McQueen contemplated religion, told fairy tales, and criticized the fashion industry?
... that while studies have shown anti-trespass panels do reduce intrusions into rail track areas, there is concern that they could also trap trespassers on the tracks?
... that Beibeilong was one of the largest
oviraptorosaurs, with an estimated adult length of about 7.5 m (25 ft) and body mass of around 1.2 t (2,600 lb) or 2 t (4,400 lb)?
... that one of the longest civil trials in Utah history, with 1,000 exhibits, concerned the purchase of a Salt Lake City TV station?
... that Vice Admiral Ernst Scheurlen was killed in action a month before the end of the Second World War in Europe while leading a hastily raised division of naval troops in defence of Germany?
... that in a rapid decline, Computer Applications, Inc. went from the second-largest independent software firm in the United States to being bankrupt and subject to liquidation?
... that the Greyster is a type of sled dog favored especially for dryland racing like
canicross and
bikejoring?
... that during her coronation,
Caroline of Ansbach's dress was reportedly so covered in jewels that she required a pulley to lift her skirt for her to kneel?
6 May 2023
12:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Westminster Abbey
... that before today, 39 English and British monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey(pictured) since 1066?
... that as a college football player, Frank LeMaster changed from being a
fullback to the starting
halfback, to reserve halfback, to
tight end, to
linebacker, back to halfback and then linebacker again?
... that the documentary Lynch/Oz incorporates hundreds of film clips to illustrate the influence of The Wizard of Oz on the work of filmmaker
David Lynch?
... that 19th-century American evangelist
Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball?
... that the destroyed plinth of
Gürdal Duyar's nude sculpture Güzel İstanbul contained
reliefs of a fig, a pomegranate, a honeysuckle and a bee to represent different aspects of
Istanbul?
... that Caity Baser followed up her 2022 singles "Friendly Sex", "X & Y", and "Kiss You" with "Friendly Sex (Angrier)", "X & Y (What I Didn't Say)", and "Kiss You, Pt. 2", respectively?
... that Percy Kelly hoarded his drawings and paintings until the end of his life, saying that his cottage would someday "upstage
Beatrix Potter's home"?
... that respected travelling bandleader Otto Schwarz and his Bavarian String Band were interned in
Douglas, Isle of Man, during World War I?
... that when part of New York City's Hotel Riverview became a theater, some people thought that the hotel's overflowing toilets and leaky ceilings were part of the show there?
... that Filipina actress Angel Aquino has been described as a "perennial villainess" for portraying several antagonistic roles on television?
... that the purple shore crab has evolved to survive in oxygen-deprived waters?
... that before joining the girl group
XG, Japanese singer Amy Harvey won the most awards when she participated in a modeling contest?
... that the court in BP Refinery v Tracey upheld a decision to reinstate an employee fired by
BP for posting a meme video from the 2004 film Downfall?
... that a beer named after the
barley variety Golden Promise was not brewed using the variety?
00:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Poster for Island of Lost Souls
... that in 1935
Paramount wanted to reissue the film Island of Lost Souls(poster pictured) but was denied by the
Hays Code, due to the film's excessive horror?
... that for several decades, Soviet actress Maria Vladimirovna Mironova acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple on stage with her real-life husband?
... that a monument to honor the Jewish artist
Jozef Israëls was destroyed during World War II, but the pieces were saved and it was restored and unveiled in 1946?
... that nearly two years after getting into a serious car accident that sidelined him for a full season, football player Juice Scruggs returned to the field, and was named All-
Big Ten one year later?
... that New York City's Mansfield Hotel was developed by two neighbors from
Vermont, one of whom later served as Vermont's governor?
... that Mary Taft said in 1799 that stopping women from "bring[ing] souls to Christ" would, one day, be unbelievable?
... that Nebraska TV station Big 8 was a big bust, losing nearly $5 million between 1983 and 1986?
... that a fantasy novel by Irish poet and author Sarah Maria Griffin was sent to around 200,000 ticket-holders of the music festival
Tomorrowland?
... that a gameplay demonstration of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six boosted its popularity when it accidentally showed
AI teammates rescuing hostages by themselves?
... that Wanda Wesołowska has named 40 genera and 572 species of animals?
... that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
00:00, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Male pygmy swordtail
... that female pygmy swordtails prefer male Panuco swordtails, which
court them, to males of their own species (pictured), which merely sneak up on them?
... that
Patrick O'Brian's Testimonies received reviews that variously described it from "clumsy in construction to the point of amateurishness" to "rare and beautiful"?
... that to film the series Quarterback, the NFL allowed quarterbacks to wear microphones for every game of
the 2022 season?
... that Indonesian politician Muhammad Rapsel Ali founded a motorcycle racing team?
... that at the trial of the Rumrich spy case, US Army deserter Guenther Rumrich stated he was instructed to determine how many US soldiers were based on the country's east coast?
... that the main village set of the 2019 horror film Impetigore was so remote that the crew had to build toilets and a path for vehicles?
... that Uncle Waffles learned how to DJ during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and then retired from being an
Eswatini TV presenter once her music career took off?
... that after bailing out of his aircraft over France, Stanley Browne was able to evade any German soldiers searching for him with the help of local villagers?
... that
quantum materials researcher Tina Brower-Thomas's attempts at chemistry as a youth led to her concoctions eating holes into her coat?
... that Džuvljarke written by
Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the
LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that
Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"?
... that a New Mexico TV station went on the air "a day late but ... not a single program short"?
... that three years prior to this month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?
... that former
East Java provincial secretary Trimarjono was known for his habit of standing in front of the governor's office lobby every morning?
... that the 12th-century Lundie Kirk was left as "a charred roofless shell" after a fire in November 2022?
... that goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, who has lived in England, Africa and the US, has been chosen to play
soccer for the Republic of Ireland?