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3 December 2024
- 00:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy
- ... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
- ... that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
- ... that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
- ... that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
- ... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
- ... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
- ... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting stairs?
- ... that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
- ... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?
2 December 2024
- 00:00, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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Carmen, canoe designed by Carl Smith in 1882
- ... that a canoe (pictured) designed by Carl Smith accompanied a circumnavigation of Earth in 1883–1885?
- ... that although no people died in the 1984 Southland floods, about 12,000 sheep perished?
- ... that while conducting research for Kingdom of Characters, author Jing Tsu visited archives across multiple countries and continents?
- ... that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
- ... that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
- ... that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony?
- ... that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
- ... that Peel's Cut, a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
- ... that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election?
1 December 2024
- 00:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
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Nayib Bukele
- ... that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (pictured) has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
- ... that following its deconsecration, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
- ... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
- ... that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
- ... that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
- ... that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
- ... that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
- ... that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
- ... that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?