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13 March 2025

00:00, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

1890 illustration of Telmatrechus stali

... that species of the fossil water strider Telmatrechus (example pictured) were both winged and wingless?
... that Eddie Eagan's gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics made him the first man to win a Summer and Winter Olympic gold medal in different events?
... that John Neal recommended buying The Token and Atlantic Souvenir "if you have a wife or so of your own"?
... that a group of parents discovered that a children's charity had been embezzling money?
... that the Nepali term "sukumbasi" refers to squatters, who typically avoid using the word because of its negative connotations?
... that Murad Agha, a former slave turned ruler of Ottoman Tripolitania, commissioned the construction of a mosque that doubled as a fortress?
... that 1Verse is the first K-pop boy band with North Korean defectors?
... that cave art, indigenous dance and an ancient flute inspired the work of Libyan artist Shefa Salem?
... that the name of a Portland soccer team refers both to sausages and long-distance goals?

12 March 2025

12:00, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Sony PVM-4300, with a cat for scale

... that the Sony PVM-4300 (pictured) has the largest cathode-ray tube ever made?
... that the Samsum ant is known for a powerful sting that can lead to anaphylactic shock and death?
... that the first owner of the 55 Bar supposedly won the property in a card game?
... that tsunami stones serve as risk warnings for tsunamis in Japan?
... that Jackson Cantwell, the number-one college football recruit for 2026, is the son of two Olympians and holds several youth world records in track and field?
... that most of My Chemical Romance's debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, was recorded in only a week?
... that Gerald Shirtcliff's fake engineering qualifications were exposed following the collapse of the CTV Building?
... that the Santander anarchist newspaper Adelante had to be printed in neighbouring Torrelavega, as no printing shop in the city was willing to print it due to its political orientation?
... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?

00:00, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Saraswati enthroned

... that Saraswati enthroned (pictured) has been described as "a pinnacle of Indian art"?
... that O-Zone threatened legal action over Haiducii's cover of "Dragostea din tei", which became a hit on charts at the same time as the original?
... that historian Gu Jiegang secretly continued research into children's copybooks during the Cultural Revolution?
... that a 1968 protest at Bucks County Community College was one of only two gay-rights protests in the United States to occur on a college campus prior to the Stonewall riots?
... that Marion Wiesel translated 14 of her husband's books from French?
... that the first-ever mass message to the U.S. government's two million employees was an enticement for them to resign?
... that a Celtic god described by Caesar has been variously identified with a thunder god, a mallet god, a stag god, and a god with no name?
... that a municipal merger in Japan failed after the merger council named the new city after an airport in a different city?
... that the anonymously run Socialite Rank and Rich Kids of Instagram were both compared to the fictional Gossip Girl?

11 March 2025

12:00, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Fallingwater

... that the first owners of Fallingwater (pictured), a house in Pennsylvania, were rumored to hide tables when the house's architect visited?
... that in 2008, artist Rutherford Chang collected around 4,000 ink-dot portraits from The Wall Street Journal and reorganized them alphabetically into a yearbook-style publication?
... that in 1997, several merchants of North Kent Mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, did not know who owned the mall?
... that in 1858, when 400 Black Americans experiencing discrimination in California resettled on Vancouver Island, clergyman Edward Cridge integrated Christ Church to welcome them?
... that Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawaii series began as a commercial art commission for Dole pineapple juice?
... that Mariel Molino starred in the first Amazon original film for Mexico?
... that the tower of a North Dakota TV station was the world's tallest man-made structure from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1991 to 2008?
... that Tim Johnston pledged not to become a minister if he was elected to the House of Keys, but did so anyway?
... that some drug trafficking factions in Brazil have partnered up with evangelical churches?

00:00, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

John Hogan

... that tobacco brands like Marlboro, led by John Hogan (pictured), turned Formula One into a global sport because F1 cars evaded European tobacco advertising restrictions?
... that one incident in Vatican City caused it to have the highest murder rate in the world in 1998?
... that the earliest of the authentic portraits of Mozart shows the prodigy wearing the clothes of Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, given as a gift by Empress Maria Theresa?
... that a rookie WNBA player crafted a leg sleeve to avoid discomfort and did not expect it to become a fashion trend?
... that the oldest depiction of the Amida Triad in Japanese art was donated to the Imperial Household by Hōryū-ji in 1878?
... that Barack Obama listed an anti-war song as one of his favorite songs of 2022?
... that an "everliving" stonecrop has helped diabetic mice?
... that footage of the 1970 Minneapolis teachers' strike uncovered in 2022 showed an 11-year-old Prince speaking in favor of the striking teachers?

10 March 2025

00:00, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Final outfit from Angels and Demons

... that the private showings of Alexander McQueen's posthumous final collection Angels and Demons (final look pictured) ended with a whisper saying "There is no more"?
... that Charlton Hunt was a cousin of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a grand-uncle of a Nobel Prize laureate?
... that "Create", the theme song to the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., features various Nintendo references?
... that Paraguayan drag artist Usha Didi Gunatita dressed as Santa Claus and visited children in a cancer hospital?
... that while six EF5 tornadoes hit the United States during the 2011 tornado season, there has not been an EF5 tornado in more than ten years?
... that the editors of the Red Army newspaper Qьzьl Armies were seen as opponents of the reform to introduce a Latin script for the Tatar language?
... that the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge was called "elegant" while also having a "Mussolini kind of quality"?
... that Sonya Williams made her first stock investment using Sharesies, the company that she co-founded?
... that the discovery of the Bunnik Hoard was a result of metal detectorists searching for a farmer's lost tractor keys?

9 March 2025

00:00, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Russian Memorial Church of Saint Alexius

... that Russia funded the building of the Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig (pictured) as a monument to the 22,000 Russians who died in the 1813 Battle of Leipzig against Napoleon?
... that Jean-Paul Belmondo allowed Jean-Luc Godard to dub over his lines on their first collaboration, on the condition that Belmondo be cast in Godard's first feature film?
... that Reyhaneh Soltaninejad, the girl in the pink jacket, became a symbol of the 2024 Kerman terrorist attacks after being identified by her distinctive pink jacket and heart earrings?
... that the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center, a facility for holding undocumented immigrants to the United States, is set to have its capacity expanded from about 130 to 30,000?
... that in 2024 Yang Nien-hsi became the first University of Taipei player to sign with a Major League Baseball team since 2008?
... that a dissident faction of the Communist Party of Western Belorussia seized the printing press of the underground party organ Balshavik at the end of 1924?
... that Irish actors Maria McDermottroe and her daughter Gina Costigan each portrayed the love interest of real-life criminals in 2003's Veronica Guerin?
... that scientists debate whether a brain microbiome exists?
... that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee?

8 March 2025

12:00, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Isabel Coursier doing a ski jump

... that Isabel Coursier (pictured) was only 15 years old when she became the first North American to break the world record for women's ski jumping?
... that Samba Yonga and Mulenga Kapwepwe founded the Women's History Museum of Zambia to counter a colonialist perspective on women's history?
... that Barbara Neumann invented one of the first nanomaterials to be produced on an industrial scale?
... that the music video for "Breakfast" was reimagined by Dove Cameron after the Supreme Court of the United States' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade?
... that Czech Romani social worker and human rights activist Elena Gorolová worked as a metalworker in her youth?
... that Episode 8055 of the Australian television soap opera Neighbours is the first episode in the show's history to star and be directed and written entirely by women?
... that Danielle Sassoon, a former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, credits her study of the Talmud for preparing her for her future legal career?
... that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women?
... that Shirley A. Pomponi helped to create a cancer drug out of a sea-sponge compound?

00:00, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Kazuyoshi Akiyama

... that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama (pictured) conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians?
... that a Michigan TV station once aired a program speculating on Richard Nixon's resignation—two days after he had already resigned?
... that the impact of the Charlottetown meteorite was the first to be recorded on video and audio?
... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
... that the Fun Lounge police raid is considered the main cause for the formation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights group in Chicago?
... that the 8-Bit Big Band won Nintendo their first Grammy Award?
... that a person required intensive care after being splashed with salt water by a beluga whale?
... that Alia Fischer led the first women's college basketball team to achieve back-to-back undefeated seasons?
... that among the sources for early Irish law are judgments on bees, on the sea, on sports, on blood-lying, and on inadvertence; judgements which are wrong, false, shrouded, and from a god; the paths to judgement and to distraint; the shaving of the court; the branched purchase; a glossary; and a lot of lists of seven?

7 March 2025

12:00, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Brian Driscoll

... that Brian Driscoll (pictured) became the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by accident?
... that censorship in communist Poland delayed the publication of the novel Zaziemskie światy for nearly a decade due to its "inappropriate ideological basis" and positive portrayal of the United States?
... that the Russian government has been blamed for helping to escalate the Wars in the Caucasus by pursuing a policy of neocolonialism?
... that the concept of Weighing Souls with Sand reflects the guitarist's grief over the death of his first girlfriend?
... that Naenano was once known as "the face that Japanese girls most want to have right now"?
... that the Hennepin Avenue Steel Arch Bridge had to be put up for sale before it could be demolished?
... that Erin LeCount regularly rehearsed at a music venue owned by her primary school teacher?
... that Jacinda Ardern said that she was "sometimes a reluctant participant" of a documentary film about her?
... that an author referred to her book Accidental Gods as "dad non-fiction"?

00:00, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Grain Belt Brewery

... that the Grain Belt Brewery (pictured) was built with four distinct architectural sections, in homage to the four companies that combined to form it?
... that Madmuin Hasibuan's father punished him for not fasting in Ramadan by not giving him food for three days?
... that SZA named a song after a well-known film director, but was shocked to get his blessing days after release?
... that a former French secret-service agent was responsible for seven out of the 26 Formula One drivers qualifying for the 1980 South African Grand Prix being French?
... that Josaphat Park, according to tradition, was named for its valley's striking resemblance to the Valley of Josaphat in the Holy Land?
... that Deborah D. Rogers used Ann Radcliffe's commonplace book to show that Radcliffe was not driven mad by her Gothic novels, but that she just had asthma?
... that Mammillaria luethyi was not seen for 44 years after being discovered growing in a coffee can on the windowsill of Mrs Crosby's?
... that Zulu prince Hayseed Stephens played in the American Football League?
... that syncing zombie cookies can create a cookie that is almost impossible to delete?

6 March 2025

12:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Norse Peak

... that Norse Peak (pictured) is the namesake of a wilderness area, a wildfire, and a fleece jacket?
... that Mark Leiter spent four months working as a corrections officer while rehabilitating from shoulder surgery?
... that the two regions most devastated by Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam declined government funding for recovery efforts?
... that Benjamin Schreiber argued that his life sentence ended after he was resuscitated?
... that a National Guard pilot died while pursuing a reported flying saucer in 1948?
... that Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, before Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego?
... that when the French web series Blow Up briefly aired on television in 2014, its allotted airtime was too short to fit some of its episodes?
... that American Football's American Football, regarded by the band as a side project, went on to achieve cult status?
... that "Point the Finger", a comic-book story written in 1989, has been described as "Trump fiction"?

00:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Eosalmo driftwoodensis

... that the salmon Eosalmo (fossil example pictured) likely never migrated to the ocean?
... that professional baseball player Eric Reyzelman was twice cut from his high-school baseball team?
... that the Dakhni and Amanat Khan caravanserais, built to provide lodging to travelers, are situated on a little-used, Mughal-era highway between Agra and Lahore?
... that Huwie Ishizaki was often asked to "write his real name", despite Huwie being his actual name?
... that Joss Whedon was hired to "contribute creatively" to each film in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to writing and directing Avengers: Age of Ultron?
... that in the official historiography of the Chinese Communist Party, Wei Baqun is considered one of its great early peasant-movement leaders, along with Mao Zedong?
... that Post Malone publicly called his debut album "mediocre" less than a year after its release?
... that the Ming dynasty fantasy novel Journey to the South – whose protagonist accidentally amputates his right leg and converts to Buddhism – alludes to popular one-legged spirits?
... that Vince Gill once mooned a crowd that poorly received him as an opening act for Kiss?

5 March 2025

00:00, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Mammillaria glassii

... that Bob Foster named a small cactus species (pictured) after his best friend, Charlie Glass, with whom he undertook more than a dozen plant-hunting expeditions to Mexico?
... that Autechre used something called "the system" during the composition of Sign?
... that a Roman Catholic archbishop was the first person to translate some of Shakespeare's works into Polish?
... that there was once a stalagmite heist from the longest cave in Arkansas?
... that the Korean royal palace Deoksugung mixes Korean and Western architectural styles?
... that May You Stay Forever Young is the first Hong Kong film to be banned following the amendment of the Film Censorship Ordinance?
... that Reine Abbas chose the name Wixel Studios, a blend of "Weird Pixel", in recognition of being one of the only gaming studios in Lebanon?
... that the Ibn Shillif brothers, evading the Ottoman authorities' pursuit after leading a local rebellion, found safe haven in the Alawite villages of Ayn al-Kurum and Annab?
... that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay?

4 March 2025

00:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Paraquilegia microphylla plant

... that a 1920 article segregated members of Isopyrum into the new genus Paraquilegia – assigning it P. grandflorum, P. caespitosa, P. microphylla (example pictured), and P. uniflora – but had the "rather less fortunate" effect of expanding Semiaquilegia beyond S. adoxoides?
... that the publication of Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi, the first legally published manga in Poland, has been described as the event that created the manga fandom in the country?
... that when Wilson Starbuck's play Sea Dogs was staged in 1939 it "contained some of the foulest language heard on Broadway" at that point in history?
... that Harry Clarke's Geneva Window was never installed in Geneva because of the "grave offense" it might cause?
... that Michal Pivoňka's father was demoted at work as a result of his son signing with the Washington Capitals?
... that more than 5,000 genres on Spotify use the suffix -core?
... that blackface minstrel show performer George L. Wade was also a race car manufacturer?
... that transportation during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics accounted for 53 percent of the games' carbon footprint?
... that a specimen of Tyrannasorus rex had six legs and wings and was killed by a legume?

3 March 2025

00:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Naide Gomes

... that Naide Gomes (pictured) broke the Portuguese long-jump record fourteen times in her career, raising it from 6.56 metres to 7.12 metres?
... that Documented is the first non-Chinese newsroom in the United States with a WeChat account?
... that Mao Zedong ordered the lenient treatment of bandit leader Cheng Lianzhen, as he thought it rare for a female bandit leader to be from an ethnic minority in China?
... that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea?
... that Fritz Strassmann, a co-discoverer of nuclear fission, concealed a Jewish woman in his home during World War II?
... that thimble cactus is one of the most commonly grown nipple cacti because it breaks into pieces at the slightest touch?
... that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies?
... that Michel Langevin described Rush's "Didacts and Narpets" as "a Max Roach–esque avant-garde jazz piece"?

2 March 2025

00:00, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Grain Belt Beer Sign

... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
... that Pan Shu had to write psychological theory in secret during the Cultural Revolution?
... that a 1922 Brazilian film was presumed lost for more than 90 years until a copy was rediscovered in 2023?
... that peasant Agnieszka Machówna repeatedly deceived Polish nobles into thinking that she was a noble?
... that a former professional football player stated his intention to buy the rights to a 25-year-old children's sports game in his podcast?
... that Yuika was allowed by her parents to take a music-related course after playing one of her songs to them?
... that Walnut Valley, the neighborhood most affected by the 2023 Little Rock tornado, reported theft and illegal dumping during rebuilding efforts?
... that the fictional character Moira Pollock was described as a "battleaxe"?
... that a butt of malmsey was required to make "Tyre that is excellent", as part of a mixture of "fat Bastard, two gallons of Cute [and] Parrel"?

1 March 2025

00:00, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Megaliths at the Pengkalan Kempas Historical Complex

... that attempts to draw tourism to the town of Pengkalan Kempas include the promotion of an ancient megalith site (pictured)?
... that eight Delta Air Lines executives were killed in the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision, including the airline's vice president of operations?
... that the South Indian restaurant New Krishna Bhavan served 600 litres (160 US gal) of sambar every day?
... that a historical society celebrated the 50th anniversary of its acquisition of Armstrong House by hosting a murder mystery?
... that there are more than 100 accepted species of columbines, but Aquilegia kubanica was identified as one of only four to live in the Caucasus?
... that Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain was developed during a week-long game jam?
... that although nine alibi witnesses placed Temujin Kensu more than 400 miles from a shooting in Port Huron, Michigan, in November 1986, he was convicted of murder and has been in prison ever since?
... that Luis Sera was designed to resemble Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings?
... that Magnus Gens was given ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars for developing a crash test dummy moose?

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