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===31 March 2017===
*'''''02:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that Danish artist '''[[Lucie Ingemann]]''' ''(pictured)'', known for her large [[altarpiece]]s depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?<!--Special occasion hook for March Women's History Month-->
* ... that myriad recipes for '''[[corn chowder]]''' began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the ''Boston Cook Book'' in 1884?
* ... that '''[[Lucius Caesennius Sospes]]''' probably received the ''[[cognomen]]'' ''Sospes'' ("safe and sound") from an event in his childhood?
* ... that adult '''[[Aulacophora|pumpkin beetles]]''' feed on the foliage of [[Cucurbitaceae|cucurbits]], sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
* ... that Egyptologist '''[[Caroline Ransom Williams]]''' supervised the reception and installation of the [[Tomb of Perneb]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]?<!--Special occasion hook for March Women's History Month-->
* ... that [[Richard B. Wright]] was nominated for the [[Governor General's Awards]] and the [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]] for '''''[[The Age of Longing]]''''' (1995), but eventually won both for '''''[[Clara Callan]]''''' (2001)?
*... that [[Jackie Evancho]] is set to become the youngest performer ever at [[Carlyle Hotel#Entertainment and dining|Café Carlyle]] when she performs songs from her new album '''''[[Two Hearts (Jackie Evancho album)|Two Hearts]]''''' in April?
===30 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Priyanka Chopra]] ''(pictured)'' played twelve different characters, one from each [[Astrological sign|zodiac sign]], in the film '''''[[What's Your Raashee?]]'''''
* ... that '''[[Ron Hackenberger]]''' is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 [[Studebaker]]s?
* ... that the '''[[Sierra de las Quijadas National Park]]''' contains a ''[[Lagerstätte]]''-type [[fossil]] site, particularly famous for its [[pterosaur]]s?
* ... that the publication of '''[[Earl Mazo]]'''{{`s}} series of exposés on [[election fraud]] in the [[United States presidential election, 1960|1960 United States Presidential Election]] was stopped following the intervention of [[Richard Nixon]]?
* ... that the soprano '''[[Leonore Kirschstein]]''' appeared as Alice Ford, with [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] as [[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]?<!--Special occasion hook for 29 March-->
* ... that President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the '''[[Bonfils Memorial Theatre]]''' in [[Denver]]?
* ... that '''[[Joaquín Vargas Gómez]]''' opened a restaurant in a retired [[Canadair North Star|North Star DC-4]] parked near the [[Mexico City International Airport]]?
* ... that use of the code phrase "'''[[Operation London Bridge|London Bridge is down]]'''" will signal the death of [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]?
===29 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Samuel Noble Monument]]''' ''(pictured)'' honors the founder of [[Anniston, Alabama]]?
* ... that '''[[Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton]]''' used liquid [[methane]] experimentally to power a bus?
* ... that the '''[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]''' attacked the [[Dum Dum Airfield]] in 1949?
* ... that in Mozart's early '''[[Piano Concerto No. 6 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto in B-flat major]]''', two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
* ... that [[warning sign]]s and rotating [[shift work]] are forms of '''[[Administrative controls|administrative hazard controls]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Spencer Weisz]]''' was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under [[basketball]] competition of the [[2013 Maccabiah Games]]?
* ... that the '''[[Ceriops australis|yellow mangrove]]''' is very similar to the [[Ceriops tagal|Indian mangrove]], but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
* ... that '''[[Ken Vining]]''' was acquired by the [[Chicago White Sox]] as part of the [[White Flag Trade]]?
===28 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that when it was revalued at $600{{nbsp}}million in 2015, New York City's '''[[Trump Tower]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the most expensive property owned by [[Donald Trump]]?
* ... that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the '''[[Almone]]''' on March 27?<!--Special occasion hook for March 27-->
* ... that '''[[Rosel H. Hyde]]''' was the first chairman of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
* ... that the DVD release of '''''[[Final Destination 3]]''''' has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an [[interactive movie]], allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
* ... that, in 1525, [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] '''[[Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain|ordered the conversion of his Muslim subjects]]''' in the [[Crown of Aragon|lands of Aragon]], despite having sworn an oath not to do so?
* ... that sociologist '''[[James D. Wright]]''' co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
* ... that the historic characters in '''''[[Françoise de Rimini]]''''', the last opera by [[Ambroise Thomas]], include not only [[Francesca da Rimini]], but also [[Dante]] and [[Virgil]]?
* ... that the English inventor '''[[Paul Rapsey Hodge]]''' built the first steam [[fire engine]] in the United States?
===27 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the developers of the video game '''''[[Wipeout 2048]]''''' speculated that they influenced design elements of the [[PlayStation Vita]] console ''(pictured)'', such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
* ... that Captain [[James Cook]] thought the now-extinct '''[[Tahitian Dog]]''' of the [[Society Islands]] tasted like English lamb?
* ... that the population of '''[[Marysville, Washington]]''', grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
* ... that '''[[Mel Olson]]''' commissioned music from [[John Rutter]] for his choirs in [[Omaha, Nebraska]], and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
* ... that the mythological events of the '''''[[kuni-yuzuri]]''''' may be rooted in real historic events?
*... that despite being severely wounded in the [[American Civil War]] in 1864, '''[[Armistead Burwell (judge)|Armistead Burwell]]''' became licensed to practice law five years later?
* ... that '''[[King John's Hill]]''', near [[Alton, Hampshire]], is topped by an unusually small Iron Age [[hillfort]], and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of [[John, King of England|King John]]?
* ... that '''[[Mr. Trash Wheel]]''' removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's [[Inner Harbor]] in one day?
===26 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 26 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 2015, '''[[Neri Oxman]]'''{{`s}} architecture group and MIT's Glass Lab built the first [[3D printer]] for optically transparent glass ''(pictured)''?
* ... that an [[autonomous underwater vehicle]] deployed by the '''[[MV Havila Harmony|MV ''Havila Harmony'']]''' during the [[search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]] discovered a shipwreck?
* ... that American diplomat '''[[Herbert Reiner Jr.]]''' played a key role in capturing [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s assassin [[Nathuram Godse]] in 1948?
* ... that when the '''[[Beethoven Orchester Bonn]]''' was founded as a professional orchestra in [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s hometown in 1907, [[Richard Strauss]] conducted his own works?
* ... that the '''[[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version)|Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship]]''' was one of at least 22 [[NWA World Tag Team Championship]]s that existed between 1949 and 1991?
* ... that pastor brothers '''[[John Blair (pastor)|John Blair]]''' and '''[[Samuel Blair (pastor)|Samuel Blair]]''' both received their theological education at the [[Log College]]?
* ... that during the [[Trunajaya rebellion]], rebels overran [[Mataram Sultanate|Mataram]]'s royal court at '''[[Plered]]''' and took at least 300,000 [[Spanish real|reals]] from the treasury?
* ... that '''[[Chris Bertish]]''' is the first person to complete a [[Standup paddleboarding|stand-up paddle board]] crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a {{convert|7,400|km|mi|abbr=on|adj=on}}, 93-day journey that put him into ''[[Guinness World Records|The Guiness Book of World Records]]''?
===25 March 2017===
*'''''00:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that this August, an all-woman crew plans to circumnavigate the globe on the [[Indian Navy]]'s second ocean-going sailboat, '''[[INSV Tarini|INSV ''Tarini'']]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that '''[[Zeynab Begum]]''' was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's [[Safavid dynasty]]?
* ... that [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery]] is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in '''[[Binsted]]'''?
* ... that the American [[contralto]] '''[[Margarethe Bence]]''' appeared as [[The Marriage of Figaro|Marcellina]] at the [[Salzburg Festival]], as [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Erda]] in [[Bayreuth Festival|Bayreuth]], and in a premiere at the [[Schwetzingen Festival]]?
* ... that the extinct '''[[Polynesian Dog]]''' never became [[Feral animal|feral]] because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
* ... that '''[[Robert Lyster Thornton]]''' returned to [[University of California, Berkeley |Berkeley]] in 1942 to assist with the development of the [[calutron]]?
* ... that the '''[[spotted imperial pigeon]]'''{{`s}} [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''carola'' is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]]?
* ... that '''[[Edward Hutchinson Synge]]''' described a theory for a [[near-field scanning optical microscope]] in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?
===24 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Luis Miguel]] hinted that the title for his 1999 album '''''[[Amarte Es un Placer (album)|Amarte Es un Placer]]''''' (''Loving You Is a Pleasure'') was based on his relationship at the time with [[Mariah Carey]] ''(pictured)''?
* ... that '''[[K. B. Sainis]]''' is the Indian representative to the [[United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation]]?
* ... that male '''[[Xylosandrus compactus|black twig borers]]''' normally mate with their sisters?
* ... that '''[[Izydor Borowski]]''' was born in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] but later rose to the rank of general in [[Qajar dynasty|Qajar Iran]]?
* ... that [[Arthur Mailey]]'s best [[Test cricket|Test]] bowling figures of 9 [[Wickets taken|wickets]] for 121 [[run (cricket)|runs]] has been the '''[[List of Australia Test cricket records|Australian cricket record for 96 years]]'''?
* ... that the opera '''''[[Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen]]''''' (''Murderer, Hope of Women'') was based on a play by [[Oskar Kokoschka|an expressionist artist]] and was performed with stage set and choreography by [[Oskar Schlemmer|a Bauhaus artist]]?
* ... that '''[[John Blair, Sr.|John Blair]]''', who served four times as acting governor of the [[Colony of Virginia]], resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
* ... that '''[[banana pasta]]''' is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
===23 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[bear]]s''' are classified as carnivores, but most are [[Omnivore|omnivorous]] and the [[Giant panda|panda]] ''(pictured)'' is almost entirely vegetarian?
* ... that mezzo-soprano '''[[Tanja Ariane Baumgartner]]''' has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's [[Penthesilea (opera)|Penthesilea]], and [[Cassandra|Cassandre]] in ''[[Les Troyens]]''?
* ... that American [[folkloristics|folklorist]] '''[[J. Mason Brewer]]''' broke the [[Racial segregation|color barrier]] at the [[Driskill Hotel]] when he was inducted into the [[Texas Institute of Letters]]?
* ... that the '''[[blob sculpin]]''' is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
* ... that '''[[field goal (rugby)|field goals]]''' in [[rugby union]], which were worth the same number of points as [[try|tries]], were abolished in 1905?
* ... that Indonesian Muslim cleric '''[[Hasyim Muzadi]]''' said that the [[September 11 attacks]] were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
* ... that '''[[Abraham Lincoln's hearse|Abraham Lincoln's "immense" hearse]]''' was escorted by 160,000 people as it was drawn through New York City?
* ... that classical scholar '''[[Miriam T. Griffin]]''' believes that the Roman emperor [[Nero]] was hounded by fear, panic, and [[persecutory delusion]]s at the end of his reign?
===22 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 22 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the [[South African National Defence Force]] initially used the '''[[South African Defence Force Ensign]]''' ''(pictured)'', which contained the former flag of South Africa, despite the adoption of a new national flag?<!-- Special occasion hook for March 21st -->
* ... that convicted murderer '''[[David Martin Long]]''' was on life support two days before he was executed?
* ... that [[Sébastien Bourdais]] won the '''[[2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg]]''' after starting in last place?
* ... that '''[[Y. D. Sharma]]''' established a [[genomic library]] of ''[[Plasmodium vivax]]'', a [[protozoa]]n parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
* ... that the title of [[Edna O'Brien]]'s book, '''''[[The Little Red Chairs]]''''', refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of [[Radovan Karadžić]]?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Dave Amer]]''' played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
* ... that '''[[Guillotière Cemetery]]''' in [[Lyon]], France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
* ... that the '''[[Sacramento Valley Development Association]]''' built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World’s Fair]]?<!--Second bear hook for amusement-->
===21 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Rest on the Flight into Egypt]]''' is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example ''(pictured)'' only dates to about 1379?
* ... that '''[[Narinder Kumar Mehra]]''' identified that a subtype of the serotype [[HLA-DR2]] made humans susceptible to diseases such as [[leprosy]] and [[tuberculosis]]?
* ... that the 17th-century German hymn "'''[[Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan]]'''" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
* ... that [[Canadian Football League]] player '''[[Randy Ambrosie]]''' helped oversee the league's [[Canadian Football League in the United States|expansion into the United States]]?
* ... that despite the loss of [[Trunajaya]]'s rebel court at the '''[[Battle of Surabaya (1677)|Battle of Surabaya]]''', his forces '''[[Fall of Plered|captured and sacked]]''' the [[Mataram Sultanate|Mataram]] royal court one month later?
* ... that '''[[Chris Cate]]''' is the first Asian American to serve as a [[San Diego City Council]] member in decades?
* ... that a [[protostar]] in the '''[[Sh2-297]]''' nebula is driving an [[bipolar outflow|outflow]] of gas more massive than the Sun?
* ... that suffragist '''[[Jane Maria Strachey]]''' was born on a ship off the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in 1840?
===20 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 20 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Licancabur]]''' volcano ''(pictured)'' was venerated by the [[Atacama people|Atacamenos]]?
* ... that the first female British professor of Greek, '''[[Dorothy Tarrant]]''', analysed [[Plato]]'s style to conclude that he did not write the [[Hippias Major|Socratic dialogue on beauty]]?
* ... that the release of '''''[[Wipeout HD]]''''' was delayed for a few months because it had failed [[epilepsy]] [[Harding test|tests]]?
* ... that '''[[Yu Zigao]]'''{{`s}} expedition against the Dutch on [[Penghu|Penghu Island]] was responsible for their [[Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan|colonization of Taiwan]]?
* ... that the 2015 film '''''[[Ringan (film)|Ringan]]''''', set against the backdrop of [[farmers' suicides in India]], won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi]]?
* ... that Christian ethicist '''[[Henlee Hulix Barnette]]''' was investigated by the FBI after meeting [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and marching with [[Martin Luther King]]?
* ... that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a [[Wild boar|boar]] cult within the prehistoric '''[[Chanctonbury Ring]]''' [[hillfort]]?
* ... that in 2016, [[association football|footballer]] '''[[Dries Mertens]]''' became the first player to score seven goals in two matches in [[Serie A]] since [[Antonio Valentín Angelillo]] (1958)?
===19 March 2017===
*'''''00:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Bryant McIntosh]]''' ''(pictured)'' holds the single-season and career [[assist (basketball)|assist]] records for [[Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball]]?
* ... that '''[[Blewburton Hill]]''' in Oxfordshire features unusual [[lynchet]]s of unknown age and function?
* ... that civil rights activist '''[[Theodora Lacey]]''' helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]], becoming the first town in the United States to vote for [[School integration in the United States|school integration]]?
* ... that the '''[[Peñol de Cerquín]]''', a [[Lenca people|Lenca]] fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish ''conquistadores'' for months?
* ... that '''[[James Sullivan (Medal of Honor)|Peter Van Hoesen]]''', an [[American Civil War]] deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a [[Medal of Honor]]-worthy deed at [[Fort Fisher]] in 1864 for which he got no credit?
* ... that when [[Siegfried Wagner]] wrote the libretto for his opera '''''[[An allem ist Hütchen schuld!]]''''', he used themes from many fairy tales?
* ... that '''[[Annora Brown]]''' was commissioned to paint 200 [[Alberta]]n wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
* ... that the 2014 [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexation of Crimea]] by "[[Little green men (Ukrainian crisis)|little green men]]" was typical of a long history of '''[[Russian military deception]]''' dating back to the [[Battle of Kulikovo]] in 1380?
===18 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in earlier paintings of a '''''[[sacra conversazione]]''''' ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking ''(example pictured)''?
* ... that the planned '''[[Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail]]''' suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016?
* ... that '''[[Liza Ferschtman]]''' used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the ''[[Rosary Sonatas]]''?
* ... that [[Roz Chast]]'s graphic memoir '''''[[Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?]]''''', about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 ''New York Times'' Bestseller in 2014?
* ... that [[Mike Watt]] chose the Italian band name '''[[Il Sogno del Marinaio]]''' in honor of his mother's Italian heritage and father's maritime service?
* ... that '''[[Susanna Elm]]'''{{'}}s book ''Virgins of God'' draws on little-known sources such as the ''Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem''?
* ... that proper use of [[engineering controls]] should [[Contamination control|prevent contaminants]] from being excessively deposited on '''[[sticky mat]]s''' at a laboratory's exits?
* ... that '''[[George W. Hooker]]''' captured a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troop detachment, consisting of 116 men and their colonel, all by himself?
*'''''00:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that according to their [[martyrology|martyrdom account]], '''[[Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta]]''' ''(fresco pictured)'' went to comfort [[John and Paul]], only to become buried next to them?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Richard Alston (gridiron football)|Richard Alston]]''' both gained and lost a starting role with the [[Edmonton Eskimos]] due to dropped passes?
* ... that the most effective way to [[Hierarchy of hazard controls|control a hazard]] is to '''[[Hazard elimination|eliminate it]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Sidney Howe Short]]''' produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
* ... that [[Karl Kessler]]'s 1874 description of the '''[[Balkhash perch]]''' as a new species was based on specimens collected on [[Alexander von Schrenk]]'s expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
* ... that though the '''[[Thrips tabaci|onion thrips]]''' is tiny, it is the most serious insect pest attacking onion crops in the tropics?
* ... that '''[[Susannah Fox]]''', the U.S. government's former [[Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services|chief health technology executive]], cited the [[Maker culture|maker movement]] as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
* ... that [[Free Radio (network)|Free Radio]] presenter Andy Goulding thought that "'''[[Scared of the Dark]]'''" by [[Steps (group)|Steps]] should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2017]]?
===17 March 2017===
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* ... that the '''[[São Vicente Suspension Bridge]]''' ''(pictured)'', constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
* ... that although '''[[Thomas Hjalmar Westgård]]''' was born and raised in Norway, he competes internationally in [[Cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]] for Ireland?
* ... that '''[[Fulham Refuge]]''' was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons"?
* ... that the '''[[West Palm Beach mayoral election, 1991|1991 mayoral election in West Palm Beach]]''' was the city's first direct election for mayor since 1919?
* ... that in 1994, the fantasy novel '''''[[The Kingdom of Kevin Malone]]''''' by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] won the [[Mythopoeic Awards|Mythopoeic Society Award]] in the Children's Literature category?
* ... that '''[[Robert Lockhart Hobson]]''' compiled catalogues of the [[British Museum]]'s English pottery and porcelain?
* .. that the '''[[Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express]]''' is the first train in South India to use solar-powered coaches?
* ... that basketball player '''[[LaMelo Ball]]''' once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting [[Charles Barkley]] to criticize the way he did it?
*'''''00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that London's '''[[Hanover Lodge]]''' ''(pictured)'' sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
* ... that '''[[Hans Larwin]]''' painted ''Soldat und Tod'' in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungary dual monarchy]]?
* ... that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near '''[[Saunders Creek, Alberta]]''', including an upper molar from a possible [[pantodonta|pantodont]]?
* ... that the voice of Hawaiian soprano '''[[Nani Alapai]]''' was compared to the music of the [[Oʻahu tree snail#Hawaiian folklore|singing snails]]?
* ... that a '''[[Weixinism|Taiwanese religious movement]]''' teaching [[feng shui]] and [[I Ching]] since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
* ... that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan '''[[Maymie de Mena]]''', and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
* ... that in the upcoming film '''''[[LAbyrinth (2017 film)|LAbyrinth]],''''' [[Johnny Depp]] portrays a detective investigating the murders of [[Murder of Tupac Shakur|Tupac Shakur]] and [[Murder of Christopher Wallace|The Notorious B.I.G.]]?
* ... that [[Denver]], Colorado, philanthropist '''[[Helen Bonfils]]''' inherited US$14 million from [[Frederick Gilmer Bonfils|her father]] and US$10 million from her mother?
===16 March 2017===
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* ... that the sitter in [[Titian]]'s '''''[[A Man with a Quilted Sleeve]]''''' ''(pictured)'' has been thought to be the poet [[Ludovico Ariosto]], a Venetian patrician, or Titian himself?
* ... that Lutheran children's educator '''[[Magdalena Heymair]]''' was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]''?
* ... that the United States gave [[nuclear weapon]]s to Britain as part of '''[[Project E]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Undurti Narasimha Das]]''' provided evidence that [[gamma-linolenic acid]] inhibited the progress of human [[glioma]]s?
* ... that [[gridiron football]] player '''[[Ronnie Amadi]]''' played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college?
* ... that [[Max Reger]] recorded some of his '''[[52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67]]''', on the [[Welte-Mignon|Welte Philharmonic organ]]?
* ... that '''[[Mary Ivy Burks]]''' has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"?
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* ... that '''[[Home Kidston]]''' owned a [[Bugatti Type 35|Bugatti Type 37A]] ''(example pictured)'' while still a schoolboy at [[Eton College|Eton]]?
* ... that an [[AT&T Corporation]] '''[[Project Offices|Project Office]]''' in [[North Carolina]] was built with rubber plumbing?
* ... that '''[[Albert Horne]]''' conducted Gershwin's ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' for the [[Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden]], with the chorus of the [[Cape Town Opera]] and the [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden|Wiesbaden orchestra]]?
* ... that '''[[Nancy Run]]''' in [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania]], is named after an old fortune teller?
* ... that Japanese voice actress '''[[Miyu Tomita]]''' was a member of her school's [[manga]] research club?
* ... that the '''[[Angolan African dormouse]]''' usually dwells in trees, but has been found in the roof of a hut and in an old beehive?
* ... that in the mid-1800s, French scientist '''[[Félix Archimède Pouchet]]''' believed air itself was able to generate life?
* ... that [[Bob Dylan]]'s "'''[[Nothing Was Delivered]]'''" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to [[Judas Iscariot]]'s betrayal of [[Jesus]]?
===15 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that a '''[[Bricard octahedron]]''' ''(pictured)'' can change its shape without changing the shapes of its faces?
* ... that '''[[Shyam Swarup Agarwal]]''' studied the genetic effects of the [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal gas tragedy]]?
* ... that a mountain fortress called '''[[Orange One]]''' was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
* ... that the mezzo-soprano '''[[Iris Vermillion]]''', who became known for Mozart roles with [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt|Harnoncourt]] in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's [[Penthesilea (opera)|Penthesilea]] at the [[Semperoper]] 20 years later?
* ... that '''[[Mendip Hospital]]''' in [[Somerset]] was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
* ... that the '''[[Day of Potsdam]]''' was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
* ... that the '''[[Sack of Shamakhi (1721)|Sack of Shamakhi]]''' was used as the ''[[casus belli]]'' by the [[Russian Empire]] in order to launch the [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)|Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723]]?
* ... that 50 years after a mural by '''[[Fay E. Davis]]''' depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in [[Oglesby, Illinois]], a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
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* ... that '''''[[Erythranthe peregrina]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
* ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by '''[[Cyclone Althea]]''' in December 1971 prompted [[Queensland]] to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
* ... that the porch of '''[[Clapton Court]]''' in [[Somerset]] is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
* ... that in 1938, '''[[Georg Thurmair]]''' co-published the hymnal ''Kirchenlied'', which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
* ... that the '''[[Micronesian imperial pigeon]]''' barks, moans, and coos?
* ... that '''[[Bonnie Burnard]]'''{{'s}} 1999 debut novel, '''''[[A Good House]]''''', won the [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]]?
* ... that the phonograph and gramophone company '''[[Edison Bell]]''' was required to use [[Thomas Edison|Edison]]'s name?
* ... that [[Abraham Lincoln]] probably named his horse '''[[Old Bob]]''' to differentiate it from his son, "[[Robert Lincoln|Young Bob]]"?
===14 March 2017===
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* ... that when the stalls of [[Mahane Yehuda Market|a Jerusalem shuk]] close, '''[[Solomon Souza]]'''{{'s}} spray-painted portraits ''(example pictured)'' become visible?
* ... that in '''[[Operation Hurricane]]''', an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of {{HMS|Plym|K271|6}}?
* ... that although '''[[Parmenian]]''' is considered by some historians to be the most important [[Donatism|Donatist]] writer of his day, none of his works survive?
* ... that '''[[Petra Hřebíčková]]''' was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 [[Thalia Awards]]?
* ... that the original '''[[Nakatsu Castle]]''' was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Jeff Almon]]''' was drafted by the [[Calgary Stampeders]] after leaving a favourable impression on coach [[Mike Benevides]], whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
* ... that [[TLC (group)|TLC]] rapper [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] wrote two verses for the song "'''[[Kick Your Game]]'''", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
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* ... that the '''[[Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery]]''' ''(pictured)'' is not a [[monastery]] and actually contains close to 13,000 [[Buddharupa|Buddha statues]]?
* ... that after the '''[[Murder of Dora Bloch|disappearance of Dora Bloch]]''', Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
* ... that in '''[[History of medicine in France|17th-century French medicine]]''', hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the [[Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul|Daughters of Charity]]?
* ... that in 1945, Lieutenant '''[[James B. Thayer]]''' and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]], saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
* ... that the [[Somerset]] building '''[[Wraxall Court]]''' was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Jim Ambrose]]''' collapsed during a game and later died due to [[encephalitis|inflammation of the brain]]?
* ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by '''[[Cyclone Althea]]''' in December 1971 prompted [[Queensland]] to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
* ... that while exploring whether [[nominative determinism|a person's name affects the job they choose]], '''[[Don Celender]]''' wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?
===13 March 2017===
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* ... that the soprano '''[[Émilie Ambre]]''' was portrayed by artist [[Édouard Manet]] in the title role of Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]'' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that the family of '''[[Yue Yi-chin]]''', a Chinese flying ace of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], claim to be descended from the [[Song dynasty]] general and folk hero [[Yue Fei]]?
* ... that the top-three finishers in the '''[[2010 Pepsi Max 400]]''' all drove [[Chevrolet]]s?
* ... that '''[[Therese Benedek]]''' submitted to a five-month [[training analysis]] under [[Sándor Ferenczi|an associate of Freud]] before embarking on her own career in [[psychoanalysis]]?
* ... that the [[Church of Scientology]] used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain '''[[Tax status of Scientology in the United States|tax exemption in the United States]]'''?
* ... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any '''[[plesiohedron]]''', a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
* ... that [[Richard Nixon]] and his longtime valet, '''[[Manolo Sanchez (Nixon staff member)|Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez]]''', sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
* ... that according to local lore, [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]]'s '''[[Ace of Clubs House]]''' was built with US$10,000 won in a game of [[poker]] with an [[Ace|ace of clubs]]?
*'''''00:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that according to local lore, [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]]'s '''[[Ace of Clubs House]]''' ''(pictured)'' was built with US$10,000 won in a game of [[poker]] with an [[Ace|ace of clubs]]?
* ... that '''[[Charmian Gooch]]'''{{'s}} investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]] regime of US$90 million a year?
* ... that a '''[[Denny Substation|new electrical substation]]''' in [[Seattle]] will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
* ... that '''[[Théophile Schuler]]''' illustrated [[Jules Verne|Verne]], [[Victor Hugo|Hugo]], and an alphabet for children?
* ... that '''[[Beacon Hill, West Sussex|Beacon Hill]]''', on the [[South Downs]] in [[West Sussex]], supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
* ... that a [[hat-trick#cricket|hat-trick]] was taken during '''[[Phillip Gillespie]]'''{{`s}} [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut as a cricket umpire?
* ... that despite the '''[[Reich Ministry of Transport]]''' running trains to extermination camps during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
* ... that crossword compiler '''[[William Lutwiniak]]''' was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
===12 March 2017===
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* ... that the [[Molecular biology|molecular biologist]] '''[[Nessa Carey]]''' cites the slight figure of actress [[Audrey Hepburn]] ''(pictured)'' to illustrate the possible impacts of [[epigenetics]]?
* ... that '''''[[Birdy (film)|Birdy]]''''', the first feature film partially shot with the [[Skycam]] camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
* ... that gunmen of Mexican drug lord '''[[Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes]]''' shot down a Mexican Army [[Eurocopter EC725|helicopter]] using a [[rocket-propelled grenade]]?
* ... that the '''[[Manchester Gorton by-election, 2017|2017 Manchester Gorton by-election]]''' was called after the death of the [[Father of the House]]?
* ... that the '''[[Adiyogi Shiva statue]]''' is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god [[Shiva]]?
* ... that fans of the composer and conductor [[Robert Farnon]] attended tapings of the television series '''''[[Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town]]''''' to hear his instrumentals?
* ... that [[gas chromatography–mass spectrometry]] equipment, first developed by '''[[Robert E. Finnigan]]''', was fundamental to the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]'s ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
* ... that video game character '''[[Chris Redfield]]''' was suspected of [[doping in sport|abusing steroids]]?
*'''''00:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Snugburys]]''', a British [[ice cream]] manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the [[Lovell Telescope]] ''(pictured)''?
* ... that [[Joe Biden]] went door-to-door with '''[[Stephanie Hansen]]''' to help her win '''[[Delaware's 10th state senate district special election, 2017|a recent special election]]''' to the [[Delaware Senate]]?
* ... that the [[Rhodesia]]n folk song "'''[[The U.D.I. Song]]'''" was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
* ... that '''[[Rafael Brache]]''' was declared a traitor to the [[Dominican Republic]] for denouncing the "[[parsley massacre]]"?
* ... that the founders of the '''[[Partnership for Civil Justice Fund]]''' are husband and wife?
* ... that '''[[Villa-Lobos State Park]]''' in [[São Paulo]], named after composer [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
* ... that '''[[Archibald Spencer]]''' introduced [[Benjamin Franklin]] to the study of electricity, and was his mentor?
* ... that '''[[Burnley 0–1 Lincoln City (2017)|Lincoln City's win over Burnley]]''' meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the [[FA Cup]] quarter-finals in 103 years? <!-- Special occasion hook for 11th March -->
===11 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[pangolin trade|pangolins]]''' ''(example pictured)'' are believed to be the world's most [[Wildlife smuggling|trafficked]] mammal?
* ... that '''[[Luther D. Bradley|Luther Bradley]]''' was considered the most prominent [[political cartoon]]ist opposing America's involvement in World War I?
* ... that it is unknown if the '''[[Dehn invariant]]''' of a [[flexible polyhedron]] stays invariant as it flexes?
* ... that [[John Rutter]] set Psalm 23 in '''''[[The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter)|The Lord is my Shepherd]]''''' for choir and organ, and later included it in his [[Requiem (Rutter)|Requiem]]?
* ... that the '''[[salumeria]]''' originated in Italy and dates to the [[Middle Ages]]?
* ... that '''[[pharyngeal aspiration]]''' is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of [[carbon nanotube]]s?
* ... that '''[[Edward C. Cardon]]''' was given command of the [[Second United States Army]] upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the [[United States Army Cyber Command]]?
* ... that a '''[[Tofu Curtain]]''' divides two neighborhoods in [[Melbourne]] and two counties in [[Massachusetts]]?
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* ... that the physics of a '''[[bouncing ball]]''' ''(motion shown)'' can be used to understand [[supernova]]e and [[gravity assist|gravitational slingshot manoeuvres]]?
* ... that although he left school at the age of 14, '''[[Paul D'Ortona]]''' later served for two decades on the [[Philadelphia City Council]]?
* ... that the '''[[Xbox Game Pass]]''' has been described as "Netflix for video games"?
* ... that '''[[Subramanian Kalyanaraman]]''' was the first Indian to receive a PhD in neurosurgery?
* ... that the hymn "'''[[Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott]]'''" ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran [[Paul Eber]] appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
* ... that a whole cabbage plant can be devoured by the '''[[Crocidolomia pavonana|cabbage cluster caterpillars]]''' that hatch from a single egg cluster?
* ... that in 2016, the [[Parliament of Canada]] passed a motion condemning '''[[Islamophobia in Canada|Islamophobia in the country]]'''?
* ... that [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] '''[[Sam Adonis]]''' has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro-[[Donald Trump]] character?
===10 March 2017===
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* ... that the '''[[lightning rod fashion]]''' ''(lightning rod umbrella shown)'' was a fad in 18th-century Europe?
* ... that '''[[Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal]]''' established a Primate Research Laboratory at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1965, the then largest primate house in India?
* ... that "'''[[Better Place (Rachel Platten song)|Better Place]]'''" was inspired by the engagement of [[Rachel Platten]]'s sister?
* ... that in the '''[[Sasak language]]''', the verb "to eat" [[Sasak language#Speech levels|differs]] depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
* ... that [[gridiron football]] player '''[[Charles Alston (gridiron football)|Charles Alston]]''' was the first college athlete to play in [[NCAA]] football and basketball games on the same day?
* ... that the original 1620 "L" shape of '''[[Urchinwood Manor]]''' was made into a "U" by a mid-17th century extension?
* ... that the fossil elm '''''[[Ulmus okanaganensis]]''''' had been tentatively identified as two other plants before it was formally described in 2005?
* ... that the [[Seattle City Council]] approved a '''[[street vacation]]''' for an [[Amazon.com]] office building in 2016, provided that a public "[[free speech zone]]" be designated at the site?
*'''''00:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Simon Kidston]]'''{{'s}} car collection includes the last [[Lamborghini Miura|Lamborghini Miura SV]] ''(example pictured)'' ever produced?
* ... that '''[[Fitzsimons station]]''' in [[Aurora, Colorado]], was moved away from the [[Anschutz Medical Campus]] after concerns that vibrations and [[electromagnetic interference]] from trains would affect research equipment?
* ... that Russian-Jewish banker '''[[Avraam Zak]]''' received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
* ... that '''[[planar transmission line]]s''' were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as [[mobile phone]]s and [[satellite television]] receivers?
* ... that the [[leaf beetle]] '''''[[Zygogramma suturalis]]''''' was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant [[Ambrosia artemisiifolia|common ragweed]]?
* ... that there are approaching one hundred '''[[self-portraits by Rembrandt]]''' in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
* ... that men and women from the [[Sidama people]] sing radically different songs about '''[[Furra|Queen Furra]]'''?
* ... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "'''[[Hail, America]]'''" by the German-born [[George Drumm]]?
===9 March 2017===
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* ... that '''''[[tsukemen]]''''' ''(pictured)'' became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in [[Tokyo]] soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
* ... that the [[Montreal Alouettes]] won the [[37th Grey Cup]] in 1949 but did not make the playoffs '''[[1950 Montreal Alouettes season|the following season]]'''?
* ... that the '''[[Renault Trezor]]''' features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward?
* ... that '''[[Mary Boggs]]''' and her first husband won the competition to create the [[United States post office murals|United States post office mural]] in [[List of United States post office murals#Mississippi|Newton, Mississippi]]?
* ... that tree debris from '''[[Cyclone Tessi]]''' in [[Townsville, Queensland]], was processed into {{convert|25,000|m3|ft3|abbr=on}} of [[mulch]] and used in local botanical gardens?
* ... that the first recorded owner of '''[[Greifenstein Castle]]''' joined a crusade as penance for assassinating a bishop?
* ... that in 1837, [[Nativism (politics)|nativist]] rioters in Boston attacked the '''[[Montgomery Guards]]''', an Irish-American militia company?
* ... that '''[[Kokichi Sugihara]]'''{{`s}} illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?
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* ... that the diary of '''[[Mary Hardy (diarist)|Mary Hardy]]''' ''(pictured)'' provides a detailed record of an 18th-century English farming and brewing business?
* ... that '''[[Alice Bowman]]''', Mission Operations Manager of the ''[[New Horizons]]'' [[Pluto]] exploration mission, is also a [[bassist]] and [[clarinet]]ist?
* ... that '''[[Sarah Hayes (crossword compiler)|Arachne]]''' used a crossword puzzle to protest [[police corruption]] in the investigation of the [[murder of Daniel Morgan]]?
* ... that the starfish '''''[[Diplasterias brucei]]''''' broods its young until they have developed into juveniles?
* ... that [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS]] [[Relief Society]] president '''[[Belle S. Spafford]]''' directed the Singing Mothers at the [[1964 New York World's Fair|1964 World's Fair]]?
* ... that '''[[Viaduto do Chá]]''', [[São Paulo]]'s first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
* ... that composer '''[[Jessica Curry]]''' has won a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] award for her [[Video game music|video game score]]s, and has also worked with a [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]]?
* ... that [[Rheidol (locomotive)|'''''Rheidol''''']], a former locomotive on the [[Vale of Rheidol Railway]] in Wales, was originally called [[May 13|''Treze de Maio'']], after the date that [[Lei Áurea|slavery was abolished in Brazil]]?
===8 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[Mary Hogarth]]''' ''(pictured)'' is believed to be the inspiration for [[Charles Dickens]]' characters Rose in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' and Little Nell in ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]''?
* ... that India's '''[[Padma Bhushan|third highest civilian award]]''' was bestowed upon [[Sirindhorn|Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn]] of Thailand '''[[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–19)|in 2017]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Marjorie G. Horning]]''' demonstrated that drugs and their [[Drug metabolism|metabolites]] can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
* ... that [[Barbara B. Smith]] created the '''[[Monument to Women Memorial Garden]]''' to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]?
* ... that the soprano '''[[Erna Ellmenreich]]''' appeared in the premieres of ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's ''[[Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen]]'', the latter causing a scandal?
* ... that '''[[Rosemary Vrablic]]''' has been called "[[Donald Trump|Trump]]'s personal banker"?
* ... that besides reporting on [[Aimee Semple McPherson]]'s visit to [[Denver]] in 1921, '''[[Helen Marie Black]]''' arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and [[faith healing]] skills?
* ... that '''[[M2M (band)|M2M]]''' were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a [[M&M's|type of candy]]?
*'''''00:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that descendants of the family who settled [[Toronto]]'s '''[[Ashbridge Estate]]''' ''(pictured)'' were still living on the same property over 200 years later?
* ... that '''[[Perdur Radhakantha Adiga]]''' identified [[Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid|N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid]] in [[Lathyrus sativus|grass pea]] as the cause of [[neurolathyrism]]?
* ... that '''''[[Super flumina Babylonis (Nuffel)|Super flumina Babylonis]]''''' is the first of [[Jules Van Nuffel]]'s psalm settings for choir and organ written for [[St. Rumbold's Cathedral|Mechelen Cathedral]]?
* ... that '''[[Donald L. Cunningham]]''', an original Justice of the [[Arizona Supreme Court]], once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
* ... that the '''[[Cão de Gado Transmontano]]''' is a [[giant dog breed|giant]] [[livestock guardian dog]] that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the [[Iberian wolf]]?
* ... that the '''[[Detachment Hotel]]''' nuclear bunker on [[Peanut Island]], Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
* ... that a senior British general described [[Winston Churchill]]'s proposal to invade Arctic Norway, '''[[Operation Jupiter (Norway)|Operation Jupiter]]''', as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
* ... that the racing game '''''[[Wipeout Fusion]]''''' contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
===7 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 1910, the British aviator [[Claude Grahame-White]] landed his biplane on '''[[West Executive Avenue]]''' ''(pictured)'' and then lunched with United States Secretary of War [[Jacob M. Dickinson|Jacob Dickinson]]?
* ... that [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s first novel, '''''[[The Light That Failed]]''''', was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
* ... that while jailed on charges of violating the [[Alien and Sedition Acts|Sedition Act]], '''[[Matthew Lyon]]''' was re-elected to [[United States Congress|Congress]]?
* ... that in his cantata '''''[[Sécheresses (Poulenc)|Sécheresses]]''''', French composer [[Francis Poulenc]] set four poems by the English surrealist [[Edward James]]?
* ... that [[Masashi Kishimoto]] has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga '''''[[Naruto]]'''''?
* ... that the '''[[United and Cecil Club]]''', a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in [[marginal seat]]s in the run-up to the [[United Kingdom general election, 2015|last general election]]?
* ... that when completed in June 2017, '''[[Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower]]''' will replace most of the steel communications masts in the area, which cause [[visual pollution]]?
* ... that '''[[John William Elliott Maikai|J. W. E. Maikai]]''' succeeded a '''[[Francis Funk|Major Funk]]''' as Adjutant General to the Forces?
*'''''00:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that construction of '''[[1000 Second Avenue]]''' ''(pictured)'' in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for [[fire test]]ing?
* ... that seen from [[Bolívar Square]], [[Bogotá]], the Sun on the [[solstice]]s rises directly over [[Monserrate]] and '''[[Guadalupe Hill|Guadalupe]]''', the two best known '''[[Eastern Hills, Bogotá|Eastern Hills]]'''?
* ... that three [[Bangla Congress]] ministers, '''[[Charu Mihir Sarkar]]''', '''[[Bhabatosh Soren]]''', and [[Sushil Kumar Dhara|S.K. Dhara]], resigned on the same day in 1970 from the [[Government of West Bengal|West Bengal government]]?
* ... that the '''[[Ashkelon dog cemetery]]''', which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
* ... that according to research by '''[[Roger P. Minert]]''', local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
* ... that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the '''[[Congressional Cannabis Caucus]]'''?
* ... that when the [[Islamic State in Somalia|Islamic State]] '''[[Qandala campaign|captured Qandala]]''' in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
* ... that Chinese legend holds that '''[[Han Zhuo]]''' tried to feed the archer [[Houyi]]'s body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
===6 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Mexican Federal Highway 95D]]''' passes under [[Cuetlajuchitlán|an archeological site]] ''(pictured)'' uncovered during its construction?
* ... that investigative journalist '''[[Andrew Schneider (journalist)|Andrew Schneider]]'''{{`s}} work earned back-to-back [[Pulitzer Prize]]s in 1986 and 1987?
* ... that '''''[[Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball]]''''' was developed in just 61 days?
* ... that [[bus rapid transit]] was chosen for Seattle's '''[[RapidRide G Line]]''', because [[Madison Street (Seattle)|Madison Street]] was considered too steep for [[streetcar]] service?
* ... that '''[[Abu Omar al-Turkistani]]''', an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the [[Battle of Tora Bora]] in Afghanistan, eventually died during the [[Syrian Civil War]]?
* ... that the '''[[Packhorse Inn]]''', a [[Somerset]] pub, has been designated as an [[asset of community value]]?
* ... that '''[[Robert Egan|Bobby Egan]]''', the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between [[North Korea]] and the United States?
* ... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil [[dinosaur egg]] '''''[[Continuoolithus]]''''' died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
*'''''00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Missionary Day]]''', celebrated on 5 March in [[French Polynesia]], commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in [[Tahiti]] aboard the ''[[Duff (1794 ship)|Duff]]'' ''(pictured)''?<!--Special occasion request for March 5 (UTC-10)-->
* ... that [[Alice Hirson]] played '''[[Eileen Riley Siegel]]''', an Irish Catholic [[interfaith marriage|married]] to a Jew, on the soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]''?
* ... that the early '''[[Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone]]''' by [[Francis Poulenc]] was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
* ... that '''[[Warren Gulley|Bill Gulley]]''', who for years was responsible for the [[nuclear football]], was officially on the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Post Office]] payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
* ... that '''[[Loch Ewe Distillery]]''' in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with [[still]]s over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
* ... that construction on the '''[[Jamaica–179th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)|179th Street]]''' terminal station on the New York City Subway's '''[[IND Queens Boulevard Line|Queens Boulevard Line]]''' was delayed for almost 20 years?
* ... that every single ballot cast for the [[Canadian Football League]] all-star team in 1989 included a vote for '''[[Gerald Alphin]]''', but he did not make the squad?
* ... that the first three video game titles in the popular [[edutainment]] franchise ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across [[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985)|the world]] (1985), [[Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? (1986)|the United States]] (1986), and '''[[Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego?|Europe]]''' (1988)?
===5 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 1889, a US company built the '''[[Miami Railway Station]]''' ''(pictured)'' in Canada, now a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site]] and museum?
* ... that the aged, hernia-afflicted '''[[Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea]]''' reportedly ran in the '''[[Wallachian princely election, 1842|Wallachian princely election]]''' only to hamper other candidates?
* ... that AllMusic thought [[Phil Collins]]' "'''[[Two Worlds (song)|Two Worlds]]'''", featured in Disney's 1999 animated movie ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'', "eerily echo[ed]" the worldbeats of former [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] bandmate [[Peter Gabriel]]?
* ... that the only player strike in [[Professional baseball in Japan|Japanese professional baseball]] history occurred during the '''[[2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment]]''' and lasted for two days?
* ... that '''[[Julian Radcliffe]]''' is the founder of the [[Art Loss Register|world's largest private database of lost and stolen art]]?
* ... that the 1887 book '''''[[Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising]]''''' presents 177 biographies of African American men, many of whom were born as slaves?
* ... that judge '''[[William Henry Daniels]]''' committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the [[Provisional Government of Hawaii]]?
* ... that '''''[[Paludititan]]''''' is a Romanian [[Insular dwarfism|island dwarf]]?
*'''''00:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the river '''[[Pärnu (river)|Pärnu]]''' ''(pictured)'' has been called "the Mississippi of Estonia"?
* ... that '''[[Tony Collins (footballer)|Tony Collins]]''' became the first black manager in the [[English Football League]] when he was appointed by [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]] in 1960?
* ... that the '''[[rock dormouse]]''' sometimes lives in [[Association (ecology)|association]] with [[rock hyrax]]es?
* ... that ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' called [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Waymon Alridge]]''' "the newest [[Ottawa Rough Riders|Rider]] star" after he caught passes for 75 and 90 yards in a single game?
* ... that [[Count Basie]]'s '''"[[Jumpin' at the Woodside]]"''' is about a [[Harlem]] hotel where [[African American]] jazz musicians and baseball players stayed during [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]]?
* ... that Canadian-American student '''[[Shmuel Schecter]]''' finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the [[Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)|Mir Yeshiva]] at the age of seventeen?
* ... that '''[[The Trumpeteers]]'''' cover of "[[Milky White Way]]" reached number eight on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|"Race Records" chart]]?
* ... that if the '''[[Periclimenes rathbunae|sun anemone shrimp]]''' is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
===4 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that one location of the all-you-can-eat '''[[Souper Salad]]''' buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch ''(pictured)'' that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in [[Phoenix, Arizona]]?
* ... that '''[[grey-hooded parakeet]]s''' make twittering and warbling sounds similar to those made by [[barn swallow]]s?
* ... that a painting of Hilo Bay by '''[[Joseph Nāwahī]]''', the first [[Native Hawaiian]] to paint in the [[Art of Europe|Western]] style, was featured on the ''[[Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV series)|Antiques Roadshow]]''?
* ... that '''[[Buddy Alliston]]''' won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the [[Eglin Air Force Base]] football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
* ... that in seven last pieces for organ, '''[[Sieben Stücke, Op. 145|''Sieben Stücke'', Op. 145]]''', [[Max Reger]] quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?
* ... that the '''[[Can You Hear Me? (telephone scam)|Can You Hear Me?]]''' telephone scam reported by [[CBS News]] was subsequently classified as "unproven" by [[Snopes]]?
* ... that the '''[[Romanian Senate election, 1868|Romanian Senate election of 1868]]''', which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
* ... that '''[[Ramen Street]]''' is located in a basement?
*'''''00:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[William Plankinton]]''', for whom the '''[[William Plankinton Mansion]]''' is named, commissioned the '''[[John Plankinton statue]]''' ''(pictured)'' from the sculptor who was [[Elizabeth Plankinton|his sister]]'s ex-fiancé?
* ... that '''[[Murder of Joey Fischer|Joey Fischer]]''' was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?<!-- Special occasion hook for March 3rd -->
* ... that the '''[[Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton]]''', was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
* ... that most members of the [[Woodpecker|woodpecker family]] have four toes on each foot, but the '''[[rufous piculet]]''' and the '''[[white-browed piculet]]''' have just three?
* ... that '''[[Exercise TROPEX|TROPEX 2017]]''' witnessed the participation of forty-five major [[surface combatant|surface ships]], five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the [[Indian Navy]]'s [[Western Naval Command|Western]] and [[Eastern Naval Command]]?
* ... that "'''[[Es woll uns Gott genädig sein]]'''", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of [[Psalm 67]] in German, appeared in the ''[[Erfurt Enchiridion]]'' in 1524?
* ... that during the [[American Civil War]], '''[[William V. Rinehart]]''' served as an officer in both the [[1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment]] and [[1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment]]?
* ... that software company [[Lucas Learning]] did not know whether to market '''''[[Star Wars: Droid Works]]''''' on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?
===3 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Francis Poulenc]] composed '''''[[Litanies à la Vierge Noire]]''''', a French litany to the Black Virgin at [[Rocamadour]] ''(statue pictured)'', after a pilgrimage to the shrine?
* ... that [[Yale University]] architecture professor [[Louis Kahn]] said he would have given a failing grade to '''[[Uris Buildings Corporation]]'''{{`s}} Three Penn Center?
* ... that the use of [[pun]]s by '''[[Peter Adamson (academic)|Peter Adamson]]''' in his ''History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps'' series, has been both praised and criticized?
* ... that '''[[HMS Pearl (1762)|HMS ''Pearl'']]''' escorted troops to [[Landing at Kip's Bay|Kip's Bay]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] in September 1776?
* ... that actor [[Ryan Phillippe]] played '''[[Billy Douglas (One Life to Live)|Billy Douglas]]''' in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]'', one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
* ... that [[Alexander the Great]], King of '''[[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]]''', besieged the [[Illyrians]] at [[Siege of Pelium|Pelion]] (in modern [[Albania]]) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the [[Achaemenid Empire]]?
* ... that '''[[Printer's Devilry]]''' crossword puzzles were among [[Derrick Somerset Macnutt|Ximenes]]' most popular, even though they break [[Derrick Somerset Macnutt#Influence|Ximenes' rules]] of [[cryptic crossword]] setting?
* ... that economist '''[[Susan Dynarski]]''', who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
*'''''00:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[East Base]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Antarctica]] housed [[Jackie Ronne]] and [[Jennie Darlington]], the first women to spend a winter on the continent?
* ... that '''[[M. J. Thirumalachar]]''' named two genera of fungi he discovered, ''Narasimhania'' and ''Narasimhella'', after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
* ... that readers requested that [[Glenn McCoy]] be terminated from the ''[[Belleville News-Democrat]]'' after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, '''''[[Trying to trash Betsy DeVos]]'''''?
* ... that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|MLA]]s because of the '''[[Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016]]''', effective at the snap election today?
* ... that professional American football player '''[[Butch Allison]]''' was the brother of another professional athlete?
* ... that '''[[Akatombo]]''', or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet '''[[Rofū Miki]]''' and composed by [[Kosaku Yamada]], is one of the [[100 Japanese Songs|most-loved Japanese songs]] according to a 1989 survey?
* ... that during the last decade, '''[[Lance Ryan]]''' appeared as [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Siegfried]] at three [[Bayreuth Festival]]s?
* ... that when '''[[Clam Lake Canal]]''' freezes over early in the [[Michigan]] winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
===2 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[Lake Meke]]''' ''(pictured)'', a [[crater lake]] beside a [[volcanic cone]], is a natural monument and a [[Ramsar Convention|Ramsar site]] in Turkey?
* ... that King [[Kalākaua]] electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians '''[[John William Kalua|J. W. Kalua]]''', [[George Washington Pilipō|G. W. Pilipō]] and [[Joseph Nāwahī|J. Nāwahī]], and campaigning against them?
* ... that, no matter how {{mvar|n}} non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least {{math|0.258''n''}} of them that will not '''[[penny graph|touch other pennies in the subset]]'''?
* ... that in 1891, a fire at the '''[[1891 State Normal School at Cheney fire|State Normal School at Cheney]]''' destroyed the school's only building?
* ... that '''[[intratracheal instillation]]''', the introduction of a substance directly into the [[trachea]], is a widely used alternative to inhalation for [[Inhalation exposure|respiratory toxicity]] testing?
* ... that through his political associations, '''[[Jesse Root Grant]]''' secured an appointment for enrollment at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] for his son, [[Ulysses S. Grant]]?
* ... that two former [[List of rulers of Wallachia|Princes of Wallachia]] '''[[Wallachian legislative election, 1857|ran for deputy seats in 1857]]''', both of them losing at [[Buzău County|Buzău]] and recovering to win at [[Dolj County|Dolj]]?
* ... that [[The Learning Company]]'s educational video game franchise '''''[[Reader Rabbit]]''''' sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?
*'''''00:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the first recorded [[human cannonball]] act was an 1877 London performance by 14-year-old '''[[Rossa Matilda Richter]]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that [[the Bronx]] neighborhood of [[Kingsbridge, Bronx|Kingsbridge]] was built on what was once an island in '''[[Tibbetts Brook]]'''?
* ... that '''''[[Wipeout Pulse]]''''' was developed around the feedback received about its predecessor, ''[[Wipeout Pure]]''?
* ... that '''[[Stratford City Hall]]''', a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]], was built on a triangular square?
* ... that the fossil [[tupelo]] '''''[[Nyssa spatulata]]''''' was described from seeds found in Oregon?
* ... that the [[etching]]s of '''[[Léon Davent]]''' include ''Michelangelo at the Age of Twenty-Three'' made some forty years after [[Michelangelo]] was that age?
* ... that some [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] in the [[New York State Senate]] formed the '''[[Independent Democratic Conference]]''' to caucus with [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]]?
* ... that the '''[[Professional Rapid Online Chess League]]''' (PRO Chess League) is a worldwide online [[rapid chess]] league with 48 teams, whose members include more than 100 [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]s?
===1 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Karolina Styczyńska]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the first non-Japanese person to be awarded professional status by the [[Japan Shogi Association]]?
* ... that [[Donald Trump]] and [[Merv Griffin]] fought for control of casino operator '''[[Resorts International]]''' in 1988?
* ... that the '''[[Dronacharya Award]]''' is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after [[Drona]], the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic ''[[Mahabharata]]''?
* ... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter '''[[Henri Beau]]''' copied eleven paintings hanging in the [[Louvre]] and sold them to support himself?
* ... that concerns over whether video game '''''[[Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game|Call of Cthulhu]]''''' had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
* ... that the '''[[Wayzata Bay Center]]''' shopping mall was built over [[wetland]]s?
* ... that '''[[Antonín Cyril Stojan]]''', who led a life of [[heroic virtue]], was given the title of [[Venerable]] by [[Pope Francis]]?
* ... that the jazz piece "[[Mannenberg]]", considered a notable example of '''[[music in the movement against apartheid]]''', has no words?
*'''''00:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that nine million fish were rescued from the [[Oroville Dam#Feather River Fish Hatchery|Feather River Fish Hatchery]] during the 2017 '''[[Oroville Dam crisis]]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that New Zealand actor '''[[George Mason (actor)|George Mason]]''' secured his first acting role in ''[[50 Ways of Saying Fabulous]]'' when he was thirteen years old?
* ... that because of a water-soluble pigment, '''''[[Erythranthe cuprea]]''''' has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Wayne Allison (Canadian football)|Wayne Allison]]''' was known as a [[dual-threat quarterback]] in college but was converted to play as a [[defensive back]] professionally?
* ... that the '''''[[Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Bruegel)|''Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'']]''''' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter Bruegel I]] includes two tiny [[salamander]]s, symbols of evil?
* ... that '''[[Hiram Kahanawai]]''' left his position as steward to [[Queen Emma of Hawaii|Queen Emma]] to become commander of the [[Royal Guards of Hawaii|Household Troops]] for her political rival King [[Kalākaua]]?
* ... that the new '''[[Propsteikirche, Leipzig|Propsteikirche]]''', the third church ''St. Trinitatis'' in [[Leipzig]], is the largest church built in East Germany since [[German reunification|unification]]?
* ... that during the '''[[Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005]]''', everyone in [[Connecticut]] was ordered to flee the state, but the most common reaction was to change the channel?
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===31 March 2017===
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* ... that Danish artist '''[[Lucie Ingemann]]''' ''(pictured)'', known for her large [[altarpiece]]s depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?<!--Special occasion hook for March Women's History Month-->
* ... that myriad recipes for '''[[corn chowder]]''' began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the ''Boston Cook Book'' in 1884?
* ... that '''[[Lucius Caesennius Sospes]]''' probably received the ''[[cognomen]]'' ''Sospes'' ("safe and sound") from an event in his childhood?
* ... that adult '''[[Aulacophora|pumpkin beetles]]''' feed on the foliage of [[Cucurbitaceae|cucurbits]], sometimes cutting and removing circular discs?
* ... that Egyptologist '''[[Caroline Ransom Williams]]''' supervised the reception and installation of the [[Tomb of Perneb]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]?<!--Special occasion hook for March Women's History Month-->
* ... that [[Richard B. Wright]] was nominated for the [[Governor General's Awards]] and the [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]] for '''''[[The Age of Longing]]''''' (1995), but eventually won both for '''''[[Clara Callan]]''''' (2001)?
*... that [[Jackie Evancho]] is set to become the youngest performer ever at [[Carlyle Hotel#Entertainment and dining|Café Carlyle]] when she performs songs from her new album '''''[[Two Hearts (Jackie Evancho album)|Two Hearts]]''''' in April?
===30 March 2017===
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* ... that [[Priyanka Chopra]] ''(pictured)'' played twelve different characters, one from each [[Astrological sign|zodiac sign]], in the film '''''[[What's Your Raashee?]]'''''
* ... that '''[[Ron Hackenberger]]''' is selling his collection of 700 vehicles, including over 250 [[Studebaker]]s?
* ... that the '''[[Sierra de las Quijadas National Park]]''' contains a ''[[Lagerstätte]]''-type [[fossil]] site, particularly famous for its [[pterosaur]]s?
* ... that the publication of '''[[Earl Mazo]]'''{{`s}} series of exposés on [[election fraud]] in the [[United States presidential election, 1960|1960 United States Presidential Election]] was stopped following the intervention of [[Richard Nixon]]?
* ... that the soprano '''[[Leonore Kirschstein]]''' appeared as Alice Ford, with [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] as [[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]?<!--Special occasion hook for 29 March-->
* ... that President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] sent a congratulatory telegram upon the opening of the '''[[Bonfils Memorial Theatre]]''' in [[Denver]]?
* ... that '''[[Joaquín Vargas Gómez]]''' opened a restaurant in a retired [[Canadair North Star|North Star DC-4]] parked near the [[Mexico City International Airport]]?
* ... that use of the code phrase "'''[[Operation London Bridge|London Bridge is down]]'''" will signal the death of [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]?
===29 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Samuel Noble Monument]]''' ''(pictured)'' honors the founder of [[Anniston, Alabama]]?
* ... that '''[[Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton]]''' used liquid [[methane]] experimentally to power a bus?
* ... that the '''[[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]''' attacked the [[Dum Dum Airfield]] in 1949?
* ... that in Mozart's early '''[[Piano Concerto No. 6 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto in B-flat major]]''', two oboes play in the outer movements, and two flutes instead in the Andante?
* ... that [[warning sign]]s and rotating [[shift work]] are forms of '''[[Administrative controls|administrative hazard controls]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Spencer Weisz]]''' was the Most Valuable Player of the 18-under [[basketball]] competition of the [[2013 Maccabiah Games]]?
* ... that the '''[[Ceriops australis|yellow mangrove]]''' is very similar to the [[Ceriops tagal|Indian mangrove]], but the two can be distinguished when in fruit?
* ... that '''[[Ken Vining]]''' was acquired by the [[Chicago White Sox]] as part of the [[White Flag Trade]]?
===28 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that when it was revalued at $600{{nbsp}}million in 2015, New York City's '''[[Trump Tower]]''' ''(pictured)'' became the most expensive property owned by [[Donald Trump]]?
* ... that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the '''[[Almone]]''' on March 27?<!--Special occasion hook for March 27-->
* ... that '''[[Rosel H. Hyde]]''' was the first chairman of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
* ... that the DVD release of '''''[[Final Destination 3]]''''' has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an [[interactive movie]], allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
* ... that, in 1525, [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] '''[[Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain|ordered the conversion of his Muslim subjects]]''' in the [[Crown of Aragon|lands of Aragon]], despite having sworn an oath not to do so?
* ... that sociologist '''[[James D. Wright]]''' co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
* ... that the historic characters in '''''[[Françoise de Rimini]]''''', the last opera by [[Ambroise Thomas]], include not only [[Francesca da Rimini]], but also [[Dante]] and [[Virgil]]?
* ... that the English inventor '''[[Paul Rapsey Hodge]]''' built the first steam [[fire engine]] in the United States?
===27 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the developers of the video game '''''[[Wipeout 2048]]''''' speculated that they influenced design elements of the [[PlayStation Vita]] console ''(pictured)'', such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
* ... that Captain [[James Cook]] thought the now-extinct '''[[Tahitian Dog]]''' of the [[Society Islands]] tasted like English lamb?
* ... that the population of '''[[Marysville, Washington]]''', grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
* ... that '''[[Mel Olson]]''' commissioned music from [[John Rutter]] for his choirs in [[Omaha, Nebraska]], and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
* ... that the mythological events of the '''''[[kuni-yuzuri]]''''' may be rooted in real historic events?
*... that despite being severely wounded in the [[American Civil War]] in 1864, '''[[Armistead Burwell (judge)|Armistead Burwell]]''' became licensed to practice law five years later?
* ... that '''[[King John's Hill]]''', near [[Alton, Hampshire]], is topped by an unusually small Iron Age [[hillfort]], and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of [[John, King of England|King John]]?
* ... that '''[[Mr. Trash Wheel]]''' removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's [[Inner Harbor]] in one day?
===26 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 26 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that in 2015, '''[[Neri Oxman]]'''{{`s}} architecture group and MIT's Glass Lab built the first [[3D printer]] for optically transparent glass ''(pictured)''?
* ... that an [[autonomous underwater vehicle]] deployed by the '''[[MV Havila Harmony|MV ''Havila Harmony'']]''' during the [[search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]] discovered a shipwreck?
* ... that American diplomat '''[[Herbert Reiner Jr.]]''' played a key role in capturing [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s assassin [[Nathuram Godse]] in 1948?
* ... that when the '''[[Beethoven Orchester Bonn]]''' was founded as a professional orchestra in [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s hometown in 1907, [[Richard Strauss]] conducted his own works?
* ... that the '''[[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version)|Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship]]''' was one of at least 22 [[NWA World Tag Team Championship]]s that existed between 1949 and 1991?
* ... that pastor brothers '''[[John Blair (pastor)|John Blair]]''' and '''[[Samuel Blair (pastor)|Samuel Blair]]''' both received their theological education at the [[Log College]]?
* ... that during the [[Trunajaya rebellion]], rebels overran [[Mataram Sultanate|Mataram]]'s royal court at '''[[Plered]]''' and took at least 300,000 [[Spanish real|reals]] from the treasury?
* ... that '''[[Chris Bertish]]''' is the first person to complete a [[Standup paddleboarding|stand-up paddle board]] crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a {{convert|7,400|km|mi|abbr=on|adj=on}}, 93-day journey that put him into ''[[Guinness World Records|The Guiness Book of World Records]]''?
===25 March 2017===
*'''''00:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that this August, an all-woman crew plans to circumnavigate the globe on the [[Indian Navy]]'s second ocean-going sailboat, '''[[INSV Tarini|INSV ''Tarini'']]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that '''[[Zeynab Begum]]''' was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's [[Safavid dynasty]]?
* ... that [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery]] is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in '''[[Binsted]]'''?
* ... that the American [[contralto]] '''[[Margarethe Bence]]''' appeared as [[The Marriage of Figaro|Marcellina]] at the [[Salzburg Festival]], as [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Erda]] in [[Bayreuth Festival|Bayreuth]], and in a premiere at the [[Schwetzingen Festival]]?
* ... that the extinct '''[[Polynesian Dog]]''' never became [[Feral animal|feral]] because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
* ... that '''[[Robert Lyster Thornton]]''' returned to [[University of California, Berkeley |Berkeley]] in 1942 to assist with the development of the [[calutron]]?
* ... that the '''[[spotted imperial pigeon]]'''{{`s}} [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''carola'' is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]]?
* ... that '''[[Edward Hutchinson Synge]]''' described a theory for a [[near-field scanning optical microscope]] in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?
===24 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Luis Miguel]] hinted that the title for his 1999 album '''''[[Amarte Es un Placer (album)|Amarte Es un Placer]]''''' (''Loving You Is a Pleasure'') was based on his relationship at the time with [[Mariah Carey]] ''(pictured)''?
* ... that '''[[K. B. Sainis]]''' is the Indian representative to the [[United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation]]?
* ... that male '''[[Xylosandrus compactus|black twig borers]]''' normally mate with their sisters?
* ... that '''[[Izydor Borowski]]''' was born in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] but later rose to the rank of general in [[Qajar dynasty|Qajar Iran]]?
* ... that [[Arthur Mailey]]'s best [[Test cricket|Test]] bowling figures of 9 [[Wickets taken|wickets]] for 121 [[run (cricket)|runs]] has been the '''[[List of Australia Test cricket records|Australian cricket record for 96 years]]'''?
* ... that the opera '''''[[Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen]]''''' (''Murderer, Hope of Women'') was based on a play by [[Oskar Kokoschka|an expressionist artist]] and was performed with stage set and choreography by [[Oskar Schlemmer|a Bauhaus artist]]?
* ... that '''[[John Blair, Sr.|John Blair]]''', who served four times as acting governor of the [[Colony of Virginia]], resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
* ... that '''[[banana pasta]]''' is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
===23 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[bear]]s''' are classified as carnivores, but most are [[Omnivore|omnivorous]] and the [[Giant panda|panda]] ''(pictured)'' is almost entirely vegetarian?
* ... that mezzo-soprano '''[[Tanja Ariane Baumgartner]]''' has portrayed such characters as Schoeck's [[Penthesilea (opera)|Penthesilea]], and [[Cassandra|Cassandre]] in ''[[Les Troyens]]''?
* ... that American [[folkloristics|folklorist]] '''[[J. Mason Brewer]]''' broke the [[Racial segregation|color barrier]] at the [[Driskill Hotel]] when he was inducted into the [[Texas Institute of Letters]]?
* ... that the '''[[blob sculpin]]''' is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
* ... that '''[[field goal (rugby)|field goals]]''' in [[rugby union]], which were worth the same number of points as [[try|tries]], were abolished in 1905?
* ... that Indonesian Muslim cleric '''[[Hasyim Muzadi]]''' said that the [[September 11 attacks]] were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
* ... that '''[[Abraham Lincoln's hearse|Abraham Lincoln's "immense" hearse]]''' was escorted by 160,000 people as it was drawn through New York City?
* ... that classical scholar '''[[Miriam T. Griffin]]''' believes that the Roman emperor [[Nero]] was hounded by fear, panic, and [[persecutory delusion]]s at the end of his reign?
===22 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 22 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the [[South African National Defence Force]] initially used the '''[[South African Defence Force Ensign]]''' ''(pictured)'', which contained the former flag of South Africa, despite the adoption of a new national flag?<!-- Special occasion hook for March 21st -->
* ... that convicted murderer '''[[David Martin Long]]''' was on life support two days before he was executed?
* ... that [[Sébastien Bourdais]] won the '''[[2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg]]''' after starting in last place?
* ... that '''[[Y. D. Sharma]]''' established a [[genomic library]] of ''[[Plasmodium vivax]]'', a [[protozoa]]n parasite, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi?
* ... that the title of [[Edna O'Brien]]'s book, '''''[[The Little Red Chairs]]''''', refers to performance art commemorating the 11,541 victims of [[Radovan Karadžić]]?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Dave Amer]]''' played as a quarterback, running back, slotback, and tight end at various points in his career?
* ... that '''[[Guillotière Cemetery]]''' in [[Lyon]], France, was mistakenly bombed by the American military during the Second World War?
* ... that the '''[[Sacramento Valley Development Association]]''' built a life-sized bear out of prunes for the 1904 [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World’s Fair]]?<!--Second bear hook for amusement-->
===21 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[Rest on the Flight into Egypt]]''' is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example ''(pictured)'' only dates to about 1379?
* ... that '''[[Narinder Kumar Mehra]]''' identified that a subtype of the serotype [[HLA-DR2]] made humans susceptible to diseases such as [[leprosy]] and [[tuberculosis]]?
* ... that the 17th-century German hymn "'''[[Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan]]'''" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
* ... that [[Canadian Football League]] player '''[[Randy Ambrosie]]''' helped oversee the league's [[Canadian Football League in the United States|expansion into the United States]]?
* ... that despite the loss of [[Trunajaya]]'s rebel court at the '''[[Battle of Surabaya (1677)|Battle of Surabaya]]''', his forces '''[[Fall of Plered|captured and sacked]]''' the [[Mataram Sultanate|Mataram]] royal court one month later?
* ... that '''[[Chris Cate]]''' is the first Asian American to serve as a [[San Diego City Council]] member in decades?
* ... that a [[protostar]] in the '''[[Sh2-297]]''' nebula is driving an [[bipolar outflow|outflow]] of gas more massive than the Sun?
* ... that suffragist '''[[Jane Maria Strachey]]''' was born on a ship off the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in 1840?
===20 March 2017===
*'''''00:00, 20 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Licancabur]]''' volcano ''(pictured)'' was venerated by the [[Atacama people|Atacamenos]]?
* ... that the first female British professor of Greek, '''[[Dorothy Tarrant]]''', analysed [[Plato]]'s style to conclude that he did not write the [[Hippias Major|Socratic dialogue on beauty]]?
* ... that the release of '''''[[Wipeout HD]]''''' was delayed for a few months because it had failed [[epilepsy]] [[Harding test|tests]]?
* ... that '''[[Yu Zigao]]'''{{`s}} expedition against the Dutch on [[Penghu|Penghu Island]] was responsible for their [[Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan|colonization of Taiwan]]?
* ... that the 2015 film '''''[[Ringan (film)|Ringan]]''''', set against the backdrop of [[farmers' suicides in India]], won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi]]?
* ... that Christian ethicist '''[[Henlee Hulix Barnette]]''' was investigated by the FBI after meeting [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and marching with [[Martin Luther King]]?
* ... that the Romans built a temple possibly dedicated to a [[Wild boar|boar]] cult within the prehistoric '''[[Chanctonbury Ring]]''' [[hillfort]]?
* ... that in 2016, [[association football|footballer]] '''[[Dries Mertens]]''' became the first player to score seven goals in two matches in [[Serie A]] since [[Antonio Valentín Angelillo]] (1958)?
===19 March 2017===
*'''''00:50, 19 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Bryant McIntosh]]''' ''(pictured)'' holds the single-season and career [[assist (basketball)|assist]] records for [[Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball]]?
* ... that '''[[Blewburton Hill]]''' in Oxfordshire features unusual [[lynchet]]s of unknown age and function?
* ... that civil rights activist '''[[Theodora Lacey]]''' helped lead the campaign which, in 1964, resulted in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]], becoming the first town in the United States to vote for [[School integration in the United States|school integration]]?
* ... that the '''[[Peñol de Cerquín]]''', a [[Lenca people|Lenca]] fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish ''conquistadores'' for months?
* ... that '''[[James Sullivan (Medal of Honor)|Peter Van Hoesen]]''', an [[American Civil War]] deserter, was paid $300 to enlist by a drafted man, and performed a [[Medal of Honor]]-worthy deed at [[Fort Fisher]] in 1864 for which he got no credit?
* ... that when [[Siegfried Wagner]] wrote the libretto for his opera '''''[[An allem ist Hütchen schuld!]]''''', he used themes from many fairy tales?
* ... that '''[[Annora Brown]]''' was commissioned to paint 200 [[Alberta]]n wildflowers, some of which are now extinct?
* ... that the 2014 [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexation of Crimea]] by "[[Little green men (Ukrainian crisis)|little green men]]" was typical of a long history of '''[[Russian military deception]]''' dating back to the [[Battle of Kulikovo]] in 1380?
===18 March 2017===
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* ... that in earlier paintings of a '''''[[sacra conversazione]]''''' ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking ''(example pictured)''?
* ... that the planned '''[[Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail]]''' suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016?
* ... that '''[[Liza Ferschtman]]''' used seven different violins for her "tour de force" performance of the ''[[Rosary Sonatas]]''?
* ... that [[Roz Chast]]'s graphic memoir '''''[[Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?]]''''', about her parents in their final years, was No. 1 ''New York Times'' Bestseller in 2014?
* ... that [[Mike Watt]] chose the Italian band name '''[[Il Sogno del Marinaio]]''' in honor of his mother's Italian heritage and father's maritime service?
* ... that '''[[Susanna Elm]]'''{{'}}s book ''Virgins of God'' draws on little-known sources such as the ''Letter to the Virgins Who Went to Jerusalem''?
* ... that proper use of [[engineering controls]] should [[Contamination control|prevent contaminants]] from being excessively deposited on '''[[sticky mat]]s''' at a laboratory's exits?
* ... that '''[[George W. Hooker]]''' captured a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troop detachment, consisting of 116 men and their colonel, all by himself?
*'''''00:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that according to their [[martyrology|martyrdom account]], '''[[Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta]]''' ''(fresco pictured)'' went to comfort [[John and Paul]], only to become buried next to them?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Richard Alston (gridiron football)|Richard Alston]]''' both gained and lost a starting role with the [[Edmonton Eskimos]] due to dropped passes?
* ... that the most effective way to [[Hierarchy of hazard controls|control a hazard]] is to '''[[Hazard elimination|eliminate it]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Sidney Howe Short]]''' produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
* ... that [[Karl Kessler]]'s 1874 description of the '''[[Balkhash perch]]''' as a new species was based on specimens collected on [[Alexander von Schrenk]]'s expedition to Turkestan in 1842?
* ... that though the '''[[Thrips tabaci|onion thrips]]''' is tiny, it is the most serious insect pest attacking onion crops in the tropics?
* ... that '''[[Susannah Fox]]''', the U.S. government's former [[Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services|chief health technology executive]], cited the [[Maker culture|maker movement]] as a promising source of future healthcare innovation?
* ... that [[Free Radio (network)|Free Radio]] presenter Andy Goulding thought that "'''[[Scared of the Dark]]'''" by [[Steps (group)|Steps]] should have been the United Kingdom's entry for the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2017]]?
===17 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[São Vicente Suspension Bridge]]''' ''(pictured)'', constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
* ... that although '''[[Thomas Hjalmar Westgård]]''' was born and raised in Norway, he competes internationally in [[Cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]] for Ireland?
* ... that '''[[Fulham Refuge]]''' was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons"?
* ... that the '''[[West Palm Beach mayoral election, 1991|1991 mayoral election in West Palm Beach]]''' was the city's first direct election for mayor since 1919?
* ... that in 1994, the fantasy novel '''''[[The Kingdom of Kevin Malone]]''''' by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] won the [[Mythopoeic Awards|Mythopoeic Society Award]] in the Children's Literature category?
* ... that '''[[Robert Lockhart Hobson]]''' compiled catalogues of the [[British Museum]]'s English pottery and porcelain?
* .. that the '''[[Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express]]''' is the first train in South India to use solar-powered coaches?
* ... that basketball player '''[[LaMelo Ball]]''' once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting [[Charles Barkley]] to criticize the way he did it?
*'''''00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that London's '''[[Hanover Lodge]]''' ''(pictured)'' sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
* ... that '''[[Hans Larwin]]''' painted ''Soldat und Tod'' in 1917 when he was the official war painter for the [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungary dual monarchy]]?
* ... that fossils from the Paleocene period have been found near '''[[Saunders Creek, Alberta]]''', including an upper molar from a possible [[pantodonta|pantodont]]?
* ... that the voice of Hawaiian soprano '''[[Nani Alapai]]''' was compared to the music of the [[Oʻahu tree snail#Hawaiian folklore|singing snails]]?
* ... that a '''[[Weixinism|Taiwanese religious movement]]''' teaching [[feng shui]] and [[I Ching]] since 1984 now has around 300,000 members?
* ... that the American Leonie Turpeau, the Nicaraguan '''[[Maymie de Mena]]''', and the Jamaican Madame Aiken were the same person?
* ... that in the upcoming film '''''[[LAbyrinth (2017 film)|LAbyrinth]],''''' [[Johnny Depp]] portrays a detective investigating the murders of [[Murder of Tupac Shakur|Tupac Shakur]] and [[Murder of Christopher Wallace|The Notorious B.I.G.]]?
* ... that [[Denver]], Colorado, philanthropist '''[[Helen Bonfils]]''' inherited US$14 million from [[Frederick Gilmer Bonfils|her father]] and US$10 million from her mother?
===16 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the sitter in [[Titian]]'s '''''[[A Man with a Quilted Sleeve]]''''' ''(pictured)'' has been thought to be the poet [[Ludovico Ariosto]], a Venetian patrician, or Titian himself?
* ... that Lutheran children's educator '''[[Magdalena Heymair]]''' was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]''?
* ... that the United States gave [[nuclear weapon]]s to Britain as part of '''[[Project E]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Undurti Narasimha Das]]''' provided evidence that [[gamma-linolenic acid]] inhibited the progress of human [[glioma]]s?
* ... that [[gridiron football]] player '''[[Ronnie Amadi]]''' played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college?
* ... that [[Max Reger]] recorded some of his '''[[52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67]]''', on the [[Welte-Mignon|Welte Philharmonic organ]]?
* ... that '''[[Mary Ivy Burks]]''' has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"?
*'''''00:00, 16 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Home Kidston]]''' owned a [[Bugatti Type 35|Bugatti Type 37A]] ''(example pictured)'' while still a schoolboy at [[Eton College|Eton]]?
* ... that an [[AT&T Corporation]] '''[[Project Offices|Project Office]]''' in [[North Carolina]] was built with rubber plumbing?
* ... that '''[[Albert Horne]]''' conducted Gershwin's ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' for the [[Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden]], with the chorus of the [[Cape Town Opera]] and the [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden|Wiesbaden orchestra]]?
* ... that '''[[Nancy Run]]''' in [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania]], is named after an old fortune teller?
* ... that Japanese voice actress '''[[Miyu Tomita]]''' was a member of her school's [[manga]] research club?
* ... that the '''[[Angolan African dormouse]]''' usually dwells in trees, but has been found in the roof of a hut and in an old beehive?
* ... that in the mid-1800s, French scientist '''[[Félix Archimède Pouchet]]''' believed air itself was able to generate life?
* ... that [[Bob Dylan]]'s "'''[[Nothing Was Delivered]]'''" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to [[Judas Iscariot]]'s betrayal of [[Jesus]]?
===15 March 2017===
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* ... that a '''[[Bricard octahedron]]''' ''(pictured)'' can change its shape without changing the shapes of its faces?
* ... that '''[[Shyam Swarup Agarwal]]''' studied the genetic effects of the [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal gas tragedy]]?
* ... that a mountain fortress called '''[[Orange One]]''' was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
* ... that the mezzo-soprano '''[[Iris Vermillion]]''', who became known for Mozart roles with [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt|Harnoncourt]] in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's [[Penthesilea (opera)|Penthesilea]] at the [[Semperoper]] 20 years later?
* ... that '''[[Mendip Hospital]]''' in [[Somerset]] was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
* ... that the '''[[Day of Potsdam]]''' was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
* ... that the '''[[Sack of Shamakhi (1721)|Sack of Shamakhi]]''' was used as the ''[[casus belli]]'' by the [[Russian Empire]] in order to launch the [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)|Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723]]?
* ... that 50 years after a mural by '''[[Fay E. Davis]]''' depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in [[Oglesby, Illinois]], a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
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* ... that '''''[[Erythranthe peregrina]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
* ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by '''[[Cyclone Althea]]''' in December 1971 prompted [[Queensland]] to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
* ... that the porch of '''[[Clapton Court]]''' in [[Somerset]] is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
* ... that in 1938, '''[[Georg Thurmair]]''' co-published the hymnal ''Kirchenlied'', which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
* ... that the '''[[Micronesian imperial pigeon]]''' barks, moans, and coos?
* ... that '''[[Bonnie Burnard]]'''{{'s}} 1999 debut novel, '''''[[A Good House]]''''', won the [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]]?
* ... that the phonograph and gramophone company '''[[Edison Bell]]''' was required to use [[Thomas Edison|Edison]]'s name?
* ... that [[Abraham Lincoln]] probably named his horse '''[[Old Bob]]''' to differentiate it from his son, "[[Robert Lincoln|Young Bob]]"?
===14 March 2017===
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* ... that when the stalls of [[Mahane Yehuda Market|a Jerusalem shuk]] close, '''[[Solomon Souza]]'''{{'s}} spray-painted portraits ''(example pictured)'' become visible?
* ... that in '''[[Operation Hurricane]]''', an atomic bomb was exploded in the hull of {{HMS|Plym|K271|6}}?
* ... that although '''[[Parmenian]]''' is considered by some historians to be the most important [[Donatism|Donatist]] writer of his day, none of his works survive?
* ... that '''[[Petra Hřebíčková]]''' was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 [[Thalia Awards]]?
* ... that the original '''[[Nakatsu Castle]]''' was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Jeff Almon]]''' was drafted by the [[Calgary Stampeders]] after leaving a favourable impression on coach [[Mike Benevides]], whom he happened to be seated near on a flight?
* ... that [[TLC (group)|TLC]] rapper [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] wrote two verses for the song "'''[[Kick Your Game]]'''", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
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* ... that the '''[[Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery]]''' ''(pictured)'' is not a [[monastery]] and actually contains close to 13,000 [[Buddharupa|Buddha statues]]?
* ... that after the '''[[Murder of Dora Bloch|disappearance of Dora Bloch]]''', Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
* ... that in '''[[History of medicine in France|17th-century French medicine]]''', hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by sisters from the [[Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul|Daughters of Charity]]?
* ... that in 1945, Lieutenant '''[[James B. Thayer]]''' and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]], saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
* ... that the [[Somerset]] building '''[[Wraxall Court]]''' was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Jim Ambrose]]''' collapsed during a game and later died due to [[encephalitis|inflammation of the brain]]?
* ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by '''[[Cyclone Althea]]''' in December 1971 prompted [[Queensland]] to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
* ... that while exploring whether [[nominative determinism|a person's name affects the job they choose]], '''[[Don Celender]]''' wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?
===13 March 2017===
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* ... that the soprano '''[[Émilie Ambre]]''' was portrayed by artist [[Édouard Manet]] in the title role of Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]'' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that the family of '''[[Yue Yi-chin]]''', a Chinese flying ace of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], claim to be descended from the [[Song dynasty]] general and folk hero [[Yue Fei]]?
* ... that the top-three finishers in the '''[[2010 Pepsi Max 400]]''' all drove [[Chevrolet]]s?
* ... that '''[[Therese Benedek]]''' submitted to a five-month [[training analysis]] under [[Sándor Ferenczi|an associate of Freud]] before embarking on her own career in [[psychoanalysis]]?
* ... that the [[Church of Scientology]] used espionage, front groups, private detectives, and over 2,500 lawsuits to gain '''[[Tax status of Scientology in the United States|tax exemption in the United States]]'''?
* ... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any '''[[plesiohedron]]''', a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
* ... that [[Richard Nixon]] and his longtime valet, '''[[Manolo Sanchez (Nixon staff member)|Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez]]''', sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
* ... that according to local lore, [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]]'s '''[[Ace of Clubs House]]''' was built with US$10,000 won in a game of [[poker]] with an [[Ace|ace of clubs]]?
*'''''00:00, 13 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that according to local lore, [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]]'s '''[[Ace of Clubs House]]''' ''(pictured)'' was built with US$10,000 won in a game of [[poker]] with an [[Ace|ace of clubs]]?
* ... that '''[[Charmian Gooch]]'''{{'s}} investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]] regime of US$90 million a year?
* ... that a '''[[Denny Substation|new electrical substation]]''' in [[Seattle]] will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
* ... that '''[[Théophile Schuler]]''' illustrated [[Jules Verne|Verne]], [[Victor Hugo|Hugo]], and an alphabet for children?
* ... that '''[[Beacon Hill, West Sussex|Beacon Hill]]''', on the [[South Downs]] in [[West Sussex]], supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
* ... that a [[hat-trick#cricket|hat-trick]] was taken during '''[[Phillip Gillespie]]'''{{`s}} [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut as a cricket umpire?
* ... that despite the '''[[Reich Ministry of Transport]]''' running trains to extermination camps during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
* ... that crossword compiler '''[[William Lutwiniak]]''' was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
===12 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the [[Molecular biology|molecular biologist]] '''[[Nessa Carey]]''' cites the slight figure of actress [[Audrey Hepburn]] ''(pictured)'' to illustrate the possible impacts of [[epigenetics]]?
* ... that '''''[[Birdy (film)|Birdy]]''''', the first feature film partially shot with the [[Skycam]] camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
* ... that gunmen of Mexican drug lord '''[[Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes]]''' shot down a Mexican Army [[Eurocopter EC725|helicopter]] using a [[rocket-propelled grenade]]?
* ... that the '''[[Manchester Gorton by-election, 2017|2017 Manchester Gorton by-election]]''' was called after the death of the [[Father of the House]]?
* ... that the '''[[Adiyogi Shiva statue]]''' is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god [[Shiva]]?
* ... that fans of the composer and conductor [[Robert Farnon]] attended tapings of the television series '''''[[Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town]]''''' to hear his instrumentals?
* ... that [[gas chromatography–mass spectrometry]] equipment, first developed by '''[[Robert E. Finnigan]]''', was fundamental to the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]'s ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s?
* ... that video game character '''[[Chris Redfield]]''' was suspected of [[doping in sport|abusing steroids]]?
*'''''00:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Snugburys]]''', a British [[ice cream]] manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the [[Lovell Telescope]] ''(pictured)''?
* ... that [[Joe Biden]] went door-to-door with '''[[Stephanie Hansen]]''' to help her win '''[[Delaware's 10th state senate district special election, 2017|a recent special election]]''' to the [[Delaware Senate]]?
* ... that the [[Rhodesia]]n folk song "'''[[The U.D.I. Song]]'''" was written by a Northern Rhodesian and first performed by a South African?
* ... that '''[[Rafael Brache]]''' was declared a traitor to the [[Dominican Republic]] for denouncing the "[[parsley massacre]]"?
* ... that the founders of the '''[[Partnership for Civil Justice Fund]]''' are husband and wife?
* ... that '''[[Villa-Lobos State Park]]''' in [[São Paulo]], named after composer [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees?
* ... that '''[[Archibald Spencer]]''' introduced [[Benjamin Franklin]] to the study of electricity, and was his mentor?
* ... that '''[[Burnley 0–1 Lincoln City (2017)|Lincoln City's win over Burnley]]''' meant that they became the first non-league football club to reach the [[FA Cup]] quarter-finals in 103 years? <!-- Special occasion hook for 11th March -->
===11 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[pangolin trade|pangolins]]''' ''(example pictured)'' are believed to be the world's most [[Wildlife smuggling|trafficked]] mammal?
* ... that '''[[Luther D. Bradley|Luther Bradley]]''' was considered the most prominent [[political cartoon]]ist opposing America's involvement in World War I?
* ... that it is unknown if the '''[[Dehn invariant]]''' of a [[flexible polyhedron]] stays invariant as it flexes?
* ... that [[John Rutter]] set Psalm 23 in '''''[[The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter)|The Lord is my Shepherd]]''''' for choir and organ, and later included it in his [[Requiem (Rutter)|Requiem]]?
* ... that the '''[[salumeria]]''' originated in Italy and dates to the [[Middle Ages]]?
* ... that '''[[pharyngeal aspiration]]''' is a widely used method for studying the respiratory toxicity of [[carbon nanotube]]s?
* ... that '''[[Edward C. Cardon]]''' was given command of the [[Second United States Army]] upon its reactivation in 2014 because he was already commander of the [[United States Army Cyber Command]]?
* ... that a '''[[Tofu Curtain]]''' divides two neighborhoods in [[Melbourne]] and two counties in [[Massachusetts]]?
*'''''00:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the physics of a '''[[bouncing ball]]''' ''(motion shown)'' can be used to understand [[supernova]]e and [[gravity assist|gravitational slingshot manoeuvres]]?
* ... that although he left school at the age of 14, '''[[Paul D'Ortona]]''' later served for two decades on the [[Philadelphia City Council]]?
* ... that the '''[[Xbox Game Pass]]''' has been described as "Netflix for video games"?
* ... that '''[[Subramanian Kalyanaraman]]''' was the first Indian to receive a PhD in neurosurgery?
* ... that the hymn "'''[[Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott]]'''" ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran [[Paul Eber]] appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567?
* ... that a whole cabbage plant can be devoured by the '''[[Crocidolomia pavonana|cabbage cluster caterpillars]]''' that hatch from a single egg cluster?
* ... that in 2016, the [[Parliament of Canada]] passed a motion condemning '''[[Islamophobia in Canada|Islamophobia in the country]]'''?
* ... that [[professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] '''[[Sam Adonis]]''' has been described as the "most hated man" in Mexico for his pro-[[Donald Trump]] character?
===10 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[lightning rod fashion]]''' ''(lightning rod umbrella shown)'' was a fad in 18th-century Europe?
* ... that '''[[Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal]]''' established a Primate Research Laboratory at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1965, the then largest primate house in India?
* ... that "'''[[Better Place (Rachel Platten song)|Better Place]]'''" was inspired by the engagement of [[Rachel Platten]]'s sister?
* ... that in the '''[[Sasak language]]''', the verb "to eat" [[Sasak language#Speech levels|differs]] depending on the social status of the speaker and the addressee?
* ... that [[gridiron football]] player '''[[Charles Alston (gridiron football)|Charles Alston]]''' was the first college athlete to play in [[NCAA]] football and basketball games on the same day?
* ... that the original 1620 "L" shape of '''[[Urchinwood Manor]]''' was made into a "U" by a mid-17th century extension?
* ... that the fossil elm '''''[[Ulmus okanaganensis]]''''' had been tentatively identified as two other plants before it was formally described in 2005?
* ... that the [[Seattle City Council]] approved a '''[[street vacation]]''' for an [[Amazon.com]] office building in 2016, provided that a public "[[free speech zone]]" be designated at the site?
*'''''00:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Simon Kidston]]'''{{'s}} car collection includes the last [[Lamborghini Miura|Lamborghini Miura SV]] ''(example pictured)'' ever produced?
* ... that '''[[Fitzsimons station]]''' in [[Aurora, Colorado]], was moved away from the [[Anschutz Medical Campus]] after concerns that vibrations and [[electromagnetic interference]] from trains would affect research equipment?
* ... that Russian-Jewish banker '''[[Avraam Zak]]''' received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
* ... that '''[[planar transmission line]]s''' were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as [[mobile phone]]s and [[satellite television]] receivers?
* ... that the [[leaf beetle]] '''''[[Zygogramma suturalis]]''''' was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant [[Ambrosia artemisiifolia|common ragweed]]?
* ... that there are approaching one hundred '''[[self-portraits by Rembrandt]]''' in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
* ... that men and women from the [[Sidama people]] sing radically different songs about '''[[Furra|Queen Furra]]'''?
* ... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "'''[[Hail, America]]'''" by the German-born [[George Drumm]]?
===9 March 2017===
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* ... that '''''[[tsukemen]]''''' ''(pictured)'' became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in [[Tokyo]] soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
* ... that the [[Montreal Alouettes]] won the [[37th Grey Cup]] in 1949 but did not make the playoffs '''[[1950 Montreal Alouettes season|the following season]]'''?
* ... that the '''[[Renault Trezor]]''' features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward?
* ... that '''[[Mary Boggs]]''' and her first husband won the competition to create the [[United States post office murals|United States post office mural]] in [[List of United States post office murals#Mississippi|Newton, Mississippi]]?
* ... that tree debris from '''[[Cyclone Tessi]]''' in [[Townsville, Queensland]], was processed into {{convert|25,000|m3|ft3|abbr=on}} of [[mulch]] and used in local botanical gardens?
* ... that the first recorded owner of '''[[Greifenstein Castle]]''' joined a crusade as penance for assassinating a bishop?
* ... that in 1837, [[Nativism (politics)|nativist]] rioters in Boston attacked the '''[[Montgomery Guards]]''', an Irish-American militia company?
* ... that '''[[Kokichi Sugihara]]'''{{`s}} illusions make marbles appear to roll uphill and circular pipes look rectangular?
*'''''00:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the diary of '''[[Mary Hardy (diarist)|Mary Hardy]]''' ''(pictured)'' provides a detailed record of an 18th-century English farming and brewing business?
* ... that '''[[Alice Bowman]]''', Mission Operations Manager of the ''[[New Horizons]]'' [[Pluto]] exploration mission, is also a [[bassist]] and [[clarinet]]ist?
* ... that '''[[Sarah Hayes (crossword compiler)|Arachne]]''' used a crossword puzzle to protest [[police corruption]] in the investigation of the [[murder of Daniel Morgan]]?
* ... that the starfish '''''[[Diplasterias brucei]]''''' broods its young until they have developed into juveniles?
* ... that [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS]] [[Relief Society]] president '''[[Belle S. Spafford]]''' directed the Singing Mothers at the [[1964 New York World's Fair|1964 World's Fair]]?
* ... that '''[[Viaduto do Chá]]''', [[São Paulo]]'s first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span?
* ... that composer '''[[Jessica Curry]]''' has won a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] award for her [[Video game music|video game score]]s, and has also worked with a [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]]?
* ... that [[Rheidol (locomotive)|'''''Rheidol''''']], a former locomotive on the [[Vale of Rheidol Railway]] in Wales, was originally called [[May 13|''Treze de Maio'']], after the date that [[Lei Áurea|slavery was abolished in Brazil]]?
===8 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[Mary Hogarth]]''' ''(pictured)'' is believed to be the inspiration for [[Charles Dickens]]' characters Rose in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' and Little Nell in ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]''?
* ... that India's '''[[Padma Bhushan|third highest civilian award]]''' was bestowed upon [[Sirindhorn|Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn]] of Thailand '''[[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–19)|in 2017]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Marjorie G. Horning]]''' demonstrated that drugs and their [[Drug metabolism|metabolites]] can be transferred from a pregnant woman to her developing child?
* ... that [[Barbara B. Smith]] created the '''[[Monument to Women Memorial Garden]]''' to defend traditional women's values from the perceived threat of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]?
* ... that the soprano '''[[Erna Ellmenreich]]''' appeared in the premieres of ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' by Richard Strauss and of Hindemith's ''[[Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen]]'', the latter causing a scandal?
* ... that '''[[Rosemary Vrablic]]''' has been called "[[Donald Trump|Trump]]'s personal banker"?
* ... that besides reporting on [[Aimee Semple McPherson]]'s visit to [[Denver]] in 1921, '''[[Helen Marie Black]]''' arranged publicity stunts to show off the evangelist's preaching and [[faith healing]] skills?
* ... that '''[[M2M (band)|M2M]]''' were going to call themselves M&M until they realised the name was already being used by a [[M&M's|type of candy]]?
*'''''00:00, 8 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that descendants of the family who settled [[Toronto]]'s '''[[Ashbridge Estate]]''' ''(pictured)'' were still living on the same property over 200 years later?
* ... that '''[[Perdur Radhakantha Adiga]]''' identified [[Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid|N-oxalyldiaminopropionic acid]] in [[Lathyrus sativus|grass pea]] as the cause of [[neurolathyrism]]?
* ... that '''''[[Super flumina Babylonis (Nuffel)|Super flumina Babylonis]]''''' is the first of [[Jules Van Nuffel]]'s psalm settings for choir and organ written for [[St. Rumbold's Cathedral|Mechelen Cathedral]]?
* ... that '''[[Donald L. Cunningham]]''', an original Justice of the [[Arizona Supreme Court]], once lost everything in a fire except for a single office chair?
* ... that the '''[[Cão de Gado Transmontano]]''' is a [[giant dog breed|giant]] [[livestock guardian dog]] that is used to defend flocks of sheep from the [[Iberian wolf]]?
* ... that the '''[[Detachment Hotel]]''' nuclear bunker on [[Peanut Island]], Florida, was constructed in less than two weeks?
* ... that a senior British general described [[Winston Churchill]]'s proposal to invade Arctic Norway, '''[[Operation Jupiter (Norway)|Operation Jupiter]]''', as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
* ... that the racing game '''''[[Wipeout Fusion]]''''' contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
===7 March 2017===
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* ... that in 1910, the British aviator [[Claude Grahame-White]] landed his biplane on '''[[West Executive Avenue]]''' ''(pictured)'' and then lunched with United States Secretary of War [[Jacob M. Dickinson|Jacob Dickinson]]?
* ... that [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s first novel, '''''[[The Light That Failed]]''''', was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period?
* ... that while jailed on charges of violating the [[Alien and Sedition Acts|Sedition Act]], '''[[Matthew Lyon]]''' was re-elected to [[United States Congress|Congress]]?
* ... that in his cantata '''''[[Sécheresses (Poulenc)|Sécheresses]]''''', French composer [[Francis Poulenc]] set four poems by the English surrealist [[Edward James]]?
* ... that [[Masashi Kishimoto]] has a five-step process for drawing the characters for the manga '''''[[Naruto]]'''''?
* ... that the '''[[United and Cecil Club]]''', a British dining club, was the single largest donor to Conservative Party candidates in [[marginal seat]]s in the run-up to the [[United Kingdom general election, 2015|last general election]]?
* ... that when completed in June 2017, '''[[Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower]]''' will replace most of the steel communications masts in the area, which cause [[visual pollution]]?
* ... that '''[[John William Elliott Maikai|J. W. E. Maikai]]''' succeeded a '''[[Francis Funk|Major Funk]]''' as Adjutant General to the Forces?
*'''''00:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that construction of '''[[1000 Second Avenue]]''' ''(pictured)'' in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for [[fire test]]ing?
* ... that seen from [[Bolívar Square]], [[Bogotá]], the Sun on the [[solstice]]s rises directly over [[Monserrate]] and '''[[Guadalupe Hill|Guadalupe]]''', the two best known '''[[Eastern Hills, Bogotá|Eastern Hills]]'''?
* ... that three [[Bangla Congress]] ministers, '''[[Charu Mihir Sarkar]]''', '''[[Bhabatosh Soren]]''', and [[Sushil Kumar Dhara|S.K. Dhara]], resigned on the same day in 1970 from the [[Government of West Bengal|West Bengal government]]?
* ... that the '''[[Ashkelon dog cemetery]]''', which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
* ... that according to research by '''[[Roger P. Minert]]''', local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
* ... that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the '''[[Congressional Cannabis Caucus]]'''?
* ... that when the [[Islamic State in Somalia|Islamic State]] '''[[Qandala campaign|captured Qandala]]''' in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
* ... that Chinese legend holds that '''[[Han Zhuo]]''' tried to feed the archer [[Houyi]]'s body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
===6 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Mexican Federal Highway 95D]]''' passes under [[Cuetlajuchitlán|an archeological site]] ''(pictured)'' uncovered during its construction?
* ... that investigative journalist '''[[Andrew Schneider (journalist)|Andrew Schneider]]'''{{`s}} work earned back-to-back [[Pulitzer Prize]]s in 1986 and 1987?
* ... that '''''[[Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball]]''''' was developed in just 61 days?
* ... that [[bus rapid transit]] was chosen for Seattle's '''[[RapidRide G Line]]''', because [[Madison Street (Seattle)|Madison Street]] was considered too steep for [[streetcar]] service?
* ... that '''[[Abu Omar al-Turkistani]]''', an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the [[Battle of Tora Bora]] in Afghanistan, eventually died during the [[Syrian Civil War]]?
* ... that the '''[[Packhorse Inn]]''', a [[Somerset]] pub, has been designated as an [[asset of community value]]?
* ... that '''[[Robert Egan|Bobby Egan]]''', the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between [[North Korea]] and the United States?
* ... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil [[dinosaur egg]] '''''[[Continuoolithus]]''''' died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
*'''''00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Missionary Day]]''', celebrated on 5 March in [[French Polynesia]], commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in [[Tahiti]] aboard the ''[[Duff (1794 ship)|Duff]]'' ''(pictured)''?<!--Special occasion request for March 5 (UTC-10)-->
* ... that [[Alice Hirson]] played '''[[Eileen Riley Siegel]]''', an Irish Catholic [[interfaith marriage|married]] to a Jew, on the soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]''?
* ... that the early '''[[Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone]]''' by [[Francis Poulenc]] was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
* ... that '''[[Warren Gulley|Bill Gulley]]''', who for years was responsible for the [[nuclear football]], was officially on the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Post Office]] payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
* ... that '''[[Loch Ewe Distillery]]''' in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with [[still]]s over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
* ... that construction on the '''[[Jamaica–179th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)|179th Street]]''' terminal station on the New York City Subway's '''[[IND Queens Boulevard Line|Queens Boulevard Line]]''' was delayed for almost 20 years?
* ... that every single ballot cast for the [[Canadian Football League]] all-star team in 1989 included a vote for '''[[Gerald Alphin]]''', but he did not make the squad?
* ... that the first three video game titles in the popular [[edutainment]] franchise ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across [[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985)|the world]] (1985), [[Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? (1986)|the United States]] (1986), and '''[[Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego?|Europe]]''' (1988)?
===5 March 2017===
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* ... that in 1889, a US company built the '''[[Miami Railway Station]]''' ''(pictured)'' in Canada, now a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site]] and museum?
* ... that the aged, hernia-afflicted '''[[Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea]]''' reportedly ran in the '''[[Wallachian princely election, 1842|Wallachian princely election]]''' only to hamper other candidates?
* ... that AllMusic thought [[Phil Collins]]' "'''[[Two Worlds (song)|Two Worlds]]'''", featured in Disney's 1999 animated movie ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'', "eerily echo[ed]" the worldbeats of former [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] bandmate [[Peter Gabriel]]?
* ... that the only player strike in [[Professional baseball in Japan|Japanese professional baseball]] history occurred during the '''[[2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment]]''' and lasted for two days?
* ... that '''[[Julian Radcliffe]]''' is the founder of the [[Art Loss Register|world's largest private database of lost and stolen art]]?
* ... that the 1887 book '''''[[Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising]]''''' presents 177 biographies of African American men, many of whom were born as slaves?
* ... that judge '''[[William Henry Daniels]]''' committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the [[Provisional Government of Hawaii]]?
* ... that '''''[[Paludititan]]''''' is a Romanian [[Insular dwarfism|island dwarf]]?
*'''''00:00, 5 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the river '''[[Pärnu (river)|Pärnu]]''' ''(pictured)'' has been called "the Mississippi of Estonia"?
* ... that '''[[Tony Collins (footballer)|Tony Collins]]''' became the first black manager in the [[English Football League]] when he was appointed by [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]] in 1960?
* ... that the '''[[rock dormouse]]''' sometimes lives in [[Association (ecology)|association]] with [[rock hyrax]]es?
* ... that ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' called [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Waymon Alridge]]''' "the newest [[Ottawa Rough Riders|Rider]] star" after he caught passes for 75 and 90 yards in a single game?
* ... that [[Count Basie]]'s '''"[[Jumpin' at the Woodside]]"''' is about a [[Harlem]] hotel where [[African American]] jazz musicians and baseball players stayed during [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]]?
* ... that Canadian-American student '''[[Shmuel Schecter]]''' finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the [[Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)|Mir Yeshiva]] at the age of seventeen?
* ... that '''[[The Trumpeteers]]'''' cover of "[[Milky White Way]]" reached number eight on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|"Race Records" chart]]?
* ... that if the '''[[Periclimenes rathbunae|sun anemone shrimp]]''' is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
===4 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that one location of the all-you-can-eat '''[[Souper Salad]]''' buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch ''(pictured)'' that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in [[Phoenix, Arizona]]?
* ... that '''[[grey-hooded parakeet]]s''' make twittering and warbling sounds similar to those made by [[barn swallow]]s?
* ... that a painting of Hilo Bay by '''[[Joseph Nāwahī]]''', the first [[Native Hawaiian]] to paint in the [[Art of Europe|Western]] style, was featured on the ''[[Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV series)|Antiques Roadshow]]''?
* ... that '''[[Buddy Alliston]]''' won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the [[Eglin Air Force Base]] football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
* ... that in seven last pieces for organ, '''[[Sieben Stücke, Op. 145|''Sieben Stücke'', Op. 145]]''', [[Max Reger]] quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?
* ... that the '''[[Can You Hear Me? (telephone scam)|Can You Hear Me?]]''' telephone scam reported by [[CBS News]] was subsequently classified as "unproven" by [[Snopes]]?
* ... that the '''[[Romanian Senate election, 1868|Romanian Senate election of 1868]]''', which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
* ... that '''[[Ramen Street]]''' is located in a basement?
*'''''00:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[William Plankinton]]''', for whom the '''[[William Plankinton Mansion]]''' is named, commissioned the '''[[John Plankinton statue]]''' ''(pictured)'' from the sculptor who was [[Elizabeth Plankinton|his sister]]'s ex-fiancé?
* ... that '''[[Murder of Joey Fischer|Joey Fischer]]''' was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?<!-- Special occasion hook for March 3rd -->
* ... that the '''[[Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton]]''', was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
* ... that most members of the [[Woodpecker|woodpecker family]] have four toes on each foot, but the '''[[rufous piculet]]''' and the '''[[white-browed piculet]]''' have just three?
* ... that '''[[Exercise TROPEX|TROPEX 2017]]''' witnessed the participation of forty-five major [[surface combatant|surface ships]], five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the [[Indian Navy]]'s [[Western Naval Command|Western]] and [[Eastern Naval Command]]?
* ... that "'''[[Es woll uns Gott genädig sein]]'''", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of [[Psalm 67]] in German, appeared in the ''[[Erfurt Enchiridion]]'' in 1524?
* ... that during the [[American Civil War]], '''[[William V. Rinehart]]''' served as an officer in both the [[1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment]] and [[1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment]]?
* ... that software company [[Lucas Learning]] did not know whether to market '''''[[Star Wars: Droid Works]]''''' on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?
===3 March 2017===
*'''''12:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Francis Poulenc]] composed '''''[[Litanies à la Vierge Noire]]''''', a French litany to the Black Virgin at [[Rocamadour]] ''(statue pictured)'', after a pilgrimage to the shrine?
* ... that [[Yale University]] architecture professor [[Louis Kahn]] said he would have given a failing grade to '''[[Uris Buildings Corporation]]'''{{`s}} Three Penn Center?
* ... that the use of [[pun]]s by '''[[Peter Adamson (academic)|Peter Adamson]]''' in his ''History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps'' series, has been both praised and criticized?
* ... that '''[[HMS Pearl (1762)|HMS ''Pearl'']]''' escorted troops to [[Landing at Kip's Bay|Kip's Bay]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] in September 1776?
* ... that actor [[Ryan Phillippe]] played '''[[Billy Douglas (One Life to Live)|Billy Douglas]]''' in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]'', one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
* ... that [[Alexander the Great]], King of '''[[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]]''', besieged the [[Illyrians]] at [[Siege of Pelium|Pelion]] (in modern [[Albania]]) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the [[Achaemenid Empire]]?
* ... that '''[[Printer's Devilry]]''' crossword puzzles were among [[Derrick Somerset Macnutt|Ximenes]]' most popular, even though they break [[Derrick Somerset Macnutt#Influence|Ximenes' rules]] of [[cryptic crossword]] setting?
* ... that economist '''[[Susan Dynarski]]''', who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
*'''''00:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[East Base]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Antarctica]] housed [[Jackie Ronne]] and [[Jennie Darlington]], the first women to spend a winter on the continent?
* ... that '''[[M. J. Thirumalachar]]''' named two genera of fungi he discovered, ''Narasimhania'' and ''Narasimhella'', after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
* ... that readers requested that [[Glenn McCoy]] be terminated from the ''[[Belleville News-Democrat]]'' after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, '''''[[Trying to trash Betsy DeVos]]'''''?
* ... that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|MLA]]s because of the '''[[Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016]]''', effective at the snap election today?
* ... that professional American football player '''[[Butch Allison]]''' was the brother of another professional athlete?
* ... that '''[[Akatombo]]''', or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet '''[[Rofū Miki]]''' and composed by [[Kosaku Yamada]], is one of the [[100 Japanese Songs|most-loved Japanese songs]] according to a 1989 survey?
* ... that during the last decade, '''[[Lance Ryan]]''' appeared as [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Siegfried]] at three [[Bayreuth Festival]]s?
* ... that when '''[[Clam Lake Canal]]''' freezes over early in the [[Michigan]] winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
===2 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[Lake Meke]]''' ''(pictured)'', a [[crater lake]] beside a [[volcanic cone]], is a natural monument and a [[Ramsar Convention|Ramsar site]] in Turkey?
* ... that King [[Kalākaua]] electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians '''[[John William Kalua|J. W. Kalua]]''', [[George Washington Pilipō|G. W. Pilipō]] and [[Joseph Nāwahī|J. Nāwahī]], and campaigning against them?
* ... that, no matter how {{mvar|n}} non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least {{math|0.258''n''}} of them that will not '''[[penny graph|touch other pennies in the subset]]'''?
* ... that in 1891, a fire at the '''[[1891 State Normal School at Cheney fire|State Normal School at Cheney]]''' destroyed the school's only building?
* ... that '''[[intratracheal instillation]]''', the introduction of a substance directly into the [[trachea]], is a widely used alternative to inhalation for [[Inhalation exposure|respiratory toxicity]] testing?
* ... that through his political associations, '''[[Jesse Root Grant]]''' secured an appointment for enrollment at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] for his son, [[Ulysses S. Grant]]?
* ... that two former [[List of rulers of Wallachia|Princes of Wallachia]] '''[[Wallachian legislative election, 1857|ran for deputy seats in 1857]]''', both of them losing at [[Buzău County|Buzău]] and recovering to win at [[Dolj County|Dolj]]?
* ... that [[The Learning Company]]'s educational video game franchise '''''[[Reader Rabbit]]''''' sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?
*'''''00:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the first recorded [[human cannonball]] act was an 1877 London performance by 14-year-old '''[[Rossa Matilda Richter]]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that [[the Bronx]] neighborhood of [[Kingsbridge, Bronx|Kingsbridge]] was built on what was once an island in '''[[Tibbetts Brook]]'''?
* ... that '''''[[Wipeout Pulse]]''''' was developed around the feedback received about its predecessor, ''[[Wipeout Pure]]''?
* ... that '''[[Stratford City Hall]]''', a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]], was built on a triangular square?
* ... that the fossil [[tupelo]] '''''[[Nyssa spatulata]]''''' was described from seeds found in Oregon?
* ... that the [[etching]]s of '''[[Léon Davent]]''' include ''Michelangelo at the Age of Twenty-Three'' made some forty years after [[Michelangelo]] was that age?
* ... that some [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] in the [[New York State Senate]] formed the '''[[Independent Democratic Conference]]''' to caucus with [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]]?
* ... that the '''[[Professional Rapid Online Chess League]]''' (PRO Chess League) is a worldwide online [[rapid chess]] league with 48 teams, whose members include more than 100 [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]s?
===1 March 2017===
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* ... that '''[[Karolina Styczyńska]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the first non-Japanese person to be awarded professional status by the [[Japan Shogi Association]]?
* ... that [[Donald Trump]] and [[Merv Griffin]] fought for control of casino operator '''[[Resorts International]]''' in 1988?
* ... that the '''[[Dronacharya Award]]''' is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after [[Drona]], the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic ''[[Mahabharata]]''?
* ... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter '''[[Henri Beau]]''' copied eleven paintings hanging in the [[Louvre]] and sold them to support himself?
* ... that concerns over whether video game '''''[[Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game|Call of Cthulhu]]''''' had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
* ... that the '''[[Wayzata Bay Center]]''' shopping mall was built over [[wetland]]s?
* ... that '''[[Antonín Cyril Stojan]]''', who led a life of [[heroic virtue]], was given the title of [[Venerable]] by [[Pope Francis]]?
* ... that the jazz piece "[[Mannenberg]]", considered a notable example of '''[[music in the movement against apartheid]]''', has no words?
*'''''00:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that nine million fish were rescued from the [[Oroville Dam#Feather River Fish Hatchery|Feather River Fish Hatchery]] during the 2017 '''[[Oroville Dam crisis]]''' ''(pictured)''?
* ... that New Zealand actor '''[[George Mason (actor)|George Mason]]''' secured his first acting role in ''[[50 Ways of Saying Fabulous]]'' when he was thirteen years old?
* ... that because of a water-soluble pigment, '''''[[Erythranthe cuprea]]''''' has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
* ... that [[Canadian football]] player '''[[Wayne Allison (Canadian football)|Wayne Allison]]''' was known as a [[dual-threat quarterback]] in college but was converted to play as a [[defensive back]] professionally?
* ... that the '''''[[Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Bruegel)|''Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'']]''''' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter Bruegel I]] includes two tiny [[salamander]]s, symbols of evil?
* ... that '''[[Hiram Kahanawai]]''' left his position as steward to [[Queen Emma of Hawaii|Queen Emma]] to become commander of the [[Royal Guards of Hawaii|Household Troops]] for her political rival King [[Kalākaua]]?
* ... that the new '''[[Propsteikirche, Leipzig|Propsteikirche]]''', the third church ''St. Trinitatis'' in [[Leipzig]], is the largest church built in East Germany since [[German reunification|unification]]?
* ... that during the '''[[Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005]]''', everyone in [[Connecticut]] was ordered to flee the state, but the most common reaction was to change the channel?
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