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31 March 2023

00:00, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge (pictured) is the oldest-known stone bridge in the Scottish Highlands?
... that following the killing of Richard Ward by a Colorado sheriff's deputy, the deputy received an award for the injuries that he allegedly sustained during the incident?
... that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are hardened against electromagnetic pulses?
... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... that J.J. Wright fused Gregorian chant with jazz in his advent album O Emmanuel?
... that the site of the 1910 lynching of Allen Brooks was unmarked for 111 years?
... that out of 84 people running for governor seats in Bolivia in 2021, Mirtha Arce was one of just seven women and was the first woman from the Tarija Department to run?
... that while Egypt has the Order of the Nile, Sudan has the Order of the Two Niles, White and Blue?

30 March 2023

00:00, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the Clock Tower of Haridwar (pictured) in India provides a good location from which to watch the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri?
... that Dale Johnston was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his stepdaughter and her fiance in 1982, and 30 years after the murders declared innocent?
... that in 1945, Kasman Singodimedjo lobbied other Islamist leaders not to implement sharia law in Indonesia?
... that a woman who died from Alzheimer's was memorialized by her granddaughter through posthumous vocals in a song?
... that Tobi Oluwayemi and his older brother Josh are both goalkeepers who played for Tottenham's youth academy?
... that the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad, created as an alternative to the New Haven Railroad, was absorbed into the New Haven after just 11 years?
... that Kong Dongmei, the granddaughter of Mao Zedong, and her husband have an estimated net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$815 million)?
... that there is ice fishing in Turkey?

29 March 2023

02:37, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that women including May Mann Jennings (pictured) were responsible for creating Florida's first state park?
... that naval units from around 50 countries took part in the Pakistani naval exercise AMAN-23?
... that Hugo Krabbe stirred up much controversy in the interwar period by arguing that the law, not the state, is the true sovereign?
... that a 1943 performance of Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche used anagrams to disguise the suite and its composer from Nazi censors?
... that all three of Jane Severance's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book, which was the first picture book to include such characters?
... that when the Numidian king Syphax attempted to rally his fleeing army at the Battle of Cirta he was thrown from his horse and captured?
... that Andrew Sorrell, State Auditor of Alabama, initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
... that Frederic Growse's book Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District annoyed the British Indian government so much that they allowed only one edition?

28 March 2023

00:00, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Rudaki (portrait pictured) is acknowledged as the founder of New Persian poetry in Iran and the father of Tajik literature in Tajikistan?
... that Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez's concert Iconic has been referred to as a venture of two unrivaled names in the music scene of the Philippines?
... that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Willets Point Boulevard station served practically no resident population by 1949?
... that in 1982 the British civil defence exercise Hard Rock was cancelled when twenty local authorities refused to participate?
... that Ron Labinski has been described as the world's first sports-venue architect?
... that Malinau Kota, Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency, is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
... that after publishing a fictional account of women who survived a Nazi concentration camp by sewing dresses, Lucy Adlington was contacted by descendants of actual dressmakers?
... that a same-sex kiss scene in the seventh episode of The Last of Us was censored in some regions?

27 March 2023

00:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Frances Cleveland (pictured) was the first United States first lady to have dedicated journalists write about her activities?
... that the Stanhope Demonstrator was the first machine to solve problems in logic?
... that in 1993, Indonesia's home affairs minister Yogie Suardi Memet used thugs to disrupt the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party's national congress?
... that Colonel Mohamed Hashi Lihle's speech after freeing more than 700 prisoners from Mandera Prison first popularized the Somali National Movement in Somaliland?
... that American football fullback Harry Bolick was described as being a more effective blocker than an iron fence?
... that Bayfront MRT station in Singapore has public art that features ships powered by whales and dragons, hand-drawn by children?
... that the "updown" singer piri funded her music career by setting up an OnlyFans account?
... that An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital was considered unusual for introducing the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital?

26 March 2023

12:00, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the 1st Armoured Division of the British Army chose a white rhinoceros on a black oval as their insignia (pictured)?
... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization?
... that the concert series Regine at the Theater was conceived two years earlier but was delayed after singer Regine Velasquez suffered acid reflux?
... that Hodges Figgis, a bookseller in Dublin, celebrated its 250th year with the largest ever anthology of new Irish writing, with 250 contributors?
... that two American officers bribed Japanese troops with their watches to have Dutch medical officer Henri Hekking allocated to their prisoner of war camp?
... that at least 14 people were killed during the 1978 Tabriz protests in Iran, which were meant to commemorate the dead in the 1978 Qom protest?
... that the Unitized Group Ration – Express is designed to heat food itself without the need of a field kitchen?
... that on his death, medical historian Edgar Underwood was described by The Times as one of the last of a dying race, the "canny Scot"?

00:00, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that two members of the French parliament were killed when a delayed-action German bomb exploded in the town hall at Bapaume on 25 March 1917 (aftermath pictured)?
... that Hixxy and Sharkey created a schism in the UK rave music scene in 1995?
... that the earliest Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions contain Arabic names and loanwords?
... that Alexandra Hunt, a former stripper, opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives?
... that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead, Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?
... that New Haven, Connecticut, was home to the world's first commercial telephone exchange?
... that an English country house was the location for the 1970s horror sexploitation films Virgin Witch, Satan's Slave and Terror?
... that the 1989 Georgetown–Princeton basketball game made Bob Scrabis "the face of Cinderella"?

25 March 2023

12:00, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that two dresses (one pictured) recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck may be the only such items in existence?
... that Ralph E. Brock was the first academically trained African-American forester in the United States?
... that the system of native administration, used in Sudan to govern rural areas, was adapted for use in camps for internally displaced people?
... that Muhammad al-Jawad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams and, with his unexplained death at about twenty-five, the shortest-lived?
... that Newark Liberty International Airport was the first commercial airport in the United States with a paved airstrip?
... that on the opening night of her concert R3.0, singer Regine Velasquez also released a triple album of the same name?
... that Panagiotis Kavvadias boasted that he had excavated the Acropolis of Athens so thoroughly that "not the slightest quantity of soil ... [had] not been investigated"?
... that Ron Brown, the United States secretary of commerce, leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C., whose owner turned out to be his lover?

00:00, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that some song choices by Regine Velasquez (pictured) in her concert series Solo were viral hits from TikTok?
... that in 2008, Grafton Street had the fifth-highest property rental prices in the world for retailers?
... that Claude Vivier was inspired to compose Shiraz after hearing two blind singers in a market?
... that the programming language Acorn System BASIC was so non-standard that one commenter suggested that using it on the BBC Micro would be a disaster?
... that Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin tried to pass a decree in 1994 that would have prohibited wearing hijab in Egyptian schools?
... that Kainé from the video game series Nier was created in response to a female staff member's vague wish for a "male heroine"?
... that Stan Robb played professional football for the team coached by his brother?
... that Russell Court in Bloomsbury, London, has more than 500 "bachelor flats"?

24 March 2023

12:00, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle (pictured) to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Walter White was a member of the prosecution for the Scopes trial in 1925 despite not passing the bar until 1944?
... that the investigation of Team Jorge, an Israeli disinformation outfit, led to the suspension of a prominent French news anchor?
... that No, Ma'am, That's Not History, Hugh Nibley's rebuttal to Fawn Brodie's divisive biography of Joseph Smith, started a trend of polemics in Mormon apologetics?
... that some fossils thought to be ancient marine animals have been reinterpreted as seaweeds?
... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?
... that the Brisbane Lions' AFL women's team in the AFL Women's season seven became the first AFLW team to score more than 200 points across the first three rounds of a season?
... that in the 1960s one could have tea and toast served to your changing room at the Carlisle Turkish baths in England?

00:00, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that in 2006, U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir (pictured) became the first male skater to win the U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s?
... that niwar, a material used for weaving cots, was once produced in Indian jails?
... that parts of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hungary were thought to be Gothic until wall probes showed otherwise?
... that before getting their own office space, independent children's publisher Lollipop Power stored books "under beds, in attics, [and] under ping-pong tables"?
... that saxophonist Braxton Cook appeared in three Tiny Desk concerts for NPR as a sideman, before performing as a featured artist in 2020?
... that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers' Communist League?
... that prior to serving in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, rancher Osney Martínez sought to be elected the mayor of San Borja, as his mother had been before him?
... that the owner of a Pennsylvania radio station compared his job to that of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler?

23 March 2023

12:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland (pictured) hosted concerts at his house for $10—or $9 if you brought your own chair?
... that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?
... that Linn County clerk Del Riley established Oregon's vote-by-mail system, now used as the only voting method in the state?
... that Pinky & Pepper Forever is a graphic novel that follows two anthropomorphic dog girlfriends through hell?
... that within 15 minutes of the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit, all the British officers in the battle were either killed or seriously wounded?
... that Chinese leader Xi Jinping called common prosperity an essential requirement of socialism but also said that it does not represent uniform egalitarianism?
... that in 2022 David DeJulius pledged to donate his student athlete compensation from jersey proceeds to provide books to inner city youth?
... that Parkville lost out on becoming the Colorado Territory's capital by eleven votes and is now a ghost town largely buried under mining waste?

00:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that when unable to catch Cyrtodactylus santana (holotype pictured) during the day, surveyors returned to its caves under the cover of darkness?
... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag?
... that girls at a school for children deemed "educationally subnormal" were given far less freedom than boys in order to prevent "sexual misbehaviour"?
... that Justin Schultz was personally recruited by Hockey Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey to join the Edmonton Oilers in 2012?
... that in 2019 the South African army's Natal Carbineers were renamed the Ingobamakhosi Carbineers, after a Zulu regiment that had fought against them at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana?
... that to attend the 1915 Women at the Hague Congress, Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train?
... that "Spelling on the Stone", released in 1988 by an uncredited vocalist purporting to be Elvis Presley, inspired a number of Elvis sightings eleven years after his death?
... that Tolkien was not sure if Orcs were made of slime or were corrupted Elves?

22 March 2023

12:00, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the Benjamin N. Duke House (pictured), owned by the same family for more than a century, was later sold to a former taxi driver?
... that writer Naoko Sato was initially worried that the character Kat would come off as "too Japanese" for overseas audiences?
... that as a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, Shirley Franco presented a bill that would penalize street harassment with up to eight hours in jail and a 500-boliviano fine?
... that the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game between Baylor and Gonzaga was the first since 2005 to feature the top two overall seeds of the NCAA tournament?
... that Frances Helen Prideaux's skill convinced Sir William Gull that women were intellectually capable of being doctors?
... that Bella Ramsey struggled to hold a real rifle while filming the eighth episode of The Last of Us?
... that although previews called Panzer Dragoon Orta's story a sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga's, developers have said that it might reflect an alternative timeline?
... that It's So Amazing won an award from the American Library Association before entering the organization's list of the most banned books of the decade?

00:00, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Saint Barbara (pictured) in Palma Vecchio's Polyptych of Saint Barbara has been said to express the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman?
... that the doll company American Girl published The Care and Keeping of You, a book explaining puberty, after receiving thousands of letters from children asking about it?
... that Alia Bhatt's first screen appearance was as the younger version of Preity Zinta's character in the 1999 horror film Sangharsh?
... that in 2022 Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw addressing the "task of this generation" that was overshadowed by an apparently ad-libbed nine-word comment?
... that the Ancient Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Barcelona is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe?
... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
... that the comet C/1963 A1 (Ikeya) was discovered by 19-year-old amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya using a self-made telescope?
... that a temple once housed the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet?

21 March 2023

12:00, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that adultery was commonplace within Edward VII's Marlborough House set (pictured) but divorce was considered unacceptable?
... that Kenny Williams set a Polish Basketball League record with 14 three-point shots in a game?
... that the 2015 campaign Woman to Woman included a "Pink Bus" that was mocked by critics as sexist and patronising?
... that composer Igor Stravinsky fled Russia after the October Revolution, but returned once in 1962 to conduct in Moscow and Leningrad, meeting Nikita Khrushchev during the visit?
... that the season finale of The Last of Us used real giraffes?
... that Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz described the 16th-century play The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys by Jan Kochanowski as the finest specimen of Polish humanist drama?
... that despite being accused of cowardice at the 28 March 1879 Battle of Hlobane, John Cecil Russell rose to become a major-general?
... that a Florida TV station claimed freeze damage to its transmitter as the reason it had to delay its first broadcast?

00:00, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that a condominium conversion of Manhattan House (pictured) cost US$1.1 billion and took ten years?
... that it is controversial whether knowledge is the same as justified true belief?
... that baseball player Joey Marciano is a cousin of world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano?
... that some families feel pressure to reclassify their child to compete with their peers who have repeated a grade?
... that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words?
... that a South Carolina TV station went on the air 12 years after its owner said the odds of it existing were "fairly long"?
... that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami, Tokyo?
... that when Luna Park opened in 1906, the first program included "comedy sheep"?

20 March 2023

12:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is used to characterise polycrystalline materials at the micro and nano-scale (example pictured)?
... that Alex Mivedor, who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
... that the jazz collective West Coast Get Down once recorded around 190 songs over the course of a month?
... that Abdul Ghani Azhari wrote Qadim Tarikh-e-Gujjar in Urdu, detailing the ancient history of Gujjars in India?
... that the 2022 essay and short story collection Kilometer 101 was published shortly after the author fled Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that at 23, Roman Mejia reached the rank of principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, where his father had also danced?
... that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon?
... that Rancho Obi-Wan contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles?

00:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the Williamsburg Bray School – the "oldest extant building in the United States dedicated to the education of Black children" – was moved a second time in February 2023 (pictured)?
... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life?
... that Gimix acknowledged in 1980 that its computer for home automation was like a "Hollywood-type toy"?
... that on his 1994 song "London's Brilliant Parade", Elvis Costello used a Dobro guitar as an homage to the Kinks' "Lola"?
... that when investigative journalist Dan McCrum published his findings of the Wirecard scandal, German authorities investigated him instead of the company?
... that a Texas man who, on his front porch, fatally shot a police officer, was acquitted of murder?
... that the post-apocalyptic novel The Mercy Journals was inspired by the Gombe Chimpanzee War, the Rwandan genocide, and the Bible?
... that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I?

19 March 2023

12:00, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the rapid development of the region of Gangnam (pictured) in Seoul was spurred by the 1968 North Korean assassination attempt on military dictator Park Chung-hee?
... that Michael Stuart raised three sons to play in the National Hockey League, then established a sled hockey team?
... that the 2023 Huwara rampage, a late-night spree of arson and vandalism by hundreds of Israeli settlers, was the worst flare-up of Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades?
... that while defending Zaw Myint Maung following his arrest by the Myanmar junta, lawyer Ywet Nu Aung was herself arrested and charged?
... that due to events during the Kinks' 1965 U.S. tour, the American Federation of Musicians blocked the band from performing in the U.S. for the next four years?
... that Sanaullah Bhat is considered the father of journalism in Kashmir?
... that due to a dispute over who owned a road in Delta County, Michigan, eight school children missed two weeks of school?
... that the melody of "Dokdo Is Our Land" is commonly used by South Korean students as a study tool?

00:00, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar (pictured) flew on five space missions and has spent more than 50 days in space?
... that The Scout Mindset, a book about being able to change one's mind, took five years to be published partly because author Julia Galef changed her mind about what to write?
... that 17-year-old cyclist J. Nash McCrea, nicknamed "Crash", caused a major crash at the 1904 Olympics?
... that H. G. Wells wrote the majority of The War of the Worlds while living in Woking, and much of the novel is set in the local area?
... that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government, warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
... that physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's book Existential Physics discusses whether free will, the multiverse, the existence of God, and the meaning of life are topics that science can answer?
... that trampolinist Dylan Schmidt is New Zealand's first Olympic medallist in any gymnastics discipline?
... that the name of the book Private Peaceful came from a misspelled gravestone?

18 March 2023

12:00, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life (pictured) includes a skull with missing teeth as a reminder of human mortality?
... that clothing physiology is the study of how clothing interacts with the human body and the environment?
... that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War?
... that Meghan Trainor announced her song "Mother" while 21 weeks pregnant?
... that Frank Gadsby, nicknamed "Peggy", was a one-legged British stunt diver during the early 20th century?
... that in a lawsuit over Mike Tyson's face tattoo, a judge found it "just silly" to say that tattoos cannot be copyrighted, but refused to delay The Hangover Part II?
... that when the 18-year-old New York City Ballet dancer Mira Nadon performed her first major role, The New York Times called her performance a promise to the future?
... that people sometimes wonder whether the contortionist Sofie Dossi has a spine?

00:00, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the country house Penrhyn Castle (interior pictured) is a mock castle?
... that it has been a goal of Oregon state senator Bill Hansell to get the potato officially designated as the state vegetable?
... that all stable group 5 elements are silvery-blue refractory metals?
... that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai?
... that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses?
... that attempts to locate Stonewall Jackson's arm with a metal detector failed?
... that jazz composer Duke Ellington worked on his only opera, Queenie Pie, from the 1930s until his death in 1974 without finishing it?
... that the Newent Onion Fayre included a raw-onion-eating competition?

17 March 2023

12:00, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that 19th-century construction of the bathing ghat (pictured) at Bulandshahr was delayed because an executive engineer deemed it an "eye-sore"?
... that Aly Tewfik Shousha, a founding member of the World Health Organization, died while attending the WHO executive meeting in Geneva?
... that a swivel weaving technique was used by cloud brocade weavers in Ming-dynasty China?
... that a simple polygon through all the points of a three-by-three grid must pass straight through some of the points, rather than turning at each of them?
... that foreign nationals wishing to gain Philippine citizenship need to demonstrate proficiency in English or Spanish as well as a Philippine language?
... that according to some Shi'i Muslim authors who wrote under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, unbelievers will be reincarnated into animal, vegetable, or mineral bodies?
... that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?
... ... that millennials pause?

00:00, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Clement Ligoure (pictured) treated hundreds of blast victims at his home clinic following the Halifax Explosion in 1917?
... that New York City's Barbizon Hotel hosted its first male guests on Valentine's Day in 1981 after operating as a women-only hotel for more than five decades?
... that the artist and designer Yinka Ilori once made a collection of chairs that were inspired by a Nigerian parable about a giraffe?
... that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe, in Lincolnshire, England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate?
... that Bit House Saloon's menu featured Rocky Mountain oysters?
... that after being a college football player, William A. Brooks became a prominent surgeon, and had several hospitals named after him?
... that the government of El Salvador, the Catholic Church, and street gangs negotiated a truce to reduce homicides from 2012 to 2014?
... that Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting?

16 March 2023

12:00, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Saint John's Island was the site of one of the British Empire's largest quarantine centres (pictured) and held one of the first experimental drug rehabilitation centres?
... that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia?
... that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko, a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo?
... that a robotic controller for the Yamaha Reface CS was described by Mixmag magazine as looking "like an army of robot toothbrushes cleaning a synth"?
... that West Auckland is home to the largest stratovolcano in the geologic history of New Zealand?
... that al-Battani was one of the first astronomers to observe that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies during the year?
... that The Embrace, a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was deemed phallic?
... that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?

00:00, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that at the Grand Slams in tennis, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková (pictured) are on a 24-match winning streak?
... that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan?
... that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible?
... that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”?
... that in 2015, GracePointe Church, Nashville, Tennessee, became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
... that traders from Novgorod supplied medieval western Europe with fashionable furs?
... that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song "Be Sweet" in both Korean and Simlish?
... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?

15 March 2023

12:00, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that after the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured) in Seoul, radiographic testing found that 110 of the 111 connections in the bridge were filled with defects?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope?
... that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust?
... that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?
... that Larry Kennedy played professional baseball while serving as his town's mayor?
... that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet, a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat, and a virtual world?
... that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts?
... that the walls of the Paper House are made from newspaper?

00:00, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip (pictured) inspired the poem "The Raven"?
... that the human rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers at ExxonMobil's Arun gas field spawned a U.S. lawsuit against the company that has been stalled for 20 years?
... that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre" for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia?
... that after the Battle of Winwick in 1648 some Scottish prisoners were sold as slaves?
... that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust?
... that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's "cli-fi" thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
... that Pat Cronin, a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
... that Logical Machine Corporation product range of computers included the ADAM, the Mike, and the Tina?

14 March 2023

12:00, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin (building pictured) voided the 2021 Berlin state election and ordered a repeat election?
... that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland?
... that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers, and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
... that according to media outlet WLOS, surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina?
... that Fionula Brennan's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis?
... that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff?
... that Panagiotis Stamatakis and Heinrich Schliemann quarrelled so much during their excavations at Mycenae that they spoke only through intermediaries?
... that micronations have claimed territory in Antarctica, in international waters, and in space?

00:00, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that footballer Samuel Iling-Junior (pictured) was involved in two goals for Juventus within eight minutes of debuting in the UEFA Champions League?
... that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station?
... that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen, but received her award from the King?
... that alcohol manufacturers claimed the Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study violated their freedom of expression?
... that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute?
... that three of the 16th-century Florentine Otto prints show young males tied to a tree and abused by women?
... that lectures given by Charles Lappenbusch were described as "so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh"?
... that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean?

13 March 2023

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... that the propaganda poster "Women of Britain Say 'Go!'Template:-" (pictured) was part of an attempt to ignore pre-war advances by women and reinforce gender stereotypes?
... that a rare 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar named Amos appeared in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap?
... that the Ilford Park Polish Home in Stover, Devon, is the last surviving of 45 camps established from 1947 to cater for Polish veterans and their dependants in the UK?
... that Lia Lewis became a freestyle football world champion three years after switching over from dance?
... that for the 50th anniversary of the word game Lexicon, the publisher organised a Golden Jubilee weekend that included an alphabet soup dinner?
... that the discovery of anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's diary after his death sparked what was called "a moral crisis of the discipline"?
... that the Storrie Fire was started when Union Pacific Railroad workers were repairing train tracks at the Feather Canyon?
... that the New York Yankees were first named after a Scottish regiment?

00:00, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree (example pictured) at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
... that upon being named the head football coach at Central College, C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
... that an unidentified ancient temple may be the finest example of a "high place" in the Galilee?
... that Rubel Phillips was the first Republican to run in the Mississippi gubernatorial election since 1947 when he ran in 1963?
... that Pronto ComputersTemplate:` System 16 was one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
... that at the 2020 Olympics, Lee Chih-kai became the first gymnast competing for Chinese Taipei to win an Olympic medal?
... that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her science fiction novel Victories Greater Than Death because she thought that alien gender would be unclear to humans?
... that a Milwaukee TV station lost a newsgathering vehicle when it fell through ice and into a lake – while reporting on ice safety?

12 March 2023

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... that archeologists disagree about whether the ancient necropolis discovered in Khirbet Kurkush (tomb pictured) was used by Jews, Samaritans or pagans?
... that Hurricane Henri, a minimal category 1 hurricane, set a rainfall record in New York City's Central Park?
... that a retired high school teacher coached the United States men's national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics?
... that the song "Balladen om killen" was unusually released on two record labels, CBS Records International and Mercury Records, around the same time?
... that Sister Maureen Keleher said that the first freestanding hospice in Hawaii was like an answer to prayer?
... that the Duffield Memorial was termed "quite unique" in 1912, and "unusual" in 2022?
... that the second game in the series The Last of Us was developed by more than 2,100 people across 14 studios?
... that 76 beavers parachuted into Central Idaho in 1948?

00:00, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Formed Police Units (example pictured) may be used by international organizations like the United Nations, European Union, and African Union when military intervention could be excessive?
... that Ben LaBolt is the first openly gay White House communications director?
... that Chickaboom!, by country musician Tami Neilson, was nominated for both Canadian and New Zealand music awards?
... that in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, Justin J. Pearson has pushed for a law banning officers with criminal records from transferring between police departments?
... that Byzantine emperor Maurice was executed at the Harbor of Eutropius?
... that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit?
... that Brian Stableford blamed the cancellation of the follow-up to his 2006 book Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia on the availability of information online?
... that Lake Street station was originally on Pond Street?

11 March 2023

12:00, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller (pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand?
... that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company, consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague, has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that Iván Arias's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure, comics, and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
... that the rector of the University of Indonesia, Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin, introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
... that The New YorkerTemplate:'s purchase of stock in Teleram Communications, a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
... that the novel Alan and Naomi has been called "one of the starkest representations of trauma and traumatic loss"?
... that after each win, the Sacramento Kings light the beam?

00:00, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the only woman to feature in the Temple of British Worthies (pictured) at Stowe Gardens is Elizabeth I?
... that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki?
... that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third-most destructive wildfire in California's recorded history?
... that the Uthmaniyya, the partisans of Uthman, the third Muslim caliph, killed his assassin Kinana ibn Bishr in the First Muslim Civil War?
... that Josiane Lima won Brazil's first Paralympic rowing medal?
... that Caulfield railway station had a ticket office for the adjacent racecourse and a platform for delivering horses to it?
... that police doubt that Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier died shortly after a car accident, even though their bodies were found near the scene three months later?
... that the Baby! 1 microcomputer came shipped in an attaché briefcase?

10 March 2023

12:00, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that former Burmese actress Honey Nway Oo (pictured) turned rebel and took up arms against the military junta following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état?
... that Hammersmith by Gustav Holst was acclaimed by Frederick Fennell for having "some of the most treacherous stretches of music making" in band literature?
... that economist Robin Greenwood's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations?
... that executives of American Family Corporation learned they "could never be the city's news leader" running an underperforming TV station in Columbus, Georgia?
... that Cherry Valentine hid his Romani heritage because he feared he might receive "hate or backlash"?
... that caffoy was a fabric similar to cut silk velvet, made from wool and often used for decorations such as hangings and draperies?
... that S. H. M. Byers not only coined the phrase "Sherman's March to the Sea", but also wrote Iowa's state song?
... that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS?

00:00, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that tram service in Olsztyn (pictured) restarted after no trams had operated in the city for more than fifty years?
... that during the First Balkan War, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles?
... that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
... that the folk ritual jailangkung originates from the Chinese practice of spirit basket divination and has been featured in Indonesian horror films?
... that shortly after his capture in 1918 British brigadier general Hubert Conway Rees was interviewed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany?
... that dishes at the 1888-established Hacı Abdullah Restaurant in Istanbul are cooked in handcrafted copper pots?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that Fortress of the Bear's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?

9 March 2023

00:00, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that National Treasure: Edge of History lead Lisette Olivera (pictured) was dissuaded from an acting career as a child but studied dance, vocals and music?
... that New Zealand activist Pania Newton gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao?
... that the writer of Poison Ivy: Thorns felt the titular DC Comics character was "tailor made for [her] interests as a nature-loving, gay makeup enthusiast"?
... that one of Beverly Robertson's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
... that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri, a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women?
... that Nilofer Khan was appointed the first woman vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir on 19 May 2022?
... that Joanna E. Schanz, who received a lifetime achievement award, revived broom making and basket weaving in the Amana Colonies?
... that a locally developed diagnostic probe is used for breast cancer surgeries in Iran?

8 March 2023

00:00, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the popularity of Boykinia richardsonii (example pictured) with grizzly bears in Denali National Park and Preserve has earned it the common name "bearflower"?
... that in 2021, Uche Eke became the first gymnast to represent Nigeria at the Olympics?
... that an Ohio radio station's satellite dish was vandalized twice in 1991, believed by the station manager to be due to the outspoken conservative stances of one of the station's hosts?
... that Dean Huijsen went from scoring seven goals in one season for Juventus's under-17 squad to playing for their professional reserve team in just half a year?
... that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
... that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao, a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts, was once an apprentice to a painter?
... that mirror neurons may explain the phenomenon of empaths?
... that the Florida Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission reviewed a case in which a deputy sent a woman a photograph of a cake with the words "Sorry I Tased You" in blue frosting?

7 March 2023

00:00, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Rembrandt liked the Jan Lievens painting The Raising of Lazarus (pictured) so much that he acquired it for himself?
... that the singer Luci van Org followed up her mainstream success from the 1990s by starting a "Latin–disco–pop–country crossover" band?
... that a pond of liquid sulfur was discovered at the summit crater of the Daikoku Seamount in 2006 in the Northern Mariana Islands?
... that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo?
... that David Bowie's song "Let's Dance" began as a folk song?
... that the rebooted design of Glimmer from She-Ra was partly inspired by the showrunner's love of Dungeons & Dragons?
... that the Evans Bay Patent Slip was built in 1871 using hundreds of tons of machinery that had sat on a beach for five years?
... that the "Barry White of tennis" is a French chair umpire?

6 March 2023

00:00, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the façade of Hôtel Albert Ciamberlani (pictured) has been described as one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau façades in Belgium?
... that Muchlis Ibrahim opted to resign as Governor of West Sumatra when Zainal Bakar, instead of his choice, was appointed to be his deputy?
... that even though an FCC examiner recommended denial of an application for a radio station in Illinois after approving it twice, the commission granted it anyway?
... that Montagu Toller was a part of the British team that played cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket was ever featured at the Olympics?
... that covers of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" by Manfred Mann and Jonathan King were both coincidentally released on the same day Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident?
... that the Cut Meutia is the only active train service in Indonesia using standard-gauge track?
... that the School for American Crafts recruited faculty from Denmark to teach metalsmithing and woodworking?
... that Ludwig Ahgren showered on camera during his 31-day continuous livestream?

5 March 2023

00:00, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano (pictured) danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history?
... that the Crimean Mountain karst nature reserve in Ukraine has more than 1,000 natural karst cavities?
... that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers?
... that at the battle of the Great Plains in 203 BC most of the Carthaginian army fled, except for 4,000 Iberians who fought to the death?
... that former Union brigadier general J. H. Hobart Ward was struck and killed by a train while on vacation?
... that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces?
... that the New York City Board of Education said Rose Freistater weighed too much to be a teacher?
... that artwork at Shenton Way MRT station depicts everyday people running after an old banknote?

4 March 2023

00:00, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that Generosity of Alexander (pictured) is a painting that shows Alexander the Great giving his concubine to a painter as a gift?
... that after leading the Khoikhoi in war against the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, Doman returned to Dutch service as an interpreter?
... that of thirty-five Palestinians killed in the West Bank in January 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers, twenty were from the Jenin refugee camp?
... that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé?
... that East Timor uses the United States dollar, but produces its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions?
... that Mark Robinson was a world champion in submission wrestling, sumo and powerlifting?
... that Kaharuddin Datuk Rangkayo Basa refused to be buried at a heroes' cemetery, and so was buried at a regular public cemetery upon his death?
... that in the 2000s, New York City's Benjamin Hotel offered a pillow menu and hired a sleep concierge?

3 March 2023

00:00, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that in 1927, Native American activist Chauncey Yellow Robe (pictured) and the Lakota Sioux tribe "adopted" President Calvin Coolidge to thank him for supporting the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act?
... that the old adage "feed a cold, starve a fever" was first published in a 1574 dictionary?
... that Utah state representative Charles Redd successfully proposed the legalization of horse racing and betting in 1925, only to successfully propose making it illegal again two years later?
... that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Suzhou is known for its "hybridity" of Chinese and Western architecture?
... that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France?
... that Comcast removed a Florida TV station from its lineup for allegedly broadcasting home shopping in prime time instead of its normal UPN programming?
... that John Spencer won a World Snooker Championship on his first attempt in 1969?
... that Nothing, Forever is completely procedurally generated?

2 March 2023

00:00, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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... that the bondiola sandwich (example pictured) is a popular street food in Argentina?
... that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier, who had killed his father and uncles?
... that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
... that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there?
... that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers?
... that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
... that Charles Norris-Newman was a war correspondent, a corrupt British colonial official and a Russian intelligence officer?
... that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia, opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?

1 March 2023

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... that Palma Vecchio's A Blonde Woman (pictured) may be a goddess, a lady, or a courtesan?
... that nursing educator Helen Turner Watson was one of the first African-American women to become a commissioned officer in the United States Navy?
... that Lamar Johnson learned American Sign Language for his role in the fifth episode of The Last of Us?
... that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad?
... that George Balanchine choreographed Ballet Imperial to prove that Americans were capable of performing in the traditions of classical ballet?
... that two Norwegians, Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert, as the only Western doctors at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, found themselves as leading witnesses of the 2008–2009 Gaza War?
... that New York City's Lexington Hotel banned tipping when it opened?
... that trains can be pulled by cows?

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