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==Did you know...==


===6 November 2018===
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* ... that Victorian cook '''[[Avis Crocombe]]''' ''(pictured, right)'' prepared "dead man's leg" for the servants' hall at [[Audley End House]]?
* ... that despite being only {{convert|8|mi|km}} long, '''[[Washington State Route 546]]''' is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to [[Interstate 5 in Washington|Interstate 5]] and the [[Canada–United States border|Canadian border]]?
* ... that the name of the [[Theropoda|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 Group|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 (association football)|defender]], [[Ildefons Lima]] is the '''[[List of Andorra international footballers|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 {{convert|800|ft}} from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?

===5 November 2018===
*'''''00:00, 5 November 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Mount Judd (Nuneaton)|Mount Judd]]''' ''(pictured)'' is also known as the "[[Nuneaton]] Nipple"?
* ... that '''[[Jobst Oetzmann]]''' directed the film ''[[Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile|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 (cricketer)|William Robins]]''' carried a [[Military colours, standards and guidons|colour]] of [[King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)|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 (Neil Young song)|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, '''''[[Ledumahadi]]'''''{{'s}} estimated weight of {{Convert|12|tonnes|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 chip]]s in prison?

===4 November 2018===
*'''''00:00, 4 November 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... 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 (musical)|Fanny]]'' in 1955?
* ... that in 1958, '''[[Preben von Magnus]]''' was the first to describe [[monkeypox]] in monkeys?
* ... that the '''[[Wisconsin School (diplomatic history)|Wisconsin School]]''' is a [[school of thought]] that uses economic interpretations to explain much of [[Timeline of United States diplomatic history|American diplomatic history]]?
* ... that [[Association football|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 {{nowrap|War II}} never '''[[List of Germans convicted of war crimes committed in Italy during World War II|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 (American Civil War)|Union]] casualties during the [[American Civil War]]?
* ... that '''[[Women in brewing|women brewsters]]''' were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?

===3 November 2018===
*'''''00:00, 3 November 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the [[Day of the Dead]] was commemorated by '''[[Betsabeé Romero]]''' in Mexico City in 2016 with an installation of 103 [[wiktionary:trajinera|trajinera]]s ''(example pictured)'' decorated as [[Ofrenda|memorial offerings]]?
* ... that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans '''[[Battle of Meligalas|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 [[Dawah|dakwah]] in city buses?
* ... that small female '''[[Octopus tehuelchus|Patagonian octopuses]]''' often choose an empty [[Mollusca|mollusc]] shell to lay their eggs in?
* ... that '''[[Akshay Nanavati]]''' is a [[United States Marine Corps|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 the Israeli government|criticism of Israel]]?
* ... that [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] were heckled for '''[[Apotheosis (film)|not riding in a hot air balloon]]'''?
* ... that '''''[[Praeludium (Waterhouse)|Praeludium]]''''', a 1992 composition by [[Graham Waterhouse]], has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?

===2 November 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Warsaw Ghetto boy|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 [[Mysticism#Medieval_meaning|medieval mysticism]] on the poetry of [[John Donne]]?
* ... that decorative patterns using '''[[isosceles triangle]]s''' date back to the [[Neolithic#Early Neolithic|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 (Rutter)|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 '''[[Sociophonetics|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 [[Biotremology|biotremologist]] '''[[Frej Ossiannilsson]]''' discovered that the [[leafhopper]] inside the tube [[seismic communication|produced faint vibrations]]?

===1 November 2018===
*'''''00:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[satyr]]s''' ''(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 [[Boyars of Wallachia and Moldavia|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 '''[[Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland|a history of emancipation in Germany]]''', beginning with Luther's [[Reformation]]?
* ... that '''[[Donald Liebenberg]]''' experienced 74 minutes of [[Solar eclipse#Terminology for central eclipse|totality]] aboard a [[Concorde]] during the [[solar eclipse of June 30, 1973]]?

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