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 * 09:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Little Pied Cormorant (pictured) lays eggs that are covered in lime?
 * ... that in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award, which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station?
 * ... that among other methods, archaeoparasitologists study historical human parasites by looking for references to them in art and literature?
 * ... that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes 36 mi of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns?
 * ... that Tropical Depression One-C of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season caused minor flooding on the Island of Hawaii?
 * ... that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch?
 * ... that HMS Hinchinbrook was Horatio Nelson's second navy command, and his first as post-captain?
 * ... that editor Kenneth P. Johnson, who ran a story that led to the article subject's suicide as threatened, stated that "if a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish"?


 * 03:15, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the first platform scale was built in 1830 by Thaddeus Fairbanks (pictured) to measure large loads accurately?
 * ... that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love?
 * ... that Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was the last Francoist mayor of Valencia, Spain and secured the transfer of the Turia River gardens from the Spanish crown to local administration?
 * ... that in November 1864, Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
 * ... that actor David Morrissey gained 2 st for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal?
 * ... that only nine goaltenders have scored a goal in a National Hockey League game?
 * ... that Ernest Peixotto′s 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" in writing?
 * ... that American Joe Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball when he was selected to manage the Hiroshima Carp in 1975?


 * 21:10, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that when completed in 1988, the 52-storey BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia (pictured) was the eighth tallest concrete skyscraper in the world?
 * ... that Henry Fitz was the first American to make refractor telescopes and constructed the largest refracting telescopes in America on five different occasions?
 * ... that BOHICA is an acronym that means "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again"?
 * ... that Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama 's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association?
 * ... that during the history of San Diego State University some students joined the armed forces during World War II and assisted in the Doolittle Raid over Japan?
 * ... that Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
 * ... that Edi Gathegi fell into acting when he took up an undergraduate acting class as an "easy course" after sustaining a basketball injury?
 * ... that actor Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler in both high school and college?


 * 15:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech (pictured) from behind 2 inches (51 mm) of bulletproof glass?
 * ... that Ludvík Čelanský was the founder and the first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra?
 * ... that historian Richard C. Lukas estimated that upwards of one million Poles were involved in the rescue of Jews by Polish communities during the Holocaust?
 * ... that ballerina Rosella Hightower received critical acclaim in 1947 after filling in for the sick Alicia Markova and learning the role of Giselle in five hours, having never danced the part before?
 * ... that the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England?
 * ... that David G. Booth gave US$300 million&mdash;the largest ever gift to a business school&mdash;to his alma mater, now renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business?
 * ... that Henri Joseph Fenet, a soldier in World War II, was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France and the Knight's Cross by Germany?
 * ... that the historic Charles Shorey House mixes both gambrel and gable roofs?
 * ... that Polish-Armenian Roman Catholic priest, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was ordered to be silent by the Krakow Curia because of his clergy lustration activities?


 * 12:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of Strengthen the Arm of Liberty (Lady Liberty statue pictured)?
 * ... that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch, an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch, was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik?
 * ... that in 2008, the biofuel company Mascoma received a US$26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a cellulosic fuel production facility?
 * ... that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper?
 * ... that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama?
 * ... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?
 * ... that when cellist George Sopkin auditioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 18, conductor Frederick Stock looked at him and remarked "so we're taking Boy Scouts now?"
 * ... that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future?
 * ...that B.P. Newman, a business entrepreneur from Laredo, began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants, subdivisions, apartments, and ranches throughout much of Texas?


 * 02:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that at age 14, Jack Dorsey (pictured) developed software that is still used to dispatch taxicabs and inspired him to create Twitter?
 * ... that the Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse?
 * ... that, though there is no evidence for it, Louis Rocca is credited with having coined the name Manchester United?
 * ... that a digital time capsule "A Message From Earth" was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
 * ... that ballet impresario George de Cuevas faced Serge Lifar in a 1958 duel with swords, that was described as "the most delicate encounter in the history of French dueling"?
 * ... that Jheryl Busby, once President and CEO of Motown Records, was a major shareholder of the first African-American-owned national bank in the U.S. along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson?
 * ... that Pacific University's first building at its Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, attained LEED gold status in 2007?
 * ... that in 784, due to wars and famine in the capital Chang'an region, Emperor Dezong of Tang sent the official Liu Zi to Nanchang to conduct imperial examinations for examinees from southern China?


 * 10:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that according to musical analyst Sir Donald Tovey, every page of Opus 20, composed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn (pictured), is "of historic and aesthetic importance"?
 * ... that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
 * ... that in 1919, Poland tried to overthrow the Lithuanian government, but the Sejny Uprising resulted in the plan's failure?
 * ... that pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism?
 * ... that most of the information available about English novelist Phebe Gibbes is derived from an application to the Royal Literary Fund for financial support in 1804?
 * ... that the Michigan Tech Huskies, from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, have won three NCAA Division I championships in ice hockey, with players such as Tony Esposito?
 * ... that in 1966, Vin Denson became the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia?
 * ... that William Jay Bolton was the first artist in the United States to design and manufacture figural stained glass windows?
 * ...that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?


 * 06:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Kohler-Andrae State Park (pictured) consists of two separate state parks, one donated by an electric company president and another by Kohler Company?
 * ... that SM U-5, ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations, was the only member of the U-5-class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I?
 * ... that Manny Harris was the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League Basketball Champions since Jalen Rose and Voshon Lenard?
 * ... that bilateral trade between India and Poland has grown by more than seven times from 1992 to 2007?
 * ... that William Louis Abbott, American doctor and philanthropist, went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island?
 * ... that an initial €1 million was allocated for the new political foundations at European level in 2007–08?
 * ... that the historic ranger's residence in the Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District, no longer needed by park rangers, is now used mainly by recreational visitors?
 * ... that the subprime mortgage crisis, among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy, which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
 * ... that Terence Tolbert, Nevada state director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election?


 * 03:38, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Bert Bolle Barometer (pictured) in Denmark, Western Australia, is the largest barometer in the world?
 * ... that after serving in the Norwegian Parliament for four terms, Ingvald Godal involved himself in solidarity work for Chechnya?
 * ... that the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland, sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany?
 * ... that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield, Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates?
 * ... that SM U-10 and SM U-11, which were U-10-class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I?
 * ... that Thomas Paton worked on the construction of the Owen Falls Dam which was responsible for the first complete stoppage of the White Nile in history?
 * ... that Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
 * ... that the "Valley of Tears" in the Golan Heights was so named after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War?
 * ... that Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
 * ... that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga?


 * 19:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the CZ 2075 RAMI (pictured) was named by combining the first two initials of the two people who originally designed it?
 * ... that William Munroe was the first manufacturer of pencils in the United States?
 * ... that Subtropical Storm One in 1978 is the only Atlantic subtropical cyclone to develop in the month of January?
 * ... that David Jeaffreson served as Commissioner of ICAC before retiring from the Hong Kong government in 1991?
 * ... that the restoration of the Tithe Barn, Pilton in Somerset, England was supported by profits from the Glastonbury Festival?
 * ... that Zaki Tun Azmi became the Chief Justice of Malaysia after serving just over one year in the superior courts of Malaysia?
 * ... that director Peter Ustinov instructed Richard Burton not to blink during his performance as the sociopath in the 1972 film Hammersmith is Out?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty official Li Mian kept places at feasts for two deceased subordinates for three years after their deaths, offering meals and wine to their spirits?
 * ... that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War?
 * ... that Ylon Schwartz, main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker, has gambled on backgammon, darts, horses, and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King?


 * 15:52, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Hart-Cluett Mansion (pictured) in Troy, New York, is the only intact example of the luxury homes commonly built in early–19th century New York City?
 * ... that veteran Tour de France commentator Daniel Mangeas has been called a "talking encyclopedia of cycling" because he never needs notes?
 * ... that the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia?
 * ... that al-Karmil, an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization"?
 * ... that Joseph C. Hare, American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
 * ... that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
 * ... that Policeman Bluejay, a children's novel by L. Frank Baum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fame, was first published in 1907 under the pen name "Laura Bancroft"?
 * ... that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany?
 * ... that the Mediterranean land snail species Papillifera bidens lived in England for over 100 years before being discovered?
 * ... that Franz Burgmeier became the first Liechtensteiner to play football in England after being signed on the advice of a club chairman's twelve-year-old grandson?


 * 11:09, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the threatened noonday globe land snail (pictured) is known only from a two-mile-long area inside the gorge of the Nantahala River in North Carolina?
 * ... that when Australian cricketer Jack Massie fought at Gallipoli, he wore a scarlet rag on his right arm to distract snipers from his bowling arm?
 * ... that William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, also helped calculate the solar cell's Shockley-Queisser limit?
 * ... that Rear-Admiral Charles Austen′s family included Admiral of the Fleet Francis Austen, and the novelist Jane Austen?
 * ... that Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan, was named for William Ford, father of Henry?
 * ... that Zhang Yanshang, his father, son, and father-in-law were all Tang Dynasty Chinese chancellors?
 * ... that Kentucky 's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
 * ... that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
 * ... that Milan Bandić was elected in 2005 as the mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, with the support of only a seventh of eligible voters?
 * ... that country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy?


 * 06:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that art historian Albert Boime theorized that Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (pictured) was based on positions of celestial objects at 4 a.m. on June 19, 1889?
 * ... that Amasa Holcomb was the first in the United States to manufacture telescopes?
 * ... that Nemattanew, a renegade Powhatan captain dubbed "Jack-of-the-Feather" in 1611 for his extravagant regalia, believed he was invincible to English bullets?
 * ... that the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs. 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar?
 * ... that the silhouette artist S. John Ross had a 60-year association with the Sydney Royal Easter Show, and created portraits of Vivian Leigh and Nicole Kidman?
 * ... that broadcaster Tony Dean was eulogized by a South Dakota Senator for striking a balance in "his advocacy on behalf of conservation and sportsmen alike"?
 * ... that Ingres painted Jupiter and Thetis to fulfill his obligations to the French Academy in Rome, a body famous for the patriarchal attitude that the work seeks to repudiate?
 * ... that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?


 * 02:48, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that William Blake's painting The Ghost of a Flea (pictured) caused some contemporaries to believe that he was a madman?
 * ... that Jacob Earl Fickel is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?
 * ... that India 's Kanjli Wetland, a manmade wetland created in 1870, has been recognised by the Ramsar Convention for its rich biodiversity?
 * ... that the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in New Zealand?
 * ... that Scotsman Adam Menelaws became the de facto leading architect of the Russian Empire when he was around seventy years old?
 * ... that Clärenore Stinnes was the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile in an Adler Standard 6?
 * ... that the California Milk Processor Board spent US$1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the Latin American drink licuado as a way to promote milk consumption?
 * ... that an outer jacket, magoja was introduced to Korea after the king's father, Heungseon Daewongun, returned from Manchuria in 1887?
 * ... that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction?


 * 20:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the cruise ship MS Astor (pictured) was ordered in 1985 as an ocean liner for Safmarine's UK–South Africa service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed?
 * ... that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
 * ... that India's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council?
 * ... that the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization?
 * ... that after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tributes to Allan Rosenfield included a song dedication by Bono at a U2 concert?
 * ... that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics?
 * ... that in 1917, baseball managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson were arrested after a game for playing on Sunday?
 * ... that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic?
 * ... that the Wishram Indian Village Site is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?


 * 15:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the original owner of the diamond Star of the South (replica pictured) sold it for a mere £3,000, and the buyer later deposited it in the bank of Rio de Janeiro for £30,000?
 * ... that the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control was runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award?
 * ... that the Observer Group was the first joint-United States Army/Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance?
 * ... that for building a giant reservoir, King Mahasen, who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
 * ... that Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
 * ... that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford?
 * ... that the state of Wisconsin proposed the route of Wisconsin Highway 57 as an Interstate Highway corridor in the 1950s?
 * ... that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
 * ... that James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?


 * 11:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the British War Office placed orders for the Norton 16H (pictured) longer than for any other single make of motorcycle?
 * ... that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing?
 * ... that the Valencian regional parliament, the Corts Valencianes, has its origins in assemblies established in the thirteenth century by King James I of Aragon?
 * ... that Byron recorded seeing the "tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross?
 * ... that the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth, one of the oldest youth film festivals, included over 500 films from 52 countries in 2008?
 * ... that in 2004, The Hershey Company released three flavors of a new product called Snack Barz?
 * ... that the 1919 Ihlen Declaration, made by Norwegian Foreign Minister Nils Claus Ihlen on the subject of Greenland's sovereignty, led to an international court case?
 * ... that Estelle Reiner′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having"—after Meg Ryan's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally, was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes?


 * 07:16, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the so-called "lobster mushroom" (pictured) is a delicacy created by one fungus, Hypomyces lactifluorum, parasitising another, usually Russula brevipes?
 * ... that Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko, the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia, is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
 * ... that the 1925 Irish Senate election required a change in the law governing the layout of the ballot, to allow all 76 candidates to be listed?
 * ... that Lt. Henry B. Hidden is believed to be first officer of Union volunteer cavalry killed in the American Civil War?
 * ... that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales, was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty official Xiao Fu refused to placate the chancellor Wang Jin by offering Wang ancestral property that Wang wanted?
 * ... that the entrance to Kaipara Harbour has treacherous sandbars known as "the graveyard", which are responsible for more shipwrecks than any other place in New Zealand?
 * ... that Terence Fox was made the first Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge despite never having published a research paper?


 * 03:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Rowland Lockey, an English painter and miniaturist, made copies of the work of other artists, including Hans Holbein the Younger (detail of one such copy pictured)?
 * ... that Ōe Taku, after spending 12 years in prison for treason, was elected to the lower house in the Diet of Japan in 1890?
 * ... that the 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is in its first season off of scholarship probation following the University of Michigan basketball scandal?
 * ... that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive?
 * ... that in geometric group theory, a Dehn function is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which estimates the area of a relation in that group in terms of its length?
 * ... that Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
 * ... that many Norwegian political parties opposed the establishment of a State Secretary, only to expand that institution when in power?


 * 19:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that "bleeding tooth fungus" is a member of the woody toothed fungus genus Hydnellum (example pictured)?
 * ... that until his death in 1927, James C. Donnell was the last man to call John D. Rockefeller simply "John"?
 * ... that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm, which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Jiang Gongfu was removed from office when he opposed Emperor Dezong's wish to build a pagoda in mourning his daughter Princess Tang'an?
 * ... that Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
 * ... that in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan?
 * ... that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
 * ... that Richard Petty and his crew chief Dale Inman presented the first artifact to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the car that Petty drove to a record 27 victories in 1967?


 * 15:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that although the Ariel W/NG 350 (pictured) was not initially selected by the British War Department, they were in great demand after the evacuation of Dunkirk in the World War II?
 * ... that the Shinbashi Enbujō in Ginza, Japan, today a major kabuki theatre, was originally built to serve as a venue for geisha dances?
 * ... that the 20 deaths in the Donora Smog of 1948, called one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history, have been credited with leading to passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1970?
 * ... that the Moon of Baroda, a 24.04-carat diamond, was worn by actress Marilyn Monroe and Empress Marie Therese of Austria?
 * ... that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
 * ... that Kukkarahalli lake adjoining the University of Mysore, was created in 1864 during Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar's rule of the Kingdom of Mysore, to provide water for irrigation?
 * ... that Judith Wachs, who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle, first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend?
 * ... that Bruce McLaren Motor Racing's first use of the color now known as "McLaren Orange" was on their McLaren M6As, which won the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup?


 * 12:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Nebuchadnezzar (pictured), a colour monotype by William Blake, depicts the Babylonian king "crawling like a hunted beast" with "his wild eyes full of sullen terror"?
 * ... that the hen Matilda lived to age 16 and became the world's oldest chicken in 2004, never laying any eggs?
 * ... that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions?
 * ... that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes?
 * ... that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods, although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults?
 * ... that the Polish Righteous among the Nations, Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek, rescued families of 18 Jews during the Holocaust on their farm in Ceranów?
 * ... that Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake?


 * 06:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the green flash (pictured) is a by-product of a corresponding mirage of an astronomical object?
 * ... that Akkamma Cherian, an Indian freedom fighter, was popularly known as the "Jhansi Rani of Travancore?"
 * ... that redistributive change is a theory of economic justice that promotes the recognition of poverty as a suspect classification under U.S. law?
 * ... that Cavallo's multiplier was an 18th-century electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge?
 * ... that Floyd Rayford was the baseball player that Cal Ripken Jr. replaced in the starting lineup to begin his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played?
 * ... that the Apostlebird of inland Australia is so named after the Twelve Apostles as it was seen to travel in groups of twelve?
 * ... that "Guan ju", one of the oldest poems in Chinese literature, was praised by Confucius for its restrained emotions?
 * ... that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver?


 * 02:42, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that shortly after architect Ralph Anderson's early "modernist glass-box phase" he began rehabilitating turn-of-the-century buildings (example pictured) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district?
 * ... that the pilot edition of the BBC Radio 7 comedy A Series of Psychotic Episodes was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award?
 * ... that at Washington State University from 1948 to 1950, Bob Gambold was the quarterback of the school's football team and the starting forward for its basketball team during all three of those years?
 * ... that after retiring from the stage opera singer Emma Carelli managed the Rome Opera House for almost 15 years?
 * ... that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period?
 * ... that the award nominated film Lonesome Jim had a last minute budget cut from US$3 million down to US$500,000 and had to be shot in only 17 days?
 * ... that Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?


 * 20:21, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf (pictured) shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
 * ... that Minneapolis hip hop duo Ill Chemistry performed live as part of a Minnesota Ballet production?
 * ... that biologist J. B. S. Haldane replied "Precambrian rabbits" when asked what would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution?
 * ... that Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple?
 * ... that Fort Pearce, a former defensive facility in Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia, was active during World War I but never fired its guns in anger?
 * ... that S&H Green Stamps, co-founded by Thomas Sperry, produced more trading stamps in some years than stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service?
 * ... that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films?
 * ... that Mark Rubin, a safety for the Penn State Nittany Lions, defeated Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming while in high school?


 * 15:36, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the snail Elimia virginica (pictured) colonized the Oswego River but was out-competed from there by another non-indigenous snail?
 * ... that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?
 * ... that Sunday Island in Victoria, Australia is a private game reserve surrounded by a marine park?
 * ... that the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
 * ... that in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent, the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras Presidency?
 * ... that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava?
 * ... that the fishing industry in New Zealand works an exclusive economic zone fourteen times larger than the land area of New Zealand itself?
 * ... that the Black-throated Finch has a black-rumped and a white-rumped subspecies?
 * ... that Larry McCall was released by the Baltimore Orioles and was signed with the New York Yankees as a free agent both on the same day?


 * 11:39, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the head of the passerine bird, the Noisy Friarbird (pictured), is mostly bare of feathers?
 * ... that two white supremacists allegedly plotted to assassinate Senator Barack Obama as part of a supposed plan to murder more than 100 African Americans in Tennessee?
 * ... that Nike Flywire uses Vectran fibers to reduce the weight of shoes used in athletics, basketball, badminton, and tennis by as much as 50%?
 * ... that Yunus-bek Yevkurov, the current president of Ingushetia, is a recipient of the Hero of Russia award, the country's highest honourary title?
 * ... that the double balcony of Proctor's Theater in Troy, New York, made it ideal for showing motion pictures when that medium became popular in the 1920s?
 * ... that India's Mafia Raj, or "mafia regime," first emerged around the state-owned coal mines of Jharkhand?
 * ... that David W. Mullins Jr. abruptly resigned in 1994 as vice-chairman of the United States Federal Reserve to join a "dream team" of financial engineers at the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management?
 * ... that in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, California's Death Valley was used as the setting of Jesus' 40-day journey into the wilderness?


 * 07:10, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Spectacle Reef Light (pictured), a lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan, has been described as "one of the greatest engineering feats on the Great Lakes"?
 * ... that the Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala?
 * ... that when Adobe Systems acquired the company Scene7 in May 2007, its CEO, Doug Mack, became vice president of the Creative Solutions Services division at Adobe?
 * ... that Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union?
 * ... that Kirk DeMicco, writer-director of the 2008 animated film Space Chimps, conceived of the film after hearing a line from Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff?
 * ... that conviction politics have been criticized as being a "hard ideology"?
 * ... that the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3800 km of canals and 2900 km rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe?
 * ... that soprano Meagan Miller, accustomed to wearing US$10,000 gowns on stage in her opera performances, chose to wear her mother's simple gown for her summer 2008 wedding?


 * 03:15, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Lazarus syndrome is named after Lazarus of Bethany (pictured), who the Bible says was raised from the dead by Jesus?
 * ... that three roads in Guide Board Corners, New York were damaged and closed by Hurricane Agnes?
 * ... that punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families?
 * ... that E. Roger Muir, creator and producer of The Howdy Doody Show, suggested that the title puppet run for "President of the Boys and Girls" in the 1948 U.S. presidential election?
 * ... that the Chengziya Archaeological Site in China is thought to be the largest prehistoric settlement found to date?
 * ... that out of the ten players that attended Morehead State University who eventually played in Major League Baseball, Ron Klimkowski was the only one who attended the college for only one year?
 * ... that two members of the French band Zebda ran for political office in Toulouse during the 2001 municipal elections, and won 12.38 percent of the vote?
 * ... that magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$650 million?


 * 19:50, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Buffalo pebble snail (pictured) is adapted to survive both on rocks in a fast stream and also on sandy bottoms in stagnant water?
 * ... that computer software company Red Hat made its largest acquisition ever when it acquired free software support company Cygnus Solutions for US$674 million?
 * ... that the African and Malagasy Union was a former intergovernmental organization created to promote cooperation among African states, but went defunct in 1985?
 * ... that M-68 was a discontinuous state trunkline highway in Northern Michigan between 1940 and 1946?
 * ... that Jean Robic, winner of the 1947 Tour de France, was so light that at mountain summits he was handed lead and mercury-ballasted drinking bottles for gravity-assisted descents?
 * ... that the connective tissue disorder gerodermia osteodysplastica is also known as "Walt Disney dwarfism" because the first known patients were described as resembling "dwarves from a Walt Disney film"?
 * ... that Milton Hebald ' s 1960 sculpture depicted the 12 signs of the zodiac on the Pan Am Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport?


 * 14:38, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Market Square (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine, together with the historic city center, was recognized in 1998 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
 * ... that David Wagner was the number-one ranked quadriplegic wheelchair tennis player in both singles and doubles in 2007?
 * ... that technology company Dell made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased EqualLogic, a storage device manufacturer, for US$1.4 billion in January 2008?
 * ... that Bob McDonald, a Canadian Football League player who survived polio, was elected to the 25th Canadian Parliament at age 25?
 * ... that the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico, dedicated to the god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage, attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala?
 * ... that a friction hoist can require up to 30 percent less motor power than a drum hoist for a given application?
 * ... that The Outsiders, a novel written by S.E. Hinton, has sold over 14 million copies since it was published in 1967?
 * ... that when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Yi signed a peace treaty with Tufan, he made an offering of goats instead of the customary cattle and horses because he was embarrassed to be dealing with "barbarians"?


 * 10:27, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the northernmost extreme point of Sweden is Treriksröset (pictured), where the borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet?
 * ... that basketball player Jojo Duncil was prevented from playing for the UST Growling Tigers in his final year of eligibility when a birth certificate stated that he was overage?
 * ... that the Japanese novel Kanikōsen is one of the best-selling books of 2008, despite being published in 1929?
 * ... that Thomas Gold Appleton, the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience"?
 * ... that the Export Control Act of 1940 ceased the exportation of military equipment to pre-WWII Japan which pushed the United States and Japan closer to war?
 * ... that On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2004?
 * ... that The Edgewater, an over-water hotel on Seattle's Central Waterfront, used to advertise that you could "fish from your room"?
 * ... that actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania?


 * 03:33, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the elongated tails possessed by the males of some species of paradise-flycatchers (pictured) are thought to be the products of sexual selection?
 * ... that Bernard Sainz, known as "Dr Mabuse" because of his success in horse racing and cycling, was jailed for three years for administering doping products?
 * ... that the U.S. Navy ' s SC-21 program to rethink warship design led to the "tumblehome" hull of the Zumwalt class destroyer?
 * ... that Wales rugby international and Welsh Rugby Union Secretary Bill Clement was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in World War II?
 * ... that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China?
 * ... that five individual career records were set during the 2008 season of Canadian university football?
 * ... that "Milk and Alcohol" ranked on Britain's top-10 hit singles chart in 1979 and was the biggest hit for the band Dr. Feelgood?
 * ... that the Saint John River is one of six major rivers in Liberia?
 * ... that Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher Phil Niekro had no wins and six losses in eight Opening Day starts for the Atlanta Braves?


 * 19:41, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the guns at Fort Nepean (pictured) in Victoria, Australia fired the first Allied shots of both World War I and World War II?
 * ... that at the time he was appointed Governor of Arizona Territory, C. Meyer Zulick was a prisoner in Mexico?
 * ... that the Welsh village name Ynysddu means "black island", although the village is not located on an island?
 * ... that the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population?
 * ... that while enrollment at U.S. tribal colleges and universities has increased significantly since 1982, California's only tribal college, D-Q University, had just six students in 2006?
 * ... that HMS Braak was seized and brought into the Royal Navy when the former Dutch ship anchored in Falmouth, unaware that the Dutch had gone to war with Britain?
 * ... that the 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery was a "publishing phenomenon" in Europe?
 * ... that Hall of Famer Mel Ott made his final appearance as a Major League Baseball player pinch hitting for Ken Trinkle?


 * 15:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the adolescent subject of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière (pictured) died within a year of her portrayal by the French master?
 * ... that five historic districts in downtown Troy, New York were merged in 1986 to create the Central Troy Historic District?
 * ... that Wales rugby international Harry Payne finished his playing career after breaking his ankle in a match, at the age of 84?
 * ... that the musical Conversation Piece by Noel Coward starred a French actress, Yvonne Printemps, who spoke no English?
 * ... that former child actor Roger Mobley served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War and is now a Christian pastor in Texas?
 * ... that Tiger's Whip, a piece of installation art by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu, highlights how the tiger is being hunted for its penis?
 * ... that Norwegian industrial company Denofa used whale oil as a basis for refinement before the use of soy became common?
 * ... that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry, is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States?


 * 09:58, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the citadel and city at Sigiriya (pictured) in Matale, Sri Lanka were constructed by Kashyapa I in the 5th century?
 * ... that IMS Associates, Inc. became one of the earliest successful personal computing companies, before going bankrupt in 1979 after just six years?
 * ... that the recent persecution of albinos in Tanzania and Burundi is based on the belief that their body parts have magical power and impart prosperity?
 * ... that for a short time in the late 1940s, it was planned that USS Hawaii (CB-3) would be the U.S. Navy ' s first guided missile cruiser?
 * ... that Polish composer Rafał Augustyn′s Symphony of Hymns took twenty years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players?
 * ... that the Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan's diamond district, with its iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, was frequented by distinguished authors such as Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg?
 * ... that Italian tennis player Federico Luzzi was prohibited from wearing a shirt with a Playboy bunny logo while competing at the 2007 U.S. Open tournament?
 * ... that Lou Dorfsman considered the Gastrotypographicalassemblage he created for the CBS Building's cafeteria to be his magnum opus?


 * 04:29, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Tsomoriri (pictured), with an altitude of 4595 m in Ladakh, is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region entirely within India?
 * ... that the first military aerodrome in Britain was at Larkhill, and the first squadron to use aeroplanes was formed there?
 * ... that the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is the Colombian government agency in charge of managing the airspace, civil aviation, and the aviation industry in Colombia?
 * ... that the Victorian Wader Study Group catches and releases, on average, more than 7000 birds a year?
 * ... that Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt, the Auditor General of Norway from 1898 to 1923, was also a judge and a member of the Norwegian Parliament?
 * ... that operatic soprano Gail Robinson won the Metropolitan Opera auditions at the young age of 19?
 * ... that Tang Chinese General Guo Ziyi would not let the women in his household meet government official Lu Qi when he visited the Guos' mansion because he considered Lu too ugly and treacherous?
 * ... that Expedia, Inc. made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Travelscape for over US$89 million?


 * 22:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the mossy leaf-tail gecko (pictured) of Madagascar possesses dermal flaps which disguise its outline?
 * ... that Jens Jensen initiated the establishment in 1901 of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres?
 * ... that there are 30 million smokers in Japan, making the country one of the largest tobacco markets in the world?
 * ... that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
 * ... that Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg?
 * ... that the Workers Committee for National Liberation, a communist labour group, was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
 * ... that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City?
 * ... that Estonia generates 90 percent of its power from oil shale?
 * ... that Henri Pépin extended the notion of riding the Tour de France to stopping in good restaurants and sometimes finishing 12 hours behind the leaders?


 * 12:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" (listen) was rediscovered by a staffer at the Library of Congress in 2003 after it had been believed lost for over 100 years?
 * ... that German geologist Heinrich Edmund Naumann discovered a new species of fossil elephant in Japan?
 * ... that Grigory Orlov is credited with subduing the Russian plague of 1770-1772?
 * ... that the cruise ship Costa Allegra was originally built as the container ship Annie Johnson?
 * ... that the Gashash HaHiver trio, which included Shaike Levi, was awarded the Israel Prize in 2000 for lifetime achievement and contribution to Israeli entertainment and society?
 * ... that the Troy, New York post office has been in ten different places since it was first established in 1796?
 * ... that Dr. T. M. Nair founded India ' s Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty?
 * ... that Actionable Offenses is a CD compilation of profane and sexually explicit phonograph recordings from the 1890s, which Anthony Comstock’s Society for the Suppression of Vice managed to get banned?


 * 06:50, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that there are 91 locks on the Canal du Midi (pictured) in the south of France?
 * ... that The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism?
 * ... that the oceanic dolphin Costero is officially the same species as the river dolphin Tucuxi, even though they have been unambiguously demonstrated to be genetically different?
 * ... that the 2007 Bengali film Kaal, based on the lives of four women trapped in the world of human trafficking, is in trouble with the Bengali regional censor board over some scenes considered too graphic?
 * ... that after failed attempts for 1964, 1968 and 1972, the Calgary Olympic Development Association successfully brought the Winter Olympics to Calgary, Canada in 1988?
 * ... that Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War?
 * ... that during Mexico City's colonial period, so many grand mansions were built that the city gained the nickname of the "City of Palaces"?
 * ... that the inshore marine fish bumpnose trevally and longfin trevally are similarly shaped and thus often misidentified, reportedly even in some museum collections?


 * 00:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Lake Pichola (pictured), an artificial fresh water lake created in 1362, is named after the nearby Picholi village in Udaipur city?
 * ... that despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan ' s advocacy of Japanese nationalism, government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
 * ... that the acceptance of a Cannes Gold Lion by the art director for Nike's Pretty television ad marked the first time the award was given to a Lebanese person?
 * ... that King Dhatusena, who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks, an irrigation canal, and the Avukana Buddha Statue?
 * ... that the gate piers of Ferne Park, a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire, England, are Grade II listed structures?
 * ... that an opponent of Australian politician Ian West suggested he was better known by "seagulls" than by the constituents of Manly?
 * ... that Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan had three wins and no losses as the California Angels' Opening Day starting pitcher?
 * ... that angry St Ives, New South Wales residents threatened to disrupt upcoming film Accidents Happen by playing the bagpipes during filming?


 * 18:55, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel won a medal as a fine artist in Paris before becoming a children's book illustrator (example pictured)?
 * ... that the Ediacaran organism Eoandromeda may represent the earliest animal fossil unless it turns out to be an alga?
 * ... that Naganandini is the 30th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music?
 * ... that during the mid-20th century, cemesto panels were used in both prefabricated housing and houses designed by prominent architects?
 * ... that New York noise-rock band Flux Information Sciences ' s 2001 album Private/Public was recorded before an invited audience of 50 friends who stood around the studio naked and blindfolded?
 * ... that Australian politician Christine Robertson once addressed a "Dorothy Dixer" question to the wrong Minister in Parliament?
 * ... that St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam in County Galway, Ireland, contains a 12th-century arch which has been called "the finest example of Hiberno-Romanesque architecture"?


 * 13:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that during World War I, the German Army produced shale oil from Yarmouk oil shale deposits in Jordan to operate the Hijazi Railway (pictured)?
 * ... that Daryl Veltman was the first overall selection in the 2008 Entry Draft by the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League?
 * ... that in order to get her first and only film role, actress Phyllis Welch MacDonald had to sign a contract pledging not to marry or become engaged for six months?
 * ... that in 1929, Western Australia celebrated its Centenary of foundation, which included dances, race meetings, an air race and other sporting events?
 * ... that the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle established the internationally accepted definition of the precautionary principle?
 * ... that the blue trevally, a popular gamefish in South Africa, was first described in 1775 based on a specimen taken from the Red Sea?
 * ... that pitcher Jackson Todd threw 13 complete games during the 1973 college baseball season, a University of Oklahoma record which still stands?
 * ... that in Hopi mythology, the Kachina Nataska enforces good behavior among children?
 * ... that Australian politician Lynda Voltz 's step-father and grand step-father were also politicians?


 * 08:39, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the deep water offshore fish whitefin trevally (pictured) has excellent eyesight in the dark due to the presence of tapetum in its eyes?
 * ... that the 1996 Opening Day game for the Oakland A's at Cashman Field in Las Vegas marked the first time in 39 years that a regular season major league game was played in a minor league stadium?
 * ... that four questions about how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office?
 * ... that the Henry DeLand House has served as a private house, an inn, a speakeasy, a bar, a restaurant and most recently, a catering hall?
 * ... that gemstones and heroin are traded from Burma to China for motorcycles and household goods across the Shweli River, which forms part of the boundary between the two countries?
 * ... that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America?
 * ... that an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human?
 * ... that Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio?


 * 02:10, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Apega of Nabis was an ancient torture device similar to the iron maiden, invented by King Nabis of Sparta (pictured on coin)?
 * ... that the call made by Limnodynastes dorsalis, a frog species in Western Australia, is similar to the sound of a plucked banjo string?
 * ... that William Headline, who spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN, was described by Wolf Blitzer as having "the best name in news"?
 * ... that purity of the Sasthamkotta Lake water for drinking use is attributed to presence of a large number of larvae called cavaborus, which consume much of the lake's bacteria?
 * ... that former Norwegian government minister Johan Henrik Rye Holmboe was subject to an impeachment case in 1926–27, but found not guilty?
 * ... that actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.?
 * ... that the Yellowspotted trevally is a species of inshore marine fish of the family Carangidae found in the Indo-Pacific region?
 * ... that writers associated with the modernist literary magazine Profil included Køltzov, Lunden, Obrestad, Haavardsholm and Vold?
 * ... that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville?


 * 19:59, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Naksansa (pictured) is a Korean Buddhist temple founded in 671 CE near the place where the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is believed to live?
 * ... that cargo ship USS West Ekonk was laid down, launched, and completed in 73 working days in 1918, becoming the ninth-fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
 * ... that P. T. Rajan, the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from April 1936 to August 1936, was a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford?
 * ... that Major League Baseball pitchers Jesse and Virgil Barnes, who each made two Opening Day starts for the New York Giants, were brothers?
 * ... that Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
 * ... that the teenage couple in Nicholas Sparks' 1999 novel A Walk to Remember refrain from sex, due partly to the author's concern that such a plot twist might offend his readership?
 * ... that children have trouble attributing implicit meaning to aspect verbs implicating non-completion such as start, but find implicit meaning in degree modifiers such as half, as in half-finished?
 * ... that African-American actor Gaius Charles is named as an homage to Gaius Julius Caesar?


 * 15:13, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in 1889, Frank Wyatt created the role of the Duke of Plaza Toro (pictured) in The Gondoliers before becoming owner of the Duke of York's Theatre?
 * ... that guest stars on The Greatest Show on Earth, an ABC circus drama in 1963–1964, included Lucille Ball, James Coburn and Edgar Bergen?
 * ... that after suffering from serious design problems, the Norwegian Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9 fighter aircraft was retired in 1932 on the orders of defence minister Vidkun Quisling?
 * ... that Manchester United gave Stockport County a freezer full of ice cream in exchange for the transfer of footballer Hugh McLenahan in May 1927?
 * ... that Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire, German Empire and the Russian Empire, created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland?
 * ... that Manor Community College, a Cambridge school, has a headteacher who used to present a BBC childen's programme?
 * ... that Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe?
 * ... that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries?


 * 08:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Wycoller Hall (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a murdered wife, who foretold the hall's ruin?
 * ... that in the aftermath of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the Kościuszko Uprising occurred in 1794?
 * ... that a tour guide at Fond du Lac's Octagon House claims that visitors hear the ghosts of an earlier owner's small children laughing and playing?
 * ... that lawyer Hal Kant spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead, exercising so much influence with the band that his business cards identified his role as "Czar"?
 * ... that sightings of a ghostly figure in the Culbertson Mansion is one of Indiana's many ghost legends?
 * ... that Western Local Escort Force was organized by the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1942 as a response to German U-boat raids known as the Second Happy Time?
 * ... that when New Paltz's Elting Memorial Library caught a possible ghost on its security camera, the YouTube video received more views than the village has residents?


 * 02:11, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the DR 6 nebula (pictured) was nicknamed "The Galactic Ghoul" by scientists at NASA because of its resemblance to a human face?
 * ... that the future King George V was among 13 people aboard HMS Bacchante who saw the infamous ghost ship Flying Dutchman off South Africa in 1881?
 * ... that the theme of poison dress can be found in Greek mythology, Mughal Indian folklore, and American urban legends?
 * ... that educational music has been shown in research to promote learning?
 * ... that the Halloween Pennant is a North American species of dragonfly?
 * ... that when Cornelius Holmboe was appointed Norwegian Minister of Justice in 1928, the cabinet lasted only for 18 days?
 * ... that Hawgsmoke is a biennial United States Air Force bombing, missile, and tactical gunnery competition for A-10 Thunderbolt II units?
 * ... that the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta is a race featuring large hollowed-out pumpkins in which contestants paddle a half-mile course across a lake?
 * ... that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 mi away?


 * 20:54, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in Mesoamerican folklore, it is believed that a dog (mythical dog pictured) carries the newly deceased across a body of water into the afterlife?
 * ... that Abandon's music was first discovered when a record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door?
 * ... that phasmophobia is a fear of ghosts?
 * ... that Holton Windmill did not have a fantail when it was a working mill?
 * ... that Halloween in the Castro, San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
 * ... that Lars Andreas Oftedahl, member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, was also a renowned speaker?
 * ... that the Mother Shipton Moth is named after the likeness of the legendary witch Ursula Southeil on its wings?
 * ... that the high school quiz competition Brain Game has aired on local television in Indianapolis since 1972?
 * ... that in The Fairy's Dilemma, Victorian dramatist W. S. Gilbert parodied the harlequinade, a genre that had fascinated him since childhood?


 * 15:35, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" (pictured), an excellently preserved mummy?
 * ... that the wife of sawmill owner Julius Nicolai Jacobsen was said to haunt their house in Fredrikstad, Norway after she died?
 * ... that some types of vampire moth can bite and drink human blood?
 * ... that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development?
 * ... that millions of children participate in Halloween-related fundraising events for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, a program that has raised over US$188 million worldwide?
 * ... that using the memory of his late sister as motivation, Tyler Sloan made his National Hockey League debut on October 21 after seven years in the minor leagues?
 * ... that Harold Owen claimed the ghost of his brother, the poet Wilfred Owen, appeared to him on board HMS Astraea a week after Wilfred's death?
 * ... that candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween?


 * 09:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in classical mythology, Cerberus (pictured) is a monstrous dog with multiple heads that guards the gates to the underworld?
 * ... that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
 * ... that The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
 * ... that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning, who directed the films Dracula and Freaks?
 * ... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 seaplane was a military trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, and served from 1929 until the 1940 German invasion of Norway?
 * ... that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England?
 * ... that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York?
 * ... that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick" of 2006?


 * 03:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the name of Shichirigahama (pictured), a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?
 * ... that Luther Prentice Bradley, a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade?
 * ... that Captain Abu Raed, Jordan's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?
 * ... that three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed, as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election?
 * ... that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain?
 * ... that as founder and former chairman of Primedia, Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines, including American Baby, National Hog Farmer, Chicago and New York?
 * 16:37, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that six of the seven destinations added by Horizon Air (airplane pictured) in 1982 when they purchased Air Oregon, are still operated today?
 * ... that the proposed Macau security law would make treason punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison?
 * ... that during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong hung buckets of mud with urine in trees to thwart American people sniffers?
 * ... that key relevance is a locksmithing term that refers to the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key?
 * ... that the winner of the 2008 United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands will be the very first Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands?
 * ... that despite being built for the Spanish Navy, the frigate Santa Margarita spent just five years in service with them, but served for nearly 60 years with the Royal Navy?
 * ... that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan?


 * 13:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Neoclassical style Embassy of Germany in Saint Petersburg (pictured), whilst reviled by the Saint Petersburg artistic community, was admired by Adolf Hitler?
 * ... that Vince Naimoli, founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey?
 * ... that Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, now a protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era?
 * ... that British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer-husband?
 * ... that during the 1990 ethnic clashes in Osh between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, 5,000 crimes were committed?
 * ... that no football team in Berlin was declared the winner of the Berlin Cup in 1969 because the penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw?
 * ... that 2.2 million people participated in the U.S. 2008 Kids Pick the President event held by the Nickelodeon TV network?


 * 13:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in 1894, US$20,000 to US$40,000 mysteriously disappeared from the Mississippi Levee Board, of which General Samuel W. Ferguson (pictured) was both secretary and treasurer?
 * ... that Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul, built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
 * ... that mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
 * ... that the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon, was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders?
 * ... that the Global Health Council is an international membership alliance of public health professionals in more than 100 countries?
 * ... that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky, U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James?


 * 00:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that yellow-bellied sliders (pictured), popular as pets, are found in a wide variety of habitats, including rivers, floodplain swamps, seasonal wetlands, and permanent ponds?
 * ... that Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
 * ... that in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
 * ... that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint?
 * ... that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao?
 * ... that between 1874 and 1884, Norwegian politician Jens Holmboe was the head of four different government ministries, each on at least two occasions, the tenure ending with impeachment?
 * ... that the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola?


 * 15:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the freshwater snail Radix auricularia (pictured) serves as a host to numerous parasites, some of which can infect humans?
 * ... that an intense rivalry between composers Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Emilio Arrieta helped rekindle the popularity of Spanish opera during the mid 19th century?
 * ... that USS Philippines (CB-4) and USS Puerto Rico (CB-5) were scheduled to be the fourth and fifth of six Alaska-class "large cruisers" of the U.S. Navy, but were canceled prior to construction?
 * ... that tin(IV) fluoride, a chemical compound of tin and fluorine, is used in toothpaste to prevent dental decay?
 * ... that the largest group of Asian residents in Germany are Vietnamese, totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?
 * ... that Against All Odds is a video game developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees designed to teach players about the plight of refugees?
 * ... that Dorothy Miner was acknowledged as the person "who helped establish the legal right to designate landmarks" in the U.S. for her role in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City?


 * 09:31, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the people of Khichan, India have a tradition of offering five quintals of grain per day to Demoiselle Cranes (pictured)?
 * ... that at any given time, the United States holds as many as 31,000 illegal immigrants in administrative detention while they await removal proceedings?
 * ... that in Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea, a road sings the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to passing car drivers on the road?
 * ... that at the time of her completion in 1918, American cargo ship USS West Lianga (ID-2758) held the distinction of being both the fastest-launched and the fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
 * ... that production on the 1969 Fred Zinnemann film Man's Fate was canceled one week before shooting was to begin?
 * ... that Australia Post took over the postal service on Christmas Island in 1993 and promised to issue Christmas stamps?
 * ... that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White?


 * 03:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?
 * ... that in 874, Byzantine admiral Niketas Oryphas hauled his ships overland over the Isthmus of Corinth in order to catch an Arab fleet by surprise and defeated it?
 * ... that Stanley Kubrick dismissed his 1953 film Fear and Desire as "a bumbling amateur film exercise"?
 * ... that in 1930/31, John Stephenson made 117 runs and took six wickets for the Europeans cricket team to guide the European side to an innings victory against the Indians cricket team?
 * ... that Nettleship-Falls syndrome, the most common type of ocular albinism, may be caused by recessive mutations in the X chromosome?
 * ... that in 1961, Bishop of Hamar Kristian Schjelderup ordained the first female priest in the Church of Norway?
 * ... that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist, Stirnerite wing?
 * ... that Julio A. Garcia, called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo, Texas, once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court?


 * 21:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Allied Arts of Seattle, a major force in preserving the city's Pioneer Square (pictured) and Pike Place Market, began as the Beer and Culture Society?
 * ... that up to 78 percent of 1,016 leading political figures in post-Soviet Russia have served previously in organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence services like the KGB?
 * ... that former Ohio House of Representatives minority whip and current U.S. House candidate Steve Driehaus coordinated the largest U.S. professional exchange program with the "new" South Africa?
 * ... that the Tamil film Meera based on the life of poetess-saint Mirabai was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage?
 * ... that Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
 * ... that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12, the last trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the intended replacement of the 1920s Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8, was only built in a prototype before the German invasion of Norway halted work?
 * ... that before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers, and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?


 * 15:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Parikrama, an integral part of Hindu ritual, involves walking around a sacred object or place, as Ganesha (statue pictured) walked around Shiva in legend?
 * ... that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15?
 * ... that the unusual breeding season of the Monteiro's Storm-petrel was the first clue that led to the cryptic species' recent discovery by scientists?
 * ... that in the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball, Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship?
 * ... that the cost of operating mine ventilation fans can account for one-third of the entire electrical power cost for a typical underground mine?
 * ... that prior to Singapore's first Formula One race in 2008, the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973?
 * ... that because Seattle's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?
 * ... that women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India?


 * 08:14, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Radiohead (pictured) have received ten nominations at the Grammy Awards, which won them the Best Alternative Music Performance award twice, for OK Computer in 1998 and Kid A in 2001?
 * ... that Mike and Janet Huckabee became the first governor and spouse to run on the same ballot for state office in the 2002 Arkansas gubernatorial election?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Qiao Lin was both born and executed on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar?
 * ... that three of the Texas Rangers' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
 * ... that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University?
 * ... that although the freshwater snail Valvata piscinalis is widely distributed in some parts of North America where it is non-indigenous, it is endangered in some of its native areas?
 * ... that Anna Elinor Jones was jailed as an accused Confederate spy due to being involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick?


 * 17:43, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that after Moses Collyer built his retirement home (pictured) in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?
 * ... that Morelia spilota spilota, the Diamond python, of East Gippsland live at the highest altitude of any python?
 * ... that best-selling author Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women, spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment?
 * ... that the Supreme Court of Israel judge Yoel Zussman was awarded the Israel Prize in 1975 for his contributions to Israeli law?
 * ... that Paal Brekke has been called the father of modernism in Norway?
 * ... that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale?
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty official Cui Youfu had a dispute with his superior Chang Gun over whether a mother cat allowing a mouse to live with her constituted a sign of good fortune or ill fortune?
 * ... that USS Samoa (CB-6) was scheduled to be the last of six Alaska-class "large cruisers" built for the United States Navy, but was canceled prior to construction?


 * 10:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Church of England (Archbishop of Canterbury pictured) launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation that calls God to protect us from be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil?
 * ... that during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
 * ... that The Best Little Girl in the World, a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa, was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder?
 * ... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
 * ... that the earliest references to the hill station of Kodaikanal had been made in works of Sangam literature?
 * ... that a former White House media manager was hired to make the political television comedy Running Mates more realistic?
 * ... that Bloodhound SSC is a pencil-shaped car powered by a jet engine and a rocket being designed to travel at approximately 1000 mph?


 * 04:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Victorian plant collector Charles Maries introduced over 500 species of plants to England, including Viburnum plicatum "Mariesii" (pictured) which was named after him?
 * ... that Mickey Rooney won a Golden Globe Award in 1964 for his ABC sitcom Mickey?
 * ... that Australian politician Greg Pearce was a director of Clean Up the World?
 * ... that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from Perth Airport to Rottnest Island Airport, a distance of 32 km?
 * ... that actress-singer Anabela, who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music?
 * ... that U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 mi across Iowa to the Wisconsin border?
 * ... that former Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett ' s country house, Kew Palace, was subsequently sold to the Royal Family?
 * ... that American Student Assistance is the oldest guarantor of student loans in the United States?


 * 22:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that AMiBA (pictured) is a radio telescope located on Mauna Loa in Hawaii that is being used to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies?
 * ...that although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia?
 * ... that four of the candidates for either Governor or Lt. Governor in the 2008 American Samoa gubernatorial elections have ancestral ties to the Manu'a Islands?
 * ... that Moshe Landau, who presided over the Eichmann Trial as a Supreme Court of Israel judge, later headed a commission that investigated the Israel Security Agency?
 * ... that British Tamils Forum is formed to highlight the humanitarian and human rights condition of Tamils in Sri Lanka?
 * ... that charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times?


 * 22:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that as many as 50–70% of people who survive traffic accidents have facial injuries (X-ray pictured)?
 * ... that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality?
 * ... that Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song "Feel Good Inc.", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals?
 * ... that the Lind Coulee Archaeological Site provided the first evidence of ancient human occupation of Washington, U.S.?
 * ... that Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?
 * ... that three 1972 Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania were each awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the university in 1973?
 * ... that The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, a western variety and comedy series, was cancelled by ABC in 1962 after 13 weeks?
 * ... that Danish-born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King?
 * ... that the rock band Matchbox Twenty received two Grammy Award nominations in 2004?


 * 17:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in 2008, the IUCN revised the conservation status of the Central American Squirrel Monkey (pictured) from endangered to the lesser risk status of vulnerable?
 * ... that the current Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa, Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, is the younger brother of the late Governor Tauese Sunia?
 * ... that Gwen Stefani's 2005 song "Hollaback Girl" received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Choreography?
 * ... that PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington?
 * ... that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
 * ... that Moshe Smoira, the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel, was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire?
 * ... that the Higginbotham's, based in Chennai, is India's oldest bookstore in existence?
 * ... that Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?


 * 15:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the first recorded owner of the Spanish Inquisition Necklace (pictured) was an Indian Maharaja?
 * ... that Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted?
 * ... that Henry Tsang was the first Asian-Australian to be Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney?
 * ... that Washington State Route 8, which currently runs from Elma to Olympia, originally used the current route of U.S. Route 12 from Elma to Grand Mound, from 1964 until 1967?
 * ... that exhibition drag racer Wild Bill Shrewsberry drove the drag racing replica of the Batmobile from the popular 1966 American television series Batman?
 * ... that there have been 28 New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty due to a criminal act?
 * ... that the monastic goldsmith Spearhafoc became Bishop-elect of London in 1051, but absconded abroad with a large treasure after his consecration was prevented?
 * ... that SearchFox, a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering?
 * ... that Bill Cunningham ' s lucky street photograph of Greta Garbo in 1978 has led to a 30-year career with The New York Times?
 * ... that the Prussian state railways was the largest German company by number of employees in 1907?
 * ... that upcoming film Afterwards is shot entirely in English, despite being written and directed by Frenchman Gilles Bourdos, adapted from a French novel and co-produced by a French production company?


 * 05:00, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Napoleon Bonaparte presented the Napoleon Diamond Necklace (pictured) to his wife to celebrate the birth of his son, Napoleon II?
 * ... that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia, but also the most populous?
 * ... that Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
 * ... that Animerica, launched in 1993, was one of the first American professional anime and manga magazines, and was one of the most popular throughout the 1990s?
 * ... that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect?
 * ... that Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons?
 * ... that the Division of Altenburg in Saxony led to a war between two brothers in 1446 known as the Bruderkrieg, or Saxon Brother War?
 * ... that Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance?
 * ... that three Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York graduated together from the City College of New York in 1937?
 * ... that William Shay, a ragman in New Hamburg, New York, built a duplex and warehouse/stable that were unusually ornamented for their time and region?


 * 22:51, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the portraiture of Elizabeth I (pictured) contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen?
 * ... that Addison Road was the first debut Christian music act to receive a special Napster website stream of their self-titled debut album?
 * ... that  Vasilissa ergo gaude, the first known motet by Guillaume Dufay was to celebrate the marriage of princess Cleofa Malatesta to the Byzantine lord of Mistras?
 * ... that M-69, a state trunkline highway in Michigan, was truncated in 1960 to one-fifth of its length for 33 years?
 * ... that Baard Iversen, a businessman based in Trondheim, Norway, was nicknamed "the father of the Dovre Line"?
 * ... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Kevin Appier made six consecutive Opening Day starts for the Kansas City Royals from 1992 through 1997?
 * ... that Beth Groundwater ' s A Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007?
 * ... that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia's electricity?


 * 17:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that anti-homeless laws may take on the form of restricting public sleeping (pictured), prohibiting begging, or relocating the homeless?
 * ... that Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
 * ... that the United States Department of War was once headquartered in the Munitions Building, a temporary structure built on the National Mall (Potomac Park) in Washington, D.C.?
 * ... that P. Munuswamy Naidu, senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency, British India, supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party?
 * ... that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?
 * ... that The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting, received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
 * ... that the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea?
 * ... that Bulgarian television director Hacho Boyadzhiev once worked as a stoker on a Beirut–Marseille steamship?