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6 May 2024
- 00:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Susanna Hoffs (pictured) sang on the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked after producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her by saying that Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing?
- ... that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work "On the German Republic"?
- ... that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings, a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece?
- ... that the first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien, was acquired in 2023 for just CA$1?
- ... that NCVs can assign different values to the lives of civilians of different nationalities?
- ... that Yuu Nagira, the author of My Beautiful Man, did not expect readers to love one of the main characters because she had written him to be creepy?
- ... that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City?
- ... that in March 2022 Sonja van den Ende was the only Dutch journalist to report from the Russian-occupied Donbas on the war in Ukraine?
- ... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
5 May 2024
- 00:00, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that the magazine Al-Asma'i (pictured), one of the first publications to emerge in Ottoman Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?
- ... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
- ... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
- ... that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
- ... that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and venal"?
- ... that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
- ... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
- ... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
- ... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?
4 May 2024
- 00:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Bäckadräkten (pictured) is Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
- ... that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
- ... that despite the titular character of the game Cat Bird being a hybrid of a cat and a bird, critics thought the character looked more like a bat?
- ... that the first words in English that National Football League player Bayron Matos knew were "I'm hungry"?
- ... that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo?
- ... that Asha Sobhana is the first Indian player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women's Premier League?
- ... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
- ... that the last twenty residents of the only Shilshole village on Salmon Bay in Seattle were evicted in 1914 to allow the creation of the Ballard Locks?
- ... that the Darwin Rocksitters Club had "no funny business" as their first, third, and fifth rules?
3 May 2024
- 00:00, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Jex Blackmore, an American pro-choice activist and Satanist, performed art with 100 pounds (45 kg) of rotten fruit (pictured) before their second abortion?
- ... that the music video for the Weeknd's "I Feel It Coming" takes inspiration from people entombed in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
- ... that Akihiko Kondo "married" Hatsune Miku, a fictional character?
- ... that Lake Bell made her directorial debut, In a World..., after no one else would direct it?
- ... that Enoch Edgar Hume was presented as a candidate for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives without his knowledge?
- ... that the Jewish villagers of Qision dedicated an inscription for the salvation of Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family?
- ... that gymnast Andrei Muntean was Romania's first Youth Olympic Games champion?
- ... that a song from the EP In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing, written in response to the cancer diagnosis of singer Mark Foster's uncle, was played for him before his death?
- ... that Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, who both edited and contributed to The Oxford History of Christian Worship, also served as a dog show judge?
2 May 2024
- 00:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that the ancient Hawaiian village known as the Kāneiolouma Complex (pictured) is across the street from a popular beach on the island of Kauaʻi?
- ... that in Vladivostok, the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement?
- ... that the crater lake produced by the 1628–1627 BCE eruption of Mount Aniakchak generated one of the largest floods of the last 10,000 years?
- ... that a Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
- ... that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again" contains multiple ABBA references?
- ... that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174?
- ... that when offered a chance to repent before being burnt at the stake, one crypto-Jew allegedly told his tormentors to "throw more wood on the fire"?
- ... that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car?
- ... that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?
1 May 2024
- 00:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder?
- ... that the Gusuku period saw massive castles built on "virtually every ridge"?
- ... that the enzyme histamine N-methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
- ... that the Labour Party received their highest share of the vote to date in the 1951 UK general election but still lost to the Conservatives, who received fewer votes?
- ... that Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022?
- ... that the 2004 documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing contains interviews from dozens of film editors, including women under-represented in the field?
- ... that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school, Notre Dame, Chris Hill instead chose Michigan State?
- ... that country music singer Waylon Jennings earned his GED by watching tapes of a Kentucky Educational Television series on his tour bus?
- ... that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a "cadaver kidney" for her son?