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20:49, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

• ... that Michael Bloomberg spent over USD $500 million on his 2020 presidential campaign (campaign logo pictured), making it the most expensive campaign in American history?

... that at first, bulldogs were bred to fight bulls during the 1600s?

... that the Republic of Cyprus is the only country other than England to host an English royal wedding?

... that Lori Lightfoot is the first female African-American mayor of Chicago and the first lesbian mayor of Chicago?

... that fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld left money in his will to his cat Choupette?

20:24, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

... that Fred Rogers' (pictured) congressional testimony was the key reason for the U.S. Supreme Court's television video recording decision in 1983?

... that laboratories in Brazil make ethanol fuel with sugarcane juice?

... that when his grandson was kidnapped, billionaire J. Paul Getty did not want to pay the ransom until it was lower?

... that Kamikaze pilots were not allowed to close their eyes so that they did not miss the target?

... that the Burj Khalifa has the world's highest restaurant, residential space and swimming pool?

06:05, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

... that Zendaya (pictured) is the youngest winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series?

... that Bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest?

... that Unserdeutsch is one of only a few German-based Creole languages still in use?

... that members of The Salvation Army represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013?

15:15, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

... that in 1970, Sir Ian McKellen (pictured) was the first actor to share a gay kiss with another male actor on British television?

... that the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 led to the invention of echo sounding, about ten years after the accident?

... that Valentina Sampaio is the first openly transgender model for Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated?

... that the Tepexpan man was a woman?

22:20, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

... that Tardigrades (pictured) can still live after being frozen for more than 30 years?

... that the Phantom of Heilbronn is a serial killer that was never found?

... that "What Goes On" was the only Beatles song that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr wrote together?

... that Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke were the first international players to win the Premier League Golden Boot?

... that Playboy was also printed in Braille between 1970 and 1985?

20:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

... that the Lamborghini Reventón (pictured) was made to look like the F-22 Raptor?

... that the Daocheng Yading Airport is the highest civilian airport in the world?

... that after his death, Pope Formosus was accused of perjury and his corpse was exhumed and put on trail where he was found guilty?

... that at least a third of homeless young people in Los Angeles practised survival sex?

... that Marcus Terentius Varro warned about very small creatures that can cause airborne transmission diseases, many years before microbiology could proved it?

21:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

... that some of the oldest Egyptian texts known mention the area where Great Bitter Lake (pictured) is today?

... that in 2014, Michael D. Higgins became the first President of Ireland to officially visit the United Kingdom?

... that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, made Japan 2.4 meters closer to North America?

... that at aged 99, Captain Sir Tom Moore became the oldest person to record a number one single?

... that a cannon was fired from the Salyut 3 space station and is the only time a gun has been fired in space?

10:40, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

... that with a leg-span of over 90 centimetres (35 in) and a weight up to 4 kilograms (8.8 lb), the Coconut crab (pictured) is the largest invertebrate that lives on land?

... that Francis, Duke of Châtellerault was a French prince who was killed in action at the 1515 Battle of Marignano, during the Italian Wars?

... that during the attack on the United States Capitol in 2021, the Confederate battle flag was inside the building for the first time in American history?

... that ten of the last 11 economic recessions in the United States began under Republican U.S. Presidents?

07:22, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

... that a Starship rocket (pictured) can bring a hundred astronauts to Mars?

... that chlorine was used as a chemical weapon in World War I?

... that to make the French presidency not look like a monarchy, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invited ordinary citizens to eat breakfast with him at Élysée Palace?

... that mathematicians have discovered over 40,000 triangle centers?

... that Hachijō-jima is in the Pacific Ocean and the Philippine Sea but is still part of Tokyo?

04:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

... that Hydrox (pictured) was the popular cream filled cookie sandwich before Oreo was launched?

... that 65 years after his death, Elmer McCurdy's mummified corpse was used as a mannequin by a television crew?

... that Eucalyptus have been used to fight malaria?

... that Sunless Sea, the first video game by Alexis Kennedy, got the last ever 10/10 rating from video game magazine Eurogamer?

... that Salyut 1 was the first space station?

02:16, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

... that at aged 100, Betty Reid Soskin (pictured) is the oldest active U.S. National Park Ranger?

... that Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Athletic Bilbao have never left La Liga?

... that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the only First Lady of the United States to have won an Emmy Award?

... that eight of the ten tallest mountain peaks in the world, including Mount Everest, are in Nepal?

... that Charon does not orbit Pluto, but rather a point in space because it is half the mass of Pluto?

08:12, May 2, 2022 (UTC)

... that at aged 37, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern (pictured) became the world's youngest female head of government when she was elected in 2017?

... that police at first didn't allow the movie Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom to be shown in Zürich, over 30 years after its release?

... that after he had lost the 1996 presidential election, former U.S. Senator Bob Dole became a television spokesperson for Viagra?

... that in Boris Johnson's constituency, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, he has the smallest majority of any current prime minister since 1924?

04:17, June 8, 2022 (UTC)

... that some Argentines believe that by saying the name of President Carlos Menem (pictured) it brings them bad luck?

... that the first sentō was built during the Nara period in the 700s?

... that Hanger Lane gyratory was voted the scariest junction in Britain?

... that the exact height of the Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar is unknown?

... that after the Tunguska event, it took 20 years before an expedition reached the area where it happened?

05:54, July 2, 2022 (UTC)

... that when he was elected President of Ecuador in 2021, businessman Guillermo Lasso (pictured) became the country's first center-right president in 25 years?

... that in 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan joked about bombing the Soviet Union in a radio speech and many took it seriously?

... that with an income of US$40 million in 2021, Kendall Jenner became the highest paid-model in the world?

... that among all the other animals it hosts, the Camargue is also home to 40 different species of mosquito?

... that in September 2021, El Salvador started accepting Bitcoin as an official currency?

14:08, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

... that Preet Chandi (pictured) is the first known woman of color to walk solo to the South Pole?

... that Milwaukee Deep is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean?

... that in 1971, when Elaine May directed, wrote and starred in A New Leaf, she became the first woman to do all three in a Hollywood movie?

... that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the largest attack between two European countries since World War II?

... that India, George W. Bush's cat, starred in the movie Where in the White House is Miss Beazley?

23:31, September 15, 2022 (UTC)

... that in the 1970s when Luis Echeverría (pictured) was President of Mexico, he banned almost every form of rock music in the country?

... that The Batman director Matt Reeves said that Kurt Cobain was the inspiration for his version of the Batman?

... that U.S. Senator Ed Markey is the first person to beat a member of the Kennedy family in an election?

... that the uncensored video of when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards had over 69 million views on YouTube within the first 24 hours?

... that the first Day of the National Flag in Ukraine was celebrated one-and-a-half years before the flag became official in Ukraine?

23:32, October 17, 2022 (UTC)

... that Gabriel Boric (pictured) is the youngest President of Chile in the country's history and the first president born during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship?

... that Brazilian numbers were introduced in 1994 in an international competition that was proposed by Mexico?

... that Naomi Parker is believed to be the real-life Rosie the Riveter with evidence believing the poster was used from a picture taken of her in 1942?

... that about 50 million years before the Great Oxygenation Event happened, oxygen still was in the atmosphere because it was the waste of photosynthetic organisms?

... that a French violinist named Petit tried to bite off Sylvius Leopold Weiss's right thumb?

19:14, November 20, 2022 (UTC)

... that Khartoum, Sudan (pictured) is one of the only major cities in the world with a hot desert climate that has a mean annual temperature of over 30 °C (86 °F)?

... that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) helped with the making of The Silence of the Lambs with hopes of it inspiring women to join the FBI?

... that Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is the first transgender actress to be nominated for an Emmy Award and to win a Golden Globe Award?

... that in 2021, the Norwegian beach handball team was fined because they refused to wear bikini bottoms at a tournament, but that half a year later, rules were changed to allow the shorts the players had worn?

... that Deez Nutz, a joke candidate run by Brady C. Olson got more votes than Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election?

14:25, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

... that supercentenarian Kane Tanaka (pictured) lived through all five imperial reigns that make up modern day Japan?

... Little Trees was invented by Julius Sämann in 1952 after a milk driver complained to him about the smell of spilled milk?

... that Melania Trump is the first woman to be First Lady of the United States as an immigrant born outside of the United States?

... that a study done in 1940 found that, in one hundred lynchings in the United States after 1929, about a third of the people were killed because of false accusations?

... that Johann Philipp Kirnberger created a way to make music using dice throws?

13:18, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

... that when John B. Goodenough (pictured) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 at aged 97, he became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in history?

... that even though Georg Forster thought highly of many cultures, specifically ones in the Southern Pacific, he was very prejudiced against Poles?

... that the dotted humming frog sometimes lives with the Colombian lesserblack tarantula?

... that Mark Clarke was kicked out of the Conservative Party for bullying Elliot Johnson, a Conservative Party politician to the point of suicide?

... that Dick Conway had his finger amputated so he could continue playing with the New Zealand national rugby union team?

16:52, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

... that the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge (pictured) in Turkey is the world's longest suspension bridge at 2,023 m (6,637 ft) long?

... that Lucile Randon, at 116, was the oldest survivor of COVID-19?

... that in 1940, Jamaican political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey died shortly after reading his own obituary?

... that Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is the world's richest monarch, with a net worth between US$30 billion to US$70 billion?

... that the composer Georg Philipp Telemann wrote over 3,000 pieces of music?

02:01, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

... that an American monk and activist named Santa Claus (pictured) from North Pole, Alaska ran for Congress in 2022?

...that it is said that Kurt Cobain's 1991 song "Something in the Way" was based on a time when he was homeless and slept underneath a bridge near Aberdeen, Washington?

... that in the last movement of Joseph Haydn's Farewell Symphony, the musicians leave one by one?

... that there are no free-living viruses?

... that before attacking Las Vegas in 2017, Stephen Paddock planned a mass shooting at Chicago's Lollapalooza and even reserved a hotel room?

19:26, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

... that before being elected President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (pictured) played the role of Ukrainian president in the comedy show Servant of the People?

... that Hermila Galindo was the first woman to run for an elected office in Mexico?

... that the 2020 presidential campaign of former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel was run by a high school student?

... that the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the longest guided busway in the world?

... that King Charles III is the first member of the British royal family to get a college degree?

05:14, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

... that the bible (pictured) used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration ceremony, was also used for the inaugurations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?

... that before photosynthesis, the Earth's atmosphere had almost no oxygen?

... that Thomas Mifflin was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because he joined the military and they are pacifists?

... that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first public defender, and the first black woman, to become an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States?

... that Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach about drinking coffee?

00:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

... that at age 89, Opal Lee (pictured) walked from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. hoping to make Juneteenth a federal holiday?

... that former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel in 2000 that later became a bestselling book?

... that the casino resort Bally's Chicago was proposed so its revenue would give money to Chicago's police and firefighter pension fund?

... that Justin Trudeau led a government with less than 35% of the national popular vote after the 2019 election?

... that "Can't Help Falling in Love" was the last song Elvis Presley performed live at a concert before his death?

13:53, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

... that Bradley Winslow (pictured) was brevetted by Abraham Lincoln after being shot during the Siege of Petersburg?

... that Christine Lagarde, the current head of the European Central Bank, won a bronze medal in synchronized swimming when she was a teenager?

... that when Primus played the song "My Name is Mud" at a concert in 1994, people threw mud at them?

... that Anthony Albanese is the first Italian-Australian prime minister in Australia's history?

... that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pictured) became active in Brazil's labour movement after he lost his finger in a work accident at age 19?

... that Thomas Henry Huxley said that birds and dinosaurs were related about 100 years before it was proven?

... that Tomorrow's Pioneers was a children's television show made by Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas?

... that the Millau Viaduct is the tallest bridge in the world?

... that Constantine II (pictured), the last king of Greece, held an Olympic medal for sailing?

... that when Juana Maria was found in 1853, no one could understand the language she spoke?

... that between 1966 to 2012, about one-third of the world's public mass shootings were in the United States?

... that Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago has over 100 different types of reef fish, and some of them are only found there?

... that Gustavo Petro is Colombia's first left-wing president and was a member of a guerilla group?

00:11, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

... that nuthatches (pictured) can run down trees head-first and hang upside down?

... that the name of Kiribati comes from the way local people say its older British name Gilberts?

... that in 2016, Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite legally changed his name to Michael Caine to make security checks at airports easier?

... that the album Songs for the Deaf was made to sound similar to listening to music from radio stations while driving a car?

... that when he was elected President of Mexico in 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador became the first presidential candidate to win more than 50% of the vote since 1988?

08:53, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

... that during Ashenda (pictured), Ethiopian and Eritrean girls sing and dance at every house in town?

... that when Sanna Marin became the Prime Minister of Finland at age 34, she became the youngest prime minister in Finland's history?

... that a 1987 study about the Birthday effect found that women are more likely to die right before their birthdays while men are more likely to die right after their birthdays?

... that Solomon Northup spent 12 years as a slave after being drugged and kidnapped in 1841?

... that between 60% and 95% of adults may be infected with herpes?

13:53, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

... that most of the sculptures made for the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic (one of them pictured) have been stolen, destroyed or removed?

... that Leonardo da Vinci built a giant mechanical lion that could walk?

... that about half the population of Mongolia lives in its capital, Ulaanbaatar?

... that Chuy García is the first Mexican-American from the Midwest to be elected to the United States Congress?

... that for two months in 2016, Wonder Woman was an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls for the United Nations?

01:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

... that Thomas Jefferson had six children with his slave Sally Hemings (pictured), who was the half-sister of his wife?

... that the 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once is the first science fiction movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

... that huts are used to teach when regular classrooms cannot be used?

... that people believed that Martha Mitchell was insane until her comments about the Watergate scandal turned out to be true?

... that watching how chemical elements combined led to John Dalton's atomic theory?

11:53, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

... that one of the two copies of the artwork New York City (pictured) by Piet Mondrian is hanging upside down?

... that the release of The Uplift Mofo Party Plan by the Red Hot Chili Peppers was delayed because the band's record label did not want a song on it to be named "Party on your Pussy"?

... that Fentanyl and similar drugs have been responsible for most drug-overdose related deaths in the United States since 2018?

... that Denmark was the first European country to ban slave trades, in 1792, which took effect in 1803?

... that at aged 103, Benjamin B. Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials?

12:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

... that in a common lodging-house (pictured) people that were not of the same family slept and ate together in the same rooms?

... that when he was elected at age 37 in 2023, Humza Yousaf became the youngest person to become First Minister of Scotland?

... that when Eddie Van Halen was making the guitar solo for "Beat It", a loudspeaker that was recording it started a fire?

... that in October 2022, the Daily Star began to livestream a head of lettuce to see if it would last longer than the premiership of Liz Truss?

... that people with rabies can seem afraid of water?

22:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

... that the killer of 25-year-old Mary Jane Kelly (pictured), probably Jack the Ripper, spent about two hours mutilating her after her death?

... that "Paint It Black" was the first number one single in the United States to have sitar music in it?

... that Rishi Sunak is the first non-white, first British Asian, and first Hindu person to become prime minister of the United Kingdom?

... that at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is an supermassive black hole?

... that in 2021 at aged 95, Tony Bennett broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new musical material?

03:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

... that Edmonia Lewis (pictured) was put on a stamp in the United States over 100 years after she died in Europe?

... that when Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" released in 1987, critics said it sounded like Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"?

... that when travelling on an airplane, a person's taste buds are around 30% less sensitive to sweet and salty foods?

... that from 1904 until 1948, people only paid a nickel to ride the New York City Subway?