Ingenpedia:DYK/January, 2021

This is the Did You Know archive for January of 2021.

January 7

 * ... 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?

January 6

 * ... 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?

January 5

 * ... 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"?