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30 April 2020

 * 12:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the bicoloured sedge (pictured) was part of an attempted botanical fraud?
 * ... that Mary Catherine Phillips, author of Skin Deep. The Truth About Beauty Aids – Safe and Harmful, was a member of the board of directors of Consumers' Research in Bowerstown, New Jersey?
 * ... that tropical cyclones leave deposits in lakes that can be used to reconstruct past cyclonic activity?
 * ... that the Kanye West song "Up from the Ashes" invokes both the rise of the mythological phoenix and the resurrection of Jesus?
 * ... that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
 * ... that Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people, was heavily influenced by the 1960s counterculture and hippie values?
 * ... that after the Battle of Adys, the peace terms offered to the defeated Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
 * ... that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?


 * 00:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a young Ruth McLain Smith, member of The McLain Family Band (pictured), had been playing the Appalachian dulcimer for only two weeks when she performed at the White House on national television?
 * ... that the pasquinade, a form of satire usually in verse or prose, is named after Pasquino, a Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
 * ... that Callaghan MacCarty left his life as a Catholic monk in France and converted to Protestantism to become the third Earl of Clancarty?
 * ... that "Storm Area 51" was a comedic Facebook event intended as a raid on Area 51 in search of aliens?
 * ... that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles?
 * ... that a number of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Cane Hill were armed only with shotguns?
 * ... that Charles Villiers Stanford's Violin Sonata No. 1 was first performed in Cambridge, by violinist Ludwig Straus and the composer at the piano?
 * ... that California governor Pete Wilson celebrated his 60th birthday as a DJ on Sacramento radio station KSEG?

29 April 2020

 * 12:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Henry Merritt triple-differential transmission allowed the Churchill tank (pictured) to rotate on the spot?
 * ... that the Yokohama Northwest Route features a 4.1 km tunnel equipped with emergency escape slides?
 * ... that French weightlifter Alexandre Maspoli, who won a medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games, later competed in the sculpture event at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
 * ... that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
 * ... that Luis Miguel's duet with Frank Sinatra, "Come Fly with Me", is the only English-language song that he has released to date?
 * ... that the potter of Potters Crouch may have been Le Pottere, whose son was also a Pottere?
 * ... that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business?


 * 00:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the formation of Wellesley College's Albright Institute was announced by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright (pictured) at her class's 50-year reunion?
 * ... that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an ozone hole?
 * ... that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
 * ... that photographs of the Holocaust, including many taken by German photographers, have been used as evidence during trials of Nazi war crimes?
 * ... that Bible translations into Geʽez date back to at least the 6th century, making them among the oldest in the world?
 * ... that part of the spire of Zagreb Cathedral broke off during a 2020 earthquake?
 * ... that rear admiral Valery Varfolomeyev was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017, while his 11th Submarine Division was recognised as the best submarine formation in the Northern Fleet?
 * ... that Cocklakes is considered one of the rudest place names in the United Kingdom?

28 April 2020

 * 12:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a recording of Credo, composed by Krzysztof Penderecki (pictured) for five soloists, choirs and orchestra for the 1998 Oregon Bach Festival, won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance?
 * ... that Willa Brown efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen?
 * ... that by the end of the Addled Parliament, which James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
 * ... that Mariko Tamaki wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me in part because she had "always liked the idea of an ex-ex-girlfriend story"?
 * ... that Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
 * ... that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia's "war on pushcarts"?
 * ... that Ant Clemons wrote a song a day in exchange for rent while sleeping on his friends' floor?
 * ... that the banthas in Star Wars were portrayed by an elephant who kept shrugging the costume off her body during filming due to the intense heat?


 * 00:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the globe chamomile (pictured), a member of the daisy family native to South Africa, infests parts of Arizona and California?
 * ... that after winning a place in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Mia Kang became suicidal from a modeling-related eating disorder and credits the combat sport Muay Thai for saving her life?
 * ... that the Lebanon national football team played their first official match in Tel Aviv 80 years ago today?
 * ... that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in Bronze Age China?
 * ... that during the Mercenary War, Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
 * ... that Naomi Munakata, who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013?
 * ... that the Federal Communications Commission found that the owner of Maine radio station WKZX had "abdicated financial control" of the business?
 * ... that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies?

27 April 2020

 * 12:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that at 7 ft, Jakob Nacken (pictured) was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
 * ... that Kirk Deighton, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, has one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that French philosopher Lucien Sève wrote a four-volume work focusing on his perceived problems with various interpretations of Marxism?
 * ... that the song "Time" debuted in Childish Gambino's 2019 film Guava Island before being included on his 2020 album 3.15.20?
 * ... that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
 * ... that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
 * ... that Tamara Levitt is the Head of Mindfulness?
 * ... that a fisherman who was presumed dead during Typhoon Emma in 1959 returned for his funeral meal ten days later?


 * 00:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the world's oldest postcard (pictured), mailed in 1840, was designed as a practical joke to mock postal clerks?
 * ... that Milagros Benet de Mewton, a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories?
 * ... that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
 * ... that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales steam coal in the London and international markets?
 * ... that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
 * ... that Robert Molyneux established the first parochial school in the United States in 1782?
 * ... that Hatherton Flush, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatherton, supports an abundance of orchids, including the marsh helleborine, which is rare in Cheshire?
 * ... that actor Ranveer Singh was slapped 21 times while filming the music video for "Ude Dil Befikre"?
 * ... that punk pioneer band X's 2020 album Alphabetland, released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles, was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?

26 April 2020

 * 12:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (design shown) in New York City has been nicknamed "St. John the Unfinished"?
 * ... that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
 * ... that footballer Jamal Farhan, who was banned for life by FIFA after punching a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
 * ... that costermongers are named after the costard, a variety of apple that they sold?
 * ... that Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen, is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control?
 * ... that Central Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bill Beagan signed the first national television contract for colleges in the United States?
 * ... that the design of the Netherlands Fractal Pattern was made to confuse a person looking at it?
 * ... that the first act passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the "Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?


 * 00:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that nine-year-old Dana Fischer (pictured) is the youngest winner of a cash prize at a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix, beating 94 percent of the mostly adult players in 2020?
 * ... that the low interest rates of the Great Recession contributed to the corporate debt bubble?
 * ... that Dayton Moore, general manager of the Kansas City Royals, held an anti-pornography seminar for the baseball team in 2018?
 * ... that the play-by-mail game Hyborian War, which began in 1985, allows players to fight battles with mammoths, undead infantry, and mounted flying reptiles in the world of Conan the Barbarian?
 * ... that of the more than 1.5 million US Army servicemen in the UK in May 1944, nearly 460,000 were part of the Services of Supply, which was responsible for American logistics in the Normandy campaign?
 * ... that Elisabeth Lindermeier sang in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in London, conducted by her husband Rudolf Kempe and recorded in 1957?
 * ... that Nelson House is located on Rotherhithe Street, London's longest street, alongside the River Thames?
 * ... that former Gaelic footballer Donal Reid used his bare hands to put out the flames when a woman's coat caught fire in his church?

25 April 2020

 * 12:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that American rapper Lil Uzi Vert (pictured) took more than a year to release his second studio album Eternal Atake, but released its deluxe edition only a week later?
 * ... that Ansgar the Staller was severely injured at the Battle of Hastings, but was carried to London where he then led the English defence at the Burning of Southwark?
 * ... that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by Rick Sylvester in Yosemite Valley, the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
 * ... that French medievalist Francis Rapp, who taught at three universities in Strasbourg, specialised in the history of Alsace?
 * ... that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies?
 * ... that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
 * ... that a fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna was found in the churchyard of San Michele Arcangelo ai Corridori di Borgo in Rome?
 * ... that Carol Shanahan bought Port Vale F.C. because she felt that "a loved one was held hostage and someone had to pay the ransom"?


 * 00:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the French ironclad Hoche (pictured) had such a large superstructure that she was nicknamed "le Grand Hôtel?
 * ... that Hong Kong politician Cheng Lai-king has represented her constituency in the Central and Western District Council since its creation in 1994?
 * ... that if completed, the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan C power station would emit more than a tenth of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions?
 * ... that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
 * ... that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
 * ... that Heinz Imdahl, a baritone at the Bavarian State Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera?
 * ... that despite being the third edition of the tournament, the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup featured the first final held in the tournament's history?
 * ... that actress Laia Manzanares played a cheerleader who is seduced by a gorilla mascot in a Tame Impala music video?

24 April 2020

 * 12:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that NPR called Robinson Crusoe the "patron saint of the kitchen hack" (example pictured)?
 * ... that Joey Dosik wrote the song "Game Winner" while recovering from a basketball-related ACL injury?
 * ... that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse?
 * ... that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
 * ... that the 1992 St. George earthquake caused more damage outside St. George, Utah, than within it?
 * ... that Srećko Albini, a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, composed operettas that were also performed in Venice, London, and New York?
 * ... that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
 * ... that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?


 * 00:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that when seeking to board an enemy ship, German naval officer Ulrich Mohr (pictured) once disguised himself as a British officer?
 * ... that the HP Slate 21 is an Android tablet with a 21.5 in screen?
 * ... that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
 * ... that Duncraig Castle has been a summer home for the wealthy, a naval hospital, a girls' college, and a B&B, has its own railway station, and was the subject of a reality television show?
 * ... that despite being ranked 101st of 103 graduates in his West Point class of 1909, William H. Simpson later became a four-star general?
 * ... that actor Erik Knudsen worked with Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene, his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?
 * ... that Muhammad al-Riquti taught Muslims, Christians, and Jews at his school under the patronage of the future Alfonso X of Castile?
 * ... that Bräus, from the Swedish island of Gotland, differs from all other card games in that not all cards are playable?

23 April 2020

 * 12:00, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the cartography of Palestine (example map pictured) has been described as "obsessive"?
 * ... that U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot Chuck Wilson flew the first operational mission of the S-model Dragon Lady in 1995 from Osan Air Base, South Korea?
 * ... that in a Berge equilibrium, every player of a strategic game makes sure other players do as well as possible?
 * ... that Silke Bühler-Paschen was the first woman to become a full professor of physics at TU Wien in 2005?
 * ... that the song "Shiny Suit Theory" was the result of a chance meeting between Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at a birthday party?
 * ... that actor James Stewart displayed his only Oscar, which he had won for The Philadelphia Story, in his father's hardware shop?
 * ... that Somerset could have won the 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final if they had known the Laws of Cricket?
 * ... that Max Laeuger was a German potter, artist, and architect who won an Olympic medal?


 * 00:00, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Ball Farm (pictured), in the small Cheshire village of Hankelow, dates from 1510 and might once have been used as a district court?
 * ... that during John Early presidency of Georgetown University, the school was occupied three times by the Union Army but never ceased classes?
 * ... that Le Concert Spirituel played Handel's open-air music at the Proms with an ensemble that comprised 18 oboes, 9 trumpets, 9 trombones, and strings?
 * ... that painter Lin Wenzheng translated A Brief History of Chinese Fiction from Chinese to French while in prison?
 * ... that during the initial naval battle of the First Punic War, the Roman sailors fled, with their commander and the entire fleet captured by the Carthaginians?
 * ... that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
 * ... that Mahatma Gandhi praised the Gujarati-language poem "Amar Asha" ('Immortal Hope'), saying that both Hindus and Muslims "should be proud of it"?
 * ... that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists?

22 April 2020

 * 12:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a poster (shown) illustrated by Karoly Grosz for the 1932 film The Mummy held the record for the most expensive sold at auction for 17 years?
 * ... that Royalist victories at the Battles of Piercebridge and Tadcaster five days apart in December 1642 shifted the balance of power in Yorkshire in their favour?
 * ... that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul?
 * ... that Karan Johar launched the pop song "Genda Phool" on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown?
 * ... that Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was stranded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for seven months?
 * ... that 90 West Street, damaged by falling steel in the September 11 attacks, may have survived because of its use of architectural terracotta?
 * ... that Peter Minich was a lead tenor for Viennese operettas at the Volksoper in the 1960s and 1970s?
 * ... that when US president Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister Tony Blair, the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?


 * 00:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Upāli (statue pictured), the Buddha's learned low-caste disciple, was ordained before his friends of royal blood to humble their pride?
 * ... that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own station wagons?
 * ... that historian Thomas Stephens is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod of Wales than any other Welshman of his time?
 * ... that Paige Bueckers held athletic scholarship offers by the age of 14 from the college basketball programs of Minnesota, of Iowa State, and of Illinois?
 * ... that the play-by-mail game Beyond the Stellar Empire was part of the "stomping ground" of the genre's top players, allowing them to govern a space colony or join a space pirate band?
 * ... that Freimut Duve became the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media after serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1998?
 * ... that during World War II, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade fought in Italy, in Normandy, and in Okinawa?
 * ... that an early program feature on Nebraska radio station KJSK was a cooking show hosted by the owner's wife from her kitchen?

21 April 2020

 * 12:00, 21 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the orange-band surgeonfish (pictured) can change colour from dark to light almost instantaneously?
 * ... that after serving as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., Giovanni Antonio Grassi became the confessor to King Charles Felix and Queen Maria Cristina of Sardinia?
 * ... that scrcpy allows a user to control an Android phone from a desktop computer?
 * ... that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen?
 * ... that the title character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian was partially inspired by Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa?
 * ... that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
 * ... that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since Friedrich Karl Ginzel's work in the early 20th century?
 * ... that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen once smuggled four Impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster?


 * 00:00, 21 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Second World War fascist Susan Sweney (pictured) was shipwrecked so often that she described herself as "many times drowned"?
 * ... that the term "informed consent" was coined during the 1957 court case Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees?
 * ... that Edward Ardolino sculpted and carved Art Deco architectural works including the central Los Angeles Public Library and the Nebraska State Capitol?
 * ... that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
 * ... that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
 * ... that there were doubts regarding in which County Londonderry constituency the freeholders of the North West Liberties of Londonderry could vote?
 * ... that Ulrich Stranz composed Musik für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 for piano and orchestra, which premiered in Munich with Margarita Höhenrieder as the soloist in 1983?
 * ... that the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan was disparaged by architectural critic Lewis Mumford as having the appearance of a structure "coming down with measles"?

20 April 2020

 * 12:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that 18 spans of the Kobe Route collapsed in 1995 (pictured) due to the unprecedented strength of the Great Hanshin earthquake and various structural flaws?
 * ... that John Tiedtke, heir to a grocery- and department-store fortune, sponsored a Bach festival and served as its president?
 * ... that in the 0x88 chess-board representation, 8-by-16 boards are used?
 * ... that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
 * ... that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia?
 * ... that a vote of no confidence was successfully brought against the Kurti cabinet following a cabinet minister's dismissal over disagreements on how to manage the coronavirus pandemic in Kosovo?
 * ... that the Littlefield Fountain is a war memorial at the University of Texas at Austin commemorating students and alumni who died in World War I?
 * ... that Venezuelan film editor and director Alfredo Hueck became interested in film after learning how to set up his family's Betamax player?


 * 00:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that American physician Max C. Starkloff (pictured) used social distancing to fight the 1918 flu pandemic in St. Louis?
 * ... that Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup by defeating Benfica in the 1968 final?
 * ... that the Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing, Myanmar, has been hit by at least five major earthquakes and rebuilt three times?
 * ... that Charlie Watts was the organiser of the British Union of Fascists' cab-drivers group, which was said to have 1,000 members, in the 1930s?
 * ... that Ayushmann Khurrana learned to play the piano and make omelettes blindfolded for one of his performances?
 * ... that both 60 Hudson Street and 32 Avenue of the Americas, two Art Deco skyscrapers in Manhattan designed by Ralph Thomas Walker, are now major internet and data hubs?
 * ... that Charles Wilkins, who wrote prolifically about the history of Wales, was described as "an Englishman with a Welshman's enthusiasm"?
 * ... that Dale Jr. did not host The Dale Jr. Download for the podcast's first four years?

19 April 2020

 * 12:00, 19 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100 Ukrainian Easter eggs (examples pictured)?
 * ... that 722 graduates of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1988?
 * ... that George Dudley threatened to withdraw Canada from ice hockey at the Olympic Games over the definition of an amateur?
 * ... that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never opened due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Allied Stores?
 * ... that the 2019 Ukrainian teen drama Early Swallows was responsible for a 600-percent increase in calls to a mental-health helpline?
 * ... that when the College of the Pacific started a radio station, it had to settle for the call sign KCVN because a police facility held the rights to KCOP?
 * ... that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson Niki's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
 * ... that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead, director Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?


 * 00:00, 19 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a collection of kimono (example pictured) assembled by Nasser Khalili covers four periods of Japanese history?
 * ... that an attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi may have been triggered by protests against a 150-percent fee hike?
 * ... that film director Garrett Batty wrote the script for The Saratov Approach while recovering from heart surgery?
 * ... that local residents complained about "potentially hazardous waste" being dredged from Peel Marina on the Isle of Man in 2015, only for toxic cadmium to be found there five years later?
 * ... that Josephus C. Vines, the former Prohibitionist mayor of Brighton, Alabama, shot and killed a man who was drinking on his doorstep?
 * ... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands?
 * ... that Moldavian leader Nikita Salogor called for an expansion of the borders of Soviet Moldavia in 1946, which may have led to his removal from office later that year?
 * ... that professional journalists commended a student reporter at Sacramento radio station KERS for refusing to reveal her source for a story about California governor Ronald Reagan not paying taxes?

18 April 2020

 * 00:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst (depicted) worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s?
 * ... that Oxford Circus was once London's busiest pedestrian crossing?
 * ... that Cornell University student Charles Spencer Francis, who later became the U.S. ambassador to Austria, set the world record for intercollegiate single-scull rowing in 1876?
 * ... that hundreds of patients of the Provincial Mental Sanatorium Kortau died in Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 involuntary-euthanasia program?
 * ... that the second of Henry Purcell's two settings of Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts was composed in an earlier style for the funeral of Queen Mary II of England?
 * ... that Emilia Clarke performed the funky chicken and robot dances at her Game of Thrones audition?
 * ... that the Caha Mountains in south-west County Cork are notable for the presence of Minuartia recurva, a montane sandwort not otherwise found in Ireland?
 * ... that treatment for the symptoms of Newyorkitis was being offered at a New York YMCA in 1908?

17 April 2020

 * 00:00, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a Mughal painter described himself in his self-portrait (pictured) as "the lowly, needy, insignificant, Daulat"?
 * ... that unlike most other flagship smartphones in 2020, the Sony Xperia1II smartphone includes a 3.5mm audio jack?
 * ... that soprano and voice teacher Henny Wolff performed lieder by Hermann Reutter at the inaugural Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, with the composer at the piano?
 * ... that Bishops Pond in Wales is destined to become a meadow?
 * ... that many homes in the neighborhood of Sunset Park were "inexpensive imitations" of upper-class brownstones elsewhere in Brooklyn?
 * ... that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial?
 * ... that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India, started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink?
 * ... that 7,000 residents of Brighton, England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?

16 April 2020

 * 00:00, 16 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the sponge Aplysina cavernicola (pictured) has been used as a model organism to monitor the presence of isotopes such as americium-241 in seawater?
 * ... that actor Charlie Condou was offered the role of Ben Sherwood in Holby City without an audition?
 * ... that when the Third Avenue/125th Street Line was extended across Manhattan, it was celebrated with a seven-day carnival in Harlem?
 * ... that Enderby Jackson, the founder of the traditional British brass band contest, was raised to be a tallow chandler?
 * ... that if climate sensitivity is on the high end of scientists' estimates, it may be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to below 2.0 °C-change?
 * ... that students at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, asked for President Clyde A. Lynch name to be removed from a memorial hall as it reminded them of lynching?
 * ... that the Fulham Pottery, founded in London in 1672, operated for over 300 years?
 * ... that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control?

15 April 2020

 * 00:00, 15 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Sweden has the largest amount of preserved medieval stained glass (example pictured) among the Nordic countries?
 * ... that baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007?
 * ... that King Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
 * ... that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle?
 * ... that a Tower Records store at 360 Newbury Street, Boston, was the largest record store in the United States upon its opening in 1987?
 * ... that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses, which was unusual for the time?
 * ... that Coventry City defeated Football League Cup holders Nottingham Forest 5–4 in 1990, with a player from each team scoring a hat-trick before half-time?
 * ... that Eugene W. Chafin, the Prohibition Party presidential candidate in 1908 and in 1912, had a brick thrown at him during the Springfield race riot?

14 April 2020

 * 00:00, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA?
 * ... that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight?
 * ... that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the Battle of the Nile?
 * ... that the roof of the Town Lake Gazebo in Austin, Texas, is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid?
 * ... that Laverne Antrobus has appeared on the BBC giving advice and information on child psychology since 2004?
 * ... that people failing to observe containment measures during the Malta plague epidemics of 1592–93, 1675–76, and 1813–14 were liable to the death penalty?
 * ... that Paul Mägi, principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera, conducted the first recording of Eino Tamberg's opera Cyrano de Bergerac?
 * ... that the essay "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" has been described as an ode to autumn?

13 April 2020

 * 00:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the New York Life Building (pictured) is topped by a six-story roof tiled with 22-karat gold?
 * ... that while living in China, the New Zealand tour guide Troy Collings co-founded a company specialising in tours of North Korea?
 * ... that I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses is an 1875 Easter anthem by Arthur Sullivan for solo tenor, mixed choir, and organ, setting a passage from the Book of Isaiah?
 * ... that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case, a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of New Orleans?
 * ... that Hiyori Nitta was inspired to become a Japanese voice actress after watching HeartCatch PreCure!, the only anime that she was allowed to watch while studying for her examinations?
 * ... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
 * ... that Charles W. Lyons was the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have been president of four different colleges?
 * ... that some snooker matches at the 2020 Gibraltar Open were played without a referee?

12 April 2020

 * 00:00, 12 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Ailladie (pictured), an 800 m limestone sea cliff in the Burren, has been called "the mecca for rock-climbing in Ireland"?
 * ... that Willigis Jäger, a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order?
 * ... that industry analysts have predicted that up to 75 percent of independent restaurants in the U.S. will not survive the coronavirus pandemic?
 * ... that the two road cyclists who represented Burkina Faso at the 2012 Summer Paralympics had to share a handcycle due to a lack of resources?
 * ... that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family?
 * ... that Juan Guaidó, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, tried to climb over a fence to vote in the 2020 committee elections after being blocked from entering the building?
 * ... that French potter Auguste Delaherche was said to have used clay dug from his garden, and only fired his kiln once a year?
 * ... that the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon, includes North America's deepest transit station, at 260 ft below ground?

11 April 2020

 * 00:05, 11 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Hieronymus Bosch's painting Christ Crowned with Thorns (shown) contains hidden symbolism?
 * ... that the Jersey Football Association applied for UEFA membership after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that UEFA must allow them to do so?
 * ... that Delaware State Commissioner of Education Arthur R. M. Spaid was also a naturalist and photographer who gave more than 100 lectures?
 * ... that according to Luke the Evangelist, the last words of Jesus on the cross came from Psalm 31?
 * ... that the capture of the southern caverns of Cappadocia and Ancyra by Maslama ibn Hisham around 739 marked the Umayyad Caliphate's last territorial gains against the Byzantine Empire?
 * ... that British Rail's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
 * ... that Dutch soprano Jo Vincent appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, and in the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949?
 * ... that Riverside Church in Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley?

10 April 2020

 * 00:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that some ants herd scale insects (example pictured)?
 * ... that according to biographer Steven Fenberg, Jesse H. Jones was the second most powerful person in America during the Great Depression and World War II?
 * ... that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 m off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
 * ... that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
 * ... that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of Solomon's Temple?
 * ... that Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in 1946?
 * ... that the National Union of Freedom Fighters in Trinidad and Tobago was the only group to sustain a guerrilla insurgency in the modern English-speaking Caribbean over an extended period of time?
 * ... that aspects of Star Wars character Fennec Shand personality, costume, and hairstyle were inspired by the fennec fox?

9 April 2020

 * 00:00, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Cheung Chung-kiu has agreed to buy 2–8a Rutland Gate (pictured) in London for more than £200 million, making it easily the most expensive house sold in the UK?
 * ... that Allie X gained inspiration for her album Cape God after watching a documentary about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts?
 * ... that during the 1952 U.S. presidential election, the Constitution Party gave its presidential and vice-presidential nominations to Douglas MacArthur and Harry F. Byrd, respectively, without their permission?
 * ... that Operation Harvest Festival was the largest single massacre by German forces during the Holocaust?
 * ... that the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad invited Japanese farmers to advise them about rice production in Texas?
 * ... that professional Smash Bros. player Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey was considered the best Bowser Jr. player in the world, but started winning tournaments only after switching to other characters?
 * ... that Laura Knight's painting Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was painted at ROF Newport in Wales and features one of the factory's workers?
 * ... that after residents near Sunswick Creek broke down its tide gates in 1916, the New York City health commissioner claimed that they "prefer to live like hogs"?

8 April 2020

 * 00:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Teikō Shiotani photographed View with Weather Forecast (shown) from his upstairs window, exaggerating the curvature of the horizon by bending the photographic paper under the enlarger?
 * ... that experts on the World Health Organization's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X?
 * ... that although Constance Kies was a nutrition scientist, she majored in English, and minored in history, geography, library science, and home economics?
 * ... that Kissena Creek originates from a New York City swamp that remained undeveloped through 2000?
 * ... that Three Latin Motets, Charles Villiers Stanford's only church music not in English, was dedicated to Alan Gray, who succeeded him as organist at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the college's choir?
 * ... that Japanese voice actress Rei Matsuzaki wrote a newspaper sports column on the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team?
 * ... that Monster Island won an Origins Award for the best new play-by-mail game of 1990?
 * ... that British windsurfer Emma Wilson won the under-15 Techno 293 World Championships at the age of 12?

7 April 2020

 * 00:00, 7 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the layout and workings of the "human laundry" (pictured) at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp can be found in a London medical student's diary?
 * ... that La Dama Enmascarada became the first female professional wrestler in Mexico to be forced to unmask when she lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Irma González in 1958?
 * ... that in eight years, the Somerset Coal Canal used three different ways of climbing a 130 ft valley—first with caisson locks, then an inclined plane, and finally a flight of 22 locks?
 * ... that during the American Civil War, Zachariah A. Rice wrote more than 63 letters to his wife, offering insight into the military life of a Confederate cavalry officer?
 * ... that in the 1657 hymn "Morgenstern der finstern Nacht" with text by Angelus Silesius, the glory of Jesus is likened to a thousand suns?
 * ... that a shootout broke out at Pompton Junction station in New Jersey in 1874 over $600 worth of stolen metal and clothing?
 * ... that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls?
 * ... that ice hockey goaltender Cale Morris won Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year after going undrafted into the United States Hockey League?

6 April 2020

 * 00:00, 6 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Gregory Peck's screen roles included Captain Ahab (pictured), Abraham Lincoln, and Josef Mengele?
 * ... that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding?
 * ... that Alice Birch play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. was inspired by Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto?
 * ... that after ceasing operations, the owner of television station KETX in Tyler, Texas, was sued for nearly $6,000 in unreturned film rentals?
 * ... that Diether de la Motte, who taught composition and music theory in Berlin and Vienna, wrote an opera that premiered at the Staatsoper Hannover in 1970?
 * ... that at its peak, the Canadian softcore pornography series The Baby Blue Movie was seen by nearly two-thirds of the Toronto viewing audience in its time slot?
 * ... that three members of the Harrison family of Virginia served as President of the United States?
 * ... that when the shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex, were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key?

5 April 2020

 * 00:00, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that "Catch It, Bin It, Kill It" (poster shown), a slogan first used in 2007, has been revived to fight the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that Canadian rancher William Roper Hull is credited with the first use of fences in cattle ranching in Calgary?
 * ... that about eight months of story were scrapped during the development of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End after new directors came on board?
 * ... that a Presbyterian–Catholic New Testament in Taiwanese Hokkien was confiscated by the government in 1975 for using the Latin alphabet instead of Chinese characters?
 * ... that Charles Montier raced a modified version of the mass-produced Ford Model T in the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923?
 * ... that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass?
 * ... that Holy Trinity Church in Crockham Hill, Kent, regained ecclesiastical independence after a vicar was translated there from St Mark's Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
 * ... that Nigerian-American Christian hip hop artist Wande became interested in rapping after her biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport?

4 April 2020

 * 00:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that white-throated round-eared bats (example pictured) roost in cavities in active termite mounds excavated by the males?
 * ... that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem "Gwerz Skolan", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals?
 * ... that station staff had to throw snowballs to knock the ice off the aging transmitter of radio station KWCR-FM at Weber State University in Utah?
 * ... that the 1996 racing video game Monster Truck Madness was designed to accurately simulate monster-truck events such as drag tracks and enclosed circuit races?
 * ... that Indian writer Malayanil was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the Gujarati language?
 * ... that U.S. Representative John Conyers proposed legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. during every session of Congress from 1968 to 1983, when the bill finally passed?
 * ... that Abel Azcona is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art?
 * ... that four men sued the city of West Bend, Wisconsin, for the right to burn Baby Be-Bop publicly in 2009?

3 April 2020

 * 00:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the human-like behaviour of Jenny (depicted), a resident of London Zoo, reinforced Charles Darwin's view that humans were "created from animals"?
 * ... that publishers have had their pre-approved books confiscated, or their stalls dismantled overnight, during the Riyadh International Book Fair?
 * ... that public primary schools in Hong Kong are required to admit siblings of current students?
 * ... that Canadian ice hockey player Aggie Kukulowicz was followed by a KGB agent for six years and never spoke with him, but reportedly once bought him an ice cream cone?
 * ... that Charles Villiers Stanford's Violin Sonata No. 2 was first performed in 1898, but had not yet been published when it was first recorded in the 1990s?
 * ... that unlike many slasher film antagonists, the true identity and motivations of the character Billy in Black Christmas are never revealed?
 * ... that Chelsea chairman Ken Bates attempted to hang a joke medal around the neck of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as a peace offering after the 2000 FA Charity Shield?
 * ... that as head of the War Assets Administration, retired major general Robert McGowan Littlejohn had to dispose of $34 billion worth of surplus government property?

2 April 2020

 * 01:00, 2 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that former President Clinton said his day would be ruined if he didn't get a bacon butty (pictured) and a cup of tea?
 * ... that some atheists believe in the Ten Commandments?
 * ... that New York once neighbored Philadelphia?
 * ... that a Queen of England was named after a blast furnace?
 * ... that South Dakota once sued 15 cats?
 * ... that a Briton told the European Union to fuck off 17 million times?
 * ... that Turing wrote Prof: Alan Turing Decoded sixty years after his death?
 * ... that a bim bam boom aboard an airplane caused quite a stir in France?
 * ... that Captain Kirk can encrypt your computer, but Spock might decrypt it for a fee?
 * ... that you can have sex with two cans of Pepsi, though one might need to be twisted?
 * ... that Volkswagen part number 199 398 500 A is typically lubricated with ketchup?

1 April 2020

 * 00:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (pictured) became Catalonia's first female pilot at 17 years old, and had flown thousands of Republicans out of Francoist Spain by the end of the Spanish Civil War?
 * ... that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still emit steam?
 * ... that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller, who was also an accomplished blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
 * ... that the CEO of CEPI, a key organisation in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
 * ... that Lluest-wen Reservoir was once dubbed "the wettest place in Wales"?
 * ... that rivals Furman and Wofford played the first college football game in South Carolina on December 14, 1889?
 * ... that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of County Cork?
 * ... that Klingons are positively Shakespearean?