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18 July 2024

00:12, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Nathan Steuer at MagicCon Chicago, headshot (cropped).jpg|caption=Nathan Steuer}}

... that Magic: The Gathering world champion Nathan Steuer (pictured) started tournament-level play as a pre-teen, saying that the "13 and up" label on Magic packaging was "just recommended"?
... that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta, Evgenia Semenovskaya, Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors?
... that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
... that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL, then was the youngest in the AHL, and now is the youngest in the NHL?
... that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
... that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
... that Kho Ping Hoo, despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia, could not read Chinese?

17 July 2024

00:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Ligging gezien vanaf de "water" zijde - Harderwijk - 20382373 - RCE (cropped).jpg|caption=H. J. Lovink Pumping Station}}

... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
... that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
... that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
... that a video accompanying ML Buch{{`s}} debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?

16 July 2024

00:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Giado concentration camp.jpg|caption=Giado concentration camp}}

... that Libyan Jews and Arabs traded and bartered with each other at the fence of the Giado concentration camp (pictured){{-?}}
... that environmental journalist Gloria Dickie wrote her thesis on how cities in Colorado changed garbage laws to prevent bear incursions?
... that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?
... that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
... that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture, two were arrested and one was assassinated?
... that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
... that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
... that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer?
... that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn?

15 July 2024

00:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=1514 Krug Adam und Eva Sündenfall The Fall of Man Bodemuseum anagoria.JPG|caption=Adam and Eve by Ludwig Krug}}

... that in Ludwig Krug{{`s}} rendition of Adam and Eve (pictured), an ape mimics Adam eating the apple?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that football player Gordon Cooper performed so well that "the adjective supply [was] exhausted" in trying to describe him?
... that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy?
... that Emily Spreeman, the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team, debuted for the team at the age of 15?
... that the San Diego YMCA estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
... that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3?
... that Oen Boen Ing, a doctor who often worked for free, was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians?
... that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested{{-?}}

14 July 2024

00:00, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=HJ Lovink crop.jpg|caption=Hermanus Johannes Lovink}}

... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?

13 July 2024

00:00, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Sourtoe Cocktail Preparation - Downtown Hotel, Dawson City, Yukon Territory (12448567845) (cropped) 2.jpg|alt=Severed human toe resting on salt|caption=Toe used in the Sourtoe Cocktail}}

... that a human toe used for cocktails (pictured) is one of many body parts that are tourist attractions?
... that a novel about Madagascar's colonization, which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
... that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode "73 Yards" that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
... that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
... that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
... that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
... that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
... that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
... that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?

12 July 2024

00:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Republica hickeyi Wolf and Wehr 1987 plate 16 fig 4.jpg|caption=Republica hickeyi leaf}}

... that fossil plants (leaf pictured) and damselflies from the Ypresian age are named after the city of Republic?
... that South Korean actress Na O-mi{{`s}} stage name was inspired by the song "I Dream of Naomi"?
... that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
... that Joseph Tetley, a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of around NZ$7 million?
... that Cleo Hill Jr. coached the college basketball team for which his father played more than 60 years earlier?
... that according to the official history of the Song dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor, to his surprise?
... that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam?
... that the album covers of Blue Note Records have been considered to be the "look" of jazz?
... that on July 11, 2022, millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?

11 July 2024

00:00, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Євген Клопотенко 01.jpg|caption=Yevhen Klopotenko}}

... that Yevhen Klopotenko (pictured) fought a "war for borscht"?
... that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity?
... that Alfie Templeman described the style of his studio album Radiosoul as "incohesively cohesive"?
... that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life?
... that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2?
... that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday, leaving his department in turmoil?
... that Gedling Town F.C.{{`s}} nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium?
... that Antonio Dini was the only survivor of a three-man crew after he crashed a plane into the sea, but had no recollection of the crash due to concussion?
... that after a pigeon sculpture in Wellington went missing, members of the public created a memorial for it?

10 July 2024

00:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Dreamtime Boulder in Cresciano - line.jpg|caption=Dreamtime}}

... that Dreamtime (pictured) is one of the world's most famous bouldering routes?
... that Jopie and Teun Roosenburg led an art colony at Oost Castle that helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to Belgium?
... that Flyover, a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy, was published in French but not in English?
... that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
... that in The Servile State, Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
... that the 2024 Doctor Who episode "Dot and Bubble" was first conceptualized in 2009?
... that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan?
... that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game, which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
... that barbarians would have bought cake, not pie, at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar?

9 July 2024

00:00, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Pumping station, Stewart Street (geograph 4678320).jpg|caption=Isle of Dogs Pumping Station}}

... that the Isle of Dogs Pumping Station (pictured) was nicknamed the Temple of Storms{{-?}}
... that 16th-century chroniclers thought María Pacheco, a leader of the Revolt of the Comuneros, was a witch?
... that some critics described the fourth season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration?
... that in order to re-marry, Zhou Wennan had to request Mao Zedong's permission?
... that schoolchildren in the town of Kirkby were paid 25 pence an hour to help build Kirkby Ski Slope, even though the slope never opened?
... that Lois E. Trott ran the first lodging house for homeless girls in America, providing shelter and support for over 1,000 girls annually, all without receiving any payment?
... that Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography described its subject as a "liar", and yet, one reviewer felt that the author's "studiously neutral position ends up sounding like an apologia for Kosinski"?
... that "Chihiro" by Billie Eilish was titled in reference to the main character of Spirited Away{{-?}}
... that the DJ NewJeansNim has been credited with reviving interest in Buddhism among South Korean youths?

8 July 2024

00:00, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Nielsen-Lohse_Bridges_nakano-seto-oohashi20151231-002.jpg|caption=Nakanoseto Bridge on the Akinada Tobishima Kaido}}

... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido (bridge pictured), an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš{{-?}}
... that after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck promised victory, he threw an interception that lost the game?
... that the compilation of the Wu shu was hampered by the execution of two members of the committee compiling the text?
... that after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings, the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia was closed due to concerns about asbestos?
... that the annual energy cost of a single fume hood in Singapore can be up to US$9,300?
... that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate?
... that to encourage the development of Bissau-Guinean cinema, one foreign filmmaker provided the country's film institute with cameras, lights, and a Steinbeck guitar?
... that professional vibraphonist Joel Ross has called the vibraphone his "least favorite instrument"?

7 July 2024

00:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Paul Parkman.jpg|caption=Paul Parkman}}

... that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
... that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?
... that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company, historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
... that AJR's "Way Less Sad" samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel's "My Little Town" as its primary hook?
... that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the bay of Vis grieve for you"?
... that Drew Thomas, a former car salesman, reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing{{-?}}
... that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
... that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions?
... that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud?

6 July 2024

00:00, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=File:Tacuin Sauge36.jpg|caption=Sage cultivation, 14th-century manuscript}}

... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts (example pictured){{-?}}
... that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
... that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia, were arrested for bribery before the election?
... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet?
... that "At the Name of Jesus" has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
... that Liza Soberano's early acting roles include playing the third wheel in romance films?
... that Maryland state delegate C. T. Wilson compared negotiating with the Catholic Church on the Maryland Child Victims Act to making "a deal with the devil"?
... that educational writer Ștefan Tita gave Romanian students impractical advice on mending damaged bark with bandages of dirt?
... that Eminem promoted "Houdini" with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?

5 July 2024

00:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=George Kunkel.jpg|caption=George Kunkel}}

... that actor George Kunkel (pictured) portrayed in blackface the character of Uncle Tom, using it at first to promote slavery during the American Civil War but later to attack it, after his views had changed?
... that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was popular in many other parts of the Soviet Union?
... that The Blue Angels was shot using IMAX cameras rigged to a helicopter, plus an ultra-high-speed camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second?
... that Margaret Carroux{{`s}} German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
... that the LACE satellite tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program?
... that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights?
... that historically, lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles?
... that American poet Edwin Ford Piper preserved 828 folk songs, most of which were from Iowa and Nebraska?
... that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls, at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?

4 July 2024

00:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Hassan Hall (53141821467) (cropped).jpg|caption=A Guardian Cap being worn in 2023}}

... that the NFL has required players in most positions to wear Guardian Caps (pictured) during training even though third-party research has questioned their effectiveness?
... that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the ROC group of young radical military officers and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party?
... that Silence Is Loud uses a style that was previously considered "absolutely verboten" for its genre?
... that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson?
... that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
... that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison?
... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?
... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
... that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism?

3 July 2024

00:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=FADM Ernest J. King.jpg|caption=Ernest J. King}}

... that according to a popular myth, Admiral Ernest J. King (pictured) shaved with a blowtorch?
... that Billie Eilish first served "Lunch" during a party at Coachella?
... that footballer Han Bong-zin trained in the military every day for four years in preparation for the FIFA World Cup?
... that a critic said that the hors d'oeuvres served at Sud 777 could function as desserts and vice versa?
... that after completing his tenure as regent, Tatto Suwarto Pamuji walked {{convert|96|km|mi}} to fulfill a vow he made?
... that Florida Hospital Oceanside was demolished after being damaged by Hurricane Irma?
... that youthful Second World War resistance leader Jean-Pierre Lévy was advised by the Free French intelligence service to dye his hair grey to appear older?
... that Żeromski Park, the second-largest park in Szczecin, Poland, used to be a cemetery?
... that on American band the Linda Lindas' first album, Growing Up, a cat named Lil' Dude is featured playing the piano?

2 July 2024

00:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Windham Bank one dollar banknote (detail).jpg|caption=Detail of a frog on a banknote}}

... that the 1754 Battle of the Frogs was commemorated on banknotes (detail pictured){{-?}}
... that as of 2019, inclusion in the International Register of Electors no longer requires residency in Canada in the preceding five years?
... that the United States Department of Defense ran a propaganda campaign against Chinese vaccines during the {{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic?
... that Peewee Jarrett went from having a two-year span with no playing time and being "set on quitting football" to signing into the National Football League?
... that the Wellesbourne, Brighton's lost river, stopped flowing in 1889?
... that Max Weil, founder of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, spent his later years in real estate?
... that when DarkZero contracted Xynew, his teammates highlighted his "communication skills and game brain", which they deemed unusual for a controller player?
... that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 was met with hostile audience reactions?
... that Score: A Hockey Musical has been described as "so Canadian it hurts"?

1 July 2024

00:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Brighton Sea Life Centre (formerly Aquarium), Madeira Drive, Brighton (NHLE Code 1381698) (September 2018) (2).JPG|caption=Sea Life Brighton, formerly Brighton Aquarium}}

... that at the opening ceremony of Brighton Aquarium (pictured), naturalist Frank Buckland "produced, apparently from his pocket, a couple of juvenile alligators"?
... that a mail-order catalogue offered a "Rocking Ram" toy, designed by Charleen Kinser, for {{US$|1600}} in 1985?
... that the project Called by Name aims to commemorate Poles who were murdered for aiding Jews during World War II?
... that despite a global decline in mangrove forests, Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972?
... that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history?
... that Brittany Luse{{`s}} podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"?
... that despite lagging attendance at the 1964 New York World's Fair, its organizer rejected nearly every suggestion to increase attendance?
... that David Marchese recalled accidentally posting a picture of a cat's testicles on Salon.com{{-?}}