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31 December 2017

 * 00:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Luke Fildes' painting The Doctor (detail pictured) was used to promote state-run healthcare in Britain and to campaign against it in the United States?
 * ... that Chiyuki Urano, a soloist and choir member of the Bach Collegium Japan, recorded songs by Russian amateur composers including Diaghilev with pianist Lera Auerbach?
 * ... that relative to its length, one species of mite is the fastest animal on Earth?
 * ... that Antoinette Montaigne left her position as city councillor in France to become a minister in the government of the Central African Republic?
 * ... that Aric Almirola received credit for winning the 2007 AT&T 250 despite not finishing the race?
 * ... that Xiong Huizhen, who spent 22 years completing his teacher's unfinished work, was admired by historian Gu Jiegang for his devotion?
 * ... that the Soviet Air Defense Forces' 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment operated Lend-Lease Supermarine Spitfires as air defense for Moscow between 1944 and 1948?

30 December 2017

 * 00:00, 30 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the millet butterflyfish (pictured) and the bluestripe butterflyfish are both endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and nearby atolls?
 * ... that Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, believes Hollywood should use the Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
 * ... that scientific research demonstrates that perspective-taking may lead to reduced stereotyping?
 * ... that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival?
 * ... that Australia has the earliest mineral grains of Earth's history in the form of Hadean zircons?
 * ... that Perry Askam was the only professional singer in the Hollywood musical Sweet Kitty Bellairs?
 * ... that FVB Mice are used for genetic research because they produce large litters and their eggs have enlarged nuclei?
 * ... that British logistics in the Falklands War depended on ships that were STUFT?

29 December 2017

 * 00:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Rotonda de Sampaloc, now the Nagtahan Interchange (pictured), originally demarcated the boundary between Manila's suburbs and its urban core?
 * ... that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the Liberian government before granting them her land?
 * ... that the underground journey of a metamorphic rock can be shown with a pressure-temperature-time path?
 * ... that South Korean singer Kang In-soo was accepted as a dance major in Sejong University despite not having learned how to dance?
 * ... that My Journey into the Heart of Terror was authored by Jürgen Todenhöfer, the first western journalist to be invited to travel to the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
 * ... that Rudolf Peierls was awarded the Medal of Freedom, but was later refused entry to the United States because he was suspected of being a spy?
 * ... that 22 August 1914, the date of the Battle of the Frontiers, was the deadliest single day on the Western Front in World War I?
 * ... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?

28 December 2017

 * 00:00, 28 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Oliver B. Shallenberger invented the first successful electric meter (pictured), predecessor to the modern meter used today?
 * ... that Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the 2014 play The Fountainhead, turning Ayn Rand's 1943 epic novel into a four-hour-plus production?
 * ... that Mollie McGeown set up the first dialysis unit in Northern Ireland?
 * ... that the whole range of the Mindanao mountain rat is within a single protected area?
 * ... that Mozambican politician Ivone Soares escaped death in September 2016 when her would-be assassin's weapon jammed?
 * ... that it took a posthumously-sent letter from Terry Pratchett to convince Neil Gaiman to create a Good Omens TV series without him?
 * ... that Johannes Kalitzke adapted an Edgar Allan Poe novel into an opera whose score "could be a musical representation of the world of Hieronymus Bosch"?
 * ... that an entomologist cried "Aha!" when he discovered a new genus of Australian wasp, and that became its name?

27 December 2017

 * 00:00, 27 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Steven Universe is the first Cartoon Network series created solely by a woman, Rebecca Sugar (pictured)?
 * ... that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the IRFU for a lack of support for women's rugby during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland?
 * ... that the largest animal migration by biomass is the daily movement upwards from their refuge in the deep sea undertaken by vast numbers of organisms?
 * ... that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child?
 * ... that under terms of the Quebec Agreement, the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
 * ... that Canadian-trained criminologist Ken Attafuah spent part of his secondary school education sleeping in an old and leaky cocoa shed that had been converted into a dormitory?
 * ... that the Estadio Universitario Alberto "Chivo" Córdoba incorporates a mural by Leopoldo Flores in the stands on the west side of the stadium?
 * ... that two of Smash Mouth U.S. top-ten hits are associated with a big green ogre?

26 December 2017

 * 00:00, 26 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that two Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi (example pictured) probably belong to an altarpiece now spread between five museums, with some parts missing?
 * ... that a traditional Christmas carol has the chorus "We will rock you"?
 * ... that one-quarter of respondents to a 2016 survey of Europeans said they had re-gifted their Christmas presents to someone else?
 * ... that the musicologist Willi Gundlach, who founded the chamber choir of Dortmund University, trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
 * ... that Rosemary Biggs and her colleagues discovered the Christmas factor?
 * ... that the children's book Wombat Divine was written in response to the publisher's request for "a typically Australian Christmas story"?
 * ... that "Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Christ would come born a Jew" was one of about 50 hymns written after 1950 that were included in The New English Hymnal?
 * ... that you won't find any Ba humbugi on Christmas Island?

25 December 2017

 * 00:00, 25 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Queen Victoria was displeased after an organist played an unfamiliar tune for the Advent hymn "Lo! He comes with clouds descending" at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle ("Helmsley" tune pictured)?
 * ... that Nicki McNelly, who spent most of her working life as an army wife, later became provost of an Episcopal cathedral?
 * ... that Calabria was once attached to Sardinia before it migrated to Sicily?
 * ... that Hollywood studio head Frank Price decision to film Ghostbusters (1983) was initially considered a "terrible mistake" by industry insiders?
 * ... that the Advent hymn "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt had a melody by Johann Crüger when he published it in 1653, but Bach used a different melody in his Christmas Oratorio?
 * ... that the final episode of the six-part BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1984?
 * ... that women's rights campaigner Mozn Hassan is subject to a travel ban and has had her assets frozen by the Egyptian government?
 * ... that the gold Christmas beetle is prized by collectors?

24 December 2017

 * 00:00, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Megachile chomskyi (pictured), a species of bee named after the linguist Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?
 * ... that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum began racing go-karts at age 7 and logged more than 200 wins by age 13?
 * ... that in 2015, the Indian army motorcycle acrobatic team performed for the Chinese army at Daulat Beg Oldi, one of five Border Personnel Meeting points?
 * ... that the asteroid 11441 Anadiego was named after Ana Teresa Diego, an Argentine student activist who was forcibly disappeared?
 * ... that Poydras Street hosts many of New Orleans' tallest and historic buildings, including 930 Poydras, the first residential high-rise constructed in the city after Hurricane Katrina?
 * ... that Daniel Rump closely modeled the beginning of his Advent song "Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen" after a Tagelied, a wake-up call for lovers?
 * ... that E. Ann Hoefly was responsible for 180 United States Air Force medical facilities?
 * ... that temples on Mount Mian in Shanxi, China, observe an annual Cold Food Festival?

23 December 2017

 * 00:00, 23 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing (belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen?
 * ... that Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has played President John F. Kennedy in the film Jackie (2016), the short film The Speech JFK Never Gave (2017), and live performances of Kennedy's speeches?
 * ... that fungi can become resistant to benzimidazole fungicides in two to four seasons?
 * ... that Victoria Yar Arol was one of 20–30 children of a Dinka tribal chief?
 * ... that the first test flight of the TD2N Gorgon target drone ended in a crash due to a failure of the aircraft's radio control?
 * ... that J. P. Crawford was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies major league baseball team with the expectation of eventually superseding Jimmy Rollins?
 * ... that the Macdonald hotspot may have formed numerous volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Macdonald seamount, which may become an island in the future?
 * ... that a silverback gorilla sat on Hilary Swarts` head?

22 December 2017

 * 00:00, 22 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that before its destruction, Hampi, whose central ruins (partly pictured) are now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the world's second-largest medieval city after Beijing?
 * ... that Dandara Touré served only 34 days in the Council of Ministers of Mali due to the 2012 coup?
 * ... that Mars' gravity is affected by many negative free air gravity anomalies on its surface?
 * ... that as an outsider, Governor Hou Zongbin was targeted by rumours that blamed him for a riot in which hundreds of people burned buildings and cars?
 * ... that the orange-necked partridge, native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
 * ... that one train rear-ended another at Singapore's Joo Koon station last month because its new signalling system determined the first train to be half its actual length?
 * ... that Wolfram Röhrig, who was responsible for "entertaining music" including jazz for the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk, recorded Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
 * ... that Russian painter Karl Bryullov inserted himself into his picture of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in The Last Day of Pompeii?

21 December 2017

 * 00:00, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Jordan (capital Amman pictured) fought against Palestinian fighters and Syria in 1970 during Black September?
 * ... that Andrew David Urshan, an ethnic Assyrian from Persia, conducted Pentecostal revivals in the Midwestern United States?
 * ... that the milky white mushroom is being grown commercially in its native India?
 * ... that Gambian politician Sirra Wally Ndow-Njie met with North Korean president of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam in 2010?
 * ... that Comhdháil na Múinteoirí le Rincí Gaelacha broke away from the Irish Dancing Commission in 1969 after disputes about dance teachers' representation?
 * ... that after the Embargo Act of 1807 had throttled foreign imports, the state of New York passed a law to expedite the incorporation of new domestic manufacturers?
 * ... that Ellie Miles captained Tunbridge Wells RFC's under-18 girls team after her father had captained and coached the men's team?
 * ... that you can count lines in dinosaur teeth to determine their age?

20 December 2017

 * 00:00, 20 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that skin-to-skin contact (pictured) can help to augment low milk supply in breastfeeding women?
 * ... that Ge Jianxiong, who did not go to college, and Zhou Zhenhe, a mining engineer, were awarded China's first two doctoral degrees in humanities?
 * ... that Steven Soderbergh's Mosaic is both a mobile app and a television miniseries?
 * ... that in the 1960s, child psychiatrist Mildred Creak proposed that autism was caused by genetics rather than poor parenting?
 * ... that Saudi Arabia's government has been accused of detaining Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, following his abrupt resignation while in Saudi Arabia?
 * ... that Rachel Skinner "fell into engineering completely by chance" before being named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering?
 * ... that the wildlife of Malawi includes so many species of cichlid that Lake Malawi National Park has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site?
 * ... that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension?

19 December 2017

 * 00:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Peter G. Davis wrote after a performance of Risurrezione that Fiora Contino (pictured) "may be the last conductor on earth with the music of Alfano and his generation in her bloodstream"?
 * ... that Prince Harry assisted with relocating 500 elephants to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve in Malawi?
 * ... that General Li Shangfu spent 31 years at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, where he supervised the launch of the Chang'e 2 lunar probe?
 * ... that the yellow boring sponge inhabits the shells of living scallops and oysters?
 * ... that North Korean footballer Sung Hyang-sim was the top scorer at the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship and named Most Valuable Player?
 * ... that Spanish singer-songwriter Antonio Carmona invited Juanes and Alejandro Sanz and several other performers he admired to record Obras Son Amores since he wanted to "create true reciprocal acts of love"?
 * ... that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of Cape Verde?
 * ... that Ernest Bevin told the Gen 75 Committee that Britain should acquire atomic bombs "whatever it costs... We've got to have the bloody Union Jack flying on top of it"?

18 December 2017

 * 00:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that in 2017, St. Jakobus in Rüdesheim (pictured) held services, concerts, and an exhibition to celebrate 70 years since the church was rebuilt following damage in World War II?
 * ... that Clotilde Niragira is secretary-general of the truth and reconciliation commission investigating the Burundian genocides?
 * ... that the first proposed site for a ferry wharf at Rhodes in Sydney, Australia, was scrapped after objections from the community, lobbyists, and the ferry operator?
 * ... that Max Schmalzl was called "the Bavarian Fra Angelico"?
 * ... that the female Asian emerald cuckoo lays her eggs in the nests of birds such as the crimson sunbird and the little spiderhunter?
 * ... that the Northern Ireland women's national football team captain Marissa Callaghan went to university in the United States on a football scholarship?
 * ... that the carving of 130,000 characters of Buddhist scriptures into the mountains around Hebei's Nüwa Palace began under the Northern Qi dynasty?
 * ... that Marjorie Hahn, a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?

17 December 2017

 * 00:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the tropical tree Axinaea sclerophylla is pollinated by birds such as the masked flowerpiercer (pictured)?
 * ... that Zhang Shengmin led a thousand troops to participate in the reconstruction work after the 2010 Yushu earthquake?
 * ... that the Texas Capitol View Corridors protect views of the state capitol from a cemetery, an air traffic control tower, an interstate highway, and a University of Texas practice field?
 * ... that Chanju Samantha Mwale was the first female lawyer to join the Malawian Defence Force?
 * ... that Hainan Island is dominated by rocks that crystallized from melts?
 * ... that Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart was the only serving Welsh member of parliament killed during the First World War?
 * ... that functional accounts of emotion suggest that the function of anger is to correct injustice?
 * ... that Chinese classical musician Lui Tsun-Yuen adapted the English ballad "Greensleeves" for the pipa?

16 December 2017

 * 00:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Gouyi (pictured) was ordered by the emperor to die, her mausoleum was robbed and more than 1,100 artifacts were stolen?
 * ... that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?
 * ... that former NASA engineer Joseph Anokye was deported from Kenya because some people feared he could manipulate election results?
 * ... that UNESCO has added East Rennell to its List of World Heritage in Danger?
 * ... that before becoming director of the United States Census Bureau, Martha Farnsworth Riche earned a doctorate in French literature?
 * ... that "The Luck of the Irish" received an Apple Records catalogue number despite never being released as a single?
 * ... that Marijke Nel represented South Africa in rugby union and Canada in tennis?
 * ... that the edible mushroom Termitomyces eurhizus grows out of termite mounds?

15 December 2017

 * 00:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Tower of Rivers and Mountains (pictured) proved its worth soon after construction by protecting the Chen family from roving bandits?
 * ... that 'Neile Alina 'Mantoa Fanana was the first female ombudsman of Lesotho?
 * ... that Methylophaga muralis, a species of bacteria, was first discovered on marble in the Moscow Kremlin?
 * ... that Manfred Jung is remembered as Siegfried in Bayreuth's Jahrhundertring, but also sang all other tenor roles in The Ring?
 * ... that Xenophon's Polity of the Lacedaemonians is the only surviving constitution of ancient Sparta?
 * ... that Arlinda Locklear was the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
 * ... that the sixbar wrasse can use a rock as an anvil to break up its food?
 * ... that Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi was married by Pope Benedict XVI when he was a cardinal and had her childen baptized by him when he became Pope?
 * ... that the exotic metal lutetium-176 decays to the heavy metal hafnium, so it can be used to date ancient rocks?

14 December 2017

 * 00:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that after playing with Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of The Shard (pictured)?
 * ... that on the day Horace P. Belknap was interred in 1936, National Guard inductions were suspended in Central Oregon because all the local medical examiners were attending his funeral?
 * ... that little yellow ant colonies raise the larvae of agricultural pests, including aphids, in their own nest?
 * ... that Indian independence activist Duvvuri Subbamma was married at the age of ten?
 * ... that Colombian footballer Luis Muriel became Sevilla's most expensive-ever signing when he joined the club for a reported fee of €20 million?
 * ... that the exotic metal lutetium-176 decays to the heavy metal hafnium, so it can be used to date ancient rocks?
 * ... that the owners of Code Blue, the Professional Bull Riders' 2009 World Champion bucking bull, fed him waffles?
 * ... that the German Army used pickelhaube helmets made of boiled leather until halfway through World War I?
 * ... that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP?

13 December 2017

 * 00:05, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Yang Shoujing (pictured) published the most complete and scholarly historical atlas of China of his time, and "revolutionized" Japanese calligraphy?
 * ... that a highrise building replacing part of The Seattle Times' headquarters will have historic headlines etched into its facade?
 * ... that  Abadi Bano Begum, a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement, pawned her personal jewelry to educate her sons?
 * ... that feather stars such as Florometra serratissima use their arms to catch food and also to swim?
 * ... that Célia Posser issued the first private radio broadcast licenses in São Tomé and Príncipe?
 * ... that the North China Craton was partially destroyed by thinning?
 * ... that the Nitze criteria for a successful ballistic missile defense gained "the status of holy writ" within the Reagan administration?
 * ... that This is found in southern Australia, is attracted to decomposing seaweed, and has an unusual mating position?

12 December 2017

 * 00:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that a tomb (pictured) in Yavne is claimed as the site of burial of Abu Hurairah by Muslims and Gamaliel II by Jews, despite both claims being highly unlikely?
 * ... that Australian prime minister Harold Holt's death by drowning has been commemorated by a warship, a naval installation, and multiple swimming pools?
 * ... that Nicole Grobert, professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society?
 * ... that Robert Swinhoe initially thought that the "ugly raw-looking red patch on the throat" of the Taiwan partridge was an injury?
 * ... that it took Salma Ismail, the first Malaysian Malay woman to qualify as a doctor, 11 years to complete her medical studies?
 * ... that in divergent double subduction, an ocean shrinks and sinks?
 * ... that Femi Claudius Cole offers free health checks as she campaigns to become President of Sierra Leone?
 * ... that according to legend, a spectral knight on a white horse is sometimes seen riding toward Weichenwang to visit his lover?
 * ... that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of the enemy?

11 December 2017

 * 00:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Bacon Super T-6 (pictured) was described as looking like the result of "an illicit hangar affair between a T-33 and a T-6"?
 * ... that Johann Balthasar König, the church musician of the Katharinenkirche and director of music in Frankfurt, published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies?
 * ... that Bill Gates plans to build a "smart city" near Phoenix, Arizona?
 * ... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
 * ... that the mushrooms of Austroboletus olivaceoglutinosus have a fruity smell?
 * ... that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of the enemy?
 * ... that one of the greatest mountain ranges in China is made up of multiple individual tectonic blocks, dividing north and south China?
 * ... that Ghanaian academic Kwesi Yankah wrote the title song for the Free SHS policy?

10 December 2017

 * 00:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the Zanzibar butterflyfish (pictured) feeds exclusively on coral polyps, but the Japanese butterflyfish will eat anything?
 * ... that A. J. Foyt praised Arlene Hiss for "what a fine job [she'd] done" after racing against her?
 * ... that algorithmic bias can sometimes lead computers to produce homophobic, racist, and sexist results?
 * ... that Dusty Allen hit a home run in his final Major League Baseball at-bat?
 * ... that Bangkok's city gates were enchanted in order to ward off evil spirits?
 * ... that South African lawyer Sibongile Ndashe was arrested in Tanzania for advocating against an anti-gay law that limited treatment for HIV/AIDS?
 * ... that today's MLS Cup 2017 soccer final between Toronto FC and Seattle Sounders FC is a rematch of the 2016 Cup, and will be played at the same venue?
 * ... that Sheila Hibben supplied author Rex Stout with menus for his fictional character Nero Wolfe?

9 December 2017

 * 00:00, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Marcus Beck (pictured) added Joseph Lister's antiseptic techniques to surgical textbooks after seeing soldiers die of infection in the Franco-Prussian War?
 * ... that Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in New York City hosted two world's fairs?
 * ... that Irish hockey umpire Carol Metchette was forced to retire from umpiring for being too old, despite having the highest fitness test results of any international umpire?
 * ... that the rhinoceros beetle genus Cyclocephala already had over 200 species when C. nodanotherwon ("not another one") was described in 1992?
 * ... that Regina Mañe Ela was the only female member of Severo Moto Nsá's Equatorial Guinean government-in-exile?
 * ... that the Fengtian clique's Zhili Army included, besides professional soldiers, surrendered enemies, provincial militiamen, bandits, and martial artists?
 * ... that Manka Dhingra's election to the Washington State Senate gave Democrats complete control of the state's government?
 * ... that the Temagami Iron Range takes jasper in iron past snakes and turtles?

8 December 2017

 * 00:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that offerings of cucumber (pictured) are left at the Kappa-dera Temple to appease Kappas?
 * ... that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel shot down a helicopter, hijacked 39 vehicles, and burned multiple banks, gas stations, and businesses in a single day?
 * ... that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah writes a blog on African women's sexuality entitled Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women?
 * ... that the parasitic wasp Comperiella bifasciata is used to help control red scale and yellow scale on citrus?
 * ... that Gideon Brooke grave was unmarked for 136 years?
 * ... that the first World Day of the Poor, observed on 19 November 2017, was established by Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter celebrating the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy?
 * ... that Mitzi Johanknecht, the new sheriff of King County, Washington, was the first female deputy to lead the county's SWAT team?
 * ... that the High Capacity Metro Trains on order for the Melbourne rail network will have the ability to automatically estimate their passenger load?

7 December 2017

 * 00:00, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the British aerobatics pilot Paul Bonhomme (pictured) has won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship a record three times?
 * ... that Alice Ouédraogo runs the International Labour Organization's HIV/AIDS programme?
 * ... that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the Bergen Tunnels due to congestion in the competing Erie Railroad's tunnels?
 * ... that early Canadian broadcaster Claire Wallace was known for her reporting stunts, including climbing a Mexican volcano and joining a deep-sea diving expedition?
 * ... that two similarly named Burmese chronicles, Mon Yazawin and Mon Yazawin by Shwe Naw, are about the Mon-speaking kingdom of Hanthawaddy?
 * ... that Vi Lyles is the first African-American woman to be Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina?
 * ... that Universal Paperclips is an incremental game where the goal is to convert the entire universe into paperclips?
 * ... that Harold Strachan has painted pictures, written books, made bombs, served two prison sentences, and completed an ultramarathon?

6 December 2017

 * 00:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Johann Sebastian Bach sang as a choir member for two years at St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, a brick Gothic former abbey church?
 * ... that Elizabeth Marshall was one of the first women to become a pharmacist in the United States?
 * ... that more than two-thirds of children with egg allergy will outgrow it by the time they are 16 years old?
 * ... that Robert Sickinger, the father of Chicago's "off-Loop" theater scene, ended up running a telemarketing company?
 * ... that, despite being affected by poverty, language barriers, and prejudice, first-generation immigrants have better health outcomes than subsequent generations by way of the immigrant paradox?
 * ... that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves?
 * ... that Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano worked in the beauty industry to pay for her voice acting school tuition?
 * ... that the lethal mushroom Amanita subpallidorosea was discovered when two people died in 2014 after eating it in China?

5 December 2017

 * 00:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that under adverse conditions, the fluffy sculpin (pictured) can leave its rock pool and breathe air?
 * ... that Diana Beck performed brain surgery on Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne?
 * ... that in the annual Balotsav of India, children compete in many categories including elocution?
 * ... that Mary Munson Runge was the first female and first African-American president of the American Pharmacists Association?
 * ... that Parks Canada blocked the entrance of the Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse with rubble masonry after vandals destroyed the restored door?
 * ... that Nelly Mbangu co-founded an organisation for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
 * ... that Up from the Cradle of Jazz chronicles the evolution of rhythm and blues in New Orleans?
 * ... that marine biologist Marie Darby, the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?

4 December 2017

 * 00:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the purple "jewels" (pictured) in old sidewalks are pavement lights, which bend daylight into the basement below?
 * ... that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of Winnipeg, Canada, attended the funeral of Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945?
 * ... that show creator Tony Jordan wanted HolbyBlue to emulate the American police dramas Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue?
 * ... that Suzanne Jambo helped draft the Constitution of South Sudan?
 * ... that during the annual TV-aksjonen ("TV campaign"), more than 100,000 volunteers go door-to-door to all 1.8 million Norwegian households to collect donations for a charity?
 * ... that before becoming a deputy for the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan, Almasbek Akmatov obtained three different degrees from three different universities?
 * ... that the Advent song "Macht hoch die Tür" is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal?
 * ... that Jenny Morton discovered that sheep can recognise human faces?

3 December 2017

 * 00:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that Olga FitzGeorge (pictured), a granddaughter of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, established a manicure and beauty salon on New Bond Street in London?
 * ... that in 2017, a team of refugees won the Sporting Inspiration Award at the Laureus World Sports Awards?
 * ... that from 1888 to 1895, Elizabeth Chambers Morgan was the leading woman in the Chicago labor movement?
 * ... that contemporary circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie deliberately maintains a minimalist aesthetic to give equal prominence to the symphony orchestras that accompany their performances?
 * ... that Tarak Sinha coached 12 cricketers who went on to play at international level?
 * ... that three of the most lethal battles involving the United States military saw more than 20,000 soldiers killed?
 * ... that Kenyan activist Josephine Kulea is said to have saved more than 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage?
 * ... that it appears that larvae of Osedax frankpressi that settle on a whale carcase develop into female worms, while those that settle on the female worms become males?

2 December 2017

 * 00:00, 2 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that in Hoysala architecture, the emblem of the empire – a warrior stabbing a lion – is often sculpted on the sukanasa of Hindu temples (example pictured)?
 * ... that Harimia Ahmed was the first female lawyer in the Comoros?
 * ... that Lake Cahuilla, with a maximum surface area of 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), covered parts of Southern California less than 500 years ago?
 * ... that Hari Kondabolu's documentary The Problem with Apu started as a one-minute comedy segment?
 * ... that Colorado businesswoman and philanthropist Merle Chambers is one of the top ten political contributors in her state?
 * ... that parts of the Colombian mushroom Boletus pyrrhosceles turn blue when damaged?
 * ... that in 1995, Nigerian activist Sokari Ekine set up the Black Sisters Network electronic mailing list?
 * ... that A. R. "Babe" Schwartz fought to have the Westgate Tower condemned in the Texas Legislature, only to move into the building himself fifteen years later?

1 December 2017

 * 00:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that the fumarolically active volcano Solimana (pictured) has been identified as the site of an Inca oracle?
 * ... that South African-born Irish international rugby player Ilse van Staden is a butcher?
 * ... that although New York City's Spring Creek Park was mostly built on a landfill, part of the park is located in a U.S. national protected area?
 * ... that Georg Dohrn conducted at the Konzerthaus Breslau the premiere of Reger's Der 100. Psalm, Mahler's Eighth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Vladimir Horowitz?
 * ... that Camden County, Georgia was considered as a launch site by NASA in the early 1960s, but Spaceport Camden did not see its first launch until 2017?
 * ... that the British paediatrician Tina Cooper assisted the Sierra Leone government in establishing a national immunisation programme?
 * ... that the purple scallop sponge has a mutualistic relationship with the mollusc on which it lives?
 * ... that General Robert B. Abrams took "less than a second" to choose Laura J. Richardson as his deputy at United States Army Forces Command, despite never having worked with her?