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24 July 2024
- 00:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Jenny Hurn
23 July 2024
- 00:00, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Scybalium fungiforme flower
22 July 2024
- 00:00, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Women's 400 metres hurdles medallists at the 2024 EAC
21 July 2024
- 00:00, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
Tobie Goedewaagen
- ... that Tobie Goedewaagen (pictured), a minister under the Nazi occupation government, fled the Netherlands with his belongings in a bedspread?
- ... that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas, who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was that year's youngest contest entrant?
- ... that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family?
- ... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
- ... that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield?
- ... that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
- ... that Peter Talbot, the Catholic archbishop of Dublin, was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy?
- ... that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
- ... that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum?
- ... that 17-year-old women's basketball player Zhang Ziyu is at least 220 centimetres (7 ft 3 in) tall?
20 July 2024
- 00:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Big Duck
19 July 2024
- 00:00, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Red Rock sunflower
18 July 2024
- 00:12, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Nathan Steuer
17 July 2024
- 00:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
H. J. Lovink Pumping Station
- ... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
- ... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
- ... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
- ... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
- ... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
- ... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
- ... that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
- ... that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
- ... that a video accompanying ML Buch's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
16 July 2024
- 00:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Giado concentration camp
15 July 2024
- 00:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Adam and Eve by Ludwig Krug
14 July 2024
- 00:00, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Hermanus Johannes Lovink
13 July 2024
- 00:00, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Toe used in the Sourtoe Cocktail
12 July 2024
- 00:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
Republica hickeyi leaf
11 July 2024
- 00:00, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Yevhen Klopotenko
10 July 2024
- 00:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Dreamtime
- ... that Dreamtime (pictured) is one of the world's most famous bouldering routes?
- ... that Jopie and Teun Roosenburg led an art colony at Oost Castle that helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to Belgium?
- ... that Flyover, a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy, was published in French but not in English?
- ... that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
- ... that in The Servile State, Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
- ... that the 2024 Doctor Who episode "Dot and Bubble" was first conceptualized in 2009?
- ... that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan?
- ... that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game, which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
- ... that barbarians would have bought cake, not pie, at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar?
9 July 2024
Isle of Dogs Pumping Station
8 July 2024
Nakanoseto Bridge on the Akinada Tobishima Kaido
7 July 2024
Paul Parkman
6 July 2024
Sage cultivation, 14th-century manuscript
5 July 2024
George Kunkel
4 July 2024
A Guardian Cap being worn in 2023
3 July 2024
Ernest J. King
2 July 2024
Detail of a frog on a banknote
1 July 2024
Sea Life Brighton, formerly Brighton Aquarium