Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/March

31 March 2022

 * 00:00, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Ludwig Ferdinand Huber wrote the text for a book with humorous illustrations (example pictured) by poet Friedrich Schiller?
 * ... that an animal rendering and recycling plant dumped illegal amounts of ammonia, phosphorus, and fecal bacteria into the Transquaking River?
 * ... that Malika Louback believes her three engineering degrees make her a better fashion model?
 * ... that Racer hurricane in 1837 was named after a Royal Navy vessel that was dismasted by the high winds?
 * ... that Jason Robertson is only the second Filipino American to play in the National Hockey League?
 * ... that the 1886 song of thanks "Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn" was performed at a thanksgiving service for Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his abdication?
 * ... that Fori Nehru founded an employment campaign in 1947 to sell handicrafts made by refugee women following the partition of India?
 * ... that in the 1960s Tennessee had a radio station named after the "Wonderful Gay Way"?

30 March 2022

 * 00:00, 30 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that after the Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna won the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011 (pictured), she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera?
 * ... that the colonial enslavement of American Indians is described as a cultural genocide?
 * ... that Burundian judge Domitille Barancira upheld Pierre Nkurunziza's death sentence, then later administered his presidential oath?
 * ... that Qiandama expanded from a single shop to more than 3,700 locations in less than ten years?
 * ... that The West Wing faced criticism for a scene in which Ainsley Hayes defends a sexist and objectifying remark made at her?
 * ... that the Bornean stubtail forages more like a mouse than a bird?
 * ... that Dong Leshan has been cited as "one of the best and most prolific Chinese translators in the 20th century"?
 * ... that New York City officials seized the tax-exempt Moore-Jackson Cemetery in 1954 for nonpayment of taxes?

29 March 2022

 * 00:00, 29 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the lock flight (pictured) in Siddington, -, has lain abandoned for almost 100 years, but restoration is now planned?
 * ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?
 * ... that Indigo Swing was described as "one of the name bands" of its genre?
 * ... that Turkish world-champion para-archer Yiğit Caner Aydın stayed in hospital for eight months after a stand fell on his head, broke his neck, and paralyzed him?
 * ... that when Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996, "no serious observer believed that it met the criteria for membership"?
 * ... that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?
 * ... that historians do not agree on whether the Battle on the Irghiz River took place in 1209 or 1219?
 * ... that the creator of Comic Sans also designed a levitating man in a business suit?

28 March 2022

 * 00:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that 1950s Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball player Carl Cain (pictured) was part of the Fabulous Five, whose jerseys were all retired?
 * ... that "Bewahre uns, Gott" (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina?
 * ... that the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland was established in 1946 after Walter Corti called for the establishment of a village for orphans of World War II?
 * ... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Guam in the territory's attempt to seek U.S. Navy contributions to clean up Ordot Dump, a former landfill and Superfund site?
 * ... that Chinese social-realist woodcut artist Li Qun felt that the works of expressionists were "far away from life"?
 * ... that the Neil Simon Theatre, a New York City landmark, was the first Broadway theater renamed after a living playwright?
 * ... that Arti Rana was the president of the self-help group Tharu Hath KargaGharelu Udyog when it received assistance from the World Wide Fund for Nature to make its looms more efficient?
 * ... that a snooker table used at the 2022 Turkish Masters was fixed with a car jack?

27 March 2022

 * 00:00, 27 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Industrial Electronic Engineers` nimo tube (example pictured) contained ten electron guns firing through a number-shaped stencil?
 * ... that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman, known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion javelin thrower?
 * ... that John Wesley Shipp, who played the Flash in the 1990 television series, was cast as his father in the pilot episode of 2014's The Flash?
 * ... that as part of his work as an antiquary, William Thomas visited every church in Worcestershire?
 * ... that after Los Angeles Spanish-language TV station KMEX-TV discovered that 15 percent of its viewers did not know the language, it added Spanish courses to its programming?
 * ... that Valeriy Chybineyev was honored as a Hero of Ukraine in 2016 for his actions during the war in Donbas?
 * ... that supplies were so poor during the Royal Expedition of the First Carlist War that some soldiers wore cardboard-heeled shoes?
 * ... that Chinese writer Feng Xuefeng rewrote his 500,000-character manuscript, lost after he was captured by the Nationalists—only for him to burn it himself?

26 March 2022

 * 00:00, 26 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Rose Delaunay (pictured), a French operatic soprano who began her career at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their diamond wedding in 1937?
 * ... that Raven-Symoné, who played the lead role in the series That's So Raven, became a producer for its fourth season at the age of 19?
 * ... that the website NewsFront evaded a Facebook ban by posting its content on mirror sites?
 * ... that Macy Rodman 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light–esque experimental pop"?
 * ... that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
 * ... that Gloria Rojas, one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of Geraldo Rivera?
 * ... that Gérard de Nerval's poem "Delphica" promises that the gods of classical mythology will eventually return?
 * ... that basketmaker Ramona Lubo is known as the "real Ramona"?

25 March 2022

 * 00:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the Dillinger Gang's 1934 robbery of the Security National Bank (pictured) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was depicted in the 2009 film Public Enemies?
 * ... that Oleksandr Oksanchenko won the As the Crow Flies Award at the Royal International Air Tattoo in 2017?
 * ... that the Correspondence of Paul and Seneca was cited in the Middle Ages to claim that Seneca, a Roman philosopher of Stoicism, had converted to Christianity?
 * ... that dancer Jovani Furlan made his New York City Ballet debut in a role in which he was cast at the last minute, with a partner with whom he had never rehearsed?
 * ... that some of the calls of the bare-headed laughingthrush have been described as "comical"?
 * ... that after Arnold II of Isenburg was elected Archbishop of Trier by the cathedral chapter, King Conrad IV of Germany granted the regalia to the opposing candidate, Rudolf de Ponte?
 * ... that all the original buildings of London's Angel Street have been destroyed by fire, bombing, or demolition?
 * ... that due to business closures across California during the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?

24 March 2022

 * 00:00, 24 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Elizabeth Pierce Blegen (pictured) was one of the "Quartet" of archaeologists who lived and worked together in Greece as a family, along with Ida Hill, Carl Blegen, and Bert Hodge Hill?
 * ... that Utroba Cave was made to resemble female genitalia, and the cave puts on a show with natural light to symbolize fertilization?
 * ... that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live?
 * ... that Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start argues that the United States is no longer a true democracy?
 * ... that the 1950 Hindi film Hamari Beti, which featured Nutan's first lead role, at 14 years of age, was directed by her mother?
 * ... that when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned during the recent Battle of Ivankiv, artworks by Hanna Veres and Maria Prymachenko were destroyed?
 * ... that nearly a quarter of the patients at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City are criminally insane?
 * ... that Indian footballer Surajit Sengupta was called Sócrates because of his beard and varied interests?

23 March 2022

 * 00:00, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that an excavation for 75 Wall Street (pictured) revealed an old crock linked with a leader of the Tammany Hall political machine?
 * ... that Albert Smijers was one of the first Dutch musicologists to receive a doctorate?
 * ... that the high number of free tenants recorded in the 1299 Red Book of Worcester may be a result of manumissions granted by Bishop Godfrey Giffard?
 * ... that Jean Webster daily served hundreds of people free food directly out of her home kitchen for over a decade?
 * ... that the detention of two British surveyors for around an hour in 1878 formed part of the justification for the Anglo-Zulu War?
 * ... that Bill Smyth fought as a Marine at Iwo Jima and later played four seasons for the Los Angeles Rams?
 * ... that long ladders have unlimited risk?
 * ... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?

22 March 2022

 * 00:00, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that museum director Alena Aladava (pictured) rebuilt the Belarusian national art collection in the aftermath of the Second World War?
 * ... that the Green Line Extension, which partially opens today, was first proposed a century ago?
 * ... that while serving his nighttime prison sentence for writing articles critical of the government, Juan Pablo Cárdenas continued writing during the day?
 * ... that the Temporary Protection Directive went unused until the Ukrainian refugee crisis?
 * ... that Stephan MacLeod's 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"?
 * ... that the faster version of the Mac Studio is 2 pounds (910 g) heavier than the slower one?
 * ... that British alpine skier Shona Brownlee, who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, plays the French horn and the piano in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force?
 * ... that Moondog was released 13 years after Moondog's previous Moondog?

21 March 2022

 * 12:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Gateshead Millennium Bridge (pictured) is the world's first tilt bridge?
 * ... that Peter Walker choreographed an Oklahoma!-inspired dream ballet for the film I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
 * ... that Ukrainian parties obtained only a fifth of the votes in the 1917 Kiev City Duma election?
 * ... that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes, the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson, the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
 * ... that the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Tokyo Marathon featured just two competitors?
 * ... that Angel Joy Chavis Rocker, a guidance counselor with no political experience, was the first black woman to run for President of the United States as a Republican?
 * ... that the Hittite plague in the 14th century BC was the first documented use of a disease as a biological weapon?
 * ... that Jane Cakebread 277 court appearances for drunkenness helped bring about the Inebriates Act of 1898?


 * 00:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the goddess Vasoorimala (devotee pictured) is a deity associated with communicable diseases like smallpox, chickenpox, and measles?
 * ... that, for the Space 220 Restaurant, Disney reached out to NASA engineers to understand what a space elevator might look like?
 * ... that Stsiapan Putsila faces criminal charges in Belarus—as does the Polish judge who refused to extradite him?
 * ... that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club?
 * ... that Alois Wyrsch, the first member of colour of the Swiss parliament, was born to a mercenary in the Dutch Indies in 1825?
 * ... that copper thieves started a fire at Dalton Mills in 2011 while trying to burn off the insulation?
 * ... that legal activist Carrie Campbell Severino, who co-authored a book about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, was once a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas?
 * ... that the Spanish city of Oviedo only repairs Woody Allen's glasses once a year?

20 March 2022

 * 12:00, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Lillian Eichler Watson created "Again She Orders – 'A Chicken Salad, Please' (pictured) to advertise her 1921 Book of Etiquette?
 * ... that sponsors were asked to buy planks for the restoration of Shotley Pier in Suffolk, England, at £100 each?
 * ... that John C. Young served as president of Centre College for nearly 27 years, longer than any other president in the school's history?
 * ... that Comtal Corporation products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s?
 * ... that David Gee Cheng was appointed as a member of the Indonesian cabinet just three years after he became an Indonesian citizen?
 * ... that Alaska marmots take turns acting as sentries to protect their colonies?
 * ... that Dutch arachnologist Father Chrysanthus was the only person to make the International Society of Arachnology's first congress "international"?
 * ... that at the Guild Theatre, the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom?


 * 00:00, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that in a weeklong contest during World War II, trained farm girls (pictured) were found to produce more enriched uranium than professional physicists?
 * ... that Nick Goiran, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill?
 * ... that even though many fans died after falling onto a furnace at a college football game, the event continued?
 * ... that Jonas Mohammed Bath was only able to obtain his freedom from slavery by purchasing another enslaved person to replace himself?
 * ... that the Cavillargues medallion depicts a Roman gladiatorial combat and possibly an official giving the signal for mercy?
 * ... that Rut Castillo was the only out LGBTQ rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 Olympics?
 * ... that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib-class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
 * ... that the 13th-century Austrian chronicler Jans der Enikel characterized Richard the Lionheart as a "noble goose-roaster"?

19 March 2022

 * 12:00, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that when Lviv-born Maria Moscisca (pictured) performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"?
 * ... that Evelyn Wood called off the Zungwini Mountain skirmishes after learning of the Zulu victory over the British at the Battle of Isandlwana?
 * ... that the Metropolitan main line was the first electrified revenue rapid transit in the United States?
 * ... that the only ever hijacking of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft began at Baucau Airport, East Timor, in 1975?
 * ... that Wisconsin farmer-lawmaker Joseph Mleziva refused to run for a fifth term in 1948, saying, "I can't afford to continue and, besides, I'm tired of taking the abuse that comes with the job"?
 * ... that those who toppled the Monumento a los Constructores said that it was "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"?
 * ... that Red Blanchard, the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN, commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago?
 * ... that one of Josquin des Prez's most popular works is about the cricket?


 * 00:00, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the 1935 film Navy Wife, starring Claire Trevor (pictured), was the first film that deals with life as part of the Navy Nurse Corps and Medical Corps of the United States Navy?
 * ... that the Miao art of balancing on a bamboo log has been described as "water ballet"?
 * ... that after surviving D-Day, former quarterback Mike Koken wrote that playing American football for Notre Dame left one "prepared for the toughest stuff the Jerries can throw at you"?
 * ... that bartender Gary Regan said Takumi's Aviation was the best he had ever encountered?
 * ... that James Clark was the second graduate of West Point to convert to Catholicism?
 * ... that when the Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in 1887 at the chapel of a summer residence, his wife was a solo singer?
 * ... that due to variable endings of the ballet Swan Lake, Bolshoi Ballet dancer Anna Nikulina has been killed in Moscow, married to the prince in Kazan, and left alone on the lake in Chelyabinsk?
 * ... that the entrance to 229 West 43rd Street was not locked for 32 years, and The New York Times could not find the key?

18 March 2022

 * 12:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Peninah Musyimi, from the slums of Nairobi (pictured), was given the "I am Powerful" award?
 * ... that in the 1970s, Coors Brewing Company owned Television News Inc., which provided newsfilm to North American TV stations?
 * ... that Hal Sigurdson was described as "the thinking man's sportswriter"?
 * ... that magazine Women's World was the first to publish photographs of Ottoman Muslim women?
 * ... that the discovery of Bianchengichthys may shed new light on the evolution of all jawed vertebrates?
 * ... that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
 * ... that prior to the third session of the United Nations General Assembly, while the Cold War was ongoing, prayers were conducted in various parts of the world?
 * ... that London's Greenwell Street is part of a trapezoid, not a triangle?


 * 00:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the future Tsar Alexander III bought a painting of disappointed mermaids (pictured)?
 * ... that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
 * ... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America?
 * ... that Britain's first heart transplant was carried out in London's Westmoreland Street?
 * ... that Pennsylvania state representative Marty Flynn engaged in a shootout with attempted burglars near the state capitol?
 * ... that Gea eff has the shortest scientific name of any spider species?
 * ... that British singer Hope Tala turned down an opportunity to pursue a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in favour of pursuing a career in music?
 * ... that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia?

17 March 2022

 * 12:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the cultural magazine Du (cover pictured), first published in Zürich in 1941, takes its name from you?
 * ... that Argentine sculptor Alberto Heredia protested censorship through his art and was forced into exile by a right-wing death squad?
 * ... that Morgan Stanley acquired 750 Seventh Avenue and 1585 Broadway after both buildings went bankrupt and their respective tenants refused to pay rent?
 * ... that the Dar al-Kiswa in Egypt made ornamental curtains for the Kaaba in Mecca?
 * ... that prior to becoming West Virginia's first African-American judge, Leon P. Miller was McDowell County's assistant prosecuting attorney, a Welch city councilman, and U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands?
 * ... that the identities of Subwoolfer, who are set to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, remain unknown to date?
 * ... that André Delvaux was a magic-realist filmmaker who was made a baron by the king of Belgium?
 * ... that Iowa radio station KFQC was said to change programming and ownership "almost as regularly as dental check-ups are recommended"?


 * 00:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge created more than 100,000 images for his study Animal Locomotion (example pictured) that included an ostrich and a capybara?
 * ... that Rüdiger Huzmann, Bishop of Speyer, granted a protective charter to the city's Jewish community in 1084?
 * ... that as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Smiley v. Holm, the 1932 general election ballot in Minnesota contained 30 candidates for Congress?
 * ... that in 2022, Frida Westman was the first Swedish ski jumper to compete at an Olympic Games since 1994, when her father competed?
 * ... that the southwestern North American megadrought that began in 2000 is the driest 22-year period in the region since 800?
 * ... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
 * ... that after the British Army captured New York City in 1776, Samuel Loudon fled to the village of Fishkill, where he founded the state's first post office?
 * ... that the gonads of the banded bullfrog remain ripe during dry periods so that it can mate soon after rainfall?

16 March 2022

 * 12:00, 16 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Helene Hathaway Britton (pictured), the first woman to own a Major League Baseball team, was unsuccessfully pressured by other club owners to sell the team?
 * ... that the Japanese manga Space Family Carlvinson is likely named after an aircraft carrier that is itself named after U.S. congressman Carl Vinson?
 * ... that American cardiologist Michael L. Hess chose to work in that field in exchange for a reduction in his tuition fees?
 * ... that in 1969, the first women's strike for equal pay in the Netherlands was called in a cigar factory in Nieuwe Pekela?
 * ... that Indian politician Pushpaben Mehta was the first speaker of the Saurashtra Legislative Assembly?
 * ... that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
 * ... that the motet Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria by Josquin des Prez has 144 breves—a reference to the "woman of the apocalypse" in the Book of Revelation?
 * ... that Cane Beds replaced Virgin Bottoms?


 * 00:00, 16 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the Ides of March coin (pictured) was struck to celebrate an assassination and an assassin?
 * ... that teenager Jack Sweeney uses Twitter bots to track the private jets of Elon Musk, Drake, and Russian oligarchs?
 * ... that the height of the Ganesh idol at Khairatabad in India increased by one foot (0.3 m) every year between 1954 and 2014?
 * ... that the Warwick Railway successfully operated independently for decades despite having just three employees, two locomotives, and less than a mile (1.6 km) of track?
 * ... that Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, heir apparent of the Fatimid Caliphate, was arrested after the caliph's death and died in captivity under unclear circumstances?
 * ... that the first player can win a game of Fibonacci nim unless it starts with a Fibonacci number of coins?
 * ... that out of desperation, Pennsylvania radio station WMAJ took its call letters from the scrambled initials of its first program director?
 * ... that the Sons of Neptune sailed a giant toilet down the River Thames?

15 March 2022

 * 12:00, 15 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Australian writer Gertrude Hart (pictured) was a co-founder of the Old Derelicts' Club, which later became the Society of Australian Authors?
 * ... that efficient and professional torture is found only in fiction?
 * ... that as chancellor of the University of Victoria, Ronald Lou-Poy conferred degrees in Iqaluit and the Great Hall of the People?
 * ... that while playing a ghost in the mystery film Lekin..., Dimple Kapadia was forbidden to blink because director Gulzar believed it would make her feel surreal?
 * ... that "Nahe wollt der Herr uns sein" (The Lord wanted to be close to us), first written in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis in 1964, was included in the 1975 German hymnal Gotteslob?
 * ... that Harvard Business School professor Lauren Cohen is a powerlifting champion?
 * ... that the colour of the markings on Nesticus cellulanus can vary depending on the light level of the habitat, with darker habitats causing lighter markings?
 * ... that a urinal at Rothesay's Victorian Toilets commemorates Prince Charles' personal patronage?


 * 00:03, 15 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the sculpture Mephistopheles and Margaretta (pictured) is best seen with a mirror behind it?
 * ... that American lawyer and politician Armistead Abraham Lilly was also a principal owner of Ruffner Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia, and resided in its penthouse?
 * ... that almost everyone and everything that travels to Antarctica has to travel through one of five gateway cities?
 * ... that Jonas Grethlein turned down chaired professorships at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge?
 * ... that in addition to creating milkshake products, Keventers Milkshake was also a major supplier of various milk products to the Indian Army for several decades up until the 1970s?
 * ... that author Harriet Connor Brown testified to the United States Congress in 1921 and 1922 to eliminate funding for the Chemical Warfare Service?
 * ... that the 1711 Missa Sanctae Caeciliae, the first composition by Jan Dismas Zelenka, who had come from Prague to play in the Dresden court orchestra, is a 45-minute mass?
 * ... that the interactive cartoon Cat Burglar takes about 15 minutes to watch, but features 90 minutes of animation?

14 March 2022

 * 12:00, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Verena Conzett (pictured) found commercial success when she offered serial novels together with accident insurance?
 * ... that American president Calvin Coolidge wrote his statement "I do not choose to run" at Rapid City High School?
 * ... that women's-rights activist Khairunnisa Ash'ari was appointed to the Legislative Council of Brunei as its youngest member?
 * ... that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC?
 * ... that before she became a Mexican federal deputy, Celeste Sánchez Romero was a dental researcher with more than 40 published articles?
 * ... that Anderson Stadium in Austin, Texas, is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
 * ... that Anna Korsun, a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018?
 * ... that according to a Schiphol Airport official, installing pictures of flies in urinals reduced "spillage" by 80 per cent?


 * 00:00, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that James A. Merriman (pictured) was the only Black graduate from Rush Medical College in 1902 and the first African-American physician to practice medicine in Portland?
 * ... that torture causes a higher risk of mental trauma than any other known human experience?
 * ... that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212?
 * ... that multiple youth sports programs in Winnipeg were established by Uncle Vince?
 * ... that the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF is the first in the US to bet against another exchange-traded fund?
 * ... that Miles Hadfield ensured supplies of food to Coventry during the Second World War Blitz?
 * ... that The Flash episode "Welcome to Earth-2" featured many actors portraying doppelgängers of their roles from the series?
 * ... that the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation has argued that octopuses should be considered sentient?

13 March 2022

 * 12:00, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that a hoax photograph (pictured) was created appearing to show Abraham Lincoln's ghost standing over his widow?
 * ... that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism?
 * ... that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama?
 * ... that a 35-second Blue Angels shot in To Fly! took more than four months to prepare?
 * ... that United States Army captain John L. Chapin company once boycotted a burger restaurant in El Paso, Texas, for discrimination?
 * ... that although the Kepler triangle has similar proportions to the Great Pyramid of Giza, the triangle's connection to the golden ratio makes it unlikely to have been used in ancient Egypt?
 * ... that Loski mixtape Call Me Loose was named as an inspiration for Scorpion by Drake?
 * ... that the Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas, is said to be haunted by “The Man Hating Ghost”?


 * 00:00, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that there are only about 30 Ancient Egyptian obelisks (example pictured) left standing worldwide—and Italy has more than Egypt?
 * ... that H. Radclyffe Roberts once used a parachute, pulleys, and an "insect bomb" to collect grasshoppers from treetops?
 * ... that Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There, she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant relationship with her mother?
 * ... that as the first licensed architect in Oklahoma, Leon B. Senter held "License Number 1" for forty years, from 1925 until his death?
 * ... that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th-century practice of some parents in France giving their children to wet nurses for a year or more?
 * ... that Helen Steven shared the Gandhi International Peace Award for her opposition to the nuclear submarine base in Scotland?
 * ... that Chicony, known primarily as a keyboard manufacturer, entered the computer-manufacturing business with the Rabbit 286 in 1988?
 * ... that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners?

12 March 2022

 * 12:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that five queens on a chessboard (pictured) can attack or occupy every square on the board?
 * ... that Jaz Brisack, leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks, was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi?
 * ... that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali?
 * ... that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty?
 * ... that in a kishu ryūritan story a hero is exiled from their society, faces a variety of ordeals, and either returns in triumph or dies in exile?
 * ... that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school?
 * ... that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing?
 * ... that the Invisible Wind Factory will not be hosting Futurama?


 * 00:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Asma Al Thani (pictured), who directs the Qatar Olympic Committee's communications, has climbed the world's eighth-highest mountain and skied to the North Pole?
 * ... that many of the traditional Lakota ceremonies performed at the Sitting Bull Crystal Cavern Dance Pavilion were still illegal under federal law during the show's first years?
 * ... that John Harvey Rainier had the distinction of commanding troops from six different countries in action?
 * ... that community opposition to the routing of Interstate 40 through Memphis, Tennessee, led to a landmark United States Supreme Court ruling in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe?
 * ... that as a child, Nayantara Sahgal associated the words Prison and Chocolate Cake with her memory of the police taking her father to jail while the family were having tea?
 * ... that Leonard Bernstein composed the piano suite Bridal Suite for the wedding of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman, with the couple meant to play it three-hands?
 * ... that the film Panta Rhei is about the rhythms of clouds and water because the director Bert Haanstra did not feel ready to deal with people?
 * ... that in the UK, your remains can shelter baby lobsters?

11 March 2022

 * 12:00, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Daniel Sickles's leg (pictured) is a popular museum display?
 * ... that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
 * ... that the mathematical infinity symbol ∞ may be derived from the Roman numerals for 1000 or for 100 million?
 * ... that the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility in Brooklyn is the largest commingled recycling facility in the United States?
 * ... that Tatiana Saunders is now goalkeeper for the equal pay team Lewes Football Club Women after playing for U.S., Icelandic and French teams?
 * ... that John Berry Meachum anchored the Floating Freedom School in the Mississippi River under federal government protection?
 * ... that Mohawk Island is sometimes underwater?
 * ... that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?


 * 00:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century?
 * ... that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
 * ... that Andreas Rechnitzer helped devise the first scuba diving training program for scientists?
 * ... that Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the Russian language?
 * ... that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human, the main character of Adventure Time, inspired their own spin-off series?
 * ... that journalist Maurice Smith helped establish a national curling championship for high school students in Canada?
 * ... that the source material for Curtis Roads's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
 * ... that for a Murad Takla, writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?

10 March 2022

 * 00:00, 10 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the heritage-registered Weston House (pictured), designed by architect Cecil Wood for George Weston, was damaged in a series of earthquakes in Christchurch and later demolished?
 * ... that operatic soprano Elena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting?
 * ... that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre?
 * ... that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification?
 * ... that kausheya was an ancient Indian silk mentioned in epics including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata?
 * ... that physical copies of Nintendo Switch Sports include the Leg Strap accessory from Ring Fit Adventure?
 * ... that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
 * ... that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?

9 March 2022

 * 00:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Antonette Wemyss Gorman (pictured), the first woman to fill a combat role in the Caribbean, was promoted to rear admiral and is Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force?
 * ... that Matilda Allison, blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"?
 * ... that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League, after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand?
 * ... that three former top-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officials appeared on ABC News Nightline to condemn the agency's treatment of Janine Brookner?
 * ... that, between the ages of six and ten, Dorthe Emilie Røssell helped smuggle weapons and propaganda for the Danish resistance movement in her doll's pram?
 * ... that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
 * ... that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal?
 * ... that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck's thumb off?

8 March 2022

 * 00:00, 8 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the Door Tree (pictured), which stood for nearly 200 years, was cut down because of a brother's hatred?
 * ... that the director of Only Fools Rush In said motorcycles are harder to film than cars?
 * ... that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014?
 * ... that the adoption of all-steel percussion by Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1939 was widely copied, and prompted the development of the steelpan?
 * ... that a 1982 composition by David Sampson is based on a 1931 poem inspired by the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries?
 * ... that al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, the Uqaylid emir of Mosul, was assassinated by his own soldiers while plotting to capture Baghdad from the Buyids?
 * ... that a spokesperson for the American Library Association told ABC News in late 2021 that she had "never seen such a widespread effort to remove books on racial and gender diversity"?
 * ... that at the Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre in Antigua, one can enjoy rum cocktails whilst touring historic ruins?

7 March 2022

 * 00:00, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the framework of One Astor Plaza was "a humdinger of an engineering feat" because it was built over the Minskoff Theatre (pictured)?
 * ... that the aesthetic expression of clothing might entail emotions like "excitement, calmness, strength, and delicacy"?
 * ... that after her father received hospice care, Connecticut state legislator Claudia Powers introduced bills to include hospice under Medicare?
 * ... that in 2022, Emmanuel Macron recognized the 1962 Isly killings of French citizens in Algeria by the French army as a massacre?
 * ... that Encanto Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
 * ... that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar?
 * ... that Andrei Angouw is the first Confucian mayor in Indonesia?
 * ... that the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzsite, Arizona, marks the grave of Hadji Ali, recruited to the United States to drive and tend camels for the United States Camel Corps?

6 March 2022

 * 00:00, 6 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the flatworm - (pictured), named after the COVID-19 pandemic, was classified in a study written mostly during the initial lockdown?
 * ... that Pranati Nayak was the second Indian female artistic gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games?
 * ... that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
 * ... that Hina Suguta, who voices Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-Up Darling, worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice acting career?
 * ... that the B. J. Habibie Bridge in Dili, East Timor, is named after a former deputy of the Indonesian president, who instigated the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor?
 * ... that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an "abolitionist factory"?
 * ... that, for the animated film Us Again, director and writer Zach Parrish considered a video of an elderly couple dancing to be visceral and ideal inspiration?
 * ... that Sylvain Tesson isolated himself in a pigeon house for a month to write Un été avec Homère?

5 March 2022

 * 00:00, 5 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the legs of the statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark (pictured) are at least 1,600 years older than the torso?
 * ... that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink, the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
 * ... that fried caterpillars are a traditional dish in Angola?
 * ... that Polish Home Army resistance fighter Witold Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp?
 * ... that Castle Ten Berghe, a manor house built during the 13th century, is now run as a bed and breakfast with a neo-Gothic architectural style?
 * ... that the main storyline of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Perfect Pear" comes from a long-running joke among the show's staff?
 * ... that Children's Fantasy Literature is the first work to address the genre's 500-year history in depth?
 * ... that the 1978 New York City newspaper strike has been theorized to have caused great misery in Boston sports fans?

4 March 2022

 * 00:00, 4 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that Kobe and Vanessa Bryant (pictured) were founding donors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture?
 * ... that, in addition to the Armenians, the Assyrians also faced genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
 * ... that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits?
 * ... that Doja Cat's "Streets" peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 because of a viral mashup on TikTok that combined it with a 1959 song by Paul Anka?
 * ... that despite never having received a formal education in botany, Harry Allan became one of New Zealand's most eminent botanists?
 * ... that during its fifteen-year existence, the New York City Tribune had its highest circulation during a newspaper strike?
 * ... that the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is located in the cellar of a house in Allendale, Northumberland?
 * ... that an executive of Florida station WFTL-TV declared that he had "faith in its future", only to sell it within months and for the station to close within three years?

3 March 2022

 * 00:00, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that the sea slug Elysia timida (example pictured) absorbs its colouration from its algae-based diet?
 * ... that when Florida television station WITV ceased broadcasting in May 1958, its owner was reported to be on a yacht at sea and thus unavailable for comment?
 * ... that Plaza Hotel Curaçao, the tallest building in Curaçao, is falling apart?
 * ... that during the production of the 1935 film Together We Live, carpenters tried to copy the musical saw brought in by actress Wera Engels?
 * ... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
 * ... that when US Army lieutenant general Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record?
 * ... that to repel migrants, the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
 * ... that journalist Bill Westwick once wrote about a plan that never happened with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity"?

2 March 2022

 * 00:00, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that after the 1871 German victory parade in Paris (pictured) 151 years ago today, the French symbolically scrubbed the streets on which the Germans had marched?
 * ... that Santa Maria, California, radio station KSBQ is named for the style of barbecue that originated in that city?
 * ... that a Cossack detachment led by Imperial Russian Lazar Bicherakhov joined forces with British general Lionel Dunsterville's expeditionary corps to prevent Ottoman advance?
 * ... that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
 * ... that the College of William & Mary's Lake Matoaka is named for Pocahontas?
 * ... that DBTel once took up 30 percent of the original equipment manufacturer market share for cordless phones in the United States?
 * ... that the concept of hyperspace, primarily known through its use in science fiction, originated from and is still occasionally used in scholarly works?
 * ... that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?

1 March 2022

 * 00:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)


 * ... that members of The Links, an elite organization of upper-class Black women, include Betty Shabazz, Marian Wright Edelman (pictured), and Kamala Harris?
 * ... that Guajajara environmental activist and land defender Paulo Paulino Guajajara, who worked to stop the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, was killed by a group of illegal loggers?
 * ... that Patsy Cline's cover of Willie Nelson's "Crazy" was the all-time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States, 35 years after its release?
 * ... that although it is a bird of prey, the white-fronted falconet is only 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and mainly feeds on insects?
 * ... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
 * ... that the Turkish Defne Magnanery was established in a farm house donated by the brother of the head silk farmwoman after he watched her silk farming in a British documentary film?
 * ... that when John Emmitt was traveling to the Oregon Territory in 1852 along the Oregon Trail, two of his three children died of cholera and were buried along the route?
 * ... that RNA, DNA, and vitamins B1 and B12 are all made from AIR?