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18 February 2022

• 00:00, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that seas are being rewilded with seagrass (example pictured)?
• ... that Compaq placed the built-in trackball of the LTE Lite on its display housing?
• ... that although Ovad Efrat was a commando in the Israel Defense Forces, his son Daniel Efrat was rejected after conscription?
• ... that the joint National War Fund was created during World War II so that American citizens would not get annoyed by multiple donation requests for service members' support and overseas relief?
• ... that the 1986 Magic Tour was the last tour Freddie Mercury performed with Queen?
• ... that even though Robert W. Brady withdrew financial support of the nascent Boston College, he later became its president?
• ... that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches?
• ... that Utah & Ether's five-year, 30-country graffiti-tagging tour ended when a single dad got Ether in a headlock?

17 February 2022

• 00:00, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the woodland garden (example pictured), "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
• ... that American psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
• ... that although it was only formed in late 1939, the French 87th African Infantry Division inflicted 6,600 casualties upon the German forces and fought until the very end of the Battle of France?
• ... that Joe Felmet was sentenced to a chain gang for his participation in the Journey of Reconciliation, considered a precursor to the Freedom Riders, in 1947?
• ... that in the late 1800s, Hong Kong's small Jewish community was divided into two groups that would not even pray together?
• ... that William Rittenhouse is noted for having established the first paper mill in North America in 1690?
• ... that after Chandigarh fell from being the second-cleanest city in India to the 66th, the residents voted out the incumbent party?
• ... that the attractions of CTF 2187 included "the fog of war [and] polite insults in the newsletter"?

16 February 2022

• 00:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Nicole Kidman (pictured) is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
• ... that following Soviet occupation in 1940, the Lithuanian Armed Forces were transformed into the Lithuanian People's Army, dropped all use of Lithuanian national symbols and faced repression?
• ... that Harry Steele purchased the Albatross Hotel in a bankruptcy sale and ultimately owned it for over half a century until his death?
• ... that David Bowie's 1967 composition "Let Me Sleep Beside You" was rejected as a single due to its suggestive title?
• ... that the name of Church Street station has been changed twice since 2019?
• ... that Gheorghe Eminescu, nephew of Romania's national poet, spent time in communist prisons, including one which allocated him a 25-centimeters-wide (10-inch) sleeping area?
• ... that at the height of their popularity, eight-ball jackets were such a status symbol in the East Coast hip hop scene that they were frequently stolen at gunpoint?
• ... that Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands documents a symphony orchestra playing heavy metal music?

15 February 2022

• 00:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that a Eurocopter Tiger (example pictured) from the French Army's 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment was involved in the 2019 Ménaka helicopter crash that killed 13 people?
• ... that the International Vinegar Museum houses more than 350 types of vinegar from around the world?
• ... that the Royal Navy only withdrew cutlasses from combat service in 1936?
• ... that the population of Holmes County, Ohio, is approximately 50 percent Amish?
• ... that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being Maggie Cusack, Linda Doyle and Kerstin Mey?
• ... that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Sonatine for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, a tribute to its composer in his centenary year?
• ... that after being wiped by the BBC, all four episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Time Meddler were discovered in Nigeria in 1984?
• ... that HALO will orbit the Moon?

14 February 2022

• 00:00, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that an antiparallelogram (example pictured) is a crossed quadrilateral with two pairs of equal-length edges?
• ... that footballer Chris Hussey studied part-time to gain a first-class honours degree after overcoming anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorders?
• ... that a reviewer once withheld top marks for play-by-mail game Midgard because of a negative experience with a gamemaster?
• ... that the Umayyad prince Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Marwan sealed the submission of western al-Andalus to the Emirate of Córdoba?
• ... that in its final years, Mississippi radio station WKXG allegedly attempted to maintain its broadcast license by "taking turns" with another station in their transmitter facility?
• ... that Jean-Claude Corbeil was credited with having "de-anglicized Quebec" during his time as linguistic director of the province's language police?
• ... that the special designation of the 623rd Field Artillery Regiment is being reviewed as it refers to Confederate general John Hunt Morgan?
• ... that the private members' club George has a bespoke menu for pet dogs?

13 February 2022

• 00:00, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Saint Juliana Olshanskaya (pictured) is said to have appeared to Archimandrite Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics?
• ... that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of Dronka with burning fuel?
• ... that the first Division I college sports championship won by a historically black university in any sport was vacated by the NCAA?
• ... that the Buddhist themes of David Bowie's 1967 composition "Karma Man" were compared to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange?
• ... that lawyer Francis B. Murdoch filed one-third of all freedom suits in St. Louis from 1840 to 1847, representing Dred Scott, Harriet Robinson Scott, Lucy A. Delaney and Polly Berry, among others?
• ... that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
• ... that Barrau de Sescas, a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled admiral?
• ... that Catalena Productions had a Monty Hall problem when the host, unpaid, forced the company into bankruptcy?

12 February 2022

• 00:00, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Francesco de' Medici enjoyed sitting inside the head of the Apennine Colossus (pictured) and fishing through its eyes?
• ... that Professor of Engineering and the Arts Linda Doyle in 2021 became the first female provost (head) of Trinity College Dublin since its 1592 foundation by Elizabeth I?
• ... that letters and reports continued to appear under Pontius Pilate's name for centuries after his death?
• ... that Bray Hammond condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, decided 185 years ago today, as "about as weak and timid as any the Court ever pronounced"?
• ... that a land dispute between Sir Edward Hull and Sir John Fastolf was only resolved after Hull's death in the 1453 Battle of Castillon?
• ... that Stahls Automotive Collection includes cars built for films such as The Great Race, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Reivers?
• ... that Lihie Raz was the first Israeli to medal at the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
• ... that although the Courant–Snyder parameters in accelerator physics are often referred to as "Twiss parameters", Richard Q. Twiss had no idea how his name came to be associated with them?

11 February 2022

• 12:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Irish crucifixion plaques (example pictured) date from between the 9th and 12th centuries and may have once been attached to altars, book shrines, reliquaries or high crosses?
• ... that Baillieu Myer and his siblings were born in California because their father's prior divorce was not recognised under Australian law?
• ... that when James Cook came to Saint Helena in 1775, wheelbarrows were placed near his residence in response to a description in John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages?
• ... that despite being undersized and not highly recruited, Casey Tiumalu became the BYU Cougars' leader in both rushing and receiving, earning an honorable mention as an All-American?
• ... that Aubin Grove railway station was built mostly off-site to minimise disruption to a nearby freeway?
• ... that while recording their tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, Spoon wanted to replicate their sound as a live band in studio form?
• ... that journalist Jack Sullivan was referred to as "the newsman's newsman"?
• ... that the Chicago Sun-Times credits JumpStart Toddlers as the first video game targeted towards babies?

• 00:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Eberhard Zeidler envisaged Toronto Eaton Centre (pictured), which opened 45 years ago today, to be an "interior street" instead of simply a shopping mall?
• ... that New York City's Broadhurst, Plymouth, Shubert, and Booth Theatres were all designed with curved corners facing Broadway?
• ... that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker?
• ... that the annual street painting festival in downtown Lake Worth Beach, Florida, attracts approximately 100,000 people?
• ... that Swiss archaeologist Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem created a service for the International Committee of the Red Cross to help prisoners of war from the French colonies during World War II?
• ... that a 1971 format change and firing of three Black disc jockeys contributed to the Mississippi radio station WSWG losing its broadcast license?
• ... that British barrister Jonathan Cooper was "at the forefront of efforts to decriminalise homosexuality around the world"?
• ... that the act of trying a burger at Slutty Vegan for the first time is known as being "sluttified"?

10 February 2022

• 12:00, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Lowe Kong Meng (pictured) imported goods for Chinese miners during the Victorian gold rush and became one of the wealthiest men in Victoria?
• ... that Progressive Corporation, an insurer, published 5,000 copies of a book credited to Dr. Rick, its fictional advertising campaign character?
• ... that the flag of the French Army's 92nd Infantry Regiment was lost when the destroyer Siroco sank off Dunkirk in 1940?
• ... that at age 12, Shaylee Mansfield became the first deaf actor to be credited alongside the voice actors for a signed performance in an animated production?
• ... that 250 Jews were imprisoned in a castle in Mladá Boleslav during the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia?
• ... that Guy Thwaites and his colleagues hypothesized that the 1993 US hantavirus outbreak was similar to the mysterious medieval sweating sickness?
• ... that Pitcairn was named after the midshipman on HMS Swallow who first spotted the island?
• ... that the Hoosier Slide was a popular tourist attraction until it was turned into glass?

• 00:00, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that osteogenesis imperfecta causes brittle bones and blue eyes (pictured)?
• ... that John Hartford wrote "Gentle on My Mind" in about half an hour after seeing Doctor Zhivago?
• ... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet La Valse to Ravel's music of the same name, which was rejected by an impresario and had been used in unsuccessful ballets before?
• ... that Frank Avery Hutchins has been called the "father of Wisconsin public libraries"?
• ... that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof?
• ... that just four years after starting up, the president of Satellite Television & Associated Resources commented that his entire industry had "gone down the drain"?
• ... that mining entrepreneur and former model Tigui Camara is the first woman in Guinea to own a mining company, which she partially runs as a social enterprise?
• ... that on the Jubilee coinage, Queen Victoria wore a crown so small that critics said it might fall off her head?

9 February 2022

• 12:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that researchers used Google Earth to study mysterious Neolithic structures in the volcanic fields of Harrat Khaybar (pictured)?
• ... that when she was around eight years old, Maud Holland was married to Hugh Courtenay, with the approval of Pope Urban V?
• ... that during World War II, the governor of Portuguese Timor was confined to the Palácio de Lahane by the territory's Japanese occupiers?
• ... that Donald H. Elliott's efforts as the director of New York's planning department helped change the city's skyline?
• ... that the Princess of Xiaohe, a 3,800-year-old mummy, was so well preserved that her eyelashes are still intact?
• ... that Lloyd Simmons wore the uniform number 0 because that was the number of games he expected to lose each season?
• ... that on 20 January 2022, a mining explosives truck detonated in Apiate, Ghana, damaging around 500 buildings and killing 13 people?
• ... that Phil Williams served in the Alabama state legislature at the same time as Phil Williams?

• 00:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that John Philip Sousa composed a march for the Boy Scouts of America (audio featured)?
• ... that Because They Know Not by Jamaican novelist Alvin Gladstone Bennett describes itself as a "powerful story on the colour problem"?
• ... that the illusion of explanatory depth leads people to overestimate how knowledgeable they are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work?
• ... that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
• ... that Wallace's fruit dove has been described as being one of the most beautiful fruit doves?
• ... that as municipal architect, Albert L. Harris led the design of all city buildings in Washington, D.C., from 1921 until his sudden death in 1934?
• ... that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?
• ... that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?

8 February 2022

• 12:00, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that in the jewellery of the Berber cultures, a silver amulet of a hand (example pictured) was believed by both Muslims and Jews to protect against the evil eye?
• ... that illustrator Al Hirschfeld knew he would get his own Broadway theater for his 100th birthday, but he died before the renaming?
• ... that Alexander Buchan, one of the artists on the first voyage of James Cook, was not mentioned in Cook's journals until he died after an epileptic fit?
• ... that Los Angeles was built with the labor of Indigenous Yaangavit people whose village was destroyed to make space for it?
• ... that German economist Ingo Böbel became Professor of Economics at International University of Monaco after serving a prison sentence for embezzlement and tax evasion?
• ... that the educational computer games Designasaurus and UMS 1 together gained their publisher more than $5 million during 18 months in the 1980s?
• ... that the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Asuka Strikes!" includes references to the works of William Shakespeare?
• ... that the 1979 Book of Common Prayer contains a Star Wars prayer?

• 00:00, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Isabel Leighton (pictured), an actress and writer, created a chair in hematology at Yale University in honor of her husband?
• ... that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is the only contemporary art museum in the country with a permanent collection?
• ... that the Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
• ... that Jérôme Chappellaz wants to collect ice cores from Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to be preserved in Antarctica?
• ... that the New Zealand stonefly Stenoperla prasina was the five millionth specimen digitised by the Natural History Museum in London?
• ... that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
• ... that the Zigzag House was designed for two people who supported the circus arts?
• ... that Mark Birley described the interior decor of his Bath & Racquets Club as the "post-Mussolini epic style"?

7 February 2022

• 12:00, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that after a legal tussle, a mural (pictured) commemorating Halim Dener was declared to be an artwork?
• ... that the headquarters of Advanced Logic Research was the subject of an attempted armed invasion in 1989 during a surge of computer-chip robberies?
• ... that Brandon Tanev said he saw a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins?
• ... that Amory Street station and Babcock Street station replaced four predecessor stations?
• ... that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, all but one of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe's ten businesses went bankrupt?
• ... that Monorail Inc.'s first computer, with its all-in-one design and flat-panel display, prefigured the iMac G4 by over five years?
• ... that Saba Malaspina was "the only important Roman historiographer from the 13th century"?
• ... that Mini ature is the largest frog in its genus?

• 00:00, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Bach's cantata Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn was first performed 295 years ago today during a memorial service for Johann Christoph von Ponickau (pictured)?
• ... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
• ... that Rebeca Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympic Games?
• ... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
• ... that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour, now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University, was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders?
• ... that observations of a car tire being repaired helped develop the epidural blood patch?
• ... that New York's Wieting Opera House burnt down and was rebuilt on three separate occasions by its proprietors, John Wieting and Mary Elizabeth Wieting?
• ... that Rodolphe Iddi Lala went from being a professor of sociology to organizing a bombing at a cinema?

6 February 2022

• 12:00, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the northern­most mosque in the Western Hemisphere (pictured) was built in Winnipeg and shipped to Inuvik by barge and truck?
• ... that Red Clay State Historic Park was the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States?
• ... that in 1917, flying ace Otto Jäger was wounded by a propeller?
• ... that while seeking funding for The Clarion, Carrie Best was told by a donor: "You are just a small voice crying in the wilderness – but keep on crying"?
• ... that when he saw the tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés, Jørn Utzon exclaimed: "See that? Ours will be better!"?
• ... that while many Premier League clubs were sponsored by alcohol companies, no such sponsors remained by the 2017–18 season?
• ... that plasma physicist Donald Gurnett was part of 41 NASA missions, including Voyager 1, for which he designed the instrument that confirmed that the craft had crossed the heliopause in 2012?
• ... that Coleman's Melibe is said to look like a "string of snot in the water"?

• 00:00, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Magawa, an African giant pouched rat (example pictured), sniffed out more than 70 land mines in Cambodia?
• ... that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
• ... that the McLaren MCL36, McLaren's 2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
• ... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
• ... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul?
• ... that "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" was first conducted with a band of around 6,200 members, the largest band John Philip Sousa ever conducted?
• ... that as part of the ongoing assisted migration of forests in North America, the western larch was selected for reforestation projects nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of its native range?
• ... that a would-be buyer of San Angelo, Texas, radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?

5 February 2022

• 12:00, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Glenwood Memorial Gardens in Broomall, Pennsylvania, was initially established in 1849 as Glenwood Cemetery (pictured) in North Philadelphia and contained the graves of 702 Union soldiers?
• ... that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an LGBTQ picture book?
• ... that former Philippine secretary of national defense Norberto Gonzales said that a Chinese invasion was "not unthinkable"?
• ... that many participants in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding, a crime that was created in response to the 2001 Enron accounting scandal?
• ... that Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world?
• ... that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
• ... that when her local cafe was in lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
• ... that the white-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus eugeniae) was named after Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French?

• 00:00, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the naturally formed arch of Marsden Rock (pictured) collapsed in 1996 following a winter of storms?
• ... that when Maria Keller was eight years old, she founded a nonprofit that would later go on to collect and distribute more than three million books to underprivileged children?
• ... that Fagus langevinii is considered to be the oldest extinct species of beech tree?
• ... that child actress and singer Sylvia Froos was noted for her ability to mimic the vocal styles of famous celebrity performers?
• ... that the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book is the Scottish Episcopal Church's current version of the Book of Common Prayer?
• ... that two My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes are said to discuss Marxism and Stalinism?
• ... that Mount Yasumandake was considered sacred to Buddhists, Shintoists, and Christians?
• ... that artist Ervin Herve Loranth refers to his sculptures as "public surprises"?

4 February 2022

• 12:00, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Mothica (pictured) credits TikTok for the success of her career as a musician?
• ... that the Canadian House of Commons held a take-note debate on the discovery of the graves of more than 200 Indigenous children near Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021?
• ... that baseball umpire Cece Carlucci made the umpiring equipment used in The Natural?
• ... that Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria?
• ... that Dave Dryburgh began a journalism career while reporting on the soccer games in which he played?
• ... that the paddle steamer Lotta Bernard was described as "altogether unfit for the traffic she was employed in" after she sank?
• ... that the League for Human Rights, established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
• ... that Microsoft has banned all third-party tech-support advertisements on Bing due to a rise in technical support scams?

• 00:00, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that all Golden Retrievers (example pictured) descend from a golden-coloured Flat-coated Retriever named Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel named Belle?
• ... that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior?
• ... that two major petrochemical explosions in the Greater Houston area, the 1990 ARCO explosion and the Phillips disaster, occurred within one year of each other?
• ... that the seafaring poet D. I. Antoniou worked on a single poem for more than a decade and ended up publishing it over thirty years later?
• ... that Broadway's Lyric Theatre, once deemed a "cursed" theater, now hosts The Cursed Child?
• ... that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
• ... that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
• ... that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?

3 February 2022

• 00:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the proposed Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (map pictured) constitute an "archipelago" of 165 territories?
• ... that in 1995, Hurricane Flossie damaged many tapes of Jerry Lewis telethons belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association?
• ... that author Theresa Pulszky escaped from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by pretending to be the companion of a German couple?
• ... that the video game JFK Reloaded recreates the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the perspective of the killer?
• ... that Mao Zedong initially approved the Dalai Lama's escape into Indian exile, but later ordered that it be prevented?
• ... that The Constitutional Courant was a single-issue newspaper published by William Goddard for the sole purpose of criticizing the Stamp Act in 1765?
• ... that Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League when she made her debut for the Melbourne Aces in 2022?
• ... that Interstate 229 once ended at a gravel road?

2 February 2022

• 12:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that in 2016, Luke Kunin (pictured) became the first sophomore captain of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team since 1975?
• ... that despite experiencing midnight sun and polar night, Svalbard observes daylight saving time?
• ... that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
• ... that after viewing the Coates round house, the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
• ... that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the Fatimids, became Saladin's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his epistolary writing?
• ... that George Balanchine only started working on his ballet Mozartiana three weeks before its premiere?
• ... that the spotted lanternfly has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat swelling since the 1100s?
• ... that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards?

• 00:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the Sonoran blue butterfly uses Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila (pictured) as a larval foodplant and hummingbirds feed on its nectar?
• ... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
• ... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
• ... that the Little Theatre, once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times?
• ... that the 1810s reign of Ioan Caragea introduced Wallachia to carom billiards, sugar sculptures, and an eponymous plague?
• ... that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people?
• ... that while waiting for an interview, journalist Rod Beaton was involved in a shoving incident with baseball player Barry Bonds?
• ... that the Godzilla Megamullion is at least ten times larger than all other known megamullions?

1 February 2022

• 12:00, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that when a reporter asked for updates on Jayson Werth's wrist injury, his manager at the time responded "Who?"
• ... that after performing as Davy Jones, David Bowie's "Can't Help Thinking About Me" was his first single released under the name "David Bowie"?
• ... that Grant Sutherland is the geneticist who identified fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited genetic form of intellectual impairment?
• ... that characters from several different science fiction media appear as an Easter egg in the episode "Babylon's Ashes"?
• ... that Madame "Toto" Bannard Cogley not only co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre, but also supplied most of the initial membership?
• ... that the owner of the bus service connecting the two largest Vietnamese-American communities in the United States was the target of an assassination plot by a competitor?
• ... that singer Henrietta Loveless performed at the New York World's Fair with the Chocolate Éclair Family?
• ... that in 1354, the Duke of Lancaster compared his heart to the sea, a fox's hole, and a market-place?

• 00:00, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

• ... that Randell Cottage (pictured), home to a residency for French and New Zealand writers, is a listed heritage building?
• ... that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium?
• ... that guitarists playing a duet together have been shown to be in neural synchrony?
• ... that a new species of ant was named to honor artist Jeremy Ayers and the non-binary community?
• ... that a recent cyberattack on Ukrainian websites was disguised as ransomware?
• ... that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about Spinoza?
• ... that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169, Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
• ...that Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own blood pressure voluntarily?