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• 00:00, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that the opening of The Empire Brunei (pictured) was timed to help create hotel capacity in Brunei for an APEC summit?
• ... that museum administrator Herbert Smith hired a special train so that civil servants could watch a total solar eclipse in 1927?
• ... that Yan Ruisheng, China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
• ... that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank?
• ... that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
• ... that Stanley Washburn's message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
• ... that the first standalone street toilets to cater to both men and women in Auckland were converted into a male-only facility during the Second World War?
• ... that Taurus 09 was the largest Royal Navy deployment in more than ten years?
• ... that the name of Kim Jong Un's daughter has not been publicly disclosed?

• 00:00, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
• ... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
• ... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
• ... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
• ... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
• ... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
• ... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
• ... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
• ... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?

• 00:00, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Light Vessel 95 (pictured) is now a recording studio?
• ... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music?
• ... that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
• ... that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles?
• ... that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
• ... that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping's hotel room in Billancourt, they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao?
• ... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written?
• ... that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?

• 00:15, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that heavy-metal guitarist Kiki Wong (pictured) played drums for Taylor Swift before joining the Smashing Pumpkins?
• ... that during the colonial period, the Dutch East Indies was the third-largest exporter of tea after the British Raj and Ceylon?
• ... that the director of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds once described the film as "gaysploitation"?
• ... that Xu Xinfu adapted the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan for Chinese audiences?
• ... that large aircraft once operated on a regular basis from Griffin–Spalding County Airport despite it only having a 3,100-foot-long (940 m) runway?
• ... that Susanne Craig won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her reporting on Donald Trump's taxes after receiving a copy of his tax records in her mailbox?
• ... that New York City's Hotel Marseilles, once a shelter for Holocaust survivors, later became affordable housing for the elderly?
• ... that Anatolii Brezvin helped establish a youth hockey championship in Ukraine, and sought to open 60 ice rinks?
• ... that the Union of Assyrians's mishandling of shoe-polishing stations led to violent conflicts in 1920s Moscow?

• 00:00, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay?
• ... that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
• ... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
• ... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
• ... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
• ... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
• ... that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
• ... that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
• ... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?

• 00:00, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Charles J. M. Gwinn (pictured) was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
• ... that "Every Night", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
• ... that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
• ... that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
• ... that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy kept its shape in India's hot weather?
• ... that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games, but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
• ... that the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
• ... that Władysław Umiński's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade?
• ... that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri" when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK?

• 00:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Mount Rainier cannot be seen from Panhandle Gap (pictured), despite the trail being "possibly the best day hike" in Mount Rainier National Park?
• ... that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film, vaudeville, cabaret, and burlesque performances?
• ... that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali, who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria?
• ... that a charity founded by Henry Smith in 1628 now has assets of more than £1 billion?
• ... that the 2024 Talerddig train collision was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since 1991?
• ... that New World Mall was the largest Asian shopping mall in the Northeastern United States upon its opening in 2011?
• ... that Mariah Carey used a sample from the New Zealand duo Adeaze in her 2005 song "Your Girl"?
• ... that working at a post office was how Derrick Harden became an NFL player?

• 00:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that the murder of Wang Lianying was followed by a blitz of newspaper coverage, books, stage performances, a film, and songs (example featured)?
• ... that Michael F. Adams was the first president of Centre College not to be a Presbyterian?
• ... that between 30 and 300 million rupees' worth of goods were plundered during the Afghan sack of Delhi?
• ... that Shuah Khan, the first woman fellow of the Linux Foundation, "signed off" on a patch recommending the use of inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel?
• ... that Benjamin Britten was said to have composed Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus "in the face of death"?
• ... that Last Call BBS contains a chip-manufacturing game, a model-building simulator, a game of solitaire, and more?
• ... that Pablo Barragán originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist, but was more attracted to the clarinet because he thought it resembled the human voice?
• ... that Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama, carried 160,000 vehicles in 2018, instead of 80,000 as it was intended to hold?
• ... that according to the author of Stuff Matters, holding a sample of an aerogel is "like holding a piece of sky"?

• 00:00, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Song Zhenzhong (pictured), the son of Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia, was detained by the Kuomintang before his first birthday and executed at the age of eight?
• ... that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst, before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
• ... that Sankar Montoute became the first NFL player from Trinidad and Tobago in 1987?
• ... that a San Francisco–area radio station sometimes had to be quiet to avoid disturbing patients at a nearby dentist's office?
• ... that Bethwel Henry was the first Micronesian to receive a degree in his field, and served as a United Nations delegate at the age of 25?
• ... that the novel Bloody Bread, about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by communist censors for "glorifying the United States"?
• ... that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci?
• ... that the fishing cat mainly inhabits wetlands and preys predominantly on fish?
• ... that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose?

• 00:00, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Texas and Pacific 610 (pictured) was once bought for $1?
• ... that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
• ... that although the plant species Dolichostachys elongata was first described in 1962, it was not considered validly published until 60 years later?
• ... that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
• ... that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
• ... that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
• ... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
• ... that the Trilobite Wilderness is so rich in trilobite fossils that in places virtually every rock contains a fossil?
• ... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?

• 00:00, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Elogio del Horizonte (pictured) has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet"?
• ... that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi?
• ... that a modern Polish fairy tale, written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
• ... that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network?
• ...that Malik Arslan was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt due to his ties with the Ottomans?
• ... that The Gust of Wind is Renoir's attempt to paint air?
• ... that Equatorial Guinea's national abortion law is, as of 2022, one of only eleven that requires a woman to get her spouse's approval to receive an abortion?
• ... that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?
• ... that "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" has been credited with bringing dubstep to the mainstream?

• 00:00, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that the choreography of "How You Get the Girl" during the 1989 World Tour (pictured) resembled that of the musical Singin' in the Rain?
• ... that Johann Friedrich Hartknoch published the first edition of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason?
• ... that according to the Laws of London, merchants from lands ruled by the German emperor enjoyed special trading privileges in 11th-century London?
• ... that language activist Hasan Ali spent more than 20 years compiling a dictionary of the Osing language?
• ... that a Chinese poet wrote about a Syriac church in Sichuan without knowing what it was?
• ... that the politician Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia?
• ... that housewives were encouraged to keep Edmonds baking-powder tins to be used as bombs?
• ... that the members of Nocturna met for the first time while recording their debut album?
• ... that tyromancy is a form of fortune-telling using cheese?

• 00:00, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that socialists received 31 percent of the vote in the 1917 Łódź City Council election (campaign poster pictured), but the system implemented by the German occupying authorities only gave them 8 percent of the seats?
• ... that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
• ... that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
• ... that Roger Farmer, the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
• ... that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
• ... that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
• ... that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
• ... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
• ... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

• 00:00, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Rincón Chileno (pictured) was nicknamed the "second Chilean consulate" by the Chilean immigrant community in Los Angeles?
• ... that before selling chicken and pies, 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) Eddie Sheldrake broke UCLA's single-game scoring record in basketball?
• ... that a book known as the "Polish Pinocchio" was published a hundred years ago?
• ... that Sun Jianai co-founded one of China's first national universities in 1898?
• ... that in its 1962 election campaign, the Socialist Party of India demanded that twice-yearly inter-caste dining be made a mandatory criterion for government employment?
• ... that the 2000 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was the first to be broadcast live over the internet?
• ... that the cast of The Perfect Couple created a WhatsApp group to avoid filming a dance sequence to the theme song?
• ... that Negussie Roba was an Olympic sprinter who later became a top marathon coach?
• ... that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by dropping bricks into them?

• 00:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Martha Washington's portrait on the 1896 US one-dollar silver certificate (pictured) is the most recent time that a woman has been featured on US paper money?
• ... that Dalibor Riccardi, a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?
• ... that at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was booed for visiting the "wrong" Pennsylvanian gas station chain?
• ... that Eunus, a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
• ... that China was once the "Kingdom of Bicycles"?
• ... that Alan Rosen once sold 2,400 cheesecakes in four minutes to television shoppers?
• ... that Checheyigen's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire?
• ... that the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies houses a John Steinbeck archive of more than 50,000 items?
• ... that "Buy Cash" is the speaker of the House of Assembly of Eswatini?

• 00:00, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday-night parties?
• ... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
• ... that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay?
• ... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
• ... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
• ... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
• ... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
• ... that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?

• 00:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that The Cock Destroyers (pictured) released a trans-inclusive sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer?
• ... that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs?
• ... that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety?
• ... that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine?
• ... that "All Hell Breaks Loose", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
• ... that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature?
• ... that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
• ... that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?

• 00:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that members of the Fijian Labour Corps (pictured) attracted notice on the Western Front of World War I for their height and muscularity?
• ... that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art?
• ... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
• ... that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I?
• ... that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH?
• ... that Wilf Perreault's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles?
• ... that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"?
• ... that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond, who grew up in poverty, was known as the Volksrebbe ('people's rabbi') for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam?
• ... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?

• 00:00, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that an enigmatic ancient site deep in Madagascar (pictured) may have been built by Zoroastrians?
• ... that Jacques Lewis, a 105-year-old French veteran of D-Day, insisted on participating in a ceremony commemorating the invasion's 80th anniversary?
• ... that a memorial in Suffolk, England, marks the deaths of six members of a scout troop in a 1914 boating accident and that of the sole survivor two years later in the Battle of the Somme?
• ... that, according to his family, Ye Yanlan was compelled to leave government service after speaking Cantonese in front of the emperor of China?
• ... that the suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica, Cyprus, and much of Egypt?
• ... that 50 Lan occupied the number-one spot in Taiwan's bubble tea market for most of 2023?
• ... that the world's oldest timepiece with an anchor escapement is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Time?
• ... that editors often line up in rival camps during contentious disputes on Wikipedia and the winning side typically cites encyclopedic policies to favor their viewpoint?
• ... that although Hugh O'Neill publicly assisted the English Crown in thwarting Irish rebels during the Nine Years' War, he was secretly the leader of the Irish confederacy?

• 00:00, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that despite being Barcelona's starting goalkeeper for 1972, Núria Llansà (pictured) played one match as right-back?
• ... that the Lichfield War Memorial includes a life-size depiction of Saint George and a slain dragon?
• ... that the current flag of Falcón, a state of Venezuela, was first hoisted at the Monument to the Venezuelan Federation in 2006 and is based on the design of the 1806 naval flag of Francisco de Miranda?
• ... that Abraham Hamadeh lost one of the closest elections in Arizona history by 280 votes, and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the results?
• ... that during the Second World War the British government transmitted German music to Nazi U-boats?
• ... that photographer Charles Biasiny-Rivera and fellow members of the artistic collective En Foco drove around New York City in his Volkswagen Bus putting on art exhibitions in Latino neighborhoods?
• ... that sculptor Moelwyn Merchant described his 1982 piece Growing Form as resembling "a tulip bud with the front leaf pulled out"?
• ... that the music video for "It's OK I'm OK" was edited to make its singer appear naked?
• ... that hot-dog vendor Dan Rossi has slept inside his cart overnight to preserve his spot in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

• 00:00, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Kent Brushes have supplied their products (examples pictured) to every British monarch since George IV?
• ... that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty?
• ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
• ... that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss?
• ... that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales, had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021?
• ... that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis?
• ... that a "glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
• ... that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later?
• ... that the Holy See has been represented by an anime-style mascot?

• 00:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Rico Lebrun refused to submit sketches of Genesis (detail pictured), a mural commissioned by Pomona College, for approval by its board of trustees?
• ... that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on?
• ... that the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Prison Service were breached by protestors in 2003?
• ... that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks?
• ... that the owner of the De Vinne Press Building finalized his purchase of the building while in an elevator?
• ... that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"?
• ... that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay?
• ... that a superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department posed as a corrupt officer during covert operations?
• ... that The Lock-Up, an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?

• 00:00, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that The True Record (issue pictured) closed shortly after implicating Provisional President Yuan Shikai in the assassination of Song Jiaoren?
• ... that Allison Reese has received millions of views for her impressions of Kamala Harris?
• ... that the embassy of the Philippines in Bucharest is the country's first mission in the Eastern Bloc?
• ... that the lyrics of Gigi Perez's "Sailor Song" were criticized by far-right conservative Christian communities?
• ... that the first Chinese driver to race in Formula One debuted at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix?
• ... that several major U.S. politicians have spread conspiracy theories about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season?
• ... that Tenzin Doendrup, the 68th Je Khenpo and chief abbot of Bhutan, issued a decree to stop the practice of animal sacrifices?
• ... that Manhood was Josh Hawley's second book to be published by Regnery, after he was dropped by Simon & Schuster for his support of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election?
• ... that Vivian Stranders, a British-born Jew, served as an officer in the Nazi SS?

• 00:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that the name of the Japanese band Sajou no Hana (vocalist pictured) has no official meaning?
• ... that From Warsaw to Ojców, an 1897 Polish adventure and travel novel for young readers, was inspired by Jules Verne's works but reflects Polish patriotic and educational values?
• ... that a portrait engraver made the controversial decision to change a Sioux chief's war bonnet so that it would fit on the 1899 United States five-dollar silver certificate?
• ... that Charli XCX once followed George Daniel into a toilet but stopped halfway, and later wrote the song "Talk Talk" about the experience?
• ... that Rose O'Neill's marriage to Hugh Roe O'Donnell united two powerful noble families that had been rivals for centuries?
• ... that the practice of some Christians of making the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th century?
• ... that Frederick Prigg and his predecessor as secretary of the Provisional Government of Oregon were both doctors who drowned in a river at Oregon City just three years apart?
• ... that a rainbow plaque marks the site of Peckham's Black Lesbian and Gay Centre?
• ... that one of the paintings sold by Beijing Hanhai was stolen by an emperor, and another was hidden in a well?

• 00:00, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that a screen based on the circuitry of a rat brain (pictured) is displayed on the façade of the Jerusalem-based Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences?
• ... that the Korean War allowed Don Bragg to set a UCLA basketball record for the most rebounds by a varsity freshman, which stood for almost 40 years?
• ... that the Indonesian pulp and paper industry collectively controls over 10 million hectares of land?
• ... that Tore Skeie's first book, written while he faced severe financial hardship, won him a prize of NOK 100,000?
• ... that 1977's Typhoon Thelma was the most destructive event in Taiwan since World War II?
• ... that Sammy Basso was the oldest known person with progeria?
• ... that the 2024 psychological horror game Mouthwashing utilises non-diegetic scene transitions that mimic glitches and crashes?
• ... that John W. Keogh killed an attorney to encourage redistricting?
• ... that Methuselah likes belly rubs?

• 00:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that Chinese sculptor Pan He created the Zhuhai Fisher Girl (pictured), an icon of Zhuhai?
• ... that Toby Keith's last recording before his death was a cover of Joe Diffie's "Ships That Don't Come In" on the tribute album Hixtape: Vol. 3: Difftape?
• ... that swimmer Alex Portal and his brother Kylian Portal both won medals in the same event at the 2024 Paralympics?
• ... that the Chinese community of Kota Kinabalu sponsored the creation of the Malaysia Monument just 20 days before it needed to be completed to mark the formation of Malaysia?
• ... that Marine chaplain Francis W. Kelly was known as "Father Foxhole" for his presence on the front lines of the Pacific Theater?
• ... that in October 2024 Manawanui became the first Royal New Zealand Navy vessel to be lost in peacetime?
• ... that self-help author Beth Kempton held positions at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
• ... that when the E-Defense was commissioned in 2005, it was the world's largest 3D earthquake shake table?
• ... that the Puck Building has two gilded Pucks?

• 00:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that convict James Davis (pictured) escaped custody in Australia and lived with Aboriginal Australians for 13 years?
• ... that America's first small-size silver certificate was referred to as a Funnyback?
• ... that the British Army deployed companies of aliens to France during the First World War?
• ... that Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters in the multi-screen film installation Manifesto?
• ... that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach?
• ... that the tenants of a New York City apartment building protested against its owner by going to a racetrack and betting on his horse?
• ... that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei?
• ... that the Nualas' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote?
• ... that Ivan Ivan played for the Eagles and the Eagles?

• 00:00, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that the basement of the Edmonds Band Rotunda (pictured) was once used as a kitchen?
• ... that a member of the second Adrian Hasler cabinet was expelled in 2019 following an embezzlement scandal?
• ... that after Liam and Noel Gallagher's band Oasis announced "the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour", Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher criticised some fans for ageism and sexism?
• ... that oral repositories are individuals trusted with memorising a society's oral traditions, and have been termed "walking libraries"?
• ... that David de Pomis published a trilingual Hebrew–Aramaic, Latin and Italian dictionary in 1587?
• ... that Come In was recorded on a hands-free microphone attached to a pair of headphones?
• ... that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize, the highest honour in British rifle shooting?
• ... that Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures excludes mentions of Nazism that are present in the Indiana Jones films?
• ... that Mitch Torres is a "self-proclaimed damper destroyer"?

• 00:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

• ... that a photograph of Chili Williams, known as the "Polka Dot Girl" (pictured), was one of the "two most famous pin-up pictures" of World War II?
• ... that diverse fields study the mind, including psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy?
• ... that NFL player Muadianvita Kazadi viewed football as "war", according to a teammate?
• ... that, despite Delibird being directly inspired by Santa Claus, TheGamer refused to give it the title of Christmas Pokémon?
• ... that a German court's decision involving football stadiums may preclude Facebook from arbitrarily banning users?
• ... that Yang Pao'an refused to forsake the Chinese Communist Party, reportedly even after a telephone call with Chiang Kai-shek?
• ... that despite being commonly found off the coast of Argentina, Diplodus argenteus is not named after the country?
• ... that the music video for John Lennon's "You Are Here", issued half a century after the song was released, shows previously unseen footage of Lennon?
• ... that politician Teleke Lauti unseated a former prime minister, was himself unseated by a future prime minister, and later ran again to replace a former prime minister?

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• ... that slime monsters (example pictured) have been described as both "a tool for questioning the idea of human exceptionalism" and "loyal punching bags"?
• ... that some Idaho mountain deathcamas are pollinated by carrion and flesh flies rather than bees?
• ... that What a Merry-Go-Round closed with evil clowns cavorting around a carousel?
• ... that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection?
• ... that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating?
• ... that Vincent Darré had a Parisian apartment decorated with skulls?
• ... that the song "Haunted" "blends cuteness and spookiness"?
• ... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
• ... that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA?
• ... that the zombie film Get the Hell Out was shot at the currently abandoned Kaohsiung City Council Hall, which had neither water nor electricity?
• ... that the Devil's Doorway is found in Wisconsin?