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6 November 2018

• 00:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that Victorian cook Avis Crocombe (pictured, right) prepared "dead man's leg" for the servants' hall at Audley End House?
• ... that despite being only 8 miles (13 km) long, Washington State Route 546 is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to Interstate 5 and the Canadian border?
• ... that the name of the theropod dinosaur Cristatusaurus means "crested reptile", in reference to a thin sagittal crest located on top of its snout?
• ... that Greg Fitzgerald, the CEO of Bovis Homes, started his career in construction as a tea boy?
• ... that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia?
• ... that despite playing as a defender, Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team?
• ... that the complete Psalm 131 and the first verse of Psalm 133 in Hebrew comprise the text of the last movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein?
• ... that Chicago alderman Dorsey Crowe survived falling 800 feet (240 m) from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?

5 November 2018

• 00:00, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that Mount Judd (pictured) is also known as the "Nuneaton Nipple"?
• ... that Jobst Oetzmann directed the film The Loneliness of the Crocodiles, presented at international film festivals, and the award-winning 484th episode of the police crime drama Tatort?
• ... that Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport, once China's largest airport, was destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
• ... that in 1931, William Robins carried a colour of Barrell's Regiment in a ceremony to unite it with that of Clan Stewart of Appin, their adversaries at the 1746 Battle of Culloden?
• ... that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar-playing on Neil Young's "Danger Bird" to be the best he had ever heard?
• ... that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials?
• ... that during its time 200 million years ago, LedumahadiTemplate:'s estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
• ... that Mexican drug lord Martín Arzola Ortega complained about the increase in price of potato chips in prison?

4 November 2018

• 00:00, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (pictured) in Munich, a royal theatre for operettas in the 19th century, presented the German premiere of Harold Rome's musical Fanny in 1955?
• ... that in 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to describe monkeypox in monkeys?
• ... that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history?
• ... that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in an international fixture?
• ... that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
• ... that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music?
• ... that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War?
• ... that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?

3 November 2018

• 00:00, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that the Day of the Dead was commemorated by Betsabeé Romero in Mexico City in 2016 with an installation of 103 trajineras (example pictured) decorated as memorial offerings?
• ... that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 400 to 2,500 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas, Greece?
• ... that Oded Muhammad Danial, as the deputy mayor of Bandung, Indonesia, established a program for dakwah in city buses?
• ... that small female Patagonian octopuses often choose an empty mollusc shell to lay their eggs in?
• ... that Akshay Nanavati is a US Marine Corps veteran who overcame drug abuse and alcoholism to publish a book endorsed by the Dalai Lama?
• ... that the inter-governmental Working Definition of Antisemitism has generated controversy over its inclusion of examples of criticism of Israel?
• ... that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heckled for not riding in a hot air balloon?
• ... that Praeludium, a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse, has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?

2 November 2018

• 00:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that this photograph (pictured) was taken to glorify the SS men who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but helped convict them of murder?
• ... that Mary Paton Ramsay argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne?
• ... that decorative patterns using isosceles triangles date back to the Early Neolithic?
• ... that the Indonesian actor Adipati Dolken adopted his stage name from the owner of the villa where he stayed on vacation in Puncak?
• ... that a reviewer came to like John Rutter's anthem O clap your hands better, many years after he first found the jollity of its beginning "a bit relentless"?
• ... that Carl J. Seiberlich was the first naval aviator qualified to land airships, airplanes, and helicopters on an aircraft carrier?
• ... that a sociophonetic study found that young boys lower the pitch of their voice even before puberty to seem more masculine?
• ... that by pushing a glass tube into his ear, pioneering biotremologist Frej Ossiannilsson discovered that the leafhopper inside the tube produced faint vibrations?

1 November 2018

• 00:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• ... that satyrs (example pictured) are male nature spirits in Greek mythology known for their mischievous and bawdy behavior?
• ... that the citizens of Târgoviște, Romania, put a jinx on boyar Emanoil Băleanu, which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth?
• ... that The Hexer, the first attempt to portray The Witcher universe in film, was "crushed by the reviewers and laughed out by fans", and has since been described as "the film we all want to forget"?
• ... that the sponge Oscarella lobularis can multiply by forming drips and bubbles?
• ... that between 1933 and 1936, Max Troll betrayed hundreds of fellow communists to the Bavarian Political Police, a forerunner of the Gestapo?
• ... that the rock band XTC were a key influence on Britpop and later power pop acts?
• ... that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote a history of emancipation in Germany, beginning with Luther's Reformation?
• ... that Donald Liebenberg experienced 74 minutes of totality aboard a Concorde during the solar eclipse of June 30, 1973?