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7 February 2023

00:00, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

A Jewish Wedding

... that the subject of A Jewish Wedding (pictured) was said to be the marriage ceremony of the artist's daughter?
... that Perla Batalla was once a backup singer for Leonard Cohen, who encouraged her to write her own songs?
... that MicroProse was formed to publish Hellcat Ace after Sid Meier boasted that he could design a better video game than Red Baron in a week?
... that Interstate 81 in Tennessee was the site of a carjacking that culminated in the Lillelid murders in 1997?
... that during the First World War, James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry?
... that the 801 Grand is the tallest building in the state of Iowa?
... that a 15-year-old swim team member is credited with saving several lives in the crash of Alitalia Flight 1553?
... that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia?

6 February 2023

00:00, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Poster for Captain America (1944)

... that a 1944 serial film (poster pictured) was the first film appearance of Captain America and the first film appearance of any Marvel Comics character?
... that of the ten Royal Navy flag officers to die during the First World War, three were killed in action?
... that Henry R. Pattengill requested that his name be removed from the ballot?
... that zinc white was found in several versions of The Scream?
... that Indian independence activist and author P. Kodanda Rao's correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi helped to clarify Thoreau's influence on Gandhi?
... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
... that after his tenure ended in 1964, Ipik Gandamana would be the last Indonesian minister of home affairs to be a civilian until 2009?
... that Alexander the Great occasionally founded cities not named after himself?

5 February 2023

00:00, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Luna Park

... that during the construction of Coney Island's Luna Park (pictured), its owners electrocuted Topsy the elephant?
... that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift, two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome?
... that during its run of screenings at the Whitney Museum, the 1979 film Asparagus was shown rear-projected onto a set that appears in the film itself?
... that Eudoro Galindo, who was nearly elected Vice President of Bolivia, was also a three-time national fencing champion and a two-time Bolivarian Games bronze medallist?
... that SZA said her label insisted on scrapping a song from her second album, even though they had used it to promote the album?
... that attendees from forty countries and financial institutions at the 2023 International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan pledged more than US$9 billion for flood recovery?
... that Margaret Cooper wrote that the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service was providing "the experience of a lifetime" to the young women she recruited during the Second World War?
... that in 2012, a "stylish but illegal monkey" was seen wandering a Toronto-area IKEA?

4 February 2023

00:00, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Rizal Monument

... that while other countries built monuments to José Rizal a century after his birth, the Rizal Monument (pictured) in Madrid was built a century after his death?
... that Majidreza Rahnavard was the first Iranian to be executed in public in connection with the Mahsa Amini protests?
... that Southern Railway 1401 was one of eight locomotives that hauled the funeral train of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Henrietta Bruckman founded the first fraternal organization for Jewish women in the United States?
... that only one person made a donation of land for the settlement and employment of British military veterans under a 1916 act of Parliament?
... that Valentín Carboni played in the same three youth teams as his brother Franco before they both received their first call-up to the Argentine senior national team in March 2022?
... that two Tuscarora men held their local newspaper hostage in an attempt to expose local police corruption, to no avail?
... that Phil Fletcher as Hacker T. Dog caused Lauren Layfield to make the "most famous snort" in the United Kingdom in 2016?

3 February 2023

00:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Katō Kanji

... that Katō Kanji (pictured), leader of the fleet faction, shouted that "war with America starts now" after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty?
... that the music video for David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" was, at a cost of £250,000, the most expensive made at the time?
... that Jack Champion had to film all his scenes in Avatar: The Way of Water twice?
... that a model walked the runway at the Alexander McQueen show The Dance of the Twisted Bull in a flamenco dress pierced with spears?
... that the Brooklyn Tower, the first supertall building in Brooklyn, was described as the "Empire State Building of Brooklyn"?
... that according to a critic, the black metal album The Mercian Sphere is not folk metal, but close enough for "black metal purists" to reject it?
... that when West Java governor Nana Nuriana ran for reelection in 1998, he faced fifteen challengers?
... that members of Lego fandom not only design their own sets but also engage in cosplay?

2 February 2023

00:00, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Embriachi marriage casket

... that around 1400, the Embriachi workshop in northern Italy specialised in marriage caskets with carved bone plaques (example pictured)?
... that after David Glenn Lewis was killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident 30 years ago today 1,600 miles (2,600 km) from his home, it took a Google search in 2004 to identify his body?
... that the launch of a Florida TV station was brought forward nearly two months because the local ABC affiliate stopped airing more than half of its prime-time shows?
... that Peruvian foreign minister Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza was arrested by Chilean troops for refusing to sign peace with the cession of territory during the War of the Pacific?
... that Rolling Stone named Mission of Burma's "Academy Fight Song" as one of the 100 greatest debut singles of all time?
... that the first issue of Allan, one of the earliest Japanese magazines focused on male–male romance for a female audience, featured a pin-up poster of David Bowie?
... that the Banu Kalb tribe were originally Christians but became Muslims after the Muslim conquest of the Levant?
... that a donut has a donutussy?

1 February 2023

00:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Paweł Adamowicz

... that after a stabbing attack on Paweł Adamowicz (pictured), the mayor of Gdańsk, at least 41 units of blood were used in an unsuccessful attempt to save him?
... that Adam Ramage was considered one of the most important early American printing press builders in his day, having produced 1,250 presses during his lifetime?
... that Tolkien's Morgoth has been seen as analogous to Satan?
... that after each loss, American football coach Art Haege made his players crawl from the locker room to the practice field, saying "if you played like a worm, you crawled like a worm"?
... that for his first film, Operation Java, director Tharun Moorthy and his production team handpicked all 83 actors rather than doing an open audition for roles?
... that with no documents verifying its establishment, an American concession existed de facto in the Chinese city of Tianjin for more than 40 years?
... that George Charles Hoste took charge of the quarter-deck guns of the frigate Spartan, defended her against a French squadron, and took the brig Sparvière as a prize?
... that at the start of Drama Shower, Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!?