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25 June 2025

00:00, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

A Royal 10 typewriter

... that a Royal 10 (pictured) used in the music video for "Fortnight" caused an interest in typewriters among Swifties?
... that the Brazilian government advocated the use of COVID kits, which contained a drug used to treat head lice?
... that Brave Bunnies was among the children's series streamed ad-free on Sunflower TV for Ukrainian refugees?
... that it took more than two years after the Romans invaded Africa in 204 BC for them to completely defeat the Carthaginians?
... that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that "half of the residents of Mount Desert Island, Maine, are convinced they are millionaires since the body of Karl N. Mellon" was discovered?
... that AiScReam's recent debut song "Ai Scream!" went viral on social media?
... that Laura LeRoy Travis was the first woman at the University of Delaware to coach a men's sports team?
... that the screenplay for Smashing Frank was developed from an assignment in a filmmaking course?
... that the iconic 1937 photograph At the Time of the Louisville Flood identifiably depicts neither Louisville nor the flood?

24 June 2025

12:00, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Joanna Schaffhausen

... that Joanna Schaffhausen (pictured) earned a doctorate in behavioral neuroscience before writing serial-killer novels?
... that the book Animals in War inspired the campaign that led to the Animals in War Memorial?
... that Chinese actress Huang Wei portrayed a single historical figure in numerous Chinese films and dramas for more than 20 years?
... that bills to postpone the 2025 Philippine barangay elections were filed even after the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the postponement of the 2023 elections?
... that Janet Evans was banned from Coldbath Fields Prison, where her husband was imprisoned, for inciting a riot at the gates?
... that even before its first broadcast, a Florida TV station was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case and a protest by a competitor over its antenna?
... that Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes is considered by literary historians to be the earliest example of the narrative technique of entrelacement?
... that German athlete Leander Wiegand received a scholarship to play American football at an American college that had never seen him play?
... that a judge on DVD Verdict found Death Race 2 guilty of "running on empty"?

00:00, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Constitution Defense Monument

... that the Constitution Defense Monument in Bangkok (pictured c. 1939) disappeared overnight in 2018 without any official explanation?
... that Thomas Kerr protested the Iraq War with his SNP-supporting aunt, later campaigned for Labour, joined the Conservatives, and defected to Reform UK?
... that James Joyce's "untranslatable" novel Ulysses was translated into at least 43 languages?
... that in 2023, Chinese Coast Guardsman Wang Xiaolong was officially declared a Martyr?
... that the memoir of Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq has been described as an expression of her "existential battle"?
... that technical geography, which includes the application of computer cartography and remote sensing, has origins in Greco-Roman and medieval Islamic cartography?
... that Jakarta deputy governor Eddie Marzuki Nalapraya used to babysit future dangdut musician Rhoma Irama?
... that a partly AI-generated 2022 issue of Civilization was designed to be horrible and unlikable?

23 June 2025

00:00, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

McKayla Maroney and Barack Obama "not impressed"

... that gymnast McKayla Maroney (pictured) caused an Internet phenomenon with her "not impressed" facial expression?
... that a nude painting of a Mexican revolutionary is housed at the Museum of Forbidden Art in Spain?
... that a lawsuit against the Early Winters Ski Resort reached the United States Supreme Court?
... that the legendary Areindama spear was said to make sour limes taste sweet when struck with it?
... that 291 people were killed in the sinking of the Hirano Maru by a German submarine less than six weeks before the end of the First World War?
... that American football player David Viaene could bench press over 500 pounds (230 kg) in college?
... that the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival sold 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) of popcorn?
... that in 2006, a Namibian court ordered Hiskia Ndjoze-Uanivi's church to change its name as a result of a dispute with the Assemblies of God?
... that author Paul Corey built a door featured in Popular Science that both people and pets could open?

22 June 2025

00:47, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Katen, one of the Juniten

... that the paintings of the Juniten (Katen pictured) were used in esoteric Buddhist rituals?
... that Lenny Brown almost left his college basketball team after two games, but stayed to become one of its all-time leading scorers?
... that Ananth Subramaniam came up with Bleat! after thinking of a pregnant goat?
... that after seizing the island of Bangka in an 1812 military expedition, the British quickly abandoned it due to high mortality rates?
... that in his first year as an NBA G League head coach, Scott King was named its coach of the year?
... that TJ Monterde recorded his song "Puhon" under a blanket in his bedroom?
... that a California TV station lost the rights to air Sacramento Kings basketball for declining to share revenue from pre-game and post-game shows?
... that while making Caressing My Hibernating Bear, the creator said a real bear appeared in the neighborhood?
... that the neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Dan Burros killed himself when The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?

21 June 2025

12:00, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Linognathus setosus

... that sucking lice (pictured) perforate their victims' skin with a pair of stabbers?
... that Davy Russell won a 2025 Scottish election despite being dubbed the "invisible man" by an opponent?
... that one historian considered the anachronisms of the historical novel The Rival Chiefs to be unproblematic because readers wanted "not accuracy but thrill"?
... that the developers of Ducks Ahoy! deliberately omitted violence from the game?
... that when being visited by an NFL scout, college football player Boyd Jones was acting as a coach since the normal coach was absent?
... that when a fan asked the developers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North to "release the damn game", they did?
... that Indonesian legislator Alifuddin pushed for the passage of an anti-LGBT "Family Resilience" law in response to the publicization of an incest-fantasy Facebook group?
... that Racing Mount Pleasant sometimes asks concert audiences to sit instead of stand?
... that the roar of the Yeti from Doctor Who was made by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet?

00:24, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Warren Truitt

... that Warren Truitt (pictured) served as a legislator in Oregon and a judge in Alaska in the 19th century, and as both a legislator and a judge in Idaho in the 20th?
... that the announcement of Crash Team Rumble at The Game Awards 2022 was teased on a receipt attached to a pizza box?
... that future world and Olympic champion fencer Nikolay Alyokhin was once slapped by a coach and told "you're not talented"?
... that white supremacist Ralph Perry Forbes sued the devil?
... that Nazaruddin Dek Gam bought the football club Persiraja after ten of the wealthiest men in Aceh declined the offer?
... that former archbishop Philip Hannan became a world-traveling reporter for the New Orleans TV station founded by his archdiocese?
... that the book Science Without Numbers argues that numbers are just useful fictions?
... that Lisa McCorkell co-authored the first major study of long COVID while battling the condition herself?
... that some researchers have studied Tetris as a potential form of psychological treatment?

20 June 2025

14:24, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

T britannicum

... that although Taraxacum britannicum (pictured) is commonly called the British dandelion, specimens have been collected as far north as Iceland?
... that former University of Indonesia dean Asri Rasad used to work as a liaison officer for the Indonesian Army to the Allied Forces headquarters?
... that the Rephaim text, a 14th-century BCE Ugaritic poem, tells of mysterious warrior beings who ride for three days to a threshing floor – only to spend the next seven days eating there?
... that Warren Kilbourne led a strike against a professional football team because he was not paid for participation in a charity game?
... that a train station in Singapore features an artwork with different types of chairs in a family tree?
... that the choice between The Rector of Justin and Herzog for the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction was described as "a conflict of philosophies" about life itself?
... that Charlie Suff is the third actor to portray Johnny Carter on the soap opera EastEnders?
... that the "monstrous" behavior of landlord Han Kik Ko led to a peasant rebellion, in which he was killed?
... that the knight William Longsword was expected to succeed his sickly brother-in-law King Baldwin IV, but succumbed to an illness that the king survived?
02:23, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Welsh presbytery meeting, 1940

... that the term "middle judicatory", which many denominations use for their mid-tier organizations, originated in Presbyterian courts (example pictured) for church discipline?
... that texting someone a poop emoji in Japan is a way to wish them good luck?
... that American football player Dominic Vairo went from being forced off the freshman team at Notre Dame to becoming captain of the varsity team?
... that an anime programming block that originally aired on the American television channel TechTV was the inspiration for the co-founder of a Japanese animation studio?
... that ratline organizer Ivo Omrčanin once beat a suspected informant with an umbrella?
... that a leak from a natural-gas storage field led to the destruction of or damage to almost 30 buildings in Hutchinson, Kansas?
... that Lorenzo Pace performed a candlelit flute concerto at the outset of his dissertation defense?
... that Queen Afua inspired New York City mayor Eric Adams to become vegan?
... that the Fuck Tree has been described as a "physical embodiment of desire"?

19 June 2025

12:00, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Rosa Parks

... that Rosa Parks (pictured) refused to surrender her seat not because she was physically tired, but because she was "tired of giving in"?
... that most of the population of Niamey has consisted of first- and second-generation rural migrants since the city was established?
... that Harry Wunsch, despite appearing "short and fat", was a "savage tackler"?
... that Black dandyism flourished during and after the Harlem Renaissance as a means of self-expression in the African-American community?
... that 17th-century mathematician Carlo Rinaldini studied gall-inducing insects, air convection, and the design of thermometers?
... that the title of Elegies comes from a suite of poems that its director read during the film's pre-production?
... that Saba's airport, known for its short runway, was named after Juancho Yrausquin in honor of his efforts to secure funding?
... that Sculpture Space lets artists create large-scale works in a former metalworking shop?
... that Olympic historians were unconvinced by speculation that an unknown boy coxswain grew up to be a renowned Georgian mathematician?

00:00, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Pallas Athena

... that Pallas Athena (pictured) marked Gustav Klimt's transition to his iconic "golden phase" style?
... that a legislator, a civil servant, and a soldier led the campaign for a new district on Sumba Island?
... that the cover for Brazilian supergroup Tribalistas' debut album used chocolate syrup to illustrate the trio?
... that Jeremy Crawshaw was the only punter selected in the 2025 NFL draft?
... that HMS Sheffield earned twelve battle honours during World War II?
... that a South African library was named after American economist Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt in recognition of her work in Africa?
... that the Five Domains model seeks to ensure that animals have a "life worth living"?
... that Taylor Swift compared the metaphors in her song "...Ready for It?" to those in the novel Crime and Punishment?
... that Ralph Riggs made his professional stage debut when he was a baby?

18 June 2025

12:00, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Boulder–Deer Creek Pass

... that Boulder–Deer Creek Pass (pictured) is home to "Togo" wolves and is a potential habitat for grizzly bears?
... that Wang Yungui lifted her family out of poverty, then helped hundreds of other people in her home village to do likewise?
... that Inua Ellams created the antagonist for "The Story & the Engine" after learning that "ghost writer" translates to 'Black person' in French?
... that Regina George was once voted the "meanest high school film character of all time"?
... that The Guardian recommended Buried Alive! as a book to help children make friends?
... that John Lynch was at one point the only honors linguistics student at the University of Sydney?
... that Pope John Paul I broke with tradition by declining to be crowned with a tiara at his inauguration?
... that Robin Adair Harvey reached 17 state championships in 24 years as a high school field hockey coach?
... that British troops during the sack of Yogyakarta looted all the court archives and manuscripts except for a single Quran?

00:00, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Opiki Toll Bridge

... that the Opiki Toll Bridge (pictured) was placed on New Zealand's national heritage register decades after its deck was removed?
... that logicians using classical rules of inference can deduce any arbitrary statement from a contradiction?
... that Ratwita Gandasoebrata pioneered the development of clinical pathology in Indonesia?
... that the producer of África Brasil had to take a specialized course in the United States to learn how to record the unusual setup of musicians?
... that Arizona State athletic director Graham Rossini got his start as a student assistant, with duties including washing baseball uniforms?
... that the government's Visit Myanmar Year initiative caused Aung San Suu Kyi to encourage a tourism boycott?
... that NFL player Blane Smith, one of 15 children, grew up in a two-room house in conditions like "sardines in a can"?
... that Nourished by Time recorded Erotic Probiotic 2 while ill with COVID-19?
... that a Mexican restaurant with just four communal tables, no set menu, no reservations, and cash-only payments was awarded a Michelin star?

17 June 2025

12:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

HNLMS De Ruyter

... that the shipwreck of HNLMS De Ruyter (pictured) went missing, leaving only an imprint on the ocean floor?
... that NFL player Dustin McDonald was later a labor leader who led strikes and was jailed for fighting the police?
... that the death of a pregnant woman in a video game was written to be even darker on television?
... that Joe Eddins helped conservative Oklahoma enact universal preschool?
... that Olive Garden and Chili's got in a ship war over Destiel?
... that William F. J. Ryan designed more than 1,000 coats of arms for bishops, dioceses, and institutions?
... that the cover art for Jane Remover's debut album is a screenshot taken from Google Street View?
... that the "Tiger-Rider" is said to have miraculously flooded his village with alcohol?
... that "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" contains 261 "Na"s in total?

00:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Park No. 474 in Chicago ]]

Park No. 474 in Chicago

... that the Illinois Institute of Technology created Chicago's smallest park by deeding a 54-square-foot (5 m²) granite slab (pictured) to the city?
... that footballer Franco Mastantuono played youth tennis on a national-level?
... that Franklin Sonn was the first black South African ambassador to the United States?
... that the deportation of Soviet Germans was one of the largest ethnic-cleansing operations of the 20th century?
... that John Linton Chapman, despite his artistic talent, sold potboilers and his relatives' valuable paintings to make a living?
... that Marva Nabili, a member of the Iranian New Wave, made a "haunting" film about the struggles of a family in Manhattan's Chinatown?
... that Rued Langgaard said that his Symphony No. 6 depicts the struggle between Jesus and "spiritual wickedness in high places"?

16 June 2025

12:00, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Traffic camera video of the Jonesboro tornado

... that the COVID-19 pandemic was credited with saving lives by keeping people indoors during a tornado (video featured)?
... that the construction of the Colosseum was funded by spoils from the First Jewish–Roman War?
... that "The Interstellar Song Contest" featured the return of a Doctor Who character last seen more than 30 years earlier?
... that a diner who was denied a table caused Máximo Bistrot to temporarily close by raising concerns about the reservation system?
... that baseball player Ed Stone may have been born on January 2, 1909, or August 21, 22, or 23, 1909, or August 21 or August 22, 1910?
... that almost no fuel was found at the crash site of a fuel transport aircraft?
... that former ambassador Diennaryati Tjokrosuprihatono used to work as a kindergarten teacher?
... that the musical duo Food House was named after their frequent use of Uber Eats?
... that Tom Farris thought that he was a jinx for every team for which he played, so he once asked to be traded to an opposing team to make them lose?

00:00, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Mugshot of Edgar Matobato

... that whistleblower and self-confessed ex-hitman Edgar Matobato (pictured) fled the Philippines with a fake passport while posing as a gardener?
... that Yamada's Symphony in F major had to be reconstructed after a maritime accident and after the bombing of Tokyo during WWII?
... that Chris Anderson was one of three members of his family to win a Delaware state golf championship?
... that a horse in an episode of The Last of Us previously appeared in The 100 and Jurassic World Dominion?
... that Everyone Hates Elon invited members of the public to destroy a Tesla Model S to raise money for food banks?
... that the 2004–2005 trial of the Chohan family murders was the longest in the history of the London Metropolitan Police?
... that the meningitis storyline in the romance novel Harriet was inspired by the illness of the author's son?
... that the 2023 EFL League Two play-off final saw a father–son duo on opposing coaching sides?
... that a bird with huge feet once walked by a river near Denali?

15 June 2025

00:00, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Digitally-printed minidresses by Alexander McQueen

... that Alexander McQueen pioneered the use of digitally engineered prints in fashion with Natural Dis-tinction Un-natural Selection (examples pictured)?
... that the box of Burgle Bros 2 transforms into a two-layer game board?
... that Sydney Agudong and her sister were the final two candidates for a role in Lilo & Stitch?
... that Charles Moses competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, despite previously fabricating claims of his Olympic participation?
... that the 1956 album Lonnie Donegan Showcase entered both the UK albums chart and the UK singles chart?
... that every team on which Bob Kercher played for seven years went undefeated?
... that to comply with broadcasting regulations, some American TV stations claimed that tabloid shows and a Christmas special were educational?
... that film director James Ashcroft enjoys "playing in the dark"?
... that a 1994 paper tried to claim ancient Babylonian astronomy as a new discovery in diabetes care?

14 June 2025

00:00, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Emperor Yingzong of Ming

... that Emperor Yingzong of Ming (pictured) abolished the practice of concubines committing suicide following an emperor's death?
... that FlexiRide bus services have no fixed route, operating only when passengers book a trip?
... that Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa was the first woman to be the dean of the University of Indonesia's law school?
... that two-thirds of the six-week budget allocated to the filming of a Doctor Who episode was used up in only three days?
... that despite being rivals since the 1920s, the 2010 NFC Championship Game was only the second time the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers had ever met in the playoffs?
... that the then–prime minister of New Zealand said that the greatest impact of the December 2011 Christchurch earthquakes was on mental health?
... that sprinter Ng Ka Yee set four Hong Kong records in 1988 ahead of competing in that year's Olympics?
... the 2025 student elections at 15 constituent campuses of Tribhuvan University could not be held due to political conflicts between student organizations?
... that Fromage was described as "the cheesiest board game of all time"?

13 June 2025

00:00, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Statue of Gigeiten at Akishinodera

... that the sculpture of the Japanese goddess Gigeiten (pictured) at the temple Akishino-dera has an 8th-century head and a 13th-century body?
... that David Mavrogonato was exempted from a tax on Jews due to his services to Venice in the 1450s?
... that The Old Elm was used by the Ottoman Turks to hang captured hajduci?
... that Mohamed Asswai Khalifa was the first Libyan to compete at the Olympics?
... that the author of Octavia based one character on a former lover?
... that Rae Lil Black, who was at one point one of the 20 most popular models on Pornhub, left the adult industry and converted to Islam after visiting Malaysia?
... that the Roman lawyer Cicero defended Gnaeus Plancius in 54 BCE, but neither the verdict nor exactly what Plancius was accused of have survived?
... that Larry Steinbach did not start high school until the age of 22?
... that the Scottish invasion of England in 1648 was defeated by an army less than half their size?

12 June 2025

00:00, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Beta

... that Beta (pictured) brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?
... that an Iowa TV station paid its employees in two-dollar bills?
... that the 1946 Aviators Affair saw more than a dozen Soviet air force commanders and aircraft industry officials purged on Stalin's orders?
... that The Naulahka by Rudyard Kipling depicts the barriers Indian women faced in receiving health care, and the efforts of Western women to help them?
... that Hasto Wardoyo required his municipal employees to buy at least 10 kg (22 lb) of locally produced rice every month?
... that the fourth first lady of Poland manufactured and smuggled nitroglycerin used by the Polish independence movement to attack Russian officials?
... that digitally removing a spider bite from an episode of The Last of Us cost thousands of dollars per shot?
... that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?

11 June 2025

00:00, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Más Notícias

... that an 1895 painting (pictured) stood out to a critic who had described the artist's previous works as a "list of disasters"?
... that Jacques Drollet said that he would have Marlon Brando arrested if Brando ever returned to Tahiti?
... that the mortar for St Peter's Cathedral in Malawi was made from soil formed by compacted termite mounds?
... that the song "100 Great People Who Made Korea Shine" mentions Yi Wanyong, who is known as a traitor for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty?
... that Sheldon L. Toomer, tired of the seven-mile trip to the nearest bank, founded a new one?
... that the founders of the news website San José Spotlight considered San Jose to be a news desert?
... that Najmul Akhyar worked out of a shipping container for some time after the 2018 Lombok earthquakes?
... that fans chartered yachts to hear "Thunder" for the first time?
... that Kent Haruf wrote his final novel in 45 days while dying of a lung condition?

10 June 2025

00:00, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Helen Kendall

... that Helen Kendall (pictured) was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I?
... that suggested responses to nihilism include detachment, resignation, defiance, disruption, and the creation of new values?
... that Sumahadi, a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
... that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us, not an episode of The Last of Us?
... that the first UK private toll road in a century operated for 14 weeks in 2014?
... that The Dark Domain was said by one critic to have placed its author "within the canon of supernatural greats"?
... that Remedios Varo's only sculpture, Homo rodans, is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
... that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock?

9 June 2025

00:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Kitten in an Opishnia decorated vessel

... that Opishnia decorative ceramics (example pictured) use flowers, grapes and wreaths as motifs?
... that Paul Tiulana lost his leg in World War II, and afterwards helped to bring back an Iñupiat dance that had not been fully performed in more than fifty years?
... that The Oceanic Languages is so ubiquitous among scholars of the Oceanic languages that it is known simply as "the blue book"?
... that Blu Fiefer began incorporating pole dancing into her live performances after she visited a strip club in London?
... that, soon after the failure of the first British expedition against Sambas, its commander died of illness?
... that Richard L. Morrill, as president of the University of Richmond, was the highest-paid private-school president in Virginia?
... that, to research her bonkbuster Wicked!, Jilly Cooper visited more than a dozen schools and taught at one?
... that Brian Satterfield worked for United Parcel Service before playing in the NFL?
... that My Little Pony fan music has developed its own music subgenres such as "dubtrot" and "ponybeat"?

8 June 2025

00:00, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Francis W. Joaque

... that Francis W. Joaque (pictured) was one of the earliest African photographers?
... that the Green Bay Packers have twice achieved team-record 23-point comebacks: once in 1982, and again in 2013?
... that Bach's Easter Oratorio has been regarded as a sequel to his St John Passion?
... that Ayman Hassouna led a student expedition to investigate archaeological sites in Gaza?
... that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
... that Annis Lee Wister translated Struwwelpeter from German to English?
... that Femke Bol's time of 49.17 seconds on 2 March 2024 broke her own 400 m short track world record?
... that fighter pilot Luther H. Richmond kept his P-51 Mustang's shiny, silver, no-camouflage finish to tempt enemies into aerial combat?
... that the male pink scaled squid has been observed to mate upside down?

7 June 2025

00:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

... that 170 trips on Sounder commuter rail (pictured) were cancelled in a single winter due to mudslides?
... that John C. Raaen Jr., at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach?
... that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history?
... that Teuku Karimoeddin was arrested by the Imperial Japanese military police for resisting mandatory head shaving and other regulations?
... that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in "My Dinner with Adolf"?
... that Guyanese trade unionist Philomena Sahoye-Shury was nicknamed "Fireball" due to her "outspoken and forthright stance on the workers' behalf"?
... that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia, modern-day Amman, were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
... that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
... that some bodies at Chalandriani were buried with "frying pans"?

6 June 2025

00:00, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Antimonumento 49 ABC

... that sculptures of children's shoes at the Antimonumento 49 ABC (pictured)—honoring those killed in a fire—were later stolen?
... that marmalade, mashed potato and fish knives were all used in the book Class to identify different British social classes?
... that until the 1990s, linguists often confused the Nizaa language with a similarly named local language?
... that Julian Yacoub Mourad, an archbishop of the Syriac Catholic Church, escaped from the Islamic State after being held captive for more than four months?
... that the role of the British Mobile Defence Corps was to carry out rescue work in the aftermath of a nuclear attack?
... that the chairman of the board of a Texas TV station was found to have died from drinking cyanide-laced cola?
... that Tyla became the second female African artist to score multiple solo entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Push 2 Start"?
... that pianist Phyllis Chen started playing the smaller toy piano after both her arms became sore from tendinopathy?
... that Welwitschia mirabilis only ever grows two leaves, which last for the plant's entire life?

5 June 2025

00:00, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Beth Sholom Synagogue

... that Beth Sholom Synagogue (pictured) has been compared to a concrete ship, a teepee with fins, and a giant fish?
... that the Soviet Union designated both communist and non-communist states as national democratic states?
... that Ferdinand I of Bulgaria once described historian Dimitar Agura as having "the eyes, gaze and head of a cat"?
... that Nathan Crumpton was shirtless while holding the flag of American Samoa at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
... that Masanori Tanimoto was elected as the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture seven times?
... that more than 500 American law firms signed an amicus brief opposing their government's actions against law firms in 2025?
... that Juan Astorquia was the captain of the Athletic Bilbao team that won the first Spanish Cup in 1903?
... that Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik's "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is the highest-charting Fifty Shades song on the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that Mike Estep was nicknamed "The Terminator"?

4 June 2025

00:00, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Medway Street footbridge

... that after the Medway Street footbridge had become twisted (pictured) in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, part of it was turned into a memorial?
... that the first defendants indicted for a crime of apartheid have not yet faced trial?
... that the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis has been used to explain burial practices in Greece, Australia, Madagascar and Peru?
... that surveyors in colonial Pennsylvania may have deliberately excluded fertile land from a tract granted to the Okehocking people in 1703?
... that the German explorer Gustav Conrau shot himself in 1899 to avoid recapture, according to a later report by his local interpreter?
... that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal and programming?
... that the music video for "The Kids from Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance was directed by a fan?
... that Scott Burnside received journalism awards for writing about shift work, murders, and ice hockey?

3 June 2025

00:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

National Windrush Monument

... that the National Windrush Monument (pictured) features a family standing on a pile of suitcases and "surveying their new country"?
... that a drawing of a dog was promoted by the president of El Salvador, caused an unaffiliated song to peak on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, and got its original creator doxxed?
... that the naturalised German Mandenga Diek was denied funds to return to his native Cameroon because he wanted to bring his German wife?
... that Chicago's tornado siren has been described as creepier than the city's actual tornadoes?
... that a snowstorm resulted in Mickey Volcan and Garry Howatt becoming the first active players to officiate a National Hockey League game?
... that Església de Sant Serni de Canillo has the tallest bell tower in Andorra?
... that the director of the lesbian film The First Girl I Loved based the plot on true stories gathered from all-girls school graduates he interviewed?
... that butcher Leo Franciosi was also a four-time Olympian?
... that a homily written by Pseudo-Evodius features Jesus and the devil competing in a fishing tournament in the desert?

2 June 2025

00:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Sylvilagus aquaticus

... that the swamp rabbit (pictured) is both territorial and a great swimmer?
... that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June?
... that Samantha Kane led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?
... that the first version of the Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge was heavily damaged by a tornado during construction?
... that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the family who lived in a house wrongly raided by the FBI may sue the government?
... that Romanian sports shooter Petre Cișmigiu demanded the elimination of a pension gap between Olympic and non-Olympic champions, such as himself?
... that the novel Looking Glass Girl was launched at Coventry Central Library to highlight the threat of 17 libraries in the city closing?
... that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?

1 June 2025

00:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Kitty Marion

... that Kitty Marion (pictured) was force-fed over 200 times during a hunger strike?
... that the North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon is the largest ship constructed for the Korean People's Navy?
... that after the release of High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter?
... that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is?
... that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui?
... that Joy Laking predicted in a school writing assignment that within ten years she would be making a living as an artist?
... that the Taiwanese restaurant chain Formosa Chang drew inspiration from McDonald's for its non-greasy atmosphere and corporate practices?
... that Haridas Mitra had his death sentence commuted after the intervention of Mahatma Gandhi?
... that "Steve's Lava Chicken" recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?

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