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15 January 2021

12:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Patent diagram for the Deats plow

... that a Deats plow (illustrated), patented by John Deats in 1828 and manufactured by his son Hiram Deats, was donated by his grandson Hiram Edmund Deats to Rutgers University for an agricultural museum in 1929?
... that the Argentine government took over operations of television channel 8 at Mar del Plata in 1973, only to privatize it again a decade later?
... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
... that in The Autistic Brain, Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
... that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the Peace of Utrecht?
... that Södermanland runic inscription 140 has a runic cross that is either a pagan invocation of the Norse god Thor or one of the earliest mentions of Sweden?
... that the Nukegate scandal was precipitated by the largest business failure in the history of South Carolina?
... that during Francis Reynolds's command of HMS Augusta, the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?

00:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Model of Galactic Radiation and Background satellite 1 (GRAB-1)

... that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
... that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
... that Canadian football broadcaster Ernie Calcutt coined the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning"?
... that television station WKAB-TV of Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
... that M. P. Alladin depicted rural Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
... that a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
... that the Lectures on Theoretical Physics are based on thirty years of lectures given by Arnold Sommerfeld, a man Wolfgang Pauli once described as "the epitome of the scholar and the teacher"?
... that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording?

14 January 2021

12:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Adi Utarini

... that Adi Utarini (pictured) was listed as one of Nature's 10 in 2020 after she released infected mosquitoes all over Yogyakarta to control dengue fever?
... that It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School was the first film to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against gay people?
... that Esat Uras, a major perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, later wrote "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'"?
... that a Canadian Supreme Court case about administrative law granted citizenship to a child of covert Russian agents?
... that the conchfish conceals itself in the mantle cavity of a living mollusc?
... that 2NE1's "I Am the Best" topped the Billboard World Digital Songs chart after being featured in a Microsoft commercial?
... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
... that campaigners to save the Happy Man Tree, named England's Tree of the Year for 2020, presented an axe made from papier-mâché to the mayor of Hackney?

00:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Pencil towers in New York City

... that the new slender, super-tall skyscrapers in New York City are known as pencil towers (examples pictured)?
... that Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe pledged financial support to send Indonesian military commander Herman Asaribab to the United States Army Command and General Staff College?
... that at 5,593 pages, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the longest bill ever passed by the U.S. Congress?
... that both Elfriede Jelinek's 2013 play Die Schutzbefohlenen and the ancient Greek play that inspired it deal with refugees fleeing to Europe?
... that Bru McCoy transferred from USC to the University of Texas and back to USC in less than six months?
... that women are prohibited from entering the Chisapani Gadhi in Nepal due to the belief that this could bring them bad luck or even death?
... that the 2020 EFL League Two play-off Final is believed to be the first competitive match played behind closed doors at Wembley Stadium?
... that "Fujiyama Mama", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?

13 January 2021

12:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Rosalbina Caradori as Zora, the slave girl

... that a few years after Pacini's opera La schiava in Bagdad premiered in Turin, Rosalbina Caradori performed the title role of the slave girl (pictured) in London?
... that during Sir George Smith's term as governor of Nyasaland, the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
... that according to his 2020 biography, Atomic Spy, Klaus Fuchs felt that passing secrets from his work on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union was for "the betterment of mankind"?
... that Cristin Milioti appears in Death to 2020 as a stereotypical "Karen", having previously worked with its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones in Black Mirror episode "USS Callister"?
... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar?
... that the music video for Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
... that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam?
... that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987?

00:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Konrad von Altstetten, his lover, and his falcon

... that the poet Konrad von Altstetten (depicted) is shown in the Codex Manesse splitting his attention between his falcon and his lover?
... that the owners and residents of the Alwyn Court argued over the legal definition of a window in 1985?
... that Masochistic Ono Band was created by two Japanese voice actors as the house band for their radio program Dear Girl: Stories?
... that the Scottish gynaecologist Benjamin Philip Watson was examined in surgery by Joseph Bell, the model for Sherlock Holmes?
... that the Save Uganda Movement grew from a few hundred members to around 17,000 in a matter of months?
... that "Macorina", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"?
... that Bernie Sanders received significant support from Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee?
... that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad, and a corpse in another?

12 January 2021

12:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Aramaic document in the Khalili Collection

... that the Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents (example pictured) includes the earliest known use in Aramaic of the name "Alexandros" to refer to Alexander the Great?
... that the environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan investigated claims of interspecies communication made by the conservationist Anna Breytenbach?
... that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River?
... that British businessman William Brooks Close and his two brothers started a colony in Iowa while owning at times almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the best soil in the United States?
... that Atalanta reached the semifinals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988 while playing in the Italian second tier?
... that Olive Whitlock Klump was the first industrial nurse to work for the U.S. government?
... that the developers of Paper Mario: Sticker Star de-emphasized a proper story because fewer than one percent of players found the plot of the previous game interesting?
... that WhopperCoin attempted to turn a burger into an "investment vehicle"?

00:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Werner Heisenberg

... that the biographies Uncertainty and Beyond Uncertainty show, contrary to popular belief, that there is no evidence that Werner Heisenberg (pictured) impeded the German nuclear weapons program to prevent Hitler from obtaining a bomb?
... that Hector Munro Chadwick postulated the Heroic Age as a distinct stage in the development of human societies?
... that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
... that Wolfgang Marschner was the violinist in the first public performance of a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, his Sonatine, with the composer as the pianist?
... that when Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was formed, about two-thirds of its men were unarmed?
... that Rohana Muthalib, the first Indonesian cosmetologist, was also the first woman mayor of Pontianak?
... that it took Zachary Levi an average of twenty minutes to get into costume as the titular character in Shazam!?
... that an album of poetry read by John Wayne reached the number-13 spot on Billboard's Hot Country Albums chart?

11 January 2021

12:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

M42 sub-basement

... that the M42 sub-basement (pictured) was featured in a navy training film as the safest place in New York during a nuclear strike?
... that Paper Mario: Color Splash was accidentally playable two weeks before its launch?
... that Rosalynn Carter's 1984 memoir First Lady from Plains outsold her presidential husband Jimmy Carter's 1982 memoir?
... that the choral conductor Michael Gläser was called in to lead the Thomanerchor in Leipzig when its musical director Georg Christoph Biller fell ill?
... that the People's Liberation Army in China developed the Dongfeng EQ2050 armored vehicle after seeing the Humvee in action on television during the Gulf War?
... that league executives voted ice hockey player Mitchell Miller as one of the best blueliners in the United States Hockey League?
... that Callimachus's Aetia explains how a lock of hair became an astronomical constellation?
... that Archie Andrews has been described as the "simpiest of the simps"?

00:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man

... that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne (both pictured) had such a strong rapport on screen that some people believed that they were married in real life?
... that hermit crabs such as Paguristes puncticeps raid octopus middens, both for food and for empty mollusc shells?
... that as the health commissioner of Chicago in the 1920s, Herman Bundesen advocated the distribution of prophylactics by the city to combat sexually transmitted diseases?
... that "Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
... that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament, Constituent Assembly, and Senate?
... that Louis Prima being credited as a featured artist on Kids See Ghosts' "4th Dimension" marks the third time Kanye West has given this type of posthumous credit?
... that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment?
... that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition, Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?

10 January 2021

12:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Stockton Flyer

... that the kinetic sculpture Stockton Flyer (pictured) appears at 1 pm each day in Stockton-on-Tees High Street?
... that turbine manufacturer S. Morgan Smith Company made large gun lathes during World War I and large aircraft carrier, gun, and tank parts during World War II?
... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
... that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
... that the judiciary of the Philippines has recognized the legal standing of dolphins?
... that after ice hockey executive Hanson Dowell suspended players on Cape Breton Island, local coal miners threatened to strike in protest?
... that Industry faces Therapy?

00:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Clarence E. Willard, with a photographic effect showing his increase in height

... that vaudeville performer Clarence E. Willard could add 7 ¹⁄₂ inches (19 cm) to his height by stretching (pictured)?
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup will not feature any amateur rugby league teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
... that Harper Pass, a remote hiking trail crossing the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana in New Zealand, was once the most important overland connection between Canterbury and the West Coast?
... that Anil Kapoor called AK vs AK "the fastest film I have done in my career"?
... that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had members of Congress distribute millions of free seed packets to Americans?
... that while Ute Trekel-Burckhardt was a leading mezzo-soprano of the State Opera of East Berlin, she appeared as the Rosenkavalier in Vienna, and in the premiere of Sutermeister's Le roi Béranger in Munich?
... that the largest heroin seizure in the New York City Police Department's history occurred at the luxury apartment tower Central Park Place in 1993?

9 January 2021

12:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Santal 33

... that the social theory of distinction could explain why the more popular the perfume Santal 33 (pictured) became, the less some people liked it?
... that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress Sarah Siddons?
... that Fran Todman, who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her?
... that the Idalion bilingual, one of six Phoenician inscriptions found in 1870 at Dali, Cyprus, was the "Rosetta Stone" for the decipherment of the Cypriot syllabary?
... that Shanghai-born lawyer Ezekiel Toeg formed leading collections of the stamps of the British West Indies?
... that in My Memoir, former United States first lady Edith Wilson detailed how she became Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
... that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that voice actor Justin Roiland got drunk to record the part of Rick in the Rick and Morty episode "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender"?

00:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Mercy dog carrying a soldier's helmet (1918)

... that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land?
... that Pope Pius VI named Leonard Neale the coadjutor bishop of Baltimore in 1795, but Neale did not learn of this until 1800?
... that the Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad consists of about 3,000 pages?
... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando?
... that the Cominform Resolution of 28 June 1948 publicly announced the Tito–Stalin split?
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Montana abortion law in Mazurek v. Armstrong, state courts struck down the law as a violation of the Montana Constitution?
... that Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen dispels the myth that Judeo-Spanish songs have medieval origins and are unique to Sephardic Jews?
... that in The Trouble With Gravity, Richard Panek suggests that our universe's gravity originates in a parallel universe and is leaking into our own?

8 January 2021

12:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Recumbent stone (centre) at Aikey Brae

... that at 21.5 tonnes, the recumbent (pictured) at Aikey Brae stone circle is one of the largest in Aberdeenshire?
... that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier?
... that bathrooms in some German bars have vomiting basins?
... that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote four autobiographical memoirs: This Is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)?
... that Rosl Zapf, a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti?
... that LiDAR can be used to make a digital terrain model?
... that the Butler mansion was built with parquette oak floors, elaborate frescos, wainscot paneling—and a fireproof wing to store the archives of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey?
... that during a spacewalk, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?

00:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Clara Bow

... that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film star Clara Bow (pictured) was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career?
... that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962?
... that fossils of the cypress Taxodium dubium have been found as far north as Spitsbergen and Denali?
... that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii?
... that DTM is the largest gay club in Northern Europe?
... that Socrates Nelson sold a block of land to the city of Stillwater, Minnesota, for $5 in 1867 for the building of a new county courthouse?
... that the Law for the Protection of Macedonian National Honour, created during World War II to quash opposition to Macedonian nationalism, remained in force until 1991?
... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri?

7 January 2021

12:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange

... that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange (pictured) in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on Crete for ten days?
... that when designing the character Madoka Kaname, Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a basis?
... that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event?
... that vaccines are commonly administered via intramuscular injection?
... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
... that an obituary of Neil Peart said he was "sent to Earth to destroy drummer jokes"?

00:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Christine Nagel

... that Christine Nagel (pictured) once created a strawberry-and-popcorn perfume for Dior?
... that the former ASCE Society House in New York City has been home to a tire showroom, a restaurant, and an art shop?
... that Shanti Stupa, Delhi, was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2007?
... that William Cline Borden wrote the first American textbook on X-rays?
... that Bechevinka, an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Kamchatka, is now a ghost town that attracts tourists?
... that Openload, a defunct file-sharing site that once received more traffic than Hulu, was labelled a notorious market?
... that the permeability of rocks affected by faults can increase or decrease as a result of seismic activity?
... that Taylor Swift offered to postpone the release date of Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney's McCartney III?

6 January 2021

12:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Detail from Adoration of the Magi by the Master

... that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration (painting detail pictured), active in 16th-century Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
... that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel?
... that although fracking is banned in Maryland, state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline, which carries fracked gas?
... that Michael White served in the same regiment as his father and married the daughter of another of its officers?
... that in the Mediterranean Sea, recruitment of the bryozoan Callopora lineata takes place in February and March, whereas in the Isle of Man, it takes place all year round?
... that in his first run for Texas House of Representatives, El Franco Lee had to pay a $400 fee to remain on the ballot because his nominating petition did not have enough verifiable signatures?
... that dissections for Gray's Anatomy were carried out at the medical school in London's Kinnerton Street?
... that in a 2018 U.S. district court case, software company Stardock unsuccessfully tried to claim trademarks for the names of aliens from the game Star Control?

00:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Max Born

... that according to a 2005 biography, Max Born (pictured), the author of the classic textbook Principles of Optics, felt dejected when he did not share in the 1932 Nobel Prize that was given to his assistant Werner Heisenberg?
... that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park?
... that Lenín Moreno, who was elected president of Ecuador in 2017, is not seeking re-election in the 2021 general election?
... that Anton Colella was named the chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland even though his only qualifications were in teaching Catholic theology?
... that in "Body", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?

5 January 2021

00:00, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

View of El Paso at Sunset (c. 1922–1925)

... that View of El Paso at Sunset (pictured), a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at El Paso High School?
... that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
... that social projection may explain political polarization?
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
... that Choctaw was one of only three semi-whaleback ships ever built?
... that armed robbers stole an estimated $30–45 million worth of paintings from Sweden's Nationalmuseum in December 2000, including two Renoirs and a Rembrandt?
... that the Strokes lose a game of baseball by a score of 56–1 against a team of robots in the music video for their song "The Adults Are Talking"?

4 January 2021

00:00, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Kathleen Byron as a nurse in Life in Her Hands

... that the British film Life in Her Hands (scene pictured) was produced to recruit women into nursing?
... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately?
... that the frog pond effect describes how it is better for self-evaluation of competence to be a "big frog in a little pond"?
... that Oregon state representative John H. Carkin was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House in 1927, with support from all Democratic House members as well as his fellow Republicans?
... that a section of Japan National Route 114 that was closed following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has since been reopened?
... that the Ava Prince Thray Sithu led two ceasefire negotiations with Hanthawaddy during the Forty Years' War?
... that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?

3 January 2021

00:00, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Panchkuta Basadi, Humcha

... that Panchkuta Basadi (pictured), in the Humcha Jain temple complex, houses a golden-coloured idol of Padmavati carrying a lotus, a goad, and a noose?
... that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund?
... that U-710 was sunk only ten days after beginning her first patrol?
... that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals?
... that 6,000 square feet (560 m²) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
... that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
... that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise?

2 January 2021

00:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Dinah Washington

... that a ranking of the greatest double-entendre songs of all time included "Big Long Slidin' Thing" by Dinah Washington (pictured), "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by Bessie Smith, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by the Swallows, "Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by Wynonie Harris, and "Big Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith?
... that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan?
... that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
... that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"?
... that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
... that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso, strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann, was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann?
... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab?
... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?

1 January 2021

00:00, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Micrograph of fumarole minerals from Tolbachik

... that volcanic fumaroles deposit more than 240 distinct, rare fumarole minerals (examples pictured)?
... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
... that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak, a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole "The Green Prince"?
... that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016, which were widely considered illegitimate?
... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
... that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
... that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?