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6 April 2024

00:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Jean-Emmanuel Depraz

... that Jean-Emmanuel Depraz (pictured) won a Magic: The Gathering world championship using three cards depicting the player who beat him in 2021?
... that the ancient Jewish town of Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the Hasmonean family, built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
... that Kassiane Asasumasu coined the term neurodivergent in 2000?
... that having specific rather than vague goals tends to increase motivation and performance?
... that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
... that although some of the players on Liberty Christian Preparatory School's eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
... that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
... that Ariana Grande's song about Saturn returns, as well as SZA's and Kacey Musgraves's, were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
... that the phrase "togs, togs, undies" was popularised in New Zealand by an advertisement for Trumpet ice cream cones?

5 April 2024

12:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Untitled (2012–2013) by Aleksandra Waliszewska

... that gothic painter Aleksandra Waliszewska (artwork pictured) works with The Vampire's Wife?
... that the Seattle SuperSonics had consecutive seasons with identical records under different head coaches?
... that Alison Frantz's photographs played a crucial role in the decipherment of Linear B?
... that saving the Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40 Judas goats?
... that Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey, the only female member of the New Guinea Council, arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
... that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand?
... that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake?
... that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia?
... that the fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to steal food from other animals?

00:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

White-tailed jay

... that the white-tailed jay (example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by pre-Columbian trade?
... that Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
... that people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the unearthing of ancestral corpses?
... that Shel Kaphan was the first employee of Amazon?
... that the anniversary of the Singh v Canada decision is observed as Refugee Rights Day?
... that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language?
... that the Mars Society's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming?
... that one of the first female officers of the Milwaukee Police Department later served as chief of the department?
... that in semantics, antonym is an antonym of synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym?

4 April 2024

12:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hell Gate Bridge

... that in 2005, a magazine estimated that the Hell Gate Bridge (pictured) could last a thousand years if humans disappeared?
... that an Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts?
... that Wayne Cook tied the UCLA single-game record for touchdown passes in consecutive weeks en route to their first Rose Bowl in eight years?
... that the Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create Holyoke, Massachusetts' "own version of New York City's Central Park"?
... that, after Randy Travis lost most of his singing ability to a stroke in 2013, James Dupré has sung his songs for him in concert?
... that Video Seven released the first VGA video card with video RAM?
... that Émile Gilliéron was accused of making Minoan frescoes look like Vogue models?
... that a group of death row inmates filed a lawsuit when the U.S. government refused to confiscate their states' lethal injection drugs?
... that slave trader Jourdan Saunders greatly profited from a Louisiana law banning slave trading?

00:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Teleseme

... that hotel guests in the 1890s could use a teleseme (example pictured) to order cocktails and call manservants?
... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
... that the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter's primary accelerometer was based on those operational on SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
... that Bell Tea, founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
... that in one year, a team of Canadian All-Stars twice played against the U.S. college football national champion and came within one point of winning each game?
... that Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the Indonesian Communist Party's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
... that the Van Tran Flat Bridge was restored in 1984 using original construction techniques from the 1860s?
... that George E. Mylonas visited Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king Agamemnon?
... that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect?

3 April 2024

12:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Barren Island

... that Barren Island (pictured), located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India?
... that Irish International Brigader Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the Battle of Lopera during the Spanish Civil War?
... that the Brazilian social media page Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of Old Tupi, a dead language?
... that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
... that Greenpeace v. Eni is the first climate change lawsuit filed against a privately owned company in Italy?
... that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register?
... that the novel series Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group?
... that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?
... that an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks?

00:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Lviv headquarters of the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav

... that the Lviv branch of the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav (building pictured) was the main publisher of Polish literature in the Soviet Union by 1941?
... that TV Guide criticized Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction?
... that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally?
... that illustrator Abigail Larson once designed a wine-bottle label for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum?
... that the Indonesian city of Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of Medina"?
... that John Holahan recalled both being called a "lunatic" by his school's president for seeking a football game at night and being told afterward by the president, "I was the lunatic, not you"?
... that Beyoncé released a country ballad and an uptempo country pop western song on the same day?
... that some fans of Genshin Impact have referred to the character Paimon as "emergency food"?
... that an extinct French scarab beetle was discovered in a Prague factory?

2 April 2024

00:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Artist's impression of a ray cat

... that color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future?
... that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary?
... that the charm quark made physicists eat hats?
... that ur mum has an eleven-second scream?
... that the White Dagoba at Lianxing Temple was probably not originally made of an enormous pile of salt?
... that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history?
... that when Olivia Rodrigo spilled her guts, her obsession came out?
... that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies?
... that a blizzard helped end the Cold War?
... that Colin Mackay, the political editor at Scottish Television, was "very sad" when Colin MacKay, the political editor at Scottish Television, died?

1 April 2024

00:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Sodankylä Old Church

... that Sodankylä Old Church (pictured) is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland?
... that due to his Hungarian background, composer Henri Berény was banned from living and working in Paris during World War I and his home was seized by the French government?
... that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat?
... that Ruth Gottesman donated $1 billion to ensure free tuition for all students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine?
... that Gabriel García Márquez asked his sons to destroy Until August, but they instead published it after his death?
... that Zig Jackson is the first contemporary Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress?
... that hundreds of actors and other artists, as members of Artists4Ceasefire, are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
... that Ernie Shore pitched a combined no-hitter with Babe Ruth?
... that actor Corey Feldman knocked his own tooth out at Shank Hall?

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