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===30 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Métivet-Eugénie Buffet.jpg|100x100px|Eugénie Buffet at [[Les Ambassadeurs (restaurant)|Les Ambassadeurs]] in 1896, by artist Lucien Métivet|alt=Eugénie Buffet]]
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*... that the role of Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, played by [[Marlene Dietrich]] in the 1930 film ''[[Morocco (1930 film)|Morocco]]'', was inspired by the life of ''[[Chanson réaliste|chanteuse réaliste]]'' '''[[Eugénie Buffet]]''' ''(pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Bill Beaney]]''' led [[Middlebury College]] to an unprecedented five straight national men's [[ice hockey]] championships and ranks 11th on the all-time [[NCAA]] hockey win list?
*... that about 6 million people are infected with '''''[[Opisthorchis viverrini]]''''' in Thailand?
*... that author [[Ted McKeever]] cited ''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]'' as inspiration for his futuristic comic book series '''''[[Meta 4]]''''', saying that it changed his life?
*... that the tower of the older '''[[St Saviour's Church, Ringley|Church of St Saviour, Ringley]]''', [[Greater Manchester]], was left in an isolated position when the present church was built on a different site?
*... that economist '''[[Eric Jones (economic historian)|Eric Jones]]''' is known for popularizing the term ''[[European Miracle]]''?
*... that '''[[Green Lake (Texas)|Green Lake]]''' in [[Texas]], is the largest natural [[freshwater]] [[lake]] entirely within the state, despite its proximity to the [[brackish water]]s of [[San Antonio Bay]]?
*... that mice were used to detect any concentrations of [[carbon monoxide]] inside the hull of the British [[petrol engine|petrol-engined]] '''[[British B class submarine|''B''-class submarines]]'''?


*'''''12:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Wapakoneta, light.jpg|100x100px|St. Joseph's Church|alt=A brick church building with twin steeples, highlighted against a blue sky]]
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*... that the [[church bell]]s of '''[[St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Wapakoneta, Ohio)|St. Joseph's Catholic Church]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Wapakoneta, Ohio]] were moved from a previous church building?
*... that '''[[Birgitta Jónsdóttir]]''', a member of the [[Althing]] and spokesperson for [[Wikileaks]], sponsored the [[Icelandic Modern Media Initiative]]?
*... that in his dissenting opinion in the case of '''''[[Taylor v. Beckham]]''''', [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] justice [[John Marshall Harlan]] wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]]?
*... that the [[Uncial script|uncial]] letters of the '''[[Codex Nanianus]]''' represent the last stage before the introduction of compressed uncials?
*... that [[London and North Eastern Railway|LNER]] [[Chief Mechanical Engineer|CME]] [[Nigel Gresley]] was so concerned about unsafe railway practices shown in the 1929 film '''''[[The Flying Scotsman (1929 film)|The Flying Scotsman]]''''' that he made the film producers include a disclaimer at the beginning?
*... that the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) public relations director '''[[Haskell Cohen]]''' originated the idea for the '''[[1951 NBA All-Star Game|first]]''' [[NBA All-Star Game]]?
*... that there is a tradition that the [[Middleton, West Yorkshire|Middleton]] miners gave either a week's wages or a week's work towards the cost of building the church of '''[[St Mary the Virgin, Middleton]]''' in 1846?
*... that as he "didn't even know it was a paying job", Superintendent [[Carmine DeSopo]] donated his entire $35,000 salary as [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assemblyman]] to the '''[[Burlington County Special Services School District]]'''?


*'''''06:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Caylua.jpg|100x100px|Workers in a Vietnamese rice paddy|alt=Workers in straw hats in a Vietnamese rice paddy]]
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*... that [[Vietnam]], '''[[Rice production in Vietnam|one of the world’s richest agricultural regions]]''' ''(pictured)'',  is the second-largest exporter worldwide and the seventh-largest consumer of [[rice]]?
*... that '''[[Margie Wright]]''' is the all-time winningest [[NCAA]] [[softball]] coach and ranks second all-time in career victories among [[Division I (NCAA)|NCAA Division&nbsp;I]] coaches in all sports? 
*... that when the [[Italian (wine)|Italian]] [[sparkling wine]] [[Prosecco]] received [[DOCG]] status, the name of its [[grape (variety)|grape]] changed from Prosecco to '''[[Glera (grape)|Glera]]''' so others could not make wine with the grape and call it Prosecco?
*... that [[African-American]] composer '''[[Wendell Logan]]''' described [[jazz]] as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
*... that the first [[entomology|entomological]] article written by a [[New World]] native concerned the "'''[[Sphex pensylvanicus|Great Black Wasp]]'''"?
*... that '''[[Aquilla Coonrod]]''' was one of only two men from [[Williams County, Ohio|Williams County]], [[Ohio]], to have ever received the [[Medal of Honor]]?
*... that '''[[Erling Sandberg]]''', installed as Finance Minister by [[Reichskommissariat Norwegen|Reichskommissariat]] when [[occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|Nazis occupied Norway]], was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
*... that [[Internal resistance to South African apartheid|anti-apartheid]] activist '''[[Nico Smith]]''' and his wife were the only legal white residents of [[Mamelodi, Gauteng|Mamelodi, South Africa]], from 1985 to 1989?


*'''''00:00, 30 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Alejandro Goic.jpg|100x100px|Bishop Alejandro Goic of Rancagua, Chile|alt=Bishop Alejandro Goic is shown wearing a red chasuble and a white miter]]
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*... that during the [[2006 student protests in Chile]], students threw stones at the residence of Bishop '''[[Alejandro Goic Karmelic]]''' ''(pictured)'', although he had expressed a desire to mediate only hours before?
*... that according to [[neuroeconomics|neuroeconomist]] '''[[Gregory Berns]]''', the challenges and novel experiences we undergo while we strive to achieve an aim bring us more fulfillment than the achievement itself?
*... that although the '''[[Anacostia Waterfront Corporation]]''' was created in 2004 to implement a 20-year, [[United States dollar|$]]8&nbsp;billion [[Real estate development|redevelopment]] plan in [[Washington, D.C.]], it was abolished after just three years?
*... that the 2008 [[Indonesia]]n film '''''[[Love (2008 Indonesian film)|Love]]''''' was a remake of the 2006 film ''Cinto''?
*... that '''[[J. A. Gammons|J. A. "Daff" Gammons]]''' played professional [[baseball]] and [[American football|football]], coached the [[Brown University]] football team, founded a successful insurance agency, and was an accomplished amateur [[golf]]er?
*... that the entire board of directors of [[Australia|Australian]] mining company '''[[Sundance Resources Limited|Sundance Resources]]''' was killed in an [[2010 Cameroon Aero Service CASA C-212 Aviocar crash|airplane crash]] in the [[Republic of Congo]] in June 2010?
*... that 29-year-old writer '''[[Justin Halpern]]''' was catapulted to the top of [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] after [[Boomerang Generation|moving back into his parents' home]] and starting a [[Shit My Dad Says|daily journal of his father's salty remarks]]?
*... that a cat, '''[[Oscar_(bionic_cat)|Oscar]]''', has had a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet, which could lead the way for similar treatment on humans?

===29 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Somerset cricket museum.jpg|100x100px|Old Priory Barn|alt=Stone building with tiled roof]]
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*... that the Old Priory Barn, which now houses the '''[[Somerset Cricket Museum]]''' ''(pictured)'', is the only surviving building of the [[Augustinian]] [[Taunton Priory]]?
*... that American [[Handicapping|handicapper]] '''[[George E. Smith (gambler)|George E. Smith]]''' won $115,000 on one horse race in 1891, the largest payout recorded in the [[United States|US]] to that date?
*... that [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]] '''[[Jonathan Johnson (baseball)|Jonathan Johnson]]''' was admitted to the [[Florida State University]] Hall of Fame in 2006?
*... that the death of '''[[Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford|Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester]]''', at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]], set in motion a train of events that ended in the deposition of King [[Edward&nbsp;II of England]]?
*... that '''[[Henry Wilkens]]''' received the [[Medal of Honor]] for his part in the battle of Little Muddy Creek?
*... that French Major General '''[[Marcel Alessandri]]''' received twelve [[Croix de guerre]] citations over the course of his forty-one year-long career?
*... that after '''[[Leander Clark College]]''' went [[bankruptcy|bankrupt]] and merged with [[Coe College]], an [[Inheritance|heir]] of the school's namesake [[lawsuit|sued]] to have his donation returned?
*... that in English law, '''''[[Quistclose trusts in English law|Quistclose]]''''' may be [[Constructive trusts in English law|constructive]] trusts, [[Resulting trusts in English law|resulting]] trusts, express trusts, or completely illusory?


*'''''12:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Lewisian Gneiss - geograph.org.uk - 155359.jpg|100x100px|Outcrop of Lewisian gneiss near Loch Inver|alt=Outcrop of banded and folded metamorphic rock with snow patch in foreground]]
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*... that the '''[[Lewisian complex|Lewisian gneiss]]''' ''(pictured)'', forms the [[Basement (geology)|basement]] to '''[[Torridonian]]''' and [[Cambrian|Cambro]]-[[Ordovician]] [[sedimentary rocks]] in the '''[[Hebridean Terrane]]'''?
*... that '''[[Asri Muda]]''' was ousted as the President of the [[Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party]] in 1982, and later joined the party's rival, the [[United Malays National Organisation]]?
*... that word of [[Dartmouth Big Green football|Dartmouth football]] coach '''[[Jackson Cannell]]'''{{`s}} termination prompted a team petition and ''[[The New York Times]]'' to dismiss it as a "rumor [that] springs up every year"?
*... that Illinois [[United States Senate|Senate]] candidate '''[[LeAlan Jones]]''' created the award-winning radio documentary ''[[Ghetto Life 101]]'' when he was 13 years old?
*... that remnants of a [[gristmill]], [[Distillation|distillery]] and [[oil well]] have been found at '''[[Falling Waters State Park]]''' which also has the highest waterfall in [[Florida]]?
*... that '''[[John W. Comfort]]''' enlisted in the [[Regular Army (United States)|Regular United States Army]] just four months after leaving the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry?
*... that character actor '''[[Vince O'Brien]]''' cherished his role on television and print advertisements as the '''[[Shell Answer Man]]''', a job he felt was "like hitting the state lottery"?
*... that [[evolutionary biologist]] and [[herpetologist]] '''[[Alex Pyron]]''' graduated from [[Piedmont College]] at age 16 and earned two [[master's degrees]] and a [[PhD]] by age 21?


*'''''06:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Rhynochetos jubatus qtl1.jpg|100x100px|The kagu, endemic to New Caledonia|alt=The enigmatic New Caledonian kagu]]
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*... that '''[[Geography of New Caledonia|New Caledonia]]''', an island fragment of the sunken continent [[Zealandia (continent)|Zealandia]] since the [[Cretaceous]], and [[Refugium (population biology)|home]] to the [[Kagu]] ''(pictured)'', has been likened to a "Jurassic Park"?
*... that the [[Louisiana Tech University]] named its Endowed Professorship in History after [[historian]] '''[[John D. Winters]]'''? 
*... that the first [[missionary]] house in [[South-West Africa]], today's [[Namibia]], was erected in '''[[Warmbad, Namibia|Warmbad]]''' in 1806?
*... that '''[[Ernie Robson]]''' played his final [[first-class cricket]] match for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] aged 53, less than a year before his death?
*... that '''''[[Fox Sports College Hoops '99]]''''' was the first [[college sports]] [[video game|game]] for the [[Nintendo 64]]?
*... that the $1 million spent by '''[[Sean F. Dalton]]''' and the other candidates in the 1993 [[New Jersey General Assembly|General Assembly]] race for [[New Jersey]]'s '''[[4th Legislative District (New Jersey)|4th Legislative District]]''' was the most for any district in the state that year?
*... that to preserve an archeological site in '''[[Guerrero]]''', [[Mexico]], a tunnel was dug under it for a highway joining [[Acapulco]] with [[Cuernavaca]]? 
*... that although '''[[Neil Bancroft]]''' was awarded the [[Medal of Honor]], he had died by the time the government located him to issue the medal?


*'''''00:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:John B T Murphy CSSp.jpg|100x100px|John Tuohill Murphy|alt=A portrait of John Tuohill Murphy]]
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*... that while president of [[Duquesne University|Pittsburgh Catholic College]], Father '''[[John Tuohill Murphy]]''' ''(pictured)'' formed a close personal association with the future saint [[Katharine Drexel]]?
*... that the film '''''[[Out of the Clouds]]''''' used one of [[Ealing Studios]]' largest ever sets to create the interior of the terminal building?
*... that '''[[Reformation in Italy|Protestant Reformation in Italy]]''' was significantly hindered by the strong influence of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]?
*... that [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assemblymember]] '''[[Jack Casey]]''' was one of many [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
*... that '''[[James Anderson (Medal of Honor recipient)|James Anderson]]''' was one of six men awarded the [[Medal of Honor]] for gallantry against a group of [[Plains Indians]] at the [[Wichita River]] in [[Texas]]?
*... that '''''[[The Victoria Advocate]]''''' is the second oldest newspaper in Texas, and the first published west of the [[Colorado River (Texas)|Colorado River]] of Texas?
*... that U.S. singer-songwriter [[Phil Ochs]] recorded "'''[[Kansas City Bomber (song)|Kansas City Bomber]]'''" as the theme song to the [[Raquel Welch]] [[Kansas City Bomber|film of the same name]], but it was rejected by the film's producers?
*... that [[Louis XIV]]'s personal physician [[Guy-Crescent Fagon]] recommended that the king only drink '''[[Côte de Nuits|Côte de Nuits wines]]''' from [[Nuits St-Georges]] because of the [[wine]]s' reported [[health giving properties (wine)|health-giving properties]]?

===28 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:St Oswald's Church, Warton.jpg|100x100px|St Oswald's Church, Warton|alt=A battlemented church tower with the church extending to the left, set in a wooded churchyard containing many gravestones]]
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*... that '''[[St Oswald's Church, Warton]]''', [[Lancashire]] ''(pictured)'', has connections with the ancestors of [[George Washington]]?
*... that the '''[[spits of Azov Sea]]''' are longer than its width?
*... that [[rock music|rock]] band '''[[Cave In discography|Cave In]]''' released an album through [[RCA Records]], but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a [[heavy metal music|heavier style]]?
*... that in 1991 [[Judicial Commissioner]] '''[[K. S. Rajah]]''' [[annulment|annulled]] a [[matrimonial law of Singapore|marriage]] between a woman who underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]] and another woman, reasoning that a [[transsexualism|transsexual]]'s gender was biologically determined?
*... that the music video for Japanese band [[Sakanaction]]'s "'''[[Aruku Around]]'''" was shot in a single take using a [[Canon EOS 5D Mark&nbsp;II]] camera?
*... that on the last day of the '''[[Battle of Hill 170]]''' in January 1945, an estimated 700 [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] [[artillery]] shells landed on the hill?
*... that the [[Five (channel)|Five]] talent show '''''[[Don't Stop Believing]]''''' was created based on the popularity of American musicals ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'' and ''[[High School Musical]]''?
*... that '''[[preference-based planning]]''' can help you to plan your visit to [[Starbucks]] before going to school?


*'''''12:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Pteridium esculentumComo.jpg|100x100px|Pteridium esculentum|alt=green fern fronds]]
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*... that both [[Australian aborigine]]s and [[Māori people|Māori]] ate the roots of the bracken '''''[[Pteridium esculentum]]''''' ''(pictured)''?
*... that 5'5", 135&nbsp;lb (1.65&nbsp;m, 61&nbsp;kg) '''[[Chris Limahelu]]''' set a [[USC Trojans]] [[American football|football]] record with a 47-yard [[Field goal (football)|field goal]] at the [[1974 Rose Bowl]] game?
*... that [[Jimmie Johnson]] has the most consecutive [[NASCAR]] '''[[List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions|drivers' championships]]''' with four earned from 2006 to 2009?
*... that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of '''[[Holy Trinity Church, Horwich]]''', in [[Greater Manchester]]?
*... that the resort of [[Jamaica Beach, Texas|Jamaica Beach]] on '''[[West Bay (Texas)|West Bay]]''' in Texas was built on a [[Karankawa]] Indian burial ground?
*... that '''[[James N. Wood]]''' created major exhibitions of works by [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]] and [[Vincent van Gogh|van Gogh]] that set records for attendance at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]?
*... that the documentary '''''[[Chords of Fame (film)|Chords of Fame]]''''' includes scenes in which its subject, U.S. singer-songwriter [[Phil Ochs]], is portrayed by Bill Burnett?
*... that a fine for [[nude swimming|skinny dipping]] led '''[[Bill Slater (politician)|Bill Slater]]''' into a legal career?


*'''''06:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Haskovo-bogorodica-right1.JPG|100x100px|Monument of the Holy Mother of God (Haskovo)|alt=A side view of a white statue of the Virgin Mary atop a stone pedestal, with greenery in the foreground]]
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*... that the '''[[Monument of the Holy Mother of God (Haskovo)|Monument of the Holy Mother of God]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Haskovo]], southeastern [[Bulgaria]], is the tallest statue of the [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Virgin Mary]] with the [[Child Jesus|Infant Jesus]] in the world?
*... that [[Bombay Bicycle Club]]'s second album '''''[[Flaws (album)|Flaws]]''''' consists entirely of [[acoustic music]], including [[cover version]]s of other artists?
*... that when '''[[Charles T. Gulick]]''' was tried for [[treason]] in 1895, his lawyer [[Paul Neumann (Attorney General)|Paul Neumann]] had served in the cabinet of the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] with him?
*... that although the [[Montana]] Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the '''[[Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks]]''', was established in 1895, the first [[game warden]] was not hired until 1898?
*... that '''[[Palacký University]]''' in [[Olomouc]] was established in 1573 to help re-Catholicize predominantly Protestant [[Czech lands]]?
*... that, when asked why he opened his studio in [[Glendale, California|Tropico]] rather than nearby [[Los Angeles]], photographer '''[[Edward Weston]]''' replied, "I'm going to make my name so famous that it won't matter where I live"?
*... that '''[[Elizabeth Dickens]]''', the mother of novelist [[Charles Dickens]], was the model for Mrs. Nickleby in ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' and Mrs. Micawber in ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]''?
*... that seven months after the reported execution in [[Budapest]] of '''[[Sári Petráss]]''' as a spy, she debuted on [[Broadway theater|Broadway]]?


*'''''00:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:William Malcolm Bunn.jpg|100x100px|William M. Bunn|alt=A photograph of William M. Bunn seated, wearing a thick coat, with his left hand under his chin, he has a receding hairline and a large moustache, curled up at the ends]]
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*... that [[Idaho Territory|Idaho Territorial]] Governor '''[[William Bunn]]''' ''(pictured)'' was appointed due to a [[quid pro quo]] between [[Chester A. Arthur]] and the [[Simon Cameron|Cameron]] [[political machine]] during the [[1884 US presidential election]]?
*... that in the mass literacy campaign during [[Grenada]]'s [[New Jewel Movement]] revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the '''[[National Youth Organisation (Grenada)|National Youth Organization]]'''?
*... that '''[[Henry Schoellkopf]]''', selected as an [[1903 College Football All-America Team|All-American]] [[Fullback (American football)|fullback]] while attending [[Harvard Law School]], later shot himself in the head at his [[Milwaukee]] law office?
*... that '''[[James Morris Blaut]]'''{{'s}} death prevented him from finishing his trilogy of books criticizing [[Eurocentrism]]?
*... that the '''[[Bumblebee models|Bumblebee model]]''', first used by '''[[Alan Kostelecký]]''', is the simplest case of a theory with spontaneous [[Standard-Model Extension#Spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking|Lorentz symmetry breaking]]?
*... that '''[[Zachariah T. Woodall]]''' was awarded the [[Medal of Honor]] for his participation in what was later known as the Battle of Buffalo Wallow?
*... that [[pitcher]] '''[[Héctor Wagner]]''' was one of the youngest players in [[Major League Baseball]] in 1990?
*... that according to '''[[Andreas Grünschloß]]''', members of [[UFO religions]] derive an enhanced sense of self-worth from their membership, believing they are part of those chosen to prepare a [[new age]]?

===27 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Sars Johan Ernst.gif|100x100px|Ernst Sars|alt=Ernst Sars]]
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*... that historian '''[[Ernst Sars]]''' ''(pictured)'' was a co-editor of the magazine '''''[[Nyt Tidsskrift]]''''' from 1882 to 1887?
*... that '''[[Frank Girardi]]'''{{'}}s [[Lycoming College|Lycoming]] [[American football|football]] team wore shoes borrowed from [[Joe Paterno]] in the 1990 [[NCAA Division III National Football Championship|NCAA football tournament]]?
*... that the highly influential jurist '''[[Matthew Hale (jurist)|Sir Matthew Hale]]''' once said that lawyers were "a barbarous set of people unfit for anything but their own trade"?
*... that '''[[John Willms|Fr. John Willms]]''' once stood in the way of a [[Locomotive|locomotive]] in order to allow his congregation to hear a [[sermon]] in silence?
*... that former [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]] [[American football|football]] coach '''[[Larry Catuzzi]]''' served on the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission after his daughter died on [[United Airlines Flight 93]]?
*... that the wife and children of [[Idaho Territory|Idaho Territorial]] Governor '''[[Edward A. Stevenson]]''' were killed during an [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] attack?
*... that [[Amon Henry Wilds]]{{'}}s [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]] '''[[Park Crescent, Brighton|Park Crescent]]''' development in [[Brighton]] was the scene of the infamous [[Brighton trunk murders|"trunk murder" of July 1934]]?
*... that the '''[[Utina]]''' were one of the most powerful [[Timucua]] tribes during the early days of [[European colonization of the Americas|European settlement]] in [[Florida]], but appear to have fragmented into at least three [[chiefdom]]s by the 17th century?


*'''''12:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Eastern Hercules Beetle.jpg|100x100px|A male eastern Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus|alt=A large, pale yellow beetle with two large black horns projecting forwards]]
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*... that the animals described in [[Carl Linnaeus]]' '''''[[Centuria Insectorum]]''''' include the [[crab]] '''''[[Hepatus epheliticus]]''''', the [[rhinoceros beetle]] '''''[[Dynastes tityus]]''''' ''(pictured)'', the [[scale insect]] '''''[[Conchaspis capensis]]''''' and the [[butterfly]] '''''[[Catopsilia scylla]]'''''?
*... that a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' music critic credited [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]] director '''[[Ernest Fleischmann]]''' with having "transformed a provincial second-rank orchestra into one of the world's best"?
*... that the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|communist]]-led [[Left Front (Tripura)|Left Front]] won all seats elected in the '''[[Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election, 2010|2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election]]'''?
*... that [[soprano]] '''[[Siri Thornhill]]''' performed a [[Bach cantata]] for the fourth Sunday after [[Trinity Sunday|Trinity]], ''[[Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177]]'', at the [[Rheingau Musik Festival]] in the [[Eibingen Abbey]]?
*... that the '''[[GreenWheel]]''' is an electric-powered assist module designed by the [[MIT Media Lab]] than can be added in the rear hub of any existing bicycle, providing added power for hills and acceleration?
*... that according to sociology professor '''[[Lorne L. Dawson]]''', [[Internet]] sites like [[YouTube]] have in recent years been used to spread religious [[hate propaganda]]?
*... that the '''[[SS Cedarville|SS ''Cedarville'']]''' sank in 1965 after colliding with another ship near the [[Mackinac Bridge]], killing ten people?
*... that '''[[Gerbrand Bakker (novelist)|Gerbrand Bakker]]''' played a tape recording of 1994 [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Eurovision Song Contest 1994|Eurovision]] entry "[[Waar is de zon?]]" as he was given the 2010 [[International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award]] for '''''[[The Twin (novel)|The Twin]]'''''?


*'''''06:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Execution_of_a_Moroccan_Jewess_by_Alfred_Dehodencq.jpg|100x100px|Execution of a Moroccan Jewess by Alfred Dehodencq|alt=Painting "Execution of a Moroccan Jewess" by Alfred Dehodencq]]
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*... that in 1834, the 17-year-old [[History of the Jews in Morocco|Moroccan Jewish]] girl '''[[Sol Hachuel]]''' was beheaded ''(pictured)'' for alleged [[Apostasy in Islam|apostasy from Islam]]?
*... that [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]-based '''[[ClearEdge Power]]''' used to be known as [[Quantum leap|Quantum Leap]] Technology?
*... that physician-ethnographer '''[[Hiram M. Hiller, Jr.]]''' made two trips to the fabled [[Dayak people|Dyak]] [[Headhunting|headhunters]] of [[Borneo]]?
*... that '''[[Jay Handlan]]''' set the [[NCAA]] college basketball record of 71&nbsp;[[field goal (basketball)|field goal]] attempts in a single game while playing for [[Washington and Lee University]]?
*... that '''[[The Volcano (British Columbia)|The Volcano]]''' in northwestern [[British Columbia]] is the youngest known [[volcano]] in [[Canada]] and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago?
*... that [[Mendocino, California]], artist '''[[Bill Zacha]]''' learned to paint [[Left-handedness|left-handed]] after injuring his right hand in a fall?
*... that in response to the '''[[Tanka movement|Hajong communist peasants' uprising]]''', [[Pakistan]]i authorities forced the majority of the [[Hajong language|Hajong]] people into exile in [[India]]?
*... that '''[[Lord George Sanger|"Lord" George Sanger]]''' was a 19th century circus proprietor who, at the age of 85, was murdered with a [[hatchet]]?


*'''''00:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Phaius tancarvilleae2.jpg|100x100px|Phaius tancarvilleae|alt=Phaius tancarvilleae in flower]]
</div>
*... that the flowers of the ground orchid '''''[[Phaius tancarvilleae]]''''' ''(pictured)'' can arise on stems two metres (seven feet) high?
*... that convicted murderer '''[[Ronnie Lee Gardner]]''' watched ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' film trilogy before being [[Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad]]?
*... that the cargo ship '''{{SS|Jan Steen||2}}''' collided with and sank the ''Caritas&nbsp;I'' in the [[River Scheldt]] in 1947?
*... that '''[[Carlos Monsiváis]]''', who was a [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[political activist]] and [[journalist]], won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
*... that the first two [[cookbook]]s by '''[[Deborah Madison]]''' won [[James Beard Foundation]] awards as well as Julia Child Cookbook of the Year?
*... that the current head of the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] '''[[Valeriy Khoroshkovsky]]''' is one of [[Ukraine]]'s richest businessmen?
*... that a high concentration of [[anthracene]] in the [[liver]] can kill the '''[[Heterobranchus bidorsalis|African Clariid Catfish]]'''?
*... that the opening scene of the first episode of [[BBC Three]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] '''''[[Mongrels (TV series)|Mongrels]]''''' features cats eating the corpse of their dead owner?

===26 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:IIT Machinery Hall.jpg|100x100px|Machinery Hall|alt=Red brick and granit building on a street corner]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus]]''' ''(Machinery Hall pictured)'' was built by the philanthropy of [[Philip Danforth Armour]]?
*... that only 1000 copies of each issue of '''''[[Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly]]''''' were printed on loose-leaf paper, bound in a [[folio (printing)|folio]], and featured [[avant-garde]] authors, poets, artists, and even architects?
*... that [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] tennis player and [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] honorary member '''[[Jan Staubo]]''' was an inmate of the camp [[Stalag Luft&nbsp;III]] shortly before [[Stalag Luft III#The "Great Escape"|The Great Escape]]?
*... that [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]]'s '''[[A. Barr Snively|"Whoop" Snively]]''', known as "the best [[forward pass|forward-pass]]er in the East," later coached [[lacrosse]] and [[ice hockey]] at [[Williams College]] and [[University of New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]?
*... that [[sitcom]] [[television writer|writer]] and [[television writer|producer]] '''[[Martin Cohan]]''' co-created ''[[Silver Spoons]]'' and ''[[Who's the Boss?]]''
*... that '''[[Richard Shephard]]''' wrote a piece commemorating [[Henry Purcell]]'s 350th birthday for 500 school children which was performed in the [[Royal Albert Hall]] with [[Howard Goodall]] in 2009?
*... that the '''[[iPhone (original)|original iPhone]]''' was named the Invention of the Year by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine?
*... that although his father was director of [[industrial relations]] at [[Ford Motor Company]], '''[[Bob King (labor leader)|Bob King]]''' joined the union at Ford and was elected president of the [[United Auto Workers of America]] in June 2010?


*'''''12:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Alphonse Royer circa 1840.jpg|100x100px|Alphonse Royer c. 1840|alt=Monochrome portrait of a man in his late 30s, seated. Period 1840.]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Alphonse Royer]]''' ''(pictured)'' and [[Théophile Gautier]] were [[Heinrich Heine]]'s seconds in his 1841 [[duel]] with Salomon Strauss?
*... that the career of the [[400 metres|400-meter]] [[List of world junior records in athletics|world junior]] record holder '''[[Darrell Robinson]]''' ended after he accused [[Carl Lewis]] and [[Florence Griffith-Joyner|Flo-Jo]] of using [[Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport|performance-enhancing drugs]]?
*... that '''[[W. I. M. Seneviratne]]''' and '''[[Chaminda Ruwan Yakandawala]]''' were [[Sri Lanka]]n soldiers who sacrificed their lives to prevent female [[Tamil Tiger]] [[suicide bomber]]s from assassinating Sri Lankan [[VIP]]s?
*... that the [[National Penitentiary Institute (Peru)|'''National Penitentiary Institute''' of Peru]] is the government agency that operates the prison where [[Joran van der Sloot]] is being held?
*... that the $2.4 million spent by both candidates in the 2003 [[New Jersey Senate]] race between [[Stephen M. Sweeney]] and '''[[Raymond Zane]]''' set a record for the most expensive legislative race in state history?
*... that high levels of [[chloride]]s have been found in some of '''[[Serra de Na Burguesa|Serra de Na Burguesa's]]''' [[aquifer]]s?
*... that [[Primeiro Comando da Capital|PCC]], one of Brazil's most notorious gangs, is said to have been formed in response to commanding colonel '''[[Ubiratan Guimarães]]'''{{`}} mishandling of the [[prison riot]] leading to the [[Carandiru massacre]]?
*... that the '''[[1986 Goodwill Games]]''', created by [[Ted Turner]], featured a type of [[polo]] competition with [[motorcycle]]s called [[motoball]]?


*'''''06:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:AzovseaNASA.jpg|100x100px|Satellite image of the Azov Sea|alt=Satellite image of Azov Sea showing distinct change in colour between the dark blue Black Sea and the light green Azov Sea]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Sea of Azov]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the shallowest sea in the world?
*... that [[psychologist]] '''[[Steve Eichel]]''' was an [[expert witness]] in the 2003 [[criminal procedure|criminal trial]] of [[Lee Boyd Malvo]]?
*... that [[Kermit Roosevelt]]'s [[co-brother-in-law]] '''[[Mervyn Herbert]]''' played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club]] and died in the [[British Embassy]] in [[Rome]], [[Italy]]?
*... that '''''[[Ambondro (genus)|Ambondro]]''''', which lived in [[Madagascar]] about 167 million years ago, is the oldest known [[mammal]] with modern, [[tribosphenic molar]]s?
*... that '''[[Vangjel Meksi]]''' was the first to translate the [[New Testament]] into the [[Albanian language]]?
*... that the '''[[2010 Central Canada earthquake]]''' was felt as far away as [[New York City]]?
*... that '''[[Karen Fladset]]''', [[team handball]] player and former coach for the [[Norway women's national handball team|Norwegian women's national handball team]], was also national champion in [[discus throw]]?
*... that a '''[[Torpedo, Pennsylvania|village in Pennsylvania]]''' got its name from an incident involving [[nitroglycerin]] '''[[Torpedo (petroleum)|torpedoes]]'''?


*'''''00:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Lombok 1894 J. Hoynck van Papendrecht 1858 1933.jpg|100x100px|Dutch attack in Lombok|alt=Dutch attack in Lombok]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem]]''' in 1894 ''(pictured)'' led to the death of thousands of [[Bali]]nese?
*... that the '''[[Becton, Dickinson and Company headquarters|Becton, Dickinson headquarters]]''' were designed in the style of a [[English country house|country house]]?
*... that the annual [[Berg River]] Canoe Marathon ends at the [[Port Owen]] marina in '''[[Velddrif]]''', [[Western Cape]], [[South Africa]]?
*... that the [[Cretaceous]] [[Madagascar|Malagasy]] mammal '''''[[Lavanify]]''''' is most closely related to a species from [[India]]?
*... that '''[[11 Dyke Road, Brighton|11 Dyke Road]]''', [[Brighton]]—latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic style]] as a school for poor girls?
*... that '''[[Thomas S. Buechner]]''' became one of the youngest museum directors in the United States when he was named to head the [[Brooklyn Museum]] at age 33?
*... that in the '''[[Treaty of Kiel]]''', [[Swedish Pomerania]] was promised to [[Kingdom of Denmark|Denmark]] as compensation for [[Norway]]?
*... that the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]] fired their women's basketball coach in 1976, during a season in which the '''[[Texas Longhorns women's basketball]]''' team went 21–7, because he couldn't coach [[volleyball]]?

===25 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Australia - Ireland 15-11-2006-1.jpg|100x100px|The Australian national rugby union team, the Wallabies|alt=The Wallabies]]
</div>
*... that [[George Smith (rugby union)|George Smith]] has twice won the [[John Eales Medal]], awarded for the best [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallaby]] ''(Australian rugby team pictured)'', as voted for by his peers in the '''[[Rugby Union Players Association]]'''?
*... that the '''''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]''''', covering [[new religious movements]] and trends in mainstream religion, was founded in 1985 as ''Religion Today'', with '''[[Peter B. Clarke]]''' as its founding editor?
*... that the '''[[old Rouen tramway]]''' was once the largest [[Electrification (rail)|electric]] [[tram|tramway]] in [[France]], with {{convert|70|km|abbr=on}} of route?
*... that '''[[D. Bennett Mazur]]''' was elected in 1991 to serve a sixth term in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] representing the '''[[37th Legislative District (New Jersey)|37th Legislative District]]''', but resigned after suffering a [[stroke]] on Election Day? 
*... that some [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Anglo-Saxon]] churches, such as [[St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber]], were originally built '''[[Anglo-Saxon turriform churches|with towers for naves]]'''?
*... that the '''[[LTV L450F]]''' [[spyplane]] was developed from a [[sailplane]], and was then further developed into a [[UAV|drone]]? 
*... that much of the information that reaches [[Media of the People's Republic of China|Chinese media]] is published in the '''[[Neican|limited-circulation reports for government officials]]''', not in the regular press?
*... that in 1612 [[Jew]]ish teacher '''[[Jacob Barnet affair|Jacob Barnet]]''' was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the [[University of Oxford]] for changing his mind about being [[baptism|baptized]]?


*'''''12:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tiran-5-latrun-1.jpg|100x100px|Israeli Tiran 5 (T-55)|alt=Israeli T-55 tank]]
</div>
*... that during '''[[Operation Raviv]]''' of September 1969, [[Israel|Israeli]] troops used captured Arab armor ''([[T-55]] pictured)'' to raid [[Egypt]]'s [[Red Sea]] coast?
*... that Europe's largest [[golf course]] was built on the island of '''[[Veliki Brijun]]''' in the early 1910s?
*... that Memphis, Tennessee's '''[[Temple Israel (Memphis, Tennessee)|Temple Israel]]''', one of the largest [[Reform Judaism (North America)|Reform]] [[synagogue]]s in the United States, insisted in its early years on [[mechitza|separate seating for men and women]]?
*... that the average age of a '''[[Agriculture in the United Kingdom|farm holder]]''' in the [[United Kingdom]] is 59?
*... that after his [[professional baseball]] career was over, '''[[Jerry Harrington]]''' became the assistant [[chief of police]] in [[Keokuk, Iowa]]?
*... that in 1969, [[Mahathir Mohamad]], the future [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]], lost his seat in [[Parliament of Malaysia|Parliament]] to future [[Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party]] President, '''[[Yusof Rawa]]'''?
*... that '''''[[This is a magazine]]''''' is an experimental art publication founded in 2002?
*... that while he was [[manager (baseball)|manager]] of the [[Milwaukee Brewers (minor league baseball team)|Milwaukee Brewers]], '''[[Rip Egan]]''' once served [[Alcoholic beverage|alcohol]] to the opposing [[pitcher]] late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?


*'''''06:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Von-Wattenwyl-Haus, Herrengasse 23, Nordseite.jpg|100x100px|House at Herrengasse 23, Bern, north facade|alt=House at Herrengasse 23, Bern, north facade]]
</div>
*... that, from his house on '''[[Herrengasse 23 (Bern)|Herrengasse 23]]''' ''(pictured)'', American spy [[Allen Dulles]] ran an intelligence organization that was involved with an [[20 July plot|attempt to kill Adolf Hitler]], and even the [[Operation Crossword|surrender of German troops in Italy]]?
*... that [[Parliament of Norway|Norwegian MP]] '''[[Børre Rognlien]]''' was also the organizational leader of [[short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics]]?
*... that, after the rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy selling candy for a fundraiser, [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assemblyman]] '''[[John A. Rocco]]''' introduced a bill to ban door-to-door sales by public school students?
*... that '''[[List of bats of Madagascar|bats on Madagascar]]''' colonized the island from [[Asia]] at least three times?
*... that, in 2007, [[United States|American]] [[track and field]] athlete '''[[Jake Arnold]]''' became the first man in 22 years to win back-to-back [[NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship|NCAA Championships]] in the [[decathlon]]?
*... that, although the [[Sind United Party]] emerged as the largest party in the '''[[Sind legislative assembly election, 1937|1937 Sind assembly election]]''', it failed to get its main leaders elected?
*... that '''[[Lavaca Bay]]''' in Texas has been classified as a [[superfund]] site due to [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] contamination by [[Alcoa]]?
*... that an inmate of the '''[[Dóchas Centre]]''' women's prison was arrested for trying to break ''into'' the facility at [[Mountjoy Prison]], [[Dublin]]?


*'''''00:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Moonsault Scramble (Fuji-Q Highland).jpg|100x100px|Pretzel knot element in Moonsault Scramble|alt=roller coaster with large twists]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Moonsault Scramble]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the third-tallest [[Shuttle roller coaster|shuttle]] [[roller coaster]] ever constructed, and the first roller coaster to stand over {{convert|200|ft|m}} in height?
*... that the town of Carancahua on '''[[Carancahua Bay]]''' in [[Texas]] avoided growth because of the site's propensity for flooding and [[malaria]]?
*... that the rainforest tree '''''[[Flindersia xanthoxyla]]''''', used for making coaches and cabinets, is a member of the [[citrus]] family [[Rutaceae]]?
*... that the [[MIT Car]], a two-seat urban concept car propelled by motors in its wheels, was a project developed by '''[[William J. Mitchell]]''' at the [[MIT Media Lab]]?
*... that [[wine]] writer '''[[André Jullien]]''' [[classification (wine)|classified]] the wines of [[Bordeaux (wine)|Bordeaux]] nearly 40 years before the [[official 1855 classification]], including naming the exact same four [[First Growths]]?
*... that two major bridges in [[Croatia]], carrying two major roads only one mile apart, are both officially called '''[[Maslenica Bridge (disambiguation)|Maslenica Bridge]]'''?
*... that the leaves of the button grass '''''[[Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus]]''''' have the lowest recorded [[phosphorus]] content of any plant species?
*... that, in 2005, the [[Vietnam]]ese company '''[[Vinacafe]]''' controlled half of the [[instant coffee]] market in Vietnam, and [[Nestlé]] another third?

===24 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Bintan Lagoon Resort.jpg|100x100px|Bintan Island|alt=tropical island coastline]]
</div>
*... that in the 12th century, '''[[Bintan Island]]''' ''(pictured)'' in the [[Strait of Malacca]] was known as the "Pirate Island" since the Malay pirates used to loot trading ships sailing in these waters?
*... that [[Chey Chettha II|'''Chey Chettha II''']]'s cooperation with the [[Nguyễn Lords]] of [[Vietnam]] led to the Vietnamese [[annexation]] of the [[Mekong Delta]], including the town Vietnamese settlers [[Names of Ho Chi Minh City|referred to]] as [[Ho Chi Minh City|''Sài Gòn'']]?
*... that [[TriBeCa]]'s '''[[St. John's Park]]''' was a farm, a [[private park]], and a freight depot on the [[West Side Line]] before being used for exits of the [[Holland Tunnel]]?
*...that the [[Floating Production Storage and Offloading]] vessel '''''[[Helix Producer 1]]''''' servicing at the [[Deepwater Horizon]] site was formerly a [[RORO]] [[ferry]]?
*... that [[Parliament of Norway|Norwegian MP]] '''[[Arne Haukvik]]''' was a founder of the [[Bislett Games]]?
*... that '''[[Fred K. Nielsen]]''', a legal official of the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]], served as the part-time head [[college football|football]] coach at four different [[Washington, D.C.]] colleges?
*... that a 1946 trial against the newspaper '''''[[Morgenposten]]''''' also had implications for the treatment of other Norwegian newspapers which had cooperated with the Nazi authorities during [[World War&nbsp;II]]?
*... that before becoming a professional [[association football|footballer]], '''[[Bob Jefferson]]''' had deserted from the [[Royal Navy]]?


*'''''12:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:The Poem Tree, Wittenham Clumps.JPG|100x100px|The Poem Tree at Wittenham Clumps|alt=An old beech tree with its branches removed. The bark is streched and warped, with a rough texture]]
</div>
*... that in 1844, [[Joseph Tubb]] created '''[[The Poem Tree]]''' by carving a 20-line poem into the bark of a beech tree ''(pictured)'' at [[Wittenham Clumps]]?
*... that the plaza in [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park]] designed by '''[[Kenzo Tange]]''' allows 50,000 people to gather at the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial|peace monument]] in the centre?
*... that '''[[Knob Noster State Park]]''' in [[List of Missouri state parks|Missouri]] was built by the [[Civilian Conservation Corps|CCC]] and [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] as Montserrat National [[Recreational Demonstration Area]]?
*... that the [[Venezuela]]n historian '''[[Lucía Raynero Morales]]''' holds a [[Visiting Fellow]]ship at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], that is named after the Venezuelan humanist [[Andrés Bello]]?
*... that the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden at the '''[[Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society]]''' has a [[lime tree]] that was planted by former [[Czechoslovakia]] president [[Václav Havel]]?
*... that the "Grandfather of Eastern Wilderness", '''[[Ernie Dickerman]]''', was instrumental in promoting the 1975 '''[[Eastern Wilderness Act]]''', which designated 16 new [[wilderness]] areas in the eastern United States?
*... that [[Pope Vigilius]] refused to attend the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] even though he had been '''[[Placidia Palace|living in the city]]''' for seven years?
*... that [[Williams College]] [[American football|football]] coach '''[[Joseph W. Brooks|Joseph Brooks]]''' served in a machine gun battalion in [[World War&nbsp;I]] and survived a plane crash in 1931?


*'''''06:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:EphraimAndEmmaWoodworthTruesdellHouseCantonMi.jpg|100x100px|Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House|alt=Picture of the house, a two-storey brick building with decorative gables]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House]]''' ''(pictured)'' was used by the family for funerals because of its large double doors?
*... that '''[[Tobelo]]''' is the capital of the '''[[North Halmahera Regency]]''' in [[Indonesia]]?
*... that ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' actress [[Katerina Graham]] makes a cameo appearance in [[Justin Bieber]]'s latest music video, "'''[[Somebody to Love (Justin Bieber song)|Somebody to Love]]'''", which features his mentor [[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]]?
*... that '''[[Robert B. Radnitz]]''' produced the 1972 film ''[[Sounder (film)|Sounder]]'', which became his best known work, despite advice that the movie would never find an audience?
*... that, prior to appearing as [[Summer Hoyland]] in the soap opera ''[[Neighbours]]'', '''[[Jordy Lucas]]''' was a finalist for [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]], in the 2008 The Dolly Big Star competition?
*... that '''[[St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge]]''', [[Bolton]], [[Greater Manchester]], was the first of three "pot churches" designed by [[Edmund Sharpe]]?
*... that '''[[Tav HaYosher]]''' is a [[certification mark]] offered to [[Kashrut|kosher]] dining establishments that attests that the business meets legal and ethical standards for all of its employees?
*... that in January 1942, British [[Special Operations Executive|agents]] and [[British Commandos|commandos]] raided the [[Neutrality (international relations)|neutral]] Spanish island of [[Bioko|Fernando Po]] and '''[[Operation Postmaster|stole three ships]]?


*'''''00:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Kizhi church 1.jpg|100x100px|The 22-dome Kizhi Church|alt=The 22-dome Kizhi Church]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Kizhi]]''' island on '''[[Lake Onega]]''' features a 22-domed, 37 meter tall '''[[Kizhi Pogost|wooden church]]''' ''(pictured)'' built in 1714 with no nails?
*... that '''[[John Tillman (lacrosse)|John Tillman]]''', recently hired as the [[Maryland Terrapins men's lacrosse|Maryland men's lacrosse]] head coach, led [[Harvard Crimson men's lacrosse|Harvard]] to victory over [[Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse|Princeton]] for the first time in two decades?
*... that "'''[[Turn Ahead the Clock]]'''" was a '''[[List of Seattle Mariners uniform promotion games|promotion]]''' originated by the [[Seattle Mariners]] [[Major League Baseball]] franchise in 1998 where the team wore futuristic [[baseball uniform|uniforms]] that [[outfielder]] [[Ken Griffey, Jr.]] helped design?
*... that when interned by [[Nazi Germany]] in [[World War&nbsp;II]], '''[[Sofka Skipwith]]''' and a friend smuggled a [[Jew]]ish baby out of the camp in a [[Red Cross]] box and so saved its life?
*... that '''[[Accordia]]''' became the first housing development to win the
[[Royal Institute of British Architects]] (RIBA) [[Stirling Prize]]?
*... that lawyer '''[[Paul Neumann (Attorney General)|Paul Neumann]]''' was born in [[Prussia]] but served in the legislatures of both [[California]] and the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]]?
*... that '''[[Jihad satire]]''', comedy that makes terrorists look silly, is thought to be an effective way of undermining support for terrorist organizations like [[Al Qaeda]]?
*... that '''[[George H. Sutton]]''' was renowned as the "handless [[Cue sports|billiard]] player", but his [[cigarette card]] depicts him with hands?

===23 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Guido Reni 042.jpg|100x100px|Saint Joseph by Guido Reni, c. 1640|alt=Painting of Saint Joseph as an old bearded man with his left hand raised]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Josephology]]''' is a modern [[theological]] study of [[Saint Joseph]] ''(pictured)'' and one of the most recent [[theological]] [[Academic discipline|disciplines]]?
*... that '''[[Norm Daniels (American football)|Norm Daniels]]''', '''[[Frank Hauser]]''' and '''[[Bill MacDermott]]''' achieved the most wins among the [[American football|football]] coaches in [[Wesleyan University|Wesleyan]] history, and Daniels led the team to four consecutive undefeated seasons? 
*... that '''[[Seo Ji-Hun|XellOs]]''' plays on a [[StarCraft professional competition|professional StarCraft team]] called Air Force ACE, sponsored by the [[Republic of Korea Air Force|South Korean Air Force]]?
*... that in addition to some isolated teeth and a jaw fragment, the '''[[Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar]]''' include the most complete mammalian skeleton known from the [[Mesozoic]] of [[Gondwana]]?
*... that during the 1960s two militant groups, the '''[[Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen|Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY)]]''' and the '''[[National Liberation Front (Yemen)|National Liberation Front (NLF)]]''', fought each other and the [[United Kingdom|British]] in what is now [[Yemen]]?
*... that [[1997 British Lions tour to South Africa|1997 British and Irish Lions]] captain [[Martin Johnson (rugby union)|Martin Johnson]] regarded '''[[Paul Wallace (rugby union)|Paul Wallace]]''' as the player of the series?
*... that the '''[[Stephansplatz (Vienna U-Bahn)|underground station at Vienna's Stephansplatz]]''' has a foul smell caused by organic material used to stabilise the soil?


*'''''12:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:46 High St corbel female.jpg|100x100px|Corbel with carved caryatid, 46 High Street, Nantwich|alt=A nude female figure, lacking arms, carved in a black-painted wooden corbel. In the background are repeated decorative motifs including circles, lozenges and scrollwork.]]
</div>
*... that '''[[46 High Street, Nantwich|46 High Street]]''', an [[Elizabethan architecture|Elizabethan]] merchant's house in [[Nantwich]], [[Cheshire]], has a carved wooden [[caryatid]] ''(pictured)''?
*... that [[United States Ambassador to Cyprus]] '''[[Taylor G. Belcher]]''' was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Medal (United States)|Distinguished Service Award]] because of his peace-keeping abilities during the eruption of violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots?
*... that the [[MIT Media Lab]]'s '''[[RoboScooter]]''' is a foldable electric scooter, designed to be one-third the weight and have 10% of the parts of traditional gasoline-powered scooters?
*... that according to '''[[James A. Beckford]]''', the refusal of many French prisons to provide [[halal]] meat and religious services to [[Muslims]] leads to increased [[radicalisation]] in the Muslim community?
*... that roughly 1% of all [[star formation]] occurs within '''[[tidal tail]]s'''?
*... that when '''[[Jeremiah J. Callahan|Fr. Jeremiah Callahan]]''' was appointed president of [[Duquesne University]] in 1931, he used the opportunity to tell reporters about his personal critique of [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s [[theory of relativity]]?
*... that [[Australia national women's cricket team|Australian cricket]] [[all-rounder]] '''[[Sarah Elliott (cricketer)|Sarah Elliott]]''' only took her first [[wicket]] in senior cricket eight years after her debut?
*... that despite helping arrange the engagement of '''[[Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890-1972)|Princess Feodora]]''' with the [[Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach|Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]], German Emperor [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm&nbsp;II]] refused to attend their wedding?


*'''''06:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Royal Gold Cup with flash.JPG|100x100px|The Royal Gold Cup|alt=An elaborately decorated enamelled covered gold cup with white tudor roses on the stem and pearls around the base]]
</div>
*... that the [[vitreous enamel|enamelled]] '''[[Royal Gold Cup]]''' ''(pictured)'' has a documented history since 1391, in the course of which it has been given away three times, [[Pledge (law)|pawned]] twice, and sold three times?
*... that [[jet engine]] '''[[Turbine blade|turbine blades]]''' can face temperatures of {{convert|2900|°F|°C}}?
*... that '''[[Ditmar Meidell]]''' founded and edited [[Krydseren|Norway's first]] [[satirical magazine]]?
*... that the [[shipwreck|wreck]] of the '''{{SS|Francisco Morazan|1922|6}}''' is now owned by the [[State of Michigan]]?
*... that the '''[[St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog|church]]''' dedicated to '''[[Cwyllog|St Cwyllog]]''' in [[Llangwyllog|Llangwyllog, Anglesey]], [[Wales]], has a rare surviving [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] triple-decker [[pulpit]]?
*... that the '''[[1927 Gulang earthquake]]''' was caused by [[thrust fault]]ing at a [[Transpression#Restraining bends|restraining bend]] along the Haiyuan fault, the same fault that caused the [[1920 Haiyuan earthquake]]?
*... that [[New Jersey General Assembly|Assembly member]] '''[[Gerald H. Zecker]]''' justified higher car insurance rates for drivers in [[New Jersey]]'s largest cities because "cars in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] are stolen and wrecked in far greater numbers"?
*... that the '''[[Arabat Spit]]''' is {{Nowrap|112 km}} long and only a few kilometers wide?


*'''''00:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Wellcome genome bookcase.png|100x100px|The human reference genome presented as a series of books, displayed in the 'Medicine Now' room at the Wellcome Collection, London |alt= A series of books stacked in a bookcase, each labelled with a chromosome number, collectively containing the sequence of the human reference genome]]
</div>
*... that the current human '''[[reference genome]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a mosaic of [[DNA sequence]]s from thirteen volunteers recruited in [[Buffalo, New York]]?
*... that '''[[John Momis]]''', a former [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Catholic priest]] and [[ambassador]] to [[People's Republic of China|China]], defeated [[Autonomous Region of Bougainville]]'s incumbent [[President of Bougainville|President]] [[James Tanis]] in the '''[[Bougainvillean presidential election, 2010|2010 Bougainvillean presidential election]]'''?
*... that '''[[Eurythmic (horse)|Eurythmic]]''' was a versatile [[Australia]]n-bred [[Thoroughbred]] racehorse who won over distances ranging from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 2 miles (3,200 metres)?
*... that '''[[Edgar Fauver|Dr. Edgar Fauver]]''', a [[American football|football]] and [[baseball]] player in the 1890s, became a pioneer in women's athletics coaching women's [[basketball]] and baseball at [[Barnard College]] in the 1900s?
*... that the land for the first '''[[Holy Trinity Church, Morecambe|Holy Trinity Church]]''' in [[Morecambe]], [[Lancashire]], was bequeathed by the village [[blacksmith]]?
*... that the translations by '''[[Princess Anka Obrenović]]''' in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a female to be published in Serbia?
*... that '''[[Amos Horev]]''', appointed to the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the [[Gaza flotilla raid]] of May 2010, is a former President of [[Technion University]]?
*... that [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] leaders, including [[Heinrich Himmler]], briefly fell for '''[[Heinz Kurschildgen]]'''{{`s}} claims to be able to make [[Gasoline|petrol]] from water?

===22 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:BC Legislature Bldg.jpg|100x100px|Legislature buildings of British Columbia|alt=Lights outline the Legislature buildings of British Columbia at twilight.]]
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*... that a criminal trial began '''[[Timeline of BC Legislature Raids|more than six years]]''' after the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] [[BC Legislature Raids|raided]] the [[British Columbia Parliament Buildings]] ''(pictured)''?
*... that the guard on the train involved in a '''[[Falls of Cruachan derailment|derailment]]''' at {{stnlnk|Falls of Cruachan}} in 2010 was also the guard on a train derailed at the same location in 1997?
*... that at 5,821 metres (19,098 ft) long, the '''[[Mala Kapela Tunnel]]''' is the longest tunnel in [[Croatia]]?
*... that in 2008 the '''[[Korean e-Sports Players Association]]''' worried that it would be required to pay royalties to [[Blizzard Entertainment]] to broadcast [[Starcraft&nbsp;II]]?
*... that former [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assembly member]] '''[[Gerald Luongo]]''' wrote ''Surviving Federal Prison Camp: An Informative and Helpful Guide for Prospective Inmates'' after spending almost a year in prison? 
*... that '''[[Ludwig Schwarz]]''', the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[bishop (Catholic Church)|bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz|Linz]], [[Austria]], has a [[doctorate]] in [[classical philology]] and [[Classical archaeology|archeology]] from the [[University of Vienna]]?
*... that '''[[Pabuji Ki Phad]]''', a religious painting of folk deities, is the only surviving ancient traditional folk art form in the world of the epic of [[Pabuji]], the [[Rajput]] of [[Rajasthan]] in India?
*... that architect [[Amon Henry Wilds]] built the [[Hindoo style|Hindoo-style]] '''[[Western Pavilion]]''' as his own home in [[Brighton]], and installed an [[igloo]]-shaped bathroom in its dome?


*'''''12:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Hauser Dam - 1908 - West end.jpg|100x100px|Looking downstream at the collapsed west side of Hauser Dam in 1908|alt=Looking downstream at the collapsed west side of Hauser Dam in 1908]]
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*... that construction of '''[[Holter&nbsp;Dam]]''' ceased in 1910 for six years after the 1908 [[Dam failure|collapse]] ''(pictured)'' of '''[[Hauser&nbsp;Dam]]''' almost drove the company constructing Holter into bankruptcy?
*... that '''[[William Cutfield King|William King]]''', who beat [[incumbent]] '''[[Thomas King (New Zealand politician)|Thomas King]]''', never represented [[Grey and Bell|his electorate]] because he was killed before the first session of the '''[[3rd New Zealand Parliament]]'''?
*... that [[Maxine Hong Kingston]]'s novel '''''[[Tripmaster Monkey]]''''' is named after a [[Sun Wukong|fictional monkey king]] from the Chinese epic novel ''[[Journey to the West]]''?
*... that '''[[Emil Liston|Emil "Liz" Liston]]''', founder of the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics]] and organizer of the [[NAIA national men's basketball championship|NAIA college basketball tournament]], was inducted into the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1975?
*... that the '''[[County of Dannenberg]]''' was founded by [[Henry the Lion]] during the ''[[Ostsiedlung]]'', or colonisation of the East, in order to protect the borders of his expanding territory?
*... that '''[[Ivor Browne|Professor Ivor Browne]]''' was denounced as antagonistic towards the [[Catholic Church]] after he came out in support of the mistress of [[Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland#Michael Cleary|Fr. Michael Cleary]]?
*... that the ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' episode "'''[[Chill of the Night!]]'''" has characters voiced by people from both ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' and the 1960s [[live-action]] version of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''?
*... that current [[Arsenal F.C. Reserves|Arsenal F.C. reserve]] player '''[[Emmanuel Frimpong]]''' began his international career with [[Ghana national football team|Ghana]] before switching to [[England national football team|England]] and then back to Ghana?


*'''''06:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:J Howes.jpg|100x100px|James G. Howes|alt=man with gray hair in a gray business suit]]
</div>
*... that [[Bermuda]]'s [[L.F. Wade International Airport]] manager '''[[James G. Howes]]''' ''(pictured)'' was lampooned using [[Flag semaphore|signal flags]] to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a [[Boy Scout]] uniform?
*... that '''[[Lake Scott State Park]]''' is home to [[El Quartelejo Ruins]], the northernmost Indian [[pueblo]] in the United States and the only one known in [[Kansas]]?
*... that [[microcystin]]s in the polluted water of the lake at '''[[Grand Lake St. Marys State Park]]''' in [[Ohio]] can cause severe [[Human gastrointestinal tract|gastrointestinal]] ailments in humans?
*... that the 13th [[government of Sri Lanka]] was known as the '''[[13th Sri Lankan Parliament#Government|Jumbo Cabinet]]''' due to the high number of [[Minister (government)|ministers]]?
*... that in 1946 the [[University of Texas at Austin]] regent '''[[Orville Bullington]]''' worked to dismiss the president [[Homer Rainey]] on grounds of [[communist]]s and [[homosexual]]s operating within the university?
*... that '''[[Seth Burkett]]''' is the only British [[association football|footballer]] to currently play professionally in Brazil?
*... that '''[[John Canon]]''' helped found [[Washington & Jefferson College|Jefferson College]] and constructed the [[List of Washington %26 Jefferson College buildings#Buildings in Canonsburg|Stone Academy Building]]?
*... that the name "regular Fronthall" was used to refer to brave soldiers in honor of the courage of '''[[Max Frauenthal|Max Fronthall]]''' of the 16th [[Regiment]] [[Mississippi]] Volunteers?


*'''''00:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tommy Bowe.jpg|100x100px|Tommy Bowe|alt=rugby player in uniform]]
</div>
*... that [[Tommy Bowe]] ''(pictured)'' of [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] and the [[Ospreys (rugby team)|Ospreys]] won the '''[[Irish Rugby Union Players Association]]''' and the '''[[Welsh Rugby Players Association]]''' Players' Player of the Year awards for 2010?
*... that the [[United States Secretary of the Army|U.S. Secretary of the Army]]'s investigation into '''[[Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy|burial mismanagement]]''' at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] was prompted in part by a year-long series of articles on [[Salon.com]]?
*... that in '''''[[Berghuis v. Thompkins]]''''' the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled that failing to claim the [[right to silence]] means police can use any voluntary statements regardless of length of interrogation?
*... that all of the panelists of the '''[[Beverage Testing Institute]]''' are professional guest tasters who are retailers, restaurateurs, or prominent writers?
*... that the '''''[[Odyssey (tanker)|Odyssey]]''''' tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]], in November 1988?
*... that '''[[Sheila Varian]]''' of California is an [[Arabian horse]] breeder who is also a horse trainer in the [[vaquero]] tradition, and was inducted into the [[National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame]] in 2003?
*... that [[Dillard's]] opened a store at [[Bowling Green, Kentucky]]'s '''[[Greenwood Mall]]''' in 1996, then moved to another store in the mall less than three years later?
*... that the [[playable character]] of video game '''''[[Seymour Goes to Hollywood]]''''' was described as an "albino mutant lardball" by one reviewer?

===21 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:9 Mill Street, Nantwich2.jpg|100x100px|9 Mill Street, Nantwich, Cheshire|alt=A red-brick building with two storeys, five bays and a central triangular pediment]]
</div>
*... that '''[[9 Mill Street, Nantwich|9 Mill Street]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Nantwich]], [[Cheshire]], [[England]], dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant?
*... that the 17th-century church built by the '''[[Tacatacuru]]''', a [[Timucua]] chiefdom on [[Cumberland Island]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], was said to be as big as the one in the [[Spanish Florida|Spanish colonial]] capital of [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]]?
*... that the '''[[Israel Vázquez-Rafael Márquez rivalry|Israel Vázquez – Rafael Márquez rivalry]]''' produced two [[Ring Magazine fights of the year|''Ring Magazine'' fights of the year]]?
*... that '''''[[Let's Yoga]]''''' includes [[Asana (yoga)|yoga poses]] to complete in [[office chairs]] during times the player might be relegated to a desk?
*... that the delayed conclusion of the [[Tsardom of Russia|Russo]]-[[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] '''[[Treaty of Constantinople (1700)]]''' caused Russian forces to arrive late in the [[Great Northern War|war with Sweden]]?
*... that '''[[Donald Russell (American football)|Donald Russell]]''' from 1964 to 1970 accumulated the highest winning percentage (.661) of any [[Wesleyan University|Wesleyan]] [[American football|football]] coach with more than two years as head coach?
*... that when it closed in 2008, '''[[Osterville Bay Elementary School]]''' was the oldest operating school building on [[Cape Cod]]?
*... that in the film ''[[Horror of Dracula]]'', actress '''[[Melissa Stribling]]''' played the victim of a vampire in an [[erotic]] role?


*'''''12:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Australite back obl.jpg|100x100px|Flanged button shape of the australite|alt=NASA used the shape of the australite to simulate their models of re-entry modules for Apollo program]]
</div>
*... that for their peculiar shapes '''[[australite]]s''' ''(pictured)'' were once thought to be glass [[meteorite]]s?
*... that '''[[Antoine Ephrem Cartier]]''' can trace his family history line back 400 years to [[Jacques Cartier]], French explorer who claimed Canada for France?
*... that the [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] of '''[[Wigratzbad]]''' in [[Germany]] was home to [[Marian apparition]]s in the early 20th century, and today houses a shrine visited by approximately 500,000 [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrims]] every year?
*... that the '''[[Brinje Tunnel]]''' was declared to be the safest tunnel in Europe by an [[FIA]] and [[ADAC]] EuroTAP survey?
*... that '''[[Richelieu Foods]]''' produces over {{Nowrap|50 million}} frozen pizzas and more than {{Nowrap|20 million}} crusts annually—for other companies to market under their own [[private label]]s?
*... that playwright [[Alan Bennett]]'s definition of a '''[[classic book]]''' is "a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have read themselves"?
*... that political strategist '''[[Rod Shealy]]''' sought to increase the turnout of white voters in [[South Carolina]] by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for [[United States Congress|Congress]] in 1990?
*... that despite his aristocratic background, '''[[Claude Poullart des Places]]''' requested to be buried in a pauper's grave?


*'''''06:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tetratheca hirsuta gnangarra.JPG|100x100px|Tetratheca hirsuta|alt=two purple flowers on long stems]]
</div>
*... that the [[Tetratheca|Black-eyed Susans]] of '''[[Tetratheca thymifolia|Eastern]]''' and '''[[Tetratheca hirsuta|Western]]''' [[Australia]] ''(pictured)'' are members of the tropical [[Elaeocarpaceae]] and unrelated to their namesakes of [[Hibiscus trionum|Europe]] and [[Rudbeckia hirta|North America]]?
*... that '''[[Thomas Caffrey|Ireland's "Willy Wonka"]]''' provided confectionary for the 1953 [[Coronation of the British monarch|coronation]] of [[Elizabeth&nbsp;II]]?
*... that the former '''[[French Convalescent Home, Brighton|French Convalescent Home]]''' on [[Brighton]] seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known [[Insulated glazing|double glazing]]?
*... that the '''[[New York Mini 10K]]''', first held in [[Central Park]] in 1972, was the world's first women-only [[road running]] event?
*... that during the '''[[Bardia raid]]''' in April 1941, seventy [[British Commandos]] became [[prisoners of war]] after getting lost?
*... that legislation proposed by '''[[Barbara Wright (politician)|Barbara Wright]]''' would impose jail terms up to 10 years and fines of as much as [[United States Dollar|US$]]100,000 for filing false car- or health-insurance claims in [[New Jersey]]?
*... that [[indie rock]] band [[Klaxons]] were forced to re-record parts of second album '''''[[Surfing the Void]]''''', after [[record label]] [[Polydor Records|Polydor]] deemed it "too experimental for release"?
*... that '''[[Warren Antoine Cartier]]''' was a neighbor of [[Thomas Edison]], [[Henry Ford]] and [[Harvey Firestone]]?


*'''''00:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:NéryGunIWMApril2008.jpg|100x100px|An early-twentieth century artillery piece in a museum|alt=an artillery piece on wheels]]
</div>
*... that in the '''[[action at Néry]]''' on {{Nowrap|1 September}} 1914, during the [[retreat from Mons]] in the [[First World War]], three [[Victoria Cross]]es were awarded to the crew of a single British [[field gun]] ''(pictured)''?
*... that populations of '''''[[Actinoporus elegans]]''''' were thought to be restricted to the western Atlantic until they were collected at the east Atlantic islands of [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] in 2004?
*... that aged 16, '''[[Ellyse Perry]]''' was the youngest person, male or female, to represent [[Australia national women's cricket team|Australia]] in cricket, and debuted for the [[Australia women's national association football team|national football team]] a month later?
*... that through the '''[[Trade Union Propaganda League]]''' [[Sweden|Swedish]] leftwing socialists sought to win the [[Swedish Trade Union Confederation]] over to a revolutionary line?
*... that the [[Wales|Welsh]] church of '''[[St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn|St Iestyn, Llaniestyn]]''', contains a 12th-century font and a 14th-century memorial effigy to '''[[Iestyn (saint)|St Iestyn]]'''? 
*... that [[Napoleonic Wars]] [[Military history|military historian]] '''[[Ramsay Weston Phipps]]''' helped to blow up the docks at the [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)]] when he was a young [[Royal Artillery]] lieutenant?
*... that '''''[[Knight, Death and the Devil]]''''' is a large 1513 [[Intaglio printing|copperplate]] [[engraving]], one of the three master prints by [[Albrecht Dürer]]?
*... that despite being panned for exceptionally poor acting and special effects, the 2010 film '''''[[Dinoshark]]''''' was also considered likely to become a classic of the "awesomely awful" movie genre?

===20 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Susan L. Taylor.jpg|100x100px|Susan L. Taylor in 2009 |alt= An African-American woman with her hair in braids]]
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*... that '''[[Susan L. Taylor]]''' ''(pictured)'', the former editor-in-chief of ''[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]'', was the first African-American woman to receive the Magazine Publishers of America's prestigious Henry Johnson Fisher Award?
*... that even though [[Arvid Kramer]] had not played in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) since the [[1979–80 NBA season|1979–80 season]], he was selected first in the '''[[1988 NBA Expansion Draft]]'''?
*... that the first of [[Denmark]]’s '''[[Galathea expeditions]]''' had a budget of nearly half a million [[Rixdollar]]s, equivalent to 3% of the state’s annual revenues at the time?
*... that the [[Mesoamerican chronology|Classic Period]] [[Maya civilization|Maya]] city of '''[[Ixtutz]]''' in the [[Maya Mountains]] of [[Guatemala]] was lost for more than a century after its discovery in 1852?
*... that [[Mayo GAA|Mayo]] [[Hurling|hurler]] '''[[Adrian Freeman]]''' played in [[England]], [[Scotland]], [[North America]] and the [[Middle East]] before his recent death in an [[Australia]] car crash?
*... that during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern [[Oregon]], Captain '''[[John M. Drake]]''' discovered [[fossil]]s in the area that is now the [[John Day Fossil Beds National Monument]]?
*... that even though the [[Association of Religion Data Archives]] estimated that there are only 50 [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'ís]] '''[[Bahá'í Faith in Mongolia |in Mongolia]]''', more than 1700 Mongolian Bahá'ís turned out for a regional conference in 2009?
*... that '''[[Gary Stuhltrager]]''' criticized efforts to delay the imposition of '''[[capital punishment in New Jersey]]''', saying "if you're going to have it, do it"?


*'''''12:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Wykeham Terrace, Brighton (IoE Code 481458).jpg|100x100px|Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, England|alt=A grey and white row of houses with a complex roofline and a taller projecting section at the end, seen from just below roof level.]]
</div>
*... that in the 19th century, part of '''[[Wykeham Terrace, Brighton|Wykeham Terrace]]''' ''(pictured)''&mdash;a "charming [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] confection" in [[Brighton]]&mdash;was used as an institution for reformed [[Prostitution|prostitutes]]?
*... that under a bill proposed by [[New Jersey General Assembly|Assemblymember]] '''[[Joel Weingarten]]''', religious headwear cannot be banned in [[New Jersey]] public schools?
*... that until the 19th century, '''[[Blackwell Hall]]''' in the [[City of London]] controlled England's main commercial activity&mdash;the cloth trade?
*... that the church of '''[[Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Paris|Saint-Étienne-des-Grès]]''' was destroyed during the [[French Revolution]] and all its contents sold?
*... that during World War II the '''[[United States Army Art Program]]''' was canceled by [[United States Congress|Congress]], then resumed by [[Life (magazine)|''Life'' magazine]]?
*... that the '''[[Mackenzie Large Igneous Province]]''' in [[Canada]] is one of the largest [[Proterozoic]] [[magma]]tic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental [[flood basalt]] terrain?
*... that the '''[[Western Silvereye]]''' is a declared pest of agriculture in [[Western Australia]]?
*... that '''[[Alex Rowe (soldier)|Alex Rowe]]''', rejected by the [[British Army]] because of a [[detached retina]], became a highly decorated [[sniper]] for the [[French Foreign Legion]]?


*'''''06:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Cill Chriosd.jpg|100x100px|Cill Chriosd|alt=Cill Chriosd]]
</div>
*... that the ruined '''[[Cill Chriosd]]''' ''(pictured)'', also known as Kilchrist or Christ's Church, was the parish church of [[Strathaird]], [[Skye]], until 1840?
*... that the Polish '''[[Szybowcowy Zakład Doświadczalny|Glider Experimental Works]]''', created after [[World War&nbsp;II]], became the main Polish centre for designing gliders?
*... that [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|American League MVP]] and [[Cleveland Indians]] baseball manager [[Lou Boudreau]] hit two [[home run]]s in the '''[[1948 American League tie-breaker game]]''' to bring the Indians to the [[1948 World Series]]?
*... that artist '''[[Orovida Camille Pissarro]]''' preferred to be known simply as ''Orovida'' to distinguish herself from the many other artists in her family, including her renowned grandfather [[Camille Pissarro]]?
*... that [[American football|football]] coach '''[[Jake High]]''' has both the highest winning percentage (.778) in the history of [[Wesleyan University|Wesleyan]] football and the lowest percentage (.000) in the history of [[New York University|NYU]] football?
*... that costume designer '''[[Peter J. Hall]]''' dressed [[David Bowie]] and [[Mick Jagger]] on tour, calling Bowie "serious, intellectual, wonderful to work with" while Jagger was "exactly the opposite"? 
*... that whilst the '''[[Mexican People's Party]]''' was unable to obtain national registration as a political party, it was recognized in [[Baja California Sur]] and won a seat in the state legislature?
*... that the name of the [[Montreal]] nightclub '''[[Les Foufounes Électriques]]''' means "electric [[buttocks]]" in English?


*'''''00:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Dell Rhea Chicken Basket sign.jpg|100x100px|Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket|alt=A large orange sign on a white pole next to a one-story building]]
</div>
*... that the original owner of '''[[Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Willowbrook, DuPage County, Illinois|Willowbrook]], [[Illinois]], would hire local youths to [[ice skating|ice skate]] on the roof during [[winter]]?
*... that after the restructuring of [[New Zealand Rugby League]] there were seven zonal teams in the '''[[2010 New Zealand rugby league season]]'''?
*... that '''''[[Rock Band 3]]''''', a "disruptive title" to revitalize the [[rhythm game|rhythm video game]] genre, includes a Pro mode for near-accurate playing of real guitars, drum and keyboard instruments?
*... that when '''[[Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen|Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen]]''' sustained fatal heart failure, there [[Norwegian Medical Society|were numerous doctors present]]?
*... that a [[radio broadcasting|radio]] [[advertising|ad]] '''[[Radio in Argentina|in Argentina]]''' for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known [[radio commercial]] in history?
*... that '''[[Ella Anker]]''', decorated with the [[Order of the British Empire]], founded a [[Anglo-Norse Society in Oslo|Norway-based version]] of the [[Anglo-Norse Society in London|Anglo-Norse Society]]?
*... that [[outrigger]]s allow a [[fishing vessel]] to tow multiple '''[[Trolling (fishing)|trolling lines]]''' in the water in a way that can simulate a [[Shoaling and schooling|school of fish]]?
*... that [[soprano]] '''[[Edith Selig]]''' recorded the early [[Bach cantata]] ''[[Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21]]'', performed in [[Weimar]] in 1714 on the third Sunday after [[Trinity Sunday|Trinity]]?
*... that in the [[early Irish literature|medieval Irish]] satire '''''[[The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig]]''''', the [[Connacht|Connaught]] champion [[Cet mac Mágach]] is unbeaten in a bragging contest, until being slapped in the face with the head of his dead brother?

===19 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:White goddess of democracy.jpg|100x100px|'The Goddess of Democracy'|alt=Plastic replica statue of a woman holding a torch with a black scarf tied around one arm]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Goddess of Democracy (Hong Kong)|Hong Kong's Goddess of Democracy]]''' statue ''(pictured)'' was the subject of three major political rows in Hong Kong over [[freedom of expression]] in the space of one week?
*... that the '''[[Somerset Women cricket team]]''' finished as [[Women's County Championship|County Championship]] Division Two champions in 2004 and 2005?
*... that the death of seven-year-old '''[[Jessica Dubroff]]''', who tried to become the youngest to fly an aircraft across the US, led to a law prohibiting record-seeking children from touching the [[Aircraft_flight_control_system#Cockpit_controls|flight controls]]?
*... that '''[[Peter Keefe]]'''{{`s}} 1980s series ''[[Voltron]]'' "helped prepare the way for other [[anime|Japanese-style animation]] in the United States" such as ''[[Pokémon]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers]]''?
*... that the small '''[[French Communist Group]]''' in [[Russia]] was able to play a role in fomenting mutinies amongst French [[Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War|interventionist]] troops during the [[Russian Civil War]]?
*... that the [[Carolina Panthers]] and [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] are the only teams to have not selected any '''[[List of Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft|Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft]]'''?
*... that a hoax electric guitar inspired version of the [[Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau|Welsh national anthem]] was credited to both [[Jimi Hendrix]] and '''[[Tich Gwilym]]''', when it was 'unearthed' in 2006?
*... that according to ''[[Ramayana]]'' adaptations, '''[[Mandodari]]''' – the wife of the ten-headed demon [[Ravana]] – was the mother of [[Sita]], whose kidnapping by Ravana would lead to his doom?


*'''''12:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Teddy Tamgho Doha 2010.jpg|100x100px|Tamgho in mid-jump at the World Indoor Championships|alt=a man in a French team vest jumping along a red running track]]
</div>
*... that [[French people|French]] [[track and field]] athlete '''[[Teddy Tamgho]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the third best [[triple jump]]er of all-time three days before his 21st birthday?
*... that, depending on classification, there are anywhere from 20 to 40 '''[[Cheeses of Mexico|cheeses produced in Mexico]]'''?
*... that [[association football|footballer]] '''[[Stephen Brackstone]]''' had an operation to remove his appendix after being taken to hospital following his substitution in a game for [[York City F.C.|York City]] in December 2002?
*... that '''[[GRB 030329]]''' provided the definitive link between [[gamma-ray burst]]s and [[supernova]]e?
*... that '''[[Guy Talarico]]''' sponsored a bill that would require [[involuntary commitment]] for those with mental health issues if it is determined that it is likely that they will commit future crimes?
*... that the single known population of the [[Ecuador]]ian rodent '''''[[Lagidium ahuacaense]]''''' may contain only a few dozen individuals?
*... that in [[England and Wales]], legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the '''[[Hale Commission]]'''? 
*... that the last remaining mail delivery boat in the United States delivers with '''[[mail jumping|mail jumpers]]?


*'''''06:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Rhithrogena germanica subimago on Equisetum hyemale.jpg|100x100px|Rhithrogena germanica subimago on Equisetum hyemale|alt=A mayfly on a horsetail strobilus.]]
</div>
*... that the [[mayfly]] '''''[[Rhithrogena germanica]]''''' ''(pictured)'' can emerge from a river, [[ecdysis|moult]] and fly off in 30 seconds?
*... that the '''[[Brenthurst Foundation]]''' sent a number of its staff abroad to help solve the problem of there not being enough lecturers at the [[National University of Rwanda]]?
*... that hospitals in [[Iraq]] reported 6,530 cases and 459 deaths as a result of the '''[[1971 Iraq poison grain disaster]]'''?
*... that in 1899 the '''{{ship|Russian battleship|Tri Sviatitelia}}''' became the first ship in the world to be fitted with a [[radio]] – an installation designed by [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov|A. S. Popov]] that had a range of about {{convert|3|mi|1}}?
*... that pioneer British aviator '''[[Alec Ogilvie]]''' was only the [[List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1910|seventh person to qualify as a pilot]] in the United Kingdom?
*... that '''[[List of international rugby union tries by Jonah Lomu|Jonah Lomu]]''' failed to score a [[Try|try]] against [[South Africa national rugby union team|South Africa]] despite facing them 13 times?
*... that 74-time champion [[Ken Jennings]] may be one of the human challengers to face [[IBM]]'s [[artificial intelligence]] software '''[[Watson (artificial intelligence software)|Watson]]''' in a special challenge match on ''[[Jeopardy!]]''?
*... that '''[[Charles Domery]]''' ate 174 cats in a year?


*'''''00:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:St. Mary's, Tal-y-llyn, Anglesey. - geograph.org.uk - 105399.jpg|100x100px|St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn|alt=A plain block stone church with an arched doorway]]
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*... that while the 19th-century writer [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]] described the [[Wales|Welsh]] church of '''[[St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn|St Mary, Tal-y-llyn]]''' ''(pictured)'' as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated [[listed building]]s in the country?
*... that in '''[[Operation Maritime Guard]]''', warships from Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and four other countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia?
*... that paraplegic [[handcycle|handcyclist]] '''[[Edward Maalouf]]''' is the only person to have won medals for [[Lebanon at the Paralympics|Lebanon at the Paralympic Games]]? 
*... that it is speculated that [[Codex Sinaiticus]] and [[Codex Vaticanus]] were '''[[Fifty Bibles of Constantine|commissioned by Constantine&nbsp;I]]'''?
*... that current [[Wesleyan University|Wesleyan]] [[American football|football]] coach '''[[Mike Whalen]]''' led the [[Williams College#Athletics|Williams College "Ephs"]] to four consecutive [[Little Three]] football championships and a undefeated record against Wesleyan?
*... that the cloth fibers in the casing of most '''[[bicycle tire]]s''' are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply?
*... that "[[locked-in syndrome]]", in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of most muscles except for the eyes, was coined by [[neurologist]] Dr. '''[[Fred Plum]]'''?
*... that bored by a game of [[Scrabble]], 76-year-old '''[[Abraham Nathanson]]''' said "we need an anagrams game so fast, it'll drive you bananas" and created the game [[Bananagrams]]?

===18 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">

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*... that during the construction of '''[[Fairfield Bridge]]''' ''(pictured)'' a burial cave was found with the heads of several dead [[Māori people|Māori]] people?
*... that in '''[[Operation Sharp Guard]]''', warships from 14 countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia, challenged 73,000 ships, and boarded and inspected almost 6,000 of them?
*... that the '''[[three lookouts]]''', [[Gvulot]], [[Beit Eshel]] and [[Revivim]], served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the [[Negev]] desert?
*... that although '''[[Paul Legrand]]'''{{'}}s physique was considered unsuited for [[pantomime]], he had a distinguished 48 year career as a performer around the world?
*... that [[Rick Mahorn]] was selected second in the '''[[1989 NBA Expansion Draft]]''' by the [[Minnesota Timberwolves]], but he refused to report to the team and was traded prior to the start of the following season?
*... that the [[Wales|Welsh]] church of '''[[St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan|St Peulan, Llanbeulan]]''', is said to have been founded by '''[[Peulan|St Peulan]]''', the son of [[Paulinus of Wales|St Paulinus]]? 
*... that a bill proposed by '''[[Carol Murphy]]''' passed in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] to allow hunters to contribute [[venison]] to [[food bank]]s to help feed the needy?
*... that '''[[Lillian Heath]]''', the first woman doctor in [[Wyoming]], was given the sawed-off skull cap of lynched outlaw [[Big Nose George]], which she used as a doorstop?


*'''''12:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:St James's Church, Longborough - geograph.org.uk - 246852.jpg|100x100px|St James' Church, Longborough|alt=A church seen between two yew trees with a tower on the left and the body of the church, with an arched porch, stretching to the right]]
</div>
*... that the earliest record of '''[[St James' Church, Longborough]],''' [[Gloucestershire]] ''(pictured)'', is in 1192 when a priest was murdered in the church?
*... that '''[[Louis Romano]]''', a four-term member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]], lost to [[Albio Sires]] in the 1999 Democratic primary, making him the only one of 80 incumbents to lose a primary bid that year?
*... that the '''[[Cummins Corporate Office Building]]''' in [[Columbus, Indiana|Columbus]], [[Indiana]], is constructed on an old railroad yard?
*... that [[cricket]]er '''[[Lisa Sthalekar]]''' took five wickets in her 100th [[One Day International]] match for [[Australia national women's cricket team|Australia]]?
*... that Polish aviator [[Józef Lewoniewski]] planned to fly the '''[[PWS-52]]''' [[monoplane]] prototype around the world?
*... that '''[[Alvin Greene]]''' is the first [[African American]] since [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] to win a major party's nomination for a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] seat in [[South Carolina]]? 
*... that the '''[[German submarine U-376|German submarine ''U-376'']]''' only sank two merchant ships in eight patrols before it went missing on {{Nowrap|13 April}} 1943?
*... that '''[[Juan José Carbó]]''' was an award-winning [[cartoonist]] who drew for both adult entertainment and children's magazines while working as a [[civil servant]]?


*'''''06:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Harpy Tomb in Xanthos.jpg|100x100px|Harpy Tower|alt=square-shaped stone tower]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Harpy Tomb]]''' ''(pictured)'' from ancient [[Xanthos]] was originally mounted on a stone pedestal seventeen feet above the ground?
*... that '''[[Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski]]''', a trained aviator, took part in the [[Warsaw Uprising]] of [[World War&nbsp;II]] and later headed an automobile repair bureau in [[Poznań]]? 
*... that '''[[azoospermia]]''' affects about 1% of the male population? 
*... that [[fashion design]]er '''[[Maria Grachvogel]]''' created a dress adorned with 2,000 [[diamond]]s worth £250,000 for her [[London Fashion Week]] show? 
*... that the [[Battle of the Ice]] between [[Teutonic Knights]] and [[Veliky Novgorod|Novgorodians]] was fought on top of the frozen '''[[Lake Peipsi-Pihkva]]'''?
*... that '''[[Daniel Nava]]''' of the [[Boston Red Sox]] is the fourth player in [[Major League Baseball]] history to hit a [[grand slam (baseball)|grand slam]] in his first [[at-bat]] and the second to do so on the first pitch?
*... that '''[[Chinese porcelain in European painting]]''' is known from at least 1514 with [[Giovanni Bellini]]'s ''[[The Feast of the Gods (Bellini)|The Feast of the Gods]]''?
*... that the phenomenon of '''[[Icing (drinking game)|Icing]]''', called by ''[[The New York Times]]'' "the nation's biggest [[viral marketing|viral]] [[drinking game]]", has led to a spike in sales of [[Smirnoff Ice]]?


*'''''00:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Greg Young 1.png|100x100px|Greg Young playing for Altrincham|alt=Greg Young playing for Altrincham]]
</div>
*... that Kerry-Ann Booth, the girlfriend of [[association football|footballer]] '''[[Greg Young]]''' ''(pictured)'', did not see him on the losing side of a game for [[Halifax Town A.F.C.|Halifax Town]] for the first four years of their relationship? 
*... that the German submarine '''''[[German submarine U-371|U-371]]''''' made a total of 19 war patrols in her career?
*... that [[Mexico]]'s '''[[National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts]]''' or FONART directly assisted 26,600 Mexican artisans in 2006?
*... that [[Travis Kvapil]] received one of the largest [[NASCAR]] penalties by using improper modifications to the [[valve stem]]s during the '''[[2010 Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500]]'''?
*... that during the [[Great Depression]], [[attorney at law (United States)|attorney]] '''[[George C. Butte]]''' devised regulations for the [[Energy conservation|conservation]] of [[Texas]] [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]]?
*... that [[Arlington National Cemetery]] Superintendent '''[[John C. Metzler, Jr.]]''' lived at the cemetery between the ages of 4 and 19?
*... that '''[[Highlands Coffee]]''' was both the first private company and the first [[joint stock company]] within [[Vietnam]] to be registered to an [[Overseas Vietnamese]]?
*... that in an effort to protect tax revenue from casinos in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey General Assembly|Assemblyman]] '''[[Kenneth LeFevre]]''' sought to block the [[Delaware Nation|Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma]] from opening a casino in [[Wildwood, New Jersey]]?

===17 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Epicystis crucifer (Beaded anemone).jpg|100x100px|''Phymanthus crucifer'', disk shown|alt=A rounded, brown, cream, and yellow disk fringed with tentacles.]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[Phymanthus crucifer]]''''' ''(pictured)'' has bright red suckers on its column, to which [[debris]] can attach for [[camouflage]]?
*... that '''[[Brandon Gormley]]''', '''[[Mikael Granlund]]''', '''[[Derek Forbort]]''' and '''[[Ryan Johansen]]''' are projected to be among the top selections at the [[2010 NHL Entry Draft|2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft]] on June 25–26?
*... that as of May 2010, '''[[Akrapovič]]''' [[exhaust system]]s have been used in a total of 38 motorsport world championships?
*... that '''[[Percy Cradock|Sir Percy Cradock]]''' was manhandled by the [[Red Guards (China)|Red Guards]] when he was stationed at the [[charge d'affaires]] office, [[Peking]], during the [[Cultural Revolution]]?
*... that '''[[Ulpian's life table]]''' predicted a [[life expectancy]] of 19 to 23 years for citizens of the [[Ancient Rome|Roman Empire]]?
*... that in 1949 the [[Poland|Polish]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]], [[Bulgaria]]n, [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] and [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] [[socialism|socialist]] parties founded the '''[[Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe]]''' as a common centre for work in exile?
*... that the small [[Maya civilization|Maya]] city of '''[[Itzan]]''' in the [[Petén Basin|Petén]] region of [[Guatemala]] featured an unusually large quantity of sculpted monuments?
*... that the collapse of the Showa Bridge after the '''[[1964 Niigata earthquake]]''' was a result of [[Soil liquefaction|liquefaction]] rather than [[Strong ground motion|ground motion]]?


*'''''12:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Kashmir Sharada MS.jpg|100x100px|A birch-bark manuscript|alt=Sanskrit text on Birch paper]]
</div>
*... that the bark of the '''[[Betula utilis|Himalayan Birch]]''' was once used as paper for writing [[Sanskrit]] texts ''(pictured)''?
*... that in 1976 [[socialism|socialist]] '''[[Jorge Cruickshank García]]''' became the first opposition [[Senate (Mexico)|senator]] of [[Mexico]] since the emergence of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] as the ruling party?
*... that on March 22, 2003, the treacherous reefs around [[Land's End]] claimed yet another ship, the '''[[MV RMS Mulheim|RMS ''Mulheim'']]'''?
*... that [[Paul Lo Duca]] has the most [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|MLB All-Star]] selections, but [[Jason Varitek]] has the most [[World Series]] championships from the '''[[1993 College Baseball All-America Team]]'''?
*... that the 1950 film '''''[[The Bandit Queen (1950 film)|The Bandit Queen]]''''' starred [[Barbara Britton]] in the title role as a [[bullwhip]]-wielding avenger?
*... that there were an estimated 8,000 members of '''[[Sam's Army]]''' in the stands at the [[United States men's national soccer team|U.S. men's soccer team's]] [[2010 FIFA World Cup Group C#England vs United States|opening game]] of the [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010 World Cup]] in group play against [[England national football team|England]]?
*... that '''''[[Scene It? Twilight]]''''' has no questions about ''[[New Moon (novel)|New Moon]]'' even though the [[The Twilight Saga: New Moon|movie version]] of the book was released at the same time as the game? 
*... that in 1978, 21-year-old '''[[Walter Muma]]''' set a record for [[moped]] trips with a three-month, 11,500-mile ride from [[Toronto]] to [[Alaska]] and back?


*'''''06:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Queen Isabella Causeway.jpg|100x100px|Laguna Madre|alt=A long bridge goes across a large body of light blue water oriented left to right, with the skyline of a city on the horizon.]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Laguna Madre (United States)|Laguna Madre]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Texas]] is one of the earth's six [[hypersaline]] bays?
*... that the '''[[German Type IXB submarine]]s''' were the most successful class of submarines in World War&nbsp;II in terms of the total amount of tonnage sunk?
*... that [[cricket]]er '''[[Steph Davies]]''', who made four appearances for [[England women's cricket team|England]] in 2008, made her [[Women's County Championship|county]] debut for [[Somerset Women cricket team|Somerset]] aged just 13?
*... that '''[[Arena (web browser)|Arena]]''' was the first [[web browser]] to support background images, tables, text flow around images, and inline mathematical expressions?
*... that the '''[[back-illuminated sensor]]''' improves on conventional [[digital camera]] sensors by moving wiring so it does not interfere with light entering the front of the detector?
*... that '''''[[Ircinia strobilina]]''''' produces a substance which causes [[paralysis]] and loss of [[balance (ability)|balance]] when ingested by fish?
*... that footballer '''[[Michael Basham]]''' played in the [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]] team that won the [[1994 Football League Trophy Final]]?
*... that author Debbie Renner claimed to have once competed in '''[[professional wrestling in New Zealand|professional wrestling]]''' as the "Tasmanian Devil" prior to becoming a full-time writer?


*'''''00:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Pithole Stone Arch.jpg|100x100px|Pithole Stone Arch Bridge|alt=A black-white photo of a stone, arch bridge spanning a creek.]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Pithole Stone Arch Bridge]]''' ''(pictured)'' is unusual for being surprisingly well built for only a [[rural area|rural]] [[backroad]], but was initially thought to be of inferior quality and was not expected to last?
*... that '''[[Leonard Cutler Sanford|Leonard Sanford]]''' persuaded [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]] and her children to buy [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Lord Rothschild]]'s [[bird collections|bird collection]] for the [[American Museum of Natural History]]?
*... that '''[[Tert-Butanesulfinamide|''tert''-butanesulfinamide]]''' is used as a [[chiral auxiliary]] in the [[asymmetric synthesis]] of [[amines]]?
*... that '''[[Oscar Eduardovich Lemm]]''', Russian [[Coptology|Coptologist]], published the text of '''[[Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I]]'''?
*... that an article she wrote about [[boar hunting]] in [[Brittany]] led to '''[[Kate Betts]]'''{{'}} career as a [[fashion journalism|fashion journalist]]?
*... that '''[[Jim Ostendarp|Jim "the Darp" Ostendarp]]''', [[Amherst College]] [[American football|football]] coach for 33 years, refused to allow [[ESPN]] to televise a game saying, "We're in education. We aren't in the entertainment business"?
*... that '''[[First Presbyterian Church 1793]]''' is the de facto college church of [[Washington & Jefferson College]], a nearby [[nonsectarian]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts]] college?
*... that the Brazilian dance known as the '''[[Surra de Bunda]]''' describes a female dancer pounding her buttocks into a man's face?

===16 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Bassar Frieze 1052.jpg|100x100px|alt=a sculpture of Greek figures|A carved section of the Bassae Frieze]]
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*... that '''[[John Henning (1771-1851)|John Henning]]'''{{'}}s miniature models of the [[Parthenon Frieze]] and '''[[Bassae Frieze]]''' ''(pictured)'' took twelve years to complete?
*... that playwright [[Penny Arcade (performer)|Penny Arcade]]'s '''''[[Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!]]''''' was made partly in response to a bill amendment banning the [[National Endowment of the Arts]] from granting funds for "obscene or indecent art"?
*... that '''[[Elias Martin]]''' has been described by ''[[Nationalencyklopedin]]'' as [[Sweden]]'s "first big landscape painter"?
*... that [[Norway|Norwegian]] chemist '''[[Alexis Pappas]]''' was born in [[London]] to [[Greece|Greek]] parents who fled from [[Belgium]] to [[England]] during [[World War&nbsp;I]]?
*... that the '''[[Motherwell v Hibernian (5 May 2010)|Motherwell v Hibernian football match on 5 May 2010]]''', which ended in a 6&ndash;6 draw, is the highest scoring match in [[Scottish Premier League]] history?
*... that '''[[José Albi]]''' was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[literary critic]] and the last of the [[post-war|post]] [[Spanish Civil War, 1938–1939|Spanish Civil War]] poets?
*... that '''[[Augie Schmidt]]''' won the [[Golden Spikes Award]], an award given to the top amateur [[baseball]] player in the United States, in 1982?
*... that '''[[C/2009 R1]]''', one of more than fifty comets known as "[[Comet McNaught (disambiguation)|Comet McNaught]]", has been noted for its "impressive green [[coma (cometary)|coma]] and long [[ion]] [[comet tail|tail]]", lending it the appearance of an "apple on a stick"?


*'''''12:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Shl 98.jpg|100x100px|SHL 98 model]]
</div>
*... that the manufacturer of the Polish '''[[SHL (motorcycle)|SHL brand of motorcycles]]''' ''(model SHL 98 pictured)'' was [[nationalization|nationalized]] after [[World War&nbsp;II]] and closed in the 1970s?
*... that in [[English trusts law]], '''[[Constructive trusts in English law|constructive trusts]]''' are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?
*... that the British steam-powered [[submarine]] '''{{HMS|Swordfish|1916|6}}'''{{'}}s performance underwater was so unsatisfactory that she was converted to an anti-submarine [[patrol boat]] in 1917–18?
*... that the '''[[Lothair Crystal]]''', an [[engraved gem]] now in the [[British Museum]], was once sold for ten [[Pound sterling|pounds]]?
*... that '''[[Benjamin Fondane]]''', known as a [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] poet in [[Romania]], a [[Jewish existentialism|Jewish existentialist]] thinker in [[France]] and an [[avant-garde]] filmmaker in [[Argentina]], was killed at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] in late 1944?
*... that the [[2009 Connecticut Huskies football team|UConn Huskies]] won the '''[[2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl]]''' to end a year marked by five games lost by 15 total points, a [[Overtime (sports)#College, high-school, and Canadian football|double-overtime]] victory at [[2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]], and the murder of [[cornerback]] [[Jasper Howard]]?
*... that '''[[Rafael Fraguela]]''' was elected to the [[New Jersey General Assembly|N.J. Assembly]] '''[[33rd Legislative District (New Jersey)|33rd District]]''' as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], became a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to run for the [[New Jersey Senate|N.J. Senate]], and returned to the Democrats to vote for a [[stem cell]] research bill?
*... that Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, confessed to the '''[[Grangegorman killings]]''' and spent eight months in jail, though he did not commit the crime?


*'''''06:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Thimphu view 080907.JPG|100x100px|View of Thimpu, the capital city of Bhutan|alt=city in a mountain valley]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Thimphu]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the capital city of [[Bhutan]]?
*... that the film '''''[[Let the Devil Wear Black]]''''' is a modern-day version of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'' that is set in [[Los Angeles]]?
*... that only fourteen complete examples of '''[[Hedwig glass]]''' are known?
*... that '''[[Prvić (Krk)|Prvić]]''' near [[Krk]] is the windiest [[Croatia]]n island in the [[Adriatic Sea]]?
*... that people have reportedly witnessed the ghosts of [[Roman legion]]naires passing through '''[[Maesmawr Hall]]''' in [[Powys]], [[Wales]], site of an ancient Roman road?
*... that '''[[Alfred Sinding-Larsen]]''', who wrote [[folk song]]s with the [[Vika, Oslo|Vika]] [[dialect]], was one of the first writers to use a dialect from [[Oslo|Norway's capital]]?
*... that the 16th-century [[chancel]] window of the [[Wales|Welsh]] church of '''[[St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus|St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus]]''', has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall?
*... that the [[propeller]]s of the '''[[Dornier Do 29]]''' could be tilted downwards by up to 90 degrees?


*'''''00:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tolson Museum 004.JPG|100x100px|The Tolson Museum in Huddersfield|alt=A pale stone building with round-arched windows, set behind trees in parkland]]
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*... that the '''[[Tolson Museum]]''' in [[Huddersfield]] ''(pictured)'' displays two of Britain's rarest makes of automobile, the three wheel LSD and the [[Valveless]] which had an engine with only six moving parts?
*... that the low-budget horror film '''''[[Raging Sharks]]''''' has been described as a poor man’s combination of early [[Steven Spielberg]] films?
*... that after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old, [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assemblyman]] '''[[Paul Kramer]]''' pushed bills requiring [[sex offender registration]], saying "[[Megan Kanka]] would be alive today" if his bills were law?
*... that the '''[[Aethiomastacembelus ellipsifer|Tanganyikan Spiny Eel]]''' was one of the species that was photographed as part of a [[FishBase]] mission which had the primary objective to document and photograph the rich fish diversity of [[Lake Tanganyika]]?
*... that in [[English trusts law|English law]], '''[[Resulting trusts in English law|resulting trusts]]''' work based on the [[equitable maxim]] that "equity abhors a vacuum"?
*... that when a fifteen-year-old girl garlanded [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] at the inauguration of [[India]]'s '''[[Panchet Dam]]''', she was considered to have "married" him?
*... that the '''[[German submarine U-104 (1940)|German submarine ''U-104'']]''' went missing on her first war patrol?
*... that when in danger of [[predation]], the [[harvestman]] '''''[[Leiobunum rotundum]]''''' can [[autotomy|self-amputate]] its legs, but they will not [[Regeneration (biology)|regenerate]]?

===15 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Ana River habitat, Summer Lake, Oregon.jpg|100x100px|Ana River, Oregon|alt=river running through a valley]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Ana River]]''' ''(pictured)'' in south-central [[Oregon]] flows almost its entire 7&nbsp;mile (11&nbsp;km) course within the boundaries of the [[Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife]]’s [[Summer Lake Wildlife Area]]?
*... that the [[ChristChurch Cathedral (Christchurch, New Zealand)|ChristChurch Cathedral]] has a western porch and a memorial window to commemorate '''[[Alfred Richard Creyke|Alfred Creyke]]''' and '''[[John Charles Watts-Russell|John Watts-Russell]]''', respectively, paid for by their widow Elizabeth?
*... that a big part of the collection of the '''[[Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon]]''' came from '''[[Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle]]''' and his son [[Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle|Antoine]]?
*... that '''[[David C. Chapman]]''', the man who was involved in the creation of the [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]], has a mountain named for him in the park?
*... that the '''[[Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar]]''', an environmental award given by the [[Government of India]] to organizations, carries a cash prize of 500,000 [[Indian rupees]]?
*... that as point man for the [[John F. Kennedy#Presidency|Kennedy administration]] on the August 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]], '''[[John W. Douglas]]''' was given "historic credit for the orderliness and smoothness and joy of that day"?
*... that the first night-landing aboard an [[aircraft carrier]] was made by a [[Blackburn Dart]] on 6 May 1926 aboard the '''{{sclass|Courageous|aircraft carrier|0}}''' carrier {{HMS|Furious|47|6}}?
*... that in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] state of '''[[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]]''' there is a community that claims to be descended from [[Sephardi Jews]] who migrated to [[New Spain]] in the 16th century?


*'''''12:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Becak bij bioscoop Megaria TMnr 20018029.jpg|100x100px|Megaria building, c. 1960–1980|alt=A street scene with an Art Deco building with a spire in the background]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Megaria]]''' ''(pictured)'', a historic [[movie theater]] in [[Jakarta]], Indonesia, is the city's largest remaining [[Art Deco]] building?
*... that the '''[[Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane]]''' was powered by an engine originally intended for use in [[airship]]s?
*... that [[Jerusalem]]'s '''[[Kanfei Nesharim Street (Jerusalem)|Kanfei Nesharim Street]]''' is long and wide and straight like a [[runway]], because it was originally built as one?
*... that in 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery in the [[Wales|Welsh]] village of '''[[Abernant, Rhondda Cynon Taf|Abernant]]''', killing six colliers?
*... that '''[[Fred Swanton]]''', known as the [[P. T. Barnum]] of [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]], promoted everything from the [[Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk|Neptune Casino]] to [[ZaSu Pitts]]?
*... that the '''[[Bar U Ranch]]''' in [[Alberta]], [[Canada]], hosted both [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Prince Edward of Wales]] and the [[Harry Longabaugh|Sundance Kid]]?
*... that '''[[Offshore Power Systems]]''', a joint venture between [[Westinghouse Electric Company|Westinghouse Electric]] and [[Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock|Newport News Shipbuilding]], spent more than {{Nowrap|$125 million}} during the 1970s but never built a floating [[nuclear power]] plant?
*... that the 1878 constitution of [[San Francisco]]'s '''[[Congregation Beth Israel-Judea|Congregation Beth Israel]]''' prohibited members from praying out loud?


*'''''06:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Great Egret (Casmerodius albus)- Non-breeding plumage in Kolkata W IMG 4414.jpg|100x100px|Eastern Great Egret|alt=large white long-necked bird]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Eastern Great Egret]]''' ''(pictured)'' has a neck one and a half times as long as its body?
*... that [[baseball]] player [[Ed Sprague, Jr.]] is the only '''[[List of Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft picks|Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft pick]]''' to be a part of both Blue Jays' [[World Series]] championships?
*... that the '''[[United Public Workers of America]]''' was expelled from the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] in 1950 for being [[Communism|communist]]-controlled, and its president convicted of [[contempt of Congress]]?
*... that actor [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]] will star as a detective who moonlights as an [[Elvis impersonator]] in the upcoming American television series '''''[[Memphis Beat]]'''''?
*... that '''[[John Mott-Smith]]''' was the first permanent dentist in the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] and its last [[Relations between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the United States|ambassador to the U.S.]]? 
*... that [[Rhodesia]] was the only African country to '''[[Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Paralympics|compete]]''' at the first [[1960 Summer Paralympics|Paralympic Games]]?
*... that late Roman office-holder '''[[Sossianus Hierocles]]''' was one of the more fervent supporters of official [[persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire]]?
*... that the '''[[German submarine U-343|German submarine ''U-343]]''''' managed to shoot down two [[Vickers Wellington|Wellington bombers]]?


*'''''00:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Sviatohirsk Monastery (Donetsk Oblast).jpg|100x100px|Seversky Donets near Donetsk, Ukraine|alt=Seversky Donets near Donetsk, Ukraine.]]
</div>
*... that more than 1000 rivers flow into '''[[Seversky Donets]]''' ''(pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Nadrian Seeman]]''' was inspired to create the field of [[DNA nanotechnology]] while pondering the [[M. C. Escher]] woodcut ''[[:File:Escher Depth.jpg|Depth]]'' at a campus pub?
*... that the '''[[German submarine U-355|German submarine ''U-355'']]''' went missing on 4 April 1944 and was never heard from again?
*... that '''''[[United Public Workers v. Mitchell]]''''' (1947) is the only [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] decision prior to 1965 to address the meaning of the [[Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Tenth]] amendments substantively?
*... that the decisive factor for the [[Hellenic Army|Greek]] victory at '''[[Battle of Bizani|Bizani]]''' (1913) was not numerical superiority, but the solid operational planning that did not allow the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces to react?
*... that '''[[Don Cohan]]''', the oldest sailor to win an [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] bronze medal (at age 42), won a U.S. sailing championship at age 72?
*... that the pilot of the '''[[Aichi F1A]]''' sat in an open [[cockpit]], while the observer's position was enclosed?
*... that '''[[Owen Aspinall]]''', the 45th [[Governor of American Samoa]], banned a [[Koreans|Korean]] man from marrying a [[Samoans|Samoan]] woman, despite the fact that he, a [[Colorado]] native, married a Samoan woman himself?

===14 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Kabi Lungchok 1.jpg|100x100px|Stone pillars mark the location of signing of the Blood Brother Treaty at Kabi Lungchok.]]
</div>
*... that the “Treaty of Blood Brotherhood” was signed by the [[Tibet]]an King [[Khye Bumsa]] representing the [[Bhutias]] and the [[Lepcha people|Lepcha]] Chief Thekong, at '''[[Kabi Lungchok]]''' ''(memorial stone pictured)'' near [[Gangtok]] in [[Sikkim]]?
*... that the political surveillance of [[Socialist People's Party (Norway)|Socialist People's Party]] founder '''[[Knut Løfsnes]]''' by the [[Norwegian Police Security Service|Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency]] amounted to at least 2500 pages of surveillance documents?
*... that '''''[[Endiandra introrsa]]''''', commonly known as Dorrigo Plum or Red Walnut, is neither a [[plum]] nor a [[walnut]] but a member of the [[Lauraceae|laurel family]]?
*... that '''[[Orville Nave]]''' compiled his best-known work, ''[[Nave's Topical Bible]]'', while serving as a [[Military Chaplain|chaplain]] in the [[United States Army]]?
*... that in 1910, the [[public library]] in '''[[Dragon, Utah]]''', arranged for the [[Uintah Railway]] to deliver borrowed books for free?
*... that publicist '''[[Stephen Rivers]]''' arranged [[Jane Fonda]]'s 1987 trip to [[Poland]], where she went to express her support for [[Lech Wałęsa]], leader of the then-banned [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement?
*... that visually impaired runner '''[[Said Gomez]]''', three time Paralympic champion, is the only [[Panama at the Paralympics|Panamanian]] to have won medals at the [[Paralympic Games]]?
*... that [[Vietnam|Vietnamese]] [[coffee]] producer [[Trung Nguyên|'''Trung Nguyên''']]'s ''Legendee'' brand coffee is a [[kopi luwak simulation|simulated]] [[Kopi Luwak]] product?


*'''''12:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Rembrandt - The Polish Rider - WGA19251.jpg|100x100px|The Polish Rider|alt=The Polish Rider by Rembrandt]]
</div>
*... that Polish scholars have suggested that the model for '''''[[The Polish Rider]]''''' ''(pictured)'' was in fact [[Rembrandt]]'s son Titus?
*... that retired [[professional baseball]] player '''[[Joe Campbell (baseball)|Joe Campbell]]''' missed most of [[spring training]] in 1967 with the [[Chicago Cubs]] due to obligations he had in the [[United States Marine Corps]]?
*... that the '''[[Terwilliger-Smith Farm]]''' in [[Kerhonkson, New York]], has the only extant stand-alone [[slaughterhouse]] in [[Ulster County, New York|Ulster County]]?
*... that since the superstructure of [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania|Johnstown]]'s '''[[Cathedral of Saint John Gualbert|Cathedral of St. John Gualbert]]''' was laid using nearly {{convert|590000|lb}} of [[steel]], the roof was able to be completed before the foundation walls?
*... that the trophy for the '''[[Enterprise Cup]]''', a [[Kenyan]] [[rugby union]] competition, was donated by sailors of the [[HMS Enterprise (D52)| HMS ''Enterprise'']] who toured [[Rugby Football Union of East Africa| East Africa]] in 1928?
*... that the [[Allen & Unwin|publishers]] of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' insisted on adding the caveat "Music Inspired by" to the title of [[Bo Hansson]]'s 1972 [[concept album]] '''''[[Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson album)|Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings]]'''''?
*... that at the end of 2006 the [[United Kingdom|UK]] made the final payment on the '''[[Keynes World War&nbsp;II loan]]''' negotiated by [[John Maynard Keynes]] in 1945?
*... that during his performance in the '''[[Reduta Theatre]]''' at age 11, [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] was dissatisfied with the sound of the [[trumpet]]s?


*'''''06:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Dante and beatrice.jpg|100x100px|Dante and Beatrice|alt=On a bridge a man dressed in black (Dante)looks at three women walking along a street; the central women (Beatrice) looks straight ahead, while the other two look towards Dante]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[Dante and Beatrice (painting)|Dante and Beatrice]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is considered to be [[Henry Holiday]]'s most important painting?
*... that [[Conrad Susa]]'s opera '''''[[Transformations (opera)|Transformations]]''''' is based on [[Grimm's Fairy Tales]] as retold by American poet, [[Anne Sexton]]?
*... that when an [[elevated train]] '''[[Ninth Avenue derailment|derailed on Ninth Avenue]]''' in [[New York City|New York]] in 1905, some passengers escaped from one carriage through an apartment window?
*... that the [[Utah Division of Wildlife Resources]] stock the '''[[Little Cottonwood Creek]]''' with 1000 trout yearly?
*... that the colour printing process '''[[chromoxylography]]''' was mostly used to print book covers for [[penny dreadful|penny dreadfuls]], [[yellow-back]]s, and [[children's books]] during the mid to late 19th century?
*... that '''[[Lodge Park and Sherborne Estate|Lodge Park]]''' in [[Gloucestershire]] is England's only surviving 17th-century [[Coursing|deer course]] and [[grandstand]]?
*... that the [[lighthouse]] '''[[Rumeli Feneri]]''' was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the [[France|French]] and [[Great Britain|British]] war ships entering the [[Bosphorus]] from the [[Black Sea]] during the [[Crimean War]]?
*... that [[Pelé]] and [[Mia Hamm]] are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game '''''[[Academy of Champions: Soccer]]'''''?


*'''''00:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Pararistolochia praevenosa Aristolochia praevenosa.jpg|100x100px|Pararistolochia praevenosa|alt=green vine plant]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[Pararistolochia praevenosa]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is the food vine of the [[Ornithoptera richmondia|Richmond Birdwing]] butterfly?
*... that in September 1942 [[No. 62 Commando]] carried out a '''[[Operation Aquatint|raid]]''' on what was later to become known as [[Omaha Beach]] in France, where American forces would land on [[D-Day]] in 1944? 
*... that the [[United Nations]] and [[Amnesty International]] have called for an investigation into the death of [[Kongo people|Congo]]lese activist '''[[Floribert Chebeya]]'''?
*... that '''[[D. John Markey]]''' complained of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s 82-year grip on [[Maryland]] after the close and controversial [[United States Senate elections, 1946|1946 Senate race]] against Governor [[Herbert O'Conor]]?
*... that under the '''[[Vandalism Act (Singapore)|Vandalism Act]]''' of [[Singapore]], a person convicted for the first time of [[vandalism]] by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be [[mandatory sentencing|sentenced]] to [[caning in Singapore|caning]]?
*... that British [[judo]] expert '''[[Trevor Leggett]]'''{{`s}} adherence to [[Culture of Japan|Japanese culture]] extended even to wearing traditional [[Fundoshi|Japanese underwear]]?
*... that looters at the [[Maya civilization|Maya]] archaeological site of '''[[Holtun]]''' in [[Guatemala]] uncovered a series of large [[stucco]] masks flanking the main stairway of the principal [[Mesoamerican pyramids|pyramid]]?
*... that during World War II, English biochemist '''[[Samuel Victor Perry]]''' failed to escape as a [[prisoner of war]] on three occasions, and was captured by the same German guard twice?

===13 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Trier Sankt Paulin BW 10.jpg|100x100px|The bell-tower façade of the Saint Paulin Church, Trier|alt=Almost straight-on view of the muted yellow, narrow, tall tower entrance of Saint Paulin Church]]
</div>
*... that the crypt of '''[[Saint Paulin Church|St. Paulinskirche]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Trier]] allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary [[Theban Legion]]?
*... that '''[[Jan Kobow]]''' sang the tenor part of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s chorale cantata ''[[Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2]]'', written for the second Sunday after [[Trinity Sunday|Trinity]] of 1724, with [[Philippe Herreweghe]]?
*... that American athlete [[Marla Runyan]], who is [[legally blind]], won the national 5K [[road running]] title three consecutive times at the '''[[Freihofer's Run for Women]]'''?
*... that a '''[[Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle|ship's chronometer]]''' from [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] made by [[Thomas Earnshaw]] is now in the [[British Museum]]?
*... that '''[[Vera Beaudin Saeedpour]]''', an American [[Jews|Jew]], opened the first U.S. museum dedicated to the [[Kurdish people]]?
*... that the '''[[Bloom Festival]]''' in [[Dublin]]'s [[Phoenix Park]] is twice as large as the UK's [[Chelsea Flower Show]]?
*... that celebrities who have worn '''[[Jonathan Saunders]]'''{{'}} [[fashion design|designs]] include [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], [[Kylie Minogue]], [[Sienna Miller]], and [[Michelle Obama]]?
*... that '''''[[The Brahmin and the Mongoose]]''''', an Indian folktale about the rash killing of a loyal animal, travelled the world and inspired shrines to the dogs [[Saint Guinefort]] in France and [[Gelert]] in Wales?


*'''''12:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:The Jack Pine, by Tom Thomson.jpg|100x100px|The Jack Pine|alt=Tom Thomson painting]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[The Jack Pine]]''''' ''(pictured)'', painted c. 1916–17 by [[Tom Thomson]], is considered an iconic image of the Canadian landscape?
*... that Paralympic athlete '''[[Kortney Clemons]]''' lost his leg because a [[roadside bomb]] exploded when he was helping fellow US soldiers in Iraq?
*... that '''[[Ismael Urbain]]''' was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century [[French Algeria]] and adviser to [[Napoleon III]] due to his strong knowledge of [[Islam]]?
*... that the '''[[Holy Thorn Reliquary]]''' in the [[British Museum]] bears the inscription "''This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ''"?
*... that '''''[[German submarine U-111 (1940)|U-111]]'''''{{'s}} first patrol took place in the North Atlantic and her second patrol took place in the South Atlantic?
*... that the '''[[Rangit Dam]]''' project in [[Sikkim]] in northeastern [[India]] cost more than {{Nowrap|$109 million}}?
*... that [[Pierre Buyoya]] became [[List of Presidents of Burundi |president of Burundi]] twice, following a military coup d'état '''[[1987 Burundian coup d'état|in 1987]]''', and another '''[[1996 Burundian coup d'état|in 1996]]'''?
*... that [[Franz Liszt]]'s piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called '''[[Lisztomania (condition)|Lisztomania]]''', which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?


*'''''06:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Junichi Masuda.jpg|100x100px|Junichi Masuda in 2007|alt=A black and white photo of a smiling Japanese man with short black hair and a black, zipped jacket shown from the shoulders up. The background is fuzzy and difficult to distinguish.]]
</div>
*... that [[video game composer]], [[Video game developer|director]], and [[Video game producer|producer]] '''[[Junichi Masuda]]''' ''(pictured)'' named a character in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'' after his daughter Kiri?
*... that of the 22 players selected by the [[Dallas Mavericks]] in the '''[[1980 NBA Expansion Draft]]''', only two played more than one season for the team?
*... that '''[[Stanley Joseph Ott|Stanley Ott]]''' helped lay to rest a [[Elmo Patrick Sonnier|convicted murderer]] near the [[Grave (burial)|grave]]s of [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishops]]?
*... that the '''[[Grenadian general election, 1999|1999 Grenadian general election]]''' was called 18 months early after the [[foreign minister]] defected from the governing [[New National Party (Grenada)|New National Party]]?
*... that the [[baritone]] '''[[Andreas Schmidt (baritone)|Andreas Schmidt]]''' created the part of Ryuji in [[Hans Werner Henze]]'s opera ''[[Das verratene Meer]]'' in 1990 at the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]]?
*... that scenes from the 1955 film, ''[[The Kentuckian (1955 film)|The Kentuckian]]'' starring [[Burt Lancaster]], were filmed at '''[[Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park]]'''?
*... that '''[[Rudy Garcia (New Jersey)|Rudy Garcia]]''' resigned his post as mayor of [[Union City, New Jersey]], in the wake of a [[recall election]] petition that had gathered 6,700 signatures?
*... that in 2008, a member of the [[Dallas County, Texas]], county commission '''[[Black hole naming controversies|claimed that]]''' the term [[black hole]], as used in astronomy, was [[racism|racist]]?


*'''''00:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Wishawleader.jpg|100x100px|Scotch Collie, Wishaw Leader|alt="A greyscale photo of a rough collie looking to the right."]]
</div>
*... that the first [[dog]] to be named the '''[[List of Best in Show winners of Crufts|best at Crufts]]''' was Ch. Wishaw Leader ''(pictured)'' in 1906?
*... that as recently as 500&nbsp;years ago, the island of [[Madagascar]] was inhabited by giant [[lemur]]s, referred to as '''[[subfossil lemur]]s''', that weighed between {{convert|10|and|200|kg|lb|abbr=on}}?
*... that '''[[Craig Rundle]]''', a [[college football]] head coach for 24 years, led [[Albion College]] to the 2001 [[Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association|MIAA]] championship with his sons playing at [[quarterback]] and [[tight end]]?
*... that despite a [[Body wave magnitude|magnitude]] of only 5.8, the '''[[1992 Cairo earthquake]]''' was the most destructive to affect [[Cairo]] since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
*... that the [[Albanians|Albanian]] '''''[[Vajtim]]''''' (dirge or lament of the dead) in the 17th century would make the city of [[Gjirokastër]] extremely noisy on Sundays?
*... that [[Music of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] singer [[Marc Anthony]] received a [[Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album]] for his third studio album titled '''''[[Contra La Corriente (Marc Anthony album)|Contra La Corriente]]'''''? 
*... that when '''[[Alfred Eriksen]]''' was elected to the [[Parliament of Norway]] in 1903, he was among the first group in the Parliament representing the Labour movement?
*... that '''[[Teruji Kogake]]''' set a [[List of world records in athletics|world record]] in the [[triple jump]] at the [[Japan]]ese [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] Trials but only managed eighth in the finals at the [[1956 Melbourne Olympics]]?

===12 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Ste-Anne-Bellevue QC 3.JPG|100x100px|Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal|alt=Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal]]''' ''(pictured)'' near [[Montreal]] attracts 181,000 visitors and 23,000 boaters, making it the second busiest canal and locks in [[Quebec]]?
*... that the '''[[Jasper Park Information Centre|original administration building]]''' in [[Jasper National Park]] had a [[fish hatchery]] in the basement?
*... that 20 days after he brought his high school [[baseball]] team to the state finals, '''[[List of Texas Rangers first-round draft picks|Texas Rangers first-round draft pick]]''' [[David Clyde]] made his [[Major League Baseball]] debut?
*... that [[Buffalo Bill|Buffalo Bill Cody]] once owned part of '''[[Buffalo Bill State Park]]''' in [[Wyoming]]?
*... that the '''[[Crustacean larvae#Zoea|''zoea'' larvae]]''' of [[crab]]s have long [[rostrum (anatomy)|rostral]] and dorsal spines?
*... that '''[[Dorsey Dixon]]'''{{`s}} song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of [[child labor]] in the early 20th century?
*... that the increasing overall [[divorce]] rate is primarily in elderly, long-married couples, a phenomenon dubbed "'''[[grey divorce]]'''"?
*... that the original '''[[St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (Alexandria, Louisiana)|Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral]]''' building was saved from burning during the [[American Civil War]] when the parish priest imitated [[Nathaniel Prentice Banks|General Banks]]'s voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?


*'''''12:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:O'Neill inauguration Richard Bartlett detail.jpg|100x100px|Inauguration at Tulach Og]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[royal sites of Ireland]]''' served as centres for ceremonies including an inauguration ritual where a shoe was thrown over the future king's head ''(pictured)''? 
*... that although the [[Wales|Welsh]] church of '''[[St Pabo's Church, Llanbabo|St Pabo, Llanbabo]]''' has a 14th-century monument to [[Pabo Post Prydain]], its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no strong evidence that he founded the church?
*... that despite their plan to settle farther west, Timothy and Rachel Sheldon were so impressed with their camping spot on the [[Chicago Road]] that they bought land nearby and built the '''[[Sheldon Inn]]'''?
*... that a children's book about a toy owl, written by '''[[Finn Havrevold]]''' in 1957, was made into a film by [[Ivo Caprino]]?
*... that, for the first time in the history of the main ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series of [[video game]]s, the '''[[Music of Final Fantasy XIII|music of ''Final Fantasy&nbsp;XIII'']]''' does not include any [[musical composition]]s by [[Nobuo Uematsu]]?
*... that '''[[Jack Siedlecki]]''' led [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Amherst College|Amherst]] and [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute|Worcester]] to conference championships in 21 years as a head [[American football|football]] coach?
*... that in the United States there is a '''[[math–verbal achievement gap]]''' on both the [[SAT]] and the [[ACT_(test)|ACT]], because students do much better on the math portion?
*... that the '''[[Stone of the Pregnant Woman]]''' weighs an estimated 1,000&nbsp;[[tonne]]s?


*'''''06:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Aus soldier Crab.jpg|100x100px|Soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus|alt=A round, white crab, with red leg joints, seen face-on.]]
</div>
*... that cherry-sized soldier crabs of the species '''''[[Mictyris longicarpus]]''''' ''(pictured)'' have been described as "[[Bohemianism|cheerful bohemians]]"?
*... that American painter of the [[American Old West|Old American West]] '''[[J. K. Ralston]]''' was awarded a Gold Medal by the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum|National Cowboy Hall of Fame]]?
*... that the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in '''''[[Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press]]''''' that [[Henry Kissinger]] did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]?
*... that the endangered '''[[Randia moorei|spiny gardenia]]''' has been threatened by the development of banana plantations and the [[Pacific Highway (Australia)|Pacific Highway]]?
*... that '''[[Norman Bethune Sanson]]''' climbed [[Canada|Canadian]] mountains with [[George VI of the United Kingdom|King George&nbsp;VI]] of the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Prajadhipok|King Prajadhipok]] of [[Siam]]?
*... that '''[[LeRoy J. Jones, Jr.]]''' proposed a ban on the sale of [[utility knife|box cutters]] to teenagers in [[New Jersey]], saying that they had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members?
*... that the milk [[protein]] '''[[lactoferrin]]''' provides [[Antiseptic|antibacterial]] activity to human infants?
*... that '''[[sack tapping]]''' can lead to [[amputation]] and is posted on [[YouTube]]?


*'''''00:00, 12 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Museo del sarape 2.jpg|100x100px|Textiles of Mexico|alt=Textiles of Mexico]]
</div>
*... that handcrafted '''[[Textiles of Mexico|textiles in Mexico]]''' ''(samples pictured)'' are still made using techniques that date back to the [[Pre-Columbian Mexico|pre-Hispanic period]]?
*... that many '''[[subantarctic]]''' [[glacier]]s on [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands|Heard Island]], including '''[[Allison Glacier (Heard Island)|Allison]]''', '''[[Compton Glacier|Compton]]''', '''[[Deacock Glacier|Deacock]]''', '''[[Downes Glacier|Downes]]''', '''[[Ealey Glacier|Ealey]]''', '''[[Fiftyone Glacier|Fiftyone]]''', '''[[Gotley Glacier|Gotley]]''', '''[[Lied Glacier|Lied]]''', '''[[Schmidt Glacier (Heard Island and McDonald Islands)|Schmidt]]''', '''[[Stephenson Glacier|Stephenson]]''', '''[[Vahsel Glacier|Vahsel]]''' and '''[[Winston Glacier|Winston]]''', have a negative [[Glacier mass balance|mass balance]] and are in [[Retreat of glaciers since 1850|retreat]]?
*... that the '''[[Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve]]''' in the [[Manning River]] is an example of a large [[ficus|fig]]–[[Dendrocnide excelsa|giant stinger tree]] association ecological community?
*... that [[Nidal Malik Hasan]] and [[Jihad Jane]] were said to have started out as a "'''[[jihobbyist]]s'''", also known as "eHadis"?
*... that after she was [[torpedo]]ed by [[E boat]]s during [[Operation Pedestal]], '''{{SS|Almeria Lykes|1940|2}}''' was scuttled to prevent her falling into enemy hands?
*... that a '''[[dipper well]]''', a perpetual-flow [[sink]] used for cleaning [[ice cream scoop]]s, uses an average of 260,000 gallons (984,000 liters) of [[water]] yearly?
*... that the record for the longest [[hitting streak]] in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[college baseball]] history is 60 games, held by '''[[Damian Costantino]]''' of [[Salve Regina University]]?
*... that the abandoned '''[[O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben]]''', [[New York (state)|New York]], is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?

===11 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:P32a3.jpg|100x100px|St Michael's and All Angels Church, Guiting Power|alt=A church between trees with its tower on the left and a Norman doorway to the right]]
</div>
*... that '''[[St Michael's and All Angels Church, Guiting Power|St Michael's Church]]''' in [[Guiting Power]], [[Gloucestershire]], ''(pictured)'' was formerly in the middle of the village but, due to demolition of buildings, it now stands at its southern end?
*... that the [[list of carcinologists|carcinologist]] '''[[Robert Gurney]]''' was not connected to a university, and carried out his scientific work at home?
*... that the '''[[Nereid Monument]]''' was constructed in the [[British Museum]] in 1969 from material brought from [[Lycia]] in 1840?
*... that "'''[[So Close (Hall & Oates song)|So Close]]'''", a 1990 song by [[Hall & Oates]], was the duo's 29th and final U.S. [[Top 40]] single to date?
*... that in his [[concurrence]] in '''''[[Wieman v. Updegraff]]''''' in 1952, [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court|Associate Justice]] [[Felix Frankfurter]] called [[teachers]] "priests of our democracy"?
*... that after colonizing [[Antarctica]], the '''[[Lobodontini|Lobodontine seals]]''' rapidly diversified to include the only [[crabeater seal|seal]] that feeds primarily on [[krill]] ''and'' the only [[leopard seal|seal]] that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals?
*... that when '''[[Kamie Ethridge]]''' played basketball for the [[Texas Longhorns women's basketball|University of Texas]], the [[Frank Erwin Center|arena where she played]] was dubbed "the best little scorehouse in Texas"?
*... that '''''[[Downfall (game show)|Downfall]]''''', the upcoming American television game show series, features contestants who must answer trivia questions correctly before their cash and prizes fall from the top of a 10-story building?


*'''''12:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Brian O'Driscoll 2.jpg|100x100px|Brian O'Driscoll]]
</div>
*... that [[Ireland national rugby union team|Irish rugby]] captain '''[[List of international rugby union tries by Brian O'Driscoll|Brian O'Driscoll]]''' ''(pictured)'' has scored more [[try|tries]] against [[French national rugby union team|France]] than any other country?
*... that the Italian battleship '''''[[Italian battleship Caio Duilio|Caio Duilio]]''''' was one of the longest-lived World War I dreadnoughts?
*... that a pioneer of the [[World War II|pre-war]] [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] [[swing music]] '''[[Jiří Traxler]]''' lives in [[Canada]]?
*... that in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the [[Everybody Draw Mohammed Day]] controversy '''[[MillatFacebook]]''' was founded to cater primarily to [[Muslim]]s?
*... that in the [[Auction|auction sale]] of '''[[Augustin Blondel de Gagny]]'''{{`s}} renowned collection of paintings and furniture (Paris, 1776) there was a [[Stradivarius|Stradivarius violin]]?
*... that '''[[St Matthew's Church, Silverhill|St Matthew's Church]]''' in [[Silverhill, East Sussex]], was meant to have a large tower with a tall spire, but when money ran out only a small [[flèche]] was built?
*... that in 1944 the '''[[Summer Lake Wildlife Area]]''' became the first wildlife refuge in [[Oregon]] specifically established to preserve [[wetland]] habitat?
*... that [[enantiomer|right-handed]] '''[[substituted amphetamine|amphetamines]]''' are usually 4–10 times more potent [[stimulant|psychostimulant]] drugs than left-handed ones?


*'''''06:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Saltburn by the Sea - geograph.org.uk - 209076.jpg|100x100px|An example image|alt=Saltburn Cliff Lift and pier]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Saltburn Cliff Lift]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the oldest remaining water balance [[funicular]] cliff lift and railway in the United Kingdom?
*... that the [[spiny lobster]] '''''[[Panulirus homarus]]''''' is one of the main prey items for the [[African Clawless Otter|Cape Clawless Otter]]?
*... that '''[[Irwin Rosten]]'''{{`s}} 1975 documentary '''''[[Man: The Incredible Machine]]''''', which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] history?
*... that there was only one survivor when '''{{SS|I P Suhr||2}}''' capsized and sank off [[Sandhammaren]], [[Sweden]], in 1950?
*... that '''[[Arline Friscia]]''' sponsored a bill making [[New Jersey]] the first [[U.S. state]] to require businesses with 50+ employees to rehire a worker at the same or comparable position after taking a [[family leave]]?
*... that '''''[[Booky's Crush]]''''' is the third in a series of [[Canada|Canadian]] [[made for TV]] movies, and follows ''[[Booky and the Secret Santa]]'' (2006) and ''[[Booky Makes Her Mark]]'' (2007)?
*... that Ireland [[rugby union]] international player '''[[Thomas Ranken Lyle]]''' was commemorated on a set of postage stamps for his pioneering work on [[X-ray]]s?
*... that the present-day location of [[Washington & Jefferson College]] in [[Washington, Pennsylvania]], was the result of a '''[[Pennsylvania College Cases|decision]]''' by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]?


*'''''00:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Leaf Scorpionfish in Kona.jpg|100x100px|Leaf Scorpionfish in Kona|alt=Leaf Scorpionfish, ''Taenianotus triacanthus'']]
</div>
*... that using techniques of '''[[underwater camouflage and mimicry]]''', the [[Taenianotus triacanthus|Leafscorpion fish]] ''(pictured)'' not only resembles a dead leaf, but also behaves as one?
*... that '''''[[Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States]]''''' was a [[court case]] in which the [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] held the [[United States Court of Claims|Court of Claims]] jurisdiction was not increased by [[United_States_Congress#Bills_and_resolutions|Congressional reference resolutions]]?
*... that '''[[Foster's reactance theorem]]''' ensures that plots on a [[Smith chart]] of an [[electrical network]] impedance function always travel around the chart in a [[clockwise]] direction with increasing frequency?
*... that '''[[Melvin Cottrell]]''' sponsored legislation to allow [[sports betting]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] casinos on professional and college sports that would exclude wagering on games played by [[New Jersey]] college teams?
*... that the thoroughbred racehorse '''[[Workforce (horse)|Workforce]]''' broke the [[Epsom Derby]] course record time in only his third ever race?
*... that the knife known as the '''[[Seax of Beagnoth]]''' has the only known complete inscription of the [[Anglo-Saxon runes|Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet]]?
*... that [[Samuel Huggins|'''Samuel Huggins''']]' objections to the "so called restoration" of [[Chester Cathedral]] helped found the [[Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings]]?
*... that ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the closing of the '''[[Bordentown School]]''' "an example of [[desegregation]] in reverse" under the headline "Jersey to Close All-Negro School Because It Can't Get White Pupils"?

===10 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Liepāja - church (1).jpg|100x100px|Liepāja town, Latvia. Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral|alt=Stone church with tall steeple]]
</div>
*... that, until 1912, '''[[Liepāja Holy Trinity Cathedral]]''' ''(pictured)'' had the largest [[tracker action|mechanical organ]] in the world, with over 7,000 pipes?
*... that '''[[Jes Staley]]''' was a founding member of [[J.P. Morgan & Co.|J.P. Morgan]]'s equities business?
*... that the '''[[Temi Tea Garden]]''' is the only [[tea garden]] in [[Sikkim]]?
*... that '''[[Percy Christopherson]]''', his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a [[cricket]] match against [[Blackheath F.C.|Blackheath]] on a team named 'The Christophersons'?
*... that [[Mount Rushmore]] sculptor [[Gutzon Borglum]] planned a bayfront along '''[[Corpus Christi Bay]]''' that included a 32 foot statue of [[Jesus Christ]], but was rejected by the city of [[Corpus Christi, Texas|Corpus Christi]]?
*... that the '''[[Gilchrist State Forest]]''' is the first new state forest in [[Oregon]] since 1948?
*... that the '''[[Minoan Bull-leaper]]''' is the only known complete sculpture depicting [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] [[Bull-leaping|bull leaping]]?
*... that [[France|French]] showman and soldier '''[[Tarrare]]''' could eat his own weight in meat every day?


*'''''12:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Forget Me Not 1823 Boards.jpg|100x100px|Cover of the Forget Me Not 1823 annual|alt=Cover of the Forget Me Not 1823 annual]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Frederic Shoberl]]''' was the editor of '''''[[Forget-Me-Not (annual)|Forget-Me-Not]]''''' ''(pictured)'', the first English language [[literary annual]], published in 1823?
*... that the name of mineral '''[[scrutinyite|scrutiny''ite'']]''' reflects the efforts spent to distinguish it from '''[[plattnerite]]''' – another form of '''[[lead dioxide]]'''?
*... that [[List of Idaho state parks|Idaho's]] '''[[Heyburn State Park]]''' is the oldest [[state park]] in the [[Pacific Northwest]]?
*... that [[Edward Lampert]] became the first [[hedge fund]] manager to earn more than {{Nowrap|[[US$]]1 billion}} in a single year, when the investments owned by his firm, '''[[ESL Investments]]''', rose in value by 69% in 2004?
*... that '''''[[The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister]]''''' is a [[BBC]] [[drama film]] based on the life of a [[Anne Lister|19th-century lesbian industrialist]]?
*... that after receiving scant interest from [[college basketball]] scouts as a high school senior, '''[[Jason Conley]]''' would go on to become the first (and only) [[freshman]] to win the [[List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders|NCAA Division&nbsp;I scoring title]]?
*... that the [[scientific name]] of the '''[[Xylocopa bombylans|Peacock carpenter bee]]''' (''Xylocopa bombylans'') means "bumblebee-like wood-cutter"?
*... that among [[New Jersey]]'s '''[[List of New Jersey state symbols|state symbols]]''', the slogan "Come See For Yourself" was chosen in 2006 after an earlier proposal "We'll Win You Over" was deemed to be too negative?


*'''''06:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Davis House stone foundation ruin, Gardiner, NY.jpg|100x100px|Foundation of Davis House on US 44/NY 55|alt=An angular stone retaining wall with dead leaves in a forest]]
</div>
*... that the unusual [[batten]]-plank [[structural system]] of [[timber framing|frame]] houses in the '''[[Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District|Trapps Mountain Hamlet]]''' ''(remaining cellar pictured)'' on New York's [[Shawangunk Ridge]] suggests [[Lenape]] architectural influence?
*... that 40 limited edition sets of [[The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing]]'s debut album '''''[[Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1]]''''' came with [[Phonograph cylinder|wax cylinder]] recordings?
*... that one of the [[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority]]'s '''[[List of MBTA Commuter Rail stations| Commuter Rail stations]]''' is located in [[Rhode Island]]?
*... that [[actor]] and [[mime artist]] '''[[Jack Birkett]]''', who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally [[blindness|blind]]?
*... that the painting '''''[[Landscape, Branchville]]''''' was owned by [[J. Alden Weir]], who said "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of [[John Henry Twachtman|Johnnie Twachtman]]'s paintings"?
*... that it has been said that the [[flesh (mycology)|flesh]] of the mushroom '''''[[Macrolepiota excoriata]]''''' tastes like [[hazelnut]]?
*... that '''[[Zeke Zechella]]''', who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered [[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Enterprise (CVN-65)|USS ''Enterprise'']], was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of [[Offshore Power Systems]]?
*... that '''[[Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom]]''', the oldest [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] congregation on [[Long Island]], once [[termination of employment|fired]] its rabbi after he was alleged to have been [[kashrut|caught eating ham]] in a saloon?


*'''''00:00, 10 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tischendorfianus III Folio 1 verso with Canon tables.jpg|100x100px|An example image|alt=Description of the image]]
</div>
*... that in '''[[Codex Tischendorfianus III]]''' ''(pictured)'' Gospels of [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] and [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] are written in [[Lower case|minuscule]], Gospels of [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]] and [[Gospel of John|John]] in [[Uncial script|uncial]] script?
*... that [[William Hanna]] claimed that the '''[[List of Tom and Jerry characters|Tom and Jerry character]]''' [[Jerry Mouse]] was named ''Jinx'' in his first appearance, while [[Joseph Barbera]] claimed that the mouse went nameless?
*... that [[New Zealand]] rower '''[[Rob Hamill]]''' has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the [[Khmer Rouge]]?
*... that '''[[Saint Subber]]''' produced seven [[Neil Simon]] plays on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], five of which were nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Play]]?
*... that the [[Madagascar]] bat '''''[[Paratriaenops auritus]]''''' has a noseleaf with three straight, about equally long lancets?
*... that [[United States|American]] chemist '''[[Robert L. McNeil, Jr.]]''' was responsible for the commercial development of [[Tylenol (brand)|Tylenol]], for which he coined the generic name "[[paracetamol|acetaminophen]]"?
*... that '''[[alkaloid]]''' [[cyclopamine]] is named so because it induces [[cyclopia]] in sheep?
*... that '''[[Hans Litten]]''' so rattled [[Adolf Hitler]] on the witness stand that, years later, Hitler told Prince [[William, German Crown Prince|Wilhelm of Prussia]] that even he would be sent to a [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]] if he supported Litten?

===9 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:St. Sebastian's at Sebastian front and eastern side.jpg|100x100px|St. Sebastian's Catholic Church|alt=A brick church building with a tall spire, seen against a blue sky]]
</div>
*... that the interior of '''[[St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (Sebastian, Ohio)|St. Sebastian's Catholic Church]]''' in [[Sebastian, Ohio]] ''(pictured)'' is distinguished by its [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] [[reredos]]?
*... that '''[[Leslie Buck]]''' designed the [[Ancient Greece|Grecian]]-themed [[Anthora]] [[coffee cup]], a [[cultural icon]] of [[New York City]], to appeal to the city's [[Greek American]] [[restaurant]] owners?
*... that [[rift]]ing in the '''[[Gulf of Suez Rift|Gulf of Suez]]''' initiated due to anticlockwise rotation of the [[Arabian Plate]] away from the [[African Plate]], but stopped when the [[Dead Sea Transform]] developed?
*... that in 1910, pioneer [[aviator]] '''[[Edwin Moon]]''' made the first flight from fields which were later to become [[Southampton International Airport]]?
*... that in 1974, [[Lieutenant General]] and Minister of Defense of the [[Socialist People's Republic of Albania]] '''[[Beqir Balluku]]''' was accused of planning a [[coup d'etat]] by [[Enver Hoxha]] and executed that same year?
*... that '''[[Jack Sinagra]]''' sponsored a bill passed by the [[New Jersey Senate]] to ban the practice of '''[[double dipping]]''', in which elected officials served in more than one elected position simultaneously?
*... that '''[[Peter Bennett (actor)|Peter Bennett]]''' appeared in more than 200 [[film]]s and [[television]] productions?
*... that the decision of the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales]] in '''''[[Hunter v Moss]]''''' has been called either "sensible" and "fair", or something that could become "stigmatised", "spurious" and doctrinally wrong?


*'''''12:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Main entry to the Mahabaleshwar Temple at Gokaran.jpg|100x100px|Mahabaleshwar Temple at Gokarna]]</div>
*... that the '''[[Mahabaleshwar Temple, Gokarna|Mahabaleshwar Temple]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Gokarna, India|Gokarna]] is one of the seven sacred ''Muktikshetras'' (places of salvation) in [[India]] and is said to bestow immense blessings upon devotees who even glimpse it?
*... that journalist '''[[Charles E. Maple]]''' ended his career as an administrator of the [[Texas State Railroad]], a [[heritage railroad]] between [[Palestine, Texas|Palestine]] and [[Rusk, Texas|Rusk]], [[Texas]]?
*... that [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] cricketer '''[[Frederic John Poynton]]''' was a pioneer of the bacteriology of acute [[rheumatism]]?
*... that '''[[Committee for Cultural Freedom]]''' co-founder [[Sidney Hook]] saw the organization as a way of undermining the [[popular front]] that existed in the U.S. in the 1930s among [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] political groups?
*... that '''[[Baudissin Glacier]]''' and '''[[Challenger Glacier]]''' on [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands|Heard Island]] were charted in 1874 by the [[Challenger expedition]], revisited in 1903 by the [[Gauss expedition|1st German AE]], but not officially named by the [[Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee|ANCA]] until 1957?
*... that '''"[[Ando Bien Pedo]]"''' helped [[Banda Los Recoditos]]' album ''[[¡Ando Bien Pedo!]]'' peak at number one on the [[Billboard Top Latin Albums]] chart? 
*... that '''[[Operation Big Bird]]''' was an attempt to recover hidden assets of ex-President [[Ferdinand Marcos]]?
*... that many cases on the disposal of [[equitable interest]]s in the '''[[creation of express trusts in English law]]''' centre around people trying to avoid tax?


*'''''06:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Olea paniculata leaves.jpg|100x100px|Olea paniculata|alt=green shiny leaves in a forest]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Olea paniculata|Australian olive]]''' ''(pictured)'' is found from [[Pakistan]] and [[Yunnan]] through southern Asia and eastern Australia to [[Lord Howe Island]], [[Vanuatu]] and [[New Caledonia]]?
*... that [[Texas]] industrialist [[Ross Perot]] spent {{Nowrap|[[United States dollar|$]]60 million}} of his own money to fund his '''[[Ross Perot presidential campaign, 1992|1992 U.S. presidential campaign]]'''?
*... that '''[[Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles]]''', the French [[Jesuit]] Father who revealed to Europe in 1712 the manufacturing secrets of [[Chinese porcelain]], has been described as an early "[[Industrial espionage|industrial spy]]"?
*... that the main house at the '''[[Dakin-Coleman Farm]]''' outside [[Millerton, New York]], was at one point legally subdivided between two heirs?
*... that in 2008 the '''[[Goldstrike mine]]''' yielded 30% of the gold production in [[Nevada]]?
*... that '''[[Erik Bakich]]''' oversaw the biggest increase in team [[batting average]] in school history as [[Coach (baseball)|hitting coach]] at [[Vanderbilt Commodores baseball|Vanderbilt University]]?
*... that '''[[Larry Eyler]]''' was an American serial killer who confessed to killing 21 people?
*... that '''[[Ispolin (Bulgarian mythology)|ispolini]]''', ancient giants of [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] mythology, perceived [[blackberry]] bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?


*'''''00:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Battleship saint-louis Bougault.jpg|100x100px|The St Louis|alt=A black and white photo of a steaming battleship]]
</div>
*... that the French battleship  [[French battleship St Louis (1896)|'''''St Louis''''']] ''(pictured)'' accidentally sank the submarine ''Vendémiaire''?
*... that "white-out" from [[light reflection]]s is a problem encountered during '''[[falloposcopy]]'''?
*... that '''[[Jack Faber]]''' received a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]], [[Master of Science|M.S.]], and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]], where he also served as the school's Department of Microbiology head, [[Maryland Terrapins football|football]] coach, and [[Maryland Terrapins men's lacrosse|men's lacrosse]] coach?
*... that '''[[Garry Mallett]]''', the former President of [[ACT New Zealand]], is an [[owner-operator]] of a branch of a [[Les Mills International]] fitness studio?
*... that [[Roger Tory Peterson]] suggested that '''[[Louis Darling|Louis]]''' and '''[[Lois Darling]]''' illustrate the first edition of the environmental book ''[[Silent Spring]]''?
*... that the '''[[Singasteinn]]''' over which [[Heimdall]] and [[Loki]] fought in [[Norse mythology]] may have been a [[Nickernut|Caribbean drift seed]] used as a birth amulet?
*... that a dissenting minister from [[Atherton, Greater Manchester|Atherton]], '''[[James Wood (minister)|James Wood]]''', earned the title "the General" at the [[Battle of Preston (1715)|Battle of Preston]] in 1715?
*... that the '''[[Clock Tower, Brighton|Clock Tower]]''' in [[Brighton]] city centre has been variously described as "delightful", "worthless", "a giant salt-cellar", "charmingly ugly" and "supremely confident"?

===8 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:NeuschwansteinMeteoriteFall.jpg|100x100px|Fall of Neuschwanstein – computer graphics based on visual observation|alt=Fall of Neuschwanstein – computer graphics based on visual observation]]
</div>
*... that the fall of the '''[[Neuschwanstein (meteorite)|Neuschwanstein meteorite]]''' ''(computer graphic pictured)'' in 2002 was observed by the '''[[European Fireball Network]]''' and outdoor witnesses through most of Central Europe?
*... that '''[[Marion Crecco]]''' sponsored a bill in the [[New Jersey General Assembly|New Jersey Assembly]] promoting [[abstinence]] education in schools to prevent [[AIDS]], stating that otherwise "we are allowing our children to play [[Russian roulette]]"?
*... that according to one theory, '''[[Secret trusts in English law|English secret trusts]]''' are entirely constructed by the courts?
*... that the author of '''''[[Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop]]''''' previously wrote [[Celebrity biographer|celebrity biographies]] on [[Michael Jackson]], [[Kerry Katona]], and [[Robbie Williams]]?
*... that the '''[[European Cenozoic Rift System]]''' extends from the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] to the [[North Sea]]?
*... that '''[[Cam Fowler]]''', a top prospect for the upcoming [[2010 NHL Entry Draft|NHL Entry Draft]], played on the [[J. Ross Robertson Cup]], [[2010 Memorial Cup|Memorial Cup]] and [[2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|World Junior Ice Hockey Championship]] winning teams in 2010?
*... that despite proving promising in [[wind tunnel]] testing, no examples of the '''[[Focke-Wulf Fw&nbsp;42]]''' were ever built?
*... that South Carolina's '''[[Redneck Shop]]''', which sells [[Ku Klux Klan]] memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?


*'''''12:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Siamese embassy 1686 by Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis.jpg|100x100px|Depiction of the 1986 Siamese embassy to France by Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis|alt=Three men dressed exotically in robes and pointed hats, accompanied by another man, with a bunch of ornate fabric in the foreground and the Arc de Triomphe in the background]]
</div>
*... that two [[cannon]]s brought as gifts to [[Louis XIV of France|Louis&nbsp;XIV]] of [[France]] by the '''[[Siamese embassy to France (1686)|Siamese embassy of 1686]]''' ''(pictured)'' ended up being seized and used by revolutionaries in the [[Storming of the Bastille]] in 1789?
*... that although American [[Entomology|entomologist]] '''[[Harry Hoogstraal]]''' was an authority on [[tick]]s and [[tick-borne disease]]s, organisms bearing his name include a [[Sundasciurus hoogstraali|squirrel]], a [[Gerbillus hoogstraali|gerbil]], a [[Telescopus hoogstraali|snake]], and 200 other species?
*... that '''''[[Kachche Dhaage]]''''', the 1999 debut film of director '''[[Milan Luthria]]''', stars [[Ajay Devgan]] as a smuggler delivering goods across the [[Rajasthan]]–[[Pakistan]] border?
*... that '''[[Kevin Killian]]'''{{'}}s ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me'' won the [[American Book Award]] for poetry in 2008 and his ''Impossible Princess'' won the [[Lambda Literary Award]] as best [[gay]] [[Erotic literature|erotic fiction]] in 2009?
*... that the '''[[Athertonia diversifolia|Atherton oak]]''' and '''[[Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia|red bopple nut]]''' of [[Queensland]], and the [[Gevuina|Chilean hazel]] of [[Chile]] are relatives of the [[macadamia]] which produce edible nuts?
*... that in the late 1970s, [[Tom Waits]] often performed his song "'''[[Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis]]'''" as a [[medley (music)|medley]] with [[cover version|cover versions]] of "[[Goin' Out Of My Head]]" and "[[Silent Night]]?"
*... that '''[[John G. FitzGerald]]''' prepared Canada's first locally-made [[rabies vaccine]]?
*... that some towns and villages throughout Great Britain were once nicknamed "'''[[Little Moscow]]'''", due to their strong links with the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]]?


*'''''06:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Allium sativum 003.JPG|100x100px|Young garlic bulbs (Allium sativum)|alt=Young garlic bulbs (Allium sativum)]]</div>
*... that '''[[diallyl disulfide]]''' is a major cause of the '''[[garlic allergy]]''' ''(garlic bulbs pictured)'' which mostly affects [[chef]]s and housewives?
*... that [[Parliament of Norway|Norwegian Parliament]] member [[Olav Gunnar Ballo]]'s book about the [[suicide]] of his daughter '''[[Kaja Bordevich Ballo]]''' became a [[bestseller]] in [[Norway]]?
*... that the [[valediction]] '''"[[have a nice day]]"''', typically spoken by service employees, is considered a trite phrase that has been castrated by excessive usage and pretense?
*... that '''[[Mike Khoury]]''' wrestled his final [[World Wrestling Federation|WWF]] match against [[Solofa Fatu|The Sultan]] at the [[Bryce Jordan Center]] on September 24, 1996?
*... that in 1921, [[Spanish people|Spanish]] surgeon '''[[Fidel Pagés]]''' discovered [[epidural anesthesia]], which is used in millions of childbirths and surgical operations every year worldwide?
*... that the '''[[Suillus sibiricus|Siberian Slippery Jack]]'''{{'}}s [[subalpine]] European habitat is threatened by [[deforestation]] and [[skiing]]?
*... that the [[beetle]] '''''[[Dermestes maculatus]]''''' attacks and eats live [[turkey (animal)|turkeys]]?


*'''''00:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Norbulingka.jpg|100x100px|Norbulingka Palace, Lhasa, Tibet|alt=Stone palace in mountains]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Norbulingka|Norbulingka Palace]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Lhasa]] was added by [[UNESCO]] as an extension of the [[Potala Palace|Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace]] in 2001?
*... that [[French battleship Démocratie (1904)|'''''Démocratie''''']] was the only ship of [[Liberte class battleship|her class]] to have protective bulges fitted underneath her bow anchors?
*... that '''[[Clifford Grodd]]''' bought out the [[Boutique|clothing store]] [[Paul Stuart]] from his father-in-law, and transformed it into a label worn by [[Fred Astaire]], [[Mel Brooks]], [[Cary Grant]], [[Paul Newman]] and [[Frank Sinatra]]?
*... that long-time [[Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions]] [[Leaders of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions|leader]] '''[[Konrad Nordahl]]''' has been called one of the most powerful people of the Norwegian labour movement?
*... that as executive director of the [[Kerner Commission]], '''[[David Ginsburg (lawyer)|David Ginsburg]]''' warned in its 1967 report that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies—one black, one white, separate and unequal."?
*... that '''''[[The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers]]''''' was described in ''[[The Independent]]'' as "a volume which none but propeller-heads will find either curious or interesting"?
*... that [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]]winner '''[[Antje Boetius]]''' believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future [[climate change]] through [[anaerobic digestion]] of [[methane]]?
*... that the '''[[Musca vetustissima|Australian bush fly]]''' is responsible for the [[Aussie salute]]?

===7 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Montmorency.JPG|100x100px|Montmorency Falls|alt=Montmorency Falls]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Montmorency River]]''' ''([[Montmorency Falls|falls]] pictured)'' in [[Quebec]] was visited by French explorer [[Samuel de Champlain]], and the named river began appearing in maps as early as 1641?
*... that the [[comedy film]] '''''[[House!]]''''', called an "[[Ealing Studios|Ealing-style]] light comedy", tells the story of how an aged [[Bingo (Non-US)|bingo hall]] deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
*... that '''[[Frank Chapman (baseball)|Frank Chapman]]''' was once thought to have made his only [[Major League Baseball]] appearance at age 14?
*... that the '''[[White Horse Prophecy]]''', attributed to [[Mormon]] founder [[Joseph Smith]], is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon Church]]? 
*... that '''''[[Cuneus Prophetarum]]''''' is considered the most prominent work of early [[Albanian literature]]?
*... that [[Bill Russell]] won two [[List of NBA champions|NBA Championships]] as a '''[[List of National Basketball Association player-coaches|player-coach]]''' of the [[Boston Celtics]]?
*... that '''[[John J. Matheussen]]''' introduced legislation in the [[New Jersey]] [[New Jersey Senate|Senate]] in 1999 to implement the {{Nowrap|US$1 billion}} [[property tax]] [[tax rebate|rebate]] proposed by [[Governor of New Jersey|Governor]] [[Christine Todd Whitman]]?
*... that [[England|English]] [[jockey]] '''[[Mornington Cannon]]''' was named after the mount his father rode to victory on the day he was born?


*'''''12:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Banksia aemula bud1 original.jpg|100x100px|Banksia aemula|alt=old flower spike with large seed pods]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[Banksia aemula]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is thought to have inspired "[[Snugglepot and Cuddlepie|Banksia Men]]" – the villains in the children's story by [[May Gibbs]]?
*... that Queen Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years from Gersoppa under the [[Vijayanagara Empire]] in [[Uttara Kannada district|Uttara Kannada]], [[India]], was credited with building the '''[[Mirjan Fort]]''' in the 16th century?
*... that '''[[Eleazar Roberts]]''' pioneered the [[tonic sol-fa]] method of sight-singing in Wales?
*... that [[California]]'s first [[State Capitol|State House]] was originally a hotel in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] owned by businessman '''[[Pierre Sainsevain|Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain]]''' and his associates?
*... that as the [[mayor]] in the [[1910s]] of [[Homer, Louisiana|Homer]], [[Louisiana]], '''[[A.R. Johnson (Louisiana politician)|Andrew R. Johnson]]''' worked to bring [[electric light]]s and water works to the municipality?
*... that [[Madison Rayne]] '''[[List of current champions in TNA Wrestling|currently holds]]''' both women's championships in [[TNA Wrestling]]?
*... that the various state monuments to '''[[William Smeathers]]''', a pioneer settler of [[Kentucky]] and [[Texas]], use three different versions of his name (Smeathers, Smithers and Smothers)?
*... that the Roman marble '''''[[Sleeping Ariadne]]''''' of the [[Vatican Museums]] was for centuries called ''[[Cleopatra]]'' because her [[armband]] was mistaken for Cleopatra's [[asp (reptile)|asp]]?


*'''''06:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:HOR Philippines Session Hall.jpg|100x100px|Session hall of the Philippine House of Representatives|alt=legistative hall filled with delegates]]</div>
*... that defeated incumbent congressmen in the [[Philippines|Philippine]] [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|House of Representatives]] ''(Session Hall pictured)'' [[Philippine House of Representatives elections, 2010|elections]] were expected "to raise hell" in the '''[[Congressional canvass for the Philippine presidential election, 2010|canvassing of votes]]''' for the [[Philippine presidential election, 2010|presidential election]]?
*... that '''[[polonide]]s''' are amongst the most stable compounds of [[polonium]]?
*... that although it was intended for operation from 1930s [[aircraft carrier]]s, the '''[[SNCAO CAO.600]]''' had twin engines?
*... that the '''[[Forest Park Hotel]]''' in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], was once owned by [[Harold Butler (businessman)|Harold Butler]], founder of the restaurant chain [[Denny's]]?
*... that flautist '''[[Marina Piccinini]]''' recorded ''Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach'', in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the [[Concert Artists Guild]], twenty years after Piccinini did so?
*... that eight candidates have '''[[List of deaths of candidates during general elections of the United Kingdom|died]]''' fighting British general elections since 1918?
*... that now-retired [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] '''[[Scotty Summers]]''' was once [[powerbomb]]ed during a match and had to be carried backstage on a [[stretcher]]?
*... that before a man, [[Tor Halvorsen]], replaced the deceased '''[[Sonja Ludvigsen]]''' as [[Minister of Social Affairs (Norway)|Minister of Social Affairs]], [[Verdens Gang|a newspaper]] claimed that the only certain thing was that the new Minister "will be a woman"?


*'''''00:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Cryptoprocta ferox.jpg|100x100px|The Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)|alt=A small cat-like carnivore stands facing forward]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Fossa (animal)|Fossas]]''' ''(pictured)'' have lengthy [[mating]] sessions because the male's erect [[penis]] has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length?
*... that '''[[Ingeborg Reichelt]]''' performed the soprano part of the [[Bach cantata]] ''[[Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39]]'', written for the first Sunday after [[Trinity Sunday|Trinity]] of 1726?
*... that the '''[[Mountain Pass rare earth mine]]''' was the largest mine for [[rare earth metals]] in the 1970s and 1980s?
*... that in his youth, [[professional baseball]] player '''[[Kettle Wirts]]''' would play [[sandlot ball]] with [[Earl Kunz]], another future professional player?
*... that at the time of its discovery in 2003, '''[[GRB 031203]]''' was the faintest [[gamma-ray burst]] ever recorded?
*... that '''[[Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit)|Chris Haney]]''' and [[Scott Abbott]] developed ''[[Trivial Pursuit]]'' in about an hour one night in 1979, a game which went on to sell 100 million copies worldwide?
*... that the marble column used for the '''[[Civil War Memorial (Adrian, Michigan)|Civil War Memorial]]''' in [[Adrian, Michigan]], was originally part of the former [[Bank of Pennsylvania]] building in [[Philadelphia]]?
*... that professional gambler '''[[Brian Zembic]]''' had size [[Brassiere measurement|38C]] [[breast implant]]s inserted into his chest to win a $100,000 bet?

===6 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:BearRiver Stilts.jpg|100x100px|Bear River, Nova Scotia|alt=Bear River, Nova Scotia]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Bear River (Nova Scotia)|Bear River]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Nova Scotia]] was once about 15 percent longer than at present as it is now a [[drowned river valley]]?
*... that '''[[Jerome Tiger]]''', a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] painter from [[Oklahoma]], was a high school dropout and worked as a laborer and prize fighter?
*... that one colony of the [[Madagascar]] bat '''''[[Triaenops menamena]]''''' contained an estimated 40,000 individuals?
*... that a [[gangster]] threw [[sulfuric acid]] in the face of crusading newspaper [[columnist]] '''[[Victor Riesel]]''' on a public street in [[New York City]] in April 1956, blinding him?
*... that the [[French battleship Suffren|'''''Suffren''''']] was the [[flagship]] for a squadron of four French battleships in 1915 during the [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles Campaign]]?
*... that the '''[[Ford Valve Plant]]''' was [[Assembly line#Ford Motor Company (1908-1915)|moving assembly line]] pioneer [[Henry Ford]]'s first "Village Industry": a small [[factory]] located in a [[village|rural community]] and intended to stabilize the income of [[farmers]]?
*... that [[military historian]] and [[Purdue]] professor '''[[Gunther E. Rothenberg]]''' escaped the [[Nazis]] and served in the [[British Army]], the [[Israel Defense Force]], and the [[US Air Force]] before attending college on the [[GI Bill]]?
*... that although '''[[David Campbell (British Army officer)|David Campbell]]''' received multiple wounds leading a charge against German cavalry in 1914, he told the doctor "I've just had the best quarter of an hour I've ever had in my life!"?


*'''''12:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:AAAA8040 Joe Mauer.jpg|100x100px|Joe Mauer|alt=A man in a left-handed batting stance wearing pinstriped gray pants, a black shinguard on his right leg, a dark blue baseball jersey, and a dark-colored batting helmet.]]
</div>
*... that [[Joe Mauer]] ''(pictured)'', a '''[[List of Minnesota Twins first-round draft picks|first-round draft pick]]''' of the [[Minnesota Twins]], is the only [[catcher]] in [[Major League Baseball]] history to have won three [[List of Major League Baseball batting champions|batting titles]]?
*... that the [[mosquito]] '''''[[Psorophora howardii]]''''' can puncture through a coat, vest, and two shirts?
*... that '''[[Vern Partlow]]'''{{`s}} [[Satire|satirical]] [[song]] "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro-[[communism|communist]] [[propaganda]]?
*... that '''''[[German submarine U-1022|U-1022]]''''' was commissioned into the ''[[Kriegsmarine]]'' on June 7, 1944, the day after the [[Invasion of Normandy|Allied invasion of Normandy]]?
*... that the defeat of his army in the '''[[Siege of Berat (1280–1281)|Siege of Berat]]''' ended [[Charles of Anjou]]'s designs to invade the [[Byzantine Empire]] over land?
*... that in [[English law]], '''[[Purpose trusts in English law|trusts]]''' for the construction of tombs are invalid if the tombs are "capricious and wasteful"?
*... that the railroads controlled by '''[[Alfred Holland Smith]]''' in 1918 carried one half of United States freight? 
*... that in the town of the '''[[Chau Doc massacre]]''', anti-government forces spread the superstition that one can fly by killing 20 people, and become an [[angel]] by killing 100?


*'''''06:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 012.jpg|100x100px|Denial of Peter]]
</div>
*... that in his depiction of the '''[[Denial of Peter]]''' episode ''(pictured)'', [[Rembrandt]] portrayed [[Jesus]] in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at [[Apostle Peter|Peter]] who faced away from him?
*... that '''[[Gerald Roush]]''' had details of the original specifications, later modifications and ownership history of nearly every one of the 130,000 [[Ferrari]]s ever manufactured?
*... that '''''[[German submarine U-64 (1939)|U-64]]''''' was sunk on the eighth day of her first patrol?
*... that the [[Evangelicalism|evangelist]] '''[[Elijah Cadman]]''' originated the idea that [[The Salvation Army]] should wear [[The_Salvation_Army#Uniform|uniforms]]?
*... that at 270 seconds, '''[[GRB 011211]]''' became the longest [[gamma-ray burst]] detected by [[BeppoSAX]] by 2002?
*... that audio innovator '''[[Fritz Sennheiser]]''' was recognized by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] with its Scientific and Engineering Award for his development of the MKH 816 [[Microphone#Shotgun|shotgun microphone]]?
*... that in the '''[[Battle of Prinitza]]''', 300 [[Principality of Achaea|Achaean]] soldiers defeated a far superior [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] army, allegedly numbering 15,000 men?
*... that in what ''[[The New York Times]]'' described as a "food fight", [[New Jersey General Assembly|Assemblymember]] '''[[Clare Farragher]]''' argued that the [[tomato]], rather than the [[blueberry]], should be chosen as [[New Jersey]]'s [[List of U.S. state foods|official state fruit]]?


*'''''00:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Saint Cloud soft porcelain vase with blue designs under glaze 1695-1700.jpg|100x100px|Saint Cloud soft porcelain vase with blue designs|alt=Saint Cloud soft porcelain vase with blue designs]]
</div>
*... that '''[[French porcelain]]''' ''(early example pictured)'' started in the 17th century by imitating [[Chinese ceramics|Chinese]] [[blue and white porcelain]]?
*... that while [[Archbishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide|Adelaide]], '''[[Leonard Faulkner]]''' refused to eliminate the practice of communal [[Sacrament of Penance (Catholic Church)|confession]], despite pressure from the [[Holy See|Vatican]]? 
*... that although its name means boundary ditch, '''[[Mardyke (river)|the Mardyke]]''' is actually a river that flows into the [[Thames]] at [[Purfleet]]?
*... that in 1952, flutist '''[[Doriot Anthony Dwyer]]''' was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US [[orchestra]]? 
*... that the '''[[2002 Mindanao earthquake]]''', which caused flooding and a [[tsunami]], was the sixth most powerful earthquake of 2002? 
*... that '''[[Gabriel Vargas]]''' became a chief [[draftsman]] by age 16 and went on to win the [[Mexico|Mexican]] "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (National Sciences and Arts Prize)"?
*... that the '''[[Telegraph Act 1870]]''' resulted in the value of shares in the [[Isle of Man Telegraph Company]] being increased to 160 times their former value?
*... that [[white people|white]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[New Jersey Senate|State Senator]] '''[[Norman M. Robertson]]''' criticized [[New Jersey]]'s [[New Jersey Legislative Districts, 2001 redistricting|2001 redistricting plan]], stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?

===5 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Airco D.H.2 ExCC.jpg|100x100px|Side view of a World War I DH.2 biplane with its engine and propeller mounted pointing backwards|alt=Side view of a World War I DH.2 biplane with its engine and propeller mounted pointing backwards]]
</div>
*... that on 25 April 1916, [[Royal Flying Corps]] ace '''[[David Tidmarsh]]''' was awarded an aerial victory without firing a shot from his [[Airco DH.2]] ''(pictured)'', or getting within a quarter mile of his enemy?
*... that the [[civil rights]] [[attorney at law (United States)|attorney]] '''[[Jesse N. Stone|Jesse N. Stone, Jr.]]''', was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the [[historically black]] [[Southern University Law Center]] in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]?
*... that '''[[Colorado State Highway 64]]''' is named the Stegosaurus Freeway in [[Dinosaur, Colorado|Dinosaur]]? 
*... that in 1953, newspaper editor '''[[Erling Hall-Hofsø]]''' was imprisoned for refusing to unveil his [[journalism sourcing|source]] for a news piece?
*... that '''[[William Huggins (animal artist)|William Huggins]]''' enjoyed following a [[Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie|travelling animal circus]]?
*... that according to police investigators, '''[[Ian Davison]]''' had enough [[ricin]] in his home to kill 1,000 people?
*... that seven of the seventeen '''[[Apostles of Linnaeus|apostles]]''' that Swedish botanist [[Carl Linnaeus]] sent out died on their journeys?
*... that despite being paralysed from the chest down British [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] skier '''[[Talan Skeels-Piggins]]''' serves as a Lieutenant in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]]s?


*'''''12:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Former St Leonards United Reformed Church, St Leonards, Hastings (IoE Code 491240).JPG|100x100px|The former St Leonards-on-Sea United Reformed Church (closed 2008), Hastings, East Sussex|alt=A dull-coloured pale stone church on a sloping corner site, with a tower stopping abruptly at a parapet.]]
</div>
*... that the [[spire]]s of both '''[[St Luke's Church, Silverhill|St Luke's]]''' and '''[[St Leonards-on-Sea United Reformed Church|St Leonards-on-Sea]]''' ''(pictured)'' [[United Reformed Church|United Reformed churches]] in [[Hastings]], [[East Sussex]], were destroyed in the [[Great Storm of 1987]]?
*... that '''[[Breandán Ó Buachalla]]''' was considered "the leading authority on [[Irish poetry|Gaelic poetry]] and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent [[Irish language]] academics of his generation"?
*... that the tick '''''[[Ornithodoros erraticus]]''''' spreads the [[African swine fever virus]] in the [[Iberian Peninsula]] ([[Spain]] and [[Portugal]])?
*... that '''[[Aline Rhonie Hofheimer|Aline Hofheimer]]''' painted a 126-foot [[fresco]] representing [[aviation history]] in [[Roosevelt Field]], [[Long Island]]?
*... that the strongest '''[[Earthquakes in Germany |earthquake in Germany]]''' reported to date struck [[Düren]] on February 18, 1756?
*... that the [[New York Yankees]] sent [[pitcher]] '''[[Ernest Groth]]''' to the [[Oakland Oaks (PCL)|Oakland Oaks]] to make up for an earlier deal that did not work out?
*... that the 21 km '''[[New Danube]]''' in [[Vienna]] has been described by [[UN-HABITAT]] as "the first truly multipurpose fully sustainable flood protection scheme"?
*... that singer '''[[Lissie]]''' was invited to [[opening act|open]] for [[Lenny Kravitz]] after he saw her [[MySpace]] page?


*'''''06:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Froskepôle.jpg|100x100px|Froskepôlemolen, Leeuwarden|alt=A Dutch windmill at work]]
</div>
*... that some of the functions of '''[[windmills in Leeuwarden]]''' ''([[Froskepôlemolen, Leeuwarden|Froskepôlemolen]] pictured)'' were [[cement]] manufacture, [[fulling]], [[oil]] extraction, producing [[dye]]s, [[gunpowder]] and [[paint]]s, [[snuff (tobacco)|snuff]] production and [[tanning (leather)|tanning]]?
*... that '''[[2010 Stavropol bomb blast|a recent bomb blast]]''' before a dance show in [[Stavropol]] killed seven people?
*... that the [[United States|American]] [[soul-blues]] [[musician]] '''[[L.V. Johnson]]''''s track "I Don't Really Care", was [[sampling (music)|sampled]] by [[Strong Arm Steady]] on their 2010 [[album]] ''[[In Search of Stoney Jackson]]''?
*... that in [[Jewish mysticism]], even [[angel]]s cannot endure seeing the '''[[divine countenance]]''' directly?
*... that prior to the '''[[Recreational Charities Act 1958]]''', the English courts refused to accept any [[Charitable trusts in English law|charities]] involving recreational activities as valid? 
*... that '''[[Frederik Due]]''' in 1841 became the first non-[[Nobility|noble]] [[Prime Minister of Norway|prime minister of Norway]]?
*... that if the remote [[supergiant]] '''[[Delta Canis Majoris]]''' were as close to us as [[Sirius]], it would be as bright as a half-full moon?
*... that now-retired [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] '''[[Mark Freer (wrestler)|Mark Freer]]''' was once [[handcuff]]ed to ring ropes and beaten with a [[Baton (law enforcement)|nightstick]] at the end of a match?


*'''''00:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Troll research station Antarctica.JPG|100x100px|Troll station|alt=Red, flat, one-story building sitting on snow with a dirt hill in the background]]
</div>
*... that [[Norway]] was the last country with a [[territorial claims of Antarctica|territorial claim]] of [[Antarctica]] to not operate an all-year research station, until the 2005 opening of '''[[Troll (research station)|Troll]]''' ''(pictured)'' and '''[[Troll Airfield]]'''?
*... that before [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]] became [[Holy Roman Emperor]], he settled claims with the [[House of Habsburg|other Habsburgs]] in the secret '''[[Oñate treaty]]'''?
*... that reliable water flow from the '''[[Sun Kosi]]''', in mountainous [[Nepal]], is proposed to be diverted through a {{convert|16.6|km}} tunnel to the [[Kamala River]] for irrigation and other purposes?
*... that the [[Detroit blues]] [[singer]] '''[[Calvin Frazier]]'''{{`s}} "This Old World's in a Tangle" was both the title of the first song he recorded, and of a 1993 [[compilation album]] issued by [[Laurie Records]]?
*... that '''[[Rønne]]''', a town on the Danish island of [[Bornholm]], was bombed by Soviet fighter aircraft during [[World War&nbsp;II]]?
*... that after an effort to elect [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] to the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] failed in 1946, the '''[[Union for Democratic Action]]''' was disbanded and [[Americans for Democratic Action]] formed to replace it?
*... that '''[[Cyrille Dion]]''' won the first U.S. professional [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]] championship in 1878?
*... that the '''[[D23 (Croatia)|Via Josephina]]''' was commissioned in 1775 by [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph&nbsp;II]] Holy Roman Emperor after he reportedly fell from his horse while traveling from [[Senj]]?

===4 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Andrew-johnson-building-south-tn1.jpg|100x100px|Andrew Johnson Building|alt=Andrew Johnson Building]]
</div>
*... that completed in 1930, the '''[[Andrew Johnson Building]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the [[List of tallest buildings in Knoxville|tallest building]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], until 1979?
*... that the '''[[Port of Jacksonville]]''' is the second busiest vehicle-handling [[port]] on the east coast of the [[United States]]?
*... that [[Eurovision Song Contest 1993|1993]] [[Eurovision Song Contest]] winner '''[[Niamh Kavanagh]]''' overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2010|2010 contest]] in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]?
*... that ''[[MasterChef Australia (season 2)|MasterChef Australia]]'' contestant '''[[Marion Grasby]]''' was awarded one of only nine journalism cadetships offered nationally by the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] for 2006?
*... that '''[[Yangluo Bridge]]''' near [[Wuhan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], is tied with the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] in [[San Francisco]], [[United States]], as the ninth [[List of longest suspension bridge spans|longest suspension bridge in the world]]?
*... that the '''[[Geology of Northland Region, New Zealand|geology of New Zealand's Northland region]]''' includes [[allochthon|exotic]] seafloor rocks, an extinct [[volcanic arc]], and a massive [[tombolo]]?
*... that [[1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympic]] champion [[Jim Thorpe]] was stripped of his '''[[track and field]]''' medals after it was discovered he had played [[baseball]] [[Professional sports|professionally]]?
*... that '''[[Bonaventure Broderick]]''' ran a gas station for 40 years until Cardinal [[Francis Spellman]] restored him as an [[Auxiliary Bishop]]?


*'''''12:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Ángeles Gabaldón-10.jpg|100x100px|''Traje de flamenca''|alt=Ángeles Gabaldón in a ''[[traje de flamenca]]'']]
</div>
*... that although the hemline of the '''''[[traje de flamenca]]''''' ''(pictured)'' rose as far as the knees in the 1960s and '70s, it has now returned to the traditional ankle length?
*... that it has been difficult to establish when the '''[[Oliver Barrett House]]''' near [[Millerton, New York]], was built since there are no records of it until 14 years after its likely construction date?
*... that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two '''[[heritage railways in Kauai]]''', was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
*... that '''[[Juwan Howard]]''' was the first [[student–athlete]] to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the [[NBA Draft]] and joining the [[National Basketball Association]]? 
*... that '''[[Eric Selleck]]''' was the first hockey player to be a [[SUNYAC]] Rookie of the Year and [[Most Valuable Player|MVP]] in consecutive years?
*... that the [[estuary|estuarine]], [[burrow]]-dwelling [[Thalassinidea|ghost shrimp]] '''''[[Neotrypaea californiensis]]''''' is used as [[fishing bait|bait]], but is sometimes attacked with [[insecticide]]s because it damages [[Pacific oyster]] [[oyster farm|farms]]?
*... that ten [[New Zealand]] soldiers lost their lives in 1917 in the '''[[Bere Ferrers rail accident]]''' due to being unaccustomed to the British railway system?
*... that poet and author '''[[Kostas Krystallis]]''' escaped to [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] after being denounced by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry?


*'''''06:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:1890sPittbaseball.jpg|100x100px|Pitt baseball team c. 1890|alt=Pitt baseball team c. the 1890s]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Pittsburgh Panthers baseball|baseball]]''' is the [[University of Pittsburgh]]'s ''(1890s team pictured)'' oldest sport, with its first recorded game in 1869?
*... that [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallaby]] '''[[Myer Rosenblum]]''' employed future [[Prime Minister of Australia]] [[John Howard]] as an [[articled clerk]] in 1959?
*... that the opera ''[[Didone abbandonata (Sarro)|Didone abbandonata]]'' (''Dido Abandoned'') of [[Domenico Sarro]], successful in 1724, was revived by [[harpsichordist]], [[Conducting|conductor]] and [[Musicology|musicologist]] '''[[Ludger Rémy]]'''?
*... that the four '''{{sclass|Ersatz Monarch|battleship|2}}s''' planned for the [[Austro-Hungarian Navy]] were expected to cost 82&nbsp;million [[Austro-Hungarian krone|kronen]] each, but none were ever completed? 
*... that American [[sprint running|sprinter]] '''[[Jeff Williams (athlete)|Jeff Williams]]''' won his first [[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championship]] medal at the age of 29 under the guidance of women's [[Summer Olympics|Olympic]] medalist [[Barbara Ferrell]]?
*... that [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna’s]] [[Reggie Lucas|first producer]] purchased an old '''[[Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio|chandelier factory]]''' in 1981, which has been used to record tracks by [[Queen Latifah]], [[INXS]] and [[Taking Back Sunday]]? 
*... that '''[[seifertite]]''', one of the densest [[Polymorphism (materials science)|polymorph]]s of [[Silicon dioxide|silica]], is named after '''[[Friedrich Seifert]]''' and has only been found in [[meteorite]]s?
*... that [[Chinese Australian]] soldier '''[[Caleb Shang]]''' was awarded the [[Distinguished Conduct Medal]] partly for his skill with [[Kerosene lamp|lamps]]?


*'''''00:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Thomas N Wheeler farmhouse, Millerton, NY.jpg|100x100px|Main house, Thomas N. Wheeler Farm|alt=A light yellow house lit by sun from the left with trees in autumn color]]
</div>
*... that when he transferred '''[[Thomas N. Wheeler Farm|his house]]''' ''(pictured)'' near [[Millerton, New York]], to his sons, Thomas N. Wheeler required that they allow their older sister to live there for the rest of her life?
*... that Dutch [[malacologist]] '''[[Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen]]''' is an expert in African land snails?
*... that '''[[Orientalism in early modern France]]''' started from the time of [[Francis I of France|Francis&nbsp;I]] in the 16th century, with the work of [[Guillaume Postel]]?
*... that one of the outstanding [[Paris]]ian [[Louis XV of France|Louis&nbsp;XV]] ''[[ébéniste]]s'' remained a mystery until 1957, as his maker's stamp just reads '''[[Bernard II van Risamburgh|BVRB]]'''?
*... that the extinct '''''[[Hipposideros besaoka]]''''' was the largest [[insectivorous]] bat of [[Madagascar]]?
*... that [[President of Brazil]] [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] recently launched '''[[TV Brasil Internacional]]''', a [[Portuguese language]] television station aimed at 49 African nations?
*... that '''[[Pike Hill Signal Tower]]''' was built by the [[Roman empire|Romans]] as part of fortifying the [[Stanegate]] and was later incorporated into [[Hadrian's Wall]]?
*... that '''[[Lofty Large]]''' once floored a donkey with a single punch while fighting rebels in [[Oman]]?

===3 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Tengboche de.jpg|100x100px|Tengboche Monastery|alt=A massive mountain, dusted in snow, looms against a blue sky over a monastary surrounded by trees.]]
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*... that [[Tenzing Norgay]], the first man to reach the summit of [[Mount Everest]] with Sir [[Edmund Hilary]], was once sent to [[Tengboche Monastery]] in '''[[Tengboche]]''' ''(pictured)'' to be a monk?
*... that over the course of more than 200 years, the [[Struve family]] produced renowned scientists including '''[[Jacob Struve|Jacob]]''', [[Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve|Friedrich]], '''[[Otto Wilhelm von Struve|Otto Wilhelm]]''', '''[[Genrikh Struve|Genrikh]]''', '''[[Hermann Struve|Hermann]]''', '''[[Ludwig Struve|Ludwig]]''', '''[[Georg Hermann Struve|George Hermann]]''', '''[[Wilfried Struve|Wilfried]]''' and '''[[Otto Struve|Otto]]''' Struve?
*... that '''[[Associated Students, Chico]]''' is a student government with over $13 million in assets making it one of the largest non-profit organizations in [[Northern California]]?
*... that although the '''[[Cryptoprocta spelea|giant fossa]]''', formerly one of the top [[carnivore]]s of [[Madagascar]], is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living [[fossa (animal)|fossas]]?
*... that newspaper illustrator '''[[Salo Grenning]]''' became an honorary citizen of [[Middelburg]], [[Netherlands]], after helping liberate the city from [[nazi Germany|Germany]] in 1944?
*... that the late [[Paleozoic]] environment of the '''[[Geology of Bolivia|Chaco-Tarija sedimentary basin]]''' of [[Bolivia]] has been likened to that of present-day [[Labrador Sea]]?
*... that 2004 [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]]winner for neurobiology, '''[[Hannah Monyer]]''', can speak several languages and play the piano?
*... that a part of the [[Parthenon Frieze]] currently at the [[British Museum]] used to be kept at '''[[Marbury Hall, Anderton with Marbury|Marbury Hall]]''' in [[Cheshire]], [[England]]?


*'''''12:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:HZ-1 Aerocycle flown by soldier.png|100x100px|de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle|alt=de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle]]
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*... that the '''[[HZ-1 Aerocycle|de Lackner Aerocycle]]''' ''(pictured)'' was intended to be flown by [[infantrymen]] after only 20 minutes of [[flight training]]?
*... that '''[[Eduardo Delgado]]''' has recorded the full works of [[Argentina|Argentine]] composer [[Alberto Ginastera]]?
*... that the [[caterpillar]]s of the [[moth]] '''''[[Mompha raschkiella]]''''' cause a yellowish blotch on the leaves of [[Rosebay Willowherb]] that bleach rapidly after the caterpillars leave them?
*... that [[Abkhazia|Abkhaz]] writer [[Fazil Iskander]] publishes articles for the [[Russia|Russian]] newspaper '''''[[Kultura (newspaper)|Kultura]]'''''?
*... that the '''[[Australian Institute of Family Studies]]''' (est. 1980) conducts research in family wellbeing, as used in the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales?
*... that the journalist and columnist '''[[Per Egil Hegge]]''' has been called a "housegod" of those dissatisfied with the development of the [[Norwegian language]]?
*... that the [[French battleship Gaulois (1896)|'''French battleship ''Gaulois''''']] was sunk on 27 December 1916 by the German U-boat SM ''[[UB-47]]''?
*... that in the early 1930s, mathematician '''[[Gerhard Kowalewski]]''' persuaded more women at German universities than anyone else to become [[Doctor (title)|doctors]] in mathematics?


*'''''06:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Paulvolcker.jpg|100x100px|Paul Volcker, who headed a UN investigation into kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime|alt=Image of Paul Volcker]]
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*... that, according to a UN independent investigation headed by [[Paul Volcker]] ''(pictured)'', during the '''[[AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal]]''', [[AWB Limited|AWB]] paid more than {{Nowrap|$221.7 million}} in illicit transfers to the regime of Saddam Hussein?
*... that [[cattle]] infested with [[tick]]s can be treated with an extract from the African tree '''''[[Margaritaria discoidea]]'''''?
*... that during [[World War II]], the [[Arkansas]] [[politician]] '''[[Jefferson W. Speck]]''' was a [[prisoner of war|POW]] transported on the [[Japan|Japanese]] [[Hell ship]], the ''[[Oryoku Maru]]''?
*... that '''[[Computer Usage Company]]''' was the first company devoted to developing [[computer software]] in 1955, but went [[bankruptcy|bankrupt]] in 1986?
*... that [[Brian Eno]], one of the principal innovators of [[ambient music]], played [[synthesiser]]s on [[Coldplay]]'s 2007 single "'''[[White Shadows]]'''"?
*... that all nine individuals who served as '''[[List of Michigan Wolverines head football coaches|Michigan Wolverines head football coaches]]''' from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]?
*... that the ''[[Literary Review]]'' said of a [[novel]] by '''[[Daisy Waugh]]''' "''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]'' meets ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]''"?
*... that '''[[Donna Simpson (obese)|Donna Simpson]]''' maintains a website where male fans pay to watch videos of her eating and measuring her waistline?


*'''''00:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Gee Bee Model Z Reproduction.jpg|100x100px|A replica of the Gee Bee Model Z|alt=A brilliantly painted black-and-yellow taildragger aircraft, with a massive radial engine and a the racing number "4" on its side.]]
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*... that in 1931, frame-by-frame analysis of a movie was used to determine why the '''[[Gee Bee Model Z]]''' ''(pictured)'' crashed?
*... that in 1985, former [[Louisiana]] [[Insurance Commissioner]] '''[[Rufus D. Hayes]]''' sold 14 acres of land to [[Jimmy Swaggart]] Ministries for $750,000?
*... that '''[[Abraxas sylvata|Clouded Magpie]]''' [[moth]]s resemble bird droppings while they are resting on the upper surface of leaves?
*... that during a match in 2000, [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] '''[[Ricky Blues]]''' left the ring to argue with hecklers at ringside?
*... that the Bryansk State Agricultural Academy (BSAA) in the [[Bryansk Oblast]] rural locality of '''[[Kokino, Bryansk Oblast|Kokino]]''' has a notable library of some 410,000 volumes?
*... that the K-105 ski jumping hill in '''[[Schanzen Einsiedeln]]''' is named after World Championships winner [[Andreas Küttel]]?
*... that the shooting ranges at '''[[Camp Curtis Guild]]''' in [[Reading, Massachusetts]], were closed after a bullet ricocheted and nearly hit a mother and her toddler?
*... that in [[Serbs|Serbian]] tradition, a '''[[Zduhać|zmajevit]]''' was a man whose spirit could leave his body while he was asleep, and fly skywards to fight against the demon [[Ala (demon)|ala]] that led [[hail]] clouds over fields to destroy crops?

===2 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Peacock Flounder Bothus mancus in Kona.jpg|100x100px|Peacock Flounder Bothus mancus in Kona|alt=Description of the image]]
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*... that the '''[[Peacock flounder]]''' can [[camouflage]] itself by matching its colors to its surroundings ''(process pictured)''? 
*... that '''[[Erie J. Sauder]]''' was a [[Mennonite]] cabinetmaker with only an eighth-grade education when he started the '''[[Sauder Woodworking Company|ready-to-assemble furniture industry]]'''?
*... that the logo of the '''[[Reichswerke Hermann Göring]]''', an industrial [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] of [[Nazi Germany]], remained in use until the 1980s?
*... that [[World War II]] [[U.S. Army]] veteran '''[[David Rubitsky]]''' claims to have singlehandedly killed 500 to 600 Japanese soldiers during a 21-hour battle and that he was denied the [[Medal of Honor]] because he is Jewish?
*... that '''[[Dorothy Ellicott]]''' was the first woman to be elected to two different [[Gibraltar]] Councils and was posthumously awarded the [[Gibraltar Medallion of Honour]] on [[Gibraltar National Day]] 2008?
*... that the ideas of [[Aesthetic Realism]] and Siegel's Theory of Opposites are the guiding principles of [[New York City]]'s '''[[Terrain Gallery]]'''?
*... that the Italian [[protected cruiser]] '''{{ship|Italian cruiser|Giovanni Bausan||2}}''' was designed to destroy [[battleship]]s?
*... that American '''[[Phelps Phelps]]''', the first civilian [[Governor of American Samoa]] and an [[United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic|Ambassador to the Dominican Republic]], was dismissed from [[Yale University]] for paying another student to take his tests?


*'''''12:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Amsterdam_KNSM-eiland_Panamakade.jpg|100x100px|Panamakade on KNSM Island, Amsterdam|alt=Panamakade on KNSM Island, Amsterdam]]
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*... that the '''[[KNSM Island]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Amsterdam]], originally the docks for the [[Nedlloyd|Royal Dutch Steamboat Company]] and then long occupied by squatters, is now a haven for "Dockland chic"?
*... that '''[[Ernst von Leyser]]''' was a major defendant at the [[Hostages Trial]] in 1947&ndash;1948?
*{{anchor|goldencue}}... that the '''[[Golden Cue|Golden Cue Billiard Lounge]]''' is the only extant billiard hall in [[Albany, New York]]?
*... that '''''[[Hypogeomys australis]]''''', '''''[[Nesomys narindaensis]]''''', and '''''[[Brachytarsomys mahajambaensis]]''''' are the only extinct [[Nesomyinae|rodents of Madagascar]]?
*... that works of the Polish artist '''[[Dorota Nieznalska]]''' stirred a religious controversy and charges of [[blasphemy]] in Poland?
*... that '''[[2009 College Football All-America Team]]''' selection [[Zane Beadles]] was also a 2009 [[Academic All-America]] selection?
*... that a stained glass window in All Saint's Church in [[Eastchurch]] commemorates the deaths of aviation pioneers [[Charles Rolls]] and '''[[Cecil Grace]]'''?
*... that [[Christopher Columbus]] received a royal reward for the '''[[1492 light sighting|1492 sighting of unknown light]]'''?


*'''''06:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Spherulit in Mosaiktextur.jpg|100x100px|A spherulite embedded into a mosaic mesogen|alt=A spherulite embedded into a mosaic mesogen.]]
</div>
*... that '''[[crystallization of polymers]]''' proceeds through the formation of '''[[Spherulite (polymer physics)|spherulites]]''' ''(example pictured)''?
*... that '''{{SS|Theresia L M Russ||2}}''' rescued the survivors from the [[Reichsmarine]]'s [[training ship|training]] [[schooner]] [[Niobe (schooner)|''Niobe'']]?
*... that except for [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Elvis Presley]], '''[[Harry Goodwin]]''' photographed every single act that entered the [[Top 40|Top 30]] of the [[UK Singles Chart]] between 1964 and 1973?
*... that the [[International Rugby Board]] do not permit players to wear '''[[rugby shorts]]''' with padding sewn into them?
*... that [[Norwegian resistance movement|anti-Nazi resistance fighter]] '''[[Joar Olsen]]''' once escaped apprehension by claiming that he drove a [[Red Cross]] truck?
*... that the '''[[Amanita bisporigera|eastern North American destroying angel]]''' contains [[cyclic peptide]]s that, if consumed, can cause [[kidney failure]], [[liver failure]], and/or death?
*... that in addition to its stone arch, '''[[Natural Bridges State Beach]]''' in [[California]] is known for the up to 150,000 [[Monarch butterfly|Monarch butterflies]] that overwinter there?
*... that the [[radar]] at '''[[Benton Air Force Station]]''' was once jammed by "the lady of the house" watching a [[soap opera]]?


*'''''00:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:GSskater.jpg|100x100px|The Skater by Gilbert Stuart|alt=The Skater]]
</div>
*... that '''''[[The Skater]]''' (pictured)'', a 1782 oil painting by [[Gilbert Stuart]], was the work that thrust him to sudden fame?
*... that even though [[HMS Marlborough (1912)|'''HMS ''Marlborough''''']] was hit by a torpedo at the [[Battle of Jutland]], the crew suffered only four casualties?
*... that only one isolated population of the butterfly '''''[[Boloria eunomia]]''''' in [[Serbia]] is known?
*... that '''[[Thomas Darden]]''', the last naval [[Governor of American Samoa]], advocated for the integration of the [[United States Navy]]?
*... that the four rooms on the first floor of '''[[Hiddenhurst]]''' outside [[Millerton, New York]], are [[interior decoration|decorated]] in different [[architectural style]]s?
*... that when the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[cargo ship]] '''{{SS|Enso}}''' was lengthened in 1955–56, her [[gross register tonnage]] was reduced?
*... that [[Barry Bonds]] was [[Out (baseball)|retired]] with the [[bases loaded]] twice during the '''[[1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game]]'''?
*... that after calling for a [[polar bear]], [[Disneyland]] and [[palm tree]]s to be brought to [[Reykjavik]] in [[Iceland]], [[The Best Party]] won the most seats in the '''[[Reykjavik City Council election, 2010|2010 Reykjavik City Council election]]'''?

===1 June 2010===
*'''''18:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tibet Museum1.jpg|100x100px|The Tibet Museum|alt=An Eastern temple with red stairway leading up to it, against a blue sky with cumulus clouds]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Tibet Museum (Lhasa)|Tibet Museum]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Lhasa]], established in 1999, is the first large-sized modern museum in the [[Tibet Autonomous Region]]?
*... that retired [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishop]] '''[[Alden John Bell]]''' was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see [[Pope John Paul&nbsp;II]]?
*... that in 1851, '''[[Jackey Jackey]]''', a young [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal Australian]], was awarded a specially engraved silver [[breastplate]] for heroic deeds by [[Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy#Governor of New South Wales|the then-Governor]] of [[New South Wales]]?
*... that the battleship '''{{Ship|ARA|Moreno||2}}''' was the subject of multiple disputes between Argentina and the United States?
*... that the '''[[Ancient Forest Alliance]]''', founded in [[British Columbia]] to protect endangered [[old growth forest]]s and ensure [[Sustainability|sustainable]] [[forestry]] jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
*... that 13-year-old '''[[Jordan Romero]]''' recently became the youngest [[Mountaineering|mountaineer]] to reach the summit of [[Mount Everest]]?
*... that [[Paraguayan harp|Paraguayan]] and [[Arpa jarocha|jarocho harp]]ist '''[[Celso Duarte]]''' began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at [[Carnegie Hall]], [[Kennedy Center]] and the [[Getty Center]]?


*'''''12:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Slaget vid Öland Claus Møinichen 1676.jpg|110x100px|Adult Red Warbler, found only in Mexico|alt=Sailing ships battling one another with one on fire.]]
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*... that the warship '''''[[Kronan (ship)|Kronan]]''''' was one of the [[list of world's largest wooden ships|largest ships in the world]] when she foundered and exploded with the loss of 800 men at the '''[[battle of Öland]]''' ''(pictured)'' in 1676?
*... that an [[English Heritage]] investigation found that '''[[Milecastle 9]]''', on [[Hadrian's Wall]], was one of two milecastles damaged by farming?
*... that '''[[Charles Jenkins (basketball)|Charles Jenkins]]''' of [[Hofstra University]] is only the ninth repeat-winner of the [[Haggerty Award]] in its 75-year history?
*... that '''[[Eiliv Austlid]]''' was awarded the [[War Cross (Norway)|War Cross with Sword]] for his command in the rescue of the Norwegian government during [[Operation Weserübung|World War&nbsp;II]], after [[Trygve Lie]] maligned him for it? 
*... that '''[[Franklin Canyon Park]]''' was where the famous hitchhiking scene from ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' and the opening from ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' were filmed?
*... that '''[[Theodor Grotthuss]]''' published the first basically correct concept for the [[Grotthuss mechanism|charge transport]] in an [[electrolyte]] in 1806?
*... that [[Tuskegee Airman]] fighter pilot '''[[Raymond V. Haysbert]]''' became a successful [[African-American]] [[CEO]] after [[World War&nbsp;II]] and later chaired the [[Greater Baltimore Urban League]] until his recent death at age&nbsp;90?
*... that in [[southern France]], people were inflicted with acute [[renal insufficiency]] because they confused '''''[[Amanita ovoidea]]''''' with the poisonous species ''Amanita proxima''?


*'''''06:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:JarEagleMAPDF.JPG|100x100px|Bruñido jar by Wilmot|alt=A large jar by Wilmot decorated with pictures of a bird and flowers, sitting on a table]]
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*... that '''[[Jorge Wilmot]]''''s ceramic works ''(example pictured)'' blend Mexican and international influences?
*... that the three '''[[Erzherzog Karl class battleship|''Erzherzog Karl'' class battleships]]''' – [[SMS Erzherzog Karl|'''SMS ''Erzherzog Karl''''']], [[SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max|'''''Erzherzog Ferdinand Max''''']] and [[SMS Erzherzog Friedrich|'''''Erzherzog Friedrich''''']] – helped quell a mutiny at [[Cattaro]] in 1918?
*... that [[Taylor Hall (ice hockey b. 1991)|Taylor Hall]] became the first [[ice hockey]] player to win the '''[[Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy]]''' after '''[[Ed Chynoweth Trophy|leading]]''' the [[2010 Memorial Cup]] in scoring?
*... that the [[fungus|fungal]] [[Plant pathology|plant pathogen]] '''''[[Taphrina padi]]''''' turns the [[fruit]]s of infected [[Bird Cherry]] trees into distinctive, elongated, [[tongue]]-like structures?
*... that the source of the '''[[Ha Chhu]]''' river in [[Bhutan]] is located to the south of [[Chomo Lhari]] (Mountain of the Goddess)?
*... that '''[[Mikhail Roshchin]]''''s play ''Valentin and Valentina'' was written in 1971 and performed the same year by theatre director '''[[Valery Fokin]]''' in [[Moscow]]?
*... that four separate wrestlers suffered [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Legit|legitimate]] injuries at WWE's '''[[WWE Over the Limit|Over the Limit]]''' [[pay-per-view]]?
*... that '''''[[Eledone moschata]]''''' is an [[octopus]] that smells of [[musk]]?


*'''''00:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Arlington Ladies.jpg|100x100px|Army soldier in dress uniform escorting an Arlington Lady at a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery|alt=Soldier in dress uniform escorting woman at funeral]]
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*... that members of the '''[[Arlington Ladies]]''' ''(pictured)'' attend the funeral of every servicemember buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]?
*... that the [[extinct]] plant genus '''''[[Dillhoffia]]''''' cannot be placed into a [[angiosperm|flowering plant]] family at this time?
*... that '''[[Clarrie Isaacs]]''', one of the founders of the '''[[Aboriginal Provisional Government]]''', travelled to [[Libya]] on what he claimed was a valid '''[[Aboriginal passport]]''' but was denied re-entry to [[Australia]] with it?
*... that '''[[Saint George's Church, Gavril Genovo|Saint George's Church]]''' in [[Gavril Genovo]], northwestern [[Bulgaria]], features vernacular [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] details and "puzzling" archaic decoration?
*... that [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] General '''[[Heliodor Píka]]''' was accused of [[espionage]] and [[high treason]] on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of [[forgery]]"?
*... that possible relatives of the extinct [[Madagascar]] mammal '''''[[Plesiorycteropus]]''''' include [[hedgehog]]s, [[aardvark]]s, and [[hyrax]]es, and its remains have been misidentified as [[rodent]]s and the [[giant aye-aye]]?
*... that Polish aerial photographer '''[[Mariusz Adamski]]''' is known for shooting aircraft from unusual perspectives?
*... that [[Canada|Canadian]] [[paleontologist]] '''[[Scott D. Sampson]]''' hosted the four episode nature documentary series ''[[Dinosaur Planet (TV series)|Dinosaur Planet]]'' for the [[Discovery Channel]] in 2003?