Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/December

30 December 2021

• 00:00, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Elisabeth Schmitz

• ... that Kristallnacht prompted Elisabeth Schmitz (pictured) to leave her teaching job, unwilling to work for "a government that permitted the synagogues to be set afire"?
• ... that among the traditions of the University of Texas at Arlington are bed racing and oozeball?
• ... that Brazilian student Bruno Borges disappeared, leaving fourteen handwritten encrypted books and a statue over two metres (6.6 ft) tall in his bedroom?
• ... that the Austro-Hungarian yacht Dalmat carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his journey to Sarajevo in 1914 and returned with his body?
• ... that in the 1880s Joseph T. Wilson wrote the "most comprehensive study of African American military service" of the era?
• ... that consuming the vitamin riboflavin in large amounts will cause urine to have a bright yellow color?
• ... that the leaders of Nazi Germany believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were puppets of an international Jewish conspiracy?
• ... that Indonesian politician Iskandar Ramis had to be hospitalized after attempting to make juice?

29 December 2021

• 00:00, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

High heels with dyed-black harp seal fur by Nicole Camphaug

• ... that a pair of sealskin-covered high heels (example pictured) by Inuk designer Nicole Camphaug are held in the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto?
• ... that an incident at Bridle Trails State Park resulted in a horse being euthanized?
• ... that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry, an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911, had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala?
• ... that contestants in the Financial Modeling World Cup solve problems in Microsoft Excel?
• ... that Nicholas Horsfall published five commentaries on Vergil's Aeneid after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
• ... that a strike by uranium miners in 1974 in Ontario led to the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act?
• ... that impressionist Paul Boland has imitated over 100 voices during his performances including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles?
• ... that
  a ghostly figure can be seen at the legendary home of King Arthur
  ?

William Rounseville Alger

• ... that William Rounseville Alger's (pictured) 1857 Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years?
• ... that Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, a Bach cantata for the Third Day of Christmas, contains the only aria that he newly composed for the oratorio?
• ... that the bridge from which James Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct?
• ... that despite the support of the British authorities, the multi-racial United Tanganyika Party was unsuccessful, with the African-nationalist TANU winning a majority in the 1958–59 election?
• ... that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024?
• ... that in 1874, thousands of Russian students "[went] to the people" to agitate the peasantry towards socialism?
• ... that a 1939 thesis by Nathaniel Fadipe, The Sociology of the Yoruba, was the first sociological study by a black African?
• ... that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad that "it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"?

27 December 2021

• 00:00, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Canal at Westbury Court Garden

• ... that the peak period in England for formal closed
  canals in gardens
  (example pictured) was from about the 1690s to 1720s?
• ... that theatre critic Günther Rühle's books cover the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966?
• ... that Hypericum aegypticum exhibits a rare form of heterostyly?
• ... that the home of civil rights activist Lottie B. Scott is a stop on Norwich's Freedom Trail?
• ... that the software vulnerability Log4Shell affects hundreds of millions of devices worldwide?
• ... that despite the governor-general being advised not to employ him, Darmawan Mangunkusumo kept his colonial government job?
• ... that three unsuccessful attempts were made to destroy the offices of The Union Flag?
• ... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas?

26 December 2021

• 00:00, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Adoration of the Kings, detail

• ... that there is some uncertainty as to which figures in Bramantino's Adoration of the Kings represent the Three Kings?
• ... that the Christmas Special Honda minibike, which struggled to sell upon release in 1986, is now worth nearly $10,000 as a collector's item?
• ... that the song "Meri Kuri" by BoA has been dubbed Japan's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"?
• ... that in 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church wrote "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"?
• ... that "Brich an, du schönes Morgenlicht" (Break, you beautiful morning light) tells the shepherds in Bach's Christmas Oratorio not to be afraid?
• ... that a Christmas gift on The West Wing's "Bartlet for America", a napkin bearing the episode's slogan, was replicated for Jacky Rosen's U.S. Senate campaign?
• ... that the creation of the traditional Valtellina Christmas sweet bread bisciola is credited to Napoleon, even though he was never in the region?
• ... that New Yorkers could at one time rely on thrice-weekly visits from Santa Claus—though not over Christmas?

25 December 2021

• 00:00, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Bolton Abbey in the Snow by B. W. Evans

• ... that artist Bernard Walter Evans' Bolton Abbey in the Snow (pictured) was painted outdoors in "something like Arctic conditions"?
• ... that the 2018 soundtrack album It's Christmas, Eve by LeAnn Rimes originated from a film in which Rimes played the main character?
• ... that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas, held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?
• ... that when Josef Rheinberger conducted the first performance of his Mass in A major for three women's voices on Christmas Eve 1881, he added a flute and a string quintet to the organ accompaniment?
• ... that The Jew's Christmas was the first American film to have a rabbi as one of its characters?
• ... that besides their usual pop fare, the Glee cast sang hymns in traditional arrangements on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album?
• ... that throughout the Cold War, "subversive" persons at the BBC had their files marked with a "Christmas tree"?
• ... that the album series Jingle Cats spawned Jingle Dogs, Jingle Babies, and a Japanese video game in which "the object is to breed and care for cats, which begin to sing when they're done copulating"?

24 December 2021

• 00:00, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

SoloTürk demonstration aircraft

• ... that the aerobatic demonstration aircraft (pictured) used by SoloTürk is also used in military operations of the Turkish Air Force?
• ... that when a batch of the peppermint liqueur Minttu turned yellow because of iron contamination, Americans just marketed it as an "older vintage"?
• ... that Elisabeth Dmitrieff, daughter of a Russian noble, was sent by Karl Marx to the Paris Commune and fought in its defense before falling into obscurity?
• ... that Irving Berlin, who co-owned the Music Box Theatre from its opening in 1921, still checked the theater's receipts before his death in 1989?
• ... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
• ... that Elcysma westwoodi is considered "the most damaging lepidopteran pest of Prunus × yedoensis"?
• ... that Suresh Jadhav led the development of the COVID-19 vaccine marketed as Covishield?
• ... that the 2020 song "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" spawned a sequel in 2021: "Boris Johnson Is Still a Fucking Cunt"?

23 December 2021

• 00:00, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Phoenician bowl from the Walters Art Museum

• ... that the discovery of Phoenician metal bowls (example pictured) in 1849 created the entire concept of Phoenician art?
• ... that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"?
• ... that Bilingirl ran a nail salon before she started posting on YouTube?
• ... that the 1970, 1976, 1977, 1988, 1989, and 1994 Westminster Titans football teams all won national championships?
• ... that Chris Schulenburg was one of only two recipients of the Grand Cross of Valour, Rhodesia's highest gallantry award?
• ... that despite its name, the Branford Steam Railroad has not used steam locomotives since 1960?
• ... that Kurt Rommel, a German Protestant pastor, wrote the texts and tunes for hundreds of hymns with young people in mind?
• ... that Ixodes tasmani makes a type of cement to help it to suck blood?

22 December 2021

• 00:00, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Drawing of a Caloian figurine

• ... that Caloian, a ritual once practiced in southern and eastern Romania, involved the burial of a figurine (example pictured) by young girls, one of whom acted as a priest?

• ... that Tom Eastick was the first Australian artillery officer to use survey procedures to accurately engage targets without ranging?
• ... that an advertisement for Mountain Dew starring Tyler, the Creator, as a talking goat was criticized by social commentator Boyce Watkins as "arguably the most racist commercial in history"?
• ... that 1964 Olympic field hockey player John Land played for England into his late 70s?
• ... that ice hockey film Chicks with Sticks received its title and funding following the success of Men with Brooms?
• ... that before Arthur Phillip commanded the first fleet of convicts to settle Australia, he was employed to spy on France?
• ... that after Kellogg's announced plans to replace striking workers in 2021, members of r/antiwork organized to submit fake applications to the company's hiring system?
• ... that Cibo paints Italian food over neo-fascist graffiti?

21 December 2021

• 12:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Modern women's parka by Victoria Kakuktinniq

• ... that Inuk designer Victoria Kakuktinniq incorporates design elements from the traditional amauti parka into contemporary Inuit clothing (example pictured)?
• ... that the Decision of 1789 was the first significant construction on the meaning of the United States Constitution in the U.S. Congress?
• ... that 3-hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde has the lowest molecular weight of any dye which exhibits green fluorescence?
• ... that I Putu Sukreta Suranta refused to pursue an academic degree, despite repeatedly being given the opportunity to do so?
• ... that Canon Computer Systems's NoteJet laptop came with a built-in printer?
• ... that Kirsten Warner, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor?
• ... that one journalist said that the proportions of the limbs of the statues at the Monumento a los Indios Verdes are a "sin against anatomical laws"?
• ... that the giant hawker, the largest living dragonfly, with a wingspan of 163 millimetres (6.4 in), has larvae that exhibit "ballistic defecation"?

• 00:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Diagram of the three utilities problem showing lines in a plane

• ... that it is impossible to draw non-crossing lines from three houses to three utilities (pictured) in a plane?
• ... that the only remaining artifact in the ghost town of Fremont, Oregon, is a juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
• ... that Semuel Jusof Warouw advocated Minahasan independence to gain leverage in Dutch–Indonesian negotiations?
• ... that 80 per cent of the Royalist garrison were killed in the 1645 storming of Shelford House?
• ... that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?
• ... that in December 1876, two police officers were murdered by brothers who had poached just two pheasants and a jay?
• ... that according to a review from the The New Yorker, The French Suicide largely overstates France's decline?
• ... that marine engineer Elmer P. Wheaton made his employees learn to scuba dive so that they would have respect for the sea?

20 December 2021

• 12:00, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Kilvidi Seshachari

• ... that Kilvidi Seshachari (pictured), the wicket-keeper for the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England, was recruited by the Maharaja of Natore to defeat the all-European Calcutta Cricket Club?
• ... that Hyun Ji Shin was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld in his Chanel campaign before his death?
• ... that Raoul Servais invented a new technique for combining animation and live action for his short film Harpya?
• ... that a formerly abandoned sugar mill is now a rest area on the Trans-Java Toll Road?
• ... that the Germanic neopagan group Verein für germanisches Heidentum dismisses völkisch religiosity by associating it with monotheism and dualism?
• ... that Daniel Barclay Williams, Virginia's first Black teacher of classics, was described as "a one man department"?
• ... that the Istanbul Waste Power Plant, opened last month, is Turkey's first waste-to-energy facility?
• ... that a strip club manager in Toronto
  sued a company that did not employ him for wrongful dismissal
  ?

Hebetica sylviae

• ... that Hebetica sylviae (pictured) was discovered after a two-year-old named Sylvie overwatered her backyard?
• ... that Felix Mendelssohn, inspired by the singing of nuns at the Trinità dei Monti in Rome, composed the motet Veni Domine for Advent?
• ... that the national-champion 1973 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team featured a freshman running back who broke college football's single-season scoring record?
• ... that the lobby of Wenzhou Museum includes Kuafu chasing the sun and Chang'e flying to the moon?
• ... that Roger Waters thought The Phantom of the Opera's main theme was ripped off from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"?
• ... that after a tornado devastated Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1979, radio station KTRN was just one of two on the air?
• ... that Jusuf Wibisono, chairman of a labor union, wanted an eight-hour work day – up from seven?
• ... that Black Oxygen Organics sold packs of dirt to customers for US$110 each?

19 December 2021

• 12:00, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Mombasa tusks

• ... that United States Marines have repainted the Mombasa tusks (pictured) several times?
• ... that more than 170 children showed signs of tuberculosis and more than 70 died in the 1929–1933 Lübeck disaster after being given BCG vaccines contaminated with the bacteria responsible?
• ... that the 1896 novel Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith was adapted into a play the same year?
• ... that the punitive Mamluk campaigns against the non-Sunni Muslim mountaineers of the Kisrawan from 1292 to 1305 helped pave the way for the region's Maronite Christian majority?
• ... that placekicker Lonny Calicchio was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles to the practice squad, promoted to the active roster, named starter, and released all within eight days?
• ... that the historical English tables game of Doublets was mentioned in 1549 in a sermon by Latimer to King Edward VI?
• ... that Poedjono Pranyoto instructed his subordinates to burn around a thousand houses to make way for a protected forest area?
• ... that the conservative organization Moms for Liberty wants a book about Galileo Galilei to be taught in a way that is more positive towards the Catholic Church, for balance?

• 00:00, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Frances Brett Hodgkinson

• ... that English-born actress Frances Brett Hodgkinson (pictured) became the highest-paid theater actress in the United States in 1800?
• ... that Niall Sheridan was the model for the "intellectual Meath-man" Brinsley in Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds?
• ... that the "English Game", Ludus Anglicorum, was the most popular tables game in the mediaeval England of Chaucer's time?
• ... that WNJU, a Spanish-language television station serving New York City, was the first in the United States to air a hard-liquor advertisement?
• ... that Harry Tombs established the first New Zealand fine-arts press?
• ... that "NDA" transitions into "Therefore I Am"?
• ... that flying ace Károly Kaszala refused to fly the airplane he was assigned?
• ... that according to critics, Fortune-499 is "an effective story of capitalist humdrum" that involves "witchcraft, mid-20s malaise, and puns"?

18 December 2021

• 12:00, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Chili crisp on vanilla ice cream

• ... that chili crisp, a hot sauce with a "cult-like" fandom, is used to top everything from eggs to ice cream (pictured)?
• ... that Tatyana Mezhentseva is the first person in ten years to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice?
• ... that 1.8 percent of people in Japan have used cannabis, compared to 44.2 percent of Americans and 41.5 percent of Canadians?
• ... that Walter Bassett arranged for the construction of the first wind tunnel in Australia?
• ... that General George Monck accepted that 500 Scots, including women and children, were killed when his army stormed Dundee in 1651?
• ... that Lew Nichols III led the nation during the 2021 regular season with 1,710 rushing yards?
• ... that the designers of Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King also created Broom Service, winning the Kennerspiel des Jahres two years in a row?
• ... that as
  finance minister, Surachman Tjokroadisurjo
  often stored government funds inside suitcases in his home?

Roland Böer

• ... that Roland Böer (pictured), who made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, was the artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano?
• ... that Dan Finnerty was cast in Single All the Way so that he could cross the Canada–U.S. border and join his wife, Kathy Najimy, on the set of the film?
• ... that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for Australia?
• ... that Nandivada Rathnasree, who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories?
• ... that the documentary film Boycott includes the stories of three Americans who sued their state governments after being affected by anti-BDS laws?
• ... that the mediaeval English tables game of Ticktack has several ways of winning, including Toots and Rovers?
• ... that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000?
• ... that there are more than 200 manhole covers featuring Pokémon in Japan?

17 December 2021

• 12:00, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

St Collen's Church, Llangollen

• ... that St Collen's Church (pictured) in Wales has a memorial to one of the 19th century's most famous same-sex partnerships?
• ... that Fabian Kelly, a tenor focused on historically informed performance, was a soloist in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and Handel's Messiah?
• ... that after Superior Coach Company closed in 1981, its employees' credit union absorbed 15 other credit unions to become the fourth-largest in Ohio?
• ... that William Thomas Sugg's firm installed the gas lights on Tower Bridge?
• ... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
• ... that Digital Eclipse expressed interest in rereleasing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 after Maximilian Dood's social media campaign went viral?
• ... that the medieval John Halle's Hall is the foyer of a cinema?
• ... that to celebrate the Paramount Building's construction, oxen and lamb were roasted over the ruins of the previous building on the site?

• 00:00, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Heinz Baked Beans

• ... that Mo Drake came up with the slogan "Beanz Meanz Heinz" for Heinz Baked Beans (pictured) in 1967?
• ... that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people?
• ... that Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo had to be "made younger" to be eligible for elementary school?
• ... that the music video for Chris Hadfield's version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was the first music video recorded in space?
• ... that Google searches for the term "dumpster fire" spiked after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in October 2015?
• ... that efforts by Shyam Sunder Jyani have led to the planting of 2.5 million saplings in the Indian state of Rajasthan?
• ... that "leek rust", caused by Puccinia allii, has also caused significant losses for garlic farmers?
• ... that it is said of the board game Photosynthesis that "you can always count on someone else screwing it all up"?

16 December 2021

• 12:00, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Winter Garden Theatre

• ... that the runway at the Winter Garden Theatre (interior pictured) was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
• ... that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003?
• ... that even though it was "the best thing to happen to the Atari", the XF551 floppy disk drive was only released after Nintendo sued them?
• ... that after Sydney Parkinson died on the return leg of the first voyage of James Cook, some of his drawings were engraved for publication in his Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas?
• ... that three schools in Virginia were named after Daniel Webster Davis?
• ... that 92 percent of complaint calls about the Scanner Price Accuracy Code are not legitimate complaints?
• ... that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates?
• ... that Birds Aren't Real?

• 00:00, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Mary Earle

• ... that Mary Earle (pictured) was born near Ben Nevis, and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots?
• ... that the electropop rock band Siamés created "Argentina's first anime music video"?
• ... that the book The Icepick Surgeon discusses research by Henry Murray in which he verbally abused volunteers, one of whom went on to become the Unabomber?
• ... that the Polish mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis, who sang on the Grammy Award–winning album Penderecki conducts Penderecki, was Verdi's Azucena in Zürich in 2021?
• ... that species in the dinosaur group Parankylosauria have tail weaponry termed a "macuahuitl", in reference to the Mesoamerican weapons of the same name?
• ... that Pat Studstill led the National Football League in punt return yards in 1962, receiving yards in 1966, and punting yards in 1969?
• ... that the first landing during the Dutch invasion of Saint Helena was defeated by English settlers throwing rocks?
• ... that when the founder of New Mexico television station KBIM-TV was told on the morning of April Fools' Day that his station's tower had collapsed, he initially wrote it off as a joke?

15 December 2021

• 12:00, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Atari 810 floppy disk drive

• ... that the first drive available for the
  Atari 8-bit family, the Atari 810 floppy disk drive
  (pictured), was described as "noisy, slow and inefficient", with "notoriously poor speed regulation"?
• ... that one can place 16 pawns on a chessboard such that no three pawns lie on the same line?
• ... that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote?
• ... that the board game Cytosis was endorsed by the Journal of Cell Science?
• ... that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha (Eternity), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language?
• ... that Asa Taccone was paid just $60 for co-editing and co-writing the Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box"?
• ... that filmmaker
  rewilding
  ?
• ... that the black swamp in Claremont Park was believed to be inhabited by evil spirits and was known to have consumed cattle?

• 00:00, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Schloss Türnich and gatehouse

• ... that Schlosspark Türnich, the park of a moated palace (pictured), is managed with a focus on biodiversity?
• ... that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?
• ... that Indian cricketer
  Bombay Quadrangular
  introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
• ... that Kanye West recorded "Hey Mama" five years before its release on his 2005 album Late Registration?
• ... that the game MicroMacro: Crime City was so popular after its release that print runs repeatedly sold out for eight months?
• ... that Chinese-Canadian Zhuo Qun Song is currently the most decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant?
• ... that the village of Bidar Alam was the seat of the Indonesian government for three and a half months?
• ... that the Global Methodist Church is part of a proposed divorce over marriage?

14 December 2021

• 12:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

The second circle of hell, depicted by William Blake

• ... that the punishment of sinners in the second circle of hell (pictured) is an example of contrapasso?
• ... that Louis W. Roberts was among the highest ranking African-American space program staff at NASA while the Apollo program was underway?
• ... that before the Second World War, Australian army officers used the pages of Britain's Army Quarterly and Defence Journal to argue for greater self-reliance in defence matters?
• ... that 2000 Alabama Amendment 2, which repealed the state's anti-miscegenation laws, was carefully written to avoid legalizing same-sex marriage?
• ... that Ben Comeau invented a fictitious student of Franz Liszt so he could write a 45-minute piano sonata?
• ... that in Olaf Presents, the line where Olaf points out Mufasa eats some of his subjects was praised by Screen Rant?
• ... that on a wax-myrtle plant, 42 mature lobate lac scales were recorded on a 1 cm (0.4 in) section of twig?
• ... that the Batman supervillain Mr. Bloom was created to be the "anti-Joker"?

• 00:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

The Dyeworks by Holroyd

• ... that while his brother carried on the family photography business, Thomas Holroyd went into painting and later created The Dyeworks (pictured)?
• ... that in 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that the criminalization of assistance to asylum seekers violated EU law?
• ... that Interstate 182 was created as a compromise for the states of Washington and Oregon?
• ... that Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War?
• ... that you could buy ten Montgomery Ward Records for $1.79?
• ... that the fossil love bug Plecia canadensis changed genus based on a single vein?
• ... that two voyageur canoes capsized off of Hog Island in 1976?
• ... that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001?

13 December 2021

• 12:10, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tina Stege

• ... that Tina Stege (pictured), who led the High Ambition Coalition at COP26, is from a country that may cease to exist with projected rises in sea level?
• ... that the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre was known as the John Golden Theatre before the John Golden Theatre was?
• ... that pulmonologist Sze-Piao Yang was referred to as the "father of thoracic X-ray interpretation in Taiwan", and conducted the first ever occupational disease study done in Taiwan?
• ... that the board game Dragomino features "adorable" dragons?
• ... that violinist Nikolai Sachenko performs rarely-played piano trios by Russian composers as a member of the Brahms Trio?
• ... that The Undercommons, an essay collection that criticizes academia, was written by two alumni of Harvard University?
• ... that Jonathan Strong, an early enslaved West Indian in Britain, was abused by his master so badly that he could barely walk or see?
• ... that a 1963 book offers Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Pooh?

• 00:00, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Queen Victoria by Webber

• ... that the 4.5-ton marble statue of Queen Victoria (pictured) in Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial was carved by the British sculptor William John Seward Webber?
• ... that the Majestic Theatre, designed for "revues and light operas", has hosted the same musical for the past three decades?
• ... that Albruna may have been the woman of "superhuman size" who stopped Roman general Drusus's campaign in Germania by prophesying his death?
• ... that the second edition of the Wild West–themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"?
• ... that Damon Severson scored a goal with 0.4 seconds left in regulation time to help lead Canada men's national ice hockey team to a silver medal?
• ... that the construction of Interstate H-2 in Hawaii unearthed a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s?
• ... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
• ... that William Goebel was sworn in as Governor of Kentucky a day after being shot?

12 December 2021

• 12:00, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Sigismund Danielewicz

• ... that Sigismund Danielewicz's (pictured) career in the California labor movement ended after he delivered an 1885 speech advocating against the persecution of Chinese people?
• ... that unkept promises made in the 1915 Treaty of London created the sense of mutilated victory in Italy after World War I?
• ... that Bruce Schroeder, who presided over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, is the longest-serving state court judge in Wisconsin?
• ... that the colonial bryozoan Walkeria uva is sometimes only detectable by accident?
• ... that the children's book
  Atatiana Jefferson
  , a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019?
• ... that New Zealand health executive Sharon Shea points to distrust in authority caused by "post-colonisation trauma" for low COVID-19 vaccination rates of Māori?
• ... that
  2021 lockout
  was set to begin?
• ... that "the surgeon of the sidewalks" is anonymous?

• 00:00, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Holodomor Memorial Day commemoration in Ukraine

• ... that the Ukrainian Holodomor Memorial Day (commemoration pictured), commemorating the victims of the 1932–33 famine, is also observed in Canada?
• ... that today's MLS Cup 2021 will mark the seventh consecutive final to feature either the Portland Timbers or Seattle Sounders FC?
• ... that Italian radio presenter Aldo Forbice was a long-time supporter of local social issues, including helping to promote an exhibition on the AIDS epidemic?
• ... that when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island, a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold?
• ... that backgammon was derived from the esteemed 16th-century Scottish and English tables game of Irish and eventually surpassed it in popularity?
• ... that during W. Sterling Cary's presidency of the National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history?
• ... that the 13th-century Iplikçi Mosque in Konya, Turkey, contains a mihrab with traces of mosaic tiling which is the oldest extant example of Anatolian Seljuk art?
• ... that Justice Antonin Scalia stated that he did not want the U.S. Congress to make him buy broccoli?

11 December 2021

• 13:16, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Sword-billed hummingbird

• ... that the sword-billed hummingbird (pictured) has the longest bill of any hummingbird?
• ... that Noa Denmon's illustration for the Google Doodle on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included people painting a mural while socially distanced due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
• ... that the board game Suburbia is said to be a "masterfully designed game" with "tedious bookkeeping"?
• ... that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"?
• ... that Dante "may have detested everything about Arabs and Muslims", but placed Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes among the virtuous in the first circle of hell?
• ... that according to Swiss cardiologist Thomas Lüscher, chocolate is good for us if it is dark and bitter, but white chocolate is "not healthy at all"?
• ... that in 2000, the Sacramento County Policy Planning Commission decided that humans would never be allowed to live on Kimball Island again?
• ... that in The Arraignment of Paris, poet Denis Glover stated Charles Allan Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters"?

• 01:16, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Head of a Bear

• ... that a Post-it Note–sized drawing (pictured) by Leonardo da Vinci sold for £8.8 million in 2021?
• ... that Grace Meigs Crowder found that pregnancy and childbirth were a common cause of death in the early 1900s for American women who were aged under 45?
• ... that the popularity of "10 Minutes" by Korean singer Lee Hyori led to 2003 being dubbed the "year of Hyori" by domestic media?
• ... that some members of the Kushner family objected after Jared invoked their grandparents' resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland to support his denial of Donald Trump's alleged antisemitism?
• ... that
  Henry Grunwald, "Preppy" by Candice Bergen, and "Whiz Kid" by Sarah Miles
  ?
• ... that the title of Taylor Swift's 2008 album Fearless reflects Swift's attitude to embrace hardships in love and life?
• ... that Paddy Fox recruited so many people from County Durham to the British Army that they became known locally as "Pad's Army"?
• ... that super weaners may be "milk thieves" or "double mother-sucklers"?

10 December 2021

• 12:00, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Rotating whip-like flagellum

• ... that swimming and swarming are forms of bacterial motility, which some bacteria achieve by rotating a small whip-like flagellum (depicted)?
• ... that Harriet Amelia Folsom went by her middle name, so as not to be confused with her husband Brigham Young's other wives?
• ... that the Romans won a series of campaigns against Germanic tribes after the disaster at Teutoburg but decided to leave Germany as the effort was out of proportion to the territory's value?
• ... that Dianxi Xiaoge, who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water, is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms?
• ... that the "two boats and a helicopter" parable has been used to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?
• ... that in September 2021, cricketer Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player to score a century for Austria in a Women's Twenty20 International match?
• ... that part of Prise d'Orange was recently discovered in the binding of another book?
• ... that George Asprey was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth – according to the Daily Mirror, it was a silver shovel?

• 00:00, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Rico Sasaki

• ... that Rico Sasaki (pictured) beat 9,000 other auditioners to play the title role in a Japanese production of Annie in 2008?
• ... that
  LSD
  ?
• ... that with as many as a quarter of mothers in eastern Greenland experiencing domestic violence, Laura Tàunâjik proposed a women's shelter in Tasiilaq?
• ... that Bellman's song "Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund!" describes "one of the wildest weddings in Swedish literature"?
• ... that Dermot Morrah, a British journalist for The Times, wrote Princess Elizabeth's 21st birthday speech?
• ... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
• ... that in 1752, Samuel Kneeland and his partner produced the first Bible in the English language ever printed in America?
• ... that it's pronounced "gif", not "gif"?

9 December 2021

• 12:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Franklin D. Roosevelt working at his desk in the Oval Office

• ... that the key to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oval Office desk (pictured) is missing?
• ... that when Nadjamuddin Daeng Malewa was forming a government cabinet for the State of East Indonesia, he was outside the region?
• ... that the name of Ireland's Eye off Howth northeast of Dublin has nothing to do with the organ but can actually be translated as "Ireland's island"?
• ... that
  Theodore Conrad
  , who evaded capture for 52 years after stealing US$215,000, remained a fugitive for so long that he was finally tracked down by the son of one of the original investigators?
• ... that the Burmese and South Korean first ladies held their first informal conversation 44 years after the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries?
• ... that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication?
• ... that the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan?
• ... that the freighter Manasoo is believed to have been sunk by cows?

• 00:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Table setting at an Outstanding in the Field event

• ... that on an average night, between 130 and 200 people can be found Outstanding in the Field (example pictured) for about five hours?
• ... that Norman Colville renovated a manor to house his growing art collection?
• ... that the Chile Ridge has a slab window?
• ... that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist?
• ... that a "North Dakota joke of the mornin'" was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
• ... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society?
• ... that the front of the 11th-century River Laune Crozier contains a figure with oval eyes, a thin nose, spiral ears and a handlebar moustache that radiates out around him?
• ... that Mr. Bean accurately predicted the results of many American elections?

8 December 2021

• 12:00, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Syaoran Li cosplayer

• ... that Syaoran Li (cosplayer pictured) from the manga Cardcaptor Sakura formed the basis of two characters in a later manga; one original and one clone?
• ... that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the "Bohemian Grove of yachting"?
• ... that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck?
• ... that the bryozoan Walkeria tuberosa is sometimes referred to as Valkeria tuberosa despite being named after the Scottish natural historian John Walker?
• ... that Michaela Goade received the 2021 Caldecott Medal for her watercolor illustrations for We Are Water Protectors, becoming the first Indigenous artist to win the award?
• ... that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus, their navy became the third largest in all of Greece?
• ... that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia?
• ... that?

• 00:00, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Opal embedded in jasper

• ... that silicification can produce opal (example pictured)?
• ... that Desmond Young's biography of Erwin Rommel was criticised for portraying him as a "blue-eyed god who could do no wrong"?
• ... that the theme of the board game Parks is based on the national parks of the United States?
• ... that Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to physically cut their banknotes in half?
• ... that Bobby Hackett said that Jackie Gleason's main contribution to the recording of Music for Lovers Only was that "he brought the checks"?
• ... that critics complained about the manga Sex Ed 120% being given a "mature" rating by its English-language publisher?
• ... that film producer Konstantin Kalser, who won an Oscar for his 1956 short film Crashing the Water Barrier, later admitted that the film was an advertisement for an oil company?
• ... that
  Styx
  's name derives from its seeming to have "come from the underworld"?

7 December 2021

• 12:00, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Male wreathed hornbill

• ... that the wreathed hornbill (male pictured) is hunted for consumption of its meat, and that its casque is used as headgear by local people in Arunachal Pradesh?
• ... that Norma Kuhling's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl"?
• ... that the album Hello by Korean singer Cho Yong-pil was the first time he had worked with international composers since his debut in 1968?
• ... that in the 1820s, the British acrobat Henry Johnson performed before the Chinese Emperor?
• ... that Kanye West's group the Sunday Service Choir performed "No Child Left Behind" with Justin Bieber at a Halloween 2021 concert?
• ... that in Hokusai's woodblock print series One Hundred Ghost Stories, there are only five prints?
• ... that Elisabeth Geleerd became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family?
• ... that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?

• 00:00, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Jacquetta Hawkes

• ... that archaeologist and prehistorian Jacquetta Hawkes (pictured) co-founded the Homosexual Law Reform Society and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament?
• ... that for more than a decade, WNJC-FM at Northwest Mississippi Junior College was the state's only public radio station?
• ... that when David Bowie performed "Golden Years" on Soul Train in 1975, he was incoherent and visibly intoxicated?
• ... that gameplay in the board game Oceans ends once the ocean zones are depopulated of fish?
• ... that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag?
• ... that Eric Schmidt developed Berknet, an early wide area network system, in 1978 while he was a student at Berkeley University?
• ... that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19?
• ... that OK Kosher got the OK for .kosher in January 2014?

6 December 2021

• 12:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Drawing of Teraura aged 74

• ... that Pitcairn Islander Teraura (pictured) was one of "the most travelled Polynesian women" of her day?
• ... that the
  an energy crisis
  ?
• ... that Spotify Wrapped has been both praised and criticized for effectively providing Spotify with free advertising?
• ... that in 1755, colonial printer Daniel Fowle was arrested for printing a seditious pamphlet entitled The Monster of Monsters, which criticized members of the general assembly?
• ... that Guy Parmelin, now President of Switzerland, opened the study program of cyber security of the Lucerne School of Information Technology in 2018?
• ... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland?
• ... that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
• ... that on his podcast
  John Green reviews velociraptors, a hot dog stand in Iceland, and bubonic plague
  ?

• 00:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Logo of Sidetalk

• ... that the phrase "bing bong" became a rallying cry for the New York Knicks because of its appearance on Sidetalk (logo pictured)?
• ... that Sarkis Lole, the Armenian chief architect of Mardin who constructed much of the early modern architecture of the city, never received any formal training and designed his buildings in the sand?
• ... that the
  Cort Theatre has hosted the Broadway debuts of actresses Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly
  ?
• ... that Mimi Fawaz's work includes a documentary on the life of South African president Nelson Mandela?
• ... that the music video to "I Bet You Think About Me" by Taylor Swift is co-written and directed by Blake Lively in her directorial debut?
• ... that when home computers used cassette tapes for storage, the data was sometimes distributed on flexi disc records or even broadcast on radio?
• ... that non-microscopic life forms such as plants associate with microbiomes of microscopic organisms which determine their health and productivity?
• ... that Herbert Hoover once farmed sugar beets on the Empire Tract?

5 December 2021

• 12:00, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

New York Marriott Marquis

• ... that while the New York Marriott Marquis hotel (pictured) was valued at $579.7 million in 2008, the site was sold five years later for just $19.9 million?
• ... that for round-robin sports tournaments, finding a ranking of the competitors that minimizes the number of upset games is an instance of the feedback arc set problem?
• ... that Inger K. Frith, the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics?
• ... that Glen Cove City School District closed the South School in 1966 to remedy alleged de facto segregation in the district?
• ... that the novel Dreams of Trespass, which portrays the patriarchy as un-Islamic, was translated into more than 20 languages?
• ... that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald Green found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's economic policies?
• ... that most places where tectonic plates ram into each other involve oblique subduction?
• ... that the Atlas Tract is farmland with a population of 0, but is expected to have a population of 42,000 by 2045?

• 00:00, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Franzisca Baruch

• ... that Franzisca Baruch (pictured) designed several Hebrew fonts, the cover of the first Israeli passport, the emblem of Jerusalem, and the logo of the Ha'aretz newspaper, all while barely knowing Hebrew?
• ... that the song "Come Back Home" by Seo Taiji and Boys made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
• ... that Italian actress Linda Albertini used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films?
• ... that Joice Island was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017?
• ... that under college president Arthur Bronwell in 1959, Worcester Polytechnic Institute built one of the first nuclear research reactors at an American university?
• ... that a YouTuber predicted the crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Rick and Morty long before it aired?
• ... that baseball statistician Bob Ferguson claimed that he became the owner of the London Majors "by accident"?
• ... that Zzzzzz had the busiest residential telephone number in the United States in the 1970s?

4 December 2021

• 00:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

European river lamprey

• ... that on special occasions, the city of Gloucester supplies a pie made from lampreys (lamprey pictured) to the British monarch?
• ... that in the board game Sagrada, players attempt to construct a stained-glass window using dice?
• ... that economist Nisvan Erkal's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success?
• ... that all stanzas of the 1963 song "Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören" (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage?
• ... that College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Charlie Green led Wittenberg to three consecutive undefeated seasons, including a national championship for the 1964 Wittenberg Tigers football team?
• ... that Seo Taiji and Boys's April 11, 1992, performance of "I Know" is credited as the beginning of modern K-pop?
• ... that actor Jonathan Roumie, who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen, is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church?
• ... that the Falcon Lake Incident is considered "Canada's best-documented UFO case"?

3 December 2021

• 00:00, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Seringapatam at anchor in Valetta Harbour

• ... that Captain Warren of HMS Seringapatam (pictured) saw the island of Chios in flames, but would give no help, as he had been ordered to observe strict neutrality in the Greek War of Independence?
• ... that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players—including national scoring leader Nate Clark—stay home?
• ... that until a 1993 reform, separate gallantry medals were awarded to officers and other ranks in the British armed forces?
• ... that Marsh Hen Mill in South Carolina grinds heirloom grains with a 1945 gristmill that was found in a barn in 2007?
• ... that Carmaney Wong was 25 years and 9 months old when she was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2019, making her the oldest champion in 30 years?
• ... that a reviewer noted that the LCD of Packard Bell's first laptop suffered from "an occasional case of the shakes"?
• ... that the sea slug Thuridilla vataae collects and stores its worn-out teeth in a sac in its mouth?
• ... that former Oregon legislator William Massingill died while attending a boxing match?

2 December 2021

• 00:00, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Thromidia catalai

• ... that the starfish Thromidia catalai (pictured) can weigh as much as 6 kilograms (13 lb)?
• ... that the first exhibit of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame came from founder Michael Lipton's record collection?
• ... that the senior Burmese princes could not attend the
  funeral of King Mindon
  since they had all been arrested?
• ... that in 1958, New Jersey assemblyman Carmine Savino proposed cutting property taxes in half by imposing a three-percent state sales tax that would be used to cover public school costs?
• ... that the Greenlandic novel Homo Sapienne was written in only one month?
• ... that when the Marquis Theatre was completed, some Broadway performers boycotted it because of a controversy over the construction of the hotel above it?
• ... that magma travelling through dykes usually solidifies before it gets to the Earth's surface?
• ... that Jonathan Weiner explains in his book how Time, Love, [and] Memory became associated with specific fly genes?

1 December 2021

• 00:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Marie Litta

• ... that Marie Litta (pictured) started her own opera company in her early 20s, just a few years before her death in 1883?
• ... that the economy of Sarawak is strongly dependent on natural resource exports such as timber, oil, and gas?
• ... that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players' "Sunday school" productions?
• ... that
  pushbacks of migrants in Greece
  has led to investigations by the European Parliament, EU Ombudsman, and EU anti-fraud agency?
• ... that the documentary Nerds 2.0.1 has been criticized for racial inequality among its 50 featured pioneers of the internet?
• ... that the Franco-Belgian comic book Hans had its title changed in Poland due to lingering ill-feeling toward Germany?
• ... that Galac-Tac, launched in 1982 as a play-by-mail game, is still available today for play on the web?
• ... that The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe isn't a book that perhaps cannot be written?