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===30 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Sydney Eardley-Wilmot]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of four brothers who served as officers in the British military?
* ... that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the '''[[rosy-throated longclaw]]''' (''Macronyx ameliae'') for his wife or his mother?
* ... that horse trainer '''[[Wink Groover]]''' and his [[Tennessee Walking Horse]] Ace's Sensation won a [[Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration#World Grand Championship|World Grand Championship]] at their third attempt?
* ... that '''[[Sairecabur]]''' has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about {{convert|7000|m}}?
* ... that [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] survivor '''[[Bat-Sheva Dagan]]''' writes [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] stories for children that have [[happy ending]]s "in order not to rob them of their faith in mankind"?
* ... that video game '''''[[MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death]]''''' features characters paired with robotic Guardians?
* ... that the chamber orchestra '''[[Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen]]''', founded in 1958, is the only orchestra to regularly perform at the historic [[Villa Hügel]]?
* ... that '''[[Section 127 of the Australian Constitution]]''' mandated that the [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal peoples]] not be counted in "reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth"?
===29 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a speech by [[Egon Bahr]] at the '''[[Evangelische Akademie Tutzing]]''' ''(main building pictured)'' influenced the ''[[Ostpolitik]]'' of chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] toward the German Democratic Republic?
* ... that '''[[Suzuka Mambo]]''' was a Japanese racehorse sired by the American [[1989 Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Sunday Silence]]?
* ... that [[4A Games]] hoped that '''''[[Metro: Last Light]]''''' would "rekindle memories of ''[[Half-Life 2]]''"?
* ... that the '''[[South Sudan National Cup]]''' has been won more times by [[Al-Malakia FC]] than by any other team?
* ... that since the '''[[death and funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej|death]]''' of King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]], ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
* ... that during the [[1895 Counter-revolution in Hawaii|1895 counter-revolution]], '''[[Joseph Heleluhe]]''', private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen [[Liliuokalani]], was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
* ... that the '''[[United States national kabaddi team|United States' team]]''' at the [[2016 Kabaddi World Cup]] consisted entirely of athletes with experience in other sports, but none in [[kabaddi]]?
===28 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 28 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Air-Cobot]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a French research and development project for a wheeled [[cobot|collaborative mobile robot]] able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations?
* ... that '''[[Cybele Records]]''' has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of [[Max Reger]]?
* ... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate '''[[Mark Callahan]]''' once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to [[Spoiler effect|siphon votes]] from the Democratic candidate?
* ... that the '''[[Palace of Cerro Castillo]]''' is the summer residence of the [[President of Chile]]?
* ... that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist '''[[Boris Gregorka]]''' later coached the double gold Olympic medallist [[Miroslav Cerar]]?
* ... that around 1100, '''[[Yaozhou ware]]''' was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by [[Lu You|a poet]] as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
* ... that [[Montreal]] architect '''[[Maxwell M. Kalman]]''' designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Canada's [[Norgate shopping centre|first shopping centre]]?
* ... that '''''[[The Passion of Christ (Strasbourg)|The Passion of Christ]]''''' was moved from one church to another, which saved it from being destroyed by fire in 1904?
===27 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 27 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Göran Fredrik Göransson]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first to successfully implement the [[Bessemer process]] for steel production on an industrial scale?
* ... that the [[Communist Party of Pakistan]] was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 '''[[Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India]]''' in [[Calcutta]]?
* ... that boxer '''[[Issake Dabore]]''' was the first athlete from [[Niger]] to win an Olympic medal?
* ... that the '''[[Sentry program|Sentry]]''' [[anti-ballistic missile]] was packed into a container that looked like an [[LGM-118 Peacekeeper|MX missile]]?
* ... that with '''''[[A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)|A Wrinkle in Time]]''''', [[Ava DuVernay]] is the first [[Person of color|woman of color]] to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million?
* ... that '''[[Martin Gotthard Schneider]]''' wrote the lyrics and music for the hymn ''[[Danke (song)|Danke]]'', which made it to the German charts in 1963?
* ... that per-capita consumption of '''[[Energy in the Faroe Islands|primary energy in the Faroe Islands]]''' is about 60% higher than that in continental [[Denmark]]?
* ... that in the run-up to the '''[[Philadelphia municipal election, 1953|1953 Philadelphia municipal election]]''', a Democratic nominee died and the office he was running for was abolished?<!--- Before altering this hook, see discussion here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cwmhiraeth#Philadelphia_municipal_election.2C_1953] -->
===26 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 26 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[1966 New York City smog|three days of smog in New York City]]''' 50 years ago today increased public awareness of air pollution ''(pictured)'' and led to the passage of the [[Air Quality Act|1967 Air Quality Act]]?
* ... that '''[[W.Z. Ahmed]]'''{{`s}} film ''Roohi'' was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
* ... that "gold thread and iron wire" '''[[Ge ware]]''' has two sets of cracks in the [[ceramic glaze|glaze]], accentuated by staining in different colours?
* ... that in her ''Gloria'', '''[[Hyo-Won Woo]]''' combines elements from [[Korean music]] and Western contemporary composition techniques?
* ... that the '''[[Swaziland national cricket team]]''' was disqualified from the [[2016 ICC Africa Twenty20 Division Two]] after they fielded ineligible players in 2014?
* ... that when '''[[Barbara Berman (politician)|Barbara Berman]]''' and '''[[Mary Keating Croce]]''' took office in 1978, they became the first pair of women to represent a single legislative district in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]?
* ... that quarrying at West End in '''[[Penistone Hill Country Park]]''' once involved using a bar to make the cliff face collapse whilst the workers ran away?
* ... that everyone eligible to receive the '''[[Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991]]''' from [[Latvia]] has already received one?
===25 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a '''[[kronkåsa]]''' ''(pictured)'' was used by the [[Swedish nobility]] as a drinking vessel during the Renaissance?
* ... that '''[[Soledad Alatorre]]''', known for her [[Labour movement|labor activism]] and advocacy of [[civil rights]], previously worked as a model for [[bathing suit]]s?
* ... that after a [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] became a [[Peter III of Russia|Russian emperor]], his [[Catherine the Great|wife]] and [[Paul I of Russia|son]] traded away his ancestral lands in the '''[[Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Maurice Gaffney]]''' was the oldest practising barrister in Ireland when he died aged 100?
* ... that the daily newspaper '''''[[Aachener Zeitung]]''''' began as the first free newspaper published by Germans after World War II?
* ... that the '''[[USS Helianthus (SP-585)|USS ''Helianthus'']]''', built as a private motorboat, went on to serve as a patrol boat for the U.S. Navy, and then for the [[U.S. National Geodetic Survey|U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey]]?
* ... that Conservative Member of Parliament [[Sarah Wollaston]] switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit [[Vote Leave]] group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "'''[[post-truth politics]]'''"?
* ... that while writing '''''[[Here I Am (novel)|Here I Am]]''''', [[Jonathan Safran Foer]] would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
===24 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 24 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Madagascar succulent woodlands]]''' ''(pictured)'' are home to the [[Madame Berthe's mouse lemur|world's smallest primate]]?
* ... that "'''[[Danke (song)|Danke]]'''", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
* ... that '''[[Monique Luiz]]''', star of the famous 1964 political advertisement ''[[Daisy (advertisement)|Daisy]]'', did not see it for herself until 2000?
* ... that the '''[[308th Infantry Regiment (United States)|308th Infantry Regiment ]]''' was the first United States [[National Army (USA)|National Army]] regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
* ... that with a modest force of [[Bedouin]] horsemen, '''[[Shibl al-Dawla Nasr]]''' [[Battle of Azaz (1030)|defeated]] a much larger Byzantine army led by Emperor [[Romanos III Argyros|Romanos III]]?
* ... that events at [[Los Angeles]]' '''[[Fiesta Park]]''' included a reception for President [[William McKinley]], the [[Los Angeles Auto Show]], and [[USC Trojans football]] games?
* ... that the Liberian '''[[Welington Zaza]]''' is the [[List of African junior records in athletics|African junior record holder]] in the men's [[110 metres hurdles]]?
* ... that the '''[[Eider Canal]]''' was first proposed as part of [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|Ducal Holstein]], built under [[Denmark|Danish]] rule, conquered by [[Prussia]], and decommissioned under the [[German Empire]]?
===23 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 23 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Queen Emma of Hawaii]] ''(pictured)'' never knew her father '''[[George Naea|George Naʻea]]''' because he had contracted [[leprosy]]?
* ... that '''[[Dr. J. Butz]]''', founded in 1924, has published sacred music by English composers such as [[Colin Mawby]], [[Christopher Tambling]], and [[Robert W. Jones]] in Germany?
* ... that in 2016, '''[[Rachel Freier]]''' became the first [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic Jewish]] woman to be elected as a civil court judge in the state of [[New York (state)|New York]]?
* ... that [[Mauritius|Mauritian]] boxer '''[[Kennedy St-Pierre]]''' has won two gold medals at the [[African Games]], one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
* ... that '''[[The Vine (bus rapid transit)|The Vine]]''' in Vancouver, Washington, will be the first [[bus rapid transit]] system in the [[Portland metropolitan area]]?
* ... that '''''[[Proceratium petrosum]]''''' is one of two ant species in the genus ''Proceratium'' described from fossil males?
* ... that '''[[Eugen Eckert]]''', who wrote the lyrics of more than a thousand songs in the [[Neues Geistliches Lied]] genre, is the minister for [[Commerzbank-Arena|a sports stadium in Frankfurt]]?
* ... that [[Olearia|daisy bushes]] can be '''[[Olearia tomentosa|downy]]''', '''[[Olearia viscidula|viscid]]''', '''[[Olearia ramulosa|twiggy]]''', or '''[[Olearia decurrens|clammy]]'''?
===22 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 22 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Vaile Mansion]]''' ''(pictured)'', built in 1881 in [[Independence, Missouri]], contains chandeliers originally intended for the [[White House]]?
* ... that when it was released in 2012, '''''[[Cybergeddon (film)|Cybergeddon]]''''' was the most expensive [[web series]] ever made?
* ... that '''[[Jin Chae-seon]]''' was the first female master of [[pansori]], a male-dominated Korean folk opera genre?
* ... that '''''[[Streitraum]]''''', a regular series of panel discussions with [[Carolin Emcke]], has been called "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series"?
* ... that [[Gilberto Gil]] said his [[Grammy Award]] for '''''[[Quanta Live]]''''' was particularly meaningful because the album is a summary of his three decades in music?
* ... that '''[[resist]]s''' can be used in [[resist dyeing|dyeing textiles]], pottery, painting, metalwork, and [[Resist (semiconductor fabrication)|semiconductor fabrication]]?
* ... that '''[[Marc Bassingthwaighte]]''' is a two-time medalist at the [[Namibian National Road Race Championships]]?
* ... that the black-and-white 1923 Western '''''[[Wild Bill Hickok (film)|Wild Bill Hickok]]''''' starring [[William S. Hart|William Hart]] was the first film to depict [[Wyatt Earp]]?
===21 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 21 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[dual graph]]s''' can explain why the halls and walls of many [[maze]]s ''(example pictured)'' form interlocking [[Tree (graph theory)|trees]]?
* ... that the curve of the roof of '''[[Oriam]]''', Scotland's new national sports training centre, was inspired by [[Roberto Carlos]]'s goal that "defied physics"?
* ... that tap dancer '''[[Ayodele Casel]]''' developed her style under the influence of [[salsa music]]?
* ... that '''''[[Burning Rangers]]''''' was among the last five [[Sega Saturn]] games released in America?
* ... that '''[[Alfred Clark (director)|Alfred Clark]]''' pioneered continuity, plot, and special effects in ''[[The Execution of Mary Stuart]]''?
* ... that "'''[[Inspirasi]]'''" was written by [[Faizal Tahir]] as a tribute to [[Siti Nurhaliza]] and her achievements in the [[Music of Malaysia|Malaysian music scene]] for the past 20 years?
* ... that Taiwan's '''[[Danhai Light Rail Transit]]''' cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
* ... that photographer '''[[Sally Bush]]''' bought a [[Baker Motor Vehicle|1909 Baker electric car]] and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
===20 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 20 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Aroup Chatterjee]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of two [[Devil's advocate]]s during the beatification of [[Mother Teresa]] of Calcutta?
* ... that [[University of Sydney]] students might have failed if they had not started studying by the time '''[[Jacaranda, University of Sydney|the jacaranda tree]]''' bloomed?
* ... that [[fencing|fencer]] '''[[Salah Dessouki]]''' also served as the [[Cairo Governorate|Governor of Cairo]]?
* ... that after the mutineer sailors involved in the '''[[Revolt of the Lash]]''' were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
* ... that women first joined Chile's '''[[La Moneda Palace Guard]]''' in 2001?
* ... that the Golden Ball pub in '''[[Bishophill]]''' is owned by a local community cooperative?
* ... that '''[[St John Harmsworth]]''' designed the iconic [[Perrier]] bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
* ... that '''[[cerium]]''' saved the writer [[Primo Levi]]'s life in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]?
===19 November 2016===
*'''''00:22, 19 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Banda people]]''' of [[Central Africa]] carved wooden [[slit drum]]s ''(example pictured)'' in the shape of animals?
* ... that at the age of 23, '''[[Roman Tmetuchl]]''' was placed in the 11th grade at [[George Washington High School (Guam)|George Washington High School]]?
* ... that in the '''[[geography of Somerset]]''', rough ground where lead was once mined is called "gruffy"?
* ... that the [[New Jersey]] black bear '''[[Pedals (bear)|Pedals]]''' walked on his hind legs due to injuries to his front paws?
* ... that the '''[[Warner Estate]]''' provided [[social housing]] in East London for over 110 years?
* ... that '''[[Odile Ahouanwanou]]''' broke the [[List of Beninese records in athletics|Beninese record]] for the [[100 metres hurdles]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that in breeding pairs of the '''[[orange ground thrush]]''', the female consistently weighs more than the male?
* ... that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a '''[[predatory conference]]''' using [[iOS]]'s [[autocomplete]] function and it was accepted within three hours?
===18 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 18 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that composer '''[[Charles E. King]]''' ''(pictured)'' was taught music by Queen [[Liliuokalani]], and at her funeral led a choir in her composition "[[Aloha ʻOe]]" as her [[catafalque]] was carried out of [[Iolani Palace]]?
* ... that during the '''[[West African Ebola virus epidemic]]''' as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?
* ... that the '''[[John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol|7th Marquess of Bristol]]''' once reportedly opened a fridge door by blasting it with a shotgun?
* ... that each larva of the '''[[Hypera nigrirostris|lesser clover leaf weevil]]''' damages three or four clover [[inflorescence]]s?
* ... that [[Jessica Alba]] reprised her role as '''[[Max Guevara]]''' in the video game '''''[[Dark Angel (video game)|Dark Angel]]''''' by voicing the character?
* ... that when the [[Latvia]]n town of '''[[Talsi]]''' became part of the [[Russian Empire]], sixty percent of its population was [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]]?
* ... that 13-year-old [[Togo]]lese swimmer '''[[Adzo Kpossi]]''' was the youngest athlete at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that '''[[Warratyi]]''', the oldest known site of human habitation in inland [[Australia]], was discovered by a man looking for somewhere to go to the toilet?
===17 November 2016===
*'''''00:49, 17 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[SMS Novara (1913)|SMS ''Novara'']]''' ''(pictured)'' was ceded to France as a [[Prize (law)|war prize]] under the terms of the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]?
* ... that '''[[Taslima Akhter]]'''{{`s}} photograph "[[Final Embrace]]" became an iconic image of the [[2013 Savar building collapse|2013 Rana Plaza collapse]]?
* ... that "'''[[Dirgahayu]]'''", by Malaysian artists [[Faizal Tahir]] and [[Siti Nurhaliza]], serves as a theme song for a 100-episode television series?
* ... that at the suggestion of a group of fourth-graders, '''[[Thomas J. Shusted]]''' and [[John A. Rocco]] introduced legislation that made ''[[hadrosaurus|Hadrosaurus foulkii]]'' New Jersey's official [[List of U.S. state dinosaurs|state dinosaur]]?
* ... that a new [[pipe organ|organ]] with 3,370 pipes was built in the Gothic church '''[[Liebfrauen, Frankfurt|Liebfrauen]]''' in Frankfurt am Main in 2008?
* ... that '''[[Moses Bensinger]]''' helped organize the [[United States Bowling Congress|American Bowling Congress]], which standardized the rules of modern [[ten-pin bowling]]?
* ... that the '''[[Katihar Medical College]]''' campus includes a 590-bed general hospital and a branch of the [[State Bank of India]]?
* ... that the '''[[white-backed night heron]]''' is hunted for traditional medicine in Nigeria?
===16 November 2016===
*'''''00:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a hoard of 800 gold coins ''(example pictured)'' of king '''[[Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty)|Govindachandra]]''' was discovered at [[Nanpara]]?
* ... that the hosts of the [[podcast]] '''''[[Chapo Trap House]]''''' popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock [[Stop Trump movement|anti-Donald Trump conservatives]]?
* ... that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of '''[[Kingston, Mississippi]]''', include actors [[William Holden]] and [[Patrick Swayze]]?
* ... that '''[[Women in classical music|women conductors]]''' lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American [[Orchestra|symphony orchestras]]?
* ... that '''[[Jackie Stedall]]''' won the 2013 [[Peter M. Neumann|Neumann Prize]] for the best English-language book on the [[history of mathematics]]?
* ... that the short story "'''[[Black Destroyer]]'''" was the basis for [[A. E. van Vogt]]'s lawsuit against [[20th Century Fox]], as the plot of the movie ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' matched it so closely?
* ... that '''[[Gisèle Rabesahala]]''' was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in [[Madagascar]]?
* ... that the [[Pupa|cocoon]] of a tiny wasp that [[Parasitism|parasitises]] the '''[[Hypera postica|alfalfa weevil]]''' can "jump"?
===15 November 2016===
*'''''00:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[1257 Samalas eruption|1257 eruption of Samalas]]''' ''(caldera pictured)'' was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the [[Little Ice Age]] and famines in Europe?
* ... that '''[[Hugues Fabrice Zango]]''' was [[Burkina Faso at the 2015 Summer Universiade|Burkina Faso's]] only medalist at the [[2015 Summer Universiade]]?
* ... that the '''''[[One Piece Treasure Cruise]]''''' mobile game has been one of the highest grossing titles in Japan and the US?
* ... that the Franciscan '''[[Helmut Schlegel]]''' wrote the lyrics of an [[oratorio]] ''Laudato si{{'}}'', including writings by [[Francis of Assisi]] and [[Pope Francis]], and the [[Magnificat]]?
* ... that the eighth-century [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] '''''[[Painting of the Six Kings]]''''' is badly damaged, partly as a result of [[Alois Musil]]'s attempts to remove it from its site in [[Qasr Amra|Quseir Amra]], Jordan?
* ... that the '''[[fairy gerygone]]''' nests near wasp nests, possibly to keep itself safe from predators?
* ... that the English footballer '''[[Roy Jennings]]''' scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were [[Penalty kick|penalties]]?
* ... that the '''[[Tumbuka people]]'''{{`s}} ''Vimbuza'' tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?
===14 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''''[[Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks]]''''', starring [[Todd McKenney]] ''(pictured [[waltz]]ing with [[Nancye Hayes]])'' in his first non-[[Musical theatre|musical]] role, is the "most successful" play in the [[Ensemble Theatre]]'s 58-year history?
* ... that seeking to challenge both [[Fatah]] and [[Hamas]], '''[[Democratic Alliance List|five left-wing factions united]]''' to jointly contest the [[Palestinian local elections, 2017|2016 Palestinian local elections]], which have since been postponed?
* ... that the auction in 1973 of 50 [[pop art]] works from the collection of '''[[Robert Scull]]''' was viewed by the art establishment as the "[[Nouveau riche|nouveaux riches]] cashing in"?
* ... that the '''[[Güney Waterfall]]''', a [[natural monument]], was reestablished {{convert|50|m|ft|abbr=on}} to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
* ... that the setting of '''''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''''' is heavily based on the city of [[Miami]]?
* ... that '''[[Harry Norwitch]]''' served five terms on [[Philadelphia City Council|Philadelphia's City Council]] but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
* ... that the closest relative of the Caribbean sea slug '''''[[Pleurobranchus areolatus]]''''' is ''[[Pleurobranchus varians]]'' from the central Pacific?
* ... that "eloquent" '''[[Percy Holbrook|Holbrook]]''', "popular" '''[[Robert Alfred Humble|Humble]]''', ex-Congregationalist '''[[Joseph Miller (priest)|Miller]]''', and '''[[Jonas Pilling|Pilling]]''' who feared "plottings", were all vicars of '''[[Church of St Mark, Old Leeds Road|St Mark's]]''', Huddersfield, England?
===13 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Tommy Tucker (squirrel)|Tommy Tucker]]''', a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes ''(pictured)'', became famous during World War II, selling [[war bond]]s and entertaining children?
* ... that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in '''[[Dalry, Edinburgh]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Alastair Storey]]''' ended celebrity chef [[Jamie Oliver]]'s two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
* ... that [[Salar de Coipasa]], [[Salar de Uyuni]] and [[Lake Poopó]] were formerly part of the larger '''[[Lake Minchin]]'''?
* ... that [[Comoros|Comoran]] Olympian '''[[Maoulida Darouèche]]''' has competed in both the [[400 metres hurdles]] and the [[javelin throw]]?
* ... that the [[Tolpuddle Martyrs]] were tried in the Shire Hall at '''[[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León]]''' was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the [[History of the Philippines (1521–1898)|Spanish colonial period]]?
* ... that before she became a famous aviator, [[Amelia Earhart]] was a social worker at '''[[Denison House (Boston)|Denison House]]''' in [[Boston]]?
===12 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Alfred Harmsworth (1837–1889)|Alfred Harmsworth]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the father of two viscounts, one baron, and two baronets?
* ... that the '''[[1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion|1994 bomb explosion]]''' in the [[Imam Reza shrine]] in [[Mashhad]] left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured?
* ... that Burundian '''[[Abraham Niyonkuru]]''' finished fourth in the 10,000{{nbsp}}metres at the [[2005 Jeux de la Francophonie]] despite being only 0.03{{nbsp}}seconds behind the silver medallist?
* ... that the modern Palestinian village of '''[[Beit Qad]]''' is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the [[Books of Kings|Book of Kings]] as the site of a massacre?
* ... that the French Consul to Hawaii '''[[Marie Gabriel Georges Bosseront d'Anglade]]''' accompanied [[Liliuokalani|Queen Liliuokalani]] on her visit to the [[Leprosy|leper]] settlement of Kalaupapa in 1891?
* ... that flowerpots for the [[Ming dynasty|Ming emperors]] were made in official '''[[Jun ware]]'''?
* ... that a 1994 '''[[John F. Gaffney]]''' proposal would have allowed [[Donald Trump]] to own four [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
* ... that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different '''''[[lipi]]'''''?
===11 November 2016===
*'''''01:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Al-Baqi'|al-Baqi cemetery]], former site of the mausoleum of [[The Twelve Imams|four Shi'a Imams]] ''(pictured)'', was '''[[Demolition of al-Baqi|leveled to the ground]]''' by [[Wahhabism|Wahhabis]] in 1806 and in the mid-1920s?
* ... that [[Ralph Nader]] was nominated by the '''[[Ecology Party of Florida]]''' as a presidential candidate in 2008?
* ... that '''[[SMS Custoza|SMS ''Custoza'']]''' was the first [[Austro-Hungarian Navy|Austro-Hungarian]] [[Capital ship|major warship]] to have an iron hull?
* ... that the British [[Long-distance running|long-distance runner]] '''[[Andy Vernon]]''' won silver and bronze at the [[2014 European Athletics Championships]], losing out to [[Mo Farah]] both times?
* ... that tunnel nests of the '''[[rosy bee-eater]]''' become submerged in the rainy season?
* ... that [[Kentucky Circuit Courts|Kentucky family court judge]] '''[[Timothy N. Philpot]]''' says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
* ... that the award-winning [[Cinema of Bulgaria|Bulgarian film]] '''''[[Glory (2016 film)|Glory]]''''' was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
===10 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that nurse '''[[Inès de Bourgoing]]''' ''(pictured)'' was named Honorary Corporal of the [[French Foreign Legion|Foreign Legion]] after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
* ... that athletes from more than 50 countries who had '''[[List of athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics with a prior doping offence|a prior doping offence]]''' were allowed to compete at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that '''[[John J. Horn]]''' supported [[New Jersey]]'s proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
* ... that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the [[critically endangered]] '''''[[Iris cedreti]]''''', endemic to [[Lebanon]]?
* ... that in the '''[[Battle of Kharistan]]''' in 737, the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyads]] caught the [[Turgesh]] ''[[khagan]]'' off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
* ... that the Zimbabwean prophetess '''[[Mai Chaza]]''', who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
* ... that the '''[[Peak Farmland]]''' theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
* ... that '''[[Katsura Hoshino]]''' says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' after falling asleep in her bath?
===9 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 9 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Paul Nahaolelua]]''' ''(pictured)'' was president during the elections of two [[List of monarchs of Hawaii|kings of Hawaii]]?<!--Special occasion hook for November 8-->
* ... that [[Johan Norberg|the author]] of '''''[[Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future]]''''' argues we are living in a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]]?
* ... that '''[[Gertrude Foster Brown]]''' encouraged New York women to exercise their new [[Suffrage|right to vote]] in her 1918 book ''Your Vote and How to Use It''?<!--Special occasion hook for November 8-->
* ... that although the '''[[black grasswren]]''' was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
* ... that '''[[Christiana Willes]]''' is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of [[roundarm bowling]]?
* ... that in 1972, [[Idi Amin]] expelled '''[[Hinduism in Uganda|Hindus and other Asians from Uganda]]''' after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
* ... that [[Māori people|Māori]] tribal leader and baptized Mormon '''[[Mere Mete Whaanga]]''' and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of [[Salt Lake City]] sporting traditional [[Tā moko|facial tattoos]]?
* ... that '''[[Rhodesia at the Olympics|Rhodesian athletes]]''' were permitted to attend their events at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]], but not participate in them?
===8 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 8 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Water bottle flipping|flipping water bottles]]''' ''(pictured)'' has been banned in some U.S. and British schools?
* ... that during the Second World War, '''[[Kenneth Le Couteur]]''' worked at [[Bletchley Park]] on ''[[Lorenz cipher|Tunny]]''?
* ... that the '''[[Suffolk University Political Research Center]]''' included [[mobile phone]]s in its polls for the first time in 2012?
* ... that when queen consort '''[[ʻAnaseini Takipō]]''' and King [[George Tupou II]] did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, [[Sālote Tupou III]], ascended to the throne of [[Tonga]] upon his death?
* ... that '''[[Luscombe Castle]]''' in [[Devon]] has an American Garden developed between 1812 and 1814?
* ... that '''[[Adrian Moss (basketball, born 1988)|Adrian Moss]]''' was named Indiana Mini Mr. Basketball when at high school?
* ... that [[Robert Forward]] invoked [[A. E. van Vogt|van Vogt's]] short story "'''[[Far Centaurus]]'''" when discussing the problem of [[interstellar travel]]?
* ... that '''[[Mary Chubb]]''' was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the [[Egypt Exploration Society]] so she could pay for art school?
===7 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 7 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 2014, '''[[West Horsley Place]]''' ''(pictured)'' was "accidentally" inherited by [[Bamber Gascoigne]]?
* ... that '''[[Peter Reulein]]''' composed the oratorio ''Laudato si‘'' for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in [[Limburg Cathedral]]?<!--Special occasion request for November 6-->
* ... that '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' hosts over two million [[fan fiction|stories]] and artworks by [[fandom|fans of media franchises]]?
* ... that '''[[Ernest Titterton]]''' performed the countdown for the American [[Operation Crossroads]] nuclear tests, and witnessed [[British nuclear tests at Maralinga]] in Australia?
* ... that the Japanese steamship '''''[[Nunobiki Maru]]''''' undertook an [[List of shipwrecks in 1899|ill-fated]] delivery of military supplies from [[Nagasaki]] to the [[Philippines]] in 1899?
* ... that hurdler '''[[Ned Justeen Azemia]]''' was the youngest member of the [[Seychelles at the 2016 Summer Olympics|Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that the '''[[Russian gay propaganda law]]''' has been blamed for an alleged increase in [[Violence against LGBT people|homophobic attacks]]?
* ... that police noted that the '''[[disappearance of Sky Metalwala]]''' five years ago today was "strikingly similar" to an episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Law & Order: SVU]]'' broadcast the night before?
===6 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 6 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the prototype '''[[Rogožarski IK-3]]''' ''(pictured)'' crashed during a test flight when its windscreen detached and half a wing broke off?
* ... that peace activist '''[[Margaret Thorp]]''' was '''[[Conscription disturbance at the Brisbane School of Arts|punched, scratched, and kicked]]''' by women at a pro-[[conscription]] rally?
* ... that in the '''[[1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game|1966 Championship Game]]''', [[1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team|Texas Western]] became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament]] final?
* ... that '''[[Charles Husband]]''' was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the [[Lovell Telescope|world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope]]?
* ... that two arches of a [[Roman bridge]] were found in the basement of the '''[[Mausoleum of Danyal]]''' during renovations?
* ... that the journalist and author '''[[Carolin Emcke]]''' was awarded the [[Peace Prize of the German Book Trade]] in 2016?
* ... that '''[[Horsey Island]]''' in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in [[Arthur Ransome]]'s ''[[Secret Water]]''?
* ... that French physician '''[[Victor Despeignes]]''' thought that [[cancer]] was a parasite which could be killed with [[Radiation therapy|radiation]]?
===5 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 5 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that while '''[[Sydney Robert Elliston]]''' was vicar of '''[[Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall|St Thomas, Killinghall]]''' ''(pictured)'', his fellow clergy appreciated an "improvement in their incomes"?
* ... that [[Nike Wagner]] removed Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] from the program of the festival '''[[Beethovenfest]]'''?
* ... that while working for the [[American Fur Company]], trapper '''[[Warren Angus Ferris]]''' was one of the first people to map and describe [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone]]?
* ... that the '''[[white-eared night heron]]''' had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
* ... that in order to increase his name recognition, [[Lawton Chiles]] walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across [[Florida]] for his '''[[United States Senate election in Florida, 1970|United States Senate campaign in 1970]]'''?
* ... that Australian [[W-League (Australia)|W-League]] association footballer '''[[Gabe Marzano]]''' was appointed to the [[Professional Footballers Australia]] executive committee in May 2016?
* ... that scholars in the field of '''[[Mongolian studies]]''' are often referred to as ''Mongolists''?
* ... that '''[[Jason Graae]]''' had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of ''[[Little Me (musical)|Little Me]]''?
===4 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 4 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that Slovenian gymnast '''[[Anton Malej]]''' ''(pictured)'', a bronze medallist in the [[1928 Summer Olympics]], died after falling from the [[Rings (gymnastics)|rings]] on the first day of competition at the [[1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]?
* ... that [[tsunami]]s build up their height according to '''[[Green's law]]''', as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
* ... that [[harpsichord]]ist '''[[Jean Rondeau (musician)|Jean Rondeau]]''' has been called a classical music "[[sex symbol]]"?
* ... that despite having been formed in 1932, the '''[[Lesotho Football Association]]''' did not gain [[FIFA]] membership until 1964?
* ... that '''[[Stanley Silverstein]]''' won an American Shoe Designer Award in 1963 for a [[ballet flat|ballerina flat]] he created using "leftover scraps of leather"?
* ... that the '''[[Schizaphis graminum|greenbug]]''' is the [[Vector (epidemiology)|vector]] of several plant viruses?
* ... that journalist [[Stephen Kurkjian]] claims murdered Boston mobster '''[[Robert Donati]]''' masterminded the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft|world's largest art theft]] to get [[Vincent M. Ferrara|his boss]] out of jail?
* ... that '''''[[Captain America: Civil War]]''''' was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where [[Captain America]] would fight other heroes who had been [[Zombie|zombified]]?
===3 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 3 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Robert Swinhoe]] called the '''[[Taiwan whistling thrush]]''' ''(pictured)'' the "Formosan Cavern-bird"?
* ... that the '''[[Mapenduma hostage crisis]]''' lasted for more than four months?
* ... that the 1987 Czechoslovak film '''''[[Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker]]''''' is based on a fairy tale by [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Communist]] writer [[Jan Drda]]?
* ... that the head of ''[[hajduk]]'' commander '''[[Bajo Pivljanin]]''' was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
* ... that in 2013, the production of '''[[Oxford Blue (cheese)|Oxford Blue]]''' cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste [[whey]] per month, which was processed using an [[Anaerobic digestion|anaerobic digester]]?
* ... that the [[Bioarchaeology|bioarchaeologist]] '''[[Charlotte Roberts]]''' once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
* ... that '''[[Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon (Jerusalem)|Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon]]''' of [[Jerusalem]] was the fourth [[yeshiva]] established on three continents by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman?
* ... that '''[[Juanita Musson|Juanita's Galley]]''' was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
===2 November 2016===
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* ... that the [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] mixed chamber choir '''[[OREYA]]''' ''(pictured)'' won a special prize for the best interpretation of a religious choral work at the 14th [[International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf]]?
* ... that the 1973 Indian film '''''[[Kaadu (1973 Kannada film)|Kaadu]]''''', which won the [[National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film|National Award for Second Best Feature Film]], was based on the novel of the same name by [[Srikrishna Alanahalli]]?
* ... that '''[[John F. Good]]'''{{`s}} role in the [[Abscam]] sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film ''[[American Hustle]]'', though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
* ... that '''[[FUNCINPEC]]''' started as a [[Cambodia]]n resistance movement and later became a political party?
* ... that the Burmese court treatise ''[[Zabu Kun-Cha]]'' is believed to have been written by Chief Minister '''[[Min Yaza of Wun Zin|Min Yaza]]''' of [[Ava Kingdom|Ava]]?
* ... that the ant '''''[[Pachycondyla oligocenica]]''''' is one of three ''Pachycondyla'' species with described fossil males?
* ... that '''[[Lidiane Lopes]]''' holds the [[List of Cape Verdean records in athletics|Cape Verdean record]] in the women's 100-metre sprint?
* ... that the artwork of the West African '''[[Senufo people]]''' inspired [[Pablo Picasso]]?
===1 November 2016===
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* ... that early in the '''[[Timeline of pterosaur research|history of pterosaur research]]''', these flying [[Mesozoic]] [[reptile]]s were variously mistaken for [[aquatic animal]]s, [[bat]]s, [[bird]]s, and even the spawn of [[Satan]] ''(pictured)''?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that [[Vlad the Impaler|Vlad Dracula]] forced '''[[Dan III of Wallachia]]''' to dig his own grave?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the ant '''''[[Pachycondyla aberrans]]''''' was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the ghost of '''[[Henry Trigg (testator)|Henry Trigg]]''' is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the French punished '''[[Binao|a queen]]''' by sending her to [[Andoany|Hellville]]?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that before he became mayor of [[Charleston, West Virginia]], '''[[Danny Jones (politician)|Danny Jones]]''' worked as a gravedigger?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the '''[[racket-tailed roller]]''' makes a racket as it rockets?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the "'''[[Marshall Heights, Washington, D.C.|Gates of Hell]]'''" could be found in [[Washington, D.C.]]?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
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===30 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Sydney Eardley-Wilmot]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of four brothers who served as officers in the British military?
* ... that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the '''[[rosy-throated longclaw]]''' (''Macronyx ameliae'') for his wife or his mother?
* ... that horse trainer '''[[Wink Groover]]''' and his [[Tennessee Walking Horse]] Ace's Sensation won a [[Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration#World Grand Championship|World Grand Championship]] at their third attempt?
* ... that '''[[Sairecabur]]''' has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about {{convert|7000|m}}?
* ... that [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] survivor '''[[Bat-Sheva Dagan]]''' writes [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] stories for children that have [[happy ending]]s "in order not to rob them of their faith in mankind"?
* ... that video game '''''[[MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death]]''''' features characters paired with robotic Guardians?
* ... that the chamber orchestra '''[[Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen]]''', founded in 1958, is the only orchestra to regularly perform at the historic [[Villa Hügel]]?
* ... that '''[[Section 127 of the Australian Constitution]]''' mandated that the [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal peoples]] not be counted in "reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth"?
===29 November 2016===
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* ... that a speech by [[Egon Bahr]] at the '''[[Evangelische Akademie Tutzing]]''' ''(main building pictured)'' influenced the ''[[Ostpolitik]]'' of chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] toward the German Democratic Republic?
* ... that '''[[Suzuka Mambo]]''' was a Japanese racehorse sired by the American [[1989 Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Sunday Silence]]?
* ... that [[4A Games]] hoped that '''''[[Metro: Last Light]]''''' would "rekindle memories of ''[[Half-Life 2]]''"?
* ... that the '''[[South Sudan National Cup]]''' has been won more times by [[Al-Malakia FC]] than by any other team?
* ... that since the '''[[death and funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej|death]]''' of King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]], ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
* ... that during the [[1895 Counter-revolution in Hawaii|1895 counter-revolution]], '''[[Joseph Heleluhe]]''', private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen [[Liliuokalani]], was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
* ... that the '''[[United States national kabaddi team|United States' team]]''' at the [[2016 Kabaddi World Cup]] consisted entirely of athletes with experience in other sports, but none in [[kabaddi]]?
===28 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Air-Cobot]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a French research and development project for a wheeled [[cobot|collaborative mobile robot]] able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations?
* ... that '''[[Cybele Records]]''' has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of [[Max Reger]]?
* ... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate '''[[Mark Callahan]]''' once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to [[Spoiler effect|siphon votes]] from the Democratic candidate?
* ... that the '''[[Palace of Cerro Castillo]]''' is the summer residence of the [[President of Chile]]?
* ... that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist '''[[Boris Gregorka]]''' later coached the double gold Olympic medallist [[Miroslav Cerar]]?
* ... that around 1100, '''[[Yaozhou ware]]''' was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by [[Lu You|a poet]] as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
* ... that [[Montreal]] architect '''[[Maxwell M. Kalman]]''' designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Canada's [[Norgate shopping centre|first shopping centre]]?
* ... that '''''[[The Passion of Christ (Strasbourg)|The Passion of Christ]]''''' was moved from one church to another, which saved it from being destroyed by fire in 1904?
===27 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Göran Fredrik Göransson]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first to successfully implement the [[Bessemer process]] for steel production on an industrial scale?
* ... that the [[Communist Party of Pakistan]] was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 '''[[Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India]]''' in [[Calcutta]]?
* ... that boxer '''[[Issake Dabore]]''' was the first athlete from [[Niger]] to win an Olympic medal?
* ... that the '''[[Sentry program|Sentry]]''' [[anti-ballistic missile]] was packed into a container that looked like an [[LGM-118 Peacekeeper|MX missile]]?
* ... that with '''''[[A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)|A Wrinkle in Time]]''''', [[Ava DuVernay]] is the first [[Person of color|woman of color]] to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million?
* ... that '''[[Martin Gotthard Schneider]]''' wrote the lyrics and music for the hymn ''[[Danke (song)|Danke]]'', which made it to the German charts in 1963?
* ... that per-capita consumption of '''[[Energy in the Faroe Islands|primary energy in the Faroe Islands]]''' is about 60% higher than that in continental [[Denmark]]?
* ... that in the run-up to the '''[[Philadelphia municipal election, 1953|1953 Philadelphia municipal election]]''', a Democratic nominee died and the office he was running for was abolished?<!--- Before altering this hook, see discussion here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cwmhiraeth#Philadelphia_municipal_election.2C_1953] -->
===26 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[1966 New York City smog|three days of smog in New York City]]''' 50 years ago today increased public awareness of air pollution ''(pictured)'' and led to the passage of the [[Air Quality Act|1967 Air Quality Act]]?
* ... that '''[[W.Z. Ahmed]]'''{{`s}} film ''Roohi'' was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
* ... that "gold thread and iron wire" '''[[Ge ware]]''' has two sets of cracks in the [[ceramic glaze|glaze]], accentuated by staining in different colours?
* ... that in her ''Gloria'', '''[[Hyo-Won Woo]]''' combines elements from [[Korean music]] and Western contemporary composition techniques?
* ... that the '''[[Swaziland national cricket team]]''' was disqualified from the [[2016 ICC Africa Twenty20 Division Two]] after they fielded ineligible players in 2014?
* ... that when '''[[Barbara Berman (politician)|Barbara Berman]]''' and '''[[Mary Keating Croce]]''' took office in 1978, they became the first pair of women to represent a single legislative district in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]?
* ... that quarrying at West End in '''[[Penistone Hill Country Park]]''' once involved using a bar to make the cliff face collapse whilst the workers ran away?
* ... that everyone eligible to receive the '''[[Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991]]''' from [[Latvia]] has already received one?
===25 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a '''[[kronkåsa]]''' ''(pictured)'' was used by the [[Swedish nobility]] as a drinking vessel during the Renaissance?
* ... that '''[[Soledad Alatorre]]''', known for her [[Labour movement|labor activism]] and advocacy of [[civil rights]], previously worked as a model for [[bathing suit]]s?
* ... that after a [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] became a [[Peter III of Russia|Russian emperor]], his [[Catherine the Great|wife]] and [[Paul I of Russia|son]] traded away his ancestral lands in the '''[[Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Maurice Gaffney]]''' was the oldest practising barrister in Ireland when he died aged 100?
* ... that the daily newspaper '''''[[Aachener Zeitung]]''''' began as the first free newspaper published by Germans after World War II?
* ... that the '''[[USS Helianthus (SP-585)|USS ''Helianthus'']]''', built as a private motorboat, went on to serve as a patrol boat for the U.S. Navy, and then for the [[U.S. National Geodetic Survey|U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey]]?
* ... that Conservative Member of Parliament [[Sarah Wollaston]] switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit [[Vote Leave]] group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "'''[[post-truth politics]]'''"?
* ... that while writing '''''[[Here I Am (novel)|Here I Am]]''''', [[Jonathan Safran Foer]] would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
===24 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 24 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Madagascar succulent woodlands]]''' ''(pictured)'' are home to the [[Madame Berthe's mouse lemur|world's smallest primate]]?
* ... that "'''[[Danke (song)|Danke]]'''", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
* ... that '''[[Monique Luiz]]''', star of the famous 1964 political advertisement ''[[Daisy (advertisement)|Daisy]]'', did not see it for herself until 2000?
* ... that the '''[[308th Infantry Regiment (United States)|308th Infantry Regiment ]]''' was the first United States [[National Army (USA)|National Army]] regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
* ... that with a modest force of [[Bedouin]] horsemen, '''[[Shibl al-Dawla Nasr]]''' [[Battle of Azaz (1030)|defeated]] a much larger Byzantine army led by Emperor [[Romanos III Argyros|Romanos III]]?
* ... that events at [[Los Angeles]]' '''[[Fiesta Park]]''' included a reception for President [[William McKinley]], the [[Los Angeles Auto Show]], and [[USC Trojans football]] games?
* ... that the Liberian '''[[Welington Zaza]]''' is the [[List of African junior records in athletics|African junior record holder]] in the men's [[110 metres hurdles]]?
* ... that the '''[[Eider Canal]]''' was first proposed as part of [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|Ducal Holstein]], built under [[Denmark|Danish]] rule, conquered by [[Prussia]], and decommissioned under the [[German Empire]]?
===23 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 23 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Queen Emma of Hawaii]] ''(pictured)'' never knew her father '''[[George Naea|George Naʻea]]''' because he had contracted [[leprosy]]?
* ... that '''[[Dr. J. Butz]]''', founded in 1924, has published sacred music by English composers such as [[Colin Mawby]], [[Christopher Tambling]], and [[Robert W. Jones]] in Germany?
* ... that in 2016, '''[[Rachel Freier]]''' became the first [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic Jewish]] woman to be elected as a civil court judge in the state of [[New York (state)|New York]]?
* ... that [[Mauritius|Mauritian]] boxer '''[[Kennedy St-Pierre]]''' has won two gold medals at the [[African Games]], one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
* ... that '''[[The Vine (bus rapid transit)|The Vine]]''' in Vancouver, Washington, will be the first [[bus rapid transit]] system in the [[Portland metropolitan area]]?
* ... that '''''[[Proceratium petrosum]]''''' is one of two ant species in the genus ''Proceratium'' described from fossil males?
* ... that '''[[Eugen Eckert]]''', who wrote the lyrics of more than a thousand songs in the [[Neues Geistliches Lied]] genre, is the minister for [[Commerzbank-Arena|a sports stadium in Frankfurt]]?
* ... that [[Olearia|daisy bushes]] can be '''[[Olearia tomentosa|downy]]''', '''[[Olearia viscidula|viscid]]''', '''[[Olearia ramulosa|twiggy]]''', or '''[[Olearia decurrens|clammy]]'''?
===22 November 2016===
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* ... that the '''[[Vaile Mansion]]''' ''(pictured)'', built in 1881 in [[Independence, Missouri]], contains chandeliers originally intended for the [[White House]]?
* ... that when it was released in 2012, '''''[[Cybergeddon (film)|Cybergeddon]]''''' was the most expensive [[web series]] ever made?
* ... that '''[[Jin Chae-seon]]''' was the first female master of [[pansori]], a male-dominated Korean folk opera genre?
* ... that '''''[[Streitraum]]''''', a regular series of panel discussions with [[Carolin Emcke]], has been called "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series"?
* ... that [[Gilberto Gil]] said his [[Grammy Award]] for '''''[[Quanta Live]]''''' was particularly meaningful because the album is a summary of his three decades in music?
* ... that '''[[resist]]s''' can be used in [[resist dyeing|dyeing textiles]], pottery, painting, metalwork, and [[Resist (semiconductor fabrication)|semiconductor fabrication]]?
* ... that '''[[Marc Bassingthwaighte]]''' is a two-time medalist at the [[Namibian National Road Race Championships]]?
* ... that the black-and-white 1923 Western '''''[[Wild Bill Hickok (film)|Wild Bill Hickok]]''''' starring [[William S. Hart|William Hart]] was the first film to depict [[Wyatt Earp]]?
===21 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 21 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[dual graph]]s''' can explain why the halls and walls of many [[maze]]s ''(example pictured)'' form interlocking [[Tree (graph theory)|trees]]?
* ... that the curve of the roof of '''[[Oriam]]''', Scotland's new national sports training centre, was inspired by [[Roberto Carlos]]'s goal that "defied physics"?
* ... that tap dancer '''[[Ayodele Casel]]''' developed her style under the influence of [[salsa music]]?
* ... that '''''[[Burning Rangers]]''''' was among the last five [[Sega Saturn]] games released in America?
* ... that '''[[Alfred Clark (director)|Alfred Clark]]''' pioneered continuity, plot, and special effects in ''[[The Execution of Mary Stuart]]''?
* ... that "'''[[Inspirasi]]'''" was written by [[Faizal Tahir]] as a tribute to [[Siti Nurhaliza]] and her achievements in the [[Music of Malaysia|Malaysian music scene]] for the past 20 years?
* ... that Taiwan's '''[[Danhai Light Rail Transit]]''' cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
* ... that photographer '''[[Sally Bush]]''' bought a [[Baker Motor Vehicle|1909 Baker electric car]] and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
===20 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 20 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Aroup Chatterjee]]''' ''(pictured)'' was one of two [[Devil's advocate]]s during the beatification of [[Mother Teresa]] of Calcutta?
* ... that [[University of Sydney]] students might have failed if they had not started studying by the time '''[[Jacaranda, University of Sydney|the jacaranda tree]]''' bloomed?
* ... that [[fencing|fencer]] '''[[Salah Dessouki]]''' also served as the [[Cairo Governorate|Governor of Cairo]]?
* ... that after the mutineer sailors involved in the '''[[Revolt of the Lash]]''' were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
* ... that women first joined Chile's '''[[La Moneda Palace Guard]]''' in 2001?
* ... that the Golden Ball pub in '''[[Bishophill]]''' is owned by a local community cooperative?
* ... that '''[[St John Harmsworth]]''' designed the iconic [[Perrier]] bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
* ... that '''[[cerium]]''' saved the writer [[Primo Levi]]'s life in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]?
===19 November 2016===
*'''''00:22, 19 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Banda people]]''' of [[Central Africa]] carved wooden [[slit drum]]s ''(example pictured)'' in the shape of animals?
* ... that at the age of 23, '''[[Roman Tmetuchl]]''' was placed in the 11th grade at [[George Washington High School (Guam)|George Washington High School]]?
* ... that in the '''[[geography of Somerset]]''', rough ground where lead was once mined is called "gruffy"?
* ... that the [[New Jersey]] black bear '''[[Pedals (bear)|Pedals]]''' walked on his hind legs due to injuries to his front paws?
* ... that the '''[[Warner Estate]]''' provided [[social housing]] in East London for over 110 years?
* ... that '''[[Odile Ahouanwanou]]''' broke the [[List of Beninese records in athletics|Beninese record]] for the [[100 metres hurdles]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that in breeding pairs of the '''[[orange ground thrush]]''', the female consistently weighs more than the male?
* ... that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a '''[[predatory conference]]''' using [[iOS]]'s [[autocomplete]] function and it was accepted within three hours?
===18 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 18 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that composer '''[[Charles E. King]]''' ''(pictured)'' was taught music by Queen [[Liliuokalani]], and at her funeral led a choir in her composition "[[Aloha ʻOe]]" as her [[catafalque]] was carried out of [[Iolani Palace]]?
* ... that during the '''[[West African Ebola virus epidemic]]''' as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?
* ... that the '''[[John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol|7th Marquess of Bristol]]''' once reportedly opened a fridge door by blasting it with a shotgun?
* ... that each larva of the '''[[Hypera nigrirostris|lesser clover leaf weevil]]''' damages three or four clover [[inflorescence]]s?
* ... that [[Jessica Alba]] reprised her role as '''[[Max Guevara]]''' in the video game '''''[[Dark Angel (video game)|Dark Angel]]''''' by voicing the character?
* ... that when the [[Latvia]]n town of '''[[Talsi]]''' became part of the [[Russian Empire]], sixty percent of its population was [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]]?
* ... that 13-year-old [[Togo]]lese swimmer '''[[Adzo Kpossi]]''' was the youngest athlete at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that '''[[Warratyi]]''', the oldest known site of human habitation in inland [[Australia]], was discovered by a man looking for somewhere to go to the toilet?
===17 November 2016===
*'''''00:49, 17 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[SMS Novara (1913)|SMS ''Novara'']]''' ''(pictured)'' was ceded to France as a [[Prize (law)|war prize]] under the terms of the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]?
* ... that '''[[Taslima Akhter]]'''{{`s}} photograph "[[Final Embrace]]" became an iconic image of the [[2013 Savar building collapse|2013 Rana Plaza collapse]]?
* ... that "'''[[Dirgahayu]]'''", by Malaysian artists [[Faizal Tahir]] and [[Siti Nurhaliza]], serves as a theme song for a 100-episode television series?
* ... that at the suggestion of a group of fourth-graders, '''[[Thomas J. Shusted]]''' and [[John A. Rocco]] introduced legislation that made ''[[hadrosaurus|Hadrosaurus foulkii]]'' New Jersey's official [[List of U.S. state dinosaurs|state dinosaur]]?
* ... that a new [[pipe organ|organ]] with 3,370 pipes was built in the Gothic church '''[[Liebfrauen, Frankfurt|Liebfrauen]]''' in Frankfurt am Main in 2008?
* ... that '''[[Moses Bensinger]]''' helped organize the [[United States Bowling Congress|American Bowling Congress]], which standardized the rules of modern [[ten-pin bowling]]?
* ... that the '''[[Katihar Medical College]]''' campus includes a 590-bed general hospital and a branch of the [[State Bank of India]]?
* ... that the '''[[white-backed night heron]]''' is hunted for traditional medicine in Nigeria?
===16 November 2016===
*'''''00:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a hoard of 800 gold coins ''(example pictured)'' of king '''[[Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty)|Govindachandra]]''' was discovered at [[Nanpara]]?
* ... that the hosts of the [[podcast]] '''''[[Chapo Trap House]]''''' popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock [[Stop Trump movement|anti-Donald Trump conservatives]]?
* ... that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of '''[[Kingston, Mississippi]]''', include actors [[William Holden]] and [[Patrick Swayze]]?
* ... that '''[[Women in classical music|women conductors]]''' lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American [[Orchestra|symphony orchestras]]?
* ... that '''[[Jackie Stedall]]''' won the 2013 [[Peter M. Neumann|Neumann Prize]] for the best English-language book on the [[history of mathematics]]?
* ... that the short story "'''[[Black Destroyer]]'''" was the basis for [[A. E. van Vogt]]'s lawsuit against [[20th Century Fox]], as the plot of the movie ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' matched it so closely?
* ... that '''[[Gisèle Rabesahala]]''' was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in [[Madagascar]]?
* ... that the [[Pupa|cocoon]] of a tiny wasp that [[Parasitism|parasitises]] the '''[[Hypera postica|alfalfa weevil]]''' can "jump"?
===15 November 2016===
*'''''00:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[1257 Samalas eruption|1257 eruption of Samalas]]''' ''(caldera pictured)'' was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the [[Little Ice Age]] and famines in Europe?
* ... that '''[[Hugues Fabrice Zango]]''' was [[Burkina Faso at the 2015 Summer Universiade|Burkina Faso's]] only medalist at the [[2015 Summer Universiade]]?
* ... that the '''''[[One Piece Treasure Cruise]]''''' mobile game has been one of the highest grossing titles in Japan and the US?
* ... that the Franciscan '''[[Helmut Schlegel]]''' wrote the lyrics of an [[oratorio]] ''Laudato si{{'}}'', including writings by [[Francis of Assisi]] and [[Pope Francis]], and the [[Magnificat]]?
* ... that the eighth-century [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] '''''[[Painting of the Six Kings]]''''' is badly damaged, partly as a result of [[Alois Musil]]'s attempts to remove it from its site in [[Qasr Amra|Quseir Amra]], Jordan?
* ... that the '''[[fairy gerygone]]''' nests near wasp nests, possibly to keep itself safe from predators?
* ... that the English footballer '''[[Roy Jennings]]''' scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were [[Penalty kick|penalties]]?
* ... that the '''[[Tumbuka people]]'''{{`s}} ''Vimbuza'' tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?
===14 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''''[[Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks]]''''', starring [[Todd McKenney]] ''(pictured [[waltz]]ing with [[Nancye Hayes]])'' in his first non-[[Musical theatre|musical]] role, is the "most successful" play in the [[Ensemble Theatre]]'s 58-year history?
* ... that seeking to challenge both [[Fatah]] and [[Hamas]], '''[[Democratic Alliance List|five left-wing factions united]]''' to jointly contest the [[Palestinian local elections, 2017|2016 Palestinian local elections]], which have since been postponed?
* ... that the auction in 1973 of 50 [[pop art]] works from the collection of '''[[Robert Scull]]''' was viewed by the art establishment as the "[[Nouveau riche|nouveaux riches]] cashing in"?
* ... that the '''[[Güney Waterfall]]''', a [[natural monument]], was reestablished {{convert|50|m|ft|abbr=on}} to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
* ... that the setting of '''''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''''' is heavily based on the city of [[Miami]]?
* ... that '''[[Harry Norwitch]]''' served five terms on [[Philadelphia City Council|Philadelphia's City Council]] but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
* ... that the closest relative of the Caribbean sea slug '''''[[Pleurobranchus areolatus]]''''' is ''[[Pleurobranchus varians]]'' from the central Pacific?
* ... that "eloquent" '''[[Percy Holbrook|Holbrook]]''', "popular" '''[[Robert Alfred Humble|Humble]]''', ex-Congregationalist '''[[Joseph Miller (priest)|Miller]]''', and '''[[Jonas Pilling|Pilling]]''' who feared "plottings", were all vicars of '''[[Church of St Mark, Old Leeds Road|St Mark's]]''', Huddersfield, England?
===13 November 2016===
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* ... that '''[[Tommy Tucker (squirrel)|Tommy Tucker]]''', a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes ''(pictured)'', became famous during World War II, selling [[war bond]]s and entertaining children?
* ... that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in '''[[Dalry, Edinburgh]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Alastair Storey]]''' ended celebrity chef [[Jamie Oliver]]'s two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
* ... that [[Salar de Coipasa]], [[Salar de Uyuni]] and [[Lake Poopó]] were formerly part of the larger '''[[Lake Minchin]]'''?
* ... that [[Comoros|Comoran]] Olympian '''[[Maoulida Darouèche]]''' has competed in both the [[400 metres hurdles]] and the [[javelin throw]]?
* ... that the [[Tolpuddle Martyrs]] were tried in the Shire Hall at '''[[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León]]''' was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the [[History of the Philippines (1521–1898)|Spanish colonial period]]?
* ... that before she became a famous aviator, [[Amelia Earhart]] was a social worker at '''[[Denison House (Boston)|Denison House]]''' in [[Boston]]?
===12 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Alfred Harmsworth (1837–1889)|Alfred Harmsworth]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the father of two viscounts, one baron, and two baronets?
* ... that the '''[[1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion|1994 bomb explosion]]''' in the [[Imam Reza shrine]] in [[Mashhad]] left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured?
* ... that Burundian '''[[Abraham Niyonkuru]]''' finished fourth in the 10,000{{nbsp}}metres at the [[2005 Jeux de la Francophonie]] despite being only 0.03{{nbsp}}seconds behind the silver medallist?
* ... that the modern Palestinian village of '''[[Beit Qad]]''' is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the [[Books of Kings|Book of Kings]] as the site of a massacre?
* ... that the French Consul to Hawaii '''[[Marie Gabriel Georges Bosseront d'Anglade]]''' accompanied [[Liliuokalani|Queen Liliuokalani]] on her visit to the [[Leprosy|leper]] settlement of Kalaupapa in 1891?
* ... that flowerpots for the [[Ming dynasty|Ming emperors]] were made in official '''[[Jun ware]]'''?
* ... that a 1994 '''[[John F. Gaffney]]''' proposal would have allowed [[Donald Trump]] to own four [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
* ... that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different '''''[[lipi]]'''''?
===11 November 2016===
*'''''01:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Al-Baqi'|al-Baqi cemetery]], former site of the mausoleum of [[The Twelve Imams|four Shi'a Imams]] ''(pictured)'', was '''[[Demolition of al-Baqi|leveled to the ground]]''' by [[Wahhabism|Wahhabis]] in 1806 and in the mid-1920s?
* ... that [[Ralph Nader]] was nominated by the '''[[Ecology Party of Florida]]''' as a presidential candidate in 2008?
* ... that '''[[SMS Custoza|SMS ''Custoza'']]''' was the first [[Austro-Hungarian Navy|Austro-Hungarian]] [[Capital ship|major warship]] to have an iron hull?
* ... that the British [[Long-distance running|long-distance runner]] '''[[Andy Vernon]]''' won silver and bronze at the [[2014 European Athletics Championships]], losing out to [[Mo Farah]] both times?
* ... that tunnel nests of the '''[[rosy bee-eater]]''' become submerged in the rainy season?
* ... that [[Kentucky Circuit Courts|Kentucky family court judge]] '''[[Timothy N. Philpot]]''' says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
* ... that the award-winning [[Cinema of Bulgaria|Bulgarian film]] '''''[[Glory (2016 film)|Glory]]''''' was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
===10 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that nurse '''[[Inès de Bourgoing]]''' ''(pictured)'' was named Honorary Corporal of the [[French Foreign Legion|Foreign Legion]] after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
* ... that athletes from more than 50 countries who had '''[[List of athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics with a prior doping offence|a prior doping offence]]''' were allowed to compete at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that '''[[John J. Horn]]''' supported [[New Jersey]]'s proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
* ... that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the [[critically endangered]] '''''[[Iris cedreti]]''''', endemic to [[Lebanon]]?
* ... that in the '''[[Battle of Kharistan]]''' in 737, the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyads]] caught the [[Turgesh]] ''[[khagan]]'' off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
* ... that the Zimbabwean prophetess '''[[Mai Chaza]]''', who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
* ... that the '''[[Peak Farmland]]''' theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
* ... that '''[[Katsura Hoshino]]''' says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' after falling asleep in her bath?
===9 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 9 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Paul Nahaolelua]]''' ''(pictured)'' was president during the elections of two [[List of monarchs of Hawaii|kings of Hawaii]]?<!--Special occasion hook for November 8-->
* ... that [[Johan Norberg|the author]] of '''''[[Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future]]''''' argues we are living in a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]]?
* ... that '''[[Gertrude Foster Brown]]''' encouraged New York women to exercise their new [[Suffrage|right to vote]] in her 1918 book ''Your Vote and How to Use It''?<!--Special occasion hook for November 8-->
* ... that although the '''[[black grasswren]]''' was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
* ... that '''[[Christiana Willes]]''' is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of [[roundarm bowling]]?
* ... that in 1972, [[Idi Amin]] expelled '''[[Hinduism in Uganda|Hindus and other Asians from Uganda]]''' after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
* ... that [[Māori people|Māori]] tribal leader and baptized Mormon '''[[Mere Mete Whaanga]]''' and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of [[Salt Lake City]] sporting traditional [[Tā moko|facial tattoos]]?
* ... that '''[[Rhodesia at the Olympics|Rhodesian athletes]]''' were permitted to attend their events at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]], but not participate in them?
===8 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 8 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Water bottle flipping|flipping water bottles]]''' ''(pictured)'' has been banned in some U.S. and British schools?
* ... that during the Second World War, '''[[Kenneth Le Couteur]]''' worked at [[Bletchley Park]] on ''[[Lorenz cipher|Tunny]]''?
* ... that the '''[[Suffolk University Political Research Center]]''' included [[mobile phone]]s in its polls for the first time in 2012?
* ... that when queen consort '''[[ʻAnaseini Takipō]]''' and King [[George Tupou II]] did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, [[Sālote Tupou III]], ascended to the throne of [[Tonga]] upon his death?
* ... that '''[[Luscombe Castle]]''' in [[Devon]] has an American Garden developed between 1812 and 1814?
* ... that '''[[Adrian Moss (basketball, born 1988)|Adrian Moss]]''' was named Indiana Mini Mr. Basketball when at high school?
* ... that [[Robert Forward]] invoked [[A. E. van Vogt|van Vogt's]] short story "'''[[Far Centaurus]]'''" when discussing the problem of [[interstellar travel]]?
* ... that '''[[Mary Chubb]]''' was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the [[Egypt Exploration Society]] so she could pay for art school?
===7 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 7 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 2014, '''[[West Horsley Place]]''' ''(pictured)'' was "accidentally" inherited by [[Bamber Gascoigne]]?
* ... that '''[[Peter Reulein]]''' composed the oratorio ''Laudato si‘'' for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in [[Limburg Cathedral]]?<!--Special occasion request for November 6-->
* ... that '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' hosts over two million [[fan fiction|stories]] and artworks by [[fandom|fans of media franchises]]?
* ... that '''[[Ernest Titterton]]''' performed the countdown for the American [[Operation Crossroads]] nuclear tests, and witnessed [[British nuclear tests at Maralinga]] in Australia?
* ... that the Japanese steamship '''''[[Nunobiki Maru]]''''' undertook an [[List of shipwrecks in 1899|ill-fated]] delivery of military supplies from [[Nagasaki]] to the [[Philippines]] in 1899?
* ... that hurdler '''[[Ned Justeen Azemia]]''' was the youngest member of the [[Seychelles at the 2016 Summer Olympics|Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics]]?
* ... that the '''[[Russian gay propaganda law]]''' has been blamed for an alleged increase in [[Violence against LGBT people|homophobic attacks]]?
* ... that police noted that the '''[[disappearance of Sky Metalwala]]''' five years ago today was "strikingly similar" to an episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Law & Order: SVU]]'' broadcast the night before?
===6 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 6 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the prototype '''[[Rogožarski IK-3]]''' ''(pictured)'' crashed during a test flight when its windscreen detached and half a wing broke off?
* ... that peace activist '''[[Margaret Thorp]]''' was '''[[Conscription disturbance at the Brisbane School of Arts|punched, scratched, and kicked]]''' by women at a pro-[[conscription]] rally?
* ... that in the '''[[1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game|1966 Championship Game]]''', [[1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team|Texas Western]] became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament]] final?
* ... that '''[[Charles Husband]]''' was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the [[Lovell Telescope|world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope]]?
* ... that two arches of a [[Roman bridge]] were found in the basement of the '''[[Mausoleum of Danyal]]''' during renovations?
* ... that the journalist and author '''[[Carolin Emcke]]''' was awarded the [[Peace Prize of the German Book Trade]] in 2016?
* ... that '''[[Horsey Island]]''' in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in [[Arthur Ransome]]'s ''[[Secret Water]]''?
* ... that French physician '''[[Victor Despeignes]]''' thought that [[cancer]] was a parasite which could be killed with [[Radiation therapy|radiation]]?
===5 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 5 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that while '''[[Sydney Robert Elliston]]''' was vicar of '''[[Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall|St Thomas, Killinghall]]''' ''(pictured)'', his fellow clergy appreciated an "improvement in their incomes"?
* ... that [[Nike Wagner]] removed Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] from the program of the festival '''[[Beethovenfest]]'''?
* ... that while working for the [[American Fur Company]], trapper '''[[Warren Angus Ferris]]''' was one of the first people to map and describe [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone]]?
* ... that the '''[[white-eared night heron]]''' had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
* ... that in order to increase his name recognition, [[Lawton Chiles]] walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across [[Florida]] for his '''[[United States Senate election in Florida, 1970|United States Senate campaign in 1970]]'''?
* ... that Australian [[W-League (Australia)|W-League]] association footballer '''[[Gabe Marzano]]''' was appointed to the [[Professional Footballers Australia]] executive committee in May 2016?
* ... that scholars in the field of '''[[Mongolian studies]]''' are often referred to as ''Mongolists''?
* ... that '''[[Jason Graae]]''' had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of ''[[Little Me (musical)|Little Me]]''?
===4 November 2016===
*'''''00:00, 4 November 2016 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that Slovenian gymnast '''[[Anton Malej]]''' ''(pictured)'', a bronze medallist in the [[1928 Summer Olympics]], died after falling from the [[Rings (gymnastics)|rings]] on the first day of competition at the [[1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]?
* ... that [[tsunami]]s build up their height according to '''[[Green's law]]''', as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
* ... that [[harpsichord]]ist '''[[Jean Rondeau (musician)|Jean Rondeau]]''' has been called a classical music "[[sex symbol]]"?
* ... that despite having been formed in 1932, the '''[[Lesotho Football Association]]''' did not gain [[FIFA]] membership until 1964?
* ... that '''[[Stanley Silverstein]]''' won an American Shoe Designer Award in 1963 for a [[ballet flat|ballerina flat]] he created using "leftover scraps of leather"?
* ... that the '''[[Schizaphis graminum|greenbug]]''' is the [[Vector (epidemiology)|vector]] of several plant viruses?
* ... that journalist [[Stephen Kurkjian]] claims murdered Boston mobster '''[[Robert Donati]]''' masterminded the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft|world's largest art theft]] to get [[Vincent M. Ferrara|his boss]] out of jail?
* ... that '''''[[Captain America: Civil War]]''''' was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where [[Captain America]] would fight other heroes who had been [[Zombie|zombified]]?
===3 November 2016===
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* ... that [[Robert Swinhoe]] called the '''[[Taiwan whistling thrush]]''' ''(pictured)'' the "Formosan Cavern-bird"?
* ... that the '''[[Mapenduma hostage crisis]]''' lasted for more than four months?
* ... that the 1987 Czechoslovak film '''''[[Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker]]''''' is based on a fairy tale by [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Communist]] writer [[Jan Drda]]?
* ... that the head of ''[[hajduk]]'' commander '''[[Bajo Pivljanin]]''' was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
* ... that in 2013, the production of '''[[Oxford Blue (cheese)|Oxford Blue]]''' cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste [[whey]] per month, which was processed using an [[Anaerobic digestion|anaerobic digester]]?
* ... that the [[Bioarchaeology|bioarchaeologist]] '''[[Charlotte Roberts]]''' once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
* ... that '''[[Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon (Jerusalem)|Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon]]''' of [[Jerusalem]] was the fourth [[yeshiva]] established on three continents by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman?
* ... that '''[[Juanita Musson|Juanita's Galley]]''' was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
===2 November 2016===
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* ... that the [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] mixed chamber choir '''[[OREYA]]''' ''(pictured)'' won a special prize for the best interpretation of a religious choral work at the 14th [[International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf]]?
* ... that the 1973 Indian film '''''[[Kaadu (1973 Kannada film)|Kaadu]]''''', which won the [[National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film|National Award for Second Best Feature Film]], was based on the novel of the same name by [[Srikrishna Alanahalli]]?
* ... that '''[[John F. Good]]'''{{`s}} role in the [[Abscam]] sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film ''[[American Hustle]]'', though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
* ... that '''[[FUNCINPEC]]''' started as a [[Cambodia]]n resistance movement and later became a political party?
* ... that the Burmese court treatise ''[[Zabu Kun-Cha]]'' is believed to have been written by Chief Minister '''[[Min Yaza of Wun Zin|Min Yaza]]''' of [[Ava Kingdom|Ava]]?
* ... that the ant '''''[[Pachycondyla oligocenica]]''''' is one of three ''Pachycondyla'' species with described fossil males?
* ... that '''[[Lidiane Lopes]]''' holds the [[List of Cape Verdean records in athletics|Cape Verdean record]] in the women's 100-metre sprint?
* ... that the artwork of the West African '''[[Senufo people]]''' inspired [[Pablo Picasso]]?
===1 November 2016===
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* ... that early in the '''[[Timeline of pterosaur research|history of pterosaur research]]''', these flying [[Mesozoic]] [[reptile]]s were variously mistaken for [[aquatic animal]]s, [[bat]]s, [[bird]]s, and even the spawn of [[Satan]] ''(pictured)''?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that [[Vlad the Impaler|Vlad Dracula]] forced '''[[Dan III of Wallachia]]''' to dig his own grave?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the ant '''''[[Pachycondyla aberrans]]''''' was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the ghost of '''[[Henry Trigg (testator)|Henry Trigg]]''' is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the French punished '''[[Binao|a queen]]''' by sending her to [[Andoany|Hellville]]?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that before he became mayor of [[Charleston, West Virginia]], '''[[Danny Jones (politician)|Danny Jones]]''' worked as a gravedigger?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the '''[[racket-tailed roller]]''' makes a racket as it rockets?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
* ... that the "'''[[Marshall Heights, Washington, D.C.|Gates of Hell]]'''" could be found in [[Washington, D.C.]]?<!--special occasion hook for Halloween-->
