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31 August 2020

 * 12:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Nasser Khalili assembled the Khalili Collection of Swedish Textiles (item pictured) because he felt that art historians undervalued works by anonymous creators?
 * ... that Leon Legge became a professional footballer despite suffering from epilepsy from the age of 16?
 * ... that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco?
 * ... that Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic?
 * ... that Laguna Pueblo educator Susie Rayos Marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece Leslie Marmon Silko's book Storyteller?
 * ... that Kurier Litewski was the first periodical newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and retained the Lithuanian state name until 1840, despite the final partition of the Commonwealth in 1795?
 * ... that executed arsonist Margaret Clark blamed her deeds on "pride and Sabbath breaking"?
 * ... that a mysterious island appeared in France after a 2009 cyclone?


 * 00:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Park Row Building (pictured) was described as "detestable" and "a monster"?
 * ... that Otto Hahn was the sole recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for the discovery of nuclear fission?
 * ... that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern, Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint?


 * ... that the failed Manistee Town Center shopping mall in Glendale, Arizona, appeared in the 2002 film Eight Legged Freaks, with one of its anchor stores serving as a sound stage?
 * ... that Five Movements, Three Repeats features a modern dancer and three ballet dancers?
 * ... that in 2020, Nicholas Robertson became the youngest player since 1996 to play in an NHL postseason game?
 * ... that the world premiere of the Second Violin Sonata by Paul Hindemith was performed in Frankfurt in 1920 by violinist Max Strub and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer?
 * ... that in 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, chess pieces can move between different versions of the board in time, hence creating "parallel timelines"?

30 August 2020

 * 12:00, 30 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that explorer Matsuura Takeshirō (pictured) wanted his one-mat room to be cremated along with him?
 * ... that niacin is not only a vitamin, but also the first cholesterol-lowering drug, pre-dating statins by decades?
 * ... that 17th-century English writers Martha Moulsworth and Alice Sutcliffe are each known for a single literary work?
 * ... that the rosy spindle cowry, a species of sea snail, lives exclusively on gorgonians?
 * ... that to guide the direction of Star Control 3, Legend Entertainment compiled a "bible" based on the series, and consulted its original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche?
 * ... that the Gujarat Communist Party head Dinkar Mehta escaped from jail in 1949 and remained underground until 1951?
 * ... that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
 * ... that most of the windows of the Ford Foundation Building in Manhattan could not be cleaned for two years because a New York state board would not allow it?


 * 00:00, 30 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, part of the facade (pictured) was preserved in Indianapolis?
 * ... that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion, causing the coalition to fall by one vote?
 * ... that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht, were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York?
 * ... that American naturalist William Harvey Brown, who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there?
 * ... that the lyrics of BTS's song "DNA" compare love to a mathematical formula and divine providence?
 * ... that Chopin's mother was his first music teacher, but his musical ability surpassed hers before he was seven?
 * ... that an Iron Age bull statue known as the verraco of the bridge was thrown into the Tormes river in 1834, and stayed there for more than 30 years?
 * ... that after passing a literacy examination at the age of 96, Karthyayani Amma said: "I learned so much for no reason. The tests were way too easy for me"?

29 August 2020

 * 12:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III (pictured) by Rembrandt has been stolen four times from the same place?
 * ... that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro, was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
 * ... that as a medical missionary, pediatrician Ruth Robertson Berrey helped reduce Nigeria's incidence of leprosy?
 * ... that Henry Seamount was hydrothermally active in the last 4,000 years even though it is 126 million years old?
 * ... that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic?
 * ... that some of the men of Ruffner's Missouri Battery were executed by Union forces after being captured at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry?
 * ... that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species?
 * ... that journalist Jacques Beauchamp said that he tried to build the Philadelphia Journal "on happiness, on smiles"?


 * 00:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Corbin Building (pictured) was one of several "smaller infill buildings" in New York City that "experiment[ed] with new forms and unusual compositions" during the late 19th century?
 * ... that with Flight Pattern, Crystal Pite became the first woman to choreograph for the Royal Ballet's main stage in 18 years?
 * ... that 21-year-old university student and pro-democracy activist Jordan Pang defeated an incumbent pro-Beijing politician in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections?
 * ... that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?
 * ... that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes?
 * ... that journalist Francis Rosa traveled with the Boston Bruins and "became one of the family"?
 * ... that under India's new education policy, students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
 * ... that Cuban exile Orlando Bosch was arrested in 1964 after he was found towing a torpedo through rush-hour traffic?

28 August 2020

 * 00:00, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the orchid Acampe rigida (pictured) is pollinated by raindrops?
 * ... that in July 2020 the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston, the People's Republic of China's first consulate in the United States, was given just 72 hours to close down?
 * ... that Soegondo Djojopoespito was banned from teaching after he joined the Indonesian Nationalist Education organization?
 * ... that Deep Purple called their new album Whoosh! because of its onomatopoeic qualities?
 * ... that Drew Perkins served as the majority leader, vice president, and president of the Wyoming Senate?
 * ... that Farrah Fawcett's iconic 1976 red swimsuit poster, regarded as the best-selling poster, is exhibited in the Smithsonian together with the swimsuit?
 * ... that the Washington District is entirely in Virginia?
 * ... that Kirkandrews in Dumfries and Galloway used to host an annual fair, dedicated to St Lawrence, that a 17th-century minister complained was full of drink, debauchery, and "great lewdness"?

27 August 2020

 * 00:00, 27 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that as a minister of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II, Stanisław Kot (pictured) composed the first Polish public statement about the Katyn massacre?
 * ... that the American Surety Building, built at a time when skyscrapers were generally criticized, has been called an "outstandingly fine early skyscraper"?
 * ... that Arab cryptologist Ibn 'Adlan wrote about the cryptanalysis of ciphers with no space symbol, three centuries before it was first done in the West by G. B. Porta?
 * ... that in a 1949 war plan, the United States targeted 70 Soviet cities with 133 nuclear weapons, of which eight would be dropped on Moscow and seven on Leningrad?
 * ... that two stanzas from the hymn "O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht", written by Johann Heermann during the Thirty Years' War, were used in Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus?
 * ... that American historian and author Mary Henderson Eastman promoted both Native American rights and Black slavery?
 * ... that although registered nurses in Hong Kong are legally required to undergo only three years of training, bachelor's degrees in nursing are five years in length?
 * ... that Kanye West recorded part of a track from Jesus Is King as a Voice Memo on his iPhone?

26 August 2020

 * 00:00, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the restaurateur who developed yangnyeom chicken (pictured) created the dish after analyzing his customers' leftovers?
 * ... that Bryan Donkin was a physician to Karl, Jenny, and Eleanor Marx?
 * ... that the title of the romantic comedy film Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven mentions the three places that had the biggest box-office appeal in the 1940s?
 * ... that Japan National Route 12 has the longest straight section of highway in Japan?
 * ... that Greek-Turkish singer Eftalya Işılay earned her nickname "Efthalia the Mermaid" for singing on a rowboat in the Bosphorus during full-moon nights in summer?
 * ... that Bledsoe's Missouri Battery was the only artillery battery of the Confederate States Army present at the Battle of Raymond?
 * ... that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks?
 * ... that Lady Red Couture, known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft in heels?

25 August 2020

 * 00:00, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Kreuzkapelle (pictured) above Bad Camberg, a pilgrimage chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross, has a floor plan of a Greek cross?
 * ... that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer, and sent six of them to Liberia?
 * ... that while in many countries the government cannot finance its deficit by creating new money, it may still borrow from the central bank, which can?
 * ... that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux?
 * ... that the Żegota Monument in Warsaw was unveiled by Władysław Bartoszewski, the last surviving member of Żegota, an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
 * ... that Julián Podoba research on iodine deficiency led to the introduction of iodised salt and the disappearance of cretinism in Slovakia?
 * ... that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington?
 * ... that Mandeep Dhillon was offered a role by Ricky Gervais after telling him that she was scared by his character?

24 August 2020

 * 00:00, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that in 2021, the dwarf periodical cicada (pictured) is due to emerge in parts of eastern North America, not having been seen for 17 years?
 * ... that Franz-Peter Weixler was arrested for sharing uncensored pictures of the Massacre of Kondomari in Crete, the originals of which were later burned in Berlin?
 * ... that Christians belonging to the Oriental Orthodox Churches pray at seven fixed prayer times?
 * ... that in 1990, Mantu Ghosh became India's youngest national table tennis champion at age 16?
 * ... that cellist Ludwig Hoelscher, who played string quartets at home at age nine, performed world premieres of more than 50 compositions?
 * ... that Lieutenant Colonel Min Sein was the first Burmese dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Rangoon University?
 * ... that conte, a literary genre which includes fairy tales and philosophical stories, became merged with the short story in the 1800s?
 * ... that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but no one knows for sure?

23 August 2020

 * 00:00, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that in a 2020 speech, U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo (pictured) said that Hollywood self-censors when it comes to China?
 * ... that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music?
 * ... that despite a law against public statues of Francisco Franco, there is one in Melilla because it depicts him before the Spanish Civil War?
 * ... that radio station WCCT-FM was started by the hotel and business management shop of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Massachusetts?
 * ... that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives?
 * ... that Cuban historian Eusebio Leal preferred to identify himself as a "Fidelist" rather than a Marxist?
 * ... that Symbolon, composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, was the first piece of American orchestral music to be premiered in the Soviet Union?
 * ... that in the early 20th century near Kirkandrews in Scotland, a herd of twelve cows lived in their own palace?

22 August 2020

 * 00:00, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that until a distinct white ensign (pictured) was adopted in 1968, Royal New Zealand Navy vessels at sea might have been indistinguishable from British vessels?
 * ... that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist?
 * ... that the Cabinet of Folksongs, which contains all the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons, was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register?
 * ... that the headmistress of the progressive school St Trinnean's was heartbroken by its satirical parody?
 * ... that the Duke of Tuscany allied with Ali Janbulad, the Kurdish chief and rebel governor of Aleppo, to destroy the Ottoman Empire and establish Ali as "Prince of the Kingdom of Syria"?
 * ... that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
 * ... that Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas?
 * ... that according to the game's best player, you can make more money working at McDonald's than by winning major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments?

21 August 2020

 * 00:00, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured), designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening?
 * ... that Maria Ovsiankina studied the Zeigarnik effect of how people remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones, and described the Ovsiankina effect of how likely they are to resume those tasks?
 * ... that an industry observer noted that Perkin-Elmer's Micralign aligner "literally made the modern [integrated circuit] industry"?
 * ... that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre, in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed?
 * ... that after Berry Boswell Brooks took his 14-year-old daughter hunting in Kenya in 1947, it was featured in Life magazine?
 * ... that a former owner of Atlanta-area radio station WIGO took its name from Isaiah 40:31?
 * ... that, despite a history as a reserve Gaelic football goalkeeper, Paul Callaghan played in association football matches against English clubs Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United?
 * ... that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company in the early 20th century?

20 August 2020

 * 00:00, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that when Georgia was given Rhodes Hall as a state archives building, the donor asked that it always be occupied, so state historian Ruth Blair (pictured) moved into the house herself?
 * ... that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a single yes-or-no question?
 * ... that publisher Ken McKenzie promised writers of The Hockey News that "they'll know you all across Canada"?
 * ... that in Billie Eilish's song "Bitches Broken Hearts", she pretends that she no longer needs or cares about her former lover?
 * ... that Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League implemented a playoff system for three seasons that resulted in no playoff series being played?
 * ... that when built, the Broad Exchange Building was described as "a town under a single roof"?
 * ... that Ghansi created a well so that he could be remembered after his death?
 * ... that the magazine Pulp serialized the manga series Voyeur concurrently with a column by a sex worker to provide an alternate perspective on prostitution?

19 August 2020

 * 12:00, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ... that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches (example pictured) are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"?
 * ... that the multi-talented Aonghus McAnally has been a radio producer, television presenter, guitarist, singer, Irish billiards champion, actor, stand-up comedian, and magician?
 * ... that the purchasers of West Virginia radio station WGKV were deemed by the Federal Communications Commission to be "almost wholly ignorant of the field of radio broadcasting"?
 * ... that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018?
 * ... that Hawona Sullivan Janzen Rondo Family Reunion uses lawn signs with photographs and poetry to commemorate the historically Black Rondo neighborhood torn apart by the construction of I-94 in Minnesota?
 * ... that St. Stephanus in Bork, a Baroque church built in the 1720s, received a large former wayside cross in the 20th century?
 * ... that Byzantine general Manuel Kamytzes began a rebellion against his emperor when the latter took advantage of his capture to confiscate his fortune, imprison his family, and refuse to ransom him?
 * ... that a large Pepsi-Cola sign faces the United Nations?


 * 00:00, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that three 200-year-old Persian Torah scrolls were gifted to the Synagogue of Deal (pictured), a Syrian Jewish congregation in New Jersey, at its dedication in 1973?
 * ... that Gunjan Saxena was the first woman Indian Air Force officer to go to war?
 * ... that Exchange Place in New York City still survives largely as it existed in 1660?
 * ... that since the German army did not accept female doctors, Käte Frankenthal served in the Austrian army during World War I, and was the only woman in her barracks?
 * ... that John Lockwood Kipling worked on the capitals and cornices of Bombay's Neo-Gothic Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, now the Maharashtra Police Headquarters?
 * ... that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus?
 * ... that in the 1570s in Ghent, Hendrik van den Keere pioneered a "narrow, dense and sharp" new style of typeface, later called the Dutch taste?
 * ... that Rheinsberg, a 1912 "picture book for lovers", was promoted by author Kurt Tucholsky and illustrator Kurt Szafranski by offering a free schnaps with each purchase of a copy?

18 August 2020

 * 12:00, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Native American Osage Battalion (captain pictured) was one of the last Confederate units to surrender during the American Civil War?
 * ... that a 1902 magazine article called Helene Odilon "currently the greatest actress in Germany"?
 * ... that in Siddhantasara, Manilal Dwivedi refutes the idea of the Genesis creation narrative as told in the Old Testament?
 * ... that a resolution proposed by Bob Dearing calling for CBS not to cancel The Mississippi was unanimously passed by the Mississippi Legislature?
 * ... that Yin May, the first Burmese obstetrician, founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma?
 * ... that the royal palace complex of Moulay Ismail in Meknes was so extensive that it was nicknamed the "Moroccan Versailles"?
 * ... that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia, the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language?
 * ... that the Yeoman Warders Club might be the most exclusive pub in the world, with only 37 members?


 * 00:00, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that there are plans to reconstruct Villa Wolf (pictured) in Gubin, Poland, which was built in 1926 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and destroyed during World War II?
 * ... that in 1983, Fanaura Kingstone became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Cook Islands?
 * ... that the Tayway 73 between Dundee and Arbroath is the only UK bus route outside London to retain conductors?
 * ... that analytical chemist N. Howell Furman was part of a secret team of Princeton scientists – including John Archibald Wheeler – who "disappeared to Shangri-La" to work on the atomic bomb?
 * ... that the Society for the History of Technology gave Canadian historian Joy Parr a medal for lifetime achievement in technology history and awarded her book Sensing Changes the Edelstein Prize?
 * ... that Elks Lodge 878, which boasted a peak membership of 6,600, controlled politics in the New York City borough of Queens for many years?
 * ... that Andrew Niikondo, acting vice-chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology, completed his secondary school education only at age 30?
 * ... that the all-woman announcing staff of Spokane, Washington, radio station KPEG all used the first name Peg on air?

17 August 2020

 * 12:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia asked US president Barack Obama (both pictured) if his "hair is like mine"?
 * ... that Saint Blaesilla has been described as the first recorded victim of anorexia nervosa?
 * ... that scientists are studying an underwater sinkhole off the Florida coast named the Green Banana Hole?
 * ... that Mooky Greidinger, now CEO of Cineworld, began in the cinema industry by working for his father as an usher?
 * ... that one of the survivors of the Battle of Fakhkh, Idris ibn Abdallah, went on to establish his own dynasty in Morocco?
 * ... that King Ram Shah of Gorkha introduced criminal codes to the kingdom?
 * ... that the title of Ava Max's song "Sweet but Psycho" was inspired by her parents telling her "you're sweet, but you're a little psycho" when she was younger?
 * ... that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish?


 * 00:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Stonegate (pictured), a street in York, is "narrow, quite long, and with a variety of good things"?
 * ... that South African refugee Jerry Masslo was granted a state funeral after his murder in Italy in 1989?
 * ... that the flag of Raleigh, North Carolina, was designed to be given to USS Raleigh, yet no records exist of the ship ever receiving it?
 * ... that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke?
 * ... that many antipsychotics are available as long-acting depot injections?
 * ... that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for "Different Colors"?
 * ... that Canadian dentist Frank Sandercock founded a hockey organization for Calgary, which had no local leagues before he arrived in 1913?
 * ... that R. Luke Concanen, the first Roman Catholic bishop of New York, died before he could set foot in New York?

16 August 2020

 * 12:00, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the forward-facing incisors of the extinct dolphin Ankylorhiza (restoration pictured) may have been used for ramming their prey, similar to a hunting method used by modern orcas?
 * ... that the comic opera Scalia v. Ginsburg is based on the friendship of the two U.S. Supreme Court justices and their shared love of opera?
 * ... that in the 1700s, Helen Hope turned a Scottish moor into a wood and named it after her eldest son?
 * ... that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?
 * ... that whilst making his record of 499,135, English billiards player Tom Reece was in play for 85 hours and 49 minutes without his opponent taking a turn?
 * ... that in 2014, the government of Bangladesh removed 2,367 former communist guerrilla fighters from the official listing of freedom fighters, but this move was overruled by the High Court?
 * ... that after throwing himself on the mercy of King Peter of Castile, Sultan Muhammad VI of Granada was killed by the Castilian king himself?
 * ... that WILS-TV in Lansing, Michigan, featured a singing weather girl and pianist dressed appropriately for the next day's forecast?


 * 00:00, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that yōga exponent Wada Eisaku, who quit as a professor to enroll as a student in the same department, painted Red Fuji (pictured)?
 * ... that the decision in Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) helped end the 85 year dispute over the Pennsylvania–Maryland border?
 * ... that Italian bandit Graziano Mesina, known as the "king of kidnappers", has escaped from the authorities at least ten times?
 * ... that the antibiotic ertapenem can dramatically reduce the concentrations of an anti-seizure drug in blood plasma?
 * ... that Colonel Jesse A. Ladd was in command at an aviation factory when it was seized by federal troops during a strike in June 1941?
 * ... that Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume is the French version of The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?
 * ... that the American Bank Note Company Building was purchased by the Global Country of World Peace because it was one of New York City's only buildings that faced due east?
 * ... that BTS's song "Mic Drop" was inspired by former US president Barack Obama's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016?

15 August 2020

 * 12:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that a statue (pictured) of Hans Christian Heg, a Union soldier and abolitionist, was torn down by protesters, decapitated, and thrown into a lake following the arrest of a Black Lives Matter member?
 * ... that there is a boiling lake in Morne Trois Pitons National Park?
 * ... that U.S. federal judge Miranda Du came to the United States as a child after her family fled Vietnam?
 * ... that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House, Ilkley, is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape?
 * ... that South Carolina radio station WDAB sold its former call letters to Michael Bloomberg, then named itself after an owner who had not yet bought the station?
 * ... that the English classicist Roger Mynors was discussing the death of Bede shortly before being killed in a car crash?
 * ... that South African forward Letago Madiba started playing football at the age of five in the streets of her hometown, and was the only female footballer in her school?
 * ... that the Naewat-dang shamanic paintings were discovered when a university professor encountered a nearly eighty-year-old homeless woman living in a cave?


 * 00:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Dona Joaninha (pictured), which had hauled sugar cane across Brazil since 1940, was sold to a scrap dealer and then became a monument?
 * ... that today, JoAnne S. Bass becomes not only the first female senior enlisted member of any U.S. military branch, but also the first person of Asian descent to hold that position in the Air Force?
 * ... that in 1264, the Genoese captured an entire Venetian trade convoy after tricking the Venetian fleet into thinking that they had sailed for the Levant?
 * ... that William Bishop and Noël Poynter's biography of John Symcotts, sometime physician to Oliver Cromwell, provides a record of the life of a medical practitioner, whose work usually goes unrecognised?
 * ... that students in the Baranovich Yeshiva, a premier Torah institute in pre-war Europe, spent years learning to understand the simple meaning of the Talmud?
 * ... that more than 70 buildings designed by Paul Max Bertschy, the city architect of Liepāja for over 30 years, are still extant?
 * ... that the 2020 EFL League One play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium in front of zero paying spectators?
 * ... that a "self-proclaimed public avenger" cut down the tower of Oregon television station KVDO-TV in 1976 to protest its sale to the state government?

14 August 2020

 * 12:00, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Elizabeth Throsby (depicted) survived an 1809 massacre in which her mother and 65 other Europeans were cannibalized by Māori?
 * ... that Acorn Creek is named after an extinct Creek Indian village and plantation on the Chattahoochee River?
 * ... that under the Republic of Venice, the Procuratie in St Mark's Square included apartments and shops that were rented out to finance maintenance on public buildings and provide assistance to the poor?
 * ... that Bert Nievera, dubbed the Johnny Mathis of the Philippines, encountered the real singer who watched him perform "Misty", the latter's signature song?
 * ... that a 1950 documentary filmed at a Christian college in Beirut shows how missionary education imparts "modern democratic ways of thinking and living" to Christians, Muslims, and Jews?
 * ... that the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak is one of the oldest trees in London?
 * ... that the Turkish women's league seasons of 2019–20 football and 2020 rugby sevens were named to commemorate Özge Kanbay, a football referee and rugby player, who died in 2019 at age 22 from cancer?
 * ... that Leicester Hemingway, the brother of Ernest Hemingway, was elected president of a floating raft called New Atlantis?


 * 00:00, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Swedish warship HSWMS Oscar II (pictured), the first Swedish vessel named after the ruling monarch since 1824, was autographed by the king shortly after being commissioned in 1907?
 * ... that Molly Neptune Parker was able to support her family, buy a home, and pay for her grandchildren's education through basket weaving?
 * ... that the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final was estimated to be worth £20 million to the winners Swindon Town?
 * ... that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II?
 * ... that the video game Iron Harvest, set in a 1920+ alternate universe inspired by the Polish–Soviet War, has a dieselpunk and mecha theme?
 * ... that in 1851, Wilson Armistead from Leeds hosted escaped slaves Ellen and William Craft when they fled the United States after the Fugitive Slave Act?
 * ... that the former building of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta was turned into a parking lot?
 * ... that Maxine Dunlap, the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S., began her flight training after catching "lindberghitis"?

13 August 2020

 * 12:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the archive at the Het Nieuwe Instituut (pictured) contains more than 18 km of architectural resources?
 * ... that people used to drive by John and Mary Pappajohn's house to look at the sculptures in their yard before they were donated for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park?
 * ... that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government?
 * ... that a voice recording of World War I soldier Edward Dwyer was featured in the contemporary ballet Dust?
 * ... that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy, called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth, came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi, and hung out with Richard Wright?
 * ... that after the mishandling of a call to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office that might have prevented a woman's murder, Florida mandated additional training for 9-1-1 dispatchers?
 * ... that Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Sunny Cheung once said: "We want to build a democratic Hong Kong. It's not our responsibility to build a democratic China"?
 * ... that Bruus, once the national card game of Hamburg, rewards players for "daring and tormenting" certain top trumps, and that such tactics lend the game "a certain charm"?


 * 00:00, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that West Park United Reformed Church of Harrogate, England, has twelve heads of historical characters, including John Bunyan (pictured), carved on its wall?
 * ... that Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to the song "Cardigan" to co-writer Aaron Dessner's music in around five hours?
 * ... that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tweeted "Thanks Iran" after the Persian Gulf state sent the first of six oil tankers to aid Venezuela's chronic fuel shortage?
 * ... that following the Kent State shootings, Robert J. Henle suspended the remainder of the 1970 academic year at Georgetown University?
 * ... that a former firehouse and church on Long Island now houses a permanent display of nine fluorescent-light sculptures by Dan Flavin?
 * ... that seven of the ten Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Montreal were born in the city?
 * ... that Brigadier General Harold Huglin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a bombing raid on Magdeburg during World War II?
 * ... that 1.6 million students in Delhi practice mindfulness, one of the components of the Happiness Curriculum, every day?

12 August 2020

 * 12:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that hockey executive Cecil Duncan helped introduce the centre red line of an ice hockey rink (pictured) to allow more passing and create excitement?
 * ... that the song and visual images in the music video for "Bola Maya" express the pain of those who lose their loved ones in foreign lands?
 * ... that in 1992, Leo J. O'Donovan was ordered by a Vatican ecclesiastical court to revoke the funding of an abortion-rights group at Georgetown University?
 * ... that the Central Industrial Security Force Act was amended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks to provide the force with a mandate to secure private enterprises?
 * ... that the statue A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020 was inspired by a raised fist at a Black Lives Matter protest?
 * ... that when the wealthy Abbasid prince Muhammad ibn Sulayman died in 789, government agents found vast quantities of spoilt food in his palace, and dumped it on the street outside?
 * ... that the actors of The Last of Us Part II could improvise their performances and were allowed up to 20 or 30 takes?
 * ... that Japan's Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival has showdowns between infants in the arms of sumo wrestlers?


 * 00:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Yoko Taro (pictured) jokingly threatened to destroy the servers of Final Fantasy XIV as part of a Nier: Automata crossover story he wrote for Shadowbringers?
 * ... that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport won the title of Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 and 2015?
 * ... that the Serbian Orthodox Church denounced Bishop Grigorije Durić for suggesting that the Serbian government should fund hospitals rather than churches during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country?
 * ... that during their 1925–26 season, Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United?
 * ... that an infantry regiment was formed to defend the Turks and Caicos Islands just this year?
 * ... that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa?
 * ... that Ditshwanelo has been campaigning for over twenty years against capital punishment in Botswana?
 * ... that Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925?

11 August 2020

 * 12:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that VikkiKitty (pictured) casted the first ever Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament?
 * ... that the Mandinka douga, the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata, and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance, and the minstrel show?
 * ... that the campfire ash ceremony is a worldwide Scouting service said to date back to Robert Baden-Powell in 1907?
 * ... that the Embassy of the Philippines in Mexico City was badly damaged in the 2017 Puebla earthquake?
 * ... that Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile, the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Army, died in a freak car accident?
 * ... that there is a recent trend to reverse the Hebraization of street names in mixed Jewish–Arab cities in Israel?
 * ... that before Kanye West sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick on a track in 2018, his frequent collaborator Jay-Z had sampled it back in 2002?
 * ... that Canadian sports journalist Jim Proudfoot was reportedly a lifetime hitchhiker to get to sporting events?


 * 00:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the newly reported 6th-century Devunigutta Temple (pictured) in Telangana, India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on social media in 2017?
 * ... that during his acting career spanning over 60 films, Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other male actor?
 * ... that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River, named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs"?
 * ... that the New York City Subway's E train has been nicknamed the "Homeless Express" due to its large ridership of homeless people?
 * ... that the step sequence is a required element in men's and women's single skating, pair skating, and ice dance?
 * ... that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
 * ... that the 608,832 lithium-ion battery cells assembled at the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project are capable of powering between 1,600 and 2,400 homes for four hours?
 * ... that a portrait of English prostitute Elizabeth Read is said to allude to the social mobility enjoyed by convicts in colonial Australia?

10 August 2020

 * 12:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era (pictured) features a  kugo harp modelled on one in the Shōsōin treasure house?
 * ... that Wilbur Little was lynched for wearing his World War I uniform after being discharged from the army?
 * ... that when footballer Przemysław Płacheta signed for Norwich City from Śląsk Wrocław in 2020, he was Śląsk's record sale and Norwich's first-ever Polish player?
 * ... that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
 * ... that Canadian sports executive Jack Hamilton identified 136 different samples of wood in a guessing competition?
 * ... that the song "Catallena" by South Korean girl group Orange Caramel interpolates a sample of the Punjabi folk song "Jutti Meri"?
 * ... that in June 2020, Southern Virginia University removed the name of Robert Lee Durham from its main academic building in the wake of the George Floyd protests, citing his racist views?
 * ... that Muhammad al-Qunawi wrote a Turkish edition of Al-Khalili's tables because, according to him, "some of our sons wanted, from this poor man, to learn about sine tables"?


 * 00:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Cobra King (pictured) was the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge?
 * ... that during his term as the governor of North Sumatra in the 1980s, Kaharuddin Nasution ordered all civil servants in the province to wear white uniforms?
 * ... that the 2002 Football League First Division play-off Final was played under a closed roof at the Millennium Stadium because it was too sunny?
 * ... that the Domino Sugar Refinery was described on completion as the largest sugar refinery in the Americas?
 * ... that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the king of Poland, while his daughter became the first female diplomat of Sweden?
 * ... that "Freuet euch der schönen Erde", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later?
 * ... that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest?
 * ... that the French peanut is native to Brazil?

9 August 2020

 * 12:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that President Ronald Reagan once phoned television host Truman Taylor (pictured) on the air to praise his "creative" Job-A-Thon show?
 * ... that the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was a British colonial regiment with the motto "Different in Race, Equal in Fidelity"?
 * ... that performer Lady Midnight teaches music production and performance to youth experiencing homelessness in Minnesota?
 * ... that the roll-on/roll-off car ferry Europic Ferry offloaded equipment under aerial attack during the British landings to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982?
 * ... that the publication of Cantate!, Heinrich Bone's 1847 hymnal with a title translating to Sing!, was followed five years later by an edition with melodies?
 * ... that the Ottendorfer Public Library in Manhattan's East Village contained a librarian's residence on the third floor?
 * ... that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
 * ... that Devolver Digital requested that the video game Serious Sam Double D be a "Contra on acid"?


 * 00:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Korean folk story of Princess Bari (illustrated), a seventh daughter abandoned by her parents who nonetheless saves their lives, is seen as a subversion of Confucian patriarchy?
 * ... that instead of paying salaries, owner Ron Butlin gave ice hockey players a share of the team's profits, provided medical benefits, and assisted them in finding day jobs?
 * ... that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions?
 * ... that after reading a book by Katharine Lee, D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem?
 * ... that A Piece of Eden was filmed at the director John D. Hancock home, with the main location being his apple orchard?
 * ... that Samuel Schwarz rediscovered a community of crypto-Jews in Belmonte, Portugal, who had kept their faith secret for centuries?
 * ... that The New York Times continued working in a wood and tar-paper enclosure while its new building was being constructed around its older headquarters?
 * ... that sport stars Donncha O'Callaghan and Roy Keane faced The Young Offenders' Hilary Rose to determine exactly "how Cork" they were for RTÉ Does Comic Relief?

8 August 2020

 * 12:00, 8 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the flower buds of the woolly thistle (pictured) can be eaten in a similar way to artichokes?
 * ... that while the title track of Crazy features the signature sound of South Korean girl group 4Minute—a hip hop– and trap-infused dance number—its lead single was a ballad?
 * ... that Naomi Dattani played for a local boys' team before joining the Middlesex Women cricket team?
 * ... that the film Alexander the Last, which was shot with a Handycam, credits the lead actors as also being the screenwriters?
 * ... that Hypertime is a fictional concept of alternate timelines that branch off from the DC Universe?
 * ... that the Beğendik Bridge is the highest bridge and has the longest main span of any concrete balanced cantilever bridge in Turkey?
 * ... that poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in a flat on London's Rugby Street?
 * ... that judge Frank Park volunteered to provide 100 "fat possums" captured from the wilds of his county for a "Possum and 'Taters" dinner honoring president-elect William Howard Taft?


 * 00:00, 8 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?
 * ... that in the 1920s, "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism" was published in London's Great James Street?
 * ... that Kawade Shibatarō co-developed the moriage ('piling-up') technique, which gives enamel artworks a three-dimensional effect?
 * ... that after being squatted by hundreds of refugees, the 18th-century Debbane Palace was restored to its former state and turned into a private museum?
 * ... that Gerry Mullan was deselected by the Social Democratic and Labour Party for the Northern Ireland Assembly in favour of the man he replaced, who had retired seven months earlier?
 * ... that North Highlands Dam was built to power a large textile mill which had more spindles turning than any other mill in the United States?
 * ... that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars?
 * ... that Edvard August Vainio tools for collecting lichens in Brazil included a knife, hammer, chisel, paper, a bag, and a shotgun?

7 August 2020

 * 12:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that with 1,121 World Heritage Sites, UNESCO's World Heritage Program (logo pictured) is the world's most popular cultural programme?
 * ... that in the 1930s and 1940s, Marilyn Knowlden appeared in six films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture?
 * ... that India's 2020 food-security scheme, launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic, is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
 * ... that the Morse Building, once one of New York City's tallest buildings, was expanded twenty years after completion, having been considered "small and old-fashioned"?
 * ... that Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski became a colonel at age 17?
 * ... that the song "I Can See the Change" was developed over text conversation between Celeste and Finneas after the two met in person at the 2020 Brit Awards?
 * ... that German undercover agent Friedrich Salomon Hall identity was betrayed by the corns on his feet?
 * ... that one California nut job can cost up to $500,000?


 * 00:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that "Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty" (recording featured) is one of the shortest national anthems, at only eight bars long?
 * ... that the Battle of Rakkestad, part of the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814, was won by Sweden thanks to an all-out bayonet charge?
 * ... that women in the U.S. Virgin Islands did not gain suffrage until after Edith L. Williams attempted to register to vote in 1935?
 * ... that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column was the inspiration for a costume in Broken Wings, a ballet about her?
 * ... that Catholic priest Timothy S. Healy held senior positions at the City University of New York, Georgetown University, and the New York Public Library?
 * ... that the LGBT Centre Mongolia was legally registered in 2009 after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?
 * ... that after the death of Olaseni Lewis, who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?
 * ... that D'Arcy Carden has about 40 minutes of screen time in "Janet(s)" even though the episode is only 22 minutes long?

6 August 2020

 * 12:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that as Federal Commissioner for Foreigners in the 1980s, German politician Liselotte Funcke (pictured) saw her role as an "interpreter" of the problems of foreign workers, especially Turks?
 * ... that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races?
 * ... that Baekhyun compares his charms to various flavors of candy in his song "Candy"?
 * ... that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table?
 * ... that the rolling straight-edge, one of the earliest means of measuring road surface regularity, is still used in Britain today?
 * ... that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in regulatory decisions regarding medications such as fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium bromide/vilanterol?
 * ... that Johnby Hall, a 16th-century manor house built around a medieval tower, is now a bed and breakfast?
 * ... that when the Jehovah's Witnesses sold New York City radio station WBBR in 1957, the purchase included the 18 acre farm, complete with 20 chicken houses, at the transmitter site?


 * 00:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that in Valletta, a statue of a queen (pictured) is located in a square honouring a republic?
 * ... that 070 Shake said that it felt "crazy" to have been on a record with Kanye West?
 * ... that the Danum shield, found in Doncaster, is one of fewer than ten Roman shields ever found?
 * ... that Augustine Waworuntu, the first woman mayor of Manado, had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo?
 * ... that K26AC in Bemidji, Minnesota, was the first low-power television station in the United States that did not repeat another station?
 * ... that the 2022 Chuukese independence referendum has been delayed three times, including by the legislative body that approved it?
 * ... that to convince people to let him record their singing, Ozarker folklorist Max Hunter helped them out with chores, including delivering moonshine?
 * ... that the file-sharing website E-Hentai has been called the Library of Alexandria of hentai?

5 August 2020

 * 12:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the Palika Kendra (pictured) is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the Atlas of Brutalist Architecture?
 * ... that in order to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, Cecelia Goetz had to receive a "waiver of disability" from Telford Taylor because she was a woman?
 * ... that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, the e5 Project is producing solar- and wind-powered ships to transport fuel oil?
 * ... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
 * ... that the presence of the umbrella slug in the Bay of Biscay, first reported in 2016, may be an example of "tropicalisation"?
 * ... that Luton Town F.C. chairman John Gurney organised a "Manager Idol" phone-vote in order to find the club's new manager?
 * ... that choreographer Kenneth MacMillan turned a duet in his ballet Concerto into a female solo when the male dancer broke his foot prior to the premiere?
 * ... that retired United States Air Force colonel Kim Olson is a Master Gardener?


 * 00:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that despite a poll showing that the 2019 election in the Milton federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, would be a toss-up, Liberal candidate and former Olympian Adam van Koeverden (pictured) won by a margin of fifteen percent?
 * ... that Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover, including the violinist Joseph Joachim?
 * ... that in 1947, New York City's WMGM rated dead last among FM radio stations, at a time when just 3 percent of metropolitan area residents had FM receivers?
 * ... that the former Lake Estancia in New Mexico reached a highstand during the Last Glacial Maximum, similar to other lakes in the Great Basin?
 * ... that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team, and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team?
 * ... that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song "We Are One", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19?
 * ... that Hilda Gregg published a novel every year for three decades?
 * ... that two versions of each episode of The Titan's Bride are produced: a version that airs on broadcast television, and an online-only "premium edition" featuring explicit content?

4 August 2020

 * 12:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Rembrandt's Mughal drawings (example pictured) depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?
 * ... that Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is best known for his string of victories in Nazi concentration camps?
 * ... that a former renegade policeman discovered a film depicting his role in the siege of a Philippine military base two decades after its theatrical release?
 * ... that the Association of Black Cardiologists has shared resources on the impact of coronavirus disease on black communities in response to the higher death rates seen among African Americans?
 * ... that Johannes Schüler conducted world premieres including Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces in 1930, and Henze's Boulevard Solitude in 1952?
 * ... that director Patrick Creadon said he made the documentary Hesburgh in part because he was skeptical whether the work of Father Theodore Hesburgh "really lived up to his reputation"?
 * ... that a series of tunnels on Japan National Route 48 is known as the Land Gateway to Sendai?
 * ... that Herbert Edwin Bradley was criticised for taking his wife and six-year-old daughter on a gorilla-hunting expedition in 1921?


 * 00:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the nutmeg on the flag of Grenada (pictured) alludes to one of the country's key exports, which gave rise to its nickname, the "Isle of Spice"?
 * ... that nearly 5,000 fans of easy-listening music successfully petitioned Mississippi radio station WEQZ to adopt the format when another station changed away from it?
 * ... that the creation of the Swedish torch is credited to the Swedish military during the Thirty Years' War?
 * ... that Anthony Kohlmann refusal to violate the seal of the confessional in 1813 led to the recognition of the confessional privilege for the first time in American law?
 * ... that the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos was blinded at the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery?
 * ... that a team of approximately 350 people developed The Last of Us Part II over seven years?
 * ... that table tennis has a larger number of playing styles than other racket sports due to the large variety of table tennis rubbers?
 * ... that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"?

3 August 2020

 * 12:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Konnie Huq (pictured) presented a mockumentary called Konnie's Great British Wee?
 * ... that after Port Vale F.C. were liquidated in 1907, a local church team took on the name and returned to the Football League by October 1919?
 * ... that as president of Georgetown University, Edward B. Bunn ended a 20-year hiatus on construction by opening eight new buildings?
 * ... that Sinai Park House was used by monks to rest after undergoing bloodletting procedures?
 * ... that Lin-Manuel Miranda's idea for improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group Freestyle Love Supreme originated during rehearsal breaks for the musical In the Heights?
 * ... that the proposed African Medicines Agency would regulate not just modern medicine and medical equipment, but also traditional medicine?
 * ... that David F. Gantt was the first and only black person elected to the New York State Assembly from Monroe County, New York?
 * ... that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano, it was named after him?


 * 00:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that Colonel Richard Ernest Dupuy radio statement (recording featured) announcing that the Normandy landings had taken place was so short that he read it twice?
 * ... that the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
 * ... that Lisa Kearney was the first judoka representing Ireland to reach the final of a Judo World Cup?
 * ... that Nintendo received widespread criticism for awarding the winner of a major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament only a Switch controller?
 * ... that 5 Beekman Street was described as "architecturally nondescript" and its rooftop spires were likened to "donkey's ears"?
 * ... that although Wong Pak-yu nominated Woo Kwok-hing in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, he decided to cast a blank vote to protest against the election's lack of democracy?
 * ... that according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law?
 * ... that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"?

2 August 2020

 * 12:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the bond issue for building Lake Poway (pictured) had to be voted on three times before it was approved?
 * ... that the novel The Silent Patient was inspired by the Athenian tragedy Alcestis?
 * ... that after nearly 40 years as a prolific researcher and professor of demography at Makerere University in Uganda, James P. M. Ntozi was forced to retire—and became a farmer?
 * ... that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in?
 * ... that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha, the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha, she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
 * ... that NCT Dream performed songs from their album Reload on the world's first paid online concert Beyond LIVE?
 * ... that Apollo flight director Pete Frank was a finalist for NASA Astronaut Group 5?
 * ... that the South African motorsport of spinning began as a funeral ritual in which a car was stolen and driven in circles to honor the deceased?


 * 00:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that eight Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, including incumbent Gérald Lacroix (pictured)?
 * ... that Arsenal extended their FA Cup winners record in the 2020 FA Cup Final against Chelsea at Wembley today?
 * ... that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma, went on to start the first button factory in the country?
 * ... that the Seventh-day Adventist Church replaced the African-American missionary Thomas H. Branch with a white man to appease the government of the British Central Africa Protectorate?
 * ... that when Spain joined the European Communities in 1986, it had a larger fishing fleet than all the other Community members' put together?
 * ... that during World War II, Major General Henry Aurand had his own weekly radio show?
 * ... that Nainital Yacht Club, located at an elevation of 2084 m, is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
 * ... that while directing Walking Down Broadway, Erich von Stroheim tied a 12 ft length of thread to James Dunn's pant leg and tugged on it whenever he wanted the actor to emote more?

1 August 2020

 * 12:00, 1 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that the earliest known vessel (pictured) in enamelled glass comes from a pharaoh's tomb of c. 1425 BC, after which there are no other pieces for some 1400 years?
 * ... that Kanye West premiered his song "Wash Us in the Blood", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera?
 * ... that Ugandan rebels did not recognize Ali Fadhul as the enemy commander when he drove past them during an invasion of Uganda in 1972?
 * ... that Theo Akkermann, whose first major work was a war memorial, created a sculpture for his family's grave?
 * ... that from 2015 to 2019, the U.S. state of Georgia decertified more than 3,000 police officers, while Maryland decertified just one?
 * ... that during construction of the Valle Gómez and Misterios metro stations, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac Hill, dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic period?
 * ... that educator Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and had a Des Moines elementary school named after her?
 * ... that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls, but seldom by researchers?


 * 00:00, 1 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Glutonny (pictured), who competes using Wario, nicknamed himself after a Fullmetal Alchemist character because both are known for eating everything?
 * ... that Chilean television station TVO fired presenter Pamela Jiles for appearing in a presidential campaign advertisement, even though it described itself as editorially "tolerant"?
 * ... that the Mid-Manhattan Library, with space for 350,000 volumes at its opening, was designed to replace a collection housed in a single room of the New York Public Library Main Branch?
 * ... that Irena Sawicka, a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, helped Jews during the Holocaust and perished in the Warsaw Uprising?
 * ... that British 19th-century prison visitor Sarah Martin criticised living conditions at The Tolhouse jail, and objected to the fact that the inmates had no access to a church or chaplain?
 * ... that poet William Nauns Ricks wrote an ode to Charles Young, the first African-American colonel in the United States Army?
 * ... that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?
 * ... that one of the most endangered monuments in Europe is a squatted house in the Netherlands?