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31 August 2017

 * 00:00, 31 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that after gunmen murdered her father in a pub (pictured), Irish politician Emma Rogan campaigned with the Loughinisland Justice Group to uncover their identities?
 * ... that the mobile library Street Books uses library cards but does not set or enforce due dates?
 * ... that producer Mara Brock Akil was hesitant to cast Tia Mowry as Melanie Barnett due to the actress's wholesome image from Sister, Sister?
 * ... that the former Imperial Square of Strasbourg is decorated with ginkgos that were presented by Emperor Meiji of Japan to the German Emperor?
 * ... that in 1975, Barbara May Cameron, a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota, co-founded the first gay Indian organization in San Francisco?
 * ... that populations of the little green woodpecker in Africa are increasing due to logging and clearing of the forests?
 * ... that in the 1920s, Dolly Rudeman was one of the most prolific designers of movie posters and programs for the Dutch cinema, and the only woman working in the field at the time?
 * ... that early occupational epidemiology studies established health risk factors for gold and silver miners, chimney sweeps, and workers using asbestos?

30 August 2017

 * 00:00, 30 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Joseph and Amalie Joachim (pictured) received two songs from Johannes Brahms, one to begin their marriage, the other decades later to repair it?
 * ... that the rosy razor clam tries to evade capture by rapidly burrowing deeper into the sediment?
 * ... that in 1978, airline captain Gordon Vette rescued a Cessna pilot who was lost over the Pacific Ocean and running out of fuel?
 * ... that supporter liaison officers are claimed to be a major factor in the 20 percent reduction of crowd disorder in Swedish football?
 * ... that Amabel Anderson Arnold, a St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period?
 * ... that the Catholic University of Madagascar awarded the country's first theology degree in 1961?
 * ... that Christian William Miller, inventor of a water desalination device promoted by Franklin D. Roosevelt, was considered one of the most beautiful men in the 1940s New York gay society?
 * ... that the Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo, a youth center in Zürich, was built from an old brewery after youth riots in the city were sparked by a grant of CHF61 million to the Zürich Opera?

29 August 2017

 * 00:00, 29 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the sea slug Alderia modesta (pictured) transfers sperm to a partner by hypodermic injection?
 * ... that Cecilia Dapaah, Ghana's minister for aviation, has vowed to start a new national carrier and make the country the aviation hub of West Africa?
 * ... that the first Croatian fictional film, Brcko in Zagreb, is now considered lost?
 * ... that Maria Riccarda Wesseling appeared as Gluck's Orfeo in Paris and at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, and as Henze's Phaedra in Berlin?
 * ... that Anne Curtis plans to perform her own stunts in the upcoming Philippine action film Buy Bust?
 * ... that C. Louise Boehringer, the first female Superintendent of Schools in Yuma County, has often been called "the mother of the Arizona educational system"?
 * ... that video game walkthroughs are typically designed to assist other players in accomplishing certain feats within video games?
 * ... that pirate John Bear married "a strumpet ... daughter of a rum-punch-woman" and tried to convince people she was a runaway noblewoman?

28 August 2017

 * 00:00, 28 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that when St Peter's Church (pictured) in Henfield needed a bell in the 17th century, the churchwarden stole one from St Leonard's Church in Aldrington?
 * ... that suspected anarchist Lazarus Averbuch was shot and killed in the home of Chicago's Chief of Police?
 * ... that the History of Medicine Society, founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world?
 * ... that juvenile angular brittle stars can re-enter a plankton phase, allowing them to relocate to a more suitable location?
 * ... that Mervyn Brogan was the first Australian Chief of the General Staff to have a university degree?
 * ... that the Stadttheater Minden, a municipal theatre without an ensemble, received international attention for its Wagner opera project?
 * ... that Howard B. Meek was the founder and dean of the first college to train professional hotel managers?
 * ... that the prize in a tournament of Urban Jungle, a driving game developed and set in Croatia, was free real-world driving lessons?

27 August 2017

 * 00:00, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Sydney Metro Blues (pictured) are the 2017 Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League champions?
 * ... that Marcus Bosch conducted a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Staatstheater Nürnberg that was shown live in 50 cinemas in Germany and Austria?
 * ... that following a failed attempt earlier in the year, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill establishing Barack Obama Day on May 19, 2017?
 * ... that Traci Hunter Abramson used her experience as a swim coach and a CIA employee to write Undercurrents, a novel about an Olympic-hopeful swimmer in witness protection?
 * ... that of the 64 first-round draft picks made by the New England Patriots, 20 have been selected to play in the Pro Bowl?
 * ... that Ghanaian Member of Parliament Kwesi Ankama died on an official government delegation to the United Kingdom?
 * ... that the green worm Eulalia viridis does not breed until it is at least two years old?
 * ... that Thomas Lyle Williams had the idea to create the first mascara, Maybelline, after seeing his sister Mabel use a mix of petroleum jelly and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes?

26 August 2017

 * 00:00, 26 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Caroline Risque (pictured) made the bronze busts of the four founders of Stix Baer & Fuller?
 * ... that some scenes in Home and Away: Revenge were filmed by the actors using GoPro cameras and mobile phones?
 * ... that art curator Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi described sound artist Emeka Ogboh as capturing "the maddening hyper-visuality of Lagos"?
 * ... that the Japanese embassy in Seoul has seen decades of protests, from weekly demonstrations to the throwing of Molotov cocktails, truck-ramming, self-immolation, and outright ransacking?
 * ... that at the time of her death at age 105, Emma Clara Schweer was believed to be the oldest elected official in the United States?
 * ... that 500 copies of Vietnamese singer Son Tung M-TP's compilation album M-tp M-TP sold out in 30 minutes?
 * ... that in 1844, Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith became the first Mormon to run for President of the United States and the first American presidential candidate to be assassinated?
 * ... that the shooter game Privates was created to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections?

25 August 2017

 * 00:00, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that regrelor (pictured), a new experimental antiplatelet drug, was withdrawn during a phase II clinical trial due to an increased risk of bleeding?
 * ... that John O'Brien presided over the military court that tried and acquitted Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda?
 * ... that in 1999 three perfectly-preserved child mummies were found on the summit of Llullaillaco, a 6,700 m (22,000 ft) volcano, where they had been sacrificed under the Inca Empire 500 years earlier?
 * ... that Akhamaman, the self-proclaimed king of Pegu, began his career as a rower on the royal yacht of King Narathihapate of Pagan?
 * ... that a marine organism described in 1971 as a new species of gastrotrich was later identified as the larva of a bristleworm, probably Polydora ciliata?
 * ... that the introduction of Ticketer ticket machines on Reading Transport buses meant that 11,000 pre-paid cards had to be reissued?
 * ... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with the owners of the Mexican newspaper Unomásuno?
 * ... that when signing to MCA Records, Gregg Alexander allegedly received a $600,000 advance for the New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too?

24 August 2017

 * 00:00, 24 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Martian dunes of the Abalos Undae (pictured) may have formed from erosion of Rupes Tenuis, the polar scarp?
 * ... that Vera Nemirova staged Lulu at the Salzburg Festival and The Ring for the Frankfurt Opera?
 * ... that pharmacists sometimes "QuEST" during over-the-counter counseling?
 * ... that Tvrtko I, the first King of Bosnia, maintained cordial relations with all three churches in his realm—Bosnian, Catholic, and Orthodox?
 * ... that Priya Jhingan is the first woman to join the Indian Army as an officer?
 * ... that the action RPG Moon Hunters changes depending on the players' choices in what the developer has described as a "personality test"?
 * ... that Juliet Starrett, a world whitewater rafting champion, and her husband Kelly Starrett, a national whitewater champion, co-founded one of the world's first CrossFit gyms?
 * ... that Perseus and Andromeda by Titian "hung unglazed over a bath in Sir Richard Wallace's dressing room" for over 20 years?

23 August 2017

 * 00:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Aribert Reimann (pictured) composed Medea for the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer?
 * ... that the sponge-dwelling branched worm Syllis ramosa has a single mouth and many anuses?
 * ... that Alma Lutz was the biographer of women's rights activists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Emma Willard?
 * ... that Star Sports' Mauka Mauka advertising campaign for the 2015 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan was a huge hit in India, but ignited significant opposition in Pakistan?
 * ... that Martin County, Florida, was named after Governor John W. Martin while he was in office?
 * ... that 21 local councils and 68 women had already won seats by acclamation before the Jordanian local elections took place on 15 August?
 * ... that German poet Betty Paoli was a companion to Princess Maria Anna Schwarzenberg?
 * ... that Romans like to drink out of large noses?

22 August 2017

 * 00:00, 22 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the sycamore lace bug (pictured), native to North America, was first observed in Italy in 1964 and has since spread to much of Southern and Central Europe?
 * ... that chef María Marte has a tattoo of her first original dish, a caramelized hibiscus flower?
 * ... that "Neon Blue" is about coming out?
 * ... that Kwesi Amoako Atta, Ghana's Minister for Roads and Highways, announced that 50 percent of toll booth collectors will be people with disabilities?
 * ... that the town of East Redmond, Washington, was found by the Washington Supreme Court to have been "illegally incorporated"?
 * ... that the composer Giselher Klebe wrote the libretto for his opera Die tödlichen Wünsche based on Balzac's La Peau de chagrin?
 * ... that James A. Wetmore name is inscribed on more federal buildings than any other U.S. citizen?
 * ... that the extended play To the Edge of the Earth by Thirty Seconds to Mars was conceived to raise public awareness of global warming and green politics?

21 August 2017

 * 00:00, 21 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple (pictured) was greatly expanded by Vikrama Chola after he was supposedly cured of vitiligo by praying to the presiding deity for 48 days?
 * ... that award-winning soprano Christiane Karg appeared as Sophie at the Frankfurt Opera, the Semperoper and La Scala, and in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
 * ... that the Clinton Liberal Institute existed in upstate New York from 1831 until it burned down in 1900?
 * ... that Frederick the Great felt sure he had lost the Third Silesian War after his defeat at the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759, until a "miracle" restored his hopes?
 * ... that Supreme Court of India judge Deepak Gupta once heard and disposed of 33 cases in a single day?
 * ... that the iBuyPower and NetcodeGuides match fixing scandal is considered the first large scandal of its type to hit the competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene?
 * ... that Gao Minglu, founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement, was a herdsman in Outer Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution?
 * ... that Titian's Flaying of Marsyas (1570s) shows a satyr being skinned alive by Apollo, and was once the prize in a lottery?

20 August 2017

 * 00:15, 20 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Titian's painting of Venus and Adonis (pictured) exists in "two-dog" and "three-dog" versions?
 * ... that when the Minneapolis School Board decided to include North Germanic languages in the curriculum, Maren Michelet became the first teacher of Norwegian in a public high school in the US?
 * ... that in his memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan asserts that internal African politics and leadership are largely responsible for Africa's problems?
 * ... that Brian Bellhouse invented a needle-free and pain-free injection system which was eventually sold for £542 million?
 * ... that four members of the Hawkins family died violent deaths after winning their lawsuit against Shaw, Mississippi?
 * ... that Marvel Comics briefly operated an imprint dedicated to comics about musicians?
 * ... that current places of worship on the Isle of Wight include two of England's oldest Catholic churches and several Anglican churches by Thomas Hellyer, an architect described by Pevsner as "very individualistic"?
 * ... that Omar Narváez hit his first Major League home run on his father's birthday?

19 August 2017

 * 00:30, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Abebe Bikila (pictured) set a world record winning the 1960 Men's Olympic marathon, running barefoot?
 * ... that Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt each created a Federal Real Estate Board?
 * ... that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood has called Heather Booth "one of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes"?
 * ... that the woodpecker has special adaptations to avoid damaging its brain while pecking and drumming?
 * ... that L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette was one of the first women to be ordained as a Universalist minister in the United States, and the first woman ordained of any denomination in Canada?
 * ... that KFKU, the AM radio station of the University of Kansas, ceased operations because its time-share partner went silent due to financial difficulties?
 * ... that French composer Pascal Dusapin wrote the English libretto for his opera Faustus, the Last Night, which premiered in Germany in 2006?
 * ... that the codename assigned to U.S. Senate president pro tempore James Eastland by the Central Locator System was "FOURFINGER"?

18 August 2017

 * 00:45, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Schloss Ledenburg (pictured), the residence of several families in succession, housed music that seemed lost?
 * ... that surgeon Pankaj Chandak and his colleagues are believed to be the first surgical team to act in a television drama, namely The Crown?
 * ... that during the early winter, the amphipod Paramoera walkeri nearly cover the underside of Antarctic ice sheets?
 * ... that "Gotta Get a Grip" is one of two new singles by Mick Jagger, his first solo material since the album Goddess in the Doorway was released in 2001?
 * ... that Ayn Rand found the title for her novel The Fountainhead, her first major success, in a thesaurus?
 * ... that Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani, a Shia theologian and leader of the constitutional movement, was assassinated in Iran and buried in Iraq?
 * ... that video game Godville is a zero-player game, requiring no player interaction with the main character?
 * ... that the band Liimanarina take their name from a Finnish word for "glue" and the creaking sound a door makes when it is opened?

17 August 2017

 * 01:00, 17 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Japanese regent from 1585 to 1591, ordered the construction of the Golden Tea Room (pictured), a chashitsu that was completely covered in gold?
 * ... that the 2017–18 London & South East Premier season will be the first under that name, as the Rugby Football Union felt the previous "National League 3" name was misleading?
 * ... that Henry Semon lost his seat in the Oregon legislature when he accepted a position on the state's agriculture board, but was reappointed to the legislature after resigning from the board?
 * ... that the opera Alceste, composed by Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by Wieland, is regarded as a milestone of German opera?
 * ... that the site of Kayak Point County Park was originally proposed as an oil refinery?
 * ... that the Japanese pygmy woodpecker becomes smaller and darker from the north of its range to the south?
 * ... that Bill McCann was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for "courage and fine leadership" during the capture of Crépey Wood?
 * ... that a story about the state of American football in the year 17776 has been compared to the work of Don DeLillo, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, and robot trolls on Reddit?

16 August 2017

 * 01:15, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Clint Dempsey (pictured) has 57 international goals, ranking third among active male footballers behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi?
 * ... that a swamp in the watershed of Red Brook is home to part of the largest population of yellow-bellied flycatchers in Pennsylvania?
 * ... that in 1977, symphony conductor Helen Quach was one of two women who led major orchestras anywhere in the world?
 * ... that the "Whacky Tobaccy" music video from the Toby Keith album The Bus Songs contains a cameo appearance by Willie Nelson?
 * ... that the single species of the ant Aneuretellus is named from the Latin for "deformed"?
 * ... that Handel composed the Foundling Hospital Anthem in 1749 for a benefit concert for abandoned children in London?
 * ... that William A. Starrett, builder of the Empire State Building, sent his steel construction technology to Japan to help design buildings to resist earthquakes?
 * ... that an argument over a horse led to a law banning all black settlers from Oregon in 1844?

15 August 2017

 * 01:30, 15 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the grey-headed woodpecker (pictured) was split into three separate species in 2014?
 * ... that Elizabeth Mounsey became the organist of St Peter upon Cornhill when she was 14 years old?
 * ... that cheese and crackers has been described as one of the first fast foods in the United States?
 * ... that Isaac Asiamah, Ghana's new Minister for Youth and Sports, was at one time the country's youngest legislator?
 * ... that the Mexican Seismic Alert System provided Mexico City 80 seconds of advance notice prior to the 2012 Oaxaca earthquake?
 * ... that Rano M. Shaiza helped further the Naga peace accord by brokering a meeting between her uncle, the founder of the Naga separatist movement, and the Prime Minister of India?
 * ... that the star S Coronae Borealis has been estimated as having around 1.34 times the Sun's mass but 308 times its radius?
 * ... that Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Riley Adams has a black belt in karate?

14 August 2017

 * 01:45, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Minneapolis–Saint Paul's Metro system (train pictured) provided 23 million rides across its 37 light rail stations in 2016?
 * ... that the banded woodpecker has adapted well to living in man-made surroundings and is of low concern to conservationists?
 * ... that the Theater Bonn opened a new opera house in 1965?
 * ... that the U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that "lines, chevrons, and colorful shapes" on cheerleading uniforms could be eligible for copyright protection?
 * ... that London Fog 1966 features the earliest known live recordings by the Doors?
 * ... that Typhoon Page was the record-setting sixth tropical cyclone to hit Japan in 1990?
 * ... that Katharine Peabody Loring taught history with Alice James at the first correspondence school in the United States?
 * ... that Knuckles' Chaotix was not developed by Sonic Team, but rather a separate, internal development team at Sega?

13 August 2017

 * 02:00, 13 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that commander Seth Ledyard Phelps (pictured) helped hoist the American flag over the Confederate Fort Henry after it fell to the Union?
 * ... that the scorpion Cheloctonus jonesii has been reported killing the red-billed quelea?
 * ... that four years ago today, Tiffany Daniels left her job at Pensacola State College early after telling her supervisor she would not be back for a few days, and has not been seen since?
 * ... that the CAMS 54 long-range flying boat attempted an east-west transatlantic crossing, but was returned to France by ship from the Azores?
 * ... that actress Lucinda Dryzek secured the role of Jasmine Burrows in Holby City while she was training as a hairdresser?
 * ... that additional fire sprinklers were installed in Seattle's Westlake station to accommodate parties and receptions on the station's mezzanine?
 * ... that "5,6,7,8" is the third-highest selling and most streamed song of Steps' career, despite being one of their lowest charting?
 * ... that Kojo Armah once chaired a parliamentary committee to investigate the substitution of cocaine with corn dough in the Police Narcotics Exhibit Room of the Ghana Police Service?

12 August 2017

 * 00:00, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the dunes of the Hagal dune field on Mars (detail pictured) look like dots and dashes, and are called the "Martian Morse Code"?
 * ... that former Sha Na Na member Jon "Bowzer" Bauman was the co-author of Truth in Music Advertising legislation in most of the United States?
 * ... that Baa Baa Land, an eight-hour slow cinema film containing nothing but long shots of grazing sheep, is described by its producers as "the dullest movie ever made"?
 * ... that Tarabya, the self-proclaimed king of Pegu, was executed on the order of King Wareru of Martaban, who was his father-in-law and son-in-law?
 * ... that San Francisco's Julius' Castle on Telegraph Hill was once painted pink?
 * ... that Laurie Davidson was inspired for his role as William Shakespeare in Will by Straight Outta Compton and 8 Mile, but not by modern depictions of Shakespeare such as Shakespeare in Love?
 * ... that Typhoon Gene resulted in the cancellation of the final round of the 1990 Top Cup Tokai Classic?
 * ... that the obituary of Dewey Readmore Books, a library cat, appeared in more than 270 national and international newspapers?

11 August 2017

 * 00:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak (pictured) was Puccini's character Mimi in Washington, Wagner's Sieglinde in Wiesbaden, and performed Britten's War Requiem in London on the composer's centenary?
 * ... that Sonam Kapoor won the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for the 2016 biographical thriller Neerja?
 * ... that Renga is a video game designed for movie theaters in which up to one hundred players use laser pointers to control and defend a space ship?
 * ... that Devil's Bargain describes how Steve Bannon used his experience at Breitbart News to gather white men to support Donald Trump?
 * ... that Phillip Davey was awarded the Victoria Cross for killing an eight-man machine gun crew, which "saved his platoon from annihilation"?
 * ... that a hotel shaped like a starship, based on the Star Wars franchise, is planned for Walt Disney World?
 * ... that Ghanaian-born Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah is the first black equerry to a British monarch?
 * ... that in the 1970s Amtrak had two new locomotives, the GE E60 and the EMD SDP40F, which had trouble staying on the tracks?

10 August 2017

 * 00:00, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the rock-cut structure Qadamgah (pictured) near Persepolis, once thought to be an unfinished Achaemenid royal tomb, may actually be a completed work with a possible religious function?
 * ... that in 2017 Dan Botwe, a former political exile, became a cabinet member and minister in Ghana's newly created Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development?
 * ... that the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma Campaign was commanded by an American general?
 * ... that following the death of Nicole van den Hurk, her stepbrother falsely confessed to killing her to get her body exhumed for DNA testing?
 * ... that in 1963, over 200,000 students of the Chicago Public Schools boycotted class to protest segregation and poor conditions?
 * ... that Mahant Chandnath, a Member of the Indian Parliament, is also the head of the Nath sect of Hinduism?
 * ... that the decorator worm lives in a tube adorned with shell fragments and tiny pebbles?
 * ... that Foreign Minister Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen promised that Romania would only "take a few badly aimed potshots" at Soviet planes entering its airspace during the Munich Crisis?

9 August 2017

 * 00:00, 9 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the 1841 conservation agreement between the owners of the land where the Saw Kill (falls pictured) drains into the Hudson River is one of the earliest in American history?
 * ... that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen?
 * ... that Darren Sammy took seven wickets for 66 runs in his debut Test for the West Indies in 2007?
 * ... that the extinct ant species Cephalotes hispaniolicus was first described from a single Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola?
 * ... that beer ice cream has been served at the Great American Beer Festival?
 * ... that the Guilden Morden boar may have adorned a helmet like those worn by the poetical warrior Beowulf?
 * ... that René Morax founded the Thêatre du Jorat, where his play Le Roi David premiered with dramatic music by Arthur Honegger?
 * ... that the extinct Nicarao people of pre-Columbian Nicaragua shared many cultural traits with the Aztecs of Mexico, including their calendar, screenfold books, and human sacrifice?

8 August 2017

 * 00:00, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that "Cherry Garcia" (pictured) is a cherry ice cream named after Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead?
 * ... that a clinical pharmaceutical scientist is both a practicing pharmacist and a scientist?
 * ... that the specimen from which the blind snake Typhlops meszoelyi was described had a diameter of 3 mm?
 * ... that the 2017 comics series X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue take their titles from a storyline from the early 1990s?
 * ... that Bart Sawyer pro wrestling gimmick was inspired by Bart Simpson?
 * ... that Melusine, the second opera by Aribert Reimann, premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1971 and was revived in 2016 by students in Berlin for the composer's 80th birthday?
 * ... that Typhoon Caitlin provided drought relief to Okinawa, where reservoir levels rose from 35% to over 80% capacity?
 * ... that the family of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon kept a slave for 56 years?

7 August 2017

 * 00:00, 7 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Gevninge helmet fragment (pictured) once adorned a pre-Viking Age helmet?
 * ... that Matthew Pottinger, a member of the U.S. National Security Council, was a journalist in China for seven years before becoming a U.S. Marine?
 * ... that both the adult and fledgling of the moustached hawk-cuckoo have a moustache?
 * ... that pianist Abdullah Ibrahim recorded the Cape jazz instrumental "Mannenberg" in response to the forced relocation of Coloured families by the South African government during apartheid?
 * ... that CUBRIC at Cardiff University can create a map of someone's brain?
 * ... that Typhoon Hattie was the fifth of a record six tropical cyclones to hit Japan in 1990?
 * ... that the East Asian holiday White Day served as the basis for the horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School?
 * ... that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era?

6 August 2017

 * 00:00, 6 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Theater Magdeburg opera house (pictured), an operetta and variety theatre, is a reconstruction of the original destroyed in World War II?
 * ... that consistent misrepresentation of a frequently-cited 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine has been blamed for contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic?
 * ... that Sekondi MP Andrew Mercer helped repay the debt owed to the Ghana Football Association by Sekondi Eleven Wise, a Division 1 league club in his constituency?
 * ... that cargo had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto the SS John Sherman, the first freight ship used on Lake Michigan?
 * ... that Ariana Grande said she wanted her "Baby I" music video to emulate the "breeziness" of early 1990s music videos by TLC and Will Smith?
 * ... that Poland's National Council of the Judiciary has been criticized for including only 6 women among its 25 members?
 * ... that the Life sculpture was designed by Joseph Drapell shortly after landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a refugee?
 * ... that around the shores of Long Island, the ghost anemone can cause "clam diggers' itch", while the lined anemone is responsible for "seabather's eruption"?

5 August 2017

 * 00:00, 5 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that numerous writers have called the Airplane Coaster (pictured) the greatest roller coaster ever built?
 * ... that freedom fighter K. E. Mammen was expelled from Madras Christian College for participating in the Quit India Movement?
 * ... that male serpentine leafminers sometimes feed at leaf wounds made by females, as they are unable to puncture the leaves themselves?
 * ... that Michael Boder conducted new operas, including Penderecki's Ubu Rex for the Munich Opera Festival, Henze's Phaedra in Berlin, and Reimann's Medea in Vienna?
 * ... that the Rabbitkettle Hot Springs in the Northwest Territories are both the largest tufa mounds in Canada and the only known tufa mounds on permafrost?
 * ... that as you progress through your 90-minute sleep cycle, your brainwaves change and your body secretes different hormones?
 * ... that the 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the first NCAA title game to feature a majority of black starters?
 * ... that the call of the dusky long-tailed cuckoo is faster in Lower Guinea than it is in Upper Guinea?

4 August 2017

 * 00:00, 4 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that one of the largest colonies in England of the rare sea aster mining bee (pictured) is in an artificial mound of sand?
 * ... that Prince Știrbei, the Romanian arts patron, buried sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Courbevoie, then fought over the remains with Carpeaux's widow?
 * ... that "Denes nad Makedonija" was chosen to be the national anthem of the Republic of Macedonia, even though it finished runner-up in a contest held soon after independence in 1991?
 * ... that in a pioneering study, American pedagogue Florence E. Bamberger quantified the effects of book design on stimulating a child's interest in reading?
 * ... that the United States Marine Corps tiara was designed by the New York fashion house Mainbocher?
 * ... that those implicated in the 1957 alleged coup attempt against King Hussein of Jordan were later pardoned and given senior posts in the government?
 * ... that at age 18, Daniel Schiebeler wrote the libretto for an opera by Telemann based on an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote, which he could read in Spanish?
 * ... that people may be fined US$250,000 for importing monkey meat into the United States?

3 August 2017

 * 00:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the bagel and cream cheese (example pictured) was a very popular dish in the United States in the early 1950s, having permeated American culture?


 * ... that radioactive nanoparticles are being investigated as a treatment for cancer?
 * ... that Daniel Tilton, one of the first three judges of the Mississippi Territory, lacked any legal experience prior to his appointment?
 * ... that the stag beetle Geodorcus servandus is unable to fly, and is known to occur only on a single mountaintop in New Zealand?
 * ... that Seattle's International District/Chinatown station is located under a large concrete lid that supports several office towers and a public plaza?
 * ... that Angelo De Donatis is the first non-cardinal to be appointed Vicar General of Rome since the sixteenth century?
 * ... that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with Priyanka Chopra's silver sari, worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular?
 * ... that the various versions of Titian's Venus and Musician include organists, lute-players, Cupids, and dogs, but always a nude Venus?

2 August 2017

 * 00:00, 2 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Harry Traver's Jazz Railways, Sesquicentennial Cyclone, and Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters (including the notorious Palisades Park Cyclone, Oaks Park Zip, Crystal Beach Cyclone, and Revere Beach Lightning) all included rapidly undulating "Jazz Track" (diagram pictured)?
 * ... that Mitali Madhumita is the first female officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award?
 * ... that despite living in complete darkness at bathyal depths, the sea anemone Allantactis parasitica synchronises its breeding activity with the phases of the moon?
 * ... that George Huebner is known as the "father of the automotive gas turbine engine"?
 * ... that Typhoon Phyllis and Typhoon Rita were responsible for the majority of Japan tropical cyclone casualties in the 1975 Pacific typhoon season?
 * ... that an ultra-Orthodox mother of eleven runs the office of the President of Israel?
 * ... that in 2017, the Brooklyn Street Circuit hosted the New York City ePrix, the city's first automobile race since 1896?
 * ... that Ghanaian highlife musician Paapa Yankson was first signed to a band while performing at his mother's funeral?

1 August 2017

 * 00:00, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that King Kamehameha III (pictured) held a grand luau at his summer palace of Kaniakapupu for ten thousand guests during the 1847 celebration of Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day?
 * ... that Christoph Bock, the 2017 Overton Prize recipient, is a leading scientist in the International Human Epigenome Consortium?
 * ... that "Kum-A-Kye" was the regimental march of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia?
 * ... that the relationship of manga character Boruto Uzumaki with his father Naruto was based on the artist Masashi Kishimoto's own relationship with his children?
 * ... that the white anemone has been found growing in grooves in the shell of a loggerhead sea turtle?
 * ... that David Asante-Apeatu, acting Inspector General of Police of Ghana, once oversaw a police operation that led to the seizure of 588 kg of cocaine worth US$38 million?
 * ... that episode 5276 of the BBC soap opera EastEnders features a transgender character being rejected by his mother?
 * ... that during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, Arpad Weixlgärtner refused to hand over the keys to the Imperial Treasury to the SS?