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30 September 2013

16:00, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in a bid to improve the water supply in Gibraltar, much of the east side of the Rock of Gibraltar was covered with giant metal catchments (pictured) to trap rainwater?
... that Charles R. Chickering designed some 77 postage stamps for the U.S. Post Office while working at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.?
... that internet penetration in Bangladesh grew in three years from 3.2 percent of the population to 21.27 percent in 2012?
... that Courtney Walsh took five wickets for one run against Sri Lanka at Sharjah in 1984–85?
... that at a tournament before Queen Elizabeth I at Whitehall in 1581, Sir Thomas Perrot and 16 others defended the Castle of Beauty against the Earl of Arundel and Sir William Drury?
... that the owner of an unofficial Trader Joe's reseller, Pirate Joe's, tried to use cross-dressing to evade his ban from a store, but got mistaken for a robber?

08:00, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

... that while the European ground squirrel (pictured) is hibernating, it may use up 90% of its fat reserves?
... that Dean James E. Dull was considered instrumental in the peaceful racial integration of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1961?
... that though it was based on a Chinese legend, advertising for The Teng Chun's Ouw Peh Tjoa emphasised its Malay dialogue?
... that though he started his career painting portraits, Louis Kreiger later drew mushrooms and described several new species?
... that O Heeriye, Ayushmann Khurrana's first non-film single, was released on 14 September 2013 to coincide with his birthday?
... that Dave Barclay, winner of the 1947 NCAA golf championship, worked for more than 30 years at a gaseous diffusion plant that produced enriched uranium?

00:00, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the poem Nachuk Tahate Shyama, written by Swami Vivekananda, relates to one's surrender to the Hindu goddess Kali (pictured)?
... that despite starting her career in 2003, K-Mil has yet to release a studio album?
... that Rob Zettler will start his first full season as Syracuse Crunch head coach in their 2013–14 season?
... that Bay Area Bike Share, the first large-scale bike sharing service deployed on the West Coast of the United States, opened to the public in five cities on August 29, 2013?
... that Kamal Haasan's work in Saagar (1985) fetched him two Filmfare nominations – Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor – eventually winning the Best Actor award?
... that Peter Beck caned the Duke of Cornwall for "ragging"?

29 September 2013

16:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Paul Tibbets (pictured), the pilot who carried out the Bombing of Hiroshima, was once George S. Patton's personal pilot?
... that the red-flanked duiker has glands on its snout with which it marks its territory?
... that Harold Urey showed that Earth's early atmosphere might spontaneously produce amino acids, commonly considered the building blocks of life?
... that though Amir Hamzah's poetry collection Buah Rindu was published after Nyanyi Sunyi, the works were written earlier?
... that a former German ambassador, Gerhard Fischer, received the Indian government's Gandhi Peace Prize for his work with leprosy and polio patients?
... that the Natchez language had a specific way of speaking used for impersonating a cannibal?

08:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

... that French artist Maximilien Luce (self-portrait pictured) published an album of lithographs documenting his experiences as a political prisoner?
... that the Eurasian Wryneck sometimes feigns death and hangs limply with eyes closed?
... that Time journalist Michael Grunwald said, "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out [WikiLeaks founder] Julian Assange"?
... that in Bartaman Bharat (1905), Swami Vivekananda felt that India was in a "terrible danger" and suggested not to foolishly imitate the West?
... that Sir Charles Saxton commanded ships during the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence, and was commissioner at Portsmouth during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars?
... that Jack Holt, who was afraid of flying, starred in The Great Plane Robbery?

00:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the extinct sumac Rhus malloryi (pictured) was first described in 1935?
... that Arnold Ross ran his Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students, for over forty years?
... that squash remains at Guilá Naquitz Cave are the oldest known evidence of crop domestication in the Americas?
... that Bob Willis took seven of his 16 five-wicket hauls against Australia, including eight wickets for 43 runs at Headingley in 1981?
... that although the Bunyoro rabbit is hunted locally, the IUCN lists it as being of "Least Concern"?
... that Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, uses the Waffle House Index to determine the level of aid a disaster area requires?

28 September 2013

16:00, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

... that over 40,000 people died during the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany (German soldiers in Belgium pictured) in World War II?
... that chef Gordon Ramsay has a restaurant on the airside area of London Heathrow Terminal 5 called Plane Food?
... that the extinct genus Paleopanax is one of the oldest reliable records for the ginseng family?
... that Subhash Chandra Agrawal holds the Guinness World Record for having written the most published letters to newspaper editors?
... that Verity stands on the pier in Ilfracombe showing the internal anatomy of a pregnant woman?
... that Bandit, formerly the world's fastest roller coaster, races by hundreds of blossoming cherry trees and is called the fastest "flower viewing" in the world?

08:00, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

... that only the female grasshopper nematode (pictured) has an eye?
... that the Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent House in Rockford, Illinois, was the only house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a physically disabled client?
... that the West Indian cricketer Curtly Ambrose has the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Test cricket at the Queen's Park Oval?
... that the Australian angelshark is not easily caught by line-fishing or netting because it usually lies immersed in the sediment on the seabed?
... that "Talking Union" was originally written as new verses of Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dust Bowl Blues"?
... that Singaporean politician and People's Action Party member Lee Bee Wah is also the President of the Singapore Table Tennis Association?

00:00, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Robert Blair's graveyard poem The Grave (1743) was illustrated by William Blake ("Death's Door" pictured), whose original watercolors were lost until 2003?
... that Rick Bay has served as COO of the New York Yankees, president of the Cleveland Indians, athletic director at Ohio State and Oregon, and wrestling coach at Michigan?
... that a Mediterranean pine vole, which was captured twice at intervals of 33 months, is believed to exhibit the maximum life span ever recorded for a vole?
... that Mickey Free was a bounty hunter who tracked the Apache Kid?
... that Brockton Point is the most easterly part of Vancouver's Stanley Park?
... that the mushroom Cantharellus zangii exists only in Shangri-La?

27 September 2013

15:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached, originally a sloka of Katha Upanishad, was Swami Vivekananda's (pictured) message to the Hindus to get out of their hypnotized state of mind?
... that sisters Ada and Andrine Hegerberg scored one goal each when the Norwegian team won 2–1 against Canada in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup?
... that the World War I-era Warrior-class cruiser had "the reputation of being the best cruisers we ever built" by the Royal Navy, according to naval historian Oscar Parkes?
... that newborn Hodgson's bats are about 2.15 centimetres (0.85 in) long and start to fly in their third week of life?
... that in 2000, Maximum PC magazine described Star Trek: Starship Creator Warp II as one of its "Lemons of the Year"?
... that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa's award-winning 1971 artwork Gulgardi was painted on an old cupboard door that still had rusty nails in it, and holes where the handle used to be?

07:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

... that populations of the endangered Albanian water frog (pictured) are declining due to over-collection for the food industry and pet trade?
... that after HMS Grasshopper was sunk following the Battle of Singapore, two of the crew managed to sail 2,680 miles (4,310 km) to India using a map torn out of a child's atlas?
... that the 1943–44 Michigan basketball team included three athletes, "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Don Lund, and Bob Wiese, who later played in the National Football League or Major League Baseball?
... that John Irwin, one of the founders of Toronto book publisher Clarke, Irwin & Company, left the company in 1943, only to have it purchased more than forty years later by a company run by his son?
... that in 2012, the top ten finishers in the Prelude to the Dream car race had food trucks sent to their hometowns?
... that Mega Mendoeng was directed by a man trained as a sound technician?

26 September 2013

23:25, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1915 the U.S. government built a combined post office and mine rescue station (pictured) in Jellico, Tennessee?
... that Josephine MacLeod, an American devotee of Swami Vivekananda considered the day she met the Swami for the first time as her "spiritual birthday"?
... that the extinct sumac Rhus rooseae was described from fossils over 35 million years old?
... that singer and actress Coralie Blythe was the sister of ballroom dancer Vernon Castle?
... that the Columbian was the first train to use the Milwaukee Road's new depot in Tacoma, Washington when it opened in 1954?
... that librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams wrote a notorious 1937 essay called "Librarians as Enemies of Books"?

14:00, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

... that around 200 years ago, Chinese artisans painted a panorama of Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbour on two ceramic punchbowls (one pictured)?
... that two 12th-century payas are situated near the Irrawaddy Bridge?
... that Kristian Gidlund played drums in the rock band Sugarplum Fairy until his death in 2013?
... that the song of the Isabelline Wheatear includes mimicry of the voices of other birds?
... that Rev. Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary professor and minister, was the 11th generation in a family of clergymen stretching back to 1493?
... that a letter in the hand of Sir George Browne, later beheaded, containing the cryptic message "It shall never come out for me", survives among the Paston letters?

05:45, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the American wandering spider (pictured) only stores up to 10 μl of crude venom in its glands, and uses lower amounts of it on smaller victims?
... that Bugby Chapel—a former place of worship in Epsom—has been used by Calvinists, Unitarians, Strict Baptists and Jews since it opened in 1779?
... that after Arizona Territorial Governor Myron H. McCord resigned to serve in the Spanish–American War, the conflict ended before his unit saw combat?
... that the Baroque orchestra L'arpa festante produced the first recording of a Passion by Telemann and played Bach's Mass in B minor in the Cathedral of Trier?
... that Mark Sutton portrayed a skydiving James Bond during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the National War Dog Cemetery is a memorial to the 25 Doberman Pinschers killed in action during the Second Battle of Guam?

25 September 2013

21:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in World War II, John Plagis (pictured) was Southern Rhodesia's top-scoring flying ace, as well as the highest-scoring ace of Greek descent?
... that some of the footpaths of Gibraltar were created to enable cannons and troops to ascend the Rock of Gibraltar?
... that the superhero Breeze Barton, created by Jack Binder, could survive a year without water in the Sahara?
... that "Quasar" by The Smashing Pumpkins was once described as "a rambunctious, wailing beast of a song"?
... that the Lion Capital of Asoka, a leading emblem of India, was rediscovered by an amateur archaeologist?
... that a chandelier in the sewers under Cologne provides light for jazz and classical music performances?

13:15, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Shanghai Museum (pictured) was said to have been "willed into existence" by Ma Chengyuan, who committed suicide nine years ago today?
... that Lake Uniamési in East Africa would have been larger than the Black Sea – if it had existed?
... that the school shark was at one time used as a source of vitamin A as its liver was shown to have higher levels of this vitamin than any other fish tested?
... that as Air Officer Commanding RAAF Northern Area in 1941, Frank Lukis was responsible for air defence along the entire north coast of Australia?
... that the Titlis Cliff Walk, the highest elevation suspension bridge in Europe, has been described as the "world's scariest bridge"?
... that Countess Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, the highest-ranking non-royal woman in Sweden, was called on in 2012 to witness that the newborn Princess Estelle was not a changeling?

05:00, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

... that one of the reasons that the Red-browed Amazon (pictured) is "Endangered" is that it is collected for the pet trade?
... that Sir Adrian Poyning's orders for the English forces at Newhaven included the stricture that "Any English who shall fight without the town shall lose his right hand"?
... that Orda Cave underneath the Ural Mountains in Russia is the largest underwater gypsum cave in the world?
... that Kim Am, an 8th-century Korean scholar, shaman and "master of yin-yang", was the only person to hold the title of the "Great Professor of Astronomy" in Korean history?
... that an Arizona schoolteacher was fired in 1971 on allegations she claimed to be a witch and taught witchcraft to her students?

24 September 2013

20:45, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting The Librarian (pictured) is thought to be a portrait of historian Wolfgang Lazius?
... that the mushroom Bothia castanella was shuffled to six different genera before a new genus was made for it?
... that prior to his death in 1945, Soviet diplomat Konstantin Umansky held his last speech at the inauguration of the office of the Jewish People's League at Paseo de la Reforma?
... that The Lost Tribe was the second film directed by John Laing?
... that to treat his cancer when he was a child, Marie Curie administered radiation therapy to future Arizona Governor Jack Williams?
... that Ukrainian model Valeria Lukyanova has been referred to as a "human Barbie"?

12:30, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Nina Davuluri (pictured) is the first Indian American to win the Miss America beauty pageant?
... that the two Kongō-class ironclads built in Britain had to be sailed to Japan in 1878 by hired crews, as the Imperial Japanese Navy lacked the necessary experience?
... that Mike McCormick was the first San Francisco Giants pitcher to win the Cy Young Award?
... that the name of Vivekodayam, a Malayalam literary magazine founded in 1904, was a tribute to Swami Vivekananda?
... that the Asian giant mole rat digs burrows with its teeth, and the East African mole rat can swim?
... that although Walter Baldwin does not appear in The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1941), he is listed in the film's credits?

04:15, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the construction of the keep at Udny Castle (pictured) reportedly spanned more than 100 years and ruined three consecutive Lairds?
... that the only significant action performed by either of the Japanese Kawachi-class battleships during World War I was when they bombarded German fortifications in China in 1914?
... that the Lesser Grey Shrike is pugnacious and will drive larger birds away from its nest?
... that Rex Stout was so upset with Columbia Pictures' film adaptation of his detective novel The League of Frightened Men that he disallowed any further adaptation of his works?
... that Israeli golfer Laetitia Beck won her first Israeli Ladies Championship at the age of 12?
... that Waldo can be found among sea urchin spines?

23 September 2013

20:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the purple edge bonnet (pictured) contains an enzyme that can break down dyes used in textile dyeing and printing processes?
... that the stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow drew outrage from the human rights group Amnesty International?
... that the Ladakh International Film Festival, held in the Himalayas at more than 11,000 feet (3,400 m), is the highest-altitude film festival in the world?
... that Rasmus Hansson is the first Green Party politician ever to get elected to the Parliament of Norway?
... that Shaun Pollock's 6 wickets for 30 runs against Sri Lanka are the best bowling figures by a South African captain in Tests?
... that Jacques Dutronc only got the opportunity to record his debut single because of an envious, disappointed and trigger-happy record company executive?

08:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in August 1942, the HMCS Dundas (pictured) and HMCS Vancouver were assigned to the American-led Aleutian Islands Campaign?
... that One Dangerous Night (1943) was the first film Ann Savage appeared in?
... that the 1955–56 Michigan Wolverines hockey team won the 1956 NCAA Tournament and took five of six places on the Associated Press All-Tournament Team?
... that U Bein Bridge is believed to be the oldest and longest teak wood bridge in the world?
... that the sweet tooth mushroom is sometimes bitter?

00:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Merkel-Raute (pictured) has been described as "probably one of the most recognisable hand gestures in the world"?
... that 1951–52 Michigan Wolverines basketball team was integrated months after the Inter-Racial Association alleged "a deliberate and conscious policy of discrimination against Negro athletes"?
... that the Cent Quatre arts centre in Paris used to contain 300 horses, 6,000 coffins and 50,000 litres (11,000 imp gal; 13,000 US gal) of water?
... that The Medico of Painted Springs (1941), the first of a three-film series by Columbia Pictures, was Charles Starrett's favorite film?
... that Sir Robert Poynings was carver and sword-bearer to the rebel Jack Cade?
... that kangaroo rats in the family Heteromyidae do not need to drink because they obtain sufficient water from metabolising their food?

22 September 2013

16:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

... that The Sand-Covered Church (pictured) is a 14th-century Danish church partly demolished in the 1800s when the sand from the nearby dunes threatened it, leaving only the church tower still visible?
... that Lady Gaga visited Hyderabad-based National Institute of Mentally Handicapped as a part of her charitable initiatives?
... that in 1975 the Swedish Chile Committee mobilized thousands of protestors against a Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Chile?
... that the giant oceanic manta ray herds its planktonic prey into a bunch before speeding among them with its mouth open wide?
... that many historians have compared Armenians and Jews?
... that Killer Ape (1953), the twelfth Jungle Jim film produced by Columbia Pictures, stars Max Palmer as the title creature?

08:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Picture for Women by Canadian artist Jeff Wall is a photographic response to Édouard Manet's last major painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (pictured)?
... that the Japanese ironclad Kongō was one of the two ships that returned the survivors of the wrecked Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul to Turkey in 1891?
... that Tongass Narrows, split into two channels by Pennock Island, was involved in a national controversy over the proposed "Bridge to Nowhere"?
... that Pakistan's cricket team recorded their first Test cricket win in their second match against India, in 1952 at the University Ground?
... that the references to MST3K in Manos: The Hands of Fate were made intentionally obscure to avoid copyright infringement?
... that after Coca-Cola was forced out of India in 1977, the Indian Government started its own brand of cola known as Double Seven?

00:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the last courtyard theatre built in Spain was the corral de comedias (pictured) in Almagro, in 1628?
... that the 21st Arizona Territorial Legislature was the first session of the territorial legislature to meet in the territorial capitol?
... that Angela Hartnett opened her restaurant at The Connaught hotel in London, after being brought in by Gordon Ramsay who refused to move his restaurant into the space?
... that Edward Higgins White, Sr. was the first man to land a dirigible on water?
... that the fungus Guepiniopsis alpina is commonly known as the "poor man's gumdrop"?
... that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is set to be broadcast from Studio 6B at NBC Studios in New York City, the same studio where Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1972?

21 September 2013

16:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Julia Grace Wales (pictured) devised the Wisconsin Plan, a proposal to end World War I entertained by President Wilson until the US entered the war?
... that during the 2001–02 series against India, West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul batted for 1,513 minutes between dismissals, a record in Test cricket?
... that the Dutch military base Marinekazerne Suffisant was visited by Queen Beatrix?
... that as education minister, Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad launched the largest foreign scholarship program in Syrian history, sending 300 students to study abroad at Western universities?
... that golden spindles grow on the ground in grassy areas?
... that Yunakov has popularized Bulgarian wedding music in the United States where his band presents a "number of dances at breakneck speed, warbling their instruments all the way"?

08:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the parasite wasp Evania appendigaster (pictured) lays her eggs into cockroach eggs and may be a candidate for biological pest control?
... that the upcoming 2013–14 Adirondack Phantoms season will be the final year they play in Glens Falls, New York, before relocating to a new arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania?
... that the Japanese battleship Kawachi capsized and sank only four minutes after an internal magazine explosion on 12 July 1918 while at anchor?
... that the Blue Wing Inn, started as a one-room hotel in Sonoma, California, in 1836, was also a saloon, a gambling hall, a stagecoach depot, a grocery store, a winery, a museum, and a retail center?
... that Moestika dari Djemar was one of only two films based on the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights released in the Dutch East Indies before 1942?
... that "Wild Bill" Carlisle was one of America's last train robbers?

00:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Jens Bang's House (pictured) has housed Aalborg's oldest pharmacy for more than 300 years?
... that the Black-winged Petrel skims across the surface of the sea and scoops up cephalopods and prawns among other prey items?
... that John Wheatley died of a heart attack whilst on a bike ride?
... that the 1992 running of the Galaxy Food Centers 300 at Hickory Motor Speedway set two NASCAR records for cautions?
... that Ingemar Eliasson has served as government minister, county governor, member of Parliament, and finally as Marshal of the Realm, reporting directly to the King?
... that soldier, monk, kitchen boy, loafer, and bicyclist costumes were prohibited at the Bal des Quat'z'Arts?

20 September 2013

16:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in the Baltic Sea, the European flounder (pictured) often hybridises with the European plaice?
... that the Makaza mountain pass and border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece was closed from the end of World War II until September 2013?
... that Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government for demolishing an allegedly illegal wall of a mosque?
... that the film Young Eagles (1930) is about a "heroic combat aviator of the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps"?
... that ten Pakistani bowlers have taken a five-wicket haul at their Test debut?
... that despite being a gambler, Lady Harrington was considered an epitome of virtue in a society notorious for loose morals, with her younger sister cuckolding her husband with 27 men?

08:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

... that spores are produced on the outer, not inner, surface of the cup-like head of the pod parachute fungus (pictured)?
... that lecturer of psychology Niniek L. Karim won two Citra Awards for Best Supporting Actress with her first two films?
... that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation provided ₹1.2 million (US$14,000) for a new 12-foot-high statue of Swami Vivekananda in Golpark, Kolkata?
... that Voodoo Tiger (1952) features archived footage from Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932)?
... that after three years as the Connecticut Whale, Hartford Wolf Pack hockey team returned to their original name for their 2013–14 season?
... that botanist Charles Budd Robinson may have been murdered by natives when he mistook the words "coconut" and "head"?

00:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers (pictured) wrote and directed Going to the Dogs, a play for six German shepherds, Ronflonflon, a radio show full of jingles, and TV shows for the VPRO including De Fred Haché Show, Barend is weer bezig, Het is weer zo laat!, De lachende scheerkwast, and Opzoek naar Yolanda?
... that no passenger train has serviced Michigan's Upper Peninsula since the Peninsula 400 ended 44 years ago?
... that from 1930 through 1933, Jews constituted a majority of the membership of the Young Communist League of Poland?
... that Gordon Greenidge's 214 not out is the fifth highest individual total in the fourth innings of a Test match?
... that Barnabas Burns wrote to Ulysses S. Grant in 1863 asking him to run for President of the United States as a Democrat against Abraham Lincoln?
... that when danger threatens, one of the young of the bicolored shrew grips its mother while the others join on behind forming a chain?

19 September 2013

16:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the anarchist chef Joseph Favre (pictured) created a "diabolical" vol-au-vent for the Empress Eugénie?
... that the Steilneset Memorial contains 91 windows, a 410-foot-long fabric cocoon, seven oval mirrors and a burning chair?
... that Christina Aguilera portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the music video for "Tilt Ya Head Back"?
... that Vedanta Society of New York (VSNY) was the first Vedanta Society, founded by Swami Vivekananda in New York in November 1894?
... that Natchez traditionalist Archie Sam hunted with the Inughuit in Northern Greenland during World War II?
... that male eastern mouse spiders often fall into swimming pools while looking for a mate?

08:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Japanese battleship Settsu (pictured) simulated the radio traffic of all six aircraft carriers of the 1st Air Fleet at the beginning of the Pacific War in an effort to deceive the Allies as to their location?
... that Nani Widjaja has played a mother or grandmother in many of her 111 film roles?
... that the best error rate a computer program has gotten on the MNIST database of handwritten digits is 0.23 percent?
... that Ben Lashes is an Internet meme talent manager whose clients include Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, Scumbag Steve and Ridiculously Photogenic Guy?
... that Spock Must Die! and Spock, Messiah! were the first two original novels for adults to be written in the Star Trek universe?
... that Henry Sewell, New Zealand's first Premier, much regretted the Simeon family's return to England as they were the only people he and his wife socialised with?

00:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

... that when he left the United States Senate in 1897, John Sherman (pictured) had served longer in that body than any other Senator in its history?
... that, as a prize for having written "O Armatolos", Bulgarian poet Grigor Parlichev was awarded a laurel wreath by king Otto of Greece?
... that Malin Diaz scored the game-winning goal during extra time for Sweden to win the 2012 UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship?
... that the extinct Actinidia oregonensis was the first kiwi relative described from North America?
... that Watt Sam and Nancy Raven were the last fluent speakers of the Natchez language?
... that 1970s propaganda in the People's Republic of Poland exploited the technique of exaggerating political and economic successes?

18 September 2013

16:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Roman emperor Commodus (pictured) had the month of September renamed after either himself or Hercules from 184 until his death in 192?
... that "more than half of all wild Danish plant species" exist at Mols Bjerge National Park?
... that during World War II, Lieutenant Colonel John Lansdale, Jr. accompanied the Alsos Mission when it seized 1,000 tons of uranium ore, and captured German nuclear energy project scientists?
... that the 1970 Bhiwandi Riots caused the deaths of 250 people?
... that Felicia Mabuza-Suttle was voted as the 70th greatest South African in history on Great South Africans?
... that in the constellation Hydrus there is a star that may have nine planets?

08:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Tatuidris tatusia (pictured) is the only ant species with an antenna socket apparatus sitting upside-down?
... that, in 1901, missionaries to Goaribari Island were killed and cannibalised?
... that the MY Single Band is a gel bracelet intended to be worn by single people to advertise their lack of a significant other?
... that The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946) marked the first appearance of Gerald Mohr as the Lone Wolf?
... that Maxwell Trevor, an Indian cyclist, is a national record-holder, winner of more than 250 medals and an eleven-time national track champion?
... that costume changes during the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation resulted in the "Picard Maneuver" – the name given to Patrick Stewart's habit of tugging his uniform tunic down?

00:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in 1960, at Ahu Akivi (pictured) on Easter Island, archeologists took a month to raise the first moai, but less than a week to raise the seventh?
... that Yamamoto Yaeko is being portrayed by Haruka Ayase in the current NHK taiga drama Yae no Sakura?
... that Dalecarlian rebel leader Skinnar Per Andersson was sentenced to death by Svea Hovrätt in 1744?
... that the first person convicted for genocidal rape was Pauline Nyiramasuhuko?
... that forested uplands in the Tutuala in East Timor inhabited by the ratu clan groups included walled and open settlements of Lata and also caves (veraka) which housed ancestral figures?
... that the Argentine miniseries Para vestir santos featured a lesbian main character, at the time of the sanction of same-sex marriage in Argentina?

17 September 2013

16:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the German bioethicist Claire Lademacher, a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (building pictured), is set to become a Princess of Luxembourg upon her marriage today?
... that Ylvis were surprised by the international success of their song "The Fox," which was intended only to target their Norwegian audience?
... that Bertrando de Mignanelli, an adventurous Italian merchant who lived in Damascus at the beginning of the 15th century, personally knew Mamluk Sultan Barquq?
... that the Battle of Montepeloso was the last-ever pitched battle between the Normans and the Byzantine Empire?
... that Wim T. Schippers' TV shows, produced by former script girl Ellen Jens, introduced characters played by Dolf Brouwers, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, IJf Blokker, a former drummer, and Clous van Mechelen, a jazz musician?
... that despite the species only being described for the first time this year, the distribution of Glutinoglossum heptaseptatum may span four continents?

08:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

... that actress Shangguan Yunzhu (pictured) was said to have had an affair with Mao Zedong, for which she was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, leading to her suicide?
... that since 2011 an estimated 7,000 African refugees have been held for ransom in Sinai, with many of them being tortured and killed?
... that magnetic cues may stimulate the Thrush Nightingale to build up its fat reserves before crossing the Sahara during its annual migration?
... that miner, pioneer and prospector 'Black Mike' Winage who settled in the Yukon at the end of the Klondike Gold Rush lived to be 107?
... that Nag Panchami is a traditional worship of snakes observed by Hindus throughout India and also in Nepal?
... that after Yarden Gerbi dislocated a woman's shoulder, and choked her until she was unconscious, Gerbi received three marriage proposals?

00:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

... that while studying eclipsing binary stars (Algol pictured), Gerald Kron found a starspot?
... that the resistance movement in Auschwitz was formed by Polish Armia Krajowa partisan Witold Pilecki?
... that between 1963 and 1975, Sami Droubi served as Syria's ambassador to Morocco, Yugoslavia, Egypt, the Arab League, Spain and the Holy See?
... that the ancient Romans carried crucified dogs in a procession between the temples of Youth and the underworld god Summanus for the supplicia canum ("punishment of the dogs")?
... that WASP pilot Dr. Dora Dougherty Strother was one of two women selected to train and fly the B-29 Superfortress in 1944 in order to prove it was safe for men to fly?
... that the 23rd Arizona Territorial Legislature hired three pages to blindfold the statue of Liberty on top of the territorial capitol building?

16 September 2013

16:00, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers is responsible for Pindakaasvloer, a 4-by-12-metre (13 ft × 39 ft) floor covered in peanut butter, and Torentje van Drienerlo (pictured), a church spire sticking up from a pond?
... that Jeremiah Hamilton was a Wall Street broker noted as "the only black millionaire in New York" around the time of the American Civil War?
... that during mating, the citrus mealybug is known to engage in "triple sexual intercourse"?
... that in 2013 Australia announced it would no longer grant asylum to anyone arriving by boat without a visa?
... that Jennifer Roberson wants Sean Connery to play a main character in a film adaptation of her novel Lady of the Glen, if one is ever made?
... that the federal government of the United States maintains a National Raisin Reserve, which takes extra raisins and stores them in warehouses in order to keep raisin-growing profitable for farmers?

08:00, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Norfolk Hotel which displayed Fremantle street art this year (wall sculpture pictured) was first built for George Alfred Davies in 1887?
... that as president of Antioch College, Algo Henderson started a bronze foundry to teach students small business management?
... that "Niggers in the White House" (1902) was written after President Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House?
... that Lawrence H. Johnston was the only man to witness the Trinity nuclear test, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the bombing of Nagasaki?
... that the northern pika creates "hay-piles" for winter use?
... that though Rina Hasyim was working as a model, she made her film debut with the help of a travel agent?

00:00, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the death of the cat Buurtpoes Bledder (pictured) was covered in national news, including SBS 6 and De Telegraaf?
... that due to copyright problems with the name "Jungle Jim", Cannibal Attack (1954) stars Johnny Weissmuller as a fictionalized version of himself?
... that epic poetry character Mihajlo Svilojević was mentioned in the poem written by Ivan Gundulić at the beginning of the 17th century?
... that both German soldiers and Polish concentration camp prisoners were treated at a war-time hospital close to Lärbro Church in Sweden?
... that when the Desert Wheatear finds an insect too large for it to swallow, it sometimes displays in front of it by fluttering its wings?
... that Vice-Admiral James Young was so incensed when the Dutch island of St. Eustatius gave the first foreign salute to the American flag, that he instigated a blockade of it?

15 September 2013

16:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Kirkpatrick Chapel (pictured) at Rutgers University, built in 1873, was designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, and features four stained-glass windows from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany?
... that Arthur Fields took over 180,000 photographs of Dublin pedestrians?
... that according to the 1871 census, the first in British India, Tiruchirappalli had a population of 76,530 making it the second largest city in Madras Presidency, next only to Madras?
... that Daft Punk's "Doin' It Right", featuring Panda Bear of the Animal Collective, was considered by both Pitchfork Media and Paperblog to be the best track out of their fourth album Random Access Memories?
... that the sister of Natchez warchief Tattooed Serpent said that he was like a Frenchman?
... that 17th-century churches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland spent significant amounts of money decorating the corpses of unknown Christians so that they could be worshipped as saints?

08:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Sister Christine (pictured) said that Swami Vivekananda's mere uttering of the word "India" stirred emotions of "love, passion, pride, longing, adoration, tragedy, chivalry, heimweh, and again love"?
... that in United States v. Ramsey, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. could try a white person for murdering an Indian on former reservation land?
... that in 2011, Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo developed a non-invasive prenatal diagnosis method for detecting Down syndrome using maternal blood plasma?
... that the browser game Kanye Zone involves keeping Kanye West out of his "zone"?
... that pediatric psychologist Logan Wright once left academia to build 66 Sonic Drive-In fast food franchises across the United States?
... that when the roller coaster White Canyon was shut down at Yomiuriland, thousands of trees were planted in its honor?

00:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Darnall Works in Sheffield (heat treatment workshop pictured) is the only remaining works to have produced crucible steel on a large scale?
... that Ryder Lynn, a character created for The Glee Project winner Blake Jenner in Glee's fourth season, is set to be a starring role for the show's upcoming fifth season?
... that the music video for the They Might Be Giants song "You're on Fire" stars Lauren Lapkus of Orange is the New Black and a singing silicone meat puppet?
... that the galleries of the KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg are illuminated by skylights and diffused lighting which manipulate Nordic light?
... that the Manhattan Project's George T. Reynolds accurately measured the size of the Port Chicago disaster explosion?
... that although the mushroom Pholiota iterata was discovered in 1937, it was not officially described until more than 30 years later?

14 September 2013

16:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Samuel Willenberg (pictured) is the last living survivor of the prisoner uprising at the Nazis' Treblinka extermination camp during the Holocaust in Poland?
... that the lyrics of The Who's single "Let's See Action" were inspired by the teachings of Meher Baba?
... that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the first smartphone with USB 3.0 support?
... that one subspecies of Pennant's colobus is hunted for bushmeat and is "Critically Endangered"?
... that Munir Hussain was the first to introduce Urdu commentary to cricket?
... that a bearded headmaster of Wixenford School who has been described as "kindly but rather frightening" succeeded another who wore his hair in two horns above his ears?

08:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Eitetsu Hayashi (pictured), along with other group members of Ondekoza, repeatedly ran the Boston Marathon just prior to taiko performances?
... that the Eurasian water shrew produces venom that can kill a field vole?
... that Derrick Cave in northern Lake County, Oregon, was designated as a nuclear fallout shelter in the 1960s?
... that in a 40-year career, Manny Perez animated Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Fritz the Cat?
... that Cyclone Tia destroyed over 90% of housing on the Solomon Island of Tikopia?
... that Great Dane Juliana received a medal for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by urinating on it?

00:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Connie Hill (pictured), captain of the first hockey team to win the Frozen Four, received a Ph.D. for his dissertation, "Mood, self-derogation and anomia as factors in response unreliability"?
... that the 1954 Chlef earthquake buried people alive while they were sleeping?
... that Mario Moises Alvarez is director of the Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA which developed a mass-produced vaccine during the 2009 flu pandemic in North America?
... that the desert warthog is an important host of the tsetse fly?
... that the use of the term "Arab street" to refer to public opinion in the Arab world has been re-imported into Arabic media from the U.S., where it had been derived from Arabic originally?
... that the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts was named after an 1893 costume ball at the Moulin Rouge which included naked women as living paintings?

13 September 2013

16:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

... that, on arrival at the breeding area, a female Savi's Warbler (pictured) chooses to pair with the male with the densest reed bed territory?
... that Selly Manor was moved by a chocolate maker, eight centuries after construction?
... that Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, a former student activist, used to get about five death threats a week, either by Twitter or by mail?
... that in January 2009 the Mexican government rescued 126 minors from a shelter?
... that Testament mój was the poetical testament of Juliusz Słowacki, one of the Three Bards of Polish poetry?
... that Yves Gaucher, a Canadian artist, was expelled from the Collège Brébeuf for drawing "immoral pictures" which were actually copied from his textbook?

08:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

... that symptoms of envenomation can appear within twenty minutes of being bitten by a southern tree funnel-web (pictured)?
... that Thomas Joynt was New Zealand's most senior member of the bar when he was appointed King's Counsel?
... that the theme of Nicki Minaj's song "High School" is adultery?
... that Red Obsession (2013) is narrated by Russell Crowe?
... that, unlike most other cottontail rabbits, the Mexican cottontail nests in a burrow in a manner similar to a European rabbit?
... that hotel magnate Allen Law originally wanted to be an acupuncturist but his billionaire father prevented him from being one?

00:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the French 155 mm cannon model 1877 (pictured) was still in use in the 1940s?
... that Dice's cottontail may be threatened by coyotes that have become established in the mountains in which it lives?
... that Leonard Brumm organized an inmate hockey team at a maximum security prison, coached the first professional female hockey player, and co-founded the Kuwait National Hockey League?
... that Cuban performer Celia Cruz was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement accolade at the Lo Nuestro Awards?
... that when a Prairie School commercial building in Oak Park, Illinois, housed a department store, the facade was covered with black glass?
... that the 2011 film Sand Sharks was voted by Virgin Media as one of the ten most ridiculous shark movies ever made?

12 September 2013

16:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in the early 19th century, the reclamation of Lille Vildmose (pictured) was the impetus needed to establish a peat industry?
... that Dr. Joseph DeLee revived William S. Kroger as a newborn, and later supervised Kroger's residency training as an obstetrician-gynecologist?
... that the white-tailed jackrabbit can run at up to 55 kilometres per hour (34 mph) and leap up to 5 metres (16 ft)?
... that a website dedicated to the wedding of Grey's Anatomy's two lead characters was launched to promote the show's 100th episode?
... that the Baron of Karytaina, Geoffrey of Briel, was held to be best knight in the Principality of Achaea, and maintained a school where he trained young Greeks as knights?
... that in a cricket match between smokers and non-smokers, the best bowler for the non-smokers was awarded 200 cigars?

08:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

... that a photograph showing the scourged back of a Mississippi slave named Gordon (pictured) became one of the leading abolitionist images?
... that filamentous carbon, a form of carbon containing carbon nanotubes, nanofibers, and microcoils, was discovered in 1890?
... that Robert Strachan Wallace, Australia's Chief Censor from 1922 to 1927, single-handedly apprehended two armed men who had broken into his house?
... that the forest cottontail eats the chrome-footed bolete?
... that in 1985, Ronnie Silver won his first NASCAR race after passing his former employee Jack Ingram?
... that a hotel built to resemble a cruise ship sits on top of a cliff in South Korea?

00:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Meral Tasbas (pictured) has participated in both the Swedish and the Turkish versions of the reality show The Bar?
... that the glutinous earth tongue got placed in a new genus this year?
... that John Ratcliff is the first identifiable bookbinder in America?
... that dozens of Red Army soldiers switched sides and joined the Polish Army after several lost engagements during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939?
... that the proceeds from the music in the upcoming Glee episode "The Quarterback" will initiate a fund in the name of the late actor Cory Monteith, whose character, Finn Hudson, dies in the episode?
... that Park Express was completely blind when she gave birth to the Epsom Derby winner New Approach, and required bells to locate her foal?

11 September 2013

16:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Mithun Chakraborty (pictured) won the National Film Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Ramakrishna in the 1998 film Swami Vivekananda?
... that the Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge, built to replace an arsoned bridge, was itself set alight three months ago?
... that the female Blue Mountains funnel-web spider is possibly more venomous because it injects more venom?
... that prior to their senior seasons Shane Morris and Max Browne were the only two 5-star rated quarterbacks in the high school class of 2013 according to Rivals.com?
... that the inactive Polish A.B. Dobrowolski Polar Station is still occasionally visited by explorers of the Antarctic?
... that most of the British airmen who attempted to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz during Operation Mascot in July 1944 could not see the ship?

08:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Abbotsford Bridge (pictured) was the last lift span bridge to be constructed over the Murray River?
... that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement?
... that Edgar Wright has been attached to write and direct the film Ant-Man since 2006, before the development of the first Iron Man film?
... that the legume maunaloa is considered an underutilized wild plant with the potential to serve as a protein-rich food crop to ease famine?
... that Osuwa Daiko was one of the first groups to popularize taiko music through its performance at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
... that the butt fumble, an infamous play in American football, was retired as an undefeated champion of SportsCenter's "Worst of the Worst" poll, having won a record-breaking 40 weeks in a row?

00:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

... that during World War II, HMCS Port Arthur (pictured) participated in both the Allied invasion of North Africa and invasion of Normandy?
... that Jeff Hoffman was named the top prospect in the Cape Cod Baseball League in summer 2013?
... that the slime mold Stemonitis axifera is a favored food source of mantleslugs?
... that Ohio State Route 367 no longer exists; it was designated in 1933, and replaced by State Route 708 in 1938?
... that the titular alliance in the novel series Star Trek: Typhon Pact has been compared to the Warsaw Pact by critics?
... that in 1963 Trevor Storer sold his car to set up a home business, which by 2013 was selling 600 million pies a year?

10 September 2013

16:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

... that William Blake sketched a series of portraits of historical individuals (example pictured), including ancient Greeks, medieval royalty and characters of folklore, who appeared to him in late night visions?
... that the settlement of Llanilid in Wales is home to a medieval church, the remains of an early fortification and a film studio?
... that Michigan Wolverines basketball player Milt Mead won the 1953 NCAA Championship in the high jump?
... that the order Rajiformes contains thirteen families including the guitarfish and skates?
... that an episode in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream may have been a "riff" on the medieval German poem Der Busant?
... that since 1376 Godfrey de Foljambe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and his wife have appeared to look out of a window at All Saints Church, Bakewell in Derbyshire?

08:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

... that although its edibility is not definitively established, one source suggests that the rare mushroom Tubaria punicea (pictured) tastes similar to "bland beef"?
... that during the weeks before the 2013 Ghouta attacks, Lakhdar Brahimi and Ban Ki-moon worked closely with Russian and US diplomats towards a possible Geneva II Syrian peace conference?
... that Alan Chan, the CEO of Singapore Press Holdings, once served as Lee Kuan Yew's Principal Private Secretary?
... that the track awarded for Regional/Mexican Song of the Year at the 2002 Lo Nuestro Awards has the record for most weeks at number one on a Billboard magazine BDS-based airplay chart?
... that Jarmere Jenkins is the first athlete to win ACC Male Athlete of the Year solely for playing tennis?
... that Gus the polar bear was the first zoo animal in history to be treated with Prozac?

00:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

... that although the majority of insects lay eggs, aphids can give birth to live young (pictured)?
... that socialist Unitarian minister Frederic O. MacCartney was elected to four terms in the state legislature of Massachusetts as a member of the Social Democratic Party of America?
... that the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil began in 1549?
... that Clermont Steel Fabricators is the manufacturer of Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters?
... that the roof of the Church of San Pedro de Atacama features cactus and wood bound with llama leather in the altiplano style?
... that John Worsley helped another British officer escape their POW camp by making a dummy to replace him at roll call, with blinking ping-pong ball eyes powered by a pendulum made from a sardine tin?

9 September 2013

16:00, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Margaret of Burgundy (pictured), a princess as "plain as an owl", was twice envisaged to become Queen of France, but ended up married to a man she considered too beneath her in rank?
... that the Bururi long-fingered frog, believed to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2011 amidst the wildlife of Burundi?
... that De Friese Meren will be created as a Dutch municipality on 1 January 2014, the same day that four other municipalities are being dissolved?
... that the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Oaks, Princess of Sylmar, was a 39/1 outsider?
... that when the 1971 Bollywood song "Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani" was remixed in 2003, Mumbai Police received complaints from citizens for its obscene video?
... that Albert Einstein lived for several years after surgeon Rudolph Nissen wrapped the scientist's abdominal aortic aneurysm with cellophane?

08:00, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

... that paleontologists have discovered the fossilized eggs of cephalopods, fishes, and reptiles, with some dinosaur eggs (pictured) being preserved with pathological shell deformities?
... that Colombian singer Shakira has refused to re-release her debut album Magia, or her second, Peligro, because of their "immaturity"?
... that water passing through the Yucatán Channel provides most of the seawater inflow into the Gulf of Mexico?
... that Gus Winckel made the only Allied kill during the attack on Broome by shooting down a Zero fighter plane from the ground?
... that the Pure Food Building (1922) at the Canadian National Exhibition was paid for in full by its exhibitors?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Luis Garcia spent two years out of baseball working as a barber before returning in 2013 and making his major league debut?

00:00, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Kevin Pillar (pictured) became a Major League Baseball player, despite being the 979th player drafted in 2011?
... that the lesser cane rat is eaten as bushmeat?
... that in August 1942 HMCS Trail rescued survivors from the American passenger ship Chatham that had been torpedoed and sunk by Nazi submarine U-517?
... that Goliath at Six Flags Great America will be the wooden roller coaster with the world's longest drop, steepest drop and fastest speed, when it opens in 2014?
... that Pink Panther Milan Poparić was broken out of a Swiss jail by two accomplices firing AK-47s?
... that when rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?

8 September 2013

16:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Roslags-Bro Church (pictured) was built by an important sea-route that has since vanished?
... that West Indian cricketer Desmond Haynes scored eleven of his international cricket centuries against Australia?
... that the male Pin-tailed Sandgrouse brings water to his chicks absorbed in the feathers on his breast?
... that Ring of Terror was criticized as a "cheaply made flop" with actors decades older playing young college students?
... that high casualty rates among Dutch troops during the Siege of Galle (1640), gave rise to the proverb "Gold in Malacca, lead in Galle"?
... that despite efforts to shorten the service, many noblemen attending the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were carrying sandwiches in their coronets?

08:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

... that, based on its pilot episodes, one critic stated that Danny Antonucci's (pictured) Ed, Edd n Eddy was the worst Cartoon Network show, and another said that the funniest thing about it was its title?
... that female Cairo spiny mice cooperate in feeding the young of other members of the group?
... that Chelso Tamagno played for the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots team that won the first National Basketball League championship in 1938?
... that the toxic mushroom pigment norbadione A confers a protective effect against the damaging effects of ionizing radiation?
... that Richard Hill, the first minister of St James' Church, Sydney, travelled to the colony with 160 male convicts?
... that San Diego County, California, has been referred to as the "Craft Beer Capital of America", with 71 licensed craft breweries and brewpubs and 39 more on the drawing boards?

00:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the British Defence-class ironclad (pictured) was considered by the naval architect Sir Nathaniel Barnaby to have only one quarter the combat value of the preceding Warrior class?
... that the Michigan Wolverines women's soccer team is currently coached by former United States women's national team head coach Greg Ryan?
... that the European truffle species Tuber donnagotto is named after the two dogs that originally found it?
... that Francis John Williamson sculpted a statue of theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley for Birmingham, and the Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria?
... that the Goosebumps book A Night in Terror Tower was adapted into a two-part television episode, an audiobook, and a board game?
... that Jos Serrarens was appointed as a judge of the European Court of Justice even though he had not completed any legal training?

7 September 2013

16:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Kumarakottam Temple (pictured) is one of the 21 major temples in Kanchipuram and an important pilgrimage centre?
... that Sybil Campbell, who was appointed a stipendiary magistrate in 1945, was the first woman to become a professional judge in the United Kingdom?
... that the venom of the Darling Downs funnel-web spider becomes more toxic in the early summer when male spiders are roaming looking for a mate?
... that the smoking tobacco brand Bigger Hair was originally named Nigger Hair?
... that American aid workers Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry's memoir, Prisoners of Hope, recounts them killing 150 flies a day during their 2001 imprisonment by the Taliban?
... that North Radworthy and South Radworthy were valued at £3?

08:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Founders Tower (pictured) in Oklahoma City was the second building in the United States to have a revolving restaurant?
... that Wang Changshun, a former airline regulator, now serves as the chairman of Air China?
... that Scott Dixon lost the 2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma after hitting Will Power's pit crew?
... that AC/DC fans who want to "have a beer with Bon" go to the "most visited grave" in Australia at Fremantle Cemetery?
... that writer David R. George III did not enjoy the time pressures when writing an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and went on to write several Star Trek novels instead?
... that the bank vole is alert to the alarm calls of tits warning of aerial predators?

00:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the memoirs of American missionary Rose Lambert (pictured) document her experiences in Ottoman Turkey during the 1909 massacre of Armenians?
... that Gough Island was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1995 for its "marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone"?
... that Last Frontier Uprising (1947), which was directed by Lesley Selander, centers around two men fighting over a woman's horses?
... that in spite of being known for swinging and a Teamsters murder in the parking lot, the Purple Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2013?
... that a vast British newspaper empire grew from a horse racing tip sheet published in Victorian Manchester by the enterprising son of a weaver?
... that the starry smooth-hound is not a heavenly body or a dog?

6 September 2013

16:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Corral de comedias de Almagro was discovered in 1953 during renovation of the Plaza Mayor (both pictured)?
... that Elaine West was in charge of the renovation of housing for Royal Air Force personnel before becoming the highest ranking female in the British Armed Forces and the first to hold a two-star rank?
... that the yeast Candida keroseneae grows in airplane fuel?
... Henry Morgenthau, who gave testimony of the Armenian Genocide, stated that the massacres of the past "seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915"?
... that the Oxford United and Reading football clubs nearly merged in 1983 to form "Thames Valley Royals"?
... that Hyposwiss Private Bank reappointed to its board of directors a lawyer who had pleaded guilty to money laundering?

08:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

... that after evacuating his base in Dutch Timor following bombing by the Japanese in 1942, Frank Headlam (pictured) returned to Darwin, Australia, the same day it suffered its first air raid?
... that the Ford Credit 125 was both the first NASCAR Truck Series race to be broadcast on network television and the shortest race in series history?
... that the Chinese junk ship Aqua Luna was launched in 2006 after 18 months of construction in traditional style, but is powered by a motor rather than its three sails?
... that Devil Goddess (1955) was the last film in which Johnny Weissmuller acted as Johnny Weissmuller, as well as the last film Weissmuller acted in?
... that in six years the International Indonesia Forum has only been held outside of Yogyakarta once?
... that the Korean hare was at one time considered to be a subspecies of the Chinese hare?

00:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

... that muzzle-loading guns should never be loaded directly from a powder flask (pictured) or horn?
... that British historian David Baldwin successfully predicted the location of King Richard III's remains over 25 years before they were discovered?
... that in 1899, the Roba Ranch in Central Oregon had one of its sheep camps burned, the result of a range war between cattlemen and sheepherders?
... that the mushroom Lepiota maculans was "rediscovered" 105 years after its original discovery?
... that "Jorgy" Jorgensen was the second leading scorer on the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team for three consecutive years?
... that the Turkey Cafe in Leicester has three turkeys on its Art Nouveau facade?

5 September 2013

16:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Common Grasshopper Warbler (pictured) is more often heard than seen?
... that Arnold Fothergill played two Test matches in 1889, despite not having played first-class cricket since early 1887?
... that The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) was the final Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures?
... that Joel Stebbins discovered that Beta Aurigae and Delta Orionis were eclipsing binaries?
... that St Michael's Church, Garston, is located between gas holders and a railway?
... that the fungus Exophiala hongkongensis, described as new to science in 2013, was isolated from the nail clipping of a big toe?

08:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Genghis Khan (pictured), founder of the Mongol Empire, died of an uncertain cause during his second, punitive campaign against Western Xia in China?
... that when three of Whitney Houston's recorded songs on her first album became number-one singles, it was the first time three songs from a debut album reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100?
... that Indian school teacher Barun Biswas was murdered for protesting against rape in Sutia, West Bengal?
... that the lichen species Acarospora janae was named after its discoverer's fiancée?
... that Mary Higham, who created an emporium on the High Street in Fremantle, hosted a meeting at her house that was the start of the City of Cockburn?
... that a hand lotion manufacturer used Abbey Records to indirectly promote its product?

00:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

... that in April 1947, halfback Mel Groomes (pictured) became the first African-American player signed by the Detroit Lions?
... that the world's first Afrikaans language heavy metal album, Swaar Metaal, was released in March 2007?
... that the original office for The Bulletin, the first newspaper in Bend, Oregon, was in a cabin located on the banks of the Deschutes River?
... that the orange sponge polypore counteracts the drying effects of its high-altitude environment by absorbing water quickly and drying slowly?
... that 96-year-old Olivia Robertson is the High Priestess of the Fellowship of Isis?
... that a police escort was provided to transport killer whale Morgan from the Dolfinarium Harderwijk?

4 September 2013

16:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the idols of Morning Musume influenced character types in the arcade game The Idolmaster (pictured)?
... that Jeff Tuel might become the first undrafted free agent to start at quarterback in the first game of his first professional year in the modern era?
... that the yellowspotted catshark and the West African catshark both lay eggs enclosed in egg cases?
... that Charles Thomas Wooldridge was the "C.T.W." to whom Oscar Wilde dedicated The Ballad of Reading Gaol?
... that as of 1920, more white deer were killed in the North Mountain region than anywhere else in Pennsylvania?
... that the makeup for Johnny Knoxville's character in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa took three hours to apply?

08:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the blushing morel (pictured), previously known only from western North America, was found growing in Israel in 2009?
... that a reindeer station and the Russo-American Telegraph Expedition's regional headquarters were located near Grantley Harbor?
... that Chirlane McCray, who wrote the "groundbreaking" 1979 essay "I Am a Lesbian" for Essence, later married Bill de Blasio?
... that Jungle Moon Men (1955), which features tiny "Moon Men" in an African jungle, was inspired by H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1887)?
... that Joseph P. Kennedy II was among the 187 hostages of a hijacked Lufthansa Jumbo Jet?
... that Daniel Scott was an investor in a company that paid for Fremantle prisoners to build a tunnel that gave easy access between the High St. and the beach, and which ran beneath their prison?

00:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (pictured) often uses a piece of snakeskin in the lining of its nest?
... that Cleveland Hall was the base for anarchists and international revolutionaries in London?
... that Monte Westmore's workload as makeup supervisor on Gone with the Wind was blamed for his death by heart attack?
... that a pet feed, which is now manufactured in several countries, originated from a recipe devised and cooked by a French vet in his garage?
... that Derrick Green, rated the No. 1 running back in the college football recruiting Class of 2013, has been described as follows: "Look at him from the back and the side, he's a huge human being"?
... that the only copy of the book La Promenade du sceptique by Denis Diderot was confiscated by police on two occasions?

3 September 2013

16:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

... that English and French monarchs were believed to possess the supernatural touch that could cure a form of tuberculosis known as the King's Evil (ritual pictured)?
... that the music of Giuseppe Verdi's secular cantata Inno delle nazioni—his first collaboration with Arrigo Boito—incorporates the tunes of three different national anthems?
... that Lord Cheylesmore bequeathed over 10,000 prints to the British Museum, and The Execution of Lady Jane Grey to the National Gallery?
... that the Polish book Kamienie na szaniec describing the lives of three Polish underground scouting members was published shortly after their deaths in occupied Poland?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Harsh Vardhan has never lost an election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly?
... that when Fieldfares sit in a tree, they all tend to face in the same direction?

08:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

... that by the end of the nineteenth century, the black wildebeest (pictured) had nearly been hunted to extinction?
... that the February 1975 assassination of Sidon mayor Maarouf Saad was a catalyst for the Lebanese Civil War?
... that the Indian government estimated in 2007 that there were up to 20 million Bangladeshis in India illegally?
... that Project Camel was part of the Manhattan Project and took place at a Naval base in the Mojave Desert?
... that Malcolm Marshall took 13 of his 22 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket against Australia and England?
... that Zurich recently opened its first sex drive-in?

00:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the Givors canal (Tartaras lock pictured) replaced 1,200 mules?
... that George of Izla's execution was instigated by Gabriel of Sinjar after a theological debate in Ctesiphon?
... that finishing funds for the independent film Decampitated were provided by Troma Entertainment?
... that fashion designer Savannah Miller found her new garden in Gloucestershire "worryingly ornamental"?
... that the small frog Kurixalus idiootocus lays its eggs on the ground and they do not hatch until rain falls?
... that Pat Collins is the only Major League Baseball player to pinch hit and pinch run in the same game?

2 September 2013

16:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

... that after the overthrow of Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah (pictured) in a military coup, he was declared the president of Guinea?
... that Sheikh Mohammed gave his newly purchased thoroughbred racehorse the name Ajdal because it is an Arabic word meaning "handsome"?
... that Ben Gunn, imprisoned 32 years for killing a friend when he was 14, earned a Master of Arts degree in peace and reconciliation?
... that the first single from the Goodie Mob's 2013 album Age Against the Machine, "Special Education", supports being unusual?
... that Swedish television host Leif "Loket" Olsson refereed the handball semifinal between Yugoslavia and Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany?
... that it is important to manage poverty levels in London?

08:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

... that the British aircraft maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn (pictured) was the only aircraft carrier ever to conduct a shore bombardment during wartime when she shelled North Korean positions during the Korean War?
... that Cal McLish was named after Calvin Coolidge, Julius Caesar, and Tuskahoma, Oklahoma?
... that the Myanmar Securities Exchange Centre is the only stock exchange in Burma (Myanmar), and has had only two listings since its founding in 1996?
... that although the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen attracted positive reviews, its lack of multiplayer was criticised as "one of the worst game-design decisions" made that year?
... that Hawaiian chiefess Manono died fighting at Kuamoʻo alongside her husband Kekuaokalani in defense of Hawaiian religion after Kamehameha II abolished the kapu system in 1819?
... that the constellation of Pavo was named for a Green rather than a Blue Peacock?

00:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

... that despite its appearance, Hemaris thysbe (pictured) is not a hummingbird, but rather a moth?
... that Joseph Bishara both composed the score and starred as the demonic antagonist for the 2011 horror film Insidious?
... that Madrid's Teatro Español was built on a site which featured an open air theater in medieval times?
... that University of Michigan wrestler Mark Churella won NCAA national championships three straight years, from 1977 to 1979?
... that Civitella Paganico is home to a third to second century BC Etruscan tomb that was discovered and excavated by an amateur archeologist?
... that an alleged first cousin of the King of Spain, Alfonso de Bourbon, was killed by a truck while dumpster diving?

1 September 2013

16:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

... that only two and a half pages survive today of the Bible of Queen Sophia (pictured), a priceless artifact of the Old Polish language?
... that basketball player Miles Aiken, although not drafted by an NBA team after a college knee injury, rebounded to lead Real Madrid to back-to-back Euroleague championships?
... that the Argentine miniseries Culpables received the Golden Martín Fierro award?
... that the birthday of the Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated officially in the Roman Empire on August 12 at the Lychnapsia, a lamp-lighting festival?
... that Diane Harper, who formerly worked on the clinical trials of the HPV vaccine, has since questioned the vaccine's safety and efficacy?
... that The Master Singers brought "Highway Code" and "Weather Forecast" to the charts?

08:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Fred Schule (pictured) won a gold medal in the hurdles at the 1904 Olympics, and was a member of the 1903 Michigan football team that outscored opponents 565 to 6?
... that the number of Giant Scops Owls is decreasing because of deforestation and the mining of chromite in its forest habitat?
... that the majority of instances of anti-Muslim violence in India have occurred in the northern and western states of India?
... that Anne Yvonne Gilbert's controversial, fetish-themed cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" became "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time"?
... that Amtrak introduced an eponymous new train as part of the Expo '74 world's fair in Spokane, Washington?
... that condemned murderer Lum You enjoyed such sympathy from his captors that they left his cell door unlocked at night and encouraged him to escape?

00:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

... that Lady Diana Spencer (pictured) failed to secretly marry the Prince of Wales because the Prime Minister found out about the scheme?
... that the Ziva David captivity storyline from the American police procedural drama NCIS was analyzed by various columnists, academics, and a rabbi for its portrayal of the Mossad and Israel–United States relations?
... that the Port of Salem became a port of entry in 1682 and 1984?
... that Fatimata Seye Sylla has spearheaded efforts to get Senegalese women and children Internet access?
... that Transammonia is the world's largest private company in fertilizer trading and merchandising?
... that Michael Edgson won 18 Paralympic gold medals, making him one of Canada's most successful athletes?
... that in Swabia, the length of a housefly's penis is an idiomatic expression for a very short length?