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Did you know...

19 June 2025

  • 00:00, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
Pallas Athena
Pallas Athena

18 June 2025

  • 12:00, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Boulder–Deer Creek Pass
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
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
HNLMS De Ruyter
  • 00:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Park No. 474 in Chicago
Park No. 474 in Chicago

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
Mugshot of Edgar Matobato

15 June 2025

  • 00:00, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Digitally-printed minidresses by Alexander McQueen
Digitally-printed minidresses by Alexander McQueen

14 June 2025

  • 00:00, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
Emperor Yingzong of Ming
Emperor Yingzong of Ming

13 June 2025

  • 00:00, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Statue of Gigeiten at Akishinodera
Statue of Gigeiten at Akishinodera

12 June 2025

  • 00:00, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
Beta
Beta

11 June 2025

  • 00:00, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Más Notícias
Más Notícias

10 June 2025

  • 00:00, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Helen Kendall
Helen Kendall

9 June 2025

  • 00:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
Kitten in an Opishnia decorated vessel
Kitten in an Opishnia decorated vessel

8 June 2025

  • 00:00, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
Francis W. Joaque
Francis W. Joaque

7 June 2025

  • 00:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

6 June 2025

  • 00:00, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Antimonumento 49 ABC
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
Beth Sholom Synagogue

4 June 2025

  • 00:00, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
Medway Street footbridge
Medway Street footbridge

3 June 2025

  • 00:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
National Windrush Monument
National Windrush Monument

2 June 2025

  • 00:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Sylvilagus aquaticus
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
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?