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30 April 2024
- 00:00, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
G299.2-2.9
29 April 2024
- 00:00, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Francis of Delirium
28 April 2024
- 00:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
N661US
27 April 2024
- 00:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Mirna El Helbawi
26 April 2024
- 00:00, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Vicky López
- ... that Vicky López (pictured) took up horse riding during a six-month period when she was not allowed to play football?
- ... that Blackpink's "Pink Venom" incorporates the sounds of traditional Korean instruments such as the geomungo?
- ... that Iona Allen, "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material?
- ... that Vostok 2022 marked the most comprehensive participation of Chinese forces in a Russian military exercise to date?
- ... that the chandelier Pokémon Chandelure is a playable character in the fighting game Pokkén Tournament?
- ... that the REM de l'Est, a planned light rail network, was abandoned due to its controversial use of elevated railways in downtown Montreal?
- ... that Porter Robinson listened to excerpts of 100,000 songs in two years to create his EP Virtual Self?
- ... that tokoyama (traditional Japanese hairdressers) working in kabuki are divided into specialties named after the floors of the Kabuki-za?
- ... that the Puyallup people traditionally took ritual sweat baths before hunting, after intercourse, and even as a sport?
25 April 2024
- 00:00, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Celestial globe by Åkerman
24 April 2024
- 00:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Mamiko Tanaka
23 April 2024
- 00:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Stanley Cup rioter in Vancouver
22 April 2024
- 00:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Calamophyton tree
21 April 2024
- 00:00, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Charles Holland
20 April 2024
- 00:00, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
East Quoddy Head Light
19 April 2024
- 00:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Election portrait of Komeng
18 April 2024
- 00:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Ivanka Trump
17 April 2024
- 00:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Cover-up tattoo depicting a ladder
16 April 2024
- 00:00, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Max Whitlock
- ... that Max Whitlock (pictured) is the most successful gymnast on the pommel horse at the Olympics, with two golds and a bronze?
- ... that ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants?
- ... that pianist and composer Josef Weiss created the first film score in the history of German cinema?
- ... that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
- ... that Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only one of his brothers, who together led a rebellion against the president of Peru, to survive a subsequent riot?
- ... that the heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo abandoned a brand-new mansion in New York City and refused to sell, rent, or maintain it?
- ... that even though he read the articles of sportswriter Bud Lea "religiously", Vince Lombardi often made his job difficult whenever he interviewed him?
- ... that the Comboio Presidencial, a train that carried the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro from 1890, had the Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
- ... that Kully Thiarai made a theatre in Doncaster a "living room" for the town?
15 April 2024
- 12:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Georgiana Bonser
- 00:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Jennifer Martz (background) hitting
14 April 2024
- 12:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Look from The Girl Who Lived in the Tree
- 00:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Aiming stone in Beşiktaş
13 April 2024
- 12:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Grave with the Hands
- 00:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
George W. Munroe
12 April 2024
- 12:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Akshayapureeswarar Temple
- ... that the Hindu god Shani is worshipped for protection from fear, accident, death and enemies in the 13th-century Akshayapureeswarar Temple (pictured)?
- ... that Independence Lost argues that most support for the American Revolution was non-ideological?
- ... that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady?
- ... that some people with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome can lose the ability to speak?
- ... that Premier Maurice Duplessis, angry at the fact that the federal government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the provinces, once demanded that Ottawa "return our loot"?
- ... that with a population of 1,500, Millstreet in County Cork, Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the Eurovision Song Contest when it staged the 1993 event?
- ... that the mansions in the Herodian Quarter contain frescoes with burn marks and charred wooden beams, serving as evidence of Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD?
- ... that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia?
- ... that Turkish sport shooter Şimal Yılmaz, who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, had a shooting range in her living room?
- 00:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
11 April 2024
- 12:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Game Boy Color connected to a cell phone via an adapter
- 00:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Oakland California Temple
10 April 2024
- 12:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- 00:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile
- ... that the whereabouts of the painting Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (pictured) were unknown for more than 100 years?
- ... that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Ossetians?
- ... that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
- ... that Cliff Christl, who became the Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250 oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
- ... that at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
- ... that the positive reception for Until Dawn, developed by Supermassive Games, caught Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
- ... that the Seattle Storm had a ten-season streak of playoff appearances?
- ... that Stan Brakhage's film Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
- ... that Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for Cap'n Jazz's only album, Shmap'n Shmazz, during his first experience with psilocybin mushrooms?
9 April 2024
- 12:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Ramadan prayers
- 00:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Riley Jackson
- ... that on her first trip abroad, Riley Jackson (pictured) won the Golden Ball as the best player of the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship?
- ... that the word algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of bonesetting?
- ... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti?
- ... that Illieston House, a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
- ... that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison?
- ... that in the 3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
- ... that the historian al-Rushati was martyred during the fall of Almería in 1147?
- ... that female Eriopis connexa beetles prevent sibling cannibalism by laying unfertilized eggs?
- ... that Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz was enrolled in the military at the age of ten?
8 April 2024
- 12:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Aphaena submaculata
- 00:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Hibiscus Rising
7 April 2024
- 12:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Camilo Cienfuegos (left) and Fidel Castro (right)
- ... that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos (pictured) freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?
- ... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
- ... that in the first Romanian universal chronicle, Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of Olympian deities"?
- ... that Rodney, Mississippi, became a ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
- ... that Wayne Jacobs said that without football he would have been "dead by 30, or in prison"?
- ... that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
- ... that a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from Slaughterhouse-Five?
- ... that Centre College co-president Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while Robert J. McMullen, the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
- ... that a Japanese island has rapidly fluctuated in size?
- 00:00, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
6 April 2024
- 12:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
The Feast of Bacchus by Philips Koninck
- 00:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
5 April 2024
- 12:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Untitled (2012–2013) by Aleksandra Waliszewska
- 00:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
White-tailed jay
4 April 2024
- 12:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Hell Gate Bridge
- 00:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Teleseme
3 April 2024
- 12:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Barren Island
- 00:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Lviv headquarters of the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav
2 April 2024
- 00:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Artist's impression of a ray cat
1 April 2024
- 00:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Sodankylä Old Church