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16 July 2022
- 00:00, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the Akebono elephant (tooth pictured) is one of four Stegodon species that roamed Plio-Pleistocene Japan?
- ... that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status?
- ... that readers of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler often incorrectly assume that the main character is a boy?
- ... that after LaVere Redfield's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
- ... that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash?
- ... that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three "pederastic erotic classics"?
- ... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
- ... that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?
15 July 2022
- 00:00, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Eileen Collins (pictured) was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission?
- ... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
- ... that the Fischer quintuplets had six other siblings?
- ... that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup-clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
- ... that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
- ... that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp, a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
- ... that food YouTuber Mike Chen also runs a channel documenting strange phenomena?
- ... that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year?
14 July 2022
- 00:00, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the US Mint released the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent (pictured) on August 2, 1909, and discontinued it on August 5 because it showed the initials of engraver Victor David Brenner?
- ... that Alex Horton made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
- ... that spiritual jazz originated in the 1960s, partially due to the civil rights movement?
- ... that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
- ... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia, Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
- ... that jazz fusion and funk musician Mark Lettieri graduated with a degree in marketing?
- ... that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name?
- ... that the Beacon Theatre, once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?
13 July 2022
- 00:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that dozens of mammals and birds were first described from specimens collected by "Orii of the Orient" (pictured)?
- ... that early floppy disks used FM encoding that took up only half the available storage?
- ... that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
- ... that the Red Hill water crisis has caused a water shortage in Honolulu?
- ... that Ekaterina Novitskaya, then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
- ... that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF, but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
- ... that the Scottish medical missionary Ernest Muir championed the use of the traditional Ayurvedic cure chaulmoogra oil in treating Hansen's disease (leprosy)?
- ... that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?
12 July 2022
- 00:00, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones (examples pictured) "usually ended up in a box"?
- ... that Hans van Manen's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
- ... that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II?
- ... that Israel's mixed cities don't have much mixing?
- ... that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear?
- ... that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters, to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi?
- ... that The Tale of Genji's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero?
- ... that in Jackson, Tennessee, there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station?
11 July 2022
- 00:00, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Brewer Hicklen (pictured) hosts an annual youth baseball camp in Alabama?
- ... that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle?
- ... that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky?
- ... that Mess L, a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru, Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
- ... that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators?
- ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
- ... that Charles Leslie Richardson was ordered to "make science fashionable in the army"?
- ... that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19?
10 July 2022
- 00:00, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that despite having reportedly been destroyed in 1946, the 16-ton granite ball that once sat on top of the Columbia University sundial (pictured) reappeared in a Michigan field in 2001?
- ... that J. Michael Miller, the archbishop of Vancouver, who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay?
- ... that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
- ... that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar?
- ... that the title of the incel and Frogtwitter subculture film TFW No GF stands for "that feeling when [you have] no girlfriend"?
- ... that 2021 NCAA champion Bonnie Tan served as the assistant to 2021 UAAP champion Goldwin Monteverde in 1991?
- ... that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence?
- ... that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski, dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?
9 July 2022
- 00:00, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Nero's divorce of Claudia Octavia (pictured) caused public outcry – so he had her executed instead?
- ... that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest?
- ... that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
- ... that the Enterprise, a black newspaper in Omaha, supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition?
- ... that Charles Alban Buckler, an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms, rebuilt Arundel Castle?
- ... that Ingrid Andress came up with "Lady Like" after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
- ... that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin?
- ... that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?
8 July 2022
- 00:00, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Kuappi (pictured) in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
- ... that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew?
- ... that Polish courts processed 14.38 million cases in 2020 while having fewer than 10,000 judges?
- ... that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot?
- ... that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility, has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel, the novel's author?
- ... that Dominic Keegan refused a position on the New York Yankees to "go back and win another championship" for his college baseball team?
- ... that the McLaren MCL35 was the first McLaren race car to be wrapped?
- ... that baseball player Nick Solak was named after the sports bar where his parents first met?
7 July 2022
- 00:00, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Filipina actress Angel Locsin (pictured) was recognized for her work in disaster relief, as well as humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons in the Marawi siege?
- ... that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
- ... that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?
- ... that "Hurricane" was originally intended for Chance the Rapper, who passed on the song to Kanye West?
- ... that Hausman Baboe, a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas, was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
- ... that the motto of the Clayton Herald was "Independent in Everything; Neutral in Nothing"?
- ... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens?
- ... that local dairy farmers credit morning broadcasts of polka music from a Wisconsin radio station for relaxing their cows?
6 July 2022
- 00:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art (example pictured), telling Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"?
- ... that Kelly Hecking won more Big East Conference championships than any other Notre Dame athlete?
- ... that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province?
- ... that Bert Longfellow took on a one-man crusade which halved the drowning rate in the United States?
- ... that Holy Trinity Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme was praised as the "finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom"?
- ... that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022?
- ... that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
- ... that Dr. Dot started to give her mother "bite massages" at the age of five?
5 July 2022
- 00:00, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Margaret Abbott (pictured) was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, but never realized it?
- ... that Owen Jones's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
- ... that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie-style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin?
- ... that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk, Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
- ... that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors?
- ... that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii, only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia?
- ... that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
- ... that the ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine?
4 July 2022
- 00:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the first Asian-American at West Point to be named First Captain of the cadets was John Tien (pictured), the current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security?
- ... that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five, a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
- ... that agriculture ranks as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States and one that experiences high suicide rates?
- ... that The Baby-Sitters Club actress Sophia Reid-Gantzert won an Austrian ballet competition when she was six?
- ... that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado, one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
- ... that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox?
- ... that part of West Virginia's Princeton–Deepwater District railway was so steep that only shortened coal trains could ascend it?
- ... that George Allsopp was arrested three times for not carrying a lantern?
3 July 2022
- 00:00, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the Rwenzori glaciers (examples pictured) are being melted by climate change in Uganda?
- ... that Edward A. Synan, a military chaplain, wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism?
- ... that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
- ... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
- ... that according to Bohr's law, the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
- ... that Richmond station includes a "rather disquieting" artwork by William Mitchell?
- ... that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in sickle cell disease, decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
- ... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?
2 July 2022
- 00:00, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Franziska Seidl, born 130 years ago today, finished school after her husband's death and then went on to research ultrasound (illustration pictured) at the University of Vienna?
- ... that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram?
- ... that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion?
- ... that the quantum boomerang effect causes particles to turn around and return to their starting point?
- ... that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts?
- ... that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs, an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
- ... that a song about an esports team went viral in Finland?
- ... that King Mohnyin Thado of Ava responded to the troubles of his kingdom by recalibrating the Burmese calendar to year 2?
1 July 2022
- 00:00, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that a journalist dubbed Olena Shevchenko (pictured) as "probably the most famous lesbian in Ukraine"?
- ... that the Electronic Arrays 9002 microprocessor was developed to get the company out of the calculator business, but instead led to their disappearance?
- ... that Stig Millehaugen, who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return?
- ... that posters for John Lindsay's 1965 New York City mayoral campaign told voters that "John Lindsay Cares About You"?
- ... that an intestine-on-a-chip can model and mimic an organ?
- ... that Charlie H. Hogan was called "king of engineers" after he became the first to drive a train at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
- ... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?
- ... that the name of the "Mormons vs. Mullets" game was a play on the 1988 "Catholics vs. Convicts" game?