User:Shubinator/Sandbox/Wikipedia Recent additions
Did you know? | |
---|---|
Introduction and rules | |
Introduction | WP:DYK |
General discussion | WT:DYK |
Guidelines | WP:DYKCRIT |
Reviewer instructions | WP:DYKRI |
Nominations | |
Nominate an article | WP:DYKCNN |
Awaiting approval | WP:DYKN |
Approved | WP:DYKNA |
April 1 hooks | WP:DYKAPRIL |
Preparation | |
Preps and queues | T:DYK/Q |
Prepper instructions | WP:DYKPBI |
Admin instructions | WP:DYKAI |
Main Page errors | WP:ERRORS |
History | |
Statistics | WP:DYKSTATS |
Archived sets | WP:DYKA |
Just for fun | |
Monthly wraps | WP:DYKW |
Awards | WP:DYKAWARDS |
Userboxes | WP:DYKUBX |
Hall of Fame | WP:DYK/HoF |
List of users ... | |
... by nominations | WP:DYKNC |
... by promotions | WP:DYKPC |
Administrative | |
Scripts and bots | WP:DYKSB |
On the Main Page | |
To ping the DYK admins | {{DYK admins}} |
This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Current archive |
Edit the DYK archive navigation template
This page is no longer updated automatically, for now and possibly the future it will be done manually, so this page may be out of date at times. If an update hasn't been done, feel free to do it yourself. Thanks.
Did you know...
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}===
for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
4 September 2010
- 23:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Tooth-billed Catbird uses the leaves of the Big-leaved Bollywood(pictured) on its display court floor?
- ... that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state?
- ... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
- ... that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
- ... that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva's album Beautiful Heartache?
- ... that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after hereturned to the throne in 1950?
- ... that after a fire destroyed master recordings, singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brownsaid "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
- ... that the O. limosus?
- ... that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be traveling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?
12 August 2010
- 06:52, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Tooth-billed Catbird uses the leaves of the Big-leaved Bollywood(pictured) on its display court floor?
- ... that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state?
- ... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
- ... that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
- ... that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva's album Beautiful Heartache?
- ... that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after hereturned to the throne in 1950?
- ... that after a fire destroyed master recordings, singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brownsaid "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
- ... that the O. limosus?
- ... that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be traveling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?
- 06:45, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Tooth-billed Catbird uses the leaves of the Big-leaved Bollywood(pictured) on its display court floor?
- ... that Rabbi Ronald Androphy of East Meadow Jewish Center protested enforcement in 2001 of an 1896 tax on houses of worship purchasing homes for clerics as violating the separation of church and state?
- ... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game?
- ... that Indian actress Mukta Barve won the 2007 Zee Award for best actress in a commercial play for her portrayal of a Kabaddi enthusiast?
- ... that Mel Gibson directed four music videos for singer-songwriter Oksana Grigorieva's album Beautiful Heartache?
- ... that the general strike against Leopold III of Belgium broke out a few days after hereturned to the throne in 1950?
- ... that after a fire destroyed master recordings, singer Al Goodman of Ray, Goodman & Brownsaid "I just stood there and watched 30 or 40 years of my life go by"?
- ... that the O. limosus?
- ... that after the medieval lawyer John of Tynemouth was kidnapped for ransom, he informed his kidnappers that the writer Gerald of Wales would be traveling nearby, causing Gerald to also be kidnapped?
3 March 2010
- 00:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster (pictured) at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)?
- ... that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver?
- ... that general epistles?
- ... that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
- ... that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy, even though he considers himself "a very private person"?
- ... that Levi L. Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
- ... that the Burma?
- ... that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after it was discovered that the number-one result for the search term "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?
2 March 2010
- 18:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the self-decapitated Hindu goddess Chinnamasta (pictured) standing on a copulating couple signifies that life, death and sex are interdependent?
- ... that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
- ... that in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon?
- ... that Netherlands New Guinean-born advocate of self-determination for West Papua, lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands?
- ... that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
- ... that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
- ... that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County, Nevada, resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208?
- ... that Letters of Ayn Rand, published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?
- 12:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the marine slug Aeolidiella stephanieae (pictured) is commonly kept in aquaria to control the anemone Aiptasia?
- ... that Johan Gustaf Sandberg's frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
- ... that the electrical safety?
- ... that Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan?
- ... that the origin of the ?
- ... that Arthur Crispien, who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
- ... that UK?
- ... that Neil Cooper's ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint, gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie?
- 06:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin (pictured)?
- ... that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg?
- ... that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
- ... that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel?
- ... that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey, stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
- ... that King lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown?
- ... that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri-based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks?
- ... that during a rehearsal of propknife failed to collapse?
- 00:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that members of the Sciurini group of squirrels, which includes the eastern gray squirrel (pictured), have been described as living fossils?
- ... that Rautenfelscases?
- ... that the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
- ... that during the ?
- ... the program natural language understandingby a computer?
- ... that George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party?
- ... that during the Ice Hockey European Championships in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured but instead of having to forfeit the match, their opponents agreed to play with five players as well?
- ... that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?
1 March 2010
- 18:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the figures in Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga (pictured) are based on real characters, including a former priest, a former soldier and a painter?
- ... that Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
- ... that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
- ... that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980?
- ... that the forest area of the Thar desert?
- ... that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University?
- ... that the Egyptian army?
- ... that Sir Flitchof Bacon?
- 12:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that with over 80 mosques and several important gongbei shrine complexes (example pictured), Linxia City is known as "China's little Mecca"?
- ... that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
- ... that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board?
- ... that in Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân?
- ... that Banksiamyces is a fungus that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species ?
- ... that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti?
- ... that former gold medalist in Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
- ... that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon?
- 06:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the banded archerfish (pictured) is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
- ... that the center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"?
- ... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
- ... that the seaside landscape of Shingle Stylesummer houses?
- ... that the Legislative Assembly?
- ... that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica?
- ... that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City, is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
- ... that urwagwa, a local beer made from fermented bananas?
- 00:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Sir Basil Dixwellin its collection?
- ... that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?
- ... that at the age of 44, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
- ... that Henry Bracy was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era?
- ... that the FBIas a fraud?
- ... that in the Norwegian radio?
- ... that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three-quarters of its total length?
- ... that in 1906, some medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera, and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?
28 February 2010
- 18:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the deadly skullcap (pictured) may cause gastrointestinal bleeding, a coma, kidney failure, or even death within seven days after eating?
- ... that in Nazi propagandamovie, a friendly professor shows a young blonde woman how animals pursue "racial policy"?
- ... that ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden, Kent in 1969?
- ... that the Three Parishes pilgrimage churches in the Slovenian village Rosalnice contain a 15th-century Gothic sanctuary with wall paintings depicting the crucifixion and Saint Christopher?
- ... that legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
- ... that the human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values?
- ... that former football official Lencie Fred was the first Vanuatuan to be included on the FIFA list of referees?
- ... that David Hockney took two weeks to paint a moment that lasted two seconds in his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash?
- 12:02, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus (pictured), were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
- ... that when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England?
- ... that (marinated short beef ribs)?
- ... that human barricades, coordinated by the Dresden Without Nazisalliance, blocked Europe's largest annual neo-Nazi demonstration in February 2010?
- ... that Cornhill Magazine between September 1870 and November 1871, with illustrations by George du Maurier?
- ... that first Olympicsthree months after winning his first World Cup race?
- ... that the 9th century PustakasalaHindu temple was discovered under the library construction site of Indonesia Islamic University?
- ... that Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon is considered a pioneer of fire insurance in England?
- 06:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that many works by "Brooklyn Savings Bank and Thomas Jefferson Building(pictured)?
- ... that the Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park on Halmahera island of Indonesia, is considered vital for 23 endemic bird species?
- ... that despite serving the Chalcedonian Byzantine Empire, the Ghassanid ruler Al-Harith ibn Jabalah actively contributed to the revival of the monophysitic Syriac Church?
- ... that infragravity waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?
- ... that African Americanwoman to serve that post in the state's history?
- ... that while both U-117 and U-66 were attacked by aircraft from the USS Card on 7 August 1943, only U-117 was sunk?
- ... that the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg at the Monte Verità sanatorium turned Ascona into a center for itinerant anarchists?
- ... that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona?
- 00:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the position of Dean of Westminsterfor more than 25 years?
- ... that the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama, was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama?
- ... that Putsy Caballero is the youngest player ever to play in a game at third base in Major League Baseball history?
- ... that Archiinocellia is noted to be the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
- ... that designated heritage designs by the early 20th-century Canadian architect Neil R. Darrach can be found in both St. Thomas, Ontario, and Regina, Saskatchewan?
- ... that Memories Off 5: Encore's PlayStation Portable port includes a built-in screen capture feature to download images onto a memory stick?
- ... that former professional footballer Tony Larkin helped to establish Britain's first football academy for visually impaired players?
- ... that a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly using webcamsin school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home?
27 February 2010
- 18:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that lead a league in home runs?
- ... that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber?
- ... that in the four largest cities within the Greater Austin metropolitan area (US) the percentage of college-educated individuals in each is over 39% (compared to the national average of 24.4%)?
- ... that John Barnes, Nigel Gibbs and Neil Price?
- ... that eclectic and non-traditional Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartetrecording?
- ... that Windmill's staff and fans wanting a game that was set in a school setting?
- ... that the inaugural inductees into the University of Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches, including Hall of Fame coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma?
- ... that the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
- 12:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Rosenmontag parade (pictured) of the Mainz carnival was presented in cinema 100 years ago?
- ... that former Scotland international rugby union player Andrew Balfour led a health initiative that reduced malaria deaths in Khartoum, Sudan, by 90%?
- ... that 1967's Hurricane Doriawas described as "one of the most erratic storms ever observed"?
- ... that after her European Parliamentary career, Anne André-Léonard served as the Assistant Commissioner for Belgium at the World Expo in Zaragoza from 2006 to 2008?
- ... that in Archeological Survey of India?
- ... that the Latin poem Carmen Priami features an artificially archaic language as a reaction to the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius?
- ... that the 800 meterdash champion in 1942?
- ... that the tyranny of small decisions is a concept developed by the American economist Alfred E. Kahn in 1966, and has been applied to market failures, environmental degradation and health outcomes?
- 06:40, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that surviving works by Eagle Warehouse, Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters, Villa Maria and Crescent Athletic Club House(pictured)?
- ... that in 2007, Fiji international goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau was prevented from playing in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match by the New Zealand authorities?
- ... that the mushroom Stropharia ambigua has been said to taste like old leaves?
- ... that Emir of Afghanistanfor one week in February 1919?
- ... that the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is the only NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt track in Wisconsin?
- ... that the American "expert"?
- ... that in ERA title was decided by a margin of less than 1⁄100 of a run between Allan Anderson and Teddy Higuera?
- ... that some modern St. James?
- 00:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
- ... that the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides, but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Governmentin 1610?
- ... that for live recording?
- ... that Fulcran Vigouroux was the first secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission?
- ... that the broad whitefish is eaten by brown bears when they cannot find salmon?
- ... that Joe Oeschger co-owns the Major League Baseball record for most innings pitched in a single game with 26?
- ... that the Tiller Ranger Station in southern Oregon served as the administrative headquarters for five different Umpqua National Forest ranger districts?
- ... that Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram survived the Dunkirk evacuation because the soap dish he was carrying in his military backpack stopped a bullet that would have hit him in the back?
26 February 2010
- 18:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the female sweetpotato bug(pictured) is very protective of her young?
- ... that King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha, Egypt's first ambassador to Iran?
- ... that the Sassanid Persia, eventually established churches throughout Asia, including in Mesopotamia, India, Central Asia, and China?
- ... that recombination refers to the formation of the first electrically neutral hydrogen atoms in the universe?
- ... that Down Syndrome, on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy?
- ... that DNA testing to be King Tut's mother?
- ... that former his leg in the fourth game of the season?
- ... that despite not sinking a single ship in her career, Catalinaflying boat?
- 12:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the brightly coloured Hildebrandt's Starling (pictured) nests in abandoned woodpecker burrows and holes in telegraph polesand fenceposts?
- ... that after George Pattonto ski, he moved to the US and became the most successful ski coach in US history?
- ... that snakeflies known from China, dating from the Middle Jurassic?
- ... that the BBC Sound Archive was founded in 1936 by Marie Slocombe while she was working as a temporary secretary disposing of sound recordings?
- ... that the spinnenkopmolen Arkens, Franeker, is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails)?
- ... that Australian triathlete Mirinda Carfrae in her first attempt at the Ironman distance broke the women's marathon course record at the 2009 World Championships?
- ... that in the Poland-Lithuania accepted Hohenzollern sovereignity in the Duchy of Prussiain turn for an "eternal alliance"?
- ... that Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon's debut film was The Iron Ladies, a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men?
- 06:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a humongous fungus (example pictured) caused a media stir after it was reported to cover an area of 37 acres (15 ha), weigh at least 21,000 pounds (10,000 kg), and be 1,500 years old?
- ... that during the Mexican flagsymbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees?
- ... that some participants in the men's singles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics complained that track changes made after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili gave an advantage to stronger starters?
- ... that Nazi Germany's occupationin the 1940s?
- ... that the American Pie franchise, consisting of a trilogy and spin-off spiritual successor series, consisting of four films, spawned from the 1999 film American Pie?
- ... that County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey, was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI?
- ... that the female Green Pygmy Goosehas a lower pitched whistle than the male?
- ... that Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk?
- 00:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the residents of Cookham had to wait 1,400 years for a new bridge (pictured)?
- ... that Magnar Lundemo competed in international championships in both running and skiing in 1962?
- ... that only one of the twenty-five aircraft operated by Invicta International Airlines was a jet, a Boeing 720B?
- ... that in 1871, ?
- ... that the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway has been described as "the most successful of all railways in Southern England"?
- ... that the low-mass star?
- ... that Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
- ... that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum" meaning amber, "Inocellia", the type genus for Inocelliidae, and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?
25 February 2010
- 18:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English was made at St Mary and St Cuthbert (pictured), Chester-le-Street, England?
- ... that Frank Allen originally worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer at the age of 24?
- ... that the Humboldt Fault Zone, which produced the 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake, still poses a formidable threat to the state of Kansas?
- ... that generals in the history of South Vietnam?
- ... that the catfish tail fin?
- ... that Chicago-born record producer ?
- ... that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle?
- ... that squire Richard Cooke shot dead two tax collectors as he claimed that they were poachers?
- 12:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that despite winning the first land victory against Japan in World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay, Major General Cyril Clowes (pictured) was relieved of his command for showing insufficient "vigour"?
- ... that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
- ... that in 1929, Wales international footballer Moses Russell was threatened with a pistol during a pitch invasion whilst on a tour of Canada?
- ... that declared monument of Hong Kong?
- ... that the Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, a student of Eisenstein, is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India?
- ... that the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam, was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti-Vietnamesepropaganda?
- ... that Edwin C. Burt's shoe company issued a series of trade cards, one of which featured children sitting in a sailboat-shaped shoe?
- ... that Perica Vlašić won Diamonds at Henley, even though he turned up the day before the regatta without a boat?
- 06:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the leopard-spotted, painted, flagtail, speckled, saddled, and narrowbar swellsharks were all scientifically described in 2008, more than doubling the number of species in the genus Cephaloscyllium(example pictured)?
- ... that the Football League?
- ... that residents of Texcoco, Mexico Statehave resisted, sometimes violently, the development of a major airport since the 1990s?
- ... that The War of the Worlds?
- ... that four members of the Australian 7th Battalion received the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915?
- ... that The Brain That Changes Itself, presented his research into psychotherapy at the White Housein 1993?
- ... that the Bahá'í Faith was first brought to Haitiin 1927?
- ... that the late Carl Gunter, Jr., when Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's telephone?
- 00:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that members of the baseball to Nicaragua, and popularizing it in the area?
- ... that First World War?
- ... that the principles of insanity in English law have been described as based on a "now obsolete" belief and "not therefore a satisfactory test of criminal responsibility"?
- ... that comedian and actor Dane Cook is referenced in the Archer episode "Training Day" when main character Archer negatively compares karate to him?
- ... that out of the described Raphidia funerata holotypeis the most complete?
- ... that Duke of Windsor and Cary Grant?
- ... that Norwegian cross-country skier Øystein Pettersen won a gold medal in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics after filling in for a teammate who withdrew from the race due to illness?
- ... that copies of a forthcoming Kraken Opus book about Diego Maradona will be sold with samples of his blood and hair?
24 February 2010
- 18:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that television series Lassie?
- ... that West Indian cricketer Brian Lara has made the highest individual score and only quadruple century in Test cricket?
- ... that in order to convince Kent Islandduring a snowstorm?
- ... that Joseph Gutnick, chairman of Great Central Mines, was advised by the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to go back to the Australian desert and search for "gold and diamonds"?
- ... that Buddhist monk Song Yun and companions traveled to northwest India at the request of Empress Hu during the Northern Wei dynasty?
- ... that some historians consider a 1619 strike by Polish craftsmen in the Jamestown Settlement to be the first strikein North American history?
- ... that cartoonist Ken Emerson wrote the second-longest running comic strip in Australia?
- ... that pre-colonial sexual customs in the Philippines involved equating the size of a woman's breasts and the wideness of her hips with the price of the dowry?
- 12:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Oswald Watt (pictured) became the first Australian citizen to gain his Royal Aero Club pilot's certificate, before joining the French Foreign Legion on the outbreak of World War I?
- ... that Witches' Sabbath was a protest against superstitious beliefs encouraged by leaders of the Spanish Inquisition?
- ... that literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum, one of Norway's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup?
- ... that the ancient Mediterranean?
- ... that 18th-century Swedish admiral Olof Strömstierna was the son of a fisherman?
- ... that rubicline was the first mineral discovered with rubidium as an essential constituent?
- ... that Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni was Galileo's personal instrument maker and helped Galileo make military compasses and other instruments?
- ... that French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana?
- 06:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Batillus class supertankers Pierre Guillaumat, Prairial, Bellamya and Batillus (pictured) were four of the five biggest ships ever built?
- ... that after inheriting her late husband's tools in 1760, Hester Bateman successfully ran a family silversmithing business for 30 years?
- ... that over 100 Florida Black Bearsare killed on Florida roadways each year?
- ... that television series, was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II?
- ... that the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia?
- ... that during the ?
- ... that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York, was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
- ... that Amy Williams, gold medal winner in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics, was accused of getting an unfair advantage from ridges in her helmet?
23 February 2010
- 23:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that after nearly two centuries of active use, the Royal Tobacco Factory (pictured) in Seville, Spain, was converted into the seat of the rectorate of the University of Seville?
- ... that college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas' former high school?
- ... that Camp Na'aleh, which was established in 1932 with help from Golda Meir, the future Prime Minister of Israel, is the oldest Habonim Dror summer camp in North America?"
- ... that for most of his European Parliamentary term, Gerhard Hager was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria, before leaving the party just over one year before the end of his second term?
- ... that R&B singer Barrence Whitfield changed his name from Barry White, to avoid confusion with the other Barry White, who had changed his name from Barrence?
- ... that All-American to athetes in all National Collegiate Athletic Associationchampionship sports since 1952?
- ... that the arrest of the Ghassanid ruler Al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith in 581 provoked a two-year revolt by his sons against the Byzantine Empire?
- ... that the streetlight?
- 17:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Portuguese soldiers used Elephanta Caves – now a World Heritage Site – sculptures for target practice, sparing only the Trimurti (pictured)?
- ... that Erin Carmody's curling team twice won the Prince Edward Island provincial junior championships with an undefeated record?
- ... that Nanoraphidia electroburmica, known from a fossil in amber, is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
- ... that American Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomashas walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages?
- ... that the renovated Russian embassy has been described as the most magnificent embassy in Luxembourg?
- ... that Billy Joel Band, also narrates children's audiobooks?
- ... that efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque area of Mexico City have resulted in threats to public officials?
- ... that Janet Vida Watson's first job involved looking at the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman president of the Geological Society of London?
- 11:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Early Lê Dynasty?
- ... that the 14.44-mile (23.2 km) Stert and Westbury Railway shortened the distance from London Paddington station to Weymouth by 14.24 miles (22.9 km)?
- ... that the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club?
- ... that the mushroom Russula integra is a popular food in Northern Europe?
- ... that Joseph Huddart, who made a fortune from making rope, first worked with his father to process fish that suddenly appeared in Solway Firth?
- ... that players can use the Wii Balance Board and shift their weight to control the monkey ball in Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll?
- ... that Alphastates vocalist Catherine Dowling has been compared to both Beth Gibbons and Shirley Manson and called "a lady with the most evocative vocals in Irish music"?
- ... that Austrian brothers Wolfgang and Andreas Linger beat out Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Šics for the gold medal in the doubles luge event at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
- 05:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Henry A. Peirce arranged the first state visit (pictured) of a ruling monarch to the U.S. for King Kalākaua and Ulysses S. Grant in 1874?
- ... that the Amalgamated Sugar Company, the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
- ... that sibling Winter Olympics, despite being born and living their entire lives in Germany?
- ... that critics of the prosecution of anarchist online bomb-making instructionsthan his website did?
- ... that Jordan Smithwas born in Scotland and did not emigrate to Australia until 2003?
- ... that the bloater, which inhabits the depths of the Great Lakes, swells when brought to the surface?
- ... that Continental Navy Captain William Pickles' ship, the Morris, was destroyed by a hurricane and replaced shortly before the 1779 Battle of Lake Pontchartrain?
- ... that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York, until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?
- ... that Minister of Economy and Innovation after making a gesture towards an opposition member during a session of parliament?
22 February 2010
- 05:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Stephen Crane (pictured) based the 1898 short story "The Open Boat" upon his personal experience of having survived a shipwreck off the coast of Florida?
- ... that the recently discovered extrasolar planet HIP 79431 b is regarded as one of the most massive planets around M dwarf stars?
- ... that lead pelletembedded in his heel?
- ... that The Notebook look like Saw V?
- ... that the Arlington Club, a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon, excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
- ... that death penalty?
- ... that despite being the oldest covered bridge in Lane County, Oregon, the Mosby Creek Bridge still remains open to traffic?
- ... that during the "Christmas coup" at radio station WBAI, Utrice Leid changed the locks on the doors?
21 February 2010
- 18:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- 12:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Atlantic?
- ... that erotic paintings, was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeierperiod?
- ... that Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam?
- ... that long track speed skater, won a 2010 Olympic gold medalon his 21st birthday?
- ... that the oldest association between ?
- ... that in 2003, Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour?
- ... that Horagolla National Park is the only urban park in the Western Province of Sri Lanka?
- ... that Bernhard Heiliger was regarded as "West Germany's foremost sculptor"?
- ... that when police raided the Cambridge College of Learning, a London based bogus college for overseas students, they discovered just three classrooms and eleven desks?
- 06:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Western star Tom Mix (pictured) fought for the rebel army in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, part of the Mexican Revolution?
- ... that Japanese marathon champion, and two-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon?
- ... that Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men was the first number one of the Billboard's Independent Albums chart, and would later go on to be the biggest selling independent album of 2001?
- ... that director and writer Academy Award-nominated short film?
- ... that the Polish Independent Socialist Labour Party of Joseph Kruk merged into the Labour Zionist Poalei Zion in 1937?
- ... that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
- ... that in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard Smith received the Order of the Quetzal from the Guatemalan government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country?
- ... that Mayor of Jersey City, threatened to foreclose on the Statue of Libertyand sell it at auction for an overdue water bill?
- 00:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that, despite being named for Bisonin the United States?
- ... that Glen "Frosty" Little is one of only four people ever to be named "Master Clown" by the Ringling Brotherscircus organization?
- ... that One City Center was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1986?
- ... that the title Mai the Black Emperor (Mai Hắc Đế) of Mai Thúc Loan came from his distinctively dark complexion?
- ... that the extra-solar planetssince the program started gathering data in December 2002?
- ... that Dixie Chicks will be releasing an album as the Court Yard Hounds?
- ... that Culham Bridge has twice been an important defensive position on the River Thames?
- ... that autism?
20 February 2010
- 18:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the British battlecruiser Princess Royal (pictured) fired 271 13.5-inch shells during the Battle of Dogger Bank, but only scored three hits?
- ... that many of the children?
- ... that the tragic romance of Tristan and Iseult is the subject matter of the Tristan Quilt, a rare survival of medieval trapunto quilting?
- ... that threats against the President of the United States?
- ... that smelters?
- ... that several My Way" due to the deaths attributedto it?
- ... that future sugar beet processing executive Henry Arthur Benning was a "rotten stenographer", then failed at selling tobacco, since he didn't partake in tobacco?
- ... that "next United Kingdom general election?
- 12:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the South Ball Court of El Tajín, Mexico, has a panel (pictured) showing a ballplayer being beheaded?
- ... that Peter Clarke was head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command from 2002 to 2008?
- ... that the discovery of the shipwreck SS Ellengowan in 1991 off Channel Island, made it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin harbour?
- ... that directing the film Holy Lola made Bertrand Tavernier fall in love with Cambodia?
- ... that the crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II?
- ... that after his arrest in 1940, Norwegian Army officer Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was referred to by the Germans as Reichskommissar Josef Terboven's personal prisoner?
- ... that Google Buzz allows Gmail users to share messages and links across various social networking websites?
- ... that the longest granny?
- 06:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Honda CB900F (pictured), known as the Hornet 900 in Europe and the 919 in North America, was out of production for 19 years before returning in 2002?
- ... that the frontman of the band Ignite, Zoltán Téglás, saves injured pelicans in his free time?
- ... that during the January 1961 nor'easter on the eve of John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration, thousands of abandoned cars led to massive traffic jams, including on the inauguration parade route?
- ... that the 1998 Merlin Miller film A Place to Grow starred country singer Gary Morris and also featured appearances by Boxcar Willie, Wilford Brimley, and John Beck?
- ... that the Super-Earth orbiting HD 156668 has an orbital period of less than five days?
- ... that Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, owned a safari business in Tanzania during the 1950s?
- ... that in France, the Picardy Spaniel is used for hunting snipes?
- ... that one former Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Boarddescribed the position as "more like a bully pulpit than a position of authority"?
- 00:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the bark like a dog?
- ... that the first-ever paid youth soccer coach in the United States was an Englishman named Derek Armstrong?
- ... that Paul M. Herzog's grandfather-in-law, Oscar Straus, and his step-son, Alexander Trowbridge, were both United States Secretary of Commerce?
- ... that the capture of the French frigate Modeste by the British in the neutral port of Genoa in 1793 created a diplomatic incident?
- ... that 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup, scoring their team's only goal of the tournament?
- ... that Neotropical rainforests?
- ... that despite writing multiple hits such as "Sticks and Stones," "Tell Me Why", and "Leave My Kitten Alone", the American R&B singer Titus Turneronly recorded one album?
- ... that a Prince of Waleshad to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off?
19 February 2010
- 18:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that antique bisque dolls (pictured) are collectible, and dolls from French companies like Jumeau can be worth over US$20,000?
- ... that YouTube artist Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Man has become popular in Japan?
- ... that the wine labels?
- ... that match?
- ... that after the Swedish dominions Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Russia in 1710, their recovery remained a Swedish war aim for nearly a century?
- ... that stage and film actor mime under Theodore Komisarjevsky?
- ... that Manchester Tram number 765 is the last remaining electric car from Manchester Corporation Tramwaysstill in operation?
- ... that the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borgesdescribes a book with an infinite number of pages?
- ... that Gold Label Road Race status if organisers have taken steps to preserve the environment?
- ... that during his 25 years on the U.S. National Labor Relations Board John H. Fanning took part in more than 25,000 decisions?
- 12:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Beaverkill Bridge (pictured) near Roscoe is one of only two extant Town lattice truss covered bridges in New York to have additional diagonals at the ends?
- ... that some of the tallest trees left in West Africa are found in Bia National Park?
- ... that Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?
- ... that studio album, Barbara, is their first recorded with drummer Andy Burrows and the band's debut release with PIAS Recordings?
- ... that diplomat Ted Lipman, the current Canadian ambassador to North Korea and South Korea, is married to Chinese singer Dadawa?
- ... that the megawatts of electricity for Yunnan, China?
- ... that in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz, along with several other Members of the European Parliament, declared his personal financial interests online?
- ... that the evacuation of its base at Žatec, Czechoslovakia, in August 1948 allowed the Israeli Air Force to bring over 2,000 tons of supplies to the besieged Negev in Operation Avak?
- ... that before Sir Edward Moon, 2nd Baronet, was a baronet, he was a rower?
- 06:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the first copyright act, the Statute of Anne or "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning" (pictured), became law almost 300 years ago?
- ... that autismwhom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
- ... that Big Butte Springs, located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley?
- ... that George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy?
- ... that in 1960, 33 years before pathologist?
- ... that Minuscule 614 is one of the very few witnesses of the Western text-type with complete text of the Acts of the Apostles?
- ... that architect Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegiedied?
- ... that the Gonâve Microplate originated as part of the Caribbean Plate, but is expected to end up accreted to the North American Plate?
- ... that, according to the hotel's owner, before Marshall's Hotel opened in 1880 in Yellowstone Park, a visiting U.S. Interior Secretary had to sleep outdoors, and it rained that night?
- 00:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Pope John Paul II placed rosary devotions (example pictured) at the very center of Christian spirituality and called them "among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation"?
- ... that the African Americanto graduate from the academy?
- ... that Pedro Matias typed a 264 character text message in 1:59, beating the existing Guinness Book of World Records record in the LG Mobile World Cup?
- ... that in 1939 it was ruled that a child born in the United States to alien parents retains U.S. citizenship, even if the parents take the child back to their home country?
- ... that the record for women, which Margrethe Renstrømbroke in 2009 with a 6.64 metres jump, was at the time the oldest Norwegian athletics record?
- ... that singer Janet Jackson appeared on the Will & Grace episode "Back Up, Dancer" nine months after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy?
- ... that Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
- ... that the bulbs of the plant Nerine bowdenii have been said to be shaped like old-fashioned Chianti bottles?
18 February 2010
- 18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Suriyothaiduring elephant-mounted combat (statue pictured)?
- ... that crossword puzzles, was edited by Marius Sandveifor more than five decades?
- ... that the Codex Carolinus is one of very few Gothic fragments of the New Testament on parchment that has survived to the present day?
- ... that in September 1924, Swansea Town against Charlton Athletic, which remains the club record for most goals in a match?
- ... that a single cave in the Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos is used by at least 22 species of bats?
- ... that the ?
- ... that Winter Olympics?
- ... that in Carlos IV in his Hunting Clothes the artist showed his debt to Titian's 1533 Charles V by showing a dog sniffing at the royal crotch?
- 12:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Plains Garter Snake (pictured) is one of the most cold-tolerant snakes and often emerges from hibernationto bask on sunny winter days?
- ... that glazed black mathematical tiles, as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England?
- ... that the early Maya farming village of Cuello in Belize has a mass grave containing 26 sacrificed war captives?
- ... that the national record in the standing high jumpin 2009?
- ... that four months after a mass resignation, which caused a loss of 22 jobs, Major League Baseball umpires voted to form a new union?
- ... that S Ori 70 is a mid-T type astronomical object, discovered in 2002 in the direction of the Sigma Orinis cluster?
- ... that the billed as 'Guitar Slim'?
- ... that the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan produced world record-breaking marathon runs in both 1963 and 1978?
- ... that Zulu and compiled from the Zulu oral tradition?
- ... that character actor I. Stanford Jolley performed some 500 times on film or television but reportedly never received more than $100 for each screen appearance?
- 06:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Voladores(pictured)?
- ... that the architecture of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Livingston Manor, New York, reflects both the Eastern European origins of its founders and the older Protestant churches in the area?
- ... that former RTÉ Gaelic Games Correspondent Jonathan Mullin previously guided Mayo Ladies' Gaelic football team to two All-Ireland Senior Championships and a National Leaguetitle?
- ... that in clubs?
- ... that thirteen-year-old David Sills has verbally committed to play college football for USC although he is not eligible to sign a letter of intent until 2015?
- ... that the sawmill of Mitford, Alberta, failed partly because most of the good quality lumber to be found in the area was used in the construction of the railway designed to haul said lumber to market?
- ... that Franz Anton Knittel deciphered the Gothic text of the palimpsest Codex Carolinus in 1762?
- ... that according to folklore, The Shoe Dog howled mournfully outside any dwelling that would soon suffer a bereavement?
- 00:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the intended occupant of the Buddha, Julius Caesar, or Jesus Christ?
- ... that prior to joining Big Boy" at Steeltown Records?
- ... that prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist, a neoconservative, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism"?
- ... that about a million birds were banded at the Rossitten Bird Observatory between its establishment in 1901 and the end of the Second World War?
- ... that Simon J. Hall was listed among New York Magazine's Best Doctors in 2007, 2008, and 2009?
- ... that a US Federal Court against R2C2, a company that sells term papers online, alleging copyright infringementfor reselling papers written by other authors?
- ... that former Welsh international footballer Wayne Jones was forced to retire at the age of 24 when it was discovered that he had a previously undiagnosed arthritic condition?
- ... that in 1782, the rector of the University of Osuna reminded the students to "abstain from throwing rocks, both inside and outside the university?"
17 February 2010
- 18:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a crowd of 20,000 rioted in an attempt to secure the release of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS Helgoland(pictured) in November 1918?
- ... that actor and acting teacher Bryan O'Byrne is credited with launching the acting career of Nick Nolte, whom he discovered while coaching Nolte's college roommate?
- ... that Clearspring, reach an online audience of more than 200 million monthly viewers?
- ... that in 1887, Latin-Norwegian dictionarywhich is still in use?
- ... that Sri Lanka scored a world record 952 runs for six wickets in a Test cricket match at the R. Premadasa Stadium against India in 1997?
- ... that Richard Allen, a Dublin draper, raised £20,000 for Irish famine relief efforts by writing letters to America?
- ... that once established, National Park in Atlantic Canada?
- ... that Irish meteorologist Gerald Fleming has been noted to wink while giving weather forecasts?
- 12:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that even though it is known primarily for Sauvignon blanc wines, Sancerre can also be a red wine made from Pinot noir (pictured)?
- ... that speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, currently competing in her fifth Olympic Games, is the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
- ... that made-for-televisionfilm produced in Sweden and aired in 1966?
- ... that Vietnamese dynasty?
- ... that the concert venues of the Lorch?
- ... that the mediaeval Gaelic manuscript British" ancestry, from Uther Pendragon, and King Arthur?
- ... that Robert Scholl, the father of White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl, was imprisoned for 18 months in 1943 for listening to a "Feindsender"?
- ... that Lee Ho-Sukcrashed into each other on the final lap?
- 06:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that between 5,000 and 180,000 Burmese pythons (pictured) are estimated to be loose in the Everglades?
- ... that the first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was won by Simon Ammann of Switzerland in the normal hill ski jump?
- ... that Ron Swanson builds a harp in the Parks and Recreation episode "Sweetums", which was inspired by actor Nick Offerman's real-life carpentry skills?
- ... that U.S. Senate that he knew of no more ways that the Defense Departmentcan assist in increasing registration compliance?
- ... that the world's tallest Qingjiang River in China?
- ... that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"?
- ... that christened in an Arabiancity?
- ... that The Wolves in the Walls, a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean that went on to become an off-Broadway musical, was inspired by a nightmare had by Gaiman's youngest daughter?
- 00:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in the 19th century, Ganoga Lake (pictured) in Pennsylvania had a hotel, its own ice cutting company, and a branch railroad line to serve both?
- ... that Watford Football Club?
- ... that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat?
- ... that William C. McInnes, one of the first Jesuits to study business administration, simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?
- ... that 21st Century Slave is a concept album with a narrative inspired by William Gibson's series of Cyberpunk novels?
- ... that British painter Royal Academy Schoolsin 1927?
- ... that uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project?
- ... that in 2002, the daily newspapers in Norway?
16 February 2010
- 18:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the porbeagle (pictured) has been known to "play" with kelp fronds, pieces of wood, and fishing floats?
- ... that Abhimanyu Mithun was called up to the India Test squad only ten weeks after making his first-class cricket debut?
- ... that the Exchequer of Ireland had exclusive jurisdiction over all Irish cases involving money owed to The Crown?
- ... that in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur?
- ... that many 16th-century faculty members at the Jewish ancestry and came under the suspicion of the Spanish Inquisition?
- ... that the Soviet 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 naval gun was produced in three versions with mutually incompatible ammunition and range tables?
- ... that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?
- ... that Spongiforma, a sponge-like bolete newly described in 2009, smells like coal tar?
- ... that in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade?
- 12:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that at age 20, Victorian Bushrangers?
- ... that the 1536 edition of Swenske songer eller wisor is the first preserved hymnal published in the Swedish language?
- ... that scholar Gérard Prunier states that Major General John Numbi is a member of a ruling clique running the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- ... that Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
- ... that Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances?
- ... that in 2009, triple jumper Fabrizio Donato set a new championship record for the European Indoor Championships at 17.59 metres?
- ... that War on Drugs, staged an unsuccessful coup d'étatagainst the Bolivian government in 1984?
- ... that Lý Dynasty?
- ... that the self-proclaimed "Gifted, Eccentric and World Famed Physician" Francis Tumblety sold "Pimple Destroyer"?
- 06:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Hawaiian mythology?
- ... that David Brown's two years in jail was the longest sentence ever for violating the U.S. Sedition Act of 1798?
- ... that in 519, ?
- ... that in traditional Native Americanwomen painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
- ... that in 1891, American Association, the third of his four consecutive 30-win seasons in baseball?
- ... that nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango?
- ... that John Scagliotti's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world?
- ... that at the time of its 1914 construction, the Railway Exchange Building was the tallest building in St. Louis, Missouri?
- ... that Fanny Burney described a poem of George Huddesford's as "vile" because it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina?
- 00:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that when a concert in Sarajevo in 1997 (concert stage pictured), they attempted to include all the conflicting ethnicities of the regionin the audience?
- ... that Margaretta Faugères called Thomas Jefferson an "eminent reasoner" but nevertheless challenged his claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings"?
- ... that Whitstable Museum and Gallery holds a permanent display dedicated to the life of Hammer Films actor Peter Cushing, who lived in Whitstable, South East England?
- ... that the North American Newspaper Alliance, a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937?
- ... that Bulgarian middle distance runner Vesela Yatsinska failed to make it past round one in the 1980 Olympics despite achieving a personal best time?
- ... that the film extrasto reenact various battles?
- ... that Sir David Veness was the United Nations' first Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security?
- ... that the former District 10 School outside Margaretville, New York, was demolished in the mid-19th century only to be rebuilt from the same stones three years later?
15 February 2010
- 18:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that to join the Australian Flying Corps in 1917, future fighter ace Roy Phillipps (pictured) falsified his age by declaring he was four years younger?
- ... that the late Zechariah, John the Baptist's parents?
- ... that Rocket Air and the 540 wallride on a BMX bike?
- ... that the 14th century Vijayanagar Empire?
- ... that in addition to serving as the lawn bowlsplayer?
- ... that because a holiday, it was also called Tết painting?
- ... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
- ... that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father, becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?
- 12:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the barque Parma (pictured) recorded the fastest ever time for a sailing ship from Australia to the United Kingdom?
- ... that Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light, a book about his 1953 safari, was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
- ... that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan?
- ... that among the items exhibited at the silkwormsand the traditional dresses and trousers worn by princesses in the 19th century?
- ... that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter, Shakey Jake Harris, acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler?
- ... that the strike of the Calton weavers, during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
- ... that James Oliver invented a line of improved and specialized farm plows and produced up to 300,000 of them annually?
- ... that the Peasants' War, burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War, and became a slaughterhousein 1744?
- 06:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that St. Henry's Catholic Church (pictured) in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio?
- ... that the new champion of the ?
- ... that the establishment of the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War?
- ... that in East-West Shrine Games?
- ... that after his final TV series Jungle Jim, which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
- ... that the English treatise Dialogus de Scaccario was written as a series of questions and answers between a learned lawyer and his pupil?
- ... that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford?
- ... that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan, India, considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodilesthere?
- 00:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a Margaretville, New York, businessman named a new movie theater after Amelita Galli-Curci (pictured) in return for her singing at its opening night?
- ... that Yongjiacaris represents the second report of freshwater caridean shrimp from the Mesozoic era?
- ... that Isabel Ashdown's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester?
- ... that the 1893 New York hurricane virtually destroyed an entire island?
- ... that last will and testament?
- ... that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?
- ... that a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
- ... that British novelist Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?
14 February 2010
- 18:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Western cultures?
- ... that anarchistactivities?
- ... that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?
- ... that Westgate Hall, Canterbury's sole music and dance venue, is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
- ... that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry?
- ... that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and returned after the operation?
- ... that Bela S. Huntington was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1897, but the legislature never organized in 1897 and he never served during another session?
- ... that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
- 12:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the white colour of eggshells?
- ... that the Iranian embassy in London protested after 2009 Iranian election protests?
- ... that the Chrysler ball-stud hemi was intended to replace three engine block and two cylinder head designs with a single model?
- ... that Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
- ... that Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murderedthree years later?
- ... that rice powder?
- ... that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army?
- ... that when the Super Ball was first introduced in 1965, US Presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy had five dozen shipped to the White House for the amusement of the staff?
- 06:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Sultanate of Banten (capital city pictured) was once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, but was later overshadowed by Batavia and finally annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1813?
- ... that E Street Band member Clarence Clemons co-starred with Rick Springfield in the original 1990 pilot for ABC's Human Target TV series?
- ... that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists, pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar?
- ... that the American journalist George Wilkes (died 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
- ... that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta, operated for only 52 days?
- ... that War on Drugsin Colombia?
- ... that according to a pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewisin 1097?
- ... that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company, created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?
- 00:00, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that grape diseases?
- ... that Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
- ... that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation, the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
- ... that Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
- ... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
- ... that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objectedto them living together as an unmarried couple?
- ... that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard, and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini?
- ... that spyoperating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?
13 February 2010
- 18:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 1,200–1,500 Kutch, India, are also its most frequently observed animal?
- ... that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (died 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?
- ... that the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
- ... that the zoological nomenclature?
- ... that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders?
- ... that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio, is distinguished by its pilasters?
- ... that the lightning deity, Tāwhaki?
- ... that Nini Haslund Gleditsch participated in the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
- 12:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Nyingchi County?
- ... that Asbjørn Bryhn and Gunnar Haarstad were both long-term leaders of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency?
- ... that in his film Close, Closed, Closure, Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
- ... that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II, a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
- ... that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism?
- ... that the alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
- ... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
- ... that Norwegian radio?
- ... that Tacubaya, Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?
- 06:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the ?
- ... that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
- ... that the first successful Mormon-owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
- ... that Eva Nansen, Elisabeth Welhaven and Maren Sars contributed with music and storytelling in what was described as the "first salon" of Norway's capital?
- ... that the Romanos III, committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
- ... that American ?
- ... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"?
- ... that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the Royal Albion Hotel, wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?
- 00:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Ernest F. Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, but at the dedication of it (pictured) he considered his efforts a failure?
- ... that the book Anson Shupe, and Susan J. Palmer?
- ... that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
- ... that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
- ... that the founding of the Independent Labour Party's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
- ... that both the arrests of General Ho Chi Minh Campaign were by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn?
- ... that Ralph Creffeild was knighted by Queen Anne in 1713, having presented her with thanks from the town of Colchester for the peace of Utrecht earlier that year?
- ... that Another Day"?
- ... that the only damage suffered by the dome of the Byzantine mosaicsfell off, revealing Christian images?
12 February 2010
- 18:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the island of Dominican Anole(pictured)?
- ... that René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood?
- ... that on July 30, 1970, Rimon 20?
- ... that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923 when it opened in Oslo?
- ... that African American motorcycle rallyin the US?
- ... that the ?
- ... that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp?
- ... that in 1985, the sweeter?
- ... that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius?
- ... that the Dalmatiandogs for several scenes?
- 12:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that according to Brahma temple(pictured)?
- ... that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of rower Steve Fairbairn?
- ... that Polhøgda, the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen, was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
- ... that during the cults?
- ... that despite not registering as a Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990?
- ... that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany?
- ... that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby?
- ... that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia?
- ... that Hurricane Ingain September and October 1969 is the third longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, having lasted 25 days?
- ... that Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah performed the Hajj70 times in his life?
- 06:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Huáng bǎi (pictured), one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, contains the anti-inflammatory alkaloid berberine?
- ... that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
- ... that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi, the Japanese deity of fire?
- ... that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric, a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
- ... that when Wilhelm F. K. Christie?
- ... that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York?
- ... that the depictions of fish on the St Christopher in Norton Priory, Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
- ... that in 1984 Continental Divide?
- 00:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the blind shark (pictured) and the bluegrey carpetshark close their eyes when taken out of the water?
- ... that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education?
- ... that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra, it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
- ... that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
- ... that Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and make-shift armour?
- ... that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC's The Rifleman, Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
- ... that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse, which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida?
- ... that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin, which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus, were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century?
11 February 2010
- 18:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Europa regina (pictured) wears a hoop crown?
- ... that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
- ... that TV series Stories of the Century?
- ... that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America, 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
- ... that California Angels, is the only player to be selected first in the drafton two separate occasions?
- ... that Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom?
- ... that singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerantnature?
- ... that male claspersof their rivals?
- 12:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that when the giant flightless birds called Haast's Eaglethat preyed on them also became extinct?
- ... that Italian Team of the Centuryin 2007?
- ... that Kalachuri, a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort, for five years?
- ... that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction?
- ... that Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II, later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar?
- ... that the censorship in the People's Republic of China?
- ... that David Andrewsin 1998?
- ... that the sports hall of prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekontrial?
- 06:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the after a siege that lasted several months?
- ... that Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Streetin 1868?
- ... that along with Ithonidae, ?
- ... that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson's "Tabloid Junkie" as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
- ... that the Kyūshū?
- ... that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England?
- ... that a double rotation in four dimensions has exactly two planes of rotation?
- ... that the Shady Lady Ranch, a licensed brothel in Nevada, just hired the state's first legal male prostitute?
- 00:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the South Georgia Pintail (pictured), a small duck, scavenges at sealcarcasses?
- ... that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
- ... that Old French literary genre of the chanson de toile consisted of songs supposedly sung by women weaving, songs about women in love who often sew as they relate their stories?
- ... that Otilio Montaño, a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa, but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
- ... that architect Bislett Stadion, both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
- ... that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
- ... that R&B singer Margie Day, who had a hit record with "Little Red Rooster" in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia?
- ... that Thai government and army officials have insisted on the effectiveness of the GT200 "remote substance detector", despite the BBC having found it to consist of an empty plastic case?
10 February 2010
- 18:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
- ... that the World Warsdue to the increased demand for soldiers and textiles?
- ... that the ?
- ... that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
- ... that Klaus Sunnanå, Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
- ... that a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
- ... that 1974 Oregon United States Senate electionbut died prior to the general election?
- ... that British billionaire carats?
- 12:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 1900 Mutoscope film Sherlock Holmes Baffled (pictured) was the first film appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes?
- ... that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti, escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
- ... that the discovery of the ?
- ... that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi, formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
- ... that Hebridean island of Eigg?
- ... that the Cape Verdean poet Onésimo Silveira was the representative of African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in Sweden in the early 1970s?
- ... that in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto, Japan, Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
- ... that theme park in China, showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China?
- 06:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the names of French generals Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, and Frédéric Henri Walther are inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (pictured) in Paris?
- ... that the president of Coca-Cola Co. believed that a new-age label would doom Tab Clear, the company's clear cola answer to Crystal Pepsi?
- ... that under interrogation, Ahmad al-Naggar stated that Egyptian Islamic Jihad had raised funds by "renovating old houses in London"?
- ... that it is believed that the Conquerville, Alberta, began its decline when the local high school closed?
- ... that the Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise, and was even made godfather to his son, Constantine VII?
- ... that the Rubin test was once considered by many specialists "the twentieth century's most important contribution to the clinical study of female infertility"?
- ... that even though the Bradford Durfee Textile School was chartered in 1895 and incorporated in 1899, it opened in 1904?
- ... that television drama Nip/Tuck?
- ... that the Ham font was believed to cure sick infants and young children who were close to death?
- 00:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 600-year-old Westgate in Canterbury, Kent, is the largest surviving city gate in England, with double-decker buses still squeezing through it (process pictured)?
- ... that a son of the first settlers of Mountaindale, Oregon, later was mayor of East Portland?
- ... that according to A Bright Red Scream, millions of Americans regularly use razors, knives or broken glass to intentionally injure themselves?
- ... that Mick Higgins from New York played in the Cavan Gaelic football team which won the final of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at the Polo Grounds in New York?
- ... that during World War II the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company made the "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it used for gunnery practice?
- ... that the Brazilian rodent Calomys cerqueirai was named only in 2010?
- ... that the New Bedford Institute of Technology's original mission was to refine the skills of the textile mill workers in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
- ... that The North Face is suing The South Butt for trademark infringement?
9 February 2010
- 18:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that between 1930 and 1933, the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (pictured) carried a Heinkel aircraft catapult?
- ... that unlike some other songs Bob Dylan wrote about failed relationships, in "I Threw It All Away" he takes responsibility for the failure?
- ... that cognitive passwords are used as an alternative authentication system and are comprised of fact and opinion based questions?
- ... that although heavily outnumbered, two UN battalions—one Australian and one Canadian—halted an entire Chinese division at the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951) during the Korean War?
- ... that Swedish actress Meg Westergren, the daughter of Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad, had originally planned to become a fashion designer?
- ... that in Georgetown, Alberta, during the 1910s, coal miners were paid only $3 a day and indoor toilets were considered a luxury?
- ... that in 1963 African-American artist to be elected a National Academician?
- ... that the "Love Chu Chu!" part of the name of the visual novel Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! was narrowed down from about one hundred different candidates?
- ... that anyone who sees the Dancing Hare is said to have good fortune for the rest of their days?
- 12:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Roman Museum?
- ... that The Land of Green Plums by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
- ... that during the German invasion of Norway, Minister of Justice Terje Wold told Police Chief of Oslo Kristian Welhaven to arrest fascist leader Vidkun Quisling if he got the opportunity?
- ... that Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin?
- ... that the career of pianist hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?
- ... that tympanosclerosis is a disease caused by the calcification of tissues in the middle ear, sometimes resulting in hearing loss?
- ... that the town of Lille, Alberta, was named as such because its coal mine's financial backers resided in Lille, France?
- ... that Warrington Colescott created the etching Christmas with Ziggy (1964), a social satire of businessmen entertaining their mistresses at a posh London restaurant?
- ... that GameDaily named Uncharted character Elena Fisher the 49th hottest video game babe of all time?
- 06:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the eastern harvest mouse (pictured) usually lives for less than a year in the wild?
- ... that Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
- ... that about one out of five babies born from an abdominal pregnancy has a birth defect?
- ... that the ?
- ... that Project Stormfury attempted to artificially weaken 1969's Hurricane Debbie?
- ... that the the music of the series?
- ... that Arthur Sweatman was elected bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1879 as a compromise candidate after five days of balloting?
- ... that the Gbedu drum is traditionally used on state occasions or during ceremones of Ogboni, the ancient Yoruba secret society?
- ... that upon hearing Christian?
- 00:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that after the Soviet battleship Marat (pictured) was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery?
- ... that Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party?
- ... that the Leo IV dwarf galaxy is one of the smallest satellites of the Milky Way?
- ... that The Art of Negative Thinking is an award winning Norwegian film about a paraplegic who rebels against the interventions of his support group and its lead social worker?
- ... that Scotland international football defender Alex McLintock played as a goalkeeper during his time at Burnley?
- ... that the wounding in the Siege of Sarajevo of five-year-old Irma Hadzimuratovic, whose suffering garnered worldwide attention, prompted the Operation Irma medical evacuation?
- ... that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
- ... that the genus Platythelphusa represents the only evolutionary radiation of crabs to have occurred in a freshwater lake?
8 February 2010
- 18:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Captain George F. Bond (pictured) was known as the "father of saturation diving"?
- ... that the magnitude 6.8 1981 Dawu earthquakein China killed or injured more than 450 people?
- ... that the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?
- ... that the Greco-Italian War?
- ... that former Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II?
- ... that the High Court of the Free City of Danzig examined 988 witnesses to evince 40 cases of electoral fraud in the 1935 Volkstag elections?
- ... that the May 2004 collapse of Royal Tongan Airlines left the islands of Tonga without air service?
- ... that according to legend, the MacLeods were on the verge of being defeated at the Battle of Glendale by the MacDonalds, but their magical Fairy Flag was then unfurled, inspiring them to a hard-fought victory?
- ... that a collector said that the mushroom Suillus tomentosus tastes and smells like Tootsie Rolls when dried?
- 12:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the cookiecutter shark (pictured) may use the absence of bioluminescence to attract prey?
- ... that Cecilie Thoresen Krog was Norway's first female university student?
- ... that the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th century Tibetan noble?
- ... that the word pyxidata in the mushroom name Clavaria pyxidata comes from the Greekword pyxis meaning "small box"?
- ... that the late 6th century AD gold Anglo-Saxon coinage?
- ... that the clause of the Magna Carta prohibiting sentences of exile, except as the result of a lawful trial, refers particularly to the case of Robert Fitzwalter?
- ... that Development Corporation?
- ... that Patrick Collison went on to become a millionaire after winning the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen?
- 06:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper (pictured) because it provided better views?
- ... that 1989's Typhoon Angela was the longest-tracked storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 1989 Pacific typhoon season?
- ... that in 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company enlisted the aid of a Chipewyan woman, Thanadelthur, to broker a peace deal between the Chipewyan and the Cree?
- ... that over the past four years, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse has won more New Hampshire Theater Awards than any other theater?
- ... that the second William Bennett Bond, was one of the shortest-serving Primates in the church's history?
- ... that with the introduction of the television type championshipreturned to national exposure?
- ... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?
- ... that when the barque Pisagua collided with the steamship Oceana, it was the steamship that sank?
- 00:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the turrets from the lead ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships (remains pictured) were salvaged after she sank and used for defending Sevastopol during World War II?
- ... that Fitznells Manor, the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice?
- ... that the Hungarian diplomatic passport is the only travel document in the world granting visa-free access to all member states of the G8+5?
- ... that subsidiaries of the aviation security firm 9/11 and for Northwest Airlines Flight 253?
- ... that Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers won an American League pennant in 1982 before moving to the National League in 1998?
- ... that the fifth Clarendon Lamb Worrell, turned down an earlier offer to become Bishop of Bermuda?
- ... that the mushroom bleaching powder?
- ... that indigenous rights activist Stephen Corry thought that British civilization and development was the best, until he made a trip to Nepal at age 18 and met the local people?
7 February 2010
- 18:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the kumbum (pictured) of Palcho Monastery in Gyantse is the largest such structure in Tibet?
- ... that air ace John S. Loisel spent more time in combat than any other American pilot in World War II and also served in the Korean War?
- ... that the last armistice at Compiègne?
- ... that the winner of the National League pennant in Major League Baseball has gone on to win the World Series 43 times?
- ... that Canadian astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi was one of the first to observe the cosmic recycling of pulsars?
- ... that interstitial pregnancies cause a seven times higher mortality than ectopic pregnancies in general?
- ... that The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was the only literary fiction novel on the 2009 British bestseller list without a Richard & Judy Book Club recommendation, a literary award or a film adaptation?
- ... that a 1950s Annalee Doll was sold at auction for a record $6,000 in 1992?
- ... that Seward's Success, Alaska, was a proposed city enclosed by a dome, which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 °F (20 °C)?
- 12:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Vamamarga Tantricpractices?
- ... that Parliament of Norway member Christian Stray owned the newspaper Agderposten?
- ... that crime statistics in the United Kingdom show that 114 people in Scotland were victims of homicide from 2007 to 2008?
- ... that the journalist and theatre historian abbé Antoine de Léris collaborated with abbé Laugier in the first French review of music, Sentiment d'un harmonophile, 1756?
- ... that Misshitsu no Sacrifice lets players investigate scenes and use items, unlike other visual novelsthat are primarily driven by text and graphics?
- ... that the plant Campanula isophylla is able to tolerate frost on the mountains of northern Italy, but not when grown in a pot?
- ... that Aksel Zachariassen, a Norwegian revolutionary and later editor of Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad (1932–1941), was deported from the United Kingdom after a visit there in 1919?
- ... that the parish church of Up Hatherley, England, was built because an elderly widow found it difficult to travel to a neighbouring village to worship?
- 06:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Graham Court (pictured), called a signal achievement in NY apartment design and Harlem's equivalent to the Dakota, was the setting for a crack factory in the movie New Jack City?
- ... that the Californiolands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?
- ... that despite only playing college football for two and a half seasons with the Northwestern Wildcats, Zak Kustok holds numerous rushing and passing records?
- ... that "Leslie's House", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, features references to Wikipedia, Nirvana, Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair?
- ... that free market environmentalism?
- ... that Alexander Aitchison was Hamilton, Ontario's first full-time fire chief, appointed in 1879?
- ... that charity single for Haiti earthquake relief, over the telephone?
- ... that in 2001, the after guards allegedly allowed the inmates to have sex in the mansion?
- 00:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's (pictured) defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
- ... that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
- ... that clericwho had no formal architectural training?
- ... that early in his short acting career series?
- ... that the Coniston Railway, which closed in 1962 owned two steam yachts on Coniston Water in Cumbria, England, one of which, SY Gondola, continues to run on the lake today?
- ... that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
- ... that the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising?
- ... that Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer stole books to expand the Royal Danish Library, where he was chief librarian?
6 February 2010
- 18:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
- ... that artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills?
- ... that according to The Sportsman's Repository, the waterfowl?
- ... that Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations?
- ... that the Sex Machines Museum, opened in 2002 in Prague, has a collection of approximately 200 sex devices?
- ... that animals at Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
- ... that Jane Leeves, who starred as Daphne Moon in the sitcom Frasier, appeared as a therapist in the Desperate Housewives episode "How About a Friendly Shrink?"
- ... that the renovation of the The Devonshire Dome in 1881 by Robert Rippon Dukecreated the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft), and is still the largest in the UK today?
- 12:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ?
- ... that Garry Foulds is one of only five footballers to play 300 VFL/AFL matches for the Essendon Football Club?
- ... that Ron Feller, a PIAT operator in the Israel Defense Forces, received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in Operation Death to the Invader on July 18, 1948?
- ... that Oxyura jamaicensis?
- ... that crop, and caused power outages that took up to a week to fully restore?
- ... that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?
- ... that, until it was destroyed during Wilson's Raid, the Brierfield Furnace was used to produce iron for the Confederacy's Brooke cannon?
- ... that the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni?
- 06:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that when the up market" houses?
- ... that in Cleveland Indians?
- ... that mastitis is the most costly and most common disease in dairy cattle in the United States?
- ... that K'iche' Maya?
- ... that Mason-Dixon line?
- ... that although 1989's Typhoon Dan was relatively weak, the storm left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the Philippines?
- ... that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Wing was often referred to as the 'Churchill Wing' because of Winston Churchill's key role in its formation?
- ... that mixed-doubles curling, an event that is not part of the Olympic programme?
- 00:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that some spines in their fins?
- ... that 18th-century painter Szymon Czechowicz established a school of painting and thereby greatly influenced Polish art?
- ... that many of Bo Schembechler's assistant coaches at Michigan, including Milan Vooletich, Jerry Hanlon, Tirrel Burton, and Dick Hunter, had previously coached at Miami of Ohio, the "Cradle of Coaches"?
- ... that the name of the Yuin-Kuric languages?
- ... that Lorenz Schwietz, who as Royal Prussian executioner beheaded at least 120 people, shot himself dead?
- ... that Rashida Jones, the actress who plays Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was cast before the producers had determined what the show would be about?
- ... that young-adult fiction?
- ... that Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago contains a columbarium specifically intended to hold the ashes of Chicago Cubs fans?
- ... that the 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso, The Actor, estimated to be worth over $100 million, was torn when a woman stumbled and fell into it?
5 February 2010
- 18:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the building which today houses the Ramon Castroviejo, who sold it to the Sovietsin 1975?
- ... that Karl Johanssen, foreign news editor in Arbeiderbladet and one of Norway's first radio personalities, was denounced on the front page of Pravda?
- ... that the illuminated Minuscule 569 was bought in Bulgaria in 1757, became a part of the Załuski Library, and was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1794?
- ... that American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin listened to Christian songs by Bob Dylan before writing for her gospel album Downtown Church?
- ... that the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857 attracted over 1.3 million visitors, about four times the population of the city at that time?
- ... that Edvard Welle-Strand, father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand, was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
- ... that Potlatch River, Idaho, was named Colter's Creek by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805?
- ... that the and inclement weather?
- ... that Hawaii, is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an honorary degreein medicine?
- 12:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ?
- ... that HIV/AIDSeducation project?
- ... that Pitzer equations are important for the understanding of the behaviour of ions dissolved in natural waters such as rivers, lakes and sea-water?
- ... that Governor-General of the Philippines during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to the execution of the martyrs Gomburza?
- ... that though Coast Veddas use a Sri Lankan Tamil dialect on a daily routine, they use Vedda language during Spirit possession rites?
- ... that after then Malaysian Foreign Minister Ghazali Shafie survived a plane crash in 1982, his death was incorrectly reported in The New York Times?
- ... that the Mary Queen of Scots stayed at the castle after the Battle of Langsidein 1568?
- ... that less than two years after Umberto II, Umberto asked that he be pardoned?
- ... that after launching from Doubtful Sound, on a four-year trip?
- 06:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that herbs found in Mexico, eat insects?
- ... that the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones, who recorded 38 songs between 1923 and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?
- ... that the crux gemmata or "jeweled cross" was used to represent the New Jerusalem and the Tree of Life in Early Christian and Medieval art?
- ... that Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, has received significant praise and been called the show's "secret weapon"?
- ... that on August 24, 2009, an algae bloom hit Wickiup Reservoir, dubbed as Oregon's best fishing for brown trout?
- ... that record labelson three different continents?
- ... that at one time the malignant brain tumor?
- ... that Eiríkr Magnússon fell out with scholar Guðbrandur Vigfússonover the need for famine relief in their native Iceland and how to translate the Bible?
- ... that a large concentration of ?
- ... that Elsa Barker was an American novelist and poet who published three volumes of messages from a dead man?
- 00:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Soviets scuttled the battleship Svobodnaya Rossiia (pictured) on 19 June 1918 in Novorossiysk harbor rather than turn her over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
- ... that along with top rated Entry Draft?
- ... that the pioneer wagon route known as the Applegate Trail, opened in 1846 by Jesse Applegate, crossed the southern end of the Goose Lake Valley on the way to southern Oregon?
- ... that actor Paul Schneider initially felt insecure about playing Mark Brendanawicz on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation because he was unsure about the motivations of the character?
- ... that although the Hollytrees Museum was sold to the corporation of Colchester, England in 1922, the cost was met entirely by the private funds of Viscount Cowdray and his wife?
- ... that Chloe Frazer of the Uncharted franchise has been cited as an example of a video game character who accurately portrays the desires and frustrations of human sexuality?
- ... that prior to the construction of the first Florida Governor's Mansion, governors of the state generally lived in boarding houses or hotels?
- ... that George Jorgensen, his new name, Christine?
4 February 2010
- 18:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Chinese influences on Islamic pottery (example pictured) date back to the 8th century?
- ... that at the 1815 Sinhalesekings?
- ... that the BBC drama The Last Days of Lehman Brothers was filmed in an office vacated by Lehman Brothers and that some of their furniture was used to dress the set?
- ... that One Main Place in Portland, Oregon, was reportedly sold in 2010 for US$12 million less than it was purchased for in 2006?
- ... that the famous television commercial inspired by the work of gag manga artist Shigeru Sugiura?
- ... that the Buddhist monk S. Mahinda was born in Sikkim, identified himself as a Tibetan, and took part in the independence movement of Sri Lanka?
- ... that first season of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
- ... that although Vietnamese chancellor Lê Văn Thịnh was charged with high treason by Emperor Lý Nhân Tông, today he is still worshipped by the people in his homeland of Bắc Ninh?
- ... that Michael Jackson's hit song "Thriller", co-produced by him and Quincy Jones, was originally titled "Starlight"?
- 12:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that all the images in Gal Vihara (seated image pictured) of Polonnaruwa have been carved on a single, large granite rock face?
- ... that the moray eel Gymnothorax pictus is able to hunt on land?
- ... that the libretto for Rameau's first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin?
- ... that Warne-Muralidaran Trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers of Test cricket, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne?
- ... that the Sarum Rite?
- ... that Arthur V. Dias, a Sri Lankan independence activist, pioneered a jackfruit propagation campaign by freely distributing seedlings and plants?
- ... that despite criticism of the strange scale of his ?
- ... that the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak was the last time that Egypt attacked an Israeli village in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and one of the war's last Egyptian offensive initiatives?
- ... that mole snakes can inflict serious bite wounds, but nonetheless are said to make good pets?
- 06:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Aztecs, football players, and even drug traffickers?
- ... that the U.S. Army Signal Corps?
- ... that the estuary stingray is persecuted due to its supposedly voracious appetite for farmed shellfish, which has contributed to its decline?
- ... that four days after its building was moved to a new site and rededicated, denomination from Congregationalism to Presbyterianism?
- ... that the Waikato River Trails was the project where Prime Minister John Key officially opened the construction of the New Zealand Cycle Trail?
- ... that a poster based on the Let My Babies Go! A Passover Story was put on display at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2007?
- ... that the Montreal Stars, a professional women's hockey team in Canada, will be represented by three members at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
- ... that the toy company Mattel lent the Will & Grace producers a $60,000 Cher doll prototype for the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed"?
- ... that Lynn Bayonas worked for The Australian Ballet before making her break into television writing?
- ... that ancient Roman brides sat in the lap of Mutunus Tutunus before marriage?
- 00:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Palace of the Marqués del Apartado(pictured) has an underground system pumping water to keep it from sinking?
- ... that the phrase "Leeds United?
- ... that during Stateira II?
- ... that an American judge was appointed to the Permanent Court of International Justice when it was formed, despite the United States not being a signatory to the Court protocol?
- ... that the John Singer Sargent painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit will in 2010 for the first time be exhibited alongside the painting that inspired it, Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez?
- ... that Edna St. Vincent Millay's kitchen at Steepletop, her home in Austerlitz, New York, was the subject of a Ladies' Home Journal article in 1948?
- ... that Lemony Snicket, author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events, is releasing a new series in 2012 that will involve elements of his previous series, including the Great Unknown?
- ... that the song "Barack Obama's presidential campaign, which the band actively supported?
3 February 2010
- 18:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the lower-ground floor of the Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla (pictured) in Spain, was originally an aerationchamber?
- ... that 1938 British Home Championship?
- ... that the iPhone social platform OpenFeint had over ten million users in less than a year since it first launched?
- ... that after William Dubh MacLeod was killed in 1480 at the Battle of Bloody Bay, he was the last MacLeod chief to be buried on the isle of Iona?
- ... that Ringsjön is the second largest lake in Skåne County, Sweden, with an area of 41 square kilometres (10,000 acres)?
- ... that temple?
- ... that actress Aubrey Plaza conceived the idea of April Ludgate, her character on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, having a "gay boyfriend" who also simultaneously dates another boy?
- ... that the extensive mangrove destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia is a major threat to the endangered roughnose stingray?
- ... that Tony Nader, a neurologist from Lebanon, was awarded his weight in gold and crowned First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
- 12:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the rare pandaof the aquatic world"?
- ... that exoplanet directly imaged in visible light?
- ... that the Essex Street Station in New Jersey, was once the terminus and headquarters of the Hackensack and New York Railroad?
- ... that German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII, enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps?
- ... that the indie role-playing video game The Spirit Engine 2 not only has a linear narrative, but also takes place entirely in two dimensions?
- ... that Bob Welch, a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was a part of the Dodgers' 1981 World Series win and later, the Oakland Athletics who lost to the Dodgers in the 1988 series?
- ... that the U.S. military base Camp Kearny, predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, once housed a mooring mast for the Navy's helium dirigibles?
- ... that former U.S. judge parole officerfor verification?
- 06:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Temple V (pictured) of the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Tikal, in Guatemala, was the first pyramid discovered at the site?
- ... that the American Security and Trust Company Building used to appear on the U.S. $10 bill?
- ... that the Royal Navy sloop HMS Beagle captured three French privateers during her ten years of service?
- ... that Cisco Systems, was a ham radioenthusiast at age 14?
- ... that Pluma porgies are the most common member of the genus Calamus in the Antilles, where they are often used for food?
- ... that David M. Malone, a Canadian diplomat and specialist on international affairs, has worked extensively on relations with Haiti and used to stay at the Hotel Montana, destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
- ... that the ISO 14001environmental standards?
- ... that English R.W.G. Dennis has 40 fungalspecies named after him?
- ... that first season, but was made a regular cast member because the producers liked actor Chris Pratt?
- 00:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Montague Druitt (pictured) was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders?
- ... that Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée?
- ... that George Mans, captain of the 1961 Michigan football team, later served in the Michigan House of Representatives and as an assistant coach under Bo Schembechler?
- ... that Norwegian journalist and anti-fascist Gerda Grepp was the first female reporter from Scandinavia to cover the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent?
- ... that 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, becoming only the second Major League Soccerexpansion team to do so in their inaugural season?
- ... that oarsman and 1932 Olympic Champion Rowland George was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Service Order for his service during World War II?
- ... that pheromones that promote aggressionbetween rival male mice?
- ... that the Saint's Row for the Xbox 360?
2 February 2010
- 18:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the creative arts known as costumbrismo (example pictured) was influenced by Englishmen Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and Frenchmen Jouy and Louis-Sébastien Mercier?
- ... that Lord Loch was a World War I British General who went to the dogs?
- ... that Burgundy, are found to be prematurely oxidisedand undrinkable for reasons not yet fully understood?
- ... that the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen, Easterein, the Netherlands, was described as a better millwright than a poet?
- ... that both the Comte de Paris and the Prince of Wales enjoyed the services of the Digital Billiard Wonder?
- ... that the Bullhorn Acacia?
- ... that at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy?
- ... that the 2010 Newbery Winner Rebecca Stead only started writing children's books after her young son broke her laptop, destroying all of her 'serious writing'?
- 12:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that his capital in exile in 1960, was cultivated by Guru Rinpochein the 8th century?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Government of Moscow owns 25% of the Moscow Monorail Transit System, for a monetary value of about $3,379,000?
- ... that Recorder for the town of Colchesterfor nearly 30 years?
- ... that the city of Hobart in Australia had the first fully electrified tram networkin the Southern Hemisphere, and the entire fleet was double-decker?
- ... that Indian singer Master Saleem released his first album when he was 10 years old?
- ... that the National Animal Welfare Trust runs a centre at Trindledown Farm, which is the UK's only sanctuary for elderly pets?
- ... that after being given the honor of performing the royal burial of Christian missionaries?
- ... that in 1920, Prince Joachim of Prussia was ordered under arrest by German Minister of Defence Gustav Noskefor fighting with French military officers?
- 06:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that one burrow of the eastern chipmunk (pictured) was found to contain 390 acorns?
- ... that baseball player Ben Paschal hit .360 as Babe Ruth's replacement while Ruth missed the first 40 games of the 1925 season with a stomach ailment?
- ... that most Columbia Valley)?
- ... that the donkey that inspired the novel and film Brighty of the Grand Canyon is memorialized at Grand Canyon National Park by a statue and an historic landmark?
- ... that between 1917 and 1928, Boston's Park Drive had to be redesigned to accommodate an increase in ownership of automobiles in the neighborhood?
- ... that neighbor?
- ... that NYCHA developments on the Lower East Side include Alfred E. Smith Houses, Baruch Houses, Gompers Houses, Hernandez Houses, LaGuardia Houses, Rutgers Houses, and Vladeck Houses?
- ... that deserters?
- 00:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that all of early 14th-century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue pictured) in Gibraltarwhere devotion has continued for over 700 years?
- ... that losses?
- ... that within two years of her launching, HMS Wolverine was involved in two friendly fire incidents, one with a frigate and one with a slaver?
- ... that architect Solomon Andrew Layton designed 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma, a state record?
- ... that the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's first commission in the city of Venice was an improved design for the façade of San Pietro di Castello?
- ... that the " on September 17, 2009, without any prior promotion or announcement?
- ... that ?
- ... that there are counties in Florida named for leaders of both sides of the Second Seminole War?
- ... that in 1920–21, Burnley were crowned champions of English footballfor the first time?
- ... that the tower of the Manistique Pumping Station is octagonal on the exterior but has 16 sides inside?
1 February 2010
- 18:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that of , only the last (pictured) carried that name originally?
- ... that Bernardo the Japanese, a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier, is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe?
- ... that gold parting refers to the separation of gold and silver?
- ... that the church of Monkton Deverill was dedicated to King and Saint Alfred the Great?
- ... that in the 1930s the Gandhideemed her claims to be accurate?
- ... that the colourful past of Australian former student police officer Underbelly: The Golden Mile?
- ... that the cap of the mushroom Crepidotus mollis?
- ... that there are large stone markers and cairns at the summit of each of the Tektek Mountains in southeastern Turkey?
- ... that in Harriton v Stephens, the High Court of Australia rejected a claim for damages brought by a disabled woman for her "wrongful life"?
- ... that during the Lý Dynasty, Tô Hiến Thànhwas the only person outside the royal family who was titled Prince (Vương)?
- ... that a male ghost reputedly haunts the ladies' toilet at the Brewery Shades in Crawley, West Sussex?
- 12:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Sihanouk of Cambodiaand publicly vowed to kill his father-in-law?
- ... that although only a 1½ mile (2.41 km) long section of the Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway was ever built, it is still in use today as part of the Kent and East Sussex Railway?
- ... that prior to his death, Football Leagueplayer?
- ... that the capsized and sank while at anchor in Sevastopol in 1916 after one of her powder magazinescaught fire and exploded?
- ... that the first sub-four-minute mile in athletics was achieved at the Roger Bannister running track, then known as the Iffley Road Track?
- ... that in 1130 the Emperor Lý Dynastymust not wed so that he could select them as concubines?
- ... that the World Heritage Site Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu represents more than 500 years of Ryukyu history?
- ... that according to a Lý Dynasty official of noble character, in contrast to the traditional account in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư?
- ... that Amador Salazar, a signatory of the Plan of Ayala and cousin of Zapata, was killed by a stray bullet and was buried in a pyramid shaped mausoleum in Tlaltizapán, dressed as a charro?
- 06:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Porfirio Diaz (pictured) believed he could defend northern Mexico against Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco, but Zapata's rebellion in Morelos convinced him to agree to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárezand resign?
- ... that M.B.A. students at the Kellogg School of Management?
- ... that despite threatening the western coast of 1950's Hurricane Loveweakened prior to landfall and moved ashore with little fanfare?
- ... that the short film Second Effort, starring former American football coach Vince Lombardi, has been called the best-selling training film of all time?
- ... that the only Rod Serling short story in the 2009 Twilight Zone anthology was called the least Twilight Zone-like story in the collection?
- ... that department store mogul Roddy Burdine built Miami's first skyscraper?
- ... that the Winthrop, the last ship of the Massachusetts State Navy, was sold in 1783, not long before the American Revolutionary Warended?
- ... that photographs of test prototype cars, pioneered by Hans G. Lehmann, have led car manufacturers to take lengths to disguise their cars during a test session?
- ... that Federal Assembly of Switzerland, has won three bronze medals at the World Orienteering Championships?
- ... that after running ashore in a storm, the German submarine SM U-118 became a popular beachside tourist site?
- 00:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- ... that all that remains of the type specimen of the Mediterranean slipper lobster is a 16th-century watercolour (pictured)?
- ... that according to tradition, the horn that 14th-century clan chief Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod?
- ... that the Buenavista Palace?
- ... that Ludvig Daa, who lost a potential professorship to Peter Andreas Munch in 1837, later denounced Munch's theory on immigration to Norway?
- ... that the team?
- ... that the ?
- ... that the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham, a former devadasi herself?
- ... that Mascara Dorada, named after him and not vice-versa?