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13 June 2025

00:00, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Statue of Gigeiten at Akishinodera

... that the sculpture of the Japanese goddess Gigeiten (pictured) at the temple Akishino-dera has an 8th-century head and a 13th-century body?
... that David Mavrogonato was exempted from a tax on Jews due to his services to Venice in the 1450s?
... that The Old Elm was used by the Ottoman Turks to hang captured hajduci?
... that Mohamed Asswai Khalifa was the first Libyan to compete at the Olympics?
... that the author of Octavia based one character on a former lover?
... that Rae Lil Black, who was at one point one of the 20 most popular models on Pornhub, left the adult industry and converted to Islam after visiting Malaysia?
... that the Roman lawyer Cicero defended Gnaeus Plancius in 54 BCE, but neither the verdict nor exactly what Plancius was accused of have survived?
... that Larry Steinbach did not start high school until the age of 22?
... that the Scottish invasion of England in 1648 was defeated by an army less than half their size?

12 June 2025

00:00, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Beta

... that Beta (pictured) brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?
... that an Iowa TV station paid its employees in two-dollar bills?
... that the 1946 Aviators Affair saw more than a dozen Soviet air force commanders and aircraft industry officials purged on Stalin's orders?
... that The Naulahka by Rudyard Kipling depicts the barriers Indian women faced in receiving health care, and the efforts of Western women to help them?
... that Hasto Wardoyo required his municipal employees to buy at least 10 kg (22 lb) of locally produced rice every month?
... that the fourth first lady of Poland manufactured and smuggled nitroglycerin used by the Polish independence movement to attack Russian officials?
... that digitally removing a spider bite from an episode of The Last of Us cost thousands of dollars per shot?
... that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?

11 June 2025

00:00, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Más Notícias

... that an 1895 painting (pictured) stood out to a critic who had described the artist's previous works as a "list of disasters"?
... that Jacques Drollet said that he would have Marlon Brando arrested if Brando ever returned to Tahiti?
... that the mortar for St Peter's Cathedral in Malawi was made from soil formed by compacted termite mounds?
... that the song "100 Great People Who Made Korea Shine" mentions Yi Wanyong, who is known as a traitor for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty?
... that Sheldon L. Toomer, tired of the seven-mile trip to the nearest bank, founded a new one?
... that the founders of the news website San José Spotlight considered San Jose to be a news desert?
... that Najmul Akhyar worked out of a shipping container for some time after the 2018 Lombok earthquakes?
... that fans chartered yachts to hear "Thunder" for the first time?
... that Kent Haruf wrote his final novel in 45 days while dying of a lung condition?

10 June 2025

00:00, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Helen Kendall

... that Helen Kendall (pictured) was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I?
... that suggested responses to nihilism include detachment, resignation, defiance, disruption, and the creation of new values?
... that Sumahadi, a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
... that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us, not an episode of The Last of Us?
... that the first UK private toll road in a century operated for 14 weeks in 2014?
... that The Dark Domain was said by one critic to have placed its author "within the canon of supernatural greats"?
... that Remedios Varo's only sculpture, Homo rodans, is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
... that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock?

9 June 2025

00:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Kitten in an Opishnia decorated vessel

... that Opishnia decorative ceramics (example pictured) use flowers, grapes and wreaths as motifs?
... that Paul Tiulana lost his leg in World War II, and afterwards helped to bring back an Iñupiat dance that had not been fully performed in more than fifty years?
... that The Oceanic Languages is so ubiquitous among scholars of the Oceanic languages that it is known simply as "the blue book"?
... that Blu Fiefer began incorporating pole dancing into her live performances after she visited a strip club in London?
... that, soon after the failure of the first British expedition against Sambas, its commander died of illness?
... that Richard L. Morrill, as president of the University of Richmond, was the highest-paid private-school president in Virginia?
... that, to research her bonkbuster Wicked!, Jilly Cooper visited more than a dozen schools and taught at one?
... that Brian Satterfield worked for United Parcel Service before playing in the NFL?
... that My Little Pony fan music has developed its own music subgenres such as "dubtrot" and "ponybeat"?

8 June 2025

00:00, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Francis W. Joaque

... that Francis W. Joaque (pictured) was one of the earliest African photographers?
... that the Green Bay Packers have twice achieved team-record 23-point comebacks: once in 1982, and again in 2013?
... that Bach's Easter Oratorio has been regarded as a sequel to his St John Passion?
... that Ayman Hassouna led a student expedition to investigate archaeological sites in Gaza?
... that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
... that Annis Lee Wister translated Struwwelpeter from German to English?
... that Femke Bol's time of 49.17 seconds on 2 March 2024 broke her own 400 m short track world record?
... that fighter pilot Luther H. Richmond kept his P-51 Mustang's shiny, silver, no-camouflage finish to tempt enemies into aerial combat?
... that the male pink scaled squid has been observed to mate upside down?

7 June 2025

00:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

... that 170 trips on Sounder commuter rail (pictured) were cancelled in a single winter due to mudslides?
... that John C. Raaen Jr., at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach?
... that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history?
... that Teuku Karimoeddin was arrested by the Imperial Japanese military police for resisting mandatory head shaving and other regulations?
... that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in "My Dinner with Adolf"?
... that Guyanese trade unionist Philomena Sahoye-Shury was nicknamed "Fireball" due to her "outspoken and forthright stance on the workers' behalf"?
... that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia, modern-day Amman, were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
... that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
... that some bodies at Chalandriani were buried with "frying pans"?

6 June 2025

00:00, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Antimonumento 49 ABC

... that sculptures of children's shoes at the Antimonumento 49 ABC (pictured)—honoring those killed in a fire—were later stolen?
... that marmalade, mashed potato and fish knives were all used in the book Class to identify different British social classes?
... that until the 1990s, linguists often confused the Nizaa language with a similarly named local language?
... that Julian Yacoub Mourad, an archbishop of the Syriac Catholic Church, escaped from the Islamic State after being held captive for more than four months?
... that the role of the British Mobile Defence Corps was to carry out rescue work in the aftermath of a nuclear attack?
... that the chairman of the board of a Texas TV station was found to have died from drinking cyanide-laced cola?
... that Tyla became the second female African artist to score multiple solo entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Push 2 Start"?
... that pianist Phyllis Chen started playing the smaller toy piano after both her arms became sore from tendinopathy?
... that Welwitschia mirabilis only ever grows two leaves, which last for the plant's entire life?

5 June 2025

00:00, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Beth Sholom Synagogue

... that Beth Sholom Synagogue (pictured) has been compared to a concrete ship, a teepee with fins, and a giant fish?
... that the Soviet Union designated both communist and non-communist states as national democratic states?
... that Ferdinand I of Bulgaria once described historian Dimitar Agura as having "the eyes, gaze and head of a cat"?
... that Nathan Crumpton was shirtless while holding the flag of American Samoa at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
... that Masanori Tanimoto was elected as the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture seven times?
... that more than 500 American law firms signed an amicus brief opposing their government's actions against law firms in 2025?
... that Juan Astorquia was the captain of the Athletic Bilbao team that won the first Spanish Cup in 1903?
... that Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik's "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is the highest-charting Fifty Shades song on the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that Mike Estep was nicknamed "The Terminator"?

4 June 2025

00:00, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Medway Street footbridge

... that after the Medway Street footbridge had become twisted (pictured) in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, part of it was turned into a memorial?
... that the first defendants indicted for a crime of apartheid have not yet faced trial?
... that the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis has been used to explain burial practices in Greece, Australia, Madagascar and Peru?
... that surveyors in colonial Pennsylvania may have deliberately excluded fertile land from a tract granted to the Okehocking people in 1703?
... that the German explorer Gustav Conrau shot himself in 1899 to avoid recapture, according to a later report by his local interpreter?
... that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal and programming?
... that the music video for "The Kids from Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance was directed by a fan?
... that Scott Burnside received journalism awards for writing about shift work, murders, and ice hockey?

3 June 2025

00:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

National Windrush Monument

... that the National Windrush Monument (pictured) features a family standing on a pile of suitcases and "surveying their new country"?
... that a drawing of a dog was promoted by the president of El Salvador, caused an unaffiliated song to peak on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, and got its original creator doxxed?
... that the naturalised German Mandenga Diek was denied funds to return to his native Cameroon because he wanted to bring his German wife?
... that Chicago's tornado siren has been described as creepier than the city's actual tornadoes?
... that a snowstorm resulted in Mickey Volcan and Garry Howatt becoming the first active players to officiate a National Hockey League game?
... that Església de Sant Serni de Canillo has the tallest bell tower in Andorra?
... that the director of the lesbian film The First Girl I Loved based the plot on true stories gathered from all-girls school graduates he interviewed?
... that butcher Leo Franciosi was also a four-time Olympian?
... that a homily written by Pseudo-Evodius features Jesus and the devil competing in a fishing tournament in the desert?

2 June 2025

00:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Sylvilagus aquaticus

... that the swamp rabbit (pictured) is both territorial and a great swimmer?
... that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June?
... that Samantha Kane led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?
... that the first version of the Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge was heavily damaged by a tornado during construction?
... that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the family who lived in a house wrongly raided by the FBI may sue the government?
... that Romanian sports shooter Petre Cișmigiu demanded the elimination of a pension gap between Olympic and non-Olympic champions, such as himself?
... that the novel Looking Glass Girl was launched at Coventry Central Library to highlight the threat of 17 libraries in the city closing?
... that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?

1 June 2025

00:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Kitty Marion

... that Kitty Marion (pictured) was force-fed over 200 times during a hunger strike?
... that the North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon is the largest ship constructed for the Korean People's Navy?
... that after the release of High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter?
... that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is?
... that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui?
... that Joy Laking predicted in a school writing assignment that within ten years she would be making a living as an artist?
... that the Taiwanese restaurant chain Formosa Chang drew inspiration from McDonald's for its non-greasy atmosphere and corporate practices?
... that Haridas Mitra had his death sentence commuted after the intervention of Mahatma Gandhi?
... that "Steve's Lava Chicken" recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?

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