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30 June 2016
11:52, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Blue Moon ice cream
... that the House of Flavors' signature ice cream is the "Blue Moon" flavor (pictured) that has been sold since 1935?
... that hard soda is a fast-emerging segment in the craft beer industry that realized over one percent of overall beer category sales in the U.S. in May 2016?
... that a year after McGruff the Crime Dog asked people to lock their doors, dog ownership in the United States had increased but there was no increase in people locking their doors, possibly due to a plateau effect?
... that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"?
... that as part of her magic act in Benidorm, Sticky Vicky pulled ping-pong balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, sausages, and razor blades out of her vagina?
04:49, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Lucille Dumont in 1940
... that Canadian singer and radio/television host Lucille Dumont(pictured) first performed under the name Micheline Lalonde to hide her real identity?
... that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho?
... that Alexander Duckham, founder of Alexander Duckham & Co, was a friend of cross-channel aviator Louis Blériot, and paid for the memorial marking where Blériot landed in 1909?
... that the actress Chitra Dewi has been described as the ideal Indonesian woman?
... that a cubicle room at the Sunshine Hotel cost $10 a night in 1998, measured 4 by 6 by 7 feet (1.2 m × 1.8 m × 2.1 m), and featured a bed, locker, light bulb, and chicken-wire ceiling?
... that when Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of Mysore University, the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"?
... that Gateway Tower is a proposed building for the lot that contains the 110 foot (34 m) wide, 76 foot (23 m) deep hole in the ground (pictured) from the abandoned Chicago Spire?
... that the largest female black-sided hawkfish in a harem changes sex if the male dies?
... that some homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Zikhron Tuvya sport blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas, to guard against the evil eye?
... that the 12th-century Fuentidueña Apse(pictured) in New York's Cloisters museum was originally part of a Romanesque church likely built as the chapel for a fortress defending against Moorish invaders?
... that Hawaiian King Kamehameha III fell into a state of depression and drunkenness, and attempted to commit suicide, after the death of his fiancée Kamānele?
... that the California smoothtongue has a black pigment in its stomach lining that may conceal the presence of bioluminescent prey the fish has swallowed?
... that Burger King withdrew an advert featuring Mary J. Blige singing about a crispy chicken wrap due to the racial stereotype associated with fried chicken?
... that Fantasia described her song "No Time for It" as a combination of her childhood singing in church and desire to "tap into that whole rock world"?
... that after South Korean girl group GFriend debuted with Season of Glass, a Billboard columnist said they were "leading a new wave of female acts with a classic innocent look"?
... that the nilgai(pictured) has been declared as vermininBihar, India?
... that while living in England, American artist Robert Hess learned to paint in the style of John Constable and was influenced by the sculptures of Henry Moore?
... that David Tod Roy, the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, produced the first unexpurgated English translation of the Ming dynasty erotic novel Jin Ping Mei?
... that David A. Cooper diagnosed the first case of HIV in Australia?
... that the video game A Bird Story was released as a link between the award-winning To the Moon and its sequel?
... that Margarete Zuelzer, only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes?
... that Hannah Chaplin, the mother of the silent screen star Charlie Chaplin, was a British music hall performer who used the stage name Lily Harley?
... that the 1990 edition of the Tour de Trump, an American cycling race, visited Baltimore after its sponsor Donald Trump agreed to moor the Trump Princess in Baltimore Harbor during the race?
... that the Tarakeshwara TempleinHangal has an octagonal hall with a 6-metre (20 ft) diameter lotus carving (pictured) as its ceiling?
... that French photographer, journalist, and author Gaëlle Ghesquière achieved fame photographing pop-rock artists on stage, such as Madonna and Mick Jagger?
... that Utako Okamoto, discoverer of tranexamic acid, worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care?
... that the soundtrack of the 1971 film Ekeino to kalokairi featured the song "San Me Koitas", which has been described as "one of the most beautiful erotic songs of all time"?
... that the inner wall of the Kadisiddeshwara Temple in the Savadatti fort(entrance pictured) features a row of more than 200 carvings in geometric designs?
... that Elizabeth Alkin—a publisher, nurse and spy for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War—was nicknamed Parliament Joan?
... that the title for the Resident Alien comic book came from a conversation Peter Hogan had more than 20 years prior to publishing it?
... that the fossil lacewing Paradoxosisyra was placed into a separate subfamily based on its mouth?
... that town councillors and city police in Boston, Lincolnshire, commemorated its alcohol-free zone legislation by pouring cans of beer down a city street drain?
... that in 1988 Ruth Lockhart oversaw campus AIDS education programs like "Love Carefully Day", when flowers, candies, and condoms were distributed to students to give to "that special someone"?
... that the worker ant Formica biamoensis is difficult to compare to other species because latter species fossils are based upon amber specimens?
... that Michael O. Tunnell unsuccessfully submitted his first children's book over 30 times, but is now the author of many published books including Wishing Moon?
... that a chloridometer is used to determine the concentration of chloride in biological fluids, including blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid, sweat, and urine?
... that Fact magazine headlined in June 2016 that "We’ve discovered Simpsonwave and now we don’t need any more new genres"?
... that Tube Alloys was the code name of the clandestine British nuclear weapons project during World War II?
... that a Torah scroll commissioned by the Women's Torah Project was written by female scribes and clothed in a mantle stitched with items of clothing donated by women?
... that Sniper Elite 4 was designed to be a "sniper paradise"?
... that, with the issuance of the Alabama Centennial half dollar(pictured), Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby became the first living person to be depicted on a U.S. coin?
... that Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby with a time of 1 minute 59.4 seconds and ran the last quarter mile in 23 seconds, both Derby records?
... that the pharmaceutical drug migalastat fights Fabry disease by correcting the way a mutated enzyme is folded?
... that the Italian sandwich(pictured) was invented after dockworkers in Portland, Maine asked a baker to slice his bread rolls and add vegetables, meat, and cheese?
... that the Electrophone relayed theatre shows, opera performances, and church services over telephone lines?
... that Augustinian nun Jacomijne Costers survived the plague in 1489 and wrote Visioen en exempel, recounting her vision of being led through hell and purgatory?
... that the common eagle ray feeds on shellfish which it crushes with flattened hexagonal teeth arranged in a mosaic fashion on its jaws?
... that the anti-forensic software USBKill was created to prevent data from being seized from logged-in computers, as happened in Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's arrest?
... that DART's Kinki Sharyo SLRV(pictured) conversion project saved over $50 million compared to the cost of buying new accessible light rail vehicles?
... that storing fossils of Dlusskyidris in castor oil changed the amber's refractive index?
... that John von Neumann(pictured) once wrote that "anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin"?
... that Bakeys, an Indian manufacturer of edible utensils, hopes to reduce plastic utensil waste in India, which numbers around 120 billion discarded pieces annually?
... that 16th-century Greek noble Manthos Papagiannis repeatedly solicited support from western European leaders for a planned uprising against the Ottoman Empire?
... that Henry L. Haskell patented a game board (1900 vintage board shown) through the Carrom Company to keep young boys out of pool halls where they might develop bad habits?
... that Pat, a character from the Inside No. 9 episode "Nana's Party", was variously described by critics as an "irritating tit", an "insufferable booby", and a "desperately sad and dignified man"?
... that the small Maya archaeological site of K'atepan in Guatemala is said to have been the home of the Tojolabal Maya, a group now found in neighbouring Mexico?
... that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer, after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized?
00:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Rebecca Levy House
... that a three-story house (pictured) in the historical neighborhood of Even Yisrael has been called "Jerusalem's first skyscraper"?
... that Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher, was acclaimed as one of the "outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde"?
... that the story line of the 2015 Thai teen flick May Who? was inspired by director Chayanop Boonprakob's own teenage years?
... that when poet G. Sankara Kurup's (pictured) poem Odakkuzhal was nominated for the first Jnanpith Award, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi had opined that no Malayalam-language work was worthy of this inaugural prize?
... that Danell Lynn rode 48,600 miles (78,214 km) to become the first solo woman to set a world record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country?
... that according to scientists, cow tipping would require between 4 and 14 coordinated people, unlike the depiction of the urban legend in film and television?
00:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Kanhira Puzhan Dam and reservoir
... that the Kanhira Puzhan Dam reservoir (pictured) caused a village to be submerged, and its 44 tribal families to be moved?
... that a roadeo is a rodeo, but for motor vehicles?
2 June 2016
12:13, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Mary Cabot Wheelwright, age 4
... that Mary Cabot Wheelwright(pictured as a child) recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man Hosteen Klah?
... that Ruth Taubert Seeger represented the United States in the 1957 Deaflympics and was still competing successfully in the 2002 Senior Games of San Antonio?
