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28 February 2013

 * 16:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Argentine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by the Congress of Tucumán at the Casa de Tucumán (pictured)?
 * ... that former Sri Lankan cricketer Chaminda Vaas's eight wickets for 19 runs against Zimbabwe in 2001 are the best bowling figures in One Day International cricket?
 * ... that Edward Clark, the only British student of Arnold Schoenberg, conducted the first British performance of his teacher's Chamber Symphony No. 1, and also invited Schoenberg to conduct his Gurre-Lieder for the BBC?
 * ... that the Lebombo cycad is endangered, with only about 5,000 plants remaining in the wild?
 * ... that Guo Shengkun, a former metal executive, has been appointed China's Minister of Public Security despite having little legal experience?
 * ... that during sampling in 1991, a geologic formation near Tukgahgo Mountain was informally named "Chilly"?
 * ... that since retirement, Bill Madia has been appointed a presidential advisor at three universities, vice president of SLAC, and the director of a company?


 * 08:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Benjamin Freakley (pictured) served under General David Petraeus during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and later commanded the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan?
 * ... that the first stop in Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohammed's 1997 tour of Africa was to build relations with Malawi?
 * ... that August Agbola O'Browne was the only black participant in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944?
 * ... that the Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, was declared redundant and then became the Fleet Air Arm's Memorial Church?
 * ... that Maling Kutang, filmed in under a week, included a gorilla costume and "magic" underwear and panties?
 * ... that Ramón Homs is a para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier who lost his arm in a motorcycle accident?
 * ... that the Jeff Kimball House was originally a farmer's home, even though it was built in town, not on the farm?


 * 00:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Beijing's St. Joseph's Church (pictured) has been damaged by an earthquake, burned during the Boxer Rebellion, converted into a school after the Chinese Civil War, and closed during the Cultural Revolution?
 * ... that the first successful oil well in Baku was built by Ivan Mirzoev, an ethnic Armenian?
 * ... that although Cape Cod Expressway was planned to run from New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts along many state and federal highways, it was never built?
 * ... that filmmaker Benny Brunner won a special commendation at the 1991 Prix Europa for A Philosopher for All Seasons?
 * ... that the first phase plug in a horn loudspeaker was developed in the 1920s by Bell System engineers?
 * ... that Anna Hempstead Branch was called "the Browning of American poetry"?
 * ... that in 2010, a man from England was convicted on child pornography charges for purchasing books, including The Age of Innocence, from a mainstream bookshop?

27 February 2013

 * 16:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that human rights activist Leo Igwe (pictured) works to combat modern witchcraft accusations in Nigeria?
 * ... that a disused quarry in Rio Grande da Serra is claimed to be the largest in South America?
 * ... that Shana Madoff met her future husband Eric Swanson when he was investigating whether her uncle Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme?
 * ... that the 1891 Te Aroha by-election was the third unsuccessful attempt by New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller to enter Parliament?
 * ... that Norwegian goalkeeper Olav Dalen kept a clean sheet in his first two matches in Tippeligaen?
 * ... that Rihanna's song "Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary" features references to Marilyn Monroe and James Dean?
 * ... that Thomas Hogg was accused of fathering piglets because they resembled him, which was allegedly proven when the mother sow became aroused by him?


 * 08:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the light-dependent sinuous cactus coral (pictured) is an aggressive species that attacks neighbouring corals to keep from being over-shadowed?
 * ... that Josef Brown originated the role of Johnny Castle in the stage adaptation of Dirty Dancing?
 * ... that a tower clock at Bhadra Fort was the first electrical connection of Ahmedabad?
 * ... that actor Patrick Stewart made his debut as a director with "In Theory", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
 * ... that para-alpine skier and blind sailor Carme García has trouble living in Vigo, Spain, because of the occasional lack of streets with sidewalks?
 * ... that Heath Chapel in Shropshire is described as being the perfect example of a rich little Norman chapel?
 * ... that miners cautiously used a long iron rod when they thought they were near a house of water?


 * 00:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Annabel Breuer (pictured) won gold at the 2009 European Championships in wheelchair fencing and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball?
 * ... that a tugboat used to sit at the bottom of the approach to the Bourne Bridge until it was demolished to make way for a parking lot of a pharmacy?
 * ... that a lawsuit by Sir William More brought the first Blackfriars Theatre to an end?
 * ... that life story work can be beneficial to adults with dementia?
 * ... that Miami-based producer Ish Ledesma was the lead songwriter for two different one-hit wonder bands in the 1980s?
 * ... that prior to its racing career, the Thoroughbred racehorse Birmingham sustained a serious injury and was initially ordered to be destroyed?
 * ... that the 1993 romance novel Just This Once was authored by a computer in collaboration with its programmer?

26 February 2013

 * 16:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the sandstone walls of the Old Stone Congregational Church (pictured) in Lyons, Colorado, are 20 inches (510 mm) thick?
 * ... that A. M. Sipahoetar is credited with writing the first biography in Indonesian?
 * ... that the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella bongori, which can cause diarrhea, was originally found in a lizard in Chad in 1966?
 * ... that American black metal band Black Anvil took a year to write their debut album but only a weekend to record it?
 * ... that in the 2006 book Before the Dawn, author Nicholas Wade argued that humans continued to evolve after they left Africa, which gave rise to human races?
 * ... that Indian cricketer B. S. Chandrasekhar's bowling figures of six wickets for 38 runs against England in 1971 was noted the "Indian Bowling Performance of the Century" by Wisden in 2002?
 * ... that the scientist Ernest Gibbins was speared to death by tribesmen who believed he would use their blood samples for "white man's witchcraft"?


 * 08:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that some of the stone balls (pictured) thrown in the 1342–44 Siege of Algeciras were reused in the 1487 Siege of Málaga?
 * ... that after losing in the 2010 Philippine senatorial election, Grace Riñoza-Plazo joined a coalition of groups which opposed the continued use of automated voting machines in that election?
 * ... that the Georgia aster is a relict species of the historic post oak–savanna ecosystem?
 * ... that Ben Orloff set school records in college baseball for career hits, runs scored, and games played at the University of California, Irvine?
 * ... that in The Godfather, the "offer" that cannot be refused is not an offer at all, but is instead a throffer?
 * ... that the stream that is the main source of water supply for the city of Sweetwater, Tennessee, gets much of its flow from groundwater?
 * ... that Sir Robert Clark teddy bear is thought to have been the only one to have parachuted behind enemy lines and then survive as a prisoner of war?


 * 00:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the endangered Puerto Rico harlequin butterfly (pictured) can only lay its eggs on the prickly bush, which is losing its habitat?
 * ... that the Brain Activity Map Project has the goal of mapping the activity of every neuron in the human brain in ten years?
 * ... that the positions and orientations of markings on the megalithic stone circles in Central India, may have been used to indicate the movements of astronomical objects?
 * ... that pagans and Christians lived together under Byzantine rule in the Syrian village of Burj Qa'i between the mid-fifth and mid-sixth centuries CE?
 * ... that David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun described the pilot of Boy Meets World as "something an adult doesn't feel ashamed of watching"?
 * ... that St. Ouen once played Celtic aided by guest players from Southampton?
 * ... that King Martin of Aragon wanted to ensure the accession of his illegitimate grandson, Frederic of Luna, but died from laughter before he could do so?

25 February 2013

 * 16:00, 25 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ... that despite not intending to study at a university, Clarence Larson (pictured) went on to become a senior chemist in the Manhattan Project?
 * ... that the Church of the Holy Ghost in Tallinn was the first church in Estonia to worship in Estonian?
 * ... that in order to remove a rival general from the capital, the Abbasid vizier Ahmad b. al-Khasib sent him to attack the Byzantine Empire?
 * ... that American football player Reggie Dunn set an NCAA record with four kickoff returns for touchdowns in a season?
 * ... that Leona Lewis said that her song "My Hands" was the "perfect fit" for the Final Fantasy XIII theme song?
 * ... that Newton Corner has at various times been a commuter rail depot, a trolley station, and now a busy bus stop?
 * ... that the first Philippine expedition to Mount Everest was compared to "putting a Filipino on the Moon"?


 * 08:00, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Barbary ground squirrel (pictured) is the only African species of squirrel that lives north of the Sahara?
 * ... that the poet Hawad inserts altered letters into his writings to create space within them?
 * ... that the 1909 College Football All-America Team included Henry Hobbs, Hamlin Andrus and seven other players from an undefeated Yale team that outscored opponents 209–0?
 * ... that the ship hanging in the church of Kollafjørður, Faroe Islands, was donated by the parents of a 25-year-old son who drowned in Iceland?
 * ... that the humanistic coefficient is a major element in the sociological theory of Florian Znaniecki?
 * ... that Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes` play Octavia Bragaldi moves the Kentucky Tragedy from 1825 to 15th century Milan?
 * ... that there are theories that New Zealand was originally settled by Egyptians or Greeks?


 * 00:00, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Johanna Welin (pictured) emigrated from Sweden to Germany in order to play for the German women's national basketball team?
 * ... that coronal clouds from the Sun can damage electric devices, even destroy whole grids, when they reach Earth?
 * ... that for a Manhattan Project experiment Albert Stevens was secretly injected with what was expected to be a lethal dose of plutonium, and paid for providing samples of his urine and feces?
 * ... that the Torre de los Adalides in Algeciras was destroyed by the Spaniards during the Spanish–American War as they thought the Americans might use it as a landmark or base of their own?
 * ... that David Carson had never heard of Star Trek when he moved to America, but five years later directed the film Star Trek: Generations?
 * ... that My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult vocalist Groovie Mann called the band's 1991 album Sexplosion! an open-ended fantasy for the listener?
 * ... that drug lord Héctor Delgado Santiago punished the local transit police and forced them to patrol on foot for pulling him over?

24 February 2013

 * 16:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Kansas highway K-140 route (shield pictured) was originally established in 1925 as U.S. Route 40S?
 * ... that the 2013 Tripura state assembly election recorded the highest percentage of voter turnout ever in India?
 * ... that composer Francesco Berger wrote music for plays by Wilkie Collins, which were produced by Charles Dickens and performed at his private theatrical parties?
 * ... that the Second Baptist Church in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was built on the site of a cemetery?
 * ... that Malcolm Brodie reported from 14 FIFA World Cups – more than any other journalist?
 * ... that Australia had its own Flying Corps during World War I?
 * ... that after hatching, Sphecodopsis cuckoo bee larvae use their long sickle-shaped mandibles to destroy any other eggs or larvae around them?


 * 08:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Symbister House (pictured) in Symbister, on the island of Whalsay in Shetland Islands, is reputed to be haunted by a sailor who was murdered by the gardener during a game of cards?
 * ... that micrometeorites contribute most of the extraterrestrial material that comes to Earth?
 * ... that Joseph G. Sanders served as a captain in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War, then switched sides to become a lieutenant in the Union Army?
 * ... that in the early 19th century, during Ottoman rule, al-Lataminah was the principal village of the district of Hama?
 * ... that following a paragliding accident that left Teresa Silva a paraplegic, she went on to create a disability sport organisation and is working to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing?
 * ... that "I Don't Give A" contains insight into a day in the life of Madonna?
 * ... that Quaker preacher and author Bathsheba Bowers believed she could not die, so she had to be carried away from an Indian attack?


 * 00:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Marie Fox (pictured), a foundling whose father was unknown, was adopted by a nobleman and became a princess, author and translator?
 * ... that Bono counts off the song "Vertigo" with "one, two, three, fourteen!" in Spanish?
 * ... that a charity hockey game held to benefit former player Bill Heindl, Jr. in 1980 was the only occasion that hockey legends Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky played in the same game?
 * ... that Mallory Hagan compared the ideals of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to those of the Miss America pageant while promoting its third season finale?
 * ... that Baltic German painter Carl Timoleon von Neff built a manor house in Muuga, Estonia, to house his personal art collection?
 * ... that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?
 * ... that Carman Barnes` scandalous novel Schoolgirl, published when she was only sixteen, led to her being expelled from school?

23 February 2013

 * 16:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph (pictured), the first electric telegraph to be put into commercial service, was initially rejected in favour of a pneumatic system with whistles?
 * ... that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology?
 * ... that whilst more than half of the high-rises in Christchurch, New Zealand, have been demolished since the earthquakes, the city's tallest building has survived?
 * ... that Onésime Dorval was the first certified teacher in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan?
 * ... that Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that nearly became extinct in the Permian-Triassic extinction event?
 * ... that Rick DiBernardo returned to the National Football League less than one month after he retired?
 * ... that in Singapore administrative law, it is illegal for a public authority to fetter its discretion by sticking rigidly to a policy?


 * 08:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that dozens of top Church of Scientology executives have reportedly been confined to The Hole (pictured) and subjected to the Church's "ecclesiastical discipline" system?
 * ... that in the first 16 years of her acting career, Lillian Lawrence appeared in over 300 operatic and 500 dramatic roles?
 * ... that Operation Copperhead saw M. E. Clifton James posing as Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery in the build up to D-Day?
 * ... that Amanda Carter, the oldest member of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, played for the team before Amber Merritt, its youngest, was born?
 * ... that Khawabi, a village and medieval castle in northwestern Syria, was captured in the early 12th century by the Crusaders, who assigned its governorship to a local lord?
 * ... that conductor Roland Bader recorded late choral works by Max Reger, including his Hebbel Requiem, and the First Symphony by Richard Wetz?
 * ... that Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria burned to death while preparing a fireworks display for his sister-in-law, Empress Maria Theresa?


 * 00:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Los Angeles Lakers executive Jeanie Buss (pictured) was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Sports by Sporting News?
 * ... that the Oświęcim Chapel in Krosno is associated with a legend of romantic love between Stanisław Oświęcim and his sister Anna?
 * ... that in July 1963, Syrian colonel Jassem Alwan led an unsuccessful Nasserist-backed coup against the new Ba'athist-dominated government, resulting in his imprisonment and death sentence?
 * ... that the English Cocker Spaniels Luckystar of Ware, Exquisite Model of Ware and Tracey Witch of Ware each won Best in Show at Crufts on two occasions?
 * ... that the literary works of Friedrich Gorenstein thematize political and social dilemmas in Stalinist Russia?
 * ... that Puerto Rico's diverse musical heritage influenced Ivy Queen's Christmas composition of "Vamos a Celebrar", which includes the traditional sound of the plena?
 * ... that Hadassah Weisel, founder of the Yad Eliezer poverty-relief organization, managed a food collection and packing operation for 1,800 needy families out of her 2½-room Jerusalem apartment?

22 February 2013

 * 16:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the first Portuguese-language newspaper in China was published at Macau's St. Dominic's Church (pictured) in 1822?
 * ... that Virology is the first English-language journal to focus on viruses?
 * ... that in 1928, Central Bank of Norway governor Nicolai Rygg pressured an opposition leader to file a vote of no confidence against the Cabinet?
 * ... that Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression"?
 * ... that fullback "Elmer the Great" Schwartz led the 1930 Washington State Cougars football team to the 1931 Rose Bowl against Alabama?
 * ... that prehistoric structures on Whalsay include the Neolithic Benie Hoose, Pettigarths Field Cairns and the Standing Stones of Yoxie, and the Iron Age Huxter Fort?
 * ... that the Guam Museum, which is slated to move to a permanent home in 2014, has been housed in temporary locations since its destruction during World War II?


 * 08:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that during this year's Carnival of Huejotzingo (parade pictured) over five tons of gunpowder were used?
 * ... that the Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narrative Collection included interviews, conducted primarily between 1936 and 1938, with more than 2,000 former slaves?
 * ... that Hazel Pritchard, nicknamed the "Girl Bradman", faced the first ball in women's Test cricket?
 * ... that the Lion Pagoda, a Treasure of South Korea, is one of Hwaeomsa's four stone pagodas?
 * ... that Ethel Scull 36 Times was Andy Warhol's first commissioned portrait of the 1,000 or so he created?
 * ... that Wang Min was named one of "China's top future leaders to watch" by the Brookings Institution?
 * ... that the Thema Fund, a Bernie Madoff feeder fund, reported a rate of return of 8% during 2007, as competing funds fell 39%?


 * 00:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Roy Chaplin was awarded an OBE in 1946 for his achievements in the design and development of military aircraft and was working on the jump jet (pictured) in 1962 when he retired?
 * ... that the Australian shrub Isopogon anethifolius is named for the resemblance of its leaves to dill?
 * ... that famed speculator Jacob Little, the Great Bear of Wall Street, died a broken man after making and losing several fortunes?
 * ... that the steamer Inishtrahull was missing seven days before being confirmed sunk off the coast of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland?
 * ... that the design of the Gedser wind turbine was considered seminal for the modern wind industry?
 * ... that Dale Steyn made his One Day International debut for African XI during the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup, and is the highest five-wicket haul taker for South Africa in test cricket?
 * ... that Kenneth Biller wrote the episode that introduced the Borg into Star Trek: Voyager?

21 February 2013

 * 16:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Wikipedian in Residence program placed Sarah Stierch (pictured) at the Archives of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Archives?
 * ... that Yemen has one of the highest execution rates in the world?
 * ... that 27 of the 33 consensus members of the 1900 and 1901 College Football All-America Teams, including John Hallowell, Robert Kernan and Crawford Blagden of Harvard, James Bloomer and Henry Holt of Yale, Ralph Davis of Princeton and Sanford Hunt of Cornell, played for Ivy League teams?
 * ... that the governor of Shkodra, a member of the Moneta family, sent his wife and children to Venice before the Ottomans besieged his city in 1478?
 * ... that hyperconsumerism, "a consumerism for the sake of consuming", refers to consuming goods for non-functional purposes?
 * ... that Ulf Schirmer, director of the Oper Leipzig, conducted Richard Wagner's early opera Die Feen as part of the Wagner Year 2013, to be performed in concert at the Bayreuth Festival?
 * ... that Welsh rugby union player Alun-Wyn Jones once said he would rather sing "The Power of Love" than "The Power of Four"?


 * 08:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Hilton Istanbul (pictured) in Turkey, established in 1955, is the longest-serving member of the Hilton Hotels chain outside the United States?
 * ... that Omar Derdour was given the task of travelling to the Arab countries to raise support for the Algerian revolution?
 * ... that Imperial Call, winner of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup, was trained by one-legged Korean War veteran Fergie Sutherland?
 * ... that director Gordon Parks chose to shoot the 1984 television film Solomon Northup's Odyssey in the Deep South where the kidnapped black man Solomon Northup worked in slavery?
 * ... that the scientist Neal Evenhuis is known for giving humorous and punny names to insects, such as Carmenelectra, Phthiria relativitae, Pieza kake, Pieza pie, and Pieza deresistans?
 * ... that when Essex cricketer Dickie Dodds caught a batsman off a long hop, it decided his future marriage plans?
 * ... that Prince Eugen of Sweden, a painter trained in France, was seen as a suitable candidate for the throne of Norway in 1905?


 * 00:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that an estimated four million people worldwide suffer from podoconiosis (pictured)?
 * ... that the speech So God Made a Farmer was featured in a Super Bowl XLVII commercial entitled "Farmer"?
 * ... that P. Shilu Ao was the first Chief Minister of Nagaland?
 * ... that Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is only the second case on the Indian Child Welfare Act taken on by the United States Supreme Court?
 * ... that South Korean photographer Ahn Jun is best known for her Self Portrait series of pictures showing herself sitting on the edge of skyscrapers?
 * ... that the tornada is the Occitan equivalent of the Old French envoi, the Galician-Portuguese finda, and the Italian congedo and commiato?
 * ... that minor league baseball player Ben Guez changed teams five different times during the 2010 season?

20 February 2013

 * 16:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the French queen Bertha of Holland (pictured) was left by her husband because she was "too fat", although he himself was too heavy to ride a horse?
 * ... that the 1 kroon coin from 1934 was voted the prettiest coin that has been in circulation in Estonia?
 * ... that American football player Caleb Sturgis set Florida Gators records for field goals in a season and in a career?
 * ... that the semi-submersible ship Dockwise Vanguard can transport large floating oil rigs, drilling rigs or the world's largest spar platform, the Aasta Hansteen spar?
 * ... that novelist Shirley Barker first book of poetry enraged poet Robert Frost?
 * ... that the Affenpinscher Banana Joe V Tani Kazari was described as having the "perfect body" by the judge who awarded him the title of Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club in 2013?
 * ... that Highwic has been a filming location for both Burger King and Hell Pizza?


 * 08:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that construction of the Middletown Academy (pictured) was funded through a lottery?
 * ... that fewer than 75 Poitevin horses were born in 2011?
 * ... that Tony Stewart led a Pepsi 400 record of 151 laps in the 2005 Pepsi 400?
 * ... that the annual Royal Fair of Algeciras, founded in 1850, is regarded as the most important festival in the Spanish city of Algeciras?
 * ... that children's author Marjorie Hill Allee frequently collaborated with her husband, famed zoologist Warder Clyde Allee?
 * ... that Governor Liu Weiping studied aircraft design and graduated from the Party School?
 * ... that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire?


 * 00:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Saturn Award-winning actress Justina Vail (pictured) is now a life coach, author and hypnotherapist?
 * ... that in 1873, the ironclad river monitor Ozark transported Federal troops and New Orleans police attempting to apprehend the perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre?
 * ... that from 1601 to 1609 Sir Francis Wolley provided a home at Pyrford for the poet John Donne and Anne More after their clandestine marriage?
 * ... that Saturday Night Live writer Marilyn Suzanne Miller got her start in television by calling James L. Brooks after seeing his name in the credits for The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
 * ... that in the 1991 case Re Fong Thin Choo the Singapore High Court held that a public authority's decision can be invalidated if based on a misconception or ignorance of a fact?
 * ... that Allan Donald's five wickets for 29 runs is the fifth best bowling performance by any bowler on debut in One Day Internationals?
 * ... that the railway station at Paranapiacaba, Brazil, has a clock tower modelled on the tower for Big Ben in London?

19 February 2013

 * 16:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that one of the critical/endangered ecoregions in Poland is home to the heaviest surviving wild land animal in Europe (pictured)?
 * ... that more than three-quarters of Alaska's lode gold was mined from the Juneau gold belt?
 * ... that in 1896 Émile Mayade won the first city-to-city motor race in which the winner was the fastest finisher?
 * ... that the first McColley's Chapel was the oldest Methodist church in Georgetown Hundred?
 * ... that the 1984 Simple Minds album Sparkle in the Rain spent 57 weeks in the UK LP charts?
 * ... that the University of North Texas' Tony Mitchell is a projected lottery pick in June's 2013 NBA Draft?
 * ... that UN criticism of the exclusion of women from the line of succession to the Liechtensteiner throne was rejected by Hans-Adam II, who noted that the rule was older than the state itself?


 * 08:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Oram Nincehelser House (pictured) was built to impress Nincehelser's new bride, who deserted him just a few years later?
 * ... that Queen Elizabeth I nicknamed Elizabeth Wolley her "sweet apple"?
 * ... that Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee?
 * ... that cinematographer Gerald Finnerman, who worked on Moonlighting and Star Trek, was the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1969?
 * ... that members of the Norman Cob horse breed represent France in international driving competitions?
 * ... that the Russian ship of the line Oryol was laid down in 1851 as a sailing ship of the line, but was lengthened and fitted with a steam engine while still on the stocks?
 * ... that when Christian Thomsen Carl was killed in a duel, his murderer was arrested and thus prevented from burning down Anklam?


 * 00:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that King James the Conqueror of Aragon (pictured) left his leper wife, Teresa Gil de Vidaure, in order to pursue an incestuous relationship?
 * ... that Slamet Rahardjo garnered three Citra Award nominations for the film Ponirah Terpidana?
 * ... that author and educator Jane Andrews was the first student to enroll at Antioch College?
 * ... that during the construction of the Brookville Tunnel in Virginia, repairs to two major cave-ins were prevented by a landslide that blocked the tunnel's western entrance?
 * ... that Spanish visually impaired guides Aleix Suñé, Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer all skied with blind para-alpine skier Gabriel Gorce?
 * ... that the International Association of Applied Linguistics holds a World Congress every three years?
 * ... that at the Battle of Newton, Alabama, the commander of the Federal force was a former Confederate officer?

18 February 2013

 * 16:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that in the Kufenstechen festival held in Feistritz an der Gail, unmarried men ride bareback on Noriker horses (pictured) and break a barrel to splinters with an iron club?
 * ... that John Wolley was sent to King James in June 1586 to assure him that Mary, Queen of Scots was being well treated, and four months later was one of the commissioners who tried and convicted her?
 * ... that Project Lead the Way, a pre-engineering program used in secondary schools, was started in the Shenendehowa Central School District in New York?
 * ... that Sandy Dukat, Paralympic alpine skiing medalist in 2002 and 2006, was also a Paratriathlon World Champion in 2008?
 * ... that in 1924 the White Lady, known locally as the "Widden Wife", was shipwrecked in the vicinity of Gossabrough in Scotland?
 * ... that Li Jiheng has been Governor of China's Yunnan Province since 2011?
 * ... that the great West Indian sea lily can break free from its stem in order to evade predators?


 * 08:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar (pictured) was struck as part of a plan to bring Hollywood good publicity?
 * ... that Ryan Allen twice won the Ray Guy Award as the best college football punter?
 * ... that the first oil pipeline in the Russian Empire, laid by the Nobel brothers, fed the refineries in Black City, Baku, now in the Republic of Azerbaijan?
 * ... that "Pobre Corazón", recorded by Divino, was included on Ivy Queen's Sentimiento as a part of her evolution in reggaetón?"
 * ... that despite being developed with female focus groups, and being available in a plum color, the HTC Rhyme smartphone was not explicitly marketed towards women?
 * ... that Bengali actor Gurudas Banerjee was a "specialist" at portraying Sri Ramakrishna, a role he "almost monopolized" on both stage and screen?
 * ... that Brunei's Ulu Temburong National Park can only be reached by longboat?

17 February 2013

 * 23:48, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the stained glass donor portrait (pictured) of the 23-year-old German queen Beatrice of Falkenburg, widow of Richard of Cornwall, is among the oldest still intact?
 * ... that former North Carolina Loyalist militia commander John Hamilton was appointed as the British Consul to Norfolk, Virginia, after the American Revolutionary War?
 * ... that in the case of Mani v. Niger in 2008, a woman successfully defended herself against charges of bigamy by accusing the government of Niger of treating her like a slave?
 * ... that visually impaired skier Andrés Boira represented Spain at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics with different ski guides?
 * ... that The Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser was a Democratic weekly newspaper published in Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia) prior to the American Civil War?
 * ... that Gustavo González Castro left the Mexican Army, and later became a drug trafficker for Los Zetas?
 * ... that Kia Makarechi of The Huffington Post wrote that Usher's song "Go Missin'" contains "serial killer-esque undertones" in its lyrics?


 * 15:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that each of the five heroines (pictured) from Hindu epics, venerated as exemplary chaste women, is recorded to have "known" at least one man other than her husband?
 * ... that the Distinguished Warfare Medal is the first American combat-related award to be created since the Bronze Star Medal in 1944?
 * ... that the new far right party the British Democratic Party was established by current Member of the European Parliament Andrew Brons?
 * ... that Kenneth Feder teenage interest in the paranormal led to a career in archaeology studying it?
 * ... that Anakalang is a society and a megalithic site in Sumba, Indonesia noted for its quadrangular adzes and numerous megalithic tombs?
 * ... that until it was destroyed by fire in January 2013, Grimes Mill was the only roller mill museum in North Carolina?
 * ... that Blanche of France was made a nun at the age of seven in order to atone for her aunt Blanche's adultery?


 * 07:18, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the discoverer of Scotland's ancient Stanydale Temple (pictured) thought it was patterned after temples in Malta?
 * ... that Ali Maow Maalin was the last person in the world to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox?
 * ... that Princeton, led by 2012 unanimous All-Ivy selection Ian Hummer, entered the 2012–13 season as the Ivy League men's basketball favorite, since a cheating scandal has ensnared Harvard?
 * ... that in 2011 the Thailand automotive industry was the largest in Southeast Asia and the 15th largest in the World?
 * ... that Catholic priest T. Lawrason Riggs was forbidden to celebrate mass at Yale University?
 * ... that the  Municipal Museum documents three periods in Algeciras's history: Roman-Byzantine Algecir, the Andalusian city, and the modern era?
 * ... that a chicken sandwich from Slow's Bar BQ in Detroit, Michigan, made it to the final of Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America?

16 February 2013

 * 23:03, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Auke people picked nagoonberries at Berners Bay (pictured)?
 * ... that the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division of the British Army lost almost three-quarters of its strength during the first ten days of the Spring Offensive in March 1918?
 * ... that Sally Jewell, President Barack Obama's nominee for United States Secretary of the Interior, has climbed Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica?
 * ... that the Fulmar sank off the coast of Kilkee, Co. Clare, exactly 50 years to the day after the Intrinsic did?
 * ... that as a high school senior, Jordan Poyer was named the Oregon player of the year in both baseball and football?
 * ... that a Greek Orthodox Monastery in Cyprus has been turned into a storage house for the Turkish military?
 * ... that Mexican drug lord Óscar Guerrero Silva was nicknamed Winnie Pooh?


 * 14:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that unlike most other brittle stars, the reticulated brittle star (pictured) makes use of its tube feet during locomotion?
 * ... that dignitaries travelled from as far afield as Yugoslavia to look at Tilgate's "impressive" shopping parade, one of Crawley's 58 locally listed buildings?
 * ... that ETA bombing survivor, author and para-alpine skier Irene Villa was a member of the first Spanish women's disability ski club?
 * ... that Capella Cracoviensis received enthusiastic reviews from the critics by switching to period instruments?
 * ... that British Royalist Andrew Sprowle founded the United States Navy's longest continuously operating naval shipyard in 1767?
 * ... that according to Adam Levine of band Maroon 5, "Sad" is his most personal track on their album Overexposed?
 * ... that during her underground imprisonment for adultery, Blanche of Burgundy gave birth and became queen of two kingdoms?


 * 06:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Alfred Aboya (pictured) teamed with Darren Collison and Josh Shipp to form the winningest class in UCLA Bruins men's basketball history?
 * ... that on May 30, 1969, thousands of oil workers rioted on the small, normally tranquil Caribbean island of Curaçao, causing some $40 million in damage?
 * ... that Ynes Mexia collected 150,000 plant samples during a career that began at the age of 55?
 * ... that the Creole House is an important part of a French colonial settlement in Illinois, although it was built by Americans?
 * ... that Bayanqolu, the governor of China's Jilin Province, is a Mongol?
 * ... that the Mediterranean feather star is often found clinging to sea whips?
 * ... that Jack Spigot mother killed the mother of one of his racing rivals?

15 February 2013

 * 22:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that nearly thirty years passed between the first Mass in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and the construction of St. Michael's Catholic Church (pictured)?
 * ... that in Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah the UK Supreme Court ruled that the detention of a suspected al-Qaeda fighter, prima facie, breached the Geneva Convention?
 * ... that Chinese singer Yisa Yu participated three times in the Super Girl singing contest before reaching the top ten in 2009?
 * ... that the truthfulness of many of the facts in U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's best-selling 1974 memoir Go East, Young Man has been questioned?
 * ... that Anna Litvinova, the winner of Miss Universe – Russia 2006 contest, died on 22 January 2013 in a hospital in Germany, after suffering from cancer for one year?
 * ... that the small village of Kirikuküla in Estonia is site of the Kaarma church and remains of the Kaarma ring fort, both originating from the 13th century?
 * ... that Ro Khanna raised US$1.2 million to run for the United States House of Representatives in 2012, but did not run?


 * 14:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Edina Müller (pictured) was part of a team that was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest sporting honour, in 2012?
 * ... that when the cargo ship SS Sirius (1885) was sunk by a German bomber during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, the 55-year-old steamer broke in two lengthwise and "opened up like a book"?
 * ... that Tim Barrow, the current British ambassador to Russia, was formerly the ambassador to Ukraine?
 * ... that stagshorn corals such as Acropora pulchra and Acropora aspera are fed on preferentially by the crown-of-thorns starfish?
 * ... that Alfred Planyavsky "has given his life to the double bass", playing with the Vienna Philharmonic, writing a history of the instrument, and collecting the Kontrabass-Archiv?
 * ... that the International Criminal Court is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes in Mali?
 * ... that an adalid had to be wise, courageous, loyal, and possess common sense?


 * 05:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Tabo (pictured) is the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in both India and the Himalayas?
 * ... that Giuseppe Verdi's biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz once characterized the modern opera business as "monstropera"?
 * ... that, while filming the 1978 documentary Bears and Man, director Bill Schmalz witnessed a grizzly bear maul a Parks Canada game warden to death?
 * ... that gunmen broke into a cemetery and stole the corpse of drug lord Efraín Teodoro Torres?
 * ... that Broadway's 48th Street Theatre was the site of dancer Martha Graham's professional debut, screenwriter June Mathis's death, and the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvey?
 * ... that John Treadwell mining complex "put Juneau on the map"?
 * ... that in his 2013 book, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, food personality Eddie Huang relates his past activities, which include practising law, performing stand-up comedy, and dealing marijuana?

14 February 2013

 * 21:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that John Collins Covell (pictured) served as principal of both the Virginia and West Virginia schools for the deaf and blind?
 * ... that the only commercial copper deposit in Southeast Alaska situated north of Prince of Wales Island was located in William Henry Bay?
 * ... that Norwegian footballer Ola Kamara was forced to move home to his mother after signing with Strømsgodset IF?
 * ... that Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews` story about Abraham Lincoln may be the most popular book ever published about the 16th President?
 * ... that RNAS Longside at Lenabo, near Longside, Aberdeenshire was the most northerly air ship station in Britain?
 * ... that Richard Hovannisian called the Armenian National Congress "the most comprehensive Eastern Armenian gathering since the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia"?
 * ... that American football player Noel Grigsby set San Jose State records for receptions and receiving yards in a career?


 * 13:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that 17-year-old Holy Roman Empress Maria Leopoldine (pictured) died giving birth to her cousin's child?
 * ... that the song "Dat Sexy Body" was released in 1998 but didn't gain chart success until five years later?
 * ... that Pope Benedict XIV arranged for Jonathan Sisson instruments to be installed in the Bologna Academy?
 * ... that the Christian town of al-Sawda became a dynamic center in coastal Syria during French Mandate rule largely because its residents did not take part in the 1919 Syrian Revolt?
 * ... that the CITV Old Skool Weekend aimed to "show the kids what their parents watched when they were very young"?
 * ... that Sooranporu, a folk ritual performance in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is a reenactment of the killing of Asuras by Murugan?
 * ... that Miguel Galindo Garces won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, although he does not have a disability?


 * 05:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Richard Austin House (pictured) is one of the few left completely intact, inside and out, from the early years of the suburbanization of Ossining, New York?
 * ... that English footballer Ben Everson played for Icelandic Úrvalsdeild team Breiðablik when they qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round?
 * ... that Ratha Kalpana is a metaphor used in Hindu scriptures to describe the relationship between the senses, mind, intellect and Self?
 * ... that some of the elements for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Forge" were based on an episode from Star Trek: The Animated Series?
 * ... that Sir Walter Buckler was secretary to Queen Katherine Parr and chamberlain to Princess Elizabeth?
 * ... that "Like You" was Daddy Yankee's second best performing single in the United States in 2005 behind "Gasolina"?
 * ... that when Bangkok's power plants were bombed during World War II, two Matchanu-class submarines were used as electric generators to keep city trams running?

13 February 2013

 * 20:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain (pictured), in New York's Adirondacks, is thought to get its name from a corruption of the Algonquin "Pohqui Moosie", for "place of broken smooth rocks"?
 * ... that basketball player Bill Hanson played in Spain and won the 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup, after declining to play in the NBA?
 * ... that Mexico–Venezuela relations were strained in November 2005 by comments Hugo Chavez made on a talk show?
 * ... that after writing a positive review for the film Kedok Ketawa, Saeroen wrote two scripts for its production company?
 * ... that Lieutenant Colonel Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh and his brother, Captain Cuthbert, were WW2 intelligence officers and members of Ops (B), which was involved in D-Day deception planning?
 * ... that mezzo-soprano singer Jaklin Çarkçı can speak six languages?
 * ... that the Countess of Rutland, mother of 11, had to inform the English queen Anne of Cleves that receiving a goodnight kiss was not enough to conceive a child?


 * 12:33, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Charles-Auguste Lebourg designed sculpture (example pictured) for over 100 drinking fountains scattered throughout France?
 * ... that the Bandhi community of Karnataka seeks divine approval for marriage from the Ganesha of Idagunji?
 * ... that Gaddafi was criticized in the Middle East for failing to extract sufficient Western concessions in exchange for relinquishing his WMDs and nuclear weapons program?
 * ... that according to music critic Cameron Adams of Herald Sun, the Maroon 5 song "Doin' Dirt" is a "disco monster"?
 * ... that the Dutch linguist Lambert ten Kate was an early phonetician?
 * ... that Huwen op Bevel, advertised as the first talkie in what is now Indonesia, was the director's last film in that role?
 * ... that YouTube personality Peter Chao was forced to study in Canada by his "prostitute mother"?


 * 04:18, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that in 2012, Fiona Apple (pictured) recorded "Dull Tool", her first original song written for a film soundtrack, for the comedy film This Is 40?
 * ... that the Smooth Fox Terrier Warren Remedy is the most successful dog ever at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
 * ... that the gum from the Australian shrub Hakea gibbosa was investigated as an additive for sustained-release tablets?
 * ... that Dennis To, who played the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2010 film The Legend Is Born – Ip Man, won a gold medal in duilian together with two teammates at the 2005 East Asian Games?
 * ... that Leona Lewis became a victim of internet hacking when her song "Don't Let Me Down", a collaboration with Justin Timberlake, was leaked?
 * ... that Labour politician Walter C. Craine was successful in getting the Manx Divorce Act approved in Tynwald in 1938?
 * ... that Wil Wheaton won more awards for Star Trek: The Next Generation than any other cast member?

12 February 2013

 * 20:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Landon Carter Haynes (pictured) once shot rival newspaperman and politician William G. "Parson" Brownlow, who later accused him of stealing corn and selling diseased hogs?
 * ... that Indians living in Bahrain account for 31% of the country's total population?
 * ... that U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer Gary Suter won a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Games, 22 years after his brother Bob won gold?
 * ... that sketches on the television comedy series The Dingo Principle resulted in the expulsion of two Australian diplomats from Iran, and a letter of complaint from the Soviet embassy in Canberra?
 * ... that Alabama in 1959 defeated Tulane for both its football program's 100th Southeastern Conference victory and head coach Bear Bryant's 100th career victory?
 * ... that in letterpress printing, composition rollers are used to apply ink to the bed of type?
 * ... that Lionel Richie's Just for You, released soon after his divorce, was dedicated to himself?


 * 11:38, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Jais Nielsen biblical works (glass mosaic windows pictured) and his creations for Royal Copenhagen overshadowed his paintings?
 * ... that civilian government in Gibraltar only emerged in the 20th century because its governors gave priority to its role as a military fortress?
 * ... that American football player Beau Blankenship set an Ohio Bobcats record for rushing yards in a season?
 * ... that Vichna Kaplan, the prize pupil of Sarah Schenirer and founder of the first Bais Yaakov high school in America, was initially rejected from joining Schenirer's teachers seminary in Poland?
 * ... that Namling in Tibet contains a prominent fortress which has been likened to castles along the Rhine?
 * ... that Chrisye's album Recession found inspiration in The Police?
 * ... that the Ako Bicol Political Party, which won the most votes in the 2010 Philippine party-list election, may be disqualified from fielding candidates for the 2013 election?


 * 03:37, 12 February 2013‎ (UTC)
 * ... that Clinton Romesha (pictured), who today is being awarded the Medal of Honor, joined the United States Army after deciding not to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
 * ... that under the management of Alex Ferguson, Aberdeen defeated Real Madrid 2–1 in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup Final?
 * ... that the Type 26 revolver was produced until destruction of the Koishikawa Arsenal by the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake?
 * ... that American news anchor and lawyer Jami Floyd was a White House Fellow who served both First Lady Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore?
 * ... that cultural homogenization in the context of the global spread of Western culture has been described under such names as McDonaldization, coca-colonization, Americanization or Westernization?
 * ... that protests were organized against and calls were made out to expel writer Ekrem Eylisli‎ from his native Azerbaijan following the publication of his novella?
 * ... that Birds of the World: Recommended English Names is the result of a 16-year effort to get consensus on standard English names for the world's birds?

11 February 2013

 * 19:21, 11 February 2013‎ (UTC)
 * ... that Frederik V on Horseback (pictured) was designed by Jacques Saly and cast by the Danish Asiatic Company?
 * ... that in centerless grinding, the workpiece is held in place by nothing more than the friction of both grinding wheels?
 * ... that Noureddine Aba wrote a series of love poems inspired by a young couple dying at the time of Algeria becoming independent from France?
 * ... that at the age of 79, veteran playback singer Asha Bhosle debuted as an actress in the 2013 Bollywood film Mai playing the title role?
 * ... that in 1833, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducted the first performance of Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death?
 * ... that aborigines applied leaves of Persoonia falcata to circumcision wounds?
 * ... that World War II pilot James Muri only means of escape, after attacking the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, was to fly down along the line of her flight deck?


 * 08:19, 11 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ... that after graduating from Duke and Harvard, scientist Herman Postma (pictured) returned to high school to learn Russian?
 * ... that Yoko Ono opens her song "Sisters, O Sisters" by referring to the engineer as a "male chauvinist pig"?
 * ...that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball player D. J. Cooper is "among the best" point guards in college basketball according to analyst Jay Bilas?
 * ... that "Episode 523" from the Australian soap opera Neighbours marked the wedding of popular couple Scott and Charlene?
 * ... that the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy was one of the first parks established in Canada because of public pressure?
 * ... that the accidental discovery of sea daisy species Xyloplax medusiformis in the Pacific inspired the search that found X. turnerae in the Atlantic?
 * ... that Charles Chaplin, Sr. was a popular entertainer long before his famous son?


 * 00:18, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Bertel Thorvaldsen's Jason with the Golden Fleece (pictured) was inspired by the Apollo Belvedere and Doryphoros?
 * ... that Republican David Pendleton was the Hawaiian House Minority Floor Leader from 1998 to 2002, and now sits on the Hawaii Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board as an administrative law judge?
 * ... that the French Army general headquarters during the First World War simply assumed that three German soldiers were killed for every two French soldiers?
 * ... that Baltimore Ravens assistant special teams coach Chris Hewitt was hired by Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who had coached Hewitt as a 17-year-old freshman with the Cincinnati Bearcats?
 * ... that Deepika Padukone made her cinematic debut through the Kannada film Aishwarya in 2006?
 * ... that Love Songs is the first album released by Destiny's Child to include new material in eight years?
 * ... that Captain Robert Murray entered future admiral of the fleet Provo Wallis onto the books of his ship, even though Wallis was only four years old?

10 February 2013

 * 16:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the American three-dollar coin (pictured) may have been designed to make buying stamps easier?
 * ... that Misbach Yusa Biran's Sejarah Film 1900–1950 (History of Film 1900–1950) has been called a "sacred text from a film warrior"?
 * ... that planter Thomas Polk was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to the Congress of the Confederation, but did not attend any of its sessions?
 * ... that Pakistan could have more nuclear weapons than the United Kingdom within a decade?
 * ... that cricketer Travis Head was hit by a car shortly after completing a four-day match for South Australia?
 * ... that Florida has the largest convergence of freshwater springs on the planet, with over 700?
 * ... that the Yukon Hotel in Dawson City, built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, was sold for $1?


 * 08:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the widowed philanthropist Mary Hemenway (pictured), impressed with Frank Cushing's anthropological work among the Zuni, sponsored the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition?
 * ... that Prince Charles was one of the first passengers on the Airlink helicopter?
 * ... that in 1950 India and Ethiopia formalised their diplomatic ties, and India's first Ambassador to Ethiopia was appointed?
 * ... that Minnesota Wild prospect Mathew Dumba captained Canada's Under-18 hockey team to a gold medal at the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament?
 * ... that American film composer Nathaniel Motte co-wrote the song "Love Somebody" by Maroon 5?
 * ... that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of Stephen Colbert, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives?
 * ... that in the upcoming Bengali film Khasi Katha– A Goat Saga, a goat about to be slaughtered narrates the story of a female boxer to a butcher?


 * 00:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the appointment of Mo Cowan (pictured) to the U.S. Senate marks the first time two African Americans served concurrently?
 * ... that Meek's Pygmy Parrot is one of seven birds named after Albert Stewart Meek, the English bird collector and naturalist?
 * ... that Spring Street has both New York City's #1-ranked Israeli restaurant (Taïm), and #2-ranked French brasserie (Balthazar)?
 * ... that Canadian manga artist Sara Mayhew uses storytelling to promote science and critical thinking?
 * ... that "One Day I'll Fly Away" is Randy Crawford's highest-charting single, reaching #1 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and #2 in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that the former Royal Air Force Station near Peterhead, Scotland, is used for flying model planes?
 * ... that in Viggo Stuckenberg poetry, men were often depicted as weak and lazy dreamers while women showed will and ability?

9 February 2013

 * 16:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that on the first ascent of the Cordier Couloir on the Aiguille Verte (pictured), Thomas Middlemore, John Oakley Maund and Henri Cordier were nearly obliterated by rockfall?
 * ... that Alaska's gold production began with the 1869 discovery of gold placers in Windham and Sumdum Bays?
 * ... that the grained seastar is the only starfish known to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
 * ... that country music singer Sheila Andrews` voice changed following an operation to remove a tumor from her thyroid?
 * ... that, in the Cheche Disaster, the Portuguese army lost 47 men while crossing the Corubal River in Guinea-Bissau?
 * ... that the film Fruitvale, which won two major awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, is based on a real-life police shooting?
 * ... that the anthropologist Herman ten Kate, the junior, son of the artist Herman ten Kate, the senior, wrote about skulls of decapitated criminals?


 * 08:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the current Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church (pictured) was the congregation's fifth church building in eighty years?
 * ... that the history of Canadian women has until recent years only accounted for a tiny fraction of the country's historiography?
 * ... that animator Nickson Fong is the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award?
 * ... that fossils of the extinct legume Hymenaea mexicana show several types of insect feeding?
 * ... that Boston merchant Augustus Hemenway spent over a decade recuperating from a nervous breakdown after making a fortune in Valparaíso, Chile?
 * ... that in an attempt to sound different from previous Final Fantasy video games, the music of Final Fantasy XIII-2 includes rap, heavy metal, and electronic pieces?
 * ... that audiences laughed at Astaman for playing a king with matador's clothes?


 * 00:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Paget Marsh Nature Reserve in Bermuda has been called the "best surviving example of native cedar (pictured), palmetto, and mangrove forests", yet at one point the island lost 99% of its cedar trees?
 * ... that actor Toby Jones underwent 20 minutes of daily vocal warm up exercises to recreate Alfred Hitchcock's distinctive accent for the 2012 film The Girl?
 * ... that in the wreck of the Halsewell there were only 74 survivors out of over 240 passengers and crew?
 * ... that farmer and musician Charlie Albertson is also a former longtime member of the North Carolina Senate and is known as "The Singing Senator"?
 * ... that the nonlinear interactive fiction game Thirty Flights of Loving has been said to "[tell] a better story in 13 minutes than most games do in 13 hours"?
 * ... that Pall Mall win at the classic 2000 Guineas in 1958 was a first classic for Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and a second for Queen Elizabeth II, who missed the race through illness?
 * ... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based Omega Morgan used Dawn dishwashing liquid to move the Sellwood Bridge?

8 February 2013

 * 16:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that tourism in Gibraltar was boosted when the territory's first marina (Ocean Village pictured) was built in 1961?
 * ... that a forthcoming encyclopedia by Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri is said to challenge long-held views on epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata?
 * ... that Way of the Knight, a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza, was an attempt to blend chess with role-playing games?
 * ... that Hungry Bay Nature Reserve is the most northerly mangrove swamp in the Atlantic Ocean?
 * ... that Derek Minor was featured in the video game Altered Pro, a take on Sega's Altered Beast, to promote his third studio album?
 * ... that in 1951, the Thai Army, Police and Air Force sank the Navy's flagship HTMS Sri Ayudhya, despite Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram being held hostage on board?
 * ... that Bill Cosby's approach to advertising is that he wants "to make the program interrupt the commercial"?


 * 08:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the signature (pictured) of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's first President, was designed by Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan, an ethnic Armenian?
 * ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is said to have told himself in his "Affirmations" that "Men are your slaves"?
 * ... that in 2012, it was estimated that there were 961,000 internet users in Bahrain?
 * ... than George Ronan was the first West Point graduate to be killed in battle?
 * ... that the Mechanicsburg Baptist Church was built to hold half the population of the village in which it was located?
 * ... that Antonio Andrews led the Football Bowl Subdivision in all-purpose yards in 2012?
 * ... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?


 * 00:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that within the United States, dinosaur fossils (example pictured) have been found in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Wyoming, but not in Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, or Wisconsin?
 * ... that Nina Dobrev's initial audition for the role of Elena Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries was described as the "worst audition" ever?
 * ... that the United States Government brought 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness to court?

7 February 2013

 * 16:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the sea urchin Echinus tylodes (pictured) lives among deep-water corals up to 0.8 km below the ocean surface?
 * ... that the Little Mix song "Change Your Life" was compared to "Never Ever" by All Saints?
 * ... that 70 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Idaho are over 50 mi long?
 * ... that Frank Newman, the eighth president of the University of Rhode Island, was made a High Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1977?
 * ... that Joshua Naples, a British grave robber, was unable to sell a corpse deemed putrid?
 * ... that the awards and nominations received by reggaeton rapper Ivy Queen include five for her song "Dime"?
 * ... that the founder of the Dami Mission church predicted the world would end on October 28, 1992, but used donations from his followers to purchase bonds that did not mature until after that date?


 * 08:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Lady Fanny (pictured) not only scandalously refused to deny her sexual escapades, but also advertised them in her 1751 memoirs?
 * ... that two months after Baruch Ben Haim arrived in Brooklyn to serve as Assistant Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community, he was engaged to the Chief Rabbi's daughter?
 * ... that juvenile cusk-eels are believed to seek protection from predators by hiding among the spines of the sea urchin Phormosoma placenta?
 * ... that professional baseball player Tony Cingrani did not expect his college team to invite him back for his senior season after he struggled as a junior?
 * ... that the concept for the Canadian neighbourhood of Metrotown originated in Baltimore, Maryland?
 * ... that Lionel Richie "quit while he was ahead", taking a long hiatus after releasing the chart-topping Dancing on the Ceiling?
 * ... that even before the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race, the Chilean Navy was stronger than the United States Navy?


 * 00:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Matanaka Farm buildings (pictured) are the oldest farm buildings in New Zealand?
 * ... that Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr recalled thinking they had "completely blown it" with the sound of their album Life in a Day after hearing Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division?
 * ... that pioneering midwife Marie LaChapelle first delivered a baby when she was 15?
 * ... that the joint Polish/Italian film September Eleven 1683 used over 10,000 extras and 3,000 horses in the battle scenes?
 * ... that Armenian revolutionary Sevkaretsi Sako was sentenced to prison for 101 years?
 * ... that trade globalization is an economic indicator and one of the measures of economic globalization?
 * ... that the historic Rosecroft mansion in San Diego, California played host at various times to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, and Dr. Seuss?

6 February 2013

 * 16:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the 9.2 inch Mark X gun at Breakneck Battery (pictured) was described as one of the "crowning glories" of the defences of Gibraltar?
 * ... that despite his parents' plans for Foon Sien to have a career in Imperial China, he became an activist for the rights of Chinese Canadians and redress for the head tax?
 * ... that siltstone deposits have allowed three-dimensional fossils of the extinct mushroom crinoid to be excavated from Indiana?
 * ... that John Brian Christopherson found a cure for bilharzia in 1918?
 * ... that during their honeymoon, Jennifer Lopez wrote the lyrics to "Alive" for the film Enough over a melody that her husband Cris Judd composed?
 * ... that Ivar Rønningen was the first goalscoring goalkeeper at Vålerenga?
 * ... that Bridget Marquardt provocatively ate a Carl's Jr. burger during an infamous New Year's Eve special that it sponsored?


 * 08:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Native American Straight dance (pictured) recounts the stories of war parties searching for the enemy?
 * ... that West Virginia State Senator Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy also served three terms as mayor of Romney, West Virginia?
 * ... that Gimnazija Mostar was built in Moorish Revival style due to Austro-Hungarian wish to create an "Islamic architecture of European fantasy"?
 * ... that Caleb Moore became the first competitor to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games?
 * ... that DNA digital data storage has been called "apocalypse-proof" by one of its creators due to its longevity under certain conditions and its resistance to obsolescence?
 * ... that Salvatore Dell'Isola conducted some of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, winning a Tony Award for his work?
 * ... that the new municipality of Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia has a mayor and two councillors, but no residents?


 * 00:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the 19th-century London publishing firm Dean & Son was the first to mass-produce children's toy books (illustration pictured) with movable pictures?
 * ... that in 2010, minor league baseball shortstop Audy Ciriaco had three separate absences caused by contusions to either his left hand or wrist?
 * ... that it will probably never be known for sure whether the Phoenicians ever sailed to the Americas?
 * ... that the historic-landmarked Church of Our Saviour in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was built just one year after the parish was founded?
 * ... that Gabriel Ruhumbika wrote his first novel in English, but all of his subsequent novels in Swahili?
 * ... that wolves and bears cannot be introduced into Alladale Wilderness Reserve until the owner obtains a zoo licence?
 * ... that Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov tried to lure Margaret Newton to work at Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences with an offer that included a camel caravan?

5 February 2013

 * 16:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Balagansk in Siberia is a new township established after the old town was submerged by the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station (pictured)?
 * ... that King Richard III disinherited his niece, Anne St Leger, whose descendants provided DNA samples necessary for identification of his remains?
 * ... that even though Ved Vejen was written in 1886, the theme regarding the hidden pain of a woman's loneliness in a Danish province still resonates with today's readership?
 * ... that according to music critic Chris Payne, the Maroon 5 song "The Man Who Never Lied" contains one of the most "memorable" choruses on their album Overexposed?
 * ... that Robert Waldegrave printed the first four Marprelate tracts on a secret press in 1588/9?
 * ... that there is no clear explanation why Coastrange sculpins in Cultus Lake, British Columbia, are smaller than other members of the species?
 * ... that American botanist Mary Katharine Brandegee earned her M.D. but never practiced medicine?


 * 08:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Mount Jackson (pictured) with an elevation of 3,184 metres (10,446 ft) is the highest mountain in the Antarctic Peninsula?
 * ... that on her way to winning Miss America 2013, Mallory Hagan performed a tap dance routine to James Brown's "Get Up Offa That Thing"?
 * ... that Spittal Pond Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Bermuda?
 * ... that Bill Longmore, the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Mercia Police, won the 2011 BBC Midlands Sports Unsung Hero Award for his efforts to improve sporting facilities in Shropshire?
 * ... that the Fishing Creek confederacy was an alleged military uprising in northern Columbia County, Pennsylvania and southern Sullivan County, Pennsylvania?
 * ... that with the assassination of Adrián Silva Moreno, nearly 100 journalists, writers and bloggers have been kidnapped or killed in Mexico?
 * ... that the winner of the first City and Suburban Handicap had to pay £10 to the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society?


 * 00:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Lady Courtney (pictured) hosted the first meeting of the committee from which the Save the Children Fund would develop?
 * ... that Taku Inlet in Alaska widens to a basin where discharge from the Taku River and Taku Glacier emerge?
 * ... that Rhachitomi, a group of temnospondyl amphibians, was established as a clade in 2013?
 * ... that "Flip" Carli, son of a soldier, went from footballer to film director?
 * ... that an Algerian cargo aircraft crashed near a highly populated area of Northern Italy but killed only the three crew members on board?
 * ... that Lieutenant general William G. Webster oversaw the US Third Army move its headquarters from Fort McPherson, where it had resided for over 62 years, to Shaw Air Force Base?
 * ... that five days after the unopposed German capture of Arendal, local citizens formed occupied Norway's first organized resistance group?

4 February 2013

 * 16:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that a Bermudan culinary specialty is to serve fish chowder (pictured) with black rum and sherry peppers?
 * ... that Carlos López Estrada won a Latin Grammy Award for directing a music video that employs stop motion technique?
 * ... that positive reviews for Karina's Zelfopoffering may have been used to procure advertising revenue?
 * ... that actor Reza Rahadian has "flawlessly" represented the mannerisms of former Indonesian president B. J. Habibie?
 * ... that the Bespoke Collection retail store, Ma(i)sonry, is located in a former farmhouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
 * ... that Andy Dirks gained celebrity status in the Dominican Republic due to his performance in the Dominican Winter League's postseason?
 * ... that Jack Finch had a pit full of black rat snakes that he used for experiments to protect bluebirds?


 * 08:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Østre Porsgrunn Church (pictured), a church in the Rococo style built in 1760, was destroyed entirely in a 2011 fire?
 * ... that a unique sample of a pyrite crystal from the Crystal Mine in Alaska with a large amount of terminated crystals of gold on its surface, is on display in the Smithsonian Institute?
 * ... that Loyalist militia commander David Fanning was captured by the Patriots 14 times during the American Revolutionary War, and was refused a pardon by the State of North Carolina in 1783?
 * ... that although the Fourth Siege of Gibraltar ended with Muhammed IV of Granada still in control of Gibraltar, he was assassinated by his nobles soon after?
 * ... that visually impaired para-alpine skier Anna Cohí began competing in the World Championships at age fifteen?
 * ... that a viral video of Buttermilk Sky, a Nigerian dwarf goat kid, has been commented on by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and featured on The Today Show?
 * ... that a cardboard bicycle has been made that weighs just 20 lbs and can support up to 220 kg?


 * 00:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Tholing monastery (pictured) of the Purang-Guge kingdom was built by Yeshe-Ö, the first notable lama-king in Tibet?
 * ... that Ratna Moetoe Manikam, with a love triangle involving goddesses, was inspired by The Thief of Bagdad?
 * ... that US Army paratrooper Jake McNiece was the leader of the Filthy Thirteen, a unit whose exploits inspired the novel and movie The Dirty Dozen?
 * ... that the name of the Gooseberry River could either be a translation of its Ojibwe name or a translation of the name of a French explorer?
 * ... that out of eleven presidents of Pakistan, three came into power through one of the successful military coups?
 * ... that in 2008, Chinese folk musician Yu Zhou died in the custody of Chinese authorities 10 days after being arrested for possessing Falun Gong literature?
 * ... that Yoni Chetboun, who will be entering the Israeli parliament for the Jewish Home party, was awarded the Chief of Staff Citation for his actions as a combat officer in the Second Lebanon War?

3 February 2013

 * 16:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ... that Carmenelectra was named after the model (pictured) because both have "splendid" bodies?
 * ... that Inez McCormack, a Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights campaigner, was the first female president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (1999–2001)?
 * ... that one part of the Gorički zbornik, a Serbian medieval manuscript collection, was written by Jelena Balšić between 1441 and 1442?
 * ... that composer and music director August Röckel, who was active in the May Uprising in Dresden along with his friend Richard Wagner, was arrested and was the last prisoner released?
 * ... that Bach scored his cantata Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18, for four violas and basso continuo, creating a "magically dark-hued sonority"?
 * ... that creator Suda 51's upcoming video game Killer is Dead maintains the same essence as his previous "assassin" games, Killer7 and No More Heroes?
 * ... that American World War II flying ace William J. Cullerton had twenty-one kills during the war?


 * 08:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the urchin crab is named for its habit of carrying a sea urchin such as the false fire urchin (pictured) on its back?
 * ... that the Magnates of Poland and Lithuania often had private armies, and exerted significant political influence on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
 * ... that John Butler was promoted by Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien to defensive coordinator over two other coaches who had much more coaching experience?
 * ... that the Mathura Kaliamman Temple in Siruvachur is open to devotees only two days a week?
 * ... that John Thompson was called "the most distinguished wood-engraver of his time"?
 * ... that the Portland Breakwater Fort was built between 1868 and 1875 to defend Portland Harbour?
 * ... that John Ferolito, co-founder of Arizona Beverage Company, was sued after he allegedly took a mulligan and knocked a fellow golfer unconscious with a tee shot taken at "point-blank range"?


 * 00:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that after commanding submarines during World War II, Mochitsura Hashimoto (pictured) became a Shinto priest?
 * ... that Bach's solo cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, based on the Canticle of Simeon, has been recorded more than 100 times?
 * ... that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?
 * ... that the 1987 Indiana Hoosiers football team defeated Ohio State for the first time since 1951, Michigan for the first time since 1967 and lost to Tennessee in the Peach Bowl?
 * ... that Arsenal de la Carraca was the first military establishment of its kind in Spain?
 * ... that the Marathi play Wada Chirebandi, directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni, is an eight-hour-long trilogy?
 * ... that the 1969 song "It's Too Bad" by Jimi Hendrix was considered newly discovered thirty years later when it was added to The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2000) album?

2 February 2013

 * 16:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ... that the painting In the Sun (pictured) by Russian artist Alexander Samokhvalov is a portrait of his wife, artist Maria Kleshchar-Samokhvalova?
 * ... that Jay Threatt was the first basketball player to lead the NCAA in steals twice?
 * ... that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Monarch was converted into an accommodation ship for submarine crews after the Cattaro Mutiny in early February 1918?
 * ... that Walter Smith, chief of staff of the U. S. Army's "All-American division" in the 1930s, was an actual All-American at West Point in 1900?
 * ... that the pattern of the veins on fossil leaves of the extinct golden-club Orontium wolfei confirm it as a member of the arum family?
 * ... that George Selwyn Marryat, a British gentleman and fly fisherman was known as the "Prince of Fly Fishers"?
 * ... that the warty chameleon may be indistinguishable from the Malagasy giant chameleon in the field?


 * 08:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Andiva (fossil pictured), an enigmatic animal that lived 555 millions of years ago, perhaps had a convex carapace?
 * ... that mayor Irving Freese of Norwalk, Connecticut, was re-elected despite his opponent having the endorsement of the Republicans, the Democrats, and even his own Socialist Party?
 * ... that cultural conflict can lead to ethnic cleansing or wars?
 * ... that Edward Page Gaston, European manager for Funk & Wagnalls, was a proponent for the repatriation of the remains of Pocahontas?
 * ... that the U.S. release of the Samsung Ativ Tab was cancelled due to concerns surrounding the marketability of its Windows RT operating system?
 * ... that, in 2000, Argentinian singer Rodrigo sold out 13 consecutive shows at the Luna Park arena to promote his quadruple-platinum album A 2000?
 * ... that Shrewsbury Road in Dublin is the location of the most expensive house ever sold in Ireland, which cost 58 million euros?


 * 00:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that the Fleetwings BQ-1, Fleetwings BQ-2 (pictured) and Fairchild BQ-3 were all planned for use by the United States Army Air Forces as remote-controlled flying bombs?
 * ... that William Allen was a co-founder of the first bank to be opened in Manchester, and was also the father of a future bishop?
 * ... that the Sheep Creek Hatchery in Juneau, Alaska was established in 1980 for incubating about 40 million pink and/or chum salmon for commercial fisheries?
 * ... that Satyajit Ray's documentary, The Inner Eye (1972), features an artist's journey to blindness with his own words, "Blindness is a new feeling, a new experience, a new state of being"?
 * ... that Bruce Cooper was the last surviving member of a six-man team who volunteered to be sealed in a World War II observation post discovered by the Gibraltar Caving Group in 1997?
 * ... that sports writer Jean Giambrone was the first woman to be awarded full press credentials at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia?
 * ... that in the Glee episode "Naked", when Lea Michele's character Rachel was "Torn" over having to do a topless scene, Michele had to film the song twice so she could duet with herself?

1 February 2013

 * 16:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Brasília National Park (pictured) is the largest park in the world which is situated in an urbanized area?
 * ... that the music video of The Cure's 1988 single "Hot Hot Hot!!!" featured the band made up as "dwarves"?
 * ... that Edward Bowditch was an All-American football player, aide-de-camp to John Pershing, and member of the 1922 commission that concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence?
 * ... that Charles Spalding, who improved the diving bell by adding a system of balance-weights, also owned a sweet shop?
 * ... that Blackbird Vineyards` red wine, Arise, features blackbirds sitting on a telephone wire in the same layout as the starting notes of the Beatles` song "Blackbird"?
 * ... that Ernest Melville DuPorte, "a father of confederation for entomology", was the first Black Canadian to teach at McGill University?
 * ... that Tyrannasorus rex had wings and six legs?


 * 08:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Alfred E. Montgomery (pictured) was in command of the submarine USS F-1 (SS-20) when it collided with its sister ship USS F-3 (SS-22) during maneuvers and sank, after which he became a naval aviator?
 * ... that if Welsh team Swansea City win in the 2013 Football League Cup Final, they will represent England in the Europa League?
 * ... that promotional efforts for U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor's best-selling memoir My Beloved World caused the time of Vice President Joe Biden's second-term swearing-in to be changed?
 * ... that director Kamila Andini married director Ifa Isfansyah the year after their films competed against each other at the Indonesian Film Festival?
 * ... that the Umayyad ruler Mu'awiyah had building material from the ruins of Paltos, currently the village of Arab al-Mulk in Syria, used to reconstruct nearby Jableh?
 * ... that, after opposing the separation of eastern Tennessee from North Carolina, John Tipton helped draft Tennessee's first state constitution and served in the new state's legislature?
 * ... that Nockatunga Station occupies an area of approximately 8500 sqkm, making it almost as large as Puerto Rico?


 * 00:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ... that Martin's Cave (pictured) is named after the man who found it when he fell off the Rock of Gibraltar?
 * ... that William Fincke, an All-American quarterback at Yale in 1900, became a pacifist minister and founder of the Brookwood Labor College and Manumit School?
 * ... that because of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, the Philippine government temporarily banned the entrance of Filipinos into Bahrain?
 * ... that Charles Stross's science-fiction novel Singularity Sky inspired a proposal to undermine the Taliban by giving every Afghan a free mobile phone?
 * ... that Cornulaca monacantha is a spiny desert plant that provides good grazing for camels?
 * ... that the Mauritanian commune of Ten Hamadi has an estimated 10,340 goats?
 * ... that American printmaker Chaim Koppelman produced many works about Napoleon throughout his career, placing the French Emperor in surprising settings such as Napoleon Entering Brighton Beach?