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29 February 2016

 * 12:00, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the director of Saving Mes Aynak presented Afghani leaders with a petition signed by 100,000 people in support of the preservation of the 5,000-year-old archaeological site (excavations pictured)?
 * ... that W. Lair Thompson, the President of the Oregon Senate, lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
 * ... that the freshwater snails Sinotaia aeruginosa and Cipangopaludina cathayensis are used in Chinese cuisine?
 * ... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants?
 * ... that Makrana marble was used in the construction of the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial?
 * ... that Black Metropolis, a foundational American sociology text by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., resulted from the work of as many as 200 researchers, typists, and copyists?
 * ... that chestnut cake may be prepared using flour from ground chestnuts?


 * 00:00, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that after receiving her PhD in 1921, Georgiana Simpson (pictured), like other black women scholars, could only find a university position teaching home economics?
 * ... that when Liverpool played in the Football League Cup Final today, they did so for a record 12th time?
 * ... that Soup the Chemist has been called the "Godfather of Christian hip hop"?
 * ... that the plot for the Veronica Mars episode "Postgame Mortem" was based around a scene in an elevator, and the crew "wrote backwards" from that scene?
 * ... that Queen Elizabeth cake is named after Elizabeth II and is a popular cake in Canada?
 * ... that Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the original soundtrack for the 2015 film The Revenant during his recovery from throat cancer?
 * ... that Lebanese IT expert and U.S. permanent resident Nizar Zakka, detained in Iran since September 18, 2015, has been accused of being an American spy?
 * ... that anti-fascists, Islamists, and neo-Nazis rioted against a tennis match?

28 February 2016

 * 12:00, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the activity of crabs helped glasswort, Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halocnemum strobilaceum (pictured) to recolonise oil-polluted marshland?
 * ... that Iarla Ó Lionáird sang "Casadh an tSúgáin" in Brooklyn?
 * ... that the Of–Bayburt road in northeastern Turkey is considered one of the most dangerous routes, with over 20 steep hairpin turns?
 * ... that the Pac-12 Conference award for men's basketball coach of the year was renamed in honor of John Wooden?
 * ... that the Navalgund Durries are a type of Indian rug with geometric patterns and designs of birds and animals?
 * ... that Governor Ye Liansong said he never thought of becoming a politician until he was told of his appointment as vice-mayor?
 * ... that Puri hosts the famed Rath Yatra, attended by at least a million people every year?
 * ... that James Maxie Ponder, St. Petersburg, Florida's first African-American physician, began a medical practice out of his home and accepted payment in poultry, vegetables, and ham?


 * 00:00, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Halloween cake themes (example pictured) include cakes that resemble jack-o'-lanterns and the human brain, and cupcakes with bloody teeth emerging from them?
 * ... that Zeng Junchen, one of 20th-century China's most successful drug lords, started out selling salt?
 * ... that the Olly Murs song "Please Don't Let Me Go" is based on one of his real-life experiences of a failed relationship?
 * ... that when a reporter told horse breeder Betty Sain that there were no coyotes in Tennessee, she presented him with a dead one?
 * ... that a boring mill at the mouth of White Deer Creek in 1776 made gun barrels for the Continental Army?
 * ... that Margaret Benyon has been called "the mother of British holography"?
 * ... that after the release of Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, the original film was described as being the first "flop" to be given a director's cut?
 * ... that earlier this month, the town of Wangaratta was overrun by hairy panic?

27 February 2016

 * 12:00, 27 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Six Gentlemen (pictured) by Ni Zan is thought to represent the isolation of scholar-recluses in Yuan dynasty China?
 * ... that the composer Sterndale Bennett introduced cricket to Germany?
 * ... that Jacksonville attorney Bill Birchfield referred to himself as the "Duke of Mayo"?
 * ... that after seeing a trailer for Oprah Winfrey's Belief series, Tim McGraw got Winfrey to provide footage for his "Humble and Kind" music video?
 * ... that professional surfer Kala Alexander is vice president of an organization that gives children with cystic fibrosis surfing lessons?
 * ... that the first waves of the landing at Lae were carried in four destroyer transports?
 * ... that Gujarati theatre actor Markand Bhatt received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2008?
 * ... that Ezubao attracted 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) from 900,000 Chinese investors before it was closed down as a Ponzi scheme?


 * 00:00, 27 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... in post-World War II United States, the Harley-Davidson KR (pictured) dominated domestic motorcycle racing with an obsolete but highly refined flathead engine?
 * ... that a forensic facial reconstruction of two-year-old Bella Bond triggered approximately 56 million Internet views?
 * ... that the Whakamana Cannabis Museum, New Zealand's first museum dedicated to cannabis culture, opened in Caversham, Dunedin, in 2013?
 * ... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism?
 * ... that the upcoming Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour will be the first shows played at Fenway Park by members of the Grateful Dead?
 * ... that the shell of the fossil egg Dictyoolithus is made up of five superimposed layers of eggshell units?
 * ... that some scholars speculate that the "plague of emerods" described in 1 Samuel of the King James Bible was actually an outbreak of bubonic plague?
 * ... that in her colorful memoir When Denver and I Were Young, Edwina Hume Fallis warned against trying on another child's hat, because "you might bring home something you didn't like"?

26 February 2016

 * 12:00, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that one son of a former prime minister unveiled Mells War Memorial (pictured) while another is commemorated on it?
 * ... that during the Siege of Syracuse by the Aghlabids in 877–878, the Byzantine navy failed to aid the city on time, as it was employed in the construction of the Nea Ekklesia church?
 * ... that the parents of the first white child born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, settled on Glade Run?
 * ... that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at Nishiki, Kumamoto, is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
 * ... that the Welsh architect Thomas Thomas made sure he preached one of the very first sermons in every chapel he built?
 * ... that Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve had no official name when it was gazetted in 1979, but had been used for beekeeping for generations?
 * ... that Rahul Thakkar, an Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement?
 * ... that in the music video for the title track from Wow to the Deadness, the members of Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil throw water balloons at each other?


 * 00:00, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Armada Memorial is built on Plymouth Hoe, the site where tradition holds Francis Drake wanted to finish a game of bowls (scene pictured) before defeating the Spanish Armada?
 * ... that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants?
 * ... that professional wrestler Atomic Star became the only rookie to compete in three El Protector tournaments when he won the 2016 El Protector?
 * ... that Nic Case became the first driver to top 200 mph with a radio-controlled car in 2014?
 * ... that in the Battle of the Straits in 965, the Fatimids employed divers to tie ropes to the Byzantine ships, along which incendiary devices were then hurled against them?
 * ... that Triprismatoolithus is a kind of fossil egg that was probably laid by an unknown species of alvarezsaurian dinosaur?
 * ... that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands?
 * ... that some reaches of Turkey Run and Oak Run were described as "moderately depressed" in the 1970s?

25 February 2016

 * 12:00, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Liang Siyong was one of the first Chinese archaeologists?
 * ... that "America can't do a damn thing against us" was a slogan used by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran, during the hostage crisis?
 * ... that African-American Daniel Robert Alexander was described as a favorite of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II and blacksmith to Haile Selassie?
 * ... that the salt-tolerant plants Zygophyllum album, Nitraria retusa, and Tamarix nilotica dominate different vegetation zones at the Moghra Oasis in Egypt?
 * ... that Zvezdelina Stankova brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley Math Circle?
 * ... that the Indian state of Kerala celebrates over 10,000 festivals annually?
 * ... that entrepreneur Ren Jianxin, founder of the world's 265th largest company, began with a loan of CN¥10000?
 * ... that in the Battle of Dumpu, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner, although covered in blood and black ants, refused to be carried from the field for fear it might endanger the stretcher bearers?


 * 00:00, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Norwich War Memorial (pictured), first unveiled in 1927, was relocated in 1938, and then rotated in 2011?
 * ... that at 81, horse trainer Bud Dunn became the oldest rider ever to win the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship?
 * ... that the wildlife of Egypt no longer includes the elephants, rhinoceroses and gerenuk depicted in rock art at the village of Silwa Bahari?
 * ... that Marianne Means was the first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the White House?
 * ... that Ferdinand threat to Genoa during World War II allowed a Dragoon to achieve tactical surprise?
 * ... that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda?
 * ... that Mariah Carey recorded a cover version of the Brenda K. Starr song "I Still Believe" as a thank you for helping her get into the music industry?
 * ... that Tibs the Great vanquished all his foes during his 14-year reign?

24 February 2016

 * 12:00, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the flower of the cactus Echinopsis spachiana (pictured) mainly opens at night?
 * ... that the American policy analyst Gareth Porter, argues in his Manufactured Crisis that allegations of Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons have been fabricated by Israel and the United States?
 * ... that Banner Lane was the site of one of the largest Second World War British shadow factories with over one million square feet of floorspace?
 * ... that Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by Q Magazine?
 * ... that the Green-legged Partridge of Poland is actually a chicken?
 * ... that the Norfolk headless body may have been a "duchess"?
 * ... that the losses sustained by the crew of patrol boat Phaethon, during the battle of Tillyria in 1964, were the first battle casualties of the Hellenic Navy after World War II?
 * ... that the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix was won by Sebastian Vettel even though he lost his bottle?


 * 00:00, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that C. C. Beall's 1945 Treasury poster (pictured) of Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima was used for a World War II campaign which brought in $26 billion?
 * ... that Michael Muhney did not know about his character's death on Veronica Mars until receiving the script for his final episode, "Mars, Bars"?
 * ... that Paulette Poujol-Oriol literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions?
 * ... that to hike round the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps is a 170 km trip, usually taking 11 days, but top athletes run round the Tour du Mont Blanc circuit in just 21 hours?
 * ... that director Naji Abu Nowar produced Theeb, Jordan's first film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award?
 * ... that Undulatoolithus, a kind of fossil egg from China, probably received intensive parental care?
 * ... that the Bestiaire by Philip de Thaun is one of two medieval English sources for the story behind the phrase "crocodile tears"?
 * ... that a distinctive diamond helped secure a bodyless murder conviction in the case of Robert Wykel, last seen 20 years ago today?

23 February 2016

 * 12:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Carthaginian currency (pictured) commonly featured the goddess Tanit and a horse?
 * ... that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"?
 * ... that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
 * ... that Ruhollah Khomeini, in his letter to Gorbachev, invited him to monotheism and Islam and also predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc?
 * ... that during filming of the Vietnam War documentary Introduction to the Enemy, a landmine killed a man near Jane Fonda, whose reaction to the death was kept in the film?
 * ... that Ravindra Jadeja is the only batsman to score three triple centuries in the Ranji Trophy?
 * ... that Sivion stage name is a misspelling of his old one, "Vision"?


 * 00:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Carbajal Valley (pictured) was carved by a glacier with ice 600-800 m thick?
 * ... that Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen committed suicide in 1945 after suffering most of her life from ill health?
 * ... that two Silver Buckle companies attacked 50,000 enemy troops?
 * ... that Beatrice Helen Worsley wrote the first program for the Manchester Mark 1, received the first PhD in computer science, and holds the record among WRENs for the longest time at sea?
 * ... that 42 Lomasney Way in Boston's West End has been called "The Last Tenement", and has survived two fires, decay, and urban renewal?
 * ... that Boyd Overhulse was unanimously elected President of the Oregon Senate just 11 days after taking his senate seat in 1957, the first Democrat to hold that position in 79 years?
 * ... that Nate Parker produced a teaser in order to seek financing for Eden?
 * ... that Rose Piper 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"?

22 February 2016

 * 12:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Kashmir papier-mâché (pictured), a colourful painted handicraft of Kashmir that was brought by Shia Muslims from Persia in the 15th century, is based primarily on paper pulp?
 * ... that Wang Baosen, vice mayor of Beijing, committed suicide while under investigation for corruption?
 * ... that the Wadamisaki Battery was the first national historic site registered in Hyōgo Prefecture?
 * ... that Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his Tannhäuser, and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde?
 * ... that the Bangalore Blue variety of grape has been grown for the past 150 years exclusively in the districts of Bangalore Urban, Chikkaballapura and Kolar?
 * ... that the association footballer Dick Pudan was banned from the sport in 1907 after he walked out on his club, which had refused to let him play professional cricket too?
 * ... that in Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Yoshihiro Tatsumi wanted to depict postwar Japan, where he felt that the focus on economic growth was given precedence over the lifestyles of its people?
 * ... that the 1628 Robletti edition of Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi was dedicated to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who engaged him as a court musician?


 * 00:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that redundant Snatch Land Rovers awaiting disposal were turned into Panama remote controlled vehicles (pictured)?
 * ... that after graduating from high school, Korbin Forrister chose full-time stock car racing over baseball?
 * ... that unlike the Marvel Comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes, IDW Publishing's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive could use the likeness of Charlton Heston?
 * ... that Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's Otello, one of her only two recordings?
 * ... that An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls?
 * ... that Anthony Hill was naked, unarmed and suffering from mental illness when he was shot by police in the U.S. state of Georgia?
 * ... that Tubercuoolithus is one of the fossil eggs from Sevenmile Hill, the oldest fossil egg site in the Two Medicine Formation?
 * ... that when Maria Benedita Bormann was called a female Émile Zola, it was not meant as a compliment?

21 February 2016

 * 12:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Assamese muga silk (pictured) is naturally golden in colour?
 * ... that Anna Korondi appeared at the Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus?
 * ... that the pre-1st century text Mahanarayana Upanishad, literally "Great Vishnu Upanishad", glorifies not only Vishnu but also Shiva?
 * ... that Colby Carthel is the son of fellow American football head coach Don Carthel?
 * ... that Gujarat's Sankheda furniture is named after the Sankheda village, where it is made with teak wood and lacquer and painted in traditional bright shades of maroon and gold?
 * ... that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography?
 * ... that CR-39, used in the manufacture of plastic eyeglass lenses, was one of 200 polymers invented by Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation during World War II?
 * ... that the mechanical engineer Lionel Bussey had 600 pairs of women's shoes?


 * 00:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance?
 * ... that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II?
 * ... that the 1753 opera Ciro in Armenia was created by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, one of the earliest female Italian opera composers?
 * ... that Vernon Johnson won back-to-back Lone Star Conference wide receiver of the year honors?
 * ... that nearly $26 million of funds for a $42.5 million Haitian education program went missing after being raised partly from taxes on international phone calls?
 * ... that Lesley Lewis was one of four founding students of the Courtauld Institute of Art?
 * ... that Operation Bedrock was a successful rice denial mission?
 * ... that Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State?

20 February 2016

 * 12:05, 20 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Diwata-1 (pictured) is the Philippines' first satellite to be developed solely by Filipinos?
 * ... that when Ilse Hollweg recorded the part of Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sir Thomas Beecham, she was one of two soloists who also spoke the dialogue?
 * ... that Barbara McLaren conceived the Spalding War Memorial after her husband was killed in the First World War, but insisted he receive no special commemoration on it?
 * ... that at the cineplex where Ten Years debuted, it outperformed Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
 * ... that the then Iranian prime minister, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, defined the Bridgeton incident as "an irreparable blow on America's political and military prestige"?
 * ... that Makoto Hirayama was elected to Japan's House of Councillors despite getting less than 0.02% of the vote?
 * ... that sandalwood oil is so important to the economy of Mysore, India, that it has been registered and trademarked?
 * ... that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in Colorado, Reynelda Muse began wearing an Afro on the air to assert her identity?


 * 00:15, 20 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the 4th-century frescoes in the Roman Tomb of Silistra depict a procession of servants (example pictured) carrying gifts to the tomb's owners?
 * ... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore?
 * ... that the Racking Horse World Celebration has been held annually in Priceville, Alabama, for over 40 years?
 * ... that at the end of the reconquista, Islamic jurist Ahmad al-Wansharisi argued that it was compulsory for Spanish Muslims under Christian rule to emigrate to Muslim lands?
 * ... that when the White House postponed Operation Snake Eyes again, Captain Sirisouk quit the Laotian Civil War?
 * ... that Angela Hartley Brodie's award-winning research led to the development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors as new treatments for breast cancer?
 * ... that the Staten Island boat graveyard contains so many abandoned boats and ships that it has been called an "accidental marine museum"?
 * ... that Annelie Nordström resigned as general secretary after Swedish Municipal Workers' Union funds paid for a strip show by Puma Swede?

19 February 2016

 * 12:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Thanjavur Art Plate (pictured), introduced by Rajah Serfoji-II during the Maratha rule, was made as a gift item by the artisans of Thanjavur?
 * ... that research into the psychology of eating meat suggests a correlation between meat-eating and support for hierarchy and inequality?
 * ... that in a broadcast episode of Hollyoaks, Harry Thompson, portrayed by actor Parry Glasspool, was erroneously called "Parry" by another character?
 * ... that Air France Flight 152, en route from Rome to Beirut, ended up in the Mediterranean Sea after one of the engines broke away in flight?
 * ... that Ricky Collins temporarily walked away from American football to care for his ill father?
 * ... that the Hindu text Paingala Upanishad compares the body to a horse-drawn car in a series of metaphors?
 * ... that the "Mother of the Probation" system, Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the Cayman Islands?
 * ... that a fan-made video called "Shrek is love, Shrek is life" and its duplications garnered more than three million views by May 2014?


 * 00:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles?
 * ... that in 1898 Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in York?
 * ... that the Negro Labor Committee was formed in 1935 so that African Americans could be allowed to join labor unions?
 * ... that for over 40 years, the one constant at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers has been Sharon H. Abrams?
 * ... that Simone Ballard performed the title role in the premiere of Arthur Honegger's Antigone at La Monnaie?
 * ... that the thyroid ima artery can be found in only three to ten percent of the population and varies in origin, size, blood supply, and termination?
 * ... that Swedish television presenter Jovan Radomir wrote the English translation of the Marija Šerifović song "Molitva", which went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2007?
 * ... that at the 1905 International Tourist Trophy motor race, cars were towed to the start line by horses to save fuel?

18 February 2016

 * 12:00, 18 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Calvin Coolidge described his beloved dog Rob Roy (pictured) as a "stately gentleman of great courage and fidelity"?
 * ... that shortly after the forced conversions of Muslims in Castile, a fatwa was issued which allowed outward practice of Christianity while secretly keeping the Islamic faith?
 * ... that while everyone else thought the field horsetail growing on nursery land in Palmerston North was ornamental, Dame Ella Orr Campbell correctly identified it as an invasive species?
 * ... that the Sarvasara Upanishad text is one of two dedicated glossaries embedded in the collection of ancient and medieval Upanishads of Hinduism?
 * ... that Thomas Gilovich tested his hypothesis of the spotlight effect by using Barry Manilow T-shirts?
 * ... that despite being described by its leader as "liberal", the Social Encounter Party supported a constitutional amendment in Baja California to ban same-sex marriage?
 * ... that Sarah Tenant-Flowers has worked as an administrator for the Choir of the Year and as General Manager of "The Sixteen"?
 * ... that the Soviet RPG-1 anti-tank rocket was intended to combine the best features of the US's bazooka with those of the German Panzerfaust?


 * 00:00, 18 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Framingham Railroad Station (pictured) was the largest of nine stations that Henry Hobson Richardson designed for the Boston and Albany Railroad?
 * ... that John Kent was the first black police officer in Britain?
 * ... that two earthquakes, both exceeding 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Fethiye, Turkey, within seven hours in 1957?
 * ... that the soprano Friederike Sailer appeared in the premiere of Werner Egk's Der Revisor at the Schwetzingen Festival, conducted by the composer?
 * ... that fossil eggs assigned to Dictyoolithidae may have been laid by megalosauroid dinosaurs?
 * ... that Stanley Booth-Clibborn, a former Bishop of Manchester, was shot during a robbery in Uganda?
 * ... that Cowbell Hollow drainage basin is only 0.26 sqmi?
 * ... that Lisa Aschan was filmed in the audience at the 2016 Guldbaggen Awards, giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to the winner in the Best Cinematography category?

17 February 2016

 * 12:00, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Teresia Sampsonia (pictured) was born into a Christian Circassian family in Safavid Iran, and married the British adventurer Sir Robert Shirley?
 * ... that just before Operation Xieng Dong, the People's Army of Vietnam captured the King's farm?
 * ... that according to Lynne Kelly's theory, Stonehenge was used as a centre for recording and accessing knowledge?
 * ... that the ancient Sanskrit text Nadabindu Upanishad rhetorically compares soul to a bird?
 * ... that Mustafizur Rahman is the only cricketer to receive Man of the Match awards on both Test and One Day International cricket debuts?
 * ... that during the 1934 Muroto typhoon, a then-world record low land-based pressure of 911.9 hPa was observed in Muroto, Japan?
 * ... that Zhou Youde became a local deity after helping to end the Great Evacuation?
 * ... that the Amani Nature Reserve in Tanzania is home to the elusive long-billed forest warbler and the unwanted umbrella tree?


 * 00:00, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Federal Reserve Bank Building (pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, is one of the earliest surviving works of architecture firm NBBJ?
 * ... that Vice Premier Kang Shi'en, China's "energy czar", received an unprecedented demerit of the first grade after an oil rig accident that killed 72 people?
 * ... that Pura Vida Bracelets, which now sells over 125,000 bracelets a month, started when two friends brought 400 bracelets back from a vacation in Costa Rica?
 * ... that W. G. Grace, Jack Hobbs, Denis Compton and Don Bradman all scored first-class centuries at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings?
 * ... that the ancient text Nirvana Upanishad is written in Sutra-style and states that a solitary place is a monastery of bliss for a Hindu monk?
 * ... that the proposed sculpture Rebirth, projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby riparian forest and the people living in Oak Grove"?
 * ... that the French General André Sordet's cavalry corps covered close to 1,500 km (930 miles) in the first month of World War I?
 * ... that Donald Lavoie, a hit man for Montreal's Dubois Gang, escaped his intended execution at their hands by sliding down a laundry chute?

16 February 2016

 * 12:00, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the album that Jimmy Greene (pictured) wrote in tribute to his murdered daughter has been nominated for a Grammy Award?
 * ... that after becoming a local hit in Texas, Gene Thomas' "Sometime" was reissued on the United Artists label and entered the national top 100?
 * ... that Carmen Souza sings Cape Verdean and jazz fusion compositions in Creole for its adaptability, and also mimics the sounds of musical instruments?
 * ... that Madonna's musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems?
 * ... that during the 1920 debut of his furniture music at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, composer Erik Satie begged the audience not to listen to the music?
 * ... that Eleanor Sophia Smith was one of the founders of Chicago's Hull House Music School?
 * ... that Gregg Allman's album Laid Back was titled as an inside reference to a studio term that Allman coined for when a song needed to be more relaxed?
 * ... that jazz pianist and composer Dodo Marmarosa once got mad at his old piano and chopped it up with an ax?


 * 00:00, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that a portable radio transmitter called Pocket FM (pictured) enables people to create pirate radio networks in areas where authoritarian governments tightly control communications?
 * ... that Tina Allen`s sculpture of Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie Akeelah and the Bee?
 * ... that the auxiliary nurse midwife is a village-level female health worker in India who acts as the first contact person between the community and the health services?
 * ... that Meridian School alumnus Masa Fukuda, the founder of One Voice Children's Choir, writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?
 * ... that BMW engineer Paul Rosche continued to design Formula One engines for them after the company withdrew from the tournament?
 * ... that during the period of state control known as State Shinto, Japan lost 80,000 Shinto shrines?
 * ... that Swedish politician Emil Källström came in sixth in Land magazine's annual list of "Hottest hillbillies"?
 * ... that the white-bellied cinclodes may soon "pipe" no more?

15 February 2016

 * 12:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the 34 arches of the Arnos Park Viaduct (pictured) allowed the extension of the Piccadilly line to Cockfosters?
 * ... that For John is a tribute album to a disc jockey from Buffalo, New York, recorded by indie pop band Library Voices from Regina, Saskatchewan?
 * ... that the pre-3rd century CE Shandilya Upanishad text describes eight postures of Yoga to cleanse the body and two types of meditation?
 * ... that for the production of Avengers: Infinity War, the films will be the first to be shot entirely using IMAX cameras and its exclusive aspect ratio?
 * ... that Queen Elizabeth II's glovemaker, Cornelia James, was accepted by the art college that rejected Adolf Hitler?
 * ... that Alexander Rossi became the first American to drive at a Formula One race at the Circuit of the Americas when he entered the 2015 United States Grand Prix?
 * ... that Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in Cleveland, Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"?
 * ... that in 1955, two girls fainted at an election rally in Glasgow for Unionist candidate William Grant?


 * 00:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Xin Fengxia (pictured) refused to divorce her persecuted husband Wu Zuguang, and he took care of her after she was persecuted and became paralyzed?
 * ... that Sports Phone received 50 million calls in 1981?
 * ... that the husband-and-wife piano duo of Bartlett and Robertson were said to play like "four hands at a double keyboard controlled by a single mind"?
 * ... that during Operation Phoutah, Groupement Mobile 33 carried their gut-shot colonel and 50 other wounded for 13 hours?
 * ... that Rosita Baltazar, co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on St. Vincent in a Garifuna cultural reclamation project?
 * ... that software product company DDC-I started three decades ago in Denmark with a focus on the Ada programming language and now focuses on real-time operating systems in the United States?
 * ... that the Hindu text Kathashruti Upanishad, composed before the 3rd-century CE, states a sannyasi should neither rejoice when someone praises him, nor curse when someone abuses him?
 * ... that Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth, was also known as Mr Valentine?

14 February 2016

 * 12:00, 14 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the mountain nyala, featured on the obverse of the Ethiopian ten santim coin (pictured), was the last species of large antelope to be discovered in Africa?
 * ... that Ruth Guimarães, the first Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about fables, legends, and everyday life?
 * ... that Chris Sailer is the only player in UCLA football history to have been named first-team All-American at two positions in the same season?
 * ... that the ancient Sanskrit text Dhyanabindu Upanishad states there is a soul in every living being just as there is fragrance in flowers and butter in milk?
 * ... that Baldwin, the 11th-century abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England, was royal doctor to three kings?
 * ... that many of the songs from Conrad Keely's debut solo album Original Machines were written while traveling around Cambodia?
 * ... that Silvina Fabars, who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution?
 * ... that no more than twelve people at a time can ascertain what is found and lost at a London hotel?


 * 00:00, 14 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that for her work on the 2014 historical drama Selma, Ava DuVernay (pictured) became the first black woman to receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director?
 * ... that although he was born in the Ivory Coast, Mahama Cho has represented both Great Britain and France at taekwondo competitions?
 * ... that the ancient Indian text Tejobindu Upanishad describes a 15-limbed yoga system, including exercises, meditation and Samadhi?
 * ... that Swedish singer Towe Jaarnek is the sister of fellow singer Carina Jaarnek?
 * ... that a 1995 storm caused 63 deaths in Nepal, 33 of them related to avalanches?
 * ... that math professor Henry Adams Thompson ran for office several times, including for Vice President of the United States in 1880, but never won?
 * ... that although it is possible that the Adriatic sturgeon is extinct in the wild, a large specimen was caught in the River Po in 2015?
 * ... that the composer and improviser Sylvia Hallett bows both the violin and a spinning bicycle wheel?

13 February 2016

 * 12:00, 13 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that monk seals (example pictured) are the only earless seals that live in tropical climates?
 * ... that Mami Kawada`s music career began after she was discovered by her music teacher?
 * ... that the cosmology in the ancient Hindu text Avyakta Upanishad proposes that there was nothing, until light appeared consisting of knowledge and bliss, followed by the universe?
 * ... that actor Johannes Bah Kuhnke is married to the Swedish Minister of Culture, Alice Bah Kuhnke?
 * ... that Little Pine is a vegan restaurant founded by American singer–songwriter Moby that donates all of its profits to animal welfare organizations?
 * ... that Jeffrey Swanson led a 2015 study that found that 8.9% of American adults reported both angry behavior and easy access to guns?
 * ... that Subhra Guha, a vocal musician in the Indian Hindustani classical tradition, trained in Agra gharana, and has a singing repertoire in khayals, thumri and dadra?
 * ... that the Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings"?


 * 00:00, 13 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the X-10 Graphite Reactor (pictured) was the first nuclear reactor to produce radioisotopes for medical use?
 * ... that the Hindu text Amritabindu Upanishad, composed before 300 CE, condemns "bookish learning" and emphasizes the practice of a six-limbed Yoga?
 * ... that Richard Nixon and T. S. Eliot are both descended from Isaac Stearns?
 * ... that authorities in 17th-century Amsterdam ordered the confiscation and burning of Adriaan Koerbagh's Een Bloemhof because of its heretical opinions?
 * ... that when No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF opened in 1940, facilities were so limited that cadets had to pay for their own accommodation at a nearby hotel?
 * ... that George Alexander Gibson was a physician, medical author, and amateur geologist after whom the Gibson Murmur was named?
 * ... that in Glik v. Cunniffe, the First Circuit noted that "we have previously recognized that the videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties"?
 * ... that Polish athlete Ewa Gryziecka`s world record in women's javelin throw lasted for 35 minutes?

12 February 2016

 * 12:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Kaushiki Chakraborty (pictured) sings khayals and thumris, which in Hindustani music are considered semi-classical or light classical?
 * ... that the Brazilian guitarfish may soon become extinct because of overfishing, while across the Atlantic, the common guitarfish and the blackchin guitarfish are also endangered?
 * ... that Lu Jiaxi, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a student of the American Nobel laureate Linus Pauling?
 * ... that Port Phillip played Van Diemen's Land in the first first-class cricket match in Australia, on 11 and 12 February 1851?
 * ... that the 1986 video game Theatre Europe required the player to call a dedicated telephone number to request a nuclear strike?
 * ... that Peter Molydeux, a Twitter account which parodies the audacious language of Peter Molyneux's video game ideas, inspired Molyneux to leave Microsoft and return to his indie game development roots?
 * ... that Ralph Waldo Swetman confronted falling enrollment at Oswego State Teachers College by luring an Air Corps unit to the school?
 * ... that one of the songs recorded by Little Mix, "A.D.I.D.A.S.", is an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"?


 * 00:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that in 1951, Alan Turing played one of the earliest electronic games on the Nimrod (diagram pictured)?
 * ... that Velma Scantlebury, the first African American woman transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000 organ transplants?
 * ... that Mortonhall Crematorium which opened in 1967 is a prominent example of Expressionist architecture in Edinburgh, designed by a team led by Sir Basil Spence?
 * ... that Casey Mears' victory in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 is his first and only win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
 * ... that the public apology of 16-year-old K-pop star Chou Tzu-yu for waving a Taiwanese flag is believed to have helped Tsai Ing-wen win the Taiwanese presidential election?
 * ... that after the departure of the previously attached distributor, the upcoming film Bad Moms' U.S. rights are now being handled by STX Entertainment?
 * ... that 6 Ballygunge Place, a restaurant chain in Kolkata, has a haath-pakha (hand fans) decor that conveys the elegance of a decorated Durga Puja hall or a setting for a period film?
 * ... that an alternative name of Spring Run is "The Gut"?

11 February 2016

 * 12:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Storm Eva exacerbated the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods (pictured), which also broke the United Kingdom's 24-hour rainfall record?
 * ... that rebel leader Spiro Crne was forced to leave Serbia after Ottoman diplomatic intervention?
 * ... that the ancient Nyāya Sūtras text of Hindu philosophy is a discourse on knowledge and logic which was studied by scholars of Buddhism in the 2nd century CE?
 * ... that The New York Times described the book Psychic Blues as "a compelling look at the disputed territory where entertainment meets religion"?
 * ... that the Stone Hall in Nashville was once a private house of the Cantrell family but is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
 * ... that the decline of Angkor marked the beginning of the Middle Khmer period, during which the language's number of vowels was doubled in a few centuries?
 * ... that opera singer Virgilio Lazzari was a leading bass with the Chicago Civic Opera from 1918–32 and the Metropolitan Opera from 1933–50?
 * ... that the black hamlet is an egg trader?


 * 00:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the work of Joaquín Clausell stands out among Mexican landscape artists because it is in the impressionist style (example pictured)?
 * ... that a financial analyst considered Evolve, released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
 * ... that Swedish actress Bahar Pars was born in Shiraz, Iran, and came to Sweden in 1989 after her family fled the war with Iraq?
 * ... that the first post-Reformation Catholic Church in Aberdeen, St Peter's Church, closed in 1860 when the cathedral was built, but was re-opened 20 years later?
 * ... that Murray's abyssal anglerfish was dredged from the deep in the Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876?
 * ... that former University of Maine at Farmington president Theodora J. Kalikow won a bronze medal in triathlon in the Senior Olympics?
 * ... that Songs by George Harrison contained three songs previously rejected by Warner Bros. Records?
 * ... that after he tackled the assassin of William McKinley, former slave James Benjamin Parker said, "Father Abe freed me, and now I saved his successor from death, provided that bullet ... don't kill him"?

10 February 2016

 * 12:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that in 1939, a trans-Atlantic radio broadcast featured coloratura soprano Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (pictured) singing four songs by Karol Szymanowski from the Royal Castle in Kraków for the US audience?
 * ... that a Chinese aid project in Laos was defended by 400 anti-aircraft guns and 25,000 troops?
 * ... that software startup company Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of Pittsburgh's attempt in the 1980s to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?
 * ... that in December 1869 an employee of the Alert committed suicide by jumping overboard into the Willamette River after being released from an insane asylum?
 * ... that Olive Hoskins was the first woman promoted to warrant officer in the United States Army?
 * ... that the male Krabi mouth-brooding betta incubates the fertilized eggs in his mouth until they hatch?
 * ... that China's Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport, currently being built on 21 km2 of reclaimed land, is set to become the world's largest offshore airport?
 * ... that the 12th-century nobleman Hugh of Chalcombe faced arrest for failing to answer a charge of wrongful possession of cattle?


 * 00:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that chowder (example pictured) originated as a shipboard dish, and was thickened with hardtack?
 * ... that between 1489 and 1491, the doctor and astronomer Johannes Engel worked as a proofreader for the printer Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg?
 * ... that the number of disabled Iranian war veterans related to Iraqi chemical weapons is rising, and estimated to rival that of all the gas casualties in World War I?
 * ... that Thomas J. Latham, a Memphis judge and businessman after the American Civil War, was a millionaire?
 * ... that one scene in the Veronica Mars episode "Papa's Cabin" contains a blue screen that was used as a tarpaulin due to budgetary concerns?
 * ... that Ford Fry has been described as one of the most prolific chefs and restaurateurs in the United States?
 * ... that the coral Polycyathus muellerae is part of an assemblage of organisms that grow in caves?
 * ... that Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, a 10th-century Shia jurist and theologian, was said to be so persuasive in debate that he could convince his opponents "that a wooden column was actually gold"?

9 February 2016

 * 12:00, 9 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Ranikot Fort (pictured), also known as the Great Wall of Sindh, is believed to be one of the world's largest forts, and has been compared to the Great Wall of China?
 * ... that Ilse Gramatzki appeared as a Rhinemaiden in the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival, and in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Frankfurt and Brussels?
 * ... that mobile game Strikefleet Omega is a hybrid of the tower defense and real-time strategy genres?
 * ... that Chinese economist Ji Chaoding, while in the United States in 1926, secretly joined the Communist Party of China?
 * ... that the Yogashikha Upanishad states there is no one greater in the universe than one's guru?
 * ... that Matt Hobden scored 65 not out in a Sussex County Cricket Club record tenth-wicket partnership of 164 with Ollie Robinson?
 * ... that a new Marvel Comics character, with the power to predict future events, will be introduced in Civil War II, the sequel to ''Civil War?
 * ... that Kandia Crazy Horse taught the course "Roll Over Beethoven: Black Rock and Cultural Revolt" at Princeton University?


 * 00:00, 9 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that when it debuts on February 8, 2016, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (Samantha Bee pictured) will be the only late-night TV talk show in the United States hosted by a woman?
 * ... that Dirk Martens published the first edition of Thomas More's Utopia in 1516?
 * ... that Emily Ratajkowski plays a "nice Jewish girl" looking for action in Cruise?
 * ... that five missing people linked to a Hong Kong bookshop are suspected of having been abducted by mainland China's Public Security Bureau?
 * ... that the floor tiles of the Kerr Cultural Center were made with a now-rare mix of cement and white marble dust?
 * ... that physician Jan Theobald Held published a set of folk songs under the pseudonym Jan Orebský?
 * ... that fossils of the headlight angler and the netdevil were found during construction of a subway station in Los Angeles?
 * ... that the Texas band the Foxymorons began life as a lie?

8 February 2016

 * 12:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Mahabaleshwar strawberry (pictured) comprises about 85 percent of total strawberry production in India?
 * ... that nurse and midwife Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands?
 * ... that in a recent opinion, United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy questioned the propriety of solitary confinement?
 * ... that Arthur John Matthews, president of the Tempe Normal School, wrote the education section of the Constitution of Arizona?
 * ... that Meissen porcelain developed three osier patterns of relief decoration for plates in the 18th century?
 * ... that Billie Maxwell was the first woman recorded in country music, and the first recorded musician from Arizona?
 * ... that the overwater bungalows at Hotel Bora Bora were the first on that island, and set a precedent for future developers?
 * ... that American football player Thomas Duarte was one of the rare high-profile college recruits to be of Asian descent?


 * 00:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that before she became a Senator of Mauritania, Malouma (pictured) was censored for her songs, which promoted women's rights and challenged apartheid?
 * ... that the 140 - 160 mm long wings of Makarkinia are the longest of any lacewing?
 * ... that Mary Ingraham  was the first woman to receive the United States Medal for Merit award?
 * ... that BMW G310R, the first-ever sub-500cc bike by BMW Motorrad, is the first of the company's bikes to be developed outside of Europe?
 * ... that Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin credited chaplain Kevin Jordan with establishing unity on their Super Bowl-winning team of 2009?
 * ... that the keeper of the Kızılada Lighthouse rushed by boat to help the survivors of an Air France airliner that made an emergency water landing off the coast of Fethiye, Turkey in 1953?
 * ... that the Irish doctor James Murray, who discovered what would become milk of magnesia, is an ancestor of the actor Michael Hordern?
 * ... that the USA House was a US government program designed to help alleviate the homeless problem in the UK?

7 February 2016

 * 12:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that architect Albert W. Fuller donated a third of his commission for designing the First Congregational Church of Albany (pictured) to the congregation as a "personal gift"?
 * ... that the arrest of Basanti Devi during the non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation?
 * ... that the kaep is a traditional type of proa sailboat native to Palau that can be sailed forward or backward?
 * ... that the 12th-century canon and prior Robert of Bridlington was buried in the cloister of Bridlington Priory?
 * ... that Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. were founded by a future NIWFA chairwoman to stop local football players leaving Cookstown?
 * ... that Kenyan zoologist David Wasawo was the first East African to be awarded a degree in science?
 * ... that Lecrae released the mixtape Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement?
 * ... that Operation Phiboonpol caused vultures to become an aviation hazard?


 * 00:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that tropical cyclones affecting the Arabian Peninsula (example pictured) have disrupted oil exports, destroyed 2,000-year-old bridges, and produced multiple years' worth of rainfall?
 * ... that Martin Luther King, Jr. was originally scheduled to speak at Williston High School  on the day that he was assassinated?
 * ... that the 1970s dancer/choreographer Penney de Jager was knighted for promoting dance among the elderly?
 * ... that oxen of the Terreña breed of cattle from the Basque Country in northern Spain were used in the traditional Basque rural sport of idi probak, or stone-pulling?
 * ... that the early 20th-century Scottish judge Lord Cullen disliked public speaking?
 * ... that the crater lake of Aguas Calientes has been researched as a possible terrestrial analogue to Mars?
 * ... that at the age of fifteen, Todd Gilliland became the youngest winner in ARCA Racing Series history when he won in his series debut?
 * ... that the men believed to be the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the First World War are buried in St Symphorien Military Cemetery?

6 February 2016

 * 12:00, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that, with no prior experience in aviation, Albin K. Longren (pictured) built and flew his own airplane from scratch in 1911?
 * ... that the modern format for the Katcheri, conceived by Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar in the 1930s, incorporated traditional Carnatic music rendered by the Trinity of Carnatic music?
 * ... that Lauw Giok Lan was both a money collector and dramatist, but neither was his main occupation?
 * ... that Desert Rat followed Silver Buckle?
 * ... that Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?
 * ... that three new species of frog, Callulina shengena, C. stanleyi and C. laphami, first described from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania in 2010, are all "critically endangered"?
 * ... that at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Bound for Glory IV pay-per-view event, the wrestler Abyss was forced through a flaming table?
 * ... that Islamic law scholar Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah likely did not issue the commonly named Oran fatwa in the city of Oran, but rather in Fez?


 * 00:00, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the coat of the Abyssinian guinea pig (pictured) is marked with large swirls of hair known as rosettes?
 * ... that in 1994 Gloria Tanner became the first African-American woman state senator in Colorado history?
 * ... that the Ada language compiler that Dansk Datamatik Center developed in the early 1980s has been termed an underappreciated success story in the use of formal methods?
 * ... that the 17th-century English pirate Henry Every is thought to be a descendant of the Every family?
 * ... that the MUSE School in Calabasas, California, has been described as the first vegan K-12 school in the U.S.?
 * ... that actor Anton Lundqvist played the part of "Oscar" opposite his real-life mother, Maria Lundqvist in the film En underbar jävla jul?
 * ... that the first Cafe Barbera coffeehouse was established in 1870 in Southern Italy?
 * ... that Martha Graham's solo dance Salem Shore depicts a sea-wife "mad with grief"?

5 February 2016

 * 12:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Pierre Boulez (pictured) composed incidental music to Barrault's Ainsi parla Zarathoustra after Nietzsche in 1974, many years after he was the music director for his theater?
 * ... that Lesotho is a monarchy in Africa presently ruled by King Letsie III?
 * ... that in 1994 the Scottish retired judge Lord Brand became an appeals court judge in Botswana?
 * ... that web-based jewelry retailer Bravelets donates ten dollars of each purchase to the charity of the customer's choice?
 * ... that Tyler Austin overcame a testicular cancer diagnosis at age 17 to become a professional baseball player?
 * ... that Riot Games banned G2A from sponsoring teams during the 2015 League of Legends World Championship?
 * ... that when the oil tanker MV Imperial Transport broke in half after being torpedoed in 1940, a new front section was built and mated to the surviving stern?
 * ... that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall, has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"?


 * 00:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that rock paintings of the dibatag (pictured) have been discovered on the west bank of the Nile River, far from its present range?
 * ... that Brenda Andrews co-led a team of scientists to create the first fully detailed cell protein map?
 * ... that the ancient Sanskrit text Kundika Upanishad states a man should visit sacred places in his retirement, and take his wife with him?
 * ... that Yolanda Marculescu, prima donna of the Romanian National Opera of Bucharest, defected to the U.S. in 1968 and founded the International Festival of the Art Song in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
 * ... that South Sudan has the world's second largest animal migration, but there are no tourists to see it?
 * ... that the eleventh-century Norman noblewoman Rohese Giffard is listed as a landowner in her own right in the Domesday Book?
 * ... that the Great Comet of 1819 was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago?

4 February 2016

 * 12:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (pictured) mosque in India was constructed on the remains of a Sanskrit college?
 * ... that Lauren Oliver's debut novel Before I Fall is being adapted into a feature film?
 * ... that "God Is Working His Purpose Out" was written as a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury?
 * ... that Rempo Urip played football for a theatre company?
 * ... that although For What It's Worth was originally meant to have a different expert each week, the episodes were broadcast such that there was a different expert allocated to each weekday?
 * ... that Girolamo Benivieni twice sought the help of Pope Leo X to return the body of Dante Alighieri to Florence?
 * ... that in 1930 the National Wrestling Association required professional wrestlers to post a $5,000 bond to compete for the World Heavyweight Championship?
 * ... that DNA walkers have been used as nanorobots to pick up and drop off molecular cargo?


 * 00:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the Buddy Holly Center showcases Holly's final Fender Stratocaster and the pair of glasses (pictured) that he was wearing at the time of his death?
 * ... that in 2001, Cliff Lett broke the official land speed record for radio-controlled cars, exceeding 100 mph for the first time?
 * ... that about half of the Grade I listed war memorials in England were designed by the same architect?
 * ... that Sandy Cornish, a former slave who had purchased his freedom, deliberately maimed himself when threatened with a return to slavery?
 * ... that two life-size stucco jaguars were excavated at the pre-Columbian Maya city of Chutixtiox in Guatemala?
 * ... that Ted Stanley donated over $825 million to support work and research at the Broad Institute?
 * ... that Prince William and Catherine Middleton lived in Strathtyrum for two years?
 * ... that at the 1978 Davis Cup Final, John McEnroe asked an umpire to tell tennis commentator Gerald Williams to "keep his voice down"?

3 February 2016

 * 12:00, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that in windsurfing, performing a waterstart (example pictured) in a light wind is considered to be an expert-level skill?
 * ... that Sonia Humphrey took the ABC to the Anti-Discrimination Board in 1984, after the broadcaster removed her from an on-air role, citing her pregnancy as a "visual overload" to viewers?
 * ... that Charles V. Shank co-invented the distributed feedback laser?
 * ... that the Devon County War Memorial is hewn from a single block of granite quarried on Dartmoor, the largest that its architect Edwin Lutyens was able to acquire?
 * ... that Guinness World Records named Saugat Bista, the seven-year-old director of Love You Baba, the "youngest director of a professionally made feature length film"?
 * ... that the shrub Persoonia laxa was found in Sydney but is now presumed extinct?
 * ... that Dave Howie played rugby seven times for, but his father refused to watch him play?


 * 00:00, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Historic England considers Sandsfoot Castle (pictured) to be "one of the most substantial examples" of the 16th-century blockhouse to survive in England?
 * ... that the ill health and unstable personality of Princess Charlotte of Prussia are attributable to the genetic disease porphyria?
 * ... that the Indian whisky Royal Stag is Pernod Ricard's biggest-selling brand?
 * ... that Romanian soprano and music educator Georgeta Stoleriu established a scholarship to recognize outstanding students from the National University of Music Bucharest, but never her own students?
 * ... that Gulf Hamstery established the commercial Syrian hamster industry in the United States?
 * ... that the poet Sarah Howe won the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize for Loop of Jade, the first time a debut collection has won the award?
 * ... that after a lengthy development process, Bad Santa 2 is finally filming in Montreal?
 * ... that the hero of the 14th-century Old French poem Baudouin de Sebourc has 31 children who help him fight for the King of Jerusalem?

2 February 2016

 * 12:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Tibetan "living Buddha" Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (pictured, left, with Mao Zedong) was appointed vice chairman of the Qamdo Liberation Committee at the age of 10?
 * ... that Cyclone Peter is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Australia?
 * ... that jazz pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali remained an obscure figure until his only released recording, The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan, after which he again returned to obscurity?
 * ... that people in 34 countries embroidered the 305 panels that form the 164 metre (538 ft)-long Scottish Diaspora Tapestry?
 * ... that Josh Gottheimer became a speechwriter for U.S. President Bill Clinton at the age of 23?
 * ... that the creeping geebung of southwestern Tasmania generally grows to around a metre across but only 4-5 cm high?
 * ... that Ralph fitzStephen, an 12th-century English nobleman, was responsible for the maintenance of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England?
 * ... that the White House Big Dig is a White House construction project that has been described as mysterious as the disappearance of the dinosaurs?


 * 00:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that a man reputedly died riding a horse backwards up a hill at the Mitre Inn (pictured) in Chipping Barnet?
 * ... that Minuetta Kessler, a classical composer and concert pianist who wrote and performed her first piece at age five, created a game to teach musical composition to young children?
 * ... that the Mongalla gazelle has continued its extensive migration in South Sudan despite three decades of civil war?
 * ... that the CGI character Maz Kanata from Star Wars: The Force Awakens was inspired by writer/director J. J. Abrams' late high school English teacher?
 * ... that Marie Kraja and Lola Gjoka performed more than 300 songs together that recorded Albanian culture?
 * ... that the Hindu text Yogatattva Upanishad states in yoga, that of the ten restraints, moderate food is most important, and of the ten observances, non-violence is most important?
 * ... that the Bromhead Memorial commemorates 307 ex-servicemen who died at the Royal Star and Garter Home in Richmond, London?
 * ... that Polyclonoolithus is one of the only dinosaur eggs known from the Hekou Group in Gansu?

1 February 2016

 * 12:00, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that the extinct lace bug Gyaclavator (pictured) is named for its enlarged antennae?
 * ... that Claire Giannini Hoffman was the first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company?
 * ... that Theeb is Jordan's first nomination ever to the Academy Awards?
 * ... that women's rights activist Shirin Fozdar was instrumental in the establishment of Singapore's Syariah Court and in the passage of the Women's Charter?
 * ... that the U.S. Government spent $8.9 million preparing for the possible presidential transition of Mitt Romney in 2012?
 * ... that the 12th century English nobleman Philip of Oldcoates was called one of King John of England's "evil counsellors" by the chronicler Roger of Wendover?
 * ... that Hancock Bridge in Mumbai, built in 1879 and rebuilt in 1923, was demolished in 2016 to be rebuilt again?
 * ... that Plato was once thought to have plagiarized a book by Timaeus of Locri?


 * 00:00, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ... that Cape Town's Foreshore Freeway Bridge (pictured) has remained unfinished since construction was halted in 1977?
 * ... that Velveeta Shells & Cheese has been advertised as "liquid gold"?
 * ... that chemist Lyndon Emsley led the team that installed the world's most powerful currently operating NMR spectrometer, which breaks the billion-hertz barrier?
 * ... that Guegoolithus is a fossil egg from Spain that was probably laid by an ornithopod dinosaur?
 * ... that excessive drilling of artesian wells in the valley near İnsuyu Cave caused the lakes inside to nearly go dry?
 * ... that Rob Thomas had envisioned the main plot for "There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill", an episode of Veronica Mars, since before the beginning of the third season?
 * ... that a January 1913 Atlantic coast storm set the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States?
 * ... that Jochen Rindt is the only driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship posthumously?