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... that the two forms of the red seaweed Bonnemaisonia hamifera are so unlike each other that they were at first thought to be different species?
... that the murder of Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, a federal judge, was a rare incident in the ongoing Mexican Drug War?
... that American novelist Cynthia Propper Seton, who wrote about affluent, middle-aged wives and mothers dissatisfied with their lives, was often compared to Jane Austen?
... that the Martian dunes of Siton Undae are mostly composed of volcanic glass?
... that John Grisham said his novel Camino Island was conceived on a road trip to Florida while talking about stolen books with his wife?
... that single cell epigenomics includes ways to map the three-dimensional conformation of chromosomes in individual cells?
... that Gerhild Romberger, an award-winning contralto and professor of voice, was a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) separating the New York City Subway's JFK Airport and Broad Channel stations is the longest distance between two consecutive stations in the system?
... that Navayana is a modern Buddhist movement that abandons precepts such as meditation and enlightenment?
... that Michael Bolton and Diane Warren felt Barbra Streisand would be the perfect artist to sing "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore"?
... that Donald Trump's handshake with Emmanuel Macron at the Bastille Day celebrations was 29 seconds long?
... that the Kingdom of Bosnia allowed the Ottoman Turks to penetrate deep into their territory before inflicting a heavy defeat on them at the 1388 Battle of Bileća?
... that the mirror suggested by Elsie de Wolfe and added by James Amster to make his Amster Yard look bigger is still in place today?
... that Fantasia's single "Sleeping with the One I Love" was described as "five minutes of slow-burning flame"?
... that Adele Schulenburg Gleeson, an American sculptor active in Missouri and Connecticut, studied sculpture under George Julian Zolnay and Charles Grafly?
... that Wolfgang Fortner composed the chamber opera In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa after Lorca for the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, where it opened the Festival in 1962?
... that Wilfrid Oulton was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking three U-boats in one month?
... that Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack wrote a book based on an index card?
... that the bell of the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon, was cast from Civil War cannons?
... that former Howard University professor George Gyan-Baffour opposed Ghana's decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund?
... that Cardiff City F.C. is the only non-English team to have won the FA Cup?
... that a Buncombe County, North Carolina, deputy sheriff interrupted his convalescence from back surgery to investigate a body discovered 20 years ago today and crushed his sciatic nerve as a result?
... that after ABC passed on the television pilot Marvel's Most Wanted in May 2015, it was reworked, only to be passed on again the following May?
... that the premiere of the opera Wintermärchen by Philippe Boesmans, based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, featured jazz-rock music by the Belgian group Aka Moon?
... that when her husband was shot by police during a Quit India protest march, Tara Rani Srivastava bandaged his wounds with her sari and continued leading the march?
... that an animal called the "Seaweed of Death from Hana" has caused poisonings of aquarium hobbyists?
... that the Brazilian coastal defense ship Deodoro was once mistaken for a war-bound privateer?
... that Bipin Ganatra, an electrician by trade, has voluntarily helped Kolkata firefighters battle more than 100 fires over the past 40 years?
... that with Classics in 2014, the musical duo She & Him charted their fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard charts for Folk Albums?
... that Oshkosh Alpha's ShieldAll armor incorporates research conducted for NASCAR after the death of Dale Earnhardt?
... that the Indian film editor Beena Paul made her feature film debut with Amma Ariyan (1986)?
... that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded?
... that according to reviewers, soprano Simone Schneider of the Staatsoper Stuttgart "expresses Alcestis' agitation, nobility and joy with a moving simplicity" and "was a headstrong, vibrant Empress"?
... that the Bartley-Fox Law mandated a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of illegally carrying a firearm in Massachusetts?
... that Jingu Bashi bridge in Tokyo is a tourist attraction frequented daily by cosplay, visual kei , and gothic Lolita fashion fans?
... that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki co-wrote the German libretto of Ubu Rex, his only opera buffa, based on the French play Ubu Roi?
... that though Mohsin Raza was made the Minority Affairs Minister of an Indian state, he was a member of neither the state legislative assembly nor the legislative council?
... that evidence of beavers in Opossum Brook was first detected in 1929, by a man on his way to Hell's Kitchen?
... that Danish historian Elisabeth Munksgaard was given a "fine finale" to her career with a costumed eleventh-century king?
... that a marine species of dinoflagellate was implicated when 200 Italian beachgoers became ill in 2005?
... that Adeline Palmier Wagoner wrote Madame Beaulieu: A Colonial Dame, a biography of her ancestor, a social leader in Cahokia?
... that the online game slither.io was the most Googled game in the United States in 2016?
... that the largest theft in Canadian history occurred 45 years ago today, when jewellery and 18 paintings were stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
... that after appearing in more than 50 films, Priyanka Chopra's first-ever audition was for the American television series Quantico?
... that Liberian labor leader Amos Gray became involved in labor activism while being a part-time port worker during his college years?
... that the social thriller film genre has been popularized in the United States by Get Out director Jordan Peele and in India by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan?
... that Geneve L. A. Shaffer, known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot?
... that Pachycondyla succinea queens were first described in 1868, but males were not described until 2009?
... that Manon Antoniazzi gave Welsh lessons to Prince William, the son of the Prince of Wales?
... that scrap metal from demolition work during construction of the Capitol Hill station was sold to fund meals for the homeless?
... that Kofi Dzamesi, the Minister for Chieftancy and Religious Affairs in Ghana, survived an assassination attempt in 2008?
... that Brahms composed the first of Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano more than 20 years after the second?
... that the ciliate Zoothamnium niveum is so densely covered by symbiotic microbes that it appears white to the naked eye?
... that Michael M. York and Jeffrey A. Marx received death threats for their 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning series exposing improper cash payoffs to Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players?
... that an Edmonton man who unknowingly bought a $1.2 million artwork stolen six years ago today, kept it in his bedroom next to Star Wars figures and stuffed animals?
... that the artificial lake Auesee has become a popular recreation spot known as the "jewel" of Wesel?
... that tango music composer Cátulo Castillo was once featherweight champion of Argentina, and went to the 1924 Summer Olympics?
... that Transformers character Bumblebee will feature in his own film, which is currently in production in California?
... that Carol Smith appeared as Verdi's Eboli, Amneris and Azucena at the Opernhaus Zürich, and recorded his Mrs. Quickly in German?
... that prior to the season, the 2016–17 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team lost two players to graduation, three others who transferred, and two assistant coaches who took head coaching jobs?
... that the navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders is thought to be buried under Platform 15 at Euston railway station?
... that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II?
... that Bohemia Interactive bought a T-72 tank, stating: "A massive tanks goes out to everyone who has supported the studio and its games throughout the past 16 years"?
... that when Helen Huntington Hull inherited Among the Sierra Nevada, California by Albert Bierstadt, she had it glued directly to a wall of her mansion?
... that the Daniel Webster Debate Society of Phillips Exeter Academy, founded in 1818, is the oldest secondary school literary society in the United States?
... that Elisabeth Kulman, Gora in the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera, changed from soprano to mezzo, and from opera singer to concert singer?
... that forest rings had gone unnoticed by geologists until aerial photography became a common surveying tool in the 1950s?
... that Ghanaian entrepreneur and journalist Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, who heads the newly created Ministry of Business Development, has pledged to triple the country's GDP?
... that Dolomedes schauinslandi , one of New Zealand's largest spiders, could be capable of ballooning between islands?
... that E. Joy Johnson wrote The Foreman of the J.A.6. based on her experience owning a ranch in frontierland Wyoming?
... that the Thirteenth Doctor, to be portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, will be the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who?
... that the 2007–08 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team did not lose a single game in the month of February?
... that surgeon Sir Terence English, who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK in August 1979, had an earlier career in mining engineering?
... that the wildlife of Turkmenistan includes 82 species of reptile but only 5 of amphibian?
... that three hospitals and two other medical facilities were combined to form the Queens Hospital Center in New York City?
... that as CEO of Nestlé Mexico, Eugenio Minvielle Lagos pushed for the "pull strategy"?
... that Onesimus Ustonson supplied fishing tackle to the naturalist Joseph Banks for the second voyage of James Cook?
... that the Ethiopian hare is endemic to Africa, and is found in the Afromontane Biozone of Ethiopia and the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone?
... that during the Dubin Inquiry, lead counsel Robert P. Armstrong questioned Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson about his anabolic steroid use?
... that officers from the Albuquerque Police Department lied to the Albuquerque Journal when providing details regarding the death of Victoria Martens?
... that a GRIM test on a sample of published psychology articles revealed that over half contained at least one mathematically impossible result?
... that Catie Munnings, winner of the 2016 FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy, was the first British driver to win a European rally title in 49 years?
... that the bazaar fly is a vector for trachoma, the leading global cause of preventable blindness?
... that instead of giving the keys to the city to visiting dignitaries, the mayor of Calgary "white hats" them?
... that Sergeant Stanley McDougall was awarded the Victoria Cross for single-handedly killing many Germans with a Lewis gun during the First Battle of Dernancourt?
... that Francis Poulenc composed the motets for male voices Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise on the request of a relative who was a Franciscan friar?
... that the film NUDE is about a talent search that was inspired by the Pirelli Calendars of the 1970s?
... that Jean Ginsburg established one of the first clinics in Britain for menopausal women?
... that Brigham Young Unversity's International Harp Archive has more than 11,000 scores and sound recordings that feature the harp?
... that Cuban parliamentarian Teté Puebla is the first female general in the nation's history?
... that when breeding, the polychaete worm Syllis prolifera produces a detachable "stolon" which joins other stolons to swarm in the water column?
... that Usain Bolt and Roger Federer have each won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year a record four times since its inception in 2000?
... that the Antonov An-70 was the first aircraft to take flight powered only by propfans?
... that computer science lecturer Cynthia B. Lee promoted the use of gender-neutral language across her department at Stanford University?
... that Topolnița Cave is home to the largest colony of greater horseshoe bats in Europe?
... that the brief biographies of Italian artists by the Anonimo Gaddiano were written before Vasari's Lives of 1550, but not published until 1892?
... that Cranston Public Library delivered 4,657 items to homebound residents of Cranston, Rhode Island, in 2016 alone?
... that Czech linguist Miroslav Komárek spent his entire six-decade academic career at Palacký University in Olomouc?
... that in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"?
... that Floor's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's bingo wing"?
... that the cremation pyres built for Thai royal funerals symbolize Mount Meru, the Hindu centre of the universe?
... that Robert Traill was featured in an episode of Victoria, written by his great-great-great-granddaughter Daisy Goodwin?
... that the Arago hotspot may have been creating volcanoes, islands, atolls, and seamounts such as Îles Maria, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands for the past 120 million years?
... that John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk's preparations for the 1415 Agincourt campaign cost him £2,000 and included a seat for his own toilet?
... that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km2) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the Three Sisters Wilderness area?
... that Altan Xire, the main township of a rural county in Inner Mongolia, has an extensive urban skyline?
... that the first opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini premiered at the Theater Erfurt, the second at the Theater Basel, and the third at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2017?
... that The Black Swan at Oldstead is rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor?
... that although the gall midge Schizomyia viticola can produce up to 135 galls on a single grape vine leaf, the plant is not harmed?
... that the hymn "Den Herren will ich loben", which Maria Luise Thurmair based on the Magnificat to a popular 1613 melody, was arranged with trumpets and timpani for a papal visit in Munich's Frauenkirche?
... that Ashley Hatch was named 2017 NWSL Rookie of the Year and helped the North Carolina Courage win the 2017 NWSL Shield, scoring seven goals in 24 games?
... that Latvian-born Lazar Bach became chair of the Communist Party of South Africa, but died in a Gulag?
... that the new tour by "Weird Al" Yankovic focuses on Yankovic's original songs, as opposed to his staple parody songs?
... that researchers found that sending birthday cards to 21-year-olds did not help reduce harmful birthday drinking?
... that Siegfried Fietz wrote a popular melody for "Von guten Mächten", one of more than 3,000 song melodies he composed?
... that in a sample of medical reviews, useless treatments were just as likely to be recommended for further research as were useful treatments?
... that Theresa Goell spent much of her life working on excavations at Nemrud Dagh in Turkey, but never discovered the tomb of Antiochus I of Commagene that she hoped to find there?
... that the coral Pocillopora elegans is considered "vulnerable" after being severely depleted in the eastern Pacific during the 1982–1983 El Niño event?
... that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children, a film with a budget of US$1 million, while she was still a university student?
... that Everything Everything's third album, Get to Heaven, was at one point bookmakers' favourite for the 2015 Mercury Prize, but was ultimately not even nominated?
... that Niaz A. Naik played a pivotal role in back-channel talks during the Kargil War between India and Pakistan?
... that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada?
... that Leo Nocentelli was one of the primary songwriters of the New Orleans funk band The Meters?
... that the 2017 Vegas eRace carried a total prize fund of $1 million, the largest in eSports racing history?
... that Karim Morani teamed up with Shah Rukh Khan in 2013 to co-produce the commercially successful film Chennai Express?
... that although Arthur Schopenhauer had not invited her and initially refused to cooperate, Elisabet Ney nevertheless sculpted his portrait bust?
... that Sam Bosworth is the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event with a female crew?
... that Rhipicephalus pulchellus is sometimes known by its common name "the zebra tick", both because zebras are one of its main hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?
... that in the 1951–52 Indian general election, the 27-year old Sunkam Achalu was elected by the largest margin?
... that Governor David B. Hill prevented New York from carrying out a state census in 1885?
... that looming war between the Dacian king Burebista and Julius Caesar was preempted by the assassination of both leaders?
... that Icelandic chess grandmaster Margeir Pétursson founded the country's only commercial bank that did not crash during the financial crisis of 2007–08?
... that the Canales investigation heard 80 witnesses describing murders, kidnappings, and other crimes committed by the Texas Rangers in the early 20th century?
... that John Potter's story of his role as a secret agent in occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
... that people have suffered an Antabuse-type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?
... that the family of Tejano lawmaker José Tomás Canales feared he would be assassinated during his 1919 investigation into the Texas Rangers?
... that Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is the highest grossing film in India, with a domestic collection of over ₹12.53 billion?
... that Melahat Okuyan, a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health?
... that a host venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be built in Kamaishi, which suffered major damage during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that Agnes Robertson served in the Australian Senate until she was 79, and switched political parties at the age of 73?
... that Australian surgeon Helen Sexton came out of retirement to open a field hospital in France during World War I?
... that the United States Coast Guard and China Coast Guard regularly deploy officers aboard each other's vessels as a part of United States–China security cooperation?
... that out of the thirteen Nippon Professional Baseball seasons that have included interleague play, the Pacific League has beaten the Central League in all but one?
... that the discovery of a fossilized frog in the Caves of Kesh in 1901 disproved a common belief that the species was only introduced into Ireland in 1699?
... that Loggerhead Key was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western Hemisphere mangroves and coral reefs?
... that mezzo-soprano Patricia Johnson appeared as Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and created the roles of a Nabokov Princess and a Henze Baroness?
... that the sea gastropod Coriocella nigra has an internal shell and four or five bosses on its body?
... that the workshop of August Volz supplied decorations for the Latvian National Opera, Latvian National Theatre, Latvian National Museum of Art, and Art Academy of Latvia?
... that California High-Speed Rail's proposed Pacheco Pass Tunnel is expected to become the longest rail tunnel in North America?
... that Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with Monteverdi?
... that Selna Kaplan led the first clinical trials of artificial growth hormone in the United States?
... that the banded nemertean ribbon worm readily breaks into pieces, each of which can regenerate into a new individual within four weeks?
... that Canan Bayram was the only member of Alliance 90/The Greens directly elected to the German parliament in the 2017 election?
... that besides feeding on carpets, the larvae of the common carpet beetle can destroy dried insects in collections?
... that Fawad Khan appeared in Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2014, 2015, and 2016?
... that Grangemoor Park in Cardiff, Wales, was created on top of a former landfill site of household and commercial rubbish?
... that captured women and girls were sold for 10 to 20 Mexican dollars during the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong?
... that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi, subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built?
... that one critic described the plot of Nude for Satan as "the Devil is bored and wants to have an orgy. Oh, and Calderoni gets molested by a giant spider"?
... that the State Reception Room in Olympia, Washington, has what was once the world's largest single-loom carpet?
... that after nearly six decades of collecting Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina?
... that the earliest record of the Toronto cocktail is from 1922, when the city of Toronto was under prohibition?
... that Andy Boarman ran a popular music store and instrument workshop out of his Hedgesville barber shop?
... that John D. Hoffman was the only member of the Manhattan District to be awarded the Soldier's Medal, the United States Army's highest award for heroism in a non-combat situation?
... that based on genetic data, the western oriole and the green-headed oriole are sister species?
... that after viewing footage from his 1970 film Serene Velocity, director Ernie Gehr felt nauseated?
... that although most sea anemones are harmless to humans, a few are venomous and some can be lethal?
... that in 1471, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, considered himself unable to attend parliament in London with a sufficiently large retinue for a duke, and so refused to do so?
... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"?
... that Myron Prinzmetal gave his name to Prinzmetal's angina, a type of chest pain that occurs at rest?
... that Qit'at Jaradah, an island in the Persian Gulf, rises only 0.4 metres (1 ft 4 in) above water at high tide?
... that in August 2017, the Cinder Butte Fire threatened important archaeological sites in Central Oregon?
... that Prince of Wallachia Radu Paisie was deposed by his Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"?
... that both sides in the Battle of Emmendingen lost their commanding general, one to a musket ball, the other to a cannonball?
... that filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy and humorist John Hodgman co-edited a controversial high school magazine?
... that the milky ribbon worm feeds on soft-shell clams, inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
... that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of indigenous people, were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores?
... that the butterfly Calycopis pisis has a junior synonym named after American cartoonist Gary Larson?
... that Erich Mühe, the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by laparoscopy, was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?
... that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature have access to a private club in the building?