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• 01:38, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Eurasian beaver with her kit

• ... that beavers (examples pictured) in the Czech Republic built dams that saved the government US$1.2 million?
• ... that Terraria was released earlier than planned because a beta version of the game was leaked to the public?
• ... that although Nora Helmer was subject to extensive controversy upon her 1879 debut, she is now considered a focal point in analysis of gender roles?
• ... that US general Tommy Franks reportedly did not have time to become an expert on the Danish Air Force?
• ... that Tribuna da Imprensa was shut down in 2001 after losing a lawsuit over an article that referred to a judge as "PC Salomão"?
• ... that Javanese rebel leader Diponegoro partly blamed his sexual infidelity for his defeat at the Battle of Gawok?
• ... that basketball player Barry Leibowitz, despite being drafted by the New York Knicks and playing in the ABA, chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea, hummus, and tahini?
• ... that the filmmakers of 100 Litres of Gold brewed 20 litres of sahti at the Finnish embassy in Rome for its premiere?
• ... that after being ousted by the Southern Transitional Council, the governor of the Socotra Archipelago fled to Oman and continued to govern through WhatsApp?

• 03:38, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Roman baths (Amman)

• ... that two headless white marble statues found in Amman's Roman baths (pictured) in 2020 were carved from stone quarried in Greece?
• ... that Holy Cross Church in Kentucky was built on land donated by the namesake of a brand of whiskey?
• ... that Kanailal Sarkar, the opposition candidate for mayor of Calcutta in 1963, had been jailed during the 1930 protest movement against British rule in India?
• ... that Canadian football player Pieter Vanden Bos was traded from the Roughriders to the Rough Riders?
• ... that workers in European lace workshops and schools chanted catchy, often gruesome rhymes?
• ... that the tenure of Wallis and Futuna's longest-serving senator, Soséfo Makapé Papilio, ended when he was found dead in a car submerged in the sea?
• ... that velvet worms had an ancient relative with two pairs of antennae?
• ... that both athletes for American Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics represented the territory because their relatives were born there?
• ... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the women's world gurning title 28 times?

• 04:23, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Cover of the sheet music for Burlesque

• ... that Burlesque (sheet music pictured) was a hit play of the 1927–28 Broadway season that was marked by its "depiction of seedy glamour and jazzy lingo"?
• ... that the themes of Somuk's artwork range from the bombing of his island during World War II to the origin of trees and plants?
• ... that a sprinter and a judoka representing Kiribati at the 2024 Summer Olympics were the youngest participants in their respective sports at the games?
• ... that Joe Biden ran for president twice before being elected in 2020?
• ... that Baabda residents collectively purchased the Seraglio of Baabda for 1,000 gold Ottoman liras in the late 19th century to gift to the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate government?
• ... that Herman Brown's estate and most of the proceeds from the sale of Brown & Root were donated after his death to his charitable foundation, which has given more than $2 billion in grants in Texas?
• ... that more than a quarter of the population of Germany is of migration background?
• ... that Sammy Powers was the only member of the original 1919 Green Bay Packers team who was not a local player?
• ... that Laurence Sterne was told to burn all copies of his pamphlet that depicts his patron's rival with a toilet on his head?

• 00:00, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Maida (second from right) with Roxy Music

• ... that Sal Maida (pictured) may not have a Wikipedia page?
• ... that the United States of America met a mixed reception?
• ... that The Avengers attempted to assassinate Alfonso XIII, King of Spain?
• ... that Barack Obama was a horse and Kamala was an elephant?
• ... that bliss could be found in California?
• ... that Batman had a hipster-proof fence in 2018?
• ... that a 1989 science show featured an unusually long signal delay?
• ... that Jackie Chan and the Mario games inspired hundreds of beavers?

• 00:00, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Schafer at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival

• ... that aged 17, Hunter Schafer (pictured) was a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against an act preventing trans people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity?
• ... that players on the Laos national baseball team helped construct the country's first baseball stadium in 2019?
• ... that accountant Dan Busby studied with a minor-league umpire in hopes of becoming one himself?
• ... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
• ... that while filming a music video for her debut album at a motel, Underscores had the police called on her by the motel staff because they thought she was shooting a pornographic film?
• ... that the family drama film Little Red Sweet revolves around red bean soup, as red beans symbolize "longing for family" in Chinese culture?
• ... that the author of If It's You, I Might Try Falling in Love made the main characters unfamiliar with each other so that she could draw all sorts of scenarios between them?
• ... that singer-songwriter SZA wore a hijab as a child, but stopped wearing it due to Islamophobia after 9/11?
• ... that in an effort to reclaim "the most offensive word in the English language" as aspirational, some people describe being "powerful in an unapologetic and feminine manner" as "serving cunt"?