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12 February 2026

00:00, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Nesselrode pudding

... that novelist Susie Boyt described Nesselrode pudding (example pictured) as tasting "of Christmas, without any of the disappointment"?
... that, according to Guyanese authorities, an oil tanker seized by the United States off the coast of Venezuela in 2025 was falsely flying Guyana's flag?
... that a 70-foot (21 m) statue of Lionel Messi was unveiled in India during his G.O.A.T. India Tour?
... that "Right Here, Right Now" was Giorgio Moroder's first song in 15 years to reach the top of the US Dance Club Songs chart?
... that future Slavic-language professor Marc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?
... that the Genshin Impact character Alhaitham is believed to be named after a polymath from the Islamic Golden Age?
... that Diego García Miravete and his college football team's games were closely monitored by the Mexican government in the early 1970s?
... that Erykah Badu recorded Mama's Gun at what was once Jimi Hendrix's apartment?
... that some reviewers thought that A Short Hike was too short?

11 February 2026

00:00, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Deception Pass State Park

... that a Washington state park (pictured) drew more visitors in 2021 than Yosemite National Park?
... that James I. Hopkins Jr., who signed the order to bomb Hiroshima, disappeared without a trace?
... that the critically endangered fish Quintana atrizona has not been seen in the wild since 2007–2008?
... that historian Allen French volunteered as a police officer during a labor strike?
... that a video showing preparations for a campaign speech for mayor of Kharkiv became one of YouTube's top ten most-watched videos of the day?
... that sanquette, a crêpe from Occitania, is made with blood fresh from slaughter?
... that the Canadian Joint Forces Command was created based on operational lessons from the war in Ukraine?
... that a radio station requested changes to a light-rail project?
... that Gu Yanwu destroyed all his poetry following the Manchu conquest and took to wandering across China?

10 February 2026

00:00, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Bombay sandwich

... that the Bombay sandwich (example pictured) typically uses potatoes and chutney, but some versions use chocolate?
... that all five chaplains awarded the Medal of Honor since the American Civil War were Catholic priests?
... that the attorney of the last person executed by Peru requested Pope John Paul II's intervention to save his client's life?
... that mangroves reduced the impact of Cyclone Dana?
... that Variety once called Trisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"?
... that the headquarters of Indonesia's 16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was a Japanese military base, seized by Indonesian youths after Japan's surrender in 1945?
... that shark fin is one of the "four sea delicacies", a quartet of luxury seafoods in Chinese cuisine?
... that Immanuel Iheanacho was measured as a 14-year-old freshman at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and 325 lb (147 kg), with a 7 ft (2.1 m) wingspan?
... that in 1956 a person dressed as the anthropomorphic hedgehog and comic star Mecki traveled by helicopter to more than 100 cities in southern Germany to give children gifts?

9 February 2026

00:00, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Charter of the College of William & Mary

... that the College of William & Mary was established by royal charter (pictured) 333 years ago today?
... that Richard Lee Morton became the head of the College of William & Mary's history department after two years of teaching?
... that Chandler Court and Pollard Park, which were designed and occupied by William & Mary faculty, have been called "two of Williamsburg's most appealing twentieth-century neighborhoods"?
... that Denver Mills, the first underclassman to be captain of the William & Mary football team, also played in the army and a single NFL game?
... that William & Mary's president was unable to get the college to fund the William and Mary Quarterly, so he paid for it himself?
... that Orlando Jones, the maternal grandfather of Martha Washington, was one of William & Mary's first students?
... that five speeches by William & Mary students helped to move Virginia's capital and establish Williamsburg?
... that Althea Hunt founded the William & Mary Theatre, but discouraged students from trying to make a career of it?
... that Thomas Jefferson pushed William & Mary to hire a man with little linguistic ability as its first professor of modern languages?

8 February 2026

00:00, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Male Yucatán molly flaring his dorsal fin

... that Yucatán molly males flare their "sails" (pictured) both to woo and to shoo?
... that Wales's first Commonwealth Games medallist in shooting walked off the podium when the wrong national anthem was played?
... that the writer of the visual novel SeaBed based it on a comic that he drew in his spare time at work?
... that Whispering Woods, the second novel set in the universe of Magic: The Gathering, was later declared non-canonical?
... that Olympian Nam Singh Thapa said his boxing career began when he was arrested and forced to compete in a match?
... that the original occupant of the Farnsworth House likened her experience there to that of a caged animal?
... that in 2002, Sarah Baxendale broke the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss featured on screen?
... that 16 years ago, a man in Ireland slipped on some ice?

7 February 2026

00:00, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Rolling-shutter photograph of a spinning airplane propeller

... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with a rolling shutter (pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling the quadratrix of Hippias?
... that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the former Kilkenny Union Workhouse?
... that 17-year-old video game developers Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin obtained a contract with Electronic Arts by cold-calling them and sending them a copy of Dream Zone?
... that a baby elephant that starred in The Ark was kept in a van outside the director's home the night before filming?
... that Welsh-language activist Joseff Gnagbo came to Wales as a refugee from Ivory Coast?
... that the Fadettes of Boston was named after the titular character of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette?
... that zoologist Evelyn Shaw also worked in the catering industry alongside her husband?
... that the Atlanta Central Library, Marcel Breuer's last completed design, was nearly demolished less than three decades after completion?
... that an Alabama TV station deemed "The Puppy Episode" unsuitable for family viewing?

6 February 2026

00:00, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Oceanic Steamship Company advertisement

... that the Oceanic Steamship Company (advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them to its own fleet?
... that the play Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman recreates the scent of a tree as part of the performance?
... that there were no sex acts in Thea Ehre's nude performance at the 2021 Porn Film Festival Vienna?
... that Gerta Hüttl-Folter became interested in Russian culture after staying with Maria Razumovsky's family while homeless?
... that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
... that a church in Colorado merged with another congregation, was sold, became a nightclub, and then was bought by an offshoot of the merged congregation?
... that volumes of one writer's journalism were variously described as "prattling pieces", delivering "a snigger a minute", and having a "soufflé touch"?
... that American football player Taco Dowler is the twin of a football player who was called "Burrito"?
... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively?

5 February 2026

00:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Nemiah Wilson

... that Nemiah Wilson (pictured) ran a tailoring business while playing in the NFL?
... that Yun Jin's appearance in Genshin Impact draws inspiration from legendary Chinese figures like Hua Mulan?
... that Donald Rumsfeld helped develop a mobile game?
... that Gennady Trifonov was one of the few Soviet dissidents who argued for gay rights?
... that Christian missionaries in China translated and published an inflammatory anti-Christian treatise?
... that a judge acquitted Ben Obumselu of manslaughter due to his "promise as a scholar"?
... that the MPLA launched the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola in 1963 hoping to secure support from the Organisation of African Unity, but the move had the opposite effect?
... that Alberto Giacometti chose the dying photographer Eli Lotar as the subject of his last sculptures, but himself died before finishing them?
... that Cyril Karabus was convicted of manslaughter and forgery in 2004, a verdict he learned of only eight years later?

4 February 2026

00:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Jahangir with a Portrait of Akbar

... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) may depict the emperor Jahangir listening as a portrait of his dead father speaks to him?
... that Achmad Soebardjo said that he adopted a surname after hearing a voice while urinating in prison?
... that Munich's "Shirker's Alley" got its nickname in the 1930s because people used it to avoid giving the Hitler salute at a nearby Nazi memorial?
... that creation of wethers, castrated male sheep or goats, is recorded as far back as the Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age?
... that Allison Lanier traveled between New York and Los Angeles to film for her regular role on The Young and the Restless?
... that the writer of How to Survive from Nine to Five and Between the Covers was inspired by her 27 office jobs and her visit to a strip club, respectively?
... that the baritone Jubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominated Mass?
... that Fluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?

3 February 2026

00:00, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Girardinus metallicus

... that Cuba's Girardinus fish (pictured) may have evolved into different species because the island's rivers are often interrupted by waterfalls or vanish underground?
... that Tinashe's 333 and Wishy's Triple Seven are both named for angel numbers?
... that slipper lamps produced in the Umayyad era sometimes carried bilingual inscriptions with "The Light of Christ" in Greek, alongside "God" (Allah) in Arabic?
... that Anahit Ananyan was credited with starting Armenia's tomato heritage?
... that the relocation of a Mexico City monument resulted in the water-level indicators on its pedestal losing their original geographic alignment?
... that a pre-order ticket campaign for Rhapsody in August saw ¥300 of the ¥1,300 ticket price go to the assistance of birds affected by the Gulf War?
... that Allan Ludwig has been described as the "founding father" of gravestone studies?
... that during the 1939 Abbeville Conference, the first meeting of the Anglo-French Supreme War Council, the parties agreed not to launch large-scale operations against Germany?
... that Haruka No. 2 plays two recorders using her nose, one with each nostril?

2 February 2026

00:00, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Veronika scratching herself with tools

... that Veronika the cow can scratch herself using brooms (depicted)?
... that a popular series interviews celebrities without an interviewer?
... that a Mexican vice admiral who exposed radioactive milk imports was accused of treason and sent to the Revillagigedo Islands?
... that "King Scum" escaped from prison by pretending to be a solicitor?
... that a psychiatrist expressed concern about a patient's paranoia to a colleague the day before the patient killed him?
... that Sarah, Lady Holte, owned hundreds of slaves in Barbados, but only ever met one?
... that the socialist newspaper Radenik was banned after it referred to Jesus as a "socialist, communist, and revolutionary"?
... that Lorenzo Dow Thompson threw Abraham Lincoln in a wrestling match?
... that A Taxonomy of Office Chairs applies evolutionary classification to furniture?

1 February 2026

00:00, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

2010 snowball fight in Washington, D.C.

... that the Washington DC Snowball Fight Association was formed when around 2,000 people showed up to a snowball fight (pictured) organized over Facebook?
... that Emily Sutton illustrated an abridged children's edition of Shakespeare's First Folio with "red-cheeked gentlemen, sword-wielding warriors and ladies in striking attire"?
... that gamblers in Myanmar worship the spirit Thone Myo Shin to ensure victory in cockfights?
... that John A. Jakle has co-authored nine books on "roadside America", including books on motels, road signs, gas stations, parking lots, and fast-food restaurants?
... that Ellie Goulding tied Adele for the most UK number one albums by a British female artist when Higher Than Heaven topped the charts?
... that Robert Van de Graaff, inventor of the Van de Graaff generator, turned to physics after injuries kept him from playing football at Alabama?
... that an unlockable vehicle in Kururin Squash! contains a reference to Super Mario Bros. by honking the horn?
... that the kingship ideology of the Lozi Kingdom emphasised powerful ancestral royal spirits, believed to affect the present?
... that the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Anzio once took the place of an entire fleet?

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