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31 July 2018

 * 00:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the Donald Trump baby balloon was flown over London's Parliament Square and Edinburgh's the Meadows (pictured)?
 * ... that since Brett Cantor fatal stab wounds 25 years ago today were similar to those of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, O. J. Simpson's defense team was allowed to review the police case file?
 * ... that Gevninge, a Danish village dating to the Viking Age or earlier, may have been the port for the seat of the Scylding kings?
 * ... that Kateryna Kasper appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, staged by Barrie Kosky, and in Frankfurt as Antonida in Glinka's Iwan Sussanin, staged by Harry Kupfer?
 * ... that Sigmund Freud regularly played the popular Austrian tarot card game, Königrufen?
 * ... that William Chong Wong, the son of Chinese immigrant parents, twice served as Minister of Finance in Honduras?
 * ... that Dafydd Gibbon is particularly concerned with endangered languages and has received awards from the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Poland?
 * ... that the peanut worm Nephasoma minutum has been referred to as a "taxonomic wastebasket"?

30 July 2018

 * 00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Enoch zu Guttenberg (pictured) conducted Verdi's Requiem in a concert in Rome for Pope Benedict XVI?
 * ... that Marvel Comics published a solo comic book about the teenager Jean Grey from the time-displaced X-Men?
 * ... that Jean-François Bony designed fabrics for the rulers of France before, during, and after the French Revolution?
 * ... that Stanwood station was once served by the "Dinky", claimed by local residents to be the world's shortest steam railway?
 * ... that after Shane Filan's demo for "Beautiful in White" was leaked in 2010, it became a popular wedding song in Asia?
 * ... that the fatal shooting of her son inspired Lucy McBath to advocate for gun control and ultimately run for the United States Congress?
 * ... that the copepod Metridia longa cannibalizes up to 85% of its eggs?
 * ... that footballer Eddie Jenkins turned down a move to Tottenham Hotspur because he thought that "there were better prospects in the milk business"?

29 July 2018

 * 00:00, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that after his first visit to Timișoara in 1307, Charles I of Hungary rebuilt Timișoara Fortress (pictured) in stone, using Italian craftsmen?
 * ... that nearly every person in Val Gagné, Ontario, died in the 1916 Matheson Fire, and the settlement was renamed to honour the heroic efforts of the parish priest?
 * ... that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical egg sacs?
 * ... that the oratorio Sankt-Bach-Passion by Mauricio Kagel, which premiered in 1985 for the tricentenary of Bach's birth, "changed the game by making Bach himself the suffering protagonist"?
 * ... that Vince Lombardi's Packers sweep has been called one of the most famous American football plays in history?
 * ... that Cuitláhuac García Jiménez lost the 2016 Veracruz gubernatorial election to Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, but defeated Linares' son in 2018?
 * ... that the song "Saving Light" was released as part of "Make Trance #1 Again", an initiative that encouraged fans to purchase the song on Beatport to support an anti-bullying charity?
 * ... that Stuart W. Jamieson pioneered pulmonary thromboendarterectomy?

28 July 2018

 * 00:00, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the Novara-class cruisers (SMS Novara pictured) were the largest warships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to be used by the victors of World War I?
 * ... that Antonio Banderas, who voices the character Puss in Boots in the Shrek films, stated that Puss is his alter ego?
 * ... that Grand Canyon explorer Jack Sumner intentionally castrated himself?
 * ... that Australian rules football player Ben Cousins co-produced a documentary film depicting his struggle with drug addiction?
 * ... that Liu Boli was tasked with cleaning up China's nuclear waste?
 * ... that Interstate 86 follows a section of the historic Oregon Trail?
 * ... that according to Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, young well-connected stockbrokers in his firm were known as "orchids" because they were "beautiful but utterly useless"?
 * ... that Liebe und Eifersucht (Love and Jealousy), an 1807 opera with libretto and music by E. T. A. Hoffmann, premiered in 2008?

27 July 2018

 * 00:00, 27 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Fanjingshan (pictured), a sacred Buddhist mountain, was recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage site?
 * ... that by 1969, president Felton Grandison Clark had expanded Southern University into America's largest historically black university by enrollment?
 * ... that despite being unaffected by rabies or pseudorabies, the sea urchin Tripneustes depressus contains antivirals to these diseases?
 * ... that Gujarati theatre actor Pransukh Nayak was entered in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records with 22,455 performances in his career?
 * ... that the siting of a trolley station in front of the new courthouse in San Diego, California, was opposed by court officials and the county sheriff?
 * ... that an army commander in the Banat Republic of 1918 claimed it could raise 40,000 troops against the French Danube Army, but in reality it had less than 4,000?
 * ... that Alaska's Captain Cook State Recreation Area was a traditional salmon fishing spot for the Dena'ina people, before being used for commercial fishing?
 * ... that when Byzantine emperor Anastasius I died, he left a treasury with over 23 million gold solidi, equivalent to 420 long tons of gold?

26 July 2018

 * 00:00, 26 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that 8-year-old Hailey Dawson (pictured) wants to throw out the first pitch in all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums using her 3D-printed robotic hand?
 * ... that Biggs jasper is one of the most sought-after extremely siliceous gemstones?
 * ... that when Minna Lammert, Lilli Lehmann and her sister Marie rehearsed as the Rhinemaidens for the first performance of Das Rheingold in Bayreuth, Wagner thanked them "with tears of joy"?
 * ... that the reticulated pufferfish can produce and build up toxins in its skin, gonads, and liver, including tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin?
 * ... that Wang Jian co-founded Hainan Airlines and transformed it into the world's 170th largest company with US$53 billion in revenue?
 * ... that Technological University Dublin, or TU Dublin, is the first university of its type in Ireland?
 * ... that footballer Colin Hudson scored in a 6–1 victory for Cardiff City on the same day he was married?
 * ... that the witch of Agnesi comes from a circle and kisses it?

25 July 2018

 * 00:00, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the same day her husband was murdered, 55-year-old Byzantine Empress Zoë Porphyrogenita (pictured) married her young lover and had him crowned emperor the next day?
 * ... that the sand burrowing brittlestar is often found in association with the sea potato?
 * ... that Petra Schmidt has performed operatic title roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Musiktheater im Revier?
 * ... that New York City's Gowanus Canal is so heavily polluted that Enterococcus, which is found in human fecal matter, has been detected at more than 100 times above safe levels?
 * ... that according to a 17th-century missionary in Safavid Georgia, the literate Georgians in the province preferred to read Georgian versions of Persian works rather than religious texts?
 * ... that despite earning the second-highest score in the 2018 U.S. Championships at junior level, Alysa Liu was too young to compete at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships?
 * ... that a unique geological formation, including dacitic magma at approximately 1050°C (1920°F), was encountered at Puna Geothermal Venture in 2005 when drilling a new geothermal energy well?
 * ... that biochemist Chen-Lu Tsou was praised for criticizing his boss?

24 July 2018

 * 00:00, 24 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the kings of the Alchon Huns practiced artificial cranial deformation (pictured) to elongate their skulls?
 * ... that one side of Euston Square may have "tried to bury the murderous memories attached thereto" by changing its name to Endsleigh Gardens?
 * ... that Hilmar Hoffmann, who wanted "culture for all", initiated a 15-museum complex in Frankfurt, including the first independent Jewish museum in postwar Germany?
 * ... that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide?
 * ... that Socialist Marie-Guite Dufay was not elected president of the regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the first round of voting, although the left held an absolute majority of seats?
 * ... that in 1917, a soldier of Troop B, Washington Cavalry wrote home that France was a "strange but wonderful land"?
 * ... that coached by Harendra Singh, India's field hockey teams won gold at the 2016 Men's Junior World Cup, gold at the 2017 Women's Asia Cup, and silver at the 2018 Men's Champions Trophy?
 * ... that the Shadwell forgeries, crude 19th-century fake medieval artefacts, are now sought-after collectibles in their own right?

23 July 2018

 * 00:00, 23 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that when Texas judge John W. Brady (pictured) heard his sentence for murdering his mistress, he cried out: "I didn't do it; I didn't do it. I do not deserve that sentence"?
 * ... that in ancient Indian stories, a person "can bend the cosmic forces to his will" through an "act of truth"?
 * ... that Leonard Guthrie thought that Napoleon Bonaparte's genital atrophy, sexual alopecia, and feminine appearance indicated hypopituitarism?
 * ... that "We Say Mabuhay" is performed following the inauguration of a president of the Philippines?
 * ... that Loren Klein is the third player to win World Series of Poker bracelets in three consecutive years since the poker boom began?
 * ... that there are accounts of a macuahuitl, a Mesoamerican weapon made from wood and stone, decapitating a horse?
 * ... that Kartik Aaryan made his acting debut in the 2011 film Pyaar Ka Punchnama after answering a casting call on Facebook?
 * ... that a Thameslink passenger likened the seats on the Class 700 trains to ironing boards?

22 July 2018

 * 00:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Irish surgeon Samuel Croker-King designed a new trepanning device (pictured) for cutting into the human skull?
 * ... that player choices from The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will have consequences in the upcoming video game Life Is Strange 2?
 * ... that the Egyptian footballer Trézéguet was given his nickname due to his resemblance to former footballer David Trezeguet?
 * ... that the adult tuatara tick Amblyomma sphenodonti can survive for over one year without feeding on tuatara blood?
 * ... that before the cremation of former business executive Sun Fuling, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his final respects at the cemetery?
 * ... that in his book Fault Lines, Raghuram Rajan considered income inequality in the US to have been one of the underlying causes of the 2008 financial crisis?
 * ... that mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, and took part in the first performance of Britten's Peter Grimes in New Zealand?
 * ... that in the kelp forests off the coast of Chile, sea urchins graze on the kelp, and starfish prey on the sea urchins?

21 July 2018

 * 00:00, 21 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the puppets of Rene Strange (pictured) included Annie Pride of the Rockies, Mr Bertram, and Samoa the Hula Hula Girl?
 * ... that the majority of Bloody Henry starfish are host to a parasitic copepod?
 * ... that the conductor Michael Hofstetter has performed and recorded rarely played operas at the Ludwigsburg Festival, including Salieri's Les Danaïdes?
 * ... that more than 500 people were arrested at the Women Disobey protest in Washington, D.C. in June, including U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal and actress Susan Sarandon?
 * ... that Tuluhan Tekelioğlu made a documentary film on organ transplantation while her father was undergoing and recovering from bypass surgery in a hospital in Antalya?
 * ... that 2018 Queen's Plate winner Wonder Gadot was named for Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot?
 * ... that the 63rd Street Line, a three-station subway line in New York City, was initially described as a "tunnel to nowhere" because it had no connections to other subway lines in the borough of Queens?

20 July 2018

 * 00:00, 20 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Zhu Yunming, an iconoclast known for his "wild-cursive" calligraphy (example pictured), was born with eleven fingers?
 * ... that the United States Army's Six-String Soldiers once opened for Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty?
 * ... that Soviet Jeltoqsan protester Qairat Rysqulbekov died in mysterious circumstances in his prison cell less than a year after his death sentence was revoked?
 * ... that the CEO of Advanced Cell Therapeutics is on the Food and Drug Administration's Most Wanted List after selling stem-cell therapy to people fraudulently?
 * ... that Sarah Louvion, playing principal flute with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, recorded 20th-century French music with solo flute by André Jolivet, Jacques Ibert, and others?
 * ... that Cline Falls and Cline Buttes in Central Oregon are named after pioneer dentist Cass A. Cline?
 * ... that DNS Certification Authority Authorization was developed after a series of incorrectly issued digital certificates damaged public trust in issuing authorities?
 * ... that Feras Antoon described one of his companies as "masters of the big-tit-MILF niche"?

19 July 2018

 * 00:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the Serra Cross (pictured) in Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land?
 * ... that Croatian concentration camp commander Vjekoslav Luburić wife divorced him in 1957 after she was sent an anonymous letter detailing his crimes?
 * ... that in its early years, the Indian National Theatre troupe travelled in two lorries and used them as a stage?
 * ... that Chief was the United States Army's last cavalry horse?
 * ... that in Der goldene Drache, the ninth opera by Péter Eötvös, five singers perform 18 characters, switching age and gender?
 * ... that when she successfully auditioned for the EastEnders role of Louise Mitchell, actress Tilly Keeper thought she was auditioning for another character?
 * ... that Hu Wei became a division commander at the age of only 29, but soon suffered a setback at the Battle of Dengbu Island?
 * ... that during the Petticoat Revolution, Laura Starcher became mayor of Umatilla, Oregon, while keeping her candidacy a secret from her husband—the current mayor—until the afternoon of election day?

18 July 2018

 * 00:00, 18 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the five versions of Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours` painting The Earthquake (one version pictured) show his growing disillusion with politics after the French Revolution?
 * ... that the drinking game Hi, Bob may have been the first to use prompts from a television show to initiate player action?
 * ... that the Irish surgeon Solomon Richards achieved fame by performing a tracheotomy in public?
 * ... that James Willing raided British forts, plantations, and other properties belonging to loyalists during the American Revolutionary War?
 * ... that euthymia, a state of internal calm and contentment, is a goal of psychiatric intervention?
 * ... that the 2016 song "Yōkoso Japari Park e", written by Masayoshi Ōishi, topped Amazon Japan's soundtrack ranking and placed third on the country's iTunes song chart?
 * ... that the 1944 Report on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews accused U.S. State Department officials of willfully obstructing attempts to rescue Holocaust refugees?
 * ... that before becoming Emperor of Byzantium, the young Michael IV was the previous emperor's body servant and his wife's lover?

17 July 2018

 * 01:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Li Lin, her husband, and her father (pictured together with her mother) were all academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
 * ... that Bruce Conner found the soundtrack for A Movie while listening to the radio?
 * ... that mezzo-soprano Sara Sheffield is the first female feature vocalist in the history of the "the President's Own" United States Marine Band?
 * ... that during the 6th-century Gothic War, Rome was besieged three times and sacked twice by the Goths?
 * ... that the Yiddish song "Papirosn", written after World War I, was later amended to mirror the tribulations of the Holocaust?
 * ... that Poralia rufescens, a deepwater discomedusan jellyfish, is so fragile that most specimens brought to the surface are damaged?
 * ... that Martha Erika Alonso stopped using her husband's last name in public during her campaign for Governor of Puebla?
 * ... that the Saturn Cafe serves classic American diner food without the meat and grease?

16 July 2018

 * 00:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Javier "Chicharito" Hernández (pictured) is the first Mexican footballer to score 50 international goals?
 * ... that footballer Mohamed El-Shenawy declined his man of the match award after Egypt's opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
 * ... that a new soccer team in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will schedule its home games around the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball team, with whom it will share a stadium?
 * ... that footballer Adrian Alston performed the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, before Johan Cruyff made the move famous?
 * ... that Rashad Sadygov is the most capped Azerbaijani international footballer of all time?
 * ... that in 2018 Trent Alexander-Arnold became only the fourth teenager to start a match for England at the FIFA World Cup?
 * ... that the footballer Kahraba ("Electricity") was given his nickname due to his pace and energy?
 * ... that the jerseys of American soccer team Las Vegas Lights FC feature a smiley face on the underside for use in goal celebrations?

15 July 2018

 * 03:20, 15 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that two protestors from Greenpeace climbed up one of Conesville Power Plant smokestacks (pictured) to protest against acid rain?
 * ... that "Go England" was written as an adaptation of The Jam's "Going Underground" to support England at the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
 * ... that the leech Theromyzon tessulatum is a parasite of waterfowl, invading their mouths, noses, and respiratory passages?
 * ... that Yan Jizhou 1957 film Early Morning Chill was repeatedly criticized in China for portraying traitors to the Communist revolution in a sympathetic light?
 * ... that public art at South Tacoma station includes a granite railroad spike and a pair of 18 ft arches shaped like train wheels?
 * ... that the title of "Da der Herr Christ zu Tische saß", a long Passion hymn by Nikolaus Herman published in 1560, alludes to the Last Supper?
 * ... that under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Tarapore, the Poona Horse regiment, 17th Battalion, destroyed sixty Pakistani tanks during the Battle of Chawinda?
 * ... that John Gorrie has no memory of directing the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The Reign of Terror, despite official documentation stating he did?

14 July 2018

 * 03:35, 14 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Castle Lake (pictured) was created by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens?
 * ... that Welsh international footballer Darcy Blake left the professional game at the age of 25 and later played amateur rugby?
 * ... that John Philip Sousa composed the dirge performed at his own funeral?
 * ... that Egyptian-American physician Adel Mahmoud oversaw the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine?
 * ... that the gut of Piscicola geometra harbours symbiotic bacteria which help the leech to digest fish blood?
 * ... that Joseph Samuel Clark turned down Herbert Hoover's offer to serve as the United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1931 to remain the president of Southern University?
 * ... that the Lonsdale Belt is the oldest championship belt in British boxing?
 * ... that Theodora was dragged from a monastery and forced to become Empress of the Byzantine Empire against her will?

13 July 2018

 * 03:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Dutch psychiatrist Tina Strobos (pictured), who rescued over 100 Jewish refugees during World War II, said that her grandmother was the only person she knew who scared the Gestapo?
 * ... that in the book The Lucifer Effect, author Philip Zimbardo examines parallels between his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case in 2003?
 * ... that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration?
 * ... that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams?
 * ... that days after the Kent train station opened, a robbery was foiled there by the station agent armed with an iron poker?
 * ... that Chinese scientist Liu Xinyuan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine?
 * ... that a NIS20,000 offer by Burger Ranch to distribute the Israeli video game series Piposh was turned down by the developers because they were vegetarians?

12 July 2018

 * 01:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the Israel Defense Forces exonerated the soldier who killed Mustafa Tamimi with a tear-gas canister (incident pictured), saying the soldier had not seen "any people in the line of fire"?
 * ... that the University of Texas at Austin's Little Campus was previously used as an asylum for the blind, a residence for General Custer, and a hospital for the senile?
 * ... that Wang Yinglai, considered a potential candidate for a Nobel Prize after he successfully synthesized insulin, became a virtual prisoner during the Cultural Revolution?
 * ... that an allied force of Republican soldiers and Parthians swiftly overran much of the eastern Roman lands that were under Mark Antony in 40 BC?
 * ... that footballer Ali Ghazal was the first Egyptian player to be appointed permanent captain of a top-division European club?
 * ... that between 1957 and 1972, the market price of oil was less than the posted price of oil?
 * ... that Andreas Großmann commissioned the oratorio Laudato si' for the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Diocese of Limburg's church music department, which he heads?
 * ... that the city of Lynnwood, Washington, was named after the wife of a local realtor?

11 July 2018

 * 00:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that naval historian and artist Oscar Parkes became interested in ships after seeing a picture of the USS Baltimore (pictured) on a biscuit tin?
 * ... that since their founding in 1919, the Green Bay Packers have retired the uniform numbers of only six players?
 * ... that Innocenzo Leonelli gave his wealth to the poor and renounced his name to become a hermit?
 * ... that French mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet is a fan of reggae?
 * ... that Lion's Choice, based in St. Louis, was founded by a chemical engineer?
 * ... that Constantine Dalassenos twice came close to marrying Zoë Porphyrogenita and becoming emperor of Byzantium – and twice failed?
 * ... that Magnolia Way, officially designated as Mississippi Highway 780, is unsigned at both ends?

10 July 2018

 * 02:35, 10 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that of thrice-married composer Alma Mahler (pictured), Tom Lehrer crooned, "Alma, tell us!/ All modern women are jealous/ Which of your magical wands/ got you Gustav and Walter and Franz"?
 * ... that the Vilama caldera volcano on the border between Bolivia and Argentina produced over 1,200 cubic kilometres (290 cu mi) of rock in a single eruption?
 * ... that the head of Constantine III was presented to his co-emperor Honorius on the end of a pole?
 * ... that comic book writer Cullen Bunn included "touchstones" like Star Trek and Firefly in his pitch for Asgardians of the Galaxy?
 * ... that Mexican-American human rights activist Alicia Cuarón became a Franciscan nun in her fifties?
 * ... that the 1980 Finniston Report found that only 56% of British people considered engineering a good career for a woman?
 * ... that Keith M. Davidson, the former attorney of Stormy Daniels, slept in a closet during his years at Boston College?
 * ... that a German plan for the invasion of the United Kingdom became part of the plot for a best-selling novel?

9 July 2018

 * 00:40, 9 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that among its red, pink, violet or white warts, the warty sea star (pictured) has green pedicellaria?
 * ... that Tony Ridley was described as "a very brainy backroom boy" with "no management experience whatever" when appointed director-general of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive?
 * ... that the 2017–18 Thai temple fraud investigations, which led to the imprisonment of high-ranking Buddhist monks, were seen by critics as being politically motivated?
 * ... that Cornelia Wulkopf made her operatic debut in the centenary production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival and recorded the alto part in Bach's Mass in B minor with Sergiu Celibidache?
 * ... that Hocking Lake was renamed Lake Logan after Chief Logan of the Mingo Native American tribe?
 * ... that Chinese general Zhao Nanqi, who fought alongside the son of Mao Zedong in the Korean War, was born in what is now South Korea?
 * ... that a secret compartment of Queen Elizabeth I's Chequers Ring contains miniature portraits of the Queen and an unknown woman?
 * ... that basketball player Charles Bassey was discovered at the age of 12 selling fried chicken by a coach in Nigeria?

8 July 2018

 * 00:00, 8 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that the Erlöserkirche (pictured) at today's Münchner Freiheit is the oldest Protestant church in Schwabing, and was consecrated in 1901?
 * ... that footballer Youssef "Obama" Ibrahim was given his nickname due to his likeness to Barack Obama?
 * ... that Tuzex shopping vouchers were used as unofficial parallel currency in communist Czechoslovakia?
 * ... that Claire Ptak baked the lemon and elderflower wedding cake for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?
 * ... that creating human hair wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore, and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the Salt Lake Temple until 1967?
 * ... that Erik Adolf von Willebrand originally used the term "hereditary pseudohemophilia" to describe what came to be known as von Willebrand disease?
 * ... that Interstate 84 is the longest freeway in Oregon and the only one to traverse the state from west to east?
 * ... that the British physician Raymond Crawfurd described the custom of touching to cure the King's evil?

7 July 2018

 * 00:00, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Tammie Jo Shults (pictured), captain of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, was one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy?
 * ... that the decision by the Official Charts Company to include streaming in the UK Singles Chart in 2014 led to fewer chart toppers?
 * ... that Britta Stallmeister, the Forest Bird in Bayreuth in 2001, appeared as Germa in a new chamber opera at the Schlachthof Wiesbaden in 2018?
 * ... that the Indian Peace Commission, established by the United States Congress in 1867 to negotiate with and "civilize" Native American tribes, ultimately ushered in a decade of war?
 * ... that Liu Yichang, considered the founder of Hong Kong's modern literature, wrote novels that inspired two award-winning films by Wong Kar-wai?
 * ... that characterization of nanoparticles` size, shape, and agglomeration state is necessary to understand their health and safety hazards?
 * ... that hip hop/metal recording artist Scarlxrd was once a "smiley" YouTube personality?
 * ... that Ninjala is an upcoming video game centered on bubblegum-blowing ninjas?

6 July 2018

 * 00:00, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that before William Wiggett Chute improved The Vyne estate (pictured), access was so bad that it had to be "approached upon stilts"?
 * ... that at the Battle of Negapatam, when most of the fleet turned away from the action, HMS Sultan (1775) was one of four British ships that turned into it?
 * ... that 98 years ago, biologist Edith Roberts founded the first ecological laboratory in the U.S., inspiring landscape architect Elsa Rehmann to use native plant communities in garden design?
 * ... that the discography of pianist Daniil Trifonov includes one Grammy Award-winning album and two others that were nominated?
 * ... that during the Boxer Rebellion, Xu Yingkui collaborated with other high-ranking Chinese officials to defy the declaration of war made by the Qing imperial court on Western countries?
 * ... that the ant species Zatania electra is named for the amber in which it was found entombed?
 * ... that Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas, was built of bricks salvaged from the recently burned Texas State Capitol?
 * ... that Carmen y Laura, sisters who formed a duo for mostly Tejano music, learned to harmonize by singing together while doing chores in separate rooms?

5 July 2018

 * 00:00, 5 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that more than 1,000 dinosaur fossils, eggs, and tracks have been found in the Tremp Formation (pictured) of the Spanish Pre-Pyrenees, prompting its designation as a Global Geopark?
 * ... that Alan Menken collaborated on one of his first musicals, Dear Worthy Editor, with his mother?
 * ... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed his estimates of the start times of three consecutive lunar eclipses were accurate to within half an hour?
 * ... that although he fought a war in Ningxia against the Chinese government and was defeated, Sun Dianying was appointed to a high-ranking military position just a month later?
 * ... that New Jersey musician 070 Shake was featured in a Vogue essay on rising queer stars in rap music?
 * ... that a 2003 English court case ruled that someone who lies about having sharp items in their pocket while being searched can be charged with assault if the searcher is injured as a result?
 * ... that Mary Walker overcame a tragedy and a serious injury to win the 2012 World Barrel Racing Championship?
 * ... that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher, found in the Philippines, after an American geologist?

4 July 2018

 * 00:10, 4 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that during Operation Black Buck, Avro Vulcan bomber XM607 (pictured) flew for nearly 15 hours to drop 21 bombs on the Falkland Islands?
 * ... that international windsurfing champion Lena Erdil is the daughter of a Turkish father and a German mother, who met each other while windsurfing?
 * ... that the hymn tune of the 16th-century "An Wasserflüssen Babylon" ("By the rivers of Babylon") was largely popularized with the text of a 17th-century Passion hymn?
 * ... that Andrea L. Thompson served in the United States Army for 28 years before becoming National Security Advisor to the Vice President?
 * ... that supplements and "symposia" published by academic journals may be paid publications, neither independently peer-reviewed nor edited by journal staff?
 * ... that the Chicago Express Loop is a proposed underground high-speed rail rapid transit system that will connect Chicago's Loop with O'Hare International Airport?
 * ... that Zhang Xiaoqian, one of China's top doctors, was spared from persecution during the Anti-Rightist Campaign by Mao Zedong, who called him a "simpleminded person"?
 * ... that a veteran tree near Brig o' Turk in the Trossachs has "eaten" a bicycle?

3 July 2018

 * 00:00, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Tacora (pictured), Chile's northernmost volcano, was the site of substantial sulfur mining operations that were explicitly given to Chile in a 1929 treaty with Peru?
 * ... that Danish dermatologist Carl Rasch coined the term "polymorphic light eruption"?
 * ... that Amazon responded to the proposed Seattle head tax by threatening to halt development of a downtown office tower?
 * ... that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, founder of one of the first human rights organizations in Latin America, was arrested, denied a passport, and monitored by the Stroessner regime?
 * ... that in 2013 Iceland had the highest number of writers, books published, and books read per capita?
 * ... that Ofir Ben Shitrit was suspended from her religious girls' high school after singing on The Voice Israel?
 * ... that with an area of 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), Pelham Bay Park is the largest public park in New York City?
 * ... that Q wrote "Ingenpedia"?

2 July 2018

 * 00:00, 2 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Beethoven (pictured) composed three Piano Quartets at age 15, which were published only after his death?
 * ... that during the 2017–18 season, Moroccan-born footballer Walid Azaro broke the Egyptian Premier League record for the most goals scored by a foreign player?
 * ... that Alaska's Stormy Lake had to be poisoned to remove invasive species not once but twice?
 * ... that Joachim von Sandrart praised the Flemish painter Joannes de Cordua vanitas still lifes?
 * ... that the 1962 mainframe game Marienbad, based on the logic puzzle Nim, is often considered the first Polish video game?
 * ... that more than 400 female Red Guards were shot after being captured during the 1918 Finnish Civil War, with some being raped before execution?
 * ... that the archives of the British civil nuclear industry are housed alongside historical documents dating to the 16th century?
 * ... that the Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five" jokes about critics who rarely give perfect scores in their reviews?

1 July 2018

 * 00:00, 1 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ... that Princess Vera Gedroits (pictured)—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield laparotomy?
 * ... that Number 12, an investigative documentary by award-winning journalist Anas Anas, shed light on football corruption in Ghana?
 * ... that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday?
 * ... that locomotives completed a circuit on the Boston and Albany Railroad's Highland Branch?
 * ... that Zhang Youshang was the only student from mainland China at the University of Cambridge in the mid-1960s?
 * ... that chemicals found in members of the St. John's wort family can cause photosensitivity in grazing animals?
 * ... that Gordon Juckes received the Order of the British Empire prior to being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
 * ... that the H. J. Heinz Company complex includes buildings named Meat, Bean, and Cereal?