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31 August 2009

 * 23:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that topologically, a mug is equivalent (see picture) to a doughnut?
 * ... that the first shots by the United States in World War I were fired by the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry from El Morro Castle at a German ship in San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico?
 * ... that the 2008 single "Enfants", by microhouse producer Ricardo Villalobos, incorporates "no development over its seventeen minute length"?
 * ... that one of the public address applications of parabolic loudspeakers is to project sound waves in a 10° cone pattern 300 ft away?
 * ... that Fred Hollands scored twice in Southampton St Mary's biggest competitive victory, a 14–0 FA Cup win against Newbury Town on 13 October 1894 that still remains a record win for Southampton?
 * ... that Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik  launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952?
 * ... that the Kavala Archaeological Museum has been described as being the most important archaeological museum in Eastern Macedonia?
 * ... that director Henri-Georges Clouzot once drugged actress Brigitte Bardot to make her drool?


 * 17:15, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Krasiczyn Palace (pictured) in southeastern Poland was built on the site of a 14th-century wooden complex called Sliwnica?
 * ... that film director Quentin Tarantino encouraged Omar Doom to become an actor, and cast Doom in Inglourious Basterds two weeks before filming began?
 * ... that after the Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1631, it took six days to bury the dead in mass graves?
 * ... that because of his patriotic songs, Czech songwriter Karel Hašler died in Mauthausen concentration camp?
 * ... that Magnolia × soulangeana is the most commonly used magnolia in horticulture in the British Isles?
 * ... that Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna, leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party, was killed in the 1965 massacres?
 * ... that ex-professional tennis player Claire Curran competed for both Ireland and Great Britain in the Fed Cup and accumulated a win–loss record of 20–7 in Fed Cup matches over the course of her career?
 * ... that since being dedicated for "park and parkway" purposes in 1909, Dickerman Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has been primarily used for parking lots and front yards of businesses?


 * 11:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that when the narrow Rock Creek Canyon Bridge (pictured) in British Columbia was widened and strengthened in 1992, the works were carried out while keeping one lane open to traffic?
 * ... that Polish actor Roman Kłosowski portrayed Nostradamus in the 2009 film Before Twilight?
 * ... that the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is one of only four health centers in the United States with seven professional colleges?
 * ... that Karl Evang and Torbjørn Mork, who consecutively headed the Norwegian Directorate for Health between 1938 and 1992, were both active members of the Labour Party?
 * ... that the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits?
 * ... that, though ostensibly built to defend the city, the citizens of Cork pulled down Elizabeth Fort within two years of its first construction for fear that it would be used against them by James I?
 * ... that an ancient pagoda on the Toe River in Ma-ubin, Burma, fell in 2002 due to river erosion and had to be rebuilt?
 * ... that in addition to leading a committee which investigated alleged communists, California State Senator Jack Tenney composed the popular song "Mexicali Rose"?


 * 05:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the firearms of Japan (pictured) go back to the 13th century, but were almost totally abandoned for 200 years during Japan's Seclusion period?
 * ... that the Australian rainforest (and garden) plants Narrow-leaved-, Brown, and Native Gardenias of the genus Atractocarpus have fragrant flowers, much like the more familiar Common Gardenia?
 * ... that Polish historian and socialist activist Adam Próchnik was alleged to have been an illegitimate son of the Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Daszyński?
 * ... that The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory?
 * ... that Taschereau Bridge and Galipeault Bridge were both widened in a bid to appease Île Perrot merchants who were worried that the newly-built Île aux Tourtes Bridge would drive away their customers?
 * ... that Brigadier Ronnie Tod was awarded the freedom of Athens by Archbishop Damaskinos in 1944?
 * ... that within 15 years of its construction, the J. Vivian, Jr. and Company Building was enlarged twice, firstly to add a third story, and secondly to increase its width?
 * ... that the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, is one of the biggest historic Jewish cemeteries preserved in Central and Eastern Europe?

30 August 2009

 * 23:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Hand of God in art (example pictured) often stands for the voice of God?
 * ... that basketball center Jānis Krūmiņš won 1956 Olympic silver only three years after he started playing basketball?
 * ... that Hitchcon, a convention celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will feature a live commentary on Twitter given by Marvin the Paranoid Android?
 * ... that Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia, public library as early as 1939?
 * ... that the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi's 1991 single "Feed Jake" was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme?
 * ... that Polish architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner used a range of styles including Classicist, Neoclassicist, Palladian, Neogothic, Empire and Romantic?
 * ... that the Byzantine regiment of the Vigla, which served as an imperial bodyguard unit in the 8th–11th centuries, had its origin in late Roman cavalry units of the 5th century?
 * ... that American cab driver Ihab Ali Nawawi crashed a Sabre jet belonging to Osama bin Laden into a sand dune in Sudan?


 * 17:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Kricogonia lyside (pictured) can grow from egg to adult in as little as 13 days?
 * ... that the primary line constants describe characteristics of copper transmission lines?
 * ... that in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog, for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina?
 * ... that the Jenisch house, a 19th-century country house, is located in the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany?
 * ... that koalas eat the leaves of the eucalyptus tree known as the Red Mahogany?
 * ... that Ola Lindholm hosted the 2004 version of Melodifestivalen, an annual music competition and the most watched television program in Sweden?
 * ... that reflections of signals on conducting lines cause high frequency electrical ringing on domestic power cables which continues long after the original disturbance?
 * ... that William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America?


 * 11:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Rafiq al-Tamimi (pictured) helped establish al-Fatat, an anti-Ottoman Arab nationalist movement, despite working for the country's government?
 * ... that Japanese theoretical physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima is well-known for developing the concept of strangeness in particle physics?
 * ... that with 665 Members taking part, the August 1892 vote of no confidence against the Marquess of Salisbury's government saw the most votes ever cast in Parliament ?
 * ... that the Dagenham Roundhouse in East London featured acts including Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and Pink Floyd during the early 1970s?
 * ... that Per Voksø resigned as editor-in-chief of Morgenposten shortly after Sverre Munck bought the newspaper?
 * ... that the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?
 * ... that Glensanda was an ancient deserted settlement in the Highlands of Scotland, but is now a super-quarry which exports 6,000,000 tons of granite every year?
 * ... that the Australian Military Court was declared constitutionally invalid after a sailor accused of "teabagging" a superior officer challenged its validity in the High Court of Australia?


 * 05:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the cause of white pox disease (pictured) killing Elkhorn coral tissue in the Caribbean is a common fecal intestinal bacterium found in humans and other animals?
 * ... that fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
 * ... that Georgia Cottage, an 1840s house in Mobile, Alabama, was the home of Augusta Jane Evans, the first female author in the United States to earn more than 100,000 for her literary work?
 * ... that Gus Hurdle rejected a chance to play international football for Barbados to help Crawley Town in their relegation match against Dorchester Town, saying it was the "bigger game"?
 * ... that Elvis recorded his last number one hit, "Suspicious Minds", at American Sound Studio?
 * ... that in 2004, Jørn Holme became the first active politician to be appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Security Service?
 * ... that HMS Iron Duke (1912), the lead ship of the Iron Duke-class battleships was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916?
 * ... that the death of John Lewis (better known as "Spanish Louie") was the first recorded use of a drive by shooting as a means of gangland execution in New York City?

29 August 2009

 * 23:14, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that during his 1988 presidential campaign, Congressman Ron Paul (pictured) received the Libertarian Party's nomination over another candidate who wanted to "put handcuffs on all IRS agents"?
 * ... that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction?
 * ... that Gray's Inn only began employing a librarian after barristers began stealing the books?
 * ... that the agaric mushroom species Agaricus benesii is found under the pines of Monterey Cypress trees and bruises pinkish-red when injured?
 * ... that the English herald Ralph Brooke tricked Sir William Segar into granting a coat of arms to a London hangman?
 * ... that Louisiana state Judge Henry L. Yelverton, facing mandatory retirement at 75, went on to work five years as a clerk for the appeals court in Lake Charles?
 * ... that SS General Karl Wolff claimed to have foiled a plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII?
 * ... that Hurricane Greta in 1956 was the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded?


 * 17:14, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that critics were so harsh on Hans Christian Andersen's (pictured) early installments of Fairy Tales Told for Children that he delayed publishing The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes by a full year?
 * ... that the United Kingdom relied on the Imperial Japanese Navy and its North American Task Force to defend Canada's west coast during the First World War?
 * ... that brothers George Wright and Harry Wright both managed the Providence Grays National League baseball team?
 * ... that Albert Bates, partner of Machine Gun Kelly, participated in the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles Urschel in 1933?
 * ... that Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival, was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title?
 * ... that a savior sibling has undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to serve as a stem cell donor to a diseased sibling?
 * ... that Richard Petty's victory at the 1966 Daytona 500 was the first and only time that he captured the pole position, despite winning the event a record seven times?
 * ... that American artist Duke Riley was arrested for driving his wooden submarine too close to the Queen Mary 2?


 * 11:14, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that it was four years before the British government revealed that a Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was shot down by friendly fire during the Falklands War?
 * ... that a portion of the Rhode Island Route 37 expressway was inadvertently constructed over a historic cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island?
 * ... that Johannes Kvittingen, an exiled Norwegian bacteriologist in London in 1940, was asked to be head recruiter of Norwegian agents for the Special Operations Executive?
 * ... that there have been 57 celebrity housemates in the British version of Big Brother?
 * ... that the construction of Stalingrad-class battlecruiser battlecruisers was cancelled soon after their major supporter, Joseph Stalin, died in March 1953?
 * ... that in 1975 Phil Slocombe was Somerset County Cricket Club's first batsman to score 1,000 runs in his first full season?
 * ... that Galerina sulciceps is considered the most toxic mushroom?
 * ... that Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to Adidas for the equivalent of 1600 euros and two bottles of whiskey?


 * 05:14, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the French orientalist painter Étienne Dinet (pictured) was so fascinated by Arab culture that he converted to Islam?
 * ... that the 13th-century settlements known as the Mise of Amiens and the Mise of Lewes are the only two such "mises" in English history?
 * ... that Alfred Proksch won two gold medals at the 2009 World's Masters Championships because he was the only competitor in the 100+ age bracket for discus and shot put?
 * ... that Major League Baseball presents a variety of awards each season for individual performance, excellence in batting, pitching performance, and fielding prowess?
 * ... that despite being born in Harlow, England, Alex Stavrinou qualified to play for the Cyprus youth football team through his father's Cypriot heritage?
 * ... that, during World War II, Greek Air Force pilot Marinos Mitralexis rammed the rudder of an enemy bomber with the propeller of his PZL P.24, causing the enemy aircraft to crash to the ground?
 * ... that David Orme-Johnson wanted the United States Department of Defense to hire 10,000 people to perform Transcendental Meditation continuously in order to improve society?
 * ... that injuring Lactarius indigo will make it bleed a blue milk that slowly turns green?

28 August 2009

 * 23:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Tom Roberts's painting "The Big Picture" (pictured), commissioned to record the opening of the first Parliament of Australia in 1901, contains 269 recognisable likenesses?
 * ... that during the 1967 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, around 430,000 animals were slaughtered?
 * ... that the recording of "La Incondicional" by Luis Miguel broke several airplay records in Latin America, where it remained at the top of the charts for seven months?
 * ... that linguist Dennis Baron has written about the English-only movement, peoples' relationships with their computers, and the grammar of the Second Amendment?
 * ... that the Portuguese Fireplace war memorial is the remains of a camp where Portuguese labourers helped the Canadian Forestry Corps in felling timber during World War I?
 * ... that Alaska Airlines evolved from McGee Airways, which originated with a single three-seat Stinson plane?
 * ... that Chromis abyssus was the first species entered into the ZooBank registry of zoological nomenclature?
 * ... that My Boy Jack, a 2007 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig, is based on one of Haig's plays of the same name?


 * 17:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Kirov-class cruiser Molotov (pictured), named after politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov, was the first Soviet ship to carry a radar?
 * ... that three students were burnt to death in the 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning, an incident which resulted from the conviction of J. Jayalalitha for corruption?
 * ... that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning?
 * ... that the calendar web application 30 Boxes is able to determine the time, date, and title of an event from a single sentence?
 * ... that when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh, its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself?
 * ... that American football player Captain Munnerlyn returned a kickoff for 84 yards and a blocked field goal for 81 yards in the same game?
 * ... that Art Attack is the longest running programme in the history of CITV?
 * ... that actors Nicolai Cleve Broch and Aksel Hennie have been referred to as "Norway's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon"?


 * 11:08, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that breech-loading swivel guns (pictured) have been widely used since the 14th century, although breech-loading is usually considered a modern innovation?
 * ... that Charles Darwin's 1875 book Insectivorous Plants describes how he tried to feed meat and glass to carnivorous plants to get them to bite?
 * ... that AltaRock Energy demonstration project for generating renewable energy through geothermal power may increase the number of earthquakes in California?
 * ... that in 1988, after flying to space with first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Méndez, Yuri Romanenko was invited to an underwater fishing trip with Fidel Castro?
 * ... that American theologian Jonathan Edwards, in his 1734 sermon The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners, condemns Jews for their strict observance of Mosaic Law?
 * ... that 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected, the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television, were positive?
 * ... that Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik attempted to publish a Qur'an in the form of seven volumes of comics in 1992?
 * ... that Basil "The Owl" Banghart (1900–1982), an American burglar and prison escape artist, acquired his nickname because of his abnormally large eyes?


 * 05:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Hijron Ka Khanqah (pictured) is a pre-Mughal period monument of the fifteenth century where some Hijras (eunuchs) of Delhi were buried during the Lodi dynasty's reign?
 * ... that semi-professional footballer Gareth Risbridger holds a UEFA 'B' Pro Licence coaching badge and is also a qualified referee, as well as working as a greenkeeper at Wycombe Heights Golf Club?
 * ... that the world's largest mobile phone producer, Nokia, have announced their plans to release their first PC since 1991?
 * ... that Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company in 1878?
 * ... that the "kids for cash" scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania involves kickbacks from prison officials to judges to send kids to prison?
 * ... that the Original Dixieland Jass Band's "Livery Stable Blues" (1917) was the first released jazz recording?
 * ... that the California lizardfish is not sought by most anglers because its flesh has a taste resembling iodine?
 * ... that Dipak Patel once called Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa a "cabbage" and accused him of rigging his election, yet still went on to serve as his Minister of Commerce?

27 August 2009

 * 23:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Rock Harbor Light (pictured), built in 1855, was used for only eight years before being permanently decommissioned?
 * ... that the Rijksmonument designation has been applied to about 55,000 sites in the Netherlands?
 * ... that Eileen McKenney, who was the inspiration for the title character in My Sister Eileen, was killed in an automobile accident four days before the play opened on Broadway?
 * ... that new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air, not in his Melbourne studio?
 * ... that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
 * ... that the mass-luminosity relation, first derived by Arthur Eddington in 1924, helps astronomers find the distances to binary star systems?
 * ... that the  Boga is also known as the Snit in Jamaica and as the Bonnetmouth in the Bahamas?
 * ... that kids are people too!


 * 17:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that during her 16 years of active service, SOVIET CRUISER Kaganovich (pictured) was renamed twice to avoid being associated with disgraced members of the Communist Party?
 * ... that the Oslo Sporveier tram company became the first company to be found guilty of homicide in Norway as a result of a 2001 fatal accident involving an SM91 tram?
 * ... that audiobook publisher Michael Viner produced the Incredible Bongo Band's often-sampled recording of "Apache", as well as a joke album called The Best of Marcel Marceau?
 * ... that a young Idi Amin was a reserve player for the East Africa rugby union team during the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa?
 * ... that Thomas E. Corcoran received the Medal of Honor for rescuing his crewmates from their sinking ship during the American Civil War?
 * ... that rock group The Beau Brummels sang "Laugh, Laugh" on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones as The Beau Brummelstones?
 * ... that in his lifetime, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times, but died from a gunshot?
 * ... that the seven most obese nations in the world are all located in the Pacific?


 * 11:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that asteroids with two moons, like 1994 CC (pictured), comprise only 1% of the near-Earth objects?
 * ... that HMS Fifi, a German warship captured and added to the Royal Navy during the First World War, was named to mean 'tweet-tweet' in French?
 * ... that Ernest Poole's book His Family received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918?
 * ... that a British rower attempting to break the record for the quickest solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean abandoned his boat due to the approach of Hurricane Bill?
 * ... that Kari Gjesteby is the first female State Conciliator of Norway?
 * ... that 99 Fables, a posthumously published collection by William March, "emphasizes the platitudes of life by the platitudinous nature of his fables?"
 * ... that as part of the cortisol awakening response, the stress hormone cortisol normally increases by about half in the half hour after we awake?
 * ... that Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?


 * 05:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the toxic mushroom Amanita abrupta (pictured) damages the liver in a manner similar to the destroying angel and the deathcap?
 * ... that kuisis are Native American flutes crafted in distinct male and female pairs, but meant to be played together?
 * ... that oats have been ground at a watermill on the site of Barry Mill, in Scotland, since 1539?
 * ... that a 1999 excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority inside a sewer pipe in the depopulated Arab village of Bashshit revealed ceramic remains dating back to the Early Islamic period?
 * ... that inventor Brutus de Villeroi tested the first French submarine in the commune of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île on 12 August 1832?
 * ... that the Hamsa-Sandesha is a Sanskrit love poem that tells the story of Rama and Sita in the style of Kalidasa's Meghaduta?
 * ... that although John Fortescue listed ten Inns of Chancery, only nine are known?
 * ... that country music singer Alan Jackson still likes bologna?

26 August 2009

 * 23:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that De Heidebloem (pictured), a smock mill in Erica, Drenthe, is used now as an instructional mill to train new millers?
 * ... that William Anderson, a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution, wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman had an "almost intolerable" bite?
 * ... that Asaga`s Vardhaman Charitra (Life of Vardhaman), written in 853 CE, was the first Sanskrit language biography of Jain Tirthankara, Mahavir?
 * ... that the coincidence of the global financial crisis with the release of Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth led The Walrus to auction predictions by Atwood at a fundraiser?
 * ... that Empty Dwelling Management Orders, designed to help put empty housing back into use in the United Kingdom, have only been used twenty-four times in three years?
 * ... that scholars identify the mound upon which the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Tulayl was built, with the Roman town of "Thella"?
 * ... that Rita Inos, a Doctor of Education, was the first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands?
 * ... that because the Foulées du Gois road running race is held on a tidal causeway, participants are sometimes forced to swim to the finish line?


 * 17:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Terry O'Neill (pictured), new president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), campaigned for grassroots feminists across the United States?
 * ... that Bristol's classical chamber orchestra, the Emerald Ensemble, play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub?
 * ... that in the eight months after the Battle of Narva in 1700, Andrew Vinius melted one quarter of Russia's church bells to make cannon?
 * ... that the pilot episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man features Robert Englund -- best known for playing Freddy Krueger -- as the voice of supervillain Vulture?
 * ... that linebacker Quincy Monk nearly had a football helmet drop kicked into his head during the 2003 NFL playoffs?
 * ... that the manager of Oasis has described Republic of Loose as the most exciting band since Oasis?
 * ... that on 13 August 2009, Egyptian fishermen taken hostage by Somali pirates overpowered their captors and escaped, taking along four prisoners?
 * ... that Dr Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an octogenarian when he was appointed Justice Minister of Iraq in 2004?


 * 11:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge (pictured), a concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Russian Gulch State Park near Mendocino, California, replaced an earlier wooden trestle bridge in 1940?
 * ... that blue cake, a flaky pastry from the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, is not blue?
 * ... that the 1997 video game Ballblazer Champions is a remake of the 1985 Ballblazer that was released for the Commodore 64 and Atari consoles?
 * ... that BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt was born in Australia and adopted by a British diplomat?
 * ... that the first violin concerto by Philip Glass was composed in honor of his father Ben, who died some sixteen years before the work's conception?
 * ... that 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs, and stuffed birds?
 * ... that in 1904, gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals, including gold in the vault, even though he had a wooden prosthesis for a leg?
 * ... that the Battle for Lake Tanganyika involved an expedition dragging two motor boats through Africa, led by a man who was "court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inveterate liar and a wearer of skirts"?


 * 05:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that it took two weeks and 23 vessels to free the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) after she ran aground (pictured) on 17 January 1950?
 * ... that the largest concentration of the parasitic plant species Buckleya distichophylla can be found in the Poor Mountain Natural Area Preserve of Roanoke County, Virginia, USA?
 * ... that British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" was removed from study at GCSE level due to concerns about teenage knife crime?
 * ... that the Blue Bell in Chester, Cheshire, England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber's shop?
 * ... that Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill is a chain of 120 restaurants serving Jamaican patties, jerk chicken and curried goat?
 * ... that Australian troops fought their last battle of the Korean War just hours before the ceasefire, fighting off numerous Chinese attacks during the Battle of the Samichon River?
 * ... that when Sir Edward Atkinson was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions he refused to believe it was true and walked out of the Home Office?
 * ... that as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz, Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?

25 August 2009

 * 23:06, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that HMAS Sydney (R17) (pictured) was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat?
 * ... that Simon & Garfunkel did not know that Bobby Gregg was the drummer on their #1 single "The Sounds of Silence"?
 * ...that in August of 1948 the Labour Party of Indonesia merged with the Communist Party?
 * ... that the former library of Kingston, New York, has been used as the offices for the janitors at the neighboring high school?
 * ... that the BBC radio producer R.D. Smith, husband of Olivia Manning and model for a character in her  Fortunes of War novels, was identified as a Soviet spy by MI5?
 * ... that the Keller Ferry, which operates as part of Washington State Route 21 was taken over by the Washington Department of Highways on September 1, 1930, although a cable ferry was operated during the early 1890s?
 * ... that Franciszek Przysiężniak led partisan units into the largest battles of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance?
 * ... that the Will & Grace episode "Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More" was the first time that a prime-time sitcom showed a Jewish protagonist marrying inside the faith?


 * 16:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that in Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb (pictured), the tomb chamber has two graves, one of Jamali the poet, and another of an unknown Kamali, who might have been chosen because his name rhymes with Jamali?
 * ... that infestation by Halofolliculina corallasia leads to Skeletal Eroding Band, the first coral disease known to be caused by a protozoon or by any eukaryote?
 * ... that female professional wrestler Ann Casey won the USA Women's Wrestling Championship in 1974 from The Fabulous Moolah and was never defeated for the title?
 * ... that the founders of the Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) included a group of Indonesians who had participated in the anti-fascist resistance in the Netherlands during World War II?
 * ... that Jadwiga of Żagań bore no sons to her husband, Casimir III the Great, which spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland?
 * ... that the Interim Government of India, which was formed on 2 September 1946, established diplomatic relations with the United States?
 * ... that the Fairy Flag is traditionally thought to have been a gift from the fairies to the chiefs of Clan Macleod?


 * 10:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the interlace decorations in the Book of Kells (detail pictured) combine ribbon-like knotwork and animal style motifs?
 * ... that John Heriot, a late-eighteenth-century British journalist, was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
 * ... that in the first 15 years of its logging in New Caledonia, 8,000 tonnes of sandalwood, especially Santalum austrocaledonicum, was harvested?
 * ... that Kenneth Bacon, a former spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense, served as president of Refugees International until his death in 2009?
 * ... that the former Palestinian Arab village of Khiyam al-Walid is believed to be a reference to the tents of Khaled ibn al-Walid's army which conquered the Levant in the 7th century?
 * ... that after his death William Johnson Sollas was implicated in the Piltdown Man hoax by his assistant, J.A. Douglas?
 * ... that the script for the 1943 Hepburn–Tracy motion picture Keeper of the Flame includes information from the U.S. Office of War Information, a propaganda agency of the U.S. government?
 * ... that the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiji attempted to walk to Xanadu?


 * 03:14, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Rix Robinson`s (pictured) bill for women's suffrage was defeated during the drafting of the Michigan Constitution of 1850?
 * ... that scholars believe that Secacah was the ancient name of Khirbet Qumran, the archaeological site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered?
 * ... that George "Snatchem" Leese was a member of the Slaughter House Gang who was known for being the official "bloodsucker" at prize fights in New York?
 * ... that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner?
 * ... that Romanian artist Eugen Taru contributed to the Soviet–Yugoslav propaganda war with large posters depicting Josip Broz Tito as a butcher?
 * ... that the Australian Supermarine Aircraft company make the only aluminum reproduction Supermarine Spitfire currently in production?
 * ... that Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.?
 * ... that Yale University Press expunged all of the cartoons from The Cartoons that Shook the World?

24 August 2009

 * 21:08, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that in the Sakuradamon incident in 1860 (pictured), Japan's pro-foreign Chief Minister Ii Naosuke was assassinated by xenophobic samurai?
 * ... that John Edward Marr spent 45 years at the University of Cambridge?
 * ... that the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Animated Programs"?
 * ... that Clive Ponting was found not guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury even after the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan, summed up strongly in favour of the prosecution?
 * ... that during the Roman Empire in Palestine, the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya?
 * ... that during the Holocaust, of the four Jews rescued by Stanisław Jasiński and his daughter from Kostopol in Eastern Poland, only Szmuel Liderman survived the massacres?
 * ... that Layforce was a brigade-sized British commando force named after their commander Robert Laycock?
 * ... that Filipino comedian Tado`s screen name is derived from a Tagalog cuss word?


 * 11:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein (pictured), the only person in Egyptian history to voluntarily renounce his rights of succession to the throne, did so to pursue a life of discovery and travel?
 * ... that Michael Jackson's "Gone Too Soon" was dedicated to the memory of Ryan White, a teenager who died following a battle with HIV/AIDS?
 * ... that Englishman James McFarlane was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav for his eight-volume work Oxford Ibsen?
 * ... that Sequalitchew Creek was the location of the original Fort Nisqually trading post established in 1833 by the Hudson's Bay Company?
 * ... that the Byzantine general John Kourkouas, supreme commander of the Byzantine armies in the East for 22 years, was hailed by his contemporaries as "another Trajan or Belisarius"?
 * ... that Theodore Roosevelt contracted Cuban fever during the Spanish–American War, and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as President of the United States?
 * ... that during his lifetime, geologist William Noel Benson published over 100 academic papers?
 * ... that the island of Orosay overlooks Traigh Mhòr, reputedly the only beach in the world used as a runway for scheduled aircraft flights?

23 August 2009

 * 23:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that partaking in roadkill cuisine (roadkill pictured) is advocated by some vegans?
 * ... that Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon?
 * ... that the Bayerischer Rundfunk caused a scandal in 1986 for refusing to relay the broadcast signal of the political cabaret show Scheibenwischer?
 * ... that Indian communist politician K.P. Prabhakaran was in the forefront of a trade union of toddy tappers in Kerala for 55 years?
 * ... that the Ninth Fort massacres November 1941 were the first organized mass murders of Reich Jews?
 * ... that Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire, for use as the official country residence of the British Prime Minister?
 * ... that, starting with the episode "The Ex-Girlfriend", filming of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld moved from Desilu Cahuenga in Hollywood, California, to CBS Studio Center in Studio City?
 * ... that the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral"?


 * 17:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Town Center Park (pictured) was the first park in Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, with an interactive water feature when it was added in 2005?
 * ... that John Earls, the chief writer and editor of Teletext's Planet Sound music section, used to write reader music reviews during his teenage years for Blue Suede Views on ORACLE, the predecessor to Teletext?
 * ... that the first major battle to involve Australian soldiers in the Korean War was the Battle of the Apple Orchard in October 1950?
 * ... that an eternal flame burns at Triyuginarayan Temple, believed to be the venue of the marriage of Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati?
 * ... that Markus Brunnermeier won the Germán Bernácer Prize for his work in financial economics on bubbles and crashes?
 * ... that the Spanish cruiser SPANISH CRUISER Baleares was commissioned into service without one of its four main turrets?
 * ... that historian Jack T. Kirby decried popular media depictions of Southerners that used "clichés of racists, graceful landed gentry, poverty, homespun rural values, stock-car racers and moonshiners"?
 * ... that Curious George made his literary debut in H.A. Rey's 1939 children's short story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys?


 * 11:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that devotees believe that worshipping the Hindu god Ganesha (pictured) at the Siddhivinayak Mahaganapati Temple will result in a successful marriage?
 * ... that the first Australian soldiers to die in the Korean War were killed in action during the Battle of the Broken Bridge in October 1950?
 * ... that Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour?
 * ... that Otomi grammar, the grammar of the indigenous Otomi language of Mexico has traits of active/stative alignment, but has no adjectives?
 * ... that Japanese electrical engineer Hisashi Kobayashi was appointed the founding director of the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1982?
 * ... that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was given the unusual name at the request of India?
 * ... that in 1992, the crews of USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689) and K-276 Kostroma failed to detect each other until the two nuclear submarines collided in the shallow waters of the Barents Sea?
 * ... that when large numbers of the sap-feeding redeye cicada gather on a tree their waste products may fall in a constant shower?


 * 05:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the first can opener (original drawing and a modern version pictured) was patented in 1855, more than 80 years after the introduction of canned food?
 * ... that the 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns aboard the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) are believed to have fired the United States' first and last 16-inch shells of World War II?
 * ... that the Baekryulsa temple located in Gyeongju, South Korea, which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom, is believed to be associated with Ichadon, the first martyr for Buddhism in Korea?
 * ... that the British officer James Scurry was held captive for ten years by Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan at Seringapatam?
 * ... that the offices at Stogumber railway station are on the east side of the line, but the platform is on the west?
 * ... that despite entering the finals of 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 unbeaten, Basnahira South collapsed from a strong position of 133 for 1, losing their last nine wickets for just eleven runs?
 * ... that Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett, the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed "Punch" for his prominent chin and nose?
 * ... that magnetic tapes afflicted with sticky-shed syndrome are unplayable, but they can be treated by baking?

22 August 2009

 * 23:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Owl Island (pictured) in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an accurate depiction of the Island of St. Herbert in the center of Derwent Water?
 * ... that Perinpanayagam Sivaparan opposed the nomination of Selvarasa Pathmanathan to lead the Tamil Tigers?
 * ... that the Milton Odem House is one of the best examples of a Streamline Moderne style residence found in the state of Oregon?
 * ... that Chieftain's Salute, composed by Graham Waterhouse, is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra?
 * ... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Night of the Dead Living", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?
 * ... that a U.S. Senate committee once claimed that Joseph Glimco ran "the nation's most corrupt union"?
 * ... that the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church, affiliated with Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel?
 * ... that Mumbai has the world's second largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami?


 * 17:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Bonewaldesthorne's Tower (pictured) in Chester city walls, Cheshire, England, is documented to 1249 and was used in the 19th–20th centuries as a museum with a camera obscura and an observatory?
 * ... that despite never obtaining a university degree, Taiwanese historian Ts'ao Yung-ho was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his scholarly work on Dutch Formosa?
 * ... that a scene in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", in which detectives convince a suspect that a copy machine is a lie detector, was based on real-life events within the Baltimore Police Department?
 * ... that Le Van Duyet, the last viceroy of the Nguyen Dynasty's Cochinchina, was a eunuch?
 * ... that the variety of places of worship in the district of Lewes, England, reflect its long tradition of Protestant Nonconformism?
 * ... that the first home versions of the Sega video game Jambo! Safari are set to be released, ten years after the game first appeared in arcades?
 * ... that Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today?
 * ... that professional poker player Dan Harrington sometimes finds himself the victim of the poker strategies that he teaches in his Harrington on Hold 'em book series when playing poker tournaments?


 * 11:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Tiger Muskellunge were released into Curlew Lake (pictured) in 1997 to control populations of squawfish?
 * ... that the Toi gold mine in Japan houses the world's largest pure gold bar, weighing 250 kg?
 * ... that the designers from the second season of Project Runway Philippines include a registered nurse, a call center agent, an accountant, and a Physical Education teacher?
 * ... that Jan Pol, a smock mill in Dalen, is the tallest remaining windmill in Drenthe?
 * ... that according to LGBT interpretations, the Hindu fire god Agni's role in accepting sacrifices is paralleled by his accepting semen from other gods like Shiva and Soma?
 * ... that country music performer Roger Miller included his own recordings of two songs that he had written for Jim Reeves in the 1950s, on his 1966 album Words and Music?
 * ... that the owners of the Cray Mansion and neighboring Hubbard House competed to see who could add the better home improvement?
 * ... that character actor Billy House once continued performing in a play immediately after suffering a heart attack?


 * 05:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Ken Jennings (pictured) received 11 of the 13 Jeopardy! single-day winnings of 50,000 or more?
 * ... that the Mir diamond mine is so large that its natural downward air flow can crash helicopters?
 * ... that according to Jewish customs, a yahrzeit candle is lit in memory of the dead on the anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar?
 * ... that The Murderer Lives at Number 21 was director Henri-Georges Clouzot's first feature film for the Nazi-owned company Continental Films?
 * ... that the Coyote Gold Mine in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia was opened in 2006 by the then Governor-General of Australia, Michael Jeffery?
 * ... that Hassard Short was born into the English landed gentry but moved to New York as an actor in 1901 and later became one of Broadway's greatest musical theatre directors and lighting designers?
 * ... that the Large Mindoro Forest Mouse, first described as a distinct species in 1995, is known from only 16 individuals from a single mountain on the Island of Mindoro, Philippines?
 * ... that Preston Henn, owner of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, won the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race and after retiring refused to discuss his racing career?

21 August 2009

 * 23:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Tokugawa coinage (pictured) in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations?
 * ... that New Yorker Marcey Jacobson had planned to visit Chiapas for 10 days in 1956, but ended up staying there for most of the next 50 years, taking 14,000 photos of daily life in Southern Mexico?
 * ... that the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Mesa Laboratory was I. M. Pei's first rural project?
 * ... that Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh ran in the 1964 Democratic primary just to prevent segregationist George Wallace from winning the state?
 * ... that the cicada Abricta curvicosta of eastern Australia is known as the floury baker from its appearance of being dusted with white powder?
 * ... that in 1960, country music artist Claude Gray bought the song "Family Bible" from Willie Nelson for 100?
 * ... that the modern Mexican state of Tlaxcala was born when the chief of the old Tlaxcala kingdom struck a deal with Hernán Cortés?
 * ... that in the 51 Major League Baseball seasons for which the Rawlings Gold Glove Award has been presented, pitchers Greg Maddux and Jim Kaat have won the award 34 times?


 * 17:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Ninoy Aquino Day is held to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., husband of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino (pictured)?
 * ... that despite having severely paralyzed hands, William B. T. Trego painted some of the most iconic images of the American Revolution and Civil War in the 19th century?
 * ... that the 2011 Pro Bowl and the 2012 Pro Bowl are contracted to return to Aloha Stadium due to a backlash from players and coaches?
 * ... that recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend, an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves, is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
 * ... that a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood`s contract at the football club, paying £19 per month?
 * ... that neuroscientist Ira Black expressed frustration with U.S. federal restrictions on stem cell research, as it could lead to therapies that would "get patients out of bed and out of wheelchairs"?
 * ... that the German 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was featured in the main batteries of 16 of the 26 capital ships built by the Kaiserliche Marine before the First World War?
 * ... that after English rugby international forward Denys Dobson was killed by a charging rhinoceros, he was reportedly said to always have had "a weak hand off"?


 * 11:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Kingston City Hall (pictured) was built on the former boundary between Kingston and Rondout, New York, to unify the two villages when they merged into one city?
 * ... that the second deepest spot in the world, the HMRG Deep, was discovered by a team of scientists from Hawaii even though it is located by Guam?
 * ... that in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, Indonesia, was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa, where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape?
 * ... that No. 3 Commando was the first British commando unit raised during the Second World War?
 * ... that Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart?
 * ... that Justin Fashanu was the first professional association football player to come out as gay?
 * ... that Schwartz Communications, the largest PR agency in Massachusetts, started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
 * ... that a riot broke out between English and Irish labourers who had consumed 1000 gallons of strong beer following the completion of the New Cut waterway in Bristol in May 1809?


 * 05:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the rainforest plant Wilkiea huegeliana (pictured) is most likely pollinated by a species of thrips?
 * ... that the Lake Linden Historic District was rebuilt largely of brick after property insurance companies with heavy losses in an 1887 fire threatened to pull out of the area?
 * ... that John Durnford-Slater was the first British Commando?
 * ... that The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D! On Ice!, a documentary about The Simpsons, will most likely not be filmed in 3-D or take place on ice?
 * ... that Branchinecta lynchi, a vulnerable species of fairy shrimp, can be found in vernal pools around Agate Lake?
 * ... that Sir Patrick Hastings approved the prosecution of the Campbell Case which was instrumental in the fall of the first Labour government?
 * ... that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival?
 * ... that Sockington, a cat on the microblogging site Twitter, now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?

20 August 2009

 * 23:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that according to Hindu mythology, the five Pandava brothers followed a route to heaven alongside the Panch Prayag (Devprayag pictured) – five confluences which finally result in the holy Ganges river?
 * ... that James Brady and his gang, the Yakey Yakes, forced their rivals, the Eastman Gang and the Five Points Gang, to "do their fighting north of Catherine Street" in New York City?
 * ... that at one point the Clerks of Assize in England and Wales were earning more than the Assize Judges themselves?
 * ... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Shot in the Dark" erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?
 * ... that the only survivor of the 1944 killing of 10 civilians ordered by Josef Scheungraber testified against him at his war crimes trial, where Scheungraber received a life sentence in August 2009?
 * ... that the American Florida-class battleships were the first U.S. battleships equipped with a steam turbine propulsion system?
 * ... that the Australian bushfood plant and black pepper substitute Tasmannia lanceolata is poisonous to fish?
 * ... that the creation of napkin holders has been a project featured in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics?


 * 17:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that studies by Mark Rosenzweig showed that the brain (pictured) develops anatomically into adulthood based on life experiences, overturning conventional wisdom that it reached full maturity in childhood?
 * ... that baseball manager Bill Watkins managed the Detroit Wolverines to their only World Series championship?
 * ... that the theme of pederasty in the 1977 German film Die Konsequenz was so controversial that one regional broadcaster refused to relay the transmission signal?
 * ... that professional wrestling promoter Emile Dupré has said that the Cormier wrestling family (Yvon, Jean-Louis, Leonce, and Romeo) "were to New Brunswick what the Hart family was to Calgary"?
 * ... that St. Mary's, the first village planned in the Township of Bexley, was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone?
 * ... that Sean Munsanje became the first ever male presenter of Xposé upon winning the reality television show Total Xposure?
 * ... that fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
 * ... that New York Governor Thomas Dewey appointed Alger Chapman as his 1946 campaign manager, though Chapman had no political experience?


 * 10:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the leopard shark (pictured) feeds on anchovies by swimming into their schools with its mouth open and waiting for them to accidentally enter?
 * ... that Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
 * ... that Eddy Arnold was inspired to record The Casinos' "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" after hearing its writer, John D. Loudermilk, sing it?
 * ... that Banksia 'Roller Coaster', the prostrate cultivar of Banksia integrifolia, is less than 50 centimetres high, while the normal form can be a 25 metre tree?
 * ... that professional wrestler Ángel Azteca died from a heart attack shortly after losing a wrestling match?
 * ... that Detective John Munch's pro-drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "And the Rockets' Dead Glare" were based on actor Richard Belzer's real-life past of drug abuse?
 * ... that Stanley Palace in Chester, Cheshire, built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments, a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?
 * ... that before the 2008 Sugar Bowl game Georgia defensive tackle Geno Atkins asked Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan for his autograph?


 * 04:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that a windmill has stood on the site in Aalden, Netherlands, now occupied by the Jantina Hellingmolen (pictured), since 1652?
 * ... that outlaw motorcycle club the Gypsy Jokers has rallied the support of rival clubs to protest proposed Australian anti-"" laws?
 * ... that Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Dog and Pony Show" after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese?
 * ... that the sole developer and creator of Bob's Game tried to publicly protest by locking himself in his room for 100 days or until Nintendo granted him the software development kit for the game?
 * ... that in both 2006 and 2007, Louisiana Tech defensive tackle D'Anthony Smith had five tackles against Fresno State?
 * ... that while running for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton credited political advisor and lobbyist Anne Wexler with providing her first job in politics?
 * ... that the USS Archer-Fish (SS-311), under the command of Joseph F. Enright, sank the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine?
 * ... that master distiller Jimmy Bedford "held what he considered one of the most enviable jobs imaginable — making sure Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey tasted just the way it had since 1866"?

19 August 2009

 * 22:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the ceremonial Dunvegan Cup (pictured) was created in 1493 at the request of the wife of an Irish lord, and is today an heirloom of the chiefs of the Scottish Clan Macleod?
 * ... that after Rokuzan Ogiwara viewed Auguste Rodin's just-completed masterpiece, The Thinker, he abandoned his career as a painter and became a sculptor instead?
 * ... that Possibility Playground, a 450,000 playground for special needs children, was built through donations and volunteer work from thousands of people?
 * ... that dramatic actor Alexander Ostuzhev, who completely lost his hearing in 1910, played leading roles at Maly Theatre for four more decades?
 * ... that Shawnee Community College is one of only a few community colleges to offer on-campus housing?
 * ... that Indu Mitha is one of only two Bharatanatyam experts in Pakistan?
 * ... that the Oregon Bach Festival is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary under the direction of its founder, German conductor Helmuth Rilling?
 * ... that the sport of ferret legging is open only to sober male contestants, who must first remove their underwear?


 * 16:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that in May 1945, Marian Bernaciak (pictured) helped defeat a force of 680 soldiers supported by armored cars in the largest battle between the communist government of Poland and the anti-communist resistance?
 * ... that Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia was written by a James Beard Award winner and her bulimic daughter?
 * ... that ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning?
 * ... that 120 earthquakes and tremors in total were felt in Edo, Japan during the Ansei Great Earthquakes of 1854–55?
 * ... that the largest derrick in New York State at the time was used to build the Broadway Theatre in Kingston?
 * ... that SS-Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge, executed for his crimes at Auschwitz, was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
 * ... that Rend Lake College broke ground for its present campus on the very same day it received accreditation on March 27, 1969?
 * ... that this month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the main Burgess Shale locality?


 * 10:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that during its construction, Voltaire complained that the massive Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (pictured) in Paris had only two faucets?
 * ... that make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film's screen credits?
 * ... that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
 * ... that six years after leaving the governor's cabinet, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker, Jr. was elected to his small town's board of selectmen?
 * ... that Angelo Mathews scored 152 runs in the finals of the 2009 Inter-Provincial tournament to help the Basnahira North cricket team to win the title?
 * ... that Arthur Adams, the singer of "You've Got the Floor", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?
 * ... that when the Water Tower in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1322–25 it stood in the River Dee, but it is now about 200 yd inland due to silting of the river?
 * ... that in 1941 the United States Naval Academy refused to play a lacrosse game against Harvard University because Harvard's team included a black player?


 * 04:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Lunsford Lane (pictured) was a slave from North Carolina who bought his freedom, but was tarred and feathered when he returned to his hometown of Raleigh?
 * ... that the Prayer of Joseph is a fragmentary Old Testament pseudepigraph composed in the first century AD?
 * ... that Larvik Fotball was founded as a cooperation club in Larvik, Norway, but repeatedly failed to include the club Larvik Turn in the merger?
 * ... that AT&T once released designs for 83,539 equivalent transforms of a circuit into the public domain just to deny their competitors the ability to patent them?
 * ... that preserving food in tin cans was first patented in 1810 by Peter Durand although he did not invent the process?
 * ... that Sixteen, the 16th-floor restaurant at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, features an eye-level view of the Wrigley Building clock tower?
 * ... that Ragnar Ulstein has written several documentary books on military intelligence in Norway during World War II?
 * ... that a contestant on reality boxing show Charity Lords of the Ring left after being warned by neurosurgeons that he might die?

18 August 2009

 * 22:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the name of Chindia Tower (pictured) in Târgovişte, Romania may be related to the medieval curfew that began at sunset?
 * ... that rapper Lil Wayne is said to have brought the phrase "no homo" into the mainstream of hip hop?
 * ... that the tuber of Drosera gigantea, one of the largest carnivorous sundew species, can be a metre below the ground?
 * ... that following the battle of Menin Road, Daniel Poole received a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for what was described as "reckless leadership"?
 * ... that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election the Communist Party of India (M-L) Red Flag decided to support the Left Democratic Front, claiming that its opponents were pro-Israeli?
 * ... that the majority of Mexican land grant Rancho Las Putas was covered by Lake Berryessa in 1957?
 * ... that the early career of Mauritian-Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse?
 * ... that John 3:7, once flung from a train window, made the news again in 2009 after going missing on a train?


 * 16:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the ROV on NOAA's new exploratory vessel, Okeanos Explorer (pictured), can descend nearly 19000 ft and provides real-time viewing of the ocean floor?
 * ... that the sandakada pahana design originally had carvings of a procession of elephants, lions, horses and bulls, but bulls were later removed due to influences of Hinduism?
 * ... that in 2007, Indiana University defensive end Greg Middleton led college football in sacks and broke a school record?
 * ... that composer Gian Carlo Menotti considered his opera The Island God "a big bore"?
 * ... that the creators of the 1996 documentary film The West traveled over 100000 mi to gather footage and conduct research?
 * ... that the social systems of some bee-eaters are the most complex of any bird, including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony?
 * ... that sidewalks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were spray-painted with the words "AnnArbor.com is here"?
 * ... that when the Soviet cruiser Voroshilov was bombed in 1942, flooding caused by one bomb hit extinguished an artillery magazine fire started by another?


 * 10:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the common spangle gall on the leaves of pedunculate oak trees (pictured) is produced by the gall wasp Neurotus quercus-baccarum?
 * ... that the 1st Australian Task Force was deployed northeast of Saigon during the 1968 communist Tet offensive and was heavily engaged during the Battle of Bien Hoa between January and March?
 * ... that in 2008, defensive tackle Arthur Jones was one of only 10 players for Syracuse to start every game?
 * ... that during the 11th century, Christian kingdoms of medieval Spain gained considerable wealth by collecting parias from the taifas of al-Andalus?
 * ... that Hugh Murray was both the youngest Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, having been appointed at ages 25 and 27, respectively?
 * ... that a quarter wave impedance transformer can make an electrical open circuit look like a short circuit?
 * ... that DJ George Taylor Morris created a 1997 media frenzy with the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" phenomenon, in which the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is said to synch up with The Wizard of Oz?
 * ... that due to the John Wood Community College's "Common Market" approach, its first class of graduates in 1976 never set foot in a classroom of the college?


 * 04:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that spiderhunters (Spectacled Spiderhunter pictured) have tubular tongues able to form a pressure difference which is used to suck up nectar?
 * ... that the 1977 Pat Travers album Live! Go for What You Know, featuring Travers and Pat Thrall on guitar, is said to bridge the gap between 1970s and 1980s styles of metal guitar playing?
 * ... that Samuel Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer, a speaker, a Unitarian, a general, a rebel, a betrayer, a poet, an actress, a philosopher, a friend, a playwright and a lord?
 * ... that Babette March, the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon?
 * ... that the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri of India lasted only 19 months due to his sudden death in 1966?
 * ... that country music singer Easton Corbin`s debut single "A Little More Country Than That" was co-written by Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory?
 * ... that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal, although they were not originally created for this purpose?
 * ... that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed, a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister?

17 August 2009

 * 22:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that female yellow mites (pictured) are produced from unfertilized eggs, a process called thelytoky?
 * ... that the 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain organised by Albert Baskiville helped establish rugby league in Australia and New Zealand?
 * ... that the Bank of New England went bankrupt in 1991, but its liquidation is still in progress?
 * ... that despite the amputation of his left leg and injury to his left hand, Russian World War I fighter ace Juri Gilsher continued to fly and scored five kills in 1917?
 * ... that the Kenny Chesney – Dave Matthews duet "I'm Alive" was previously recorded by Willie Nelson on an album that Chesney co-produced?
 * ... that Al-Majdal, Tiberias, a village depopulated in 1948, preserved the name of the ancient village reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene?
 * ... that the White Cyclone is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States?
 * ... that the first rotating-wheel can opener was invented by William Lyman in 1870?


 * 15:57, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the uncinate fasciculus connecting the temporal and frontal lobes is the last white matter tract in the human brain (diagrammed) to mature, with this continuing after age 30?
 * ... that Royal Navy Admiral Lawrence Halsted was the son of a naval captain, married the daughter of an admiral, and was the father of a vice-admiral?
 * ... that the Rugrats episode "Reptar on Ice" was a satirical parody of over-commercialization of children's media in the form of merchandise tie-ins?
 * ... that the 1695 Siege of Namur has been called the most important event in the Nine Years' War?
 * ... that according to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau the earthquakes of Douliu, Meishan, Nantou, Hsinchu-Taichung, Zhongpu, Xinhua, the East Rift Valley, Hengchun, Baihe, and Jiji were the ten deadliest quakes to strike the island in the 20th century?
 * ... that Carvins Cove, Virginia, was abandoned and subsequently inundated to create Carvins Cove Reservoir in the 1940s?
 * ... that Viennese-born architect Konstantin Jovanović provided the original designs for the National Assembly buildings of both Bulgaria and Serbia?


 * 02:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the whitetip reef shark (pictured) may have contributed to the Hawaiian myth of ʻaumākua, family guardian spirits, due to the "loyalty" of sharks that stay in the same area for years?
 * ... that 19-year-old Panamanian sprinter Alonso Edward is a two-time South American Champion and the fourth fastest 200 m runner this year?
 * ... that the Kunjin virus, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
 * ... that the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon?
 * ... that the SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought ship built by the German Imperial Navy?
 * ... that professional wrestler Super Muñeco teamed with Super Ráton (dressed like Mighty Mouse) and Super Pinocho (dressed like Pinocchio) to form Trio Fantasia?
 * ... that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard, writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict?
 * ... that Madeleine Masson unknowingly met Krystyna Skarbek, whose biography she would write two decades later, days before Skarbek's murder in 1952?

16 August 2009

 * 20:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that St. Thomas of Villanova Church (pictured), upon its completion in 1887, was likely the tallest man-made structure between the Delaware River and Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
 * ... that Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell, with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
 * ... that Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania, which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
 * ... that Alex Cusack, on his debut in first-class cricket, partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
 * ... that Ball Park station was used as a backdrop by Jon Huntsman, Jr. to support a proposition that included 33 unidentified transit projects?
 * ... that Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned and subject to electroshock therapy in the People's Republic of China for being a Falun Gong practitioner?
 * ... that the Nano Ganesh mobile application allows farmers in India to control irrigation pumps in remote fields with mobile phones?
 * ... that on his wife Nancy's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis, to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?


 * 14:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Paris currently has more than 360 working fountains, including one, the Fontaine des Innocents (pictured), in use since the 16th century?
 * ... that Ambassador Kazimierz Papée protested to Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione regarding the Holocaust in Poland that "when something becomes notorious, proof is not required"?
 * ... that Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta, Alaska, was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "10.00 and other considerations"?
 * ... that Bill Humble was a test pilot for Hawker Siddeley during the Second World War, and was the grandfather of British TV presenter Kate Humble?
 * ... that the concert selected for the Dave Matthews Band's newest live album, Live Trax Vol. 16, was chosen by the staff at a Dave Matthews Band fansite?
 * ... that in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?
 * ... that Acanthoplus discoidalis is able to squirt haemolymph up to 30 cm when attacked by predators?
 * ... that Minnesota Vikings safety Colt Anderson recited a vulgar rhyme celebrating his hometown of Butte before each game while at the University of Montana?


 * 08:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that William Thompson Lusk (pictured) was one of the first doctors to successfully perform multiple Caesarean sections?
 * ... that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
 * ... that the former United Nations commander in Bosnia, Colonel Bob Stewart, has been accepted as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Conservative Party?
 * ... that the Bald Man and the Red Emperor, the antagonists in Ion Creangă's Harap Alb story, have been interpreted as echoes of conflicts opposing Romanians to the Tatars and the Khazar "Red Jews"?
 * ... that Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively?
 * ... that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election?
 * ... that contestants on the reality television series Face the Ace win US1 million if they beat three poker professionals in one-on-one matches of Texas hold 'em?
 * ... that Kerry Hallam, an artist based in Nantucket, but trained in Chesterfield, has created an exhibition of nude ex-wives?


 * 02:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Ctenomorphodes chronus (pictured) is an Australian stick insect that resembles a eucalyptus twig, and the female lays 3-mm elliptical eggs that resemble plant seeds?
 * ... that during World War I, U.S. YMCA worker and preacher William Howard Hoople sailed to France to serve on the front lines as an entertainer?
 * ... that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics?
 * ... that the history of Bali dates back at least 200,000 years, with evidence of paleolithic tools such as hand axes found in Sembiran and Trunyan villages?
 * ... that black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination?
 * ... that the British Army Gold Cross awarded to field and general officers during the Peninsular War inspired the design of the Victoria Cross?
 * ... that the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221?
 * ... that professional wrestler Estrella Blanca holds the record for the most "bet match" wins?

15 August 2009

 * 20:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that metamaterials with a negative refractive index cause light to bend in unusual ways (pictured) and offer the possibility of making an object undetectable to incident radiation (that is, invisible)?
 * ... that the Australian energy company Linc Energy is the first company in the world to produce synthetic fuel by combining underground coal gasification and gas-to-liquid technologies?
 * ... that after he lost the Battle of Wolgast, Christian IV of Denmark withdrew from the Thirty Years' War by concluding the Treaty of Lübeck?
 * ... that the Uncle Sam diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States, bears the nickname of the man who found it?
 * ... that the House of Neville, one of the most powerful families in England during the Middle Ages, descended from the same line as the Scottish monarchy?
 * ... that, as a Louisiana state senator in 1946, Drayton Boucher proposed a tax on amusements, including theater tickets, to finance teacher pay raises?
 * ... that Bulgarian physical chemist Ivan Stranski is considered the father of crystal growth research?
 * ... that after Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War, Pomerania and France became her allies in the Treaty of Stettin (1630) and the Treaty of Bärwalde (1631)?


 * 14:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that when it opened in 1933 the Merced Theatre (pictured) had ventilators that produced "clouds" to float across its star-speckled ceiling?
 * ... that in 993, Seo Hui, a Korean diplomat in the Goryeo period, prevented an invasion by Khitan troops?
 * ... that the Genetic Studies of Genius is the longest-running longitudinal study in the world?
 * ... that Ken Major was considered a world authority on windmills, watermills, animal engines and other forms of industrial archaeology?
 * ... that John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas, and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
 * ... that Joachim-Friedrich Huth lost a leg in World War I but served as a general in the Luftwaffe of both the World War II Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr?
 * ... that Thomas N. Schroth worked for his father Frank D. Schroth as an editor at the Brooklyn Eagle and two decades later at The Ellsworth American under his father-in-law James Russell Wiggins?
 * ... that the copper roof of Hungary's Óbuda Synagogue was melted down to make weapons during World War I?


 * 08:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Cyclone Orson (pictured) is the fourth most intense cyclone on record in the Australian cyclone region?
 * ... that Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
 * ... that Benson, Britain's "biggest and best-loved" common carp, was known as "the people's fish"?
 * ... that because the only approach to Badrinath, Uttarakhand, India, since early times was along a path through a forest of berries, the word "Badri" (berry) was suffixed to Sapta Badri temples?
 * ... that Ernesto Basile completed the reconstruction of the Palazzo Montecitorio, which is now the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies?
 * ... that the gift of 105 million of Coca-Cola stock to Emory University by brothers Robert W. and George W. Woodruff was the largest single donation ever made to a school?
 * ... that in Chinese mythology, Wu Gang had to chop down a tree on the moon that always healed itself, forcing him to keep trying forever?
 * ... that after Indian domino cockroaches copulate, a female does not permit males to approach, kicking them away with her hind legs?


 * 02:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the history of medieval art (example pictured) can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "barbarian" art?
 * ... that synthetic analogues of Viagra, such as thiomethisosildenafil, have been detected in some products sold as "herbal" aphrodisiacs?
 * ... that less than two months after the Puget Sound Shore Railroad opened, service was suspended for over a year?
 * ... that with a shell height of up to 91 cm, Syrinx aruanus is the largest snail in the world?
 * ... that the BBC commissioned Carol Ann Duffy, the British Poet Laureate, to write Last Post to mark the deaths in July 2009 of First World War veterans Henry Allingham and Harry Patch?
 * ... that the forces of the ancient state of Epirus invaded Latium, threatening Rome itself, during the Pyrrhic War in 280 B.C.?
 * ... that Takeo Kimura made his feature film directorial debut at age 90?
 * ... that the singer of "Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus" had never even met the cricketer, "let alone greeted him in such an overfamiliar way"?

14 August 2009

 * 20:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the literary works of Romanian teacher and defrocked Orthodox priest Ion Creangă (pictured) range from primers to erotic stories?
 * ... that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration funded Lincoln Laboratories to develop Terminal Doppler Weather Radar in the 1990s to assist air traffic controllers by improving wind shear detection?
 * ... that Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz?
 * ... that Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?
 * ... that Alfredo Figaro of the Detroit Tigers is the cousin of fellow Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney?
 * ... that Project Kaisei is investigating whether the debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be collected and recycled?
 * ... that Portuguese warrior and folk hero Gerald the Fearless led several Christian victories during the Reconquista, but later switched sides and served as governor of al-Sūs under the Almohad caliph Yusuf I?
 * ... that Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in France is home to a Brotherhood of the Sardine, of which French Prime Minister François Fillon is a special "sympathizer"?


 * 14:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Prionochilus is one of the two genera that comprise the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae (Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker pictured)?
 * ... that one of the first actions of India's Desai government was to formally end the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi?
 * ... that Frank Chance is the only Chicago Cubs manager to lead the team to a World Series victory?
 * ... that after the declaration of martial law in 1981, Kornel Morawiecki became one of the most wanted people in Poland?
 * ... that the world's largest brown diamond was found in discarded rubble from a mine by a young girl?
 * ... that Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA, challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black, and ran against Nixon for Senate?
 * ... that the Irish triad Cambrai Homily, which outlines three categories of martyrdom, each designated by a different colour, is the oldest single example of an extended prose passage in Old Irish?
 * ... that, after noticing that white teenagers in his Cleveland, Ohio record store were increasingly listening to rhythm and blues records, Leo Mintz was one of the first to call the music "rock and roll"?


 * 08:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Ernest Brooks was responsible for 4,400 of the 40,000 official British photographs made during the First World War? (example pictured)
 * ... that Diego von Bergen, who was the ambassador to the Holy See for the Kingdom of Prussia until 1918, continued to serve in this position for the Weimar Republic as well as Nazi Germany?
 * ... that in 2008 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jared Burton pitched in a career high 54 games despite missing about a month and a half due to injury?
 * ... that Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
 * ... that Shafiq al-Hout, former head of the Palestine Liberation Front, resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
 * ... that writer, suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"?
 * ... that Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate was the home of William Wallace's uncle, and it was here that he set off on the day that ended in the burning of the Barns of Ayr as an act of revenge?
 * ... that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia, called The Spiritual Harmonizers, made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent?


 * 02:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that species in the fungal genus Wynnea (W. americana, pictured) have asci that are capped by a hinged operculum?
 * ... that after the settlement of the Shen-kuang-szu Incident in 1851, Fuzhou became the first Chinese treaty port where missionaries were given official permission to reside within the walled city?
 * ... that the melody of the title track of Neil Innes' album How Sweet To Be An Idiot was plagiarised by Oasis for their 1994 single "Whatever" and Innes now receives royalties and a co-writing credit?
 * ... that The Infomatics have been called "the loudest voice in Irish hip hop"?
 * ... that one of Kam Chancellor`s coaches called him possibly "the greatest safety in Virginia Tech history"?
 * ... that The Chapters entertained two hundred people on a train as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the DART?
 * ... that Confidence Hall in Placerville, California, was named after a fire truck?
 * ... that Polish pilot Władysław Turowicz moved to Pakistan, became a citizen, and has since become known as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan"?

13 August 2009

 * 20:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Dexia Tower in Brussels has reduced its nightly light show (pictured) to only 10 minutes an hour due to the recession?
 * ... that President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted to Europe from New Jersey's New Brunswick Marconi Station in 1918?
 * ... that the Dutch intervention in Bali in 1906 caused a "fight to the death" by the Balinese, resulting in mass ritual suicide?
 * ... that the owner of KFMR, forced off the air for financial reasons, is selling the Utah radio station and New Mexico sister station KPSA-FM to his own father?
 * ... that species in the fungal genus Ameliella have been found in the Skibotn area in central Northern Norway, a hotspot of lichen species diversity?
 * ... that Ras Ibn Hani, a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia, Syria, was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
 * ... that King Sigismund I the Old built a castle for his Italian wife Bona Sforza in the Lithuanian town Maišiagala during the Jagiellon dynasty?
 * ... that Britney Spears' guest appearance in the Will & Grace episode "Buy, Buy Baby" was her first acting performance on prime-time television?


 * 14:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that according to the legend of the Parson and Clerk (site pictured), the devil turned a local priest and his clerk into stacks at Teignmouth, Devon?
 * ... that the Phineas and Ferb season two premiere was the most watched cable telecast on Friday, March 13, 2009?
 * ... that the tallest building in Bucharest is the 110 m Bucharest Tower Center located in Sector 1?
 * ... that current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school?
 * ... that collective punishment meted out to mostly innocent Ukrainian peasants by Polish authorities during the Galicia Pacification campaign resulted in increased bitterness and encouraged extremists on both sides?
 * ... that despite significantly reforming the law relating to indictments, the Indictments Act 1915 does not actually define what an indictment is?
 * ... that following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors?
 * ... that of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn, and the other has carvings of King Stephen, his wife, and a cat?


 * 08:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark (pictured) as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?
 * ... that Pakistan Hindu Party's flag, which bears two ancient Hindu symbols, Om and Trishool, was designed by the party's founder, Rana Chandra Singh?
 * ... that General Jakob von Washington, a distant relative and contemporary of US President George Washington, became a Baron of the Kingdom of Bavaria?
 * ... that Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper was the first publication to regularly sell one million copies an issue?
 * ... that between 1992 and 2002, more than 60 million people became obese in China?
 * ... that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands, the national anthem, as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
 * ... that the medical ethicist and tutor Maurice Henry Pappworth (1910–1994) was instrumental in the establishment of stricter codes of practice for human experimentation?
 * ... that TV personality Brian Belo descends from Nigerian royalty?


 * 02:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Captain Charles Lydiard died in the wreck of his ship (pictured) when he became exhausted after trying to ensure that as many of his crew as possible were saved?
 * ... that the anti-government August 31, 1982 demonstrations in Poland ended with four demonstators killed and unknown number wounded?
 * ... that W. Harry Vaughan founded the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1934 with a budget of 5,000?
 * ... that the sapropelic mud from Lake Amara contains around 40% organic and 41% mineral substances?
 * ... that Lyman Hall established the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States in 1899 while president of the Georgia Institute of Technology?
 * ... that a visit by Che Guevara sparked 50 years of ties between Cuba and Sri Lanka?
 * ... that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
 * ... that 14 American fugitives showed up at the phony Puño Airlines counter to claim their prize, after authorities sent phony congratulations on winning a free trip to the Bahamas?

12 August 2009

 * 20:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that while Prime Minister of Jordan, Sulayman al-Nabulsi (pictured) was accused of involvement in a coup against King Hussein, resulting in his house imprisonment for over four years?
 * ... that the 1987 Hipercor bombing was Basque paramilitary group ETA's deadliest attack?
 * ... that Acintya is the Supreme God according to Balinese Hinduism?
 * ... that construction of the Natron Cutoff was delayed for 11 years while the U.S. Department of Justice decided whether to allow the Southern Pacific Company to remain in control of its owner, the Central Pacific Railway?
 * ... that Japanese pink film/sexploitation producer-director Kan Mukai gave Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita his first work in the film industry?
 * ... that the battleship SMS Bayern (1915) was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns?
 * ... that after crashing in the same event in 1992, John Kah was the reserve in the short track relay and watched on as teammates Steven Bradbury, Richard Nizielski, Kieran Hansen and Andrew Murtha won Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics?
 * ... that the website Like.com allows users to highlight a part of a product image and search for similar-looking products based on the pattern, shape, and color of the highlighted part?


 * 14:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the first (pictured) of four bridges on the current Taipei Bridge location was designed for rail traffic, but the railway was removed after only ten years?
 * ... that Infinity Broadcasting, sold for nearly 4 billion in 1996, was started in 1972 when co-founder Michael A. Wiener bought FM station KOME with 5,000 from the sale of his father's stamp collection?
 * ... that a square metre patch of Phylactolaemata, a freshwater class of Bryozoa, can produce 800,000 statoblasts, "survival pods" withstanding freezing and drying that get carried long distances?
 * ... that Robert Cushman expanded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' photo archives through donations from United Artists' studios and Katharine Hepburn?
 * ... that the Limitation Act 1963 was described by Lord Reid as having "a strong claim to the distinction of being the worst drafted Act on the statute book"?
 * ... that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante?
 * ... that The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition broke all Guggenheim Museum attendance records and kicked off a wave of blockbuster museum shows?
 * ... that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott, who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria, learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?


 * 08:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Joe Maddock (pictured) was one of the biggest ground gainers, and played four positions, for Michigan's 1903 "Point-a-Minute" football team?
 * ... that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names: "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?
 * ... that the 1937 peasant strike in Poland was the largest anti-government demonstration in the Second Polish Republic?
 * ... that Lynn Pressman, while president of the Pressman Toy Corporation, promised not to create "any of the dreadful weapons that can destroy life as playthings for children"?
 * ... that the Ninth Circuit ruled in Alperin v. Vatican Bank that property claims by Holocaust survivors did not constitute a political question, while human rights and international law claims did?
 * ... that toxic puffball Agaricus praeclaresquamosus can be distinguished from its close relative Agaricus perobscurus by a stipe base which turns yellow immediately when injured?
 * ... that Albrecht von Wallenstein's series of victories was ended by the Scots Alexander Seaton and Alexander Leslie in the Battle of Stralsund (1628)?
 * ... that The Raw Sessions is Ireland's first ever rockumentary series?


 * 02:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the 15th-century mosque Atala Masjid, Jaunpur, India (pictured) exists at the site of the Atala Devi Hindu temple?
 * ... that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
 * ... that the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort?
 * ... that the show There Goes the Neighborhood built a 20 ft tall wall around a Kennesaw, Georgia, neighborhood for its filming?
 * ... that William "King" Cole played for a national championship team at Michigan and coached Nebraska to two championships?
 * ... that in 1939, Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Umansky was the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C.?
 * ... that the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York, which lasted for over two centuries?
 * ... that when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from 1 per day?

11 August 2009

 * 20:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the John Pearson Soda Works (pictured) was built in front of an idle mining shaft so there would be ample room to store ice?
 * ... that the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles?
 * ... that a key differentiator between rotors and propellers is disk loading?
 * ... that in 1747, Aulay Macaulay, the last chief of Clan MacAulay, invented a system of shorthand in an unsuccessful attempt revive his clan's fortune?
 * ... that the Urban Transportation Development Corporation was formed to build a version of the Transrapid maglev train, but instead designed a completely new system known today as the Bombardier ART?
 * ... that Ted Nierenberg formed Dansk International Designs to sell Scandinavian-style items in the U.S. after seeing Jens Quistgaard's handcrafted fork and knife on display in a Copenhagen museum?
 * ... that the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner?
 * ... that Yishan Yining, a Zen master who pioneered Gozan Bungaku literature in 14th-century Japan, was originally a Buddhist monk on a diplomatic mission from China?


 * 14:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the settlers who built Old St. Raymond's Church (pictured) in Dublin, California, were unable to afford a full-time priest, so one rode in monthly from Oakland to hold Mass?
 * ... that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet?
 * ... that Ned Hanlon managed the Baltimore Orioles to three consecutive National League pennants?
 * ... that the Mexican government offers rewards of 30 million pesos for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of various drug trafficking cartels, such as the Beltrán-Leyva brothers?
 * ... that although the Soviet Union recognised Swaziland in 1968, it wasn't until 1999 that Swazi relations with Russia were officially established?
 * ... that the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
 * ... that the two German Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers were both sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
 * ... that two county attorneys were sued for not reporting the plot by a jealous ophthalmologist to murder another ophthalmologist, who later lost his eyesight in prison?


 * 08:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that U2 (pictured) released a film titled Linear as a companion to their latest studio album, to enhance the album's listening experience with visuals?
 * ... that as of 1981, New York City's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States?
 * ... that in 1918 the UK hospital ships HMHS Rewa and HMHS Glenart Castle were sunk by German U-boats within two months of each other?
 * ... that professional wrestler Olímpico`s ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that Film & Kino, which organizes municipal-owned cinemas in Norway, also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund?
 * ... that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs, particularly if the ambush predator Pfiesteria piscicida is involved?
 * ... that the Mexican Green Party has run an advertising campaign to promote the restoration of capital punishment in Mexico?
 * ... that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, Cheshire, England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?


 * 02:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the work of Pelagius of Oviedo (pictured) as a historian is generally reliable, but he is known as the "prince of falsifiers" for various altered documents emanating from his office in the 12th century?
 * ... that renalase is an enzyme that breaks down stress hormones and decreases blood pressure?
 * ... that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project?
 * ... that the Australian cicada Psaltoda plaga is commonly known as the "black prince"?
 * ... that with 125 Scottish clans in attendance, The Gathering was the world's largest clan meeting and Highland games?
 * ... that federal judge Paul Jones sentenced a pregnant mother of ten to jail for selling a quart of liquor, lectured her on birth control, and asked, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?"
 * ... that the title of Robbie Williams' upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star is a reference to 1979's The Buggles hit Video Killed the Radio Star?
 * ... that during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), aquaculture in China of the common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp sounded like the family name, Li (李), of the emperor?

10 August 2009

 * 20:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Watergate complex`s buildings (pictured) were designed to emulate the proposed Inner Loop Expressway and the shape of the Kennedy Center, whose original design was curvilinear?
 * ... that the coldest temperature in south-west England on record was −16.1 °C at Yeovilton, Somerset, in January 1982?
 * ... that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back, but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season?
 * ... that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy?
 * ... that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin, Relaxin, Workin and Steamin?
 * ... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Las Juntas was given to Irishman William Welch, who was listed as "Guillermo Welch" on official land documents?
 * ... that the government of Griqualand East destroyed £10,000 in currency shortly after printing it?
 * ... that the Dallas Hilton, built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton in Downtown Dallas, Texas, was the first highrise hotel to be branded a "Hilton"?


 * 14:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that burning money (pictured) can provide for behavior modification, political notoriety, and a warm fireplace?
 * ... that John Waltz managed the Baltimore Orioles for eight games despite lacking any qualifications for the job?
 * ... that Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie?
 * ... that professional wrestler Virus once worked in the Minis division until he won the right to wrestle regular sized wrestlers?
 * ... that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits?
 * ... that Michigan fullback Everett Sweeley set a college football record in 1902 when he kicked the ball 86 yards?
 * ... the New York Court of Common Pleas was established in 1686 by Thomas Dongan as a successor to the New Netherlands' Worshipful Court of the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens?
 * ... that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show, a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach?


 * 08:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Irwin Uteritz (pictured), "one of the lightest 'big time' quarterbacks in American football history" at 140 pounds, led Michigan to two undefeated seasons and a national championship?
 * ... that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922?
 * ... that the US Army's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead?
 * ... that upon coming in contact with an alkali solution, the hairs of the fungus Microstoma floccosum will swell and then dissolve?
 * ... that Filipino basketball player Gec Chia`s walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?
 * ... that the original plans for the Laurence Harbor New Jersey Transit station included a large commercial and residential development?
 * ... that quarterback Jarrett Brown replaced injured starter Pat White and led West Virginia to defeat Rutgers in 2008, having done the same thing in the 2006 game after three overtime periods?
 * ... that on Africa’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands?


 * 02:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that apart from the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Sanctuary of Chalma (pictured) in Malinalco is the most visited shrine in Mexico?
 * ... that the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville smuggled valuable cochineal insects out of Oaxaca to Port-au-Prince and wrote a dramatic account of his adventure?
 * ... that the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, alleging U.S. involvement in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, was viewed by the European Parliament, but received no coverage in U.S. media?
 * ... that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar, an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
 * ... that professional wrestler Mike Segura earned the nickname "Suicida" because of his risky dives out of the ring?
 * ... that I Anzac Corps suffered 6,300 casualties during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the Western Front for the next two months?
 * ... that Clayton Hill, who played the "sweater zombie" in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead, was described by a member of the film's crew as "one of the most convincing zombies of the bunch"?
 * ... that Lujan-Fryns syndrome is often associated with failure of a major brain structure to develop?

9 August 2009

 * 20:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as being host to a group of endangered Rothschild giraffe (pictured), was also home to a warthog named in honour of Walter Cronkite?
 * ... that Only Clouds Move the Stars has received more international film awards than any other Norwegian film?
 * ... that Bruce Shorts, head football coach at Nevada and Oregon, was described in 1904 as "the best coach west of the Mississippi River"?
 * ... that according to a 1977 book, the 1905 sentimental ballad "Nellie Dean" "must surely be the song most often sung in pubs during the present century"?
 * ... that an unnamed member of the extinct order Hupehsuchia exhibited an unusual form of polydactyly that is similar to that of some early tetrapods of the Devonian period?
 * ... that Wilma Scott Heide grew NOW to 50,000 members and an annual budget of 750,000 during her four-year term as president, having taken office in 1971 with 3,000 members and spending of 28,000?
 * ... that a total of 441 military and civilian personnel of the Turkish Naval Base Gölcük, among them a rear admiral, were killed by the 1999 İzmit earthquake?
 * ... that in 1973, U.S. District Judge Orrin G. Judd issued an injunction prohibiting the United States' continued bombing of Cambodia, but a higher court stayed the ruling before it could take effect?


 * 14:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the artificial island Northstar Island (pictured) was the first in the Beaufort Sea able to move oil ashore by undersea pipeline?
 * ... that when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match?
 * ... that the community of Old Glory in Texas used to be known as "New Brandenburg" until residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a name change in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment?
 * ... that Canadian Sandy Hott result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent?
 * ... that Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex, cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland?
 * ... that tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic?
 * ... that Native Americans in the West Indies used an extract from Fishfuddle to sedate fish, making them easier to catch?
 * ... that it was not realized for 70 years that the Brazilian False Rice Rat was described twice under two different names?


 * 08:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Jasmin Ouschan (pictured), who was born in 1986 and won her first European Championship in 1999, is a nineteen-time European billiards champion?
 * ... that following the war in August, Russia and South Ossetia signed a treaty in September 2008, guaranteeing Russian intervention in the event of an attack on South Ossetia?
 * ... that Frederick Van Voorhies Holman is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon?
 * ... that the Chapel of St Non in Pembrokeshire is unusual in that it is aligned north / south rather than the usual east / west?
 * ... that Harry Hawkins won the U.S. national collegiate hammer throw championship in 1926 and was rated by Fielding Yost as the best football lineman of 1925?
 * ... that the "anti-energy" drink Slow Cow is a parody of Red Bull?
 * ... that in 1907 French photographer Léon Gimpel became the first photographer to have his work published in color?
 * ... that all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków?


 * 02:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Michigan end Curtis Redden (pictured) died in World War I after he had described the night sky over the battlefield as "weird, hideous, fascinating, sublime"?
 * ... that Khan al-Harir, built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
 * ... that Indian sarod player Brij Narayan composed music for the 1988 movie The Bengali Night?
 * ... that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?
 * ... that Patricia Van Cleve Lake, rumored daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst, performed in the radio sitcom Blondie for five years alongside her real-life husband Arthur Lake?
 * ... that Isis and her devotees are often depicted carrying a bucket?
 * ... that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics?
 * ... that Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists?

8 August 2009

 * 20:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that because of her tough resistance during the Battle of Jutland, the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger (pictured) was nicknamed "Iron Dog" by the British Royal Navy?
 * ... that Albert Clinton Horton was the first Lieutenant Governor of Texas?
 * ... that Bloc Party's remix album Silent Alarm Remixed contains a version of the single "Banquet" by the original album's producer, Paul Epworth?
 * ... that medievalist art historian Walter Horn was the special intelligence officer who recovered the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire when they were hidden by Nazis during World War II?
 * ... that the Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant is expected to provide up to 12% of the total energy output of Tajikistan?
 * ... that cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson of California, a preseason All-America prospect, played his first game with a broken wrist and was outrun for two touchdowns by the wide receiver he was assigned?
 * ... that the grisette is enjoyed by cows?
 * ... that in Serbian legend old people who had outlived their usefulness were ritually slain by their children in a custom known as lapot?


 * 14:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the yellow earth tongue (pictured) has been described as a fungus one is likely to find while looking for something else?
 * ... that Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple, chief of Clan MacAulay, was an ally of the MacGregors, and that he feuded with the Buchanans, Campbells, and the Galbraiths?
 * ... that the Bare-faced Bulbul, the only songbird in Asia to lack feathers on the face, is the first Asian bulbul to be described in over 100 years?
 * ... that W. H. Weeks designed the plans for hundreds of buildings in California including the Yolo County Courthouse and Yolo Branch Library?
 * ... that according to Blind Harry, the Scottish patriot William Wallace was warmly greeted at Faslane Castle, after he had sacked Dumbarton and laid waste to the castle of Rosneath?
 * ... that evidence from Gerald Gardner, a man who served as president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Organization for Women, led to a ban on sex-segregated help wanted ads, a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling?
 * ... that the Bear and Billet, now a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury?
 * ... that when Henry John Whitehouse was elected Episcopal bishop of Illinois he refused to take up his seat for nine years, until his salary demands were met?


 * 08:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that one critic claims William Hazlitt's (pictured) view of poets in Characters of Shakespear's Plays is "perhaps the most original, and surely the most heretical, idea in the entire range of his criticism"?
 * ... that Jonny Diaz, brother of Major League Baseball player Matt Diaz, abandoned his college baseball career to become a Christian musician?
 * ... that the Capitulation of Franzburg forbade the rape of decent women and frivolous use of arms?
 * ... that Abraham Barak Salem was the first Black Jewish lawyer in India?
 * ... that the cast of Home Movies completely improvised the show's pilot episode?
 * ... that Fernando Ansúrez II, Count of Monzón, sent four embassies to the court of al-Hakam II, Caliph of Córdoba, during his reign?
 * ... that Bruce Springsteen wrote "She's the One" before recording Born to Run, but was originally unsure whether to include it on the album?
 * ... that President Benjamin Harrison's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa, Iowa, was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall?


 * 02:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that in Mexico, the mushroom Boletus frostii (pictured) is commonly known as panzia agria, which translates to "sour belly"?
 * ... that NYU professor Lionel Casson built a view of ancient maritime history by studying classical texts and archeological studies of ancient shipwrecks and the contents of the amphorae they carried?
 * ... that the English Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was concerned by the morality of silver-gilt?
 * ... that Marcia McNutt, nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey, studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team?
 * ... that a British Army major was awarded one of the FBI Honorary Medals, the FBI Star?
 * ... that Nirupama Rao, the present Foreign Secretary of India, was the first woman spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry in 2001–2002?
 * ... that Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head football coach, John Heisman, by offering a US450 pay increase?
 * ... that professional wrestler Bam Bam used the name of his favorite cartoon character, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, as his ring name?

7 August 2009

 * 20:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that suffragette Frances Munds (pictured) was elected a senator five years before the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote?
 * ... that during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
 * ... that during his 31 years as a federal judge in New York, Henry W. Goddard heard cases including William James Sidis's invasion of privacy suit against The New Yorker and the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss?
 * ... that after the French defeat at the Battle of Muong Khoua during the French Indochina War, the four surviving soldiers trekked 80 km through the jungle of Laos to safety?
 * ... that English poet Mary Jones, called "the Chantress" by Samuel Johnson, did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends?
 * ... that muscles of patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Lou Gehrig's Disease have electrical abnormalities that can be detected by electrical impedance myography?
 * ... that Polish partisan leader Władysław Łukasiuk, despite his paralyzed leg, always marched at the head of his unit, using his carbine as a crutch?
 * ... that Kelly Clarkson fought to prevent her record company, RCA, from releasing her song "Already Gone" as a single?


 * 14:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Greek physician Hippocrates (pictured) used wine as a medicine and health supplement prescribing it for a variety of ailments such as diarrhea, lethargy and pain during childbirth?
 * ... that tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure?
 * ... that the blotched catshark exhibits fluorescence, with spots that glow yellow under blue light?
 * ... that one type of GM V-8 engine requires five cores per mold to create one casting?
 * ... that Geoff Henke, founding chairman of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, was succeeded as the head of Australia's Winter Olympics team by Ian Chesterman, under whom the country won three gold medals?
 * ... that Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun, gave birth to the future Emperor Akbar the Great in 1542, while taking refuge at a fortress?
 * ... that Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs?
 * ... that the Brumbrella was a motorised rain cover for the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham?


 * 08:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that after both of the 2008 U.S. short course off-road racing series became defunct, two new series replaced them&mdash;LOORRS and TORC (car pictured)?
 * ... that when The Mountaineers opened at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1909, The Times declared that "it forms one of those instances of respectable mediocrity"?
 * ... that Jadwiga of Pomerania might have been a daughter of a Polish king, but scholars are uncertain as to her lineage?
 * ... that Mike Lantry, a Vietnam veteran and walk-on place-kicker, broke the University of Michigan record for the longest field goal twice in the same quarter?
 * ... that Cyclone Rona of 1999 uprooted trees that survived a 1934 cyclone that hit the same area in Queensland, Australia?
 * ... that Way to Heaven is a play about a 1944 visit to Theresienstadt during which the Nazis duped the Red Cross into reporting that rumors of mass murder were untrue?
 * ... that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl, a whole month before its CD release?
 * ... that the palatability of foods and drinks depends upon an "opioid-eating site" in the brain's nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum?


 * 02:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Queen of Hearts (illustration pictured) first had her tarts stolen in April 1782?
 * ... that of the 60+ First Nations in British Columbia (BC) only a few have signed treaties with the BC and Canadian governments?
 * ... that electro-hydrostatic actuators can replace the hydraulic plumbing of an aircraft with electrical wiring, leading to a "power-by-wire" design?
 * ... that in the final phase of its existence, the Soviet Union deprioritized relations with Laos for the sake of achieving a settlement in the Cambodian Civil War?
 * ... that the Kraków City Council has forty-three elected members, including the mayor?
 * ... that The Californian, California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
 * ... that the hurricane database HURDAT contains information about every tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851?
 * ... that Dănuţ Borbil left arm is more successful than his right?

6 August 2009

 * 20:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that once a year almost 1,000 mummified bodies are put on public display inside the monastic crypt at the Church of St. Casimir the Prince (pictured) in Kraków ?
 * ... that the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel?
 * ... that the Qayqayt First Nation, of New Westminster, British Columbia, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when Rhonda Larrabee became the only member?
 * ... that baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater?
 * ... that the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions?
 * ... that water from the Little Applegate River was used in the mine in Sterlingville, the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon and possibly the entire western United States?
 * ... that Pinchas Lapide's Three Popes and the Jews controversially claims that Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews from The Holocaust?
 * ... that lyric soprano Lois Hunt was introduced to then Vice President Lyndon Johnson while he was wearing a pair of green silk pajamas embroidered with his initials?


 * 14:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the yellow wart (pictured) is often confused with the fly agaric?
 * ... that Rudolf Caracciola once drove a car on public roads at 432.7 km/h?
 * ... that a mummy was found in a cave in Wyoming?
 * ... that "King Richard" lost his ear in a car accident, but still scored 24 times for his country?
 * ... that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
 * ... that in 1967 Kōji Seki directed Perverted Criminal, Japan's first 3-D film and the world's first 3-D sex film?
 * ... that "A slumber did my spirit seal" is the only poem in William Wordsworth's Lucy poem series that does not mention the dead Lucy by name?
 * ... that Richard Leroy Walters, a homeless man who managed his money from the billiards room of a senior center in Phoenix, Arizona, converted to Catholicism on his deathbed and left 4 million to charity?


 * 08:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Noah Ogle Place (pictured) includes the last surviving tub mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
 * ... that Abdel Hamid Sarraj, at age 35, was the minister of interior in the United Arab Republic and the most powerful Syrian official in the UAR?
 * ... that the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruisers, although not completed, served as the basis for the Scharnhorst class battleships of the Kriegsmarine?
 * ... that Guilian Gary, a former college wide receiver, says he has few "fond football memories" of the season in which he made a conference championship-winning reception?
 * ... that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations?
 * ... that Filipino revolutionary leader Daniel Tirona was almost shot at twice by Philippine National hero Andrés Bonifacio?
 * ... that The Addams Family, an upcoming musical by Andrew Lippa, features an original story based solely on the cartoons of Charles Addams, rather than the subsequent television series and films?
 * ... that Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London?


 * 02:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Richard Henry Savage (pictured) served in Egypt for a year with Charles Pomeroy Stone in the Egyptian Army, under Khedive Isma'il Pasha?
 * ... that "A Chorus Lie", the Will & Grace episode in which Matt Damon appeared, had the highest viewing figures in the show's history?
 * ... that the river Vaitarani that flows near the Rudranath Hindu shrine is identified with the "river of salvation", where souls of the dead cross to the other world?
 * ... that professional wrestler Juan Aguilar Leos was not revealed to be the son of El Texano until he was unmasked, after which he adopted the ring name "El Texano, Jr."?
 * ... that Percival C. Pope Marine Corps Brevet Medal, at the Navy Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is the only known original Marine Corps Brevet Medal on public display?
 * ... that the Softwarepark Hagenberg has also been called the "miracle of Hagenberg" for its success?
 * ... that George Burgess, the first Episcopal Bishop of Maine, died at sea in 1866 while traveling to Haiti on Church business?

5 August 2009

 * 20:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that many Catholic clergy collaborated with the Ustaše, including Miroslav Filipović, who ran the Jasenovac concentration camp (pictured)?
 * ... that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's flamboyant former director, Thomas Krens, was at the forefront of the 1990's trend of worldwide museum expansion?
 * ... that US Highway 10 crosses the Wisconsin–Michigan border via a privately-owned carferry?
 * ... that the station for the town of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is served by up to 40 TGV trains every day?
 * ... that in 1969, Côte d'Ivoire severed its relations with the Soviet Union, following accusations that the Soviet ambassador had supported Ivorian student protests?
 * ... that when the Vigeland Museum was created in 1947 to showcase Gustav Vigeland's works, it was partially funded by a budget surplus from Oslo's municipal cinema company?
 * ... that in the Douglas Treaties the Chewhaytsum Indian Tribe of Vancouver Island signed away the land rights for the city of Sooke, British Columbia, for 45.10?
 * ... that in 1953, the Eritrean Moslem League of the Western Province proposed the creation of an independent Beja state out of parts of Eritrea and Sudan, but failed to secure British support for the idea?


 * 14:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that according to Hindu mythology, the god Shiva assumed the form of a bull and his hump, arms, face, navel and hair are worshipped at the Panch Kedar temples (Kedarnath pictured) in Uttarakhand, India?
 * ... that the remains of at least 55 individual mammoths have been excavated at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota, discovered in 1974 by a construction worker at a prospective subdivision?
 * ... that physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz found R. akari, the source of the disease rickettsialpox, in mites so numerous that the "wallpaper appeared to be moving"?
 * ... that in July 2009, GERB politician Tsetska Tsacheva became the first ever Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria?
 * ... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?
 * ... that the National Union of Algerian Farmers, one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time?
 * ... that astronaut-politician John Glenn's 1964 run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio was criticized as an "undesirable precedent in astronauts' capitalizing on their fame to enter political roles"?


 * 08:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Bartolommeo Coriolano skill at woodcuts (example pictured) earned him a knighthood from Pope Urban VIII?
 * ... that the shape of recession varies greatly between different economic downturns?
 * ... that in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre?
 * ... that Bahadur Shah Zafar II who wished to be buried at a burial ground in Zafar Mahal precincts in Delhi was deported to Rangoon after the Sepoy Mutiny where he died without honour?
 * ... that by 1870, "New Departure" Democrats stopped opposing Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans to improve their electoral fortunes?
 * ... that Dr. Thomas Dao was an early advocate for breast self-examination, mammography and conservative alternatives to radical mastectomy in which patients can take time to consider treatment options?
 * ... that the Danube Delta and Retezat National Park are part of the seven natural wonders of Romania?
 * ... that, as a result of the Pennsylvania government's seventh consecutive budget impasse, most state employees are working without pay?


 * 02:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that peacocks (pictured) are among the 143 bird species recorded in Wasgamuwa National Park?
 * ... that Michigan's "chunky fullback," "Bullet Bob" Westfall, known for his "spinner play," was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987?
 * ... that the largest specimens of the sandy stiltball fungus have been found growing in floodplains with halophilic vegetation?
 * ... that William Smalley, the first settler in the area of Cowan Lake State Park in Ohio, was held captive by the Lenape twice, for a total of 6 years and 7 months?
 * ... that the nasal infix, which was used in the Proto-Indo-European language to express the present tense, can still be traced in word pairs like convince/conviction?
 * ... that the decision of Pope Pius XII to appoint German apostolic administrators to occupied Poland during World War II was labelled "one of his most controversial decisions"?
 * ... that St John's Hospital in Bath was founded around 1180, by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin beside the hot springs of the Cross Bath?
 * ... that the Ioan Slavici National College in Satu Mare, Romania, has a 200-seat chapel on its campus?

4 August 2009

 * 20:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that an 1848 novel claimed that Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (pictured) had been the lover of Sidonia von Borcke, a convicted witch?
 * ... that Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
 * ... that while working as a children's entertainer in the 1980s, actress Fay Ripley was set up as a jewellery thief in an insurance fraud attempt?
 * ... that Dean Holness, who starred in football television drama Dream Team and film Mike Bassett: England Manager, played professional football for Southend United?
 * ... that Roman commander Gaius Considius Longus was killed by his own men during the Roman civil war as he attempted to escape Caesar's victorious forces?
 * ... that John Marsh, the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos, was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them?
 * ... that a June 5, 1981, report by Dr. Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"?
 * ... that in 1957, the Wycombe Repertory Theatre presented the English-speaking premiere of The Threatening Storm written by Basil Ashmore?


 * 14:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Australia's first uranium mine (pictured) opened in 1906 and initially produced radium for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford?
 * ... that Hasan Nuhanović is a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide who is suing the Dutch state for its failure to protect his family from being killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995?
 * ... that God's Providence House in Chester, Cheshire, probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48?
 * ... that Gamal Salem was chief judge of the court that sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death for participating in an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser?
 * ... that the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend, Oregon?
 * ... that in the Skins episode "Pandora", comedian David Baddiel guest-starred as the lover of his real-life girlfriend's character?
 * ... that the Mihai Eminescu National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1634 when Jesuits received approval to open a college in the city?
 * ... that Jesse N. Funk was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War I for running through no man's land to rescue wounded men?


 * 08:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Hindu shrine Tungnath (pictured) is closed during winter and a symbolic image of the temple's presiding deity is moved to Mukunath, 19 km away?
 * ... that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?
 * ... that the ornamental houseplant Asparagus densiflorus is toxic to dogs and cats?
 * ... that Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina?
 * ... that the old rank of mate was revived in 1913 as part of the Selborne-Fisher scheme for the accelerated promotion of promising enlisted personnel to become engineering officers?
 * ... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?
 * ... that the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year?
 * ... that the undefeated 1940 Stanford Indians were coached by Clark Shaughnessy, whose record at the University of Chicago had caused that school to discontinue its football program?


 * 02:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Marie Wittich (pictured), the soprano who created the title role in Richard Strauss' opera Salome, refused to perform the Dance of the Seven Veils saying "I won't do it. I'm a decent woman."?
 * ... that in the Dutch children's book Pluk van de Petteflet, a group of grown-ups get intoxicated from eating mysterious berries, a scene praised by educators?
 * ... that the Hindu god Shiva is worshipped in form of a navel-shaped lingam at Madhyamaheshwar temple?
 * ... that All-Pro linebacker Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich, a rodeo rider before joining the NFL, reported that no end or back ever threw a block like a wild pony "when he feels the first touch of a saddle"?
 * ... that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada?
 * ... that Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union-style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations?
 * ... that the four Mackensen-class battlecruisers were canceled according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
 * ... that in the mid-1980s, Burger King offered customers 5,000 for finding a nerd?

3 August 2009

 * 20:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the painting of the hussar Gregor Baci (pictured) belongs to the Chamber of Art and Curiosities at Ambras castle?
 * ... that a plot on the American soap opera One Life to Live featuring sexually confused police officer Oliver Fish invited controversy when an actress objecting to the storyline was replaced?
 * ... that in the fiscal years 2001 to 2003, the oil tanker MV Montauk made over 125 voyages in and about South Korea and Japan?
 * ... that despite a poor economy, a record number of people anted up 1,000 in a "Stimulus Special"?
 * ... that in 1961, the Soviet ambassador to Guinea Daniel Solod was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot, and was expelled from Guinea?
 * ... that on Reek Sunday, in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick, some barefoot?
 * ... that Leo Paquin, one of the Seven Blocks of Granite on the 1936 Fordham University football team, was nicknamed "Twinkletoes"?
 * ... that Geastrum triplex is considered the largest of the earthstar fungi?


 * 14:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Grub Street (pictured), in London's Moorfields district, was home to hack writers, and later became a pejorative term for impoverished authors?
 * ... that Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior where people feign illnesses in online forums to gain attention and sympathy?
 * ... that Alan Garnett Davenport, a Member of the Order of Canada, was the wind engineer on the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower, and the Tsing Ma Bridge?
 * ... that New Zealand and Australian soldiers massacred the adult males of a village in Palestine during the Surafend affair of 1918?
 * ... that Wyatt Durette, co-writer of Zac Brown Band's "Toes", called Brown at 6:00 in the morning to give him the idea for the song?
 * ... that chronically indebted Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania wanted to sell the island of Rügen to Denmark?
 * ... that the Azores Bullfinch is the most threatened passerine bird in Europe?
 * ... that Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, has taught a course entitled "Racial Profiling"?


 * 08:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the puffball mushroom Calvatia sculpta (pictured) has been described as "a cross between a geodesic dome and a giant glob of meringue"?
 * ... that Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Richard H. Sylvester is credited with having coined the term "third degree" to refer to harsh means of extracting confessions from suspects?
 * ... that Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas, accessible throughout the year?
 * ... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris?
 * ... that Hartley Road, the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes, is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake?
 * ... that quarterback Vic Hall broke the Virginia state record for total yards as a high school junior and then broke his own record as a senior?
 * ... that the Macmillan Report most briefly discussed issue, an alleged "gap" in British industrial financing, was one of the only recommendations acted upon?
 * ... that professional wrestler Juan Alvarado Nieves and his five brothers all use ring names with the term Brazo (Spanish for "arm") in them?


 * 02:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * ... that a front part of Venera 4 (pictured), the first probe to land on another planet, was made of sugar?
 * ... that future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus?
 * ... that early audience members of Dublin's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland?
 * ... that Khaled Mohieddin, a former member of the Free Officers Movement, founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt?
 * ... that the endangered Socorro springsnail is found in only one spring in the U.S. state of New Mexico?
 * ... that businessman John Young migrated to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom, but was worth 184 million in 2006, although the company that made him rich is now insolvent?
 * ... that over 5,000 people applied to the quiz show Jeopardy! to be a part of the show's Clue Crew, a team of correspondents that film videos used to accompany some of the show's clues?
 * ... that in an obituary of Adolf Hitler, Knut Hamsun infamously referred to Hitler as "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations"?

2 August 2009

 * 20:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that special Great Western Railway wagons were designed to carry goods as diverse as fish, kaolin, sheets of glass and gunpowder (wagon pictured)?
 * ... that Louis Edward Gelineau, the American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was succeeded by Robert Edward Mulvee in 1997, opposed a 1985 ordinance for the city of Providence to protect homosexuals from discrimination?
 * ... that the professional wrestling group Los Infernales were the first team to win both the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship?
 * ... that the United States' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii?
 * ... that Bonneau du Martray is the only estate in Burgundy to make wine exclusively from grand cru vineyards?
 * ... that baseball Hall of Famer Fred Clarke was the last Louisville Colonels manager?
 * ... that, inspired by nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen's success in France, Norwegian anti-immigrant political party Stop Immigration only election win was a single seat on the Drammen City Council?
 * ... that Colonel Ernest Bankey won the Soap Box Derby twice before becoming an American ace in a day on December 27, 1944?


 * 14:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that a call of the Edwards's Fig-parrot (pictured) of Northeastern New Guinea has been likened to "coins dropping on concrete"?
 * ... that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review?
 * ... that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough?
 * ... that in 1899, Lave Cross and Joe Quinn managed the Cleveland Spiders to the worst record in professional baseball history?
 * ... that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea, to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
 * ... that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever's design?
 * ... that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation?
 * ... that "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" is a fraction?


 * 08:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the Shahi Bridge across the Gomti River in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, was built in 1569 without the chhatris (pictured), which were added almost three centuries later?
 * ... that Jane Weinberger, wife of Caspar Weinberger, began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration?
 * ... that the opportunity for the establishment of the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama as part of the 2010 IndyCar Series season resulted in part from the Detroit Indy Grand Prix being discontinued?
 * ... that Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
 * ... that Howard Engle was the lead plaintiff in a class action suit in which a jury awarded a U.S. record punitive damage verdict of 145 billion against the tobacco industry?
 * ... that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front?
 * ... that Tony Romano was the Peterborough Petes's leading scorer during the 2008–09 Ontario Hockey League season?
 * ... that Matt Kirshen's Bigipedia article on the "Bee Whisperer" was inspired by an article found using the random article function on Wikipedia?


 * 02:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland displays a collection of local incised Pictish stones dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (example pictured)?
 * ... that Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?
 * ... that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement, the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization, had a membership of 360,000?
 * ... that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo's 2001 Space World?
 * ... that in 2006, the Michigan State Spartans mounted the greatest comeback in top division college football history, but their coach was fired two weeks later?
 * ... that ex parte O'Brien was a test case seeking the release of between 80 and 100 people arrested under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920?
 * ... that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
 * ... that "She Belongs to Me" was one of the first anti-love songs?

1 August 2009

 * 20:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that in April 2009, a team of scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that the endangered Visayan Spotted Deer (pictured) survived in a tiny forest in Negros?
 * ... that American Racing Hall of Fame jockey Isaac Burns Murphy, now interred at the Kentucky Horse Park, was initially buried at African Cemetery No. 2?
 * ... that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester, Cheshire, has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
 * ... that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past?
 * ... that players from the 1990 England and West Germany association football teams replayed their Italia '90 World Cup semi-final match in aid of charity, for the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy?
 * ... that the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue, was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
 * ... that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus, built by the Crusaders in the mid-12th century, is among the best-preserved religious structures of the crusades?
 * ... that the game rock-paper-scissors has been used to determine the winner of several events at the World Series of Poker?


 * 14:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Garboldisham Windmill (pictured) was the only post mill standing in Norfolk in 1972?
 * ... that Heinz Lord, Secretary General of the World Medical Association, survived Moringen concentration camp and the sinking of prison ship Cap Arcona?
 * ... that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water, and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd"?
 * ... that professional wrestlers Timothy Well and Steven Dunn, of the tag team Well Dunn, were criticized for their ring attire, which mixed bow ties and thongs?
 * ... that the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen?
 * ... that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France?
 * ... that the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion was Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War?
 * ... that Fritz Crisler called George Ceithaml, quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines's single-wing offense from 1941 to 1942, "the smartest player he ever taught"?


 * 08:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that the German Bayern-class battleships SMS Bayern (1915) (pictured) and SMS Baden (1915) were the last dreadnoughts built by the Kaiserliche Marine?
 * ... that Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States?
 * ... that mechanical plating, developed in the 1950s, is commonly used to overcome hydrogen embrittlement issues when electroplating hardened steel?
 * ... that CEPPS is a cooperative agreement between the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs?
 * ... that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in Leiden, the Netherlands, include four U.S. presidents?
 * ... that a former Bear Stearns executive and magazine mogul are part of the November Nine trying to prevent logger Darvin Moon from winning millions of dollars?
 * ... that Joan Baez has been regarded as the subject of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and also covered the song herself?
 * ... that unlike contempt of court, contempt of cop is not a crime in the United States?


 * 02:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Bridge L-158 (pictured) in Goldens Bridge, New York, the only extant double-intersection Whipple truss railroad bridge in the state, was moved there from Kingston 20 years after it was built?
 * ... that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund, Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships?
 * ... that a 1955 "Speaker's Corner" experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party?
 * ... that during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
 * ... that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie, would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
 * ... that when Wales rugby union international Dan Rees switched to professional rugby league in 1905, his signing-on fee of £300 was a Welsh record?
 * ... that the Azm Palace in Hama, Syria, has been regarded as "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria"?
 * ... that Michigan halfback Tom Kuzma was described as "a smacker from Smackersville"?