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===30 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox.jpg|100x100px|[Ulysses S.] Grant from West Point to Appomattox]]
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*... that after serving in the Swedish and French militaries, '''[[Thure de Thulstrup]]''' later gained a reputation as "the foremost military artist in America" ''(example shown)''?
*... that the [[Norway|Norwegian]] airline '''[[History of Braathens SAFE (1946–93)|Braathens]]'''{{`}} '''[[Braathens destinations|destinations]]''' included seven offshore oil fields served by '''[[Braathens Helikopter]]'''?
*... that Sister '''[[Pearl Corkhill]]''' was one of only seven [[Australia]]n [[military nurse]]s to win the [[Military Medal]] in the [[First World War]]?
*... that the 2006 [[The Dawn (band)|The Dawn]] album ''[[Tulad Ng Dati (album)|Tulad Ng Dati]]'' was not intended to serve as a [[soundtrack album]] for the '''[[Tulad Ng Dati (film)|film of the same title]]'''?
*... that in eastern [[Turkey]] around '''[[1900 BCE Near East mass migration|1900 BCE, a Near East mass migration]]''' set in motion a vast wave of refugees that changed the [[Demographic history of Greece|population of Greece]] forever?
*... that [[Canada|Canadian]] writer [[Carol Shields]] died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, '''''[[The Republic of Love]]''''', despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
*... that rigged '''[[elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus]]''' became an official legitimization of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] annexation of [[Kresy|eastern Poland]] in 1939? 
*... that when the play '''''[[Trafford Tanzi]]''''' was produced on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], the cast included singer [[Deborah Harry]] as a [[professional wrestler]] and comedian [[Andy Kaufman]] as a [[Referee (professional wrestling)|referee]]?
* '''''12:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Raranimus dashankouensis (2).jpg|100x100px|Raranimus]]
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*... that the recently described [[synapsid]] '''''[[Raranimus]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is the most [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Therapsida]], from which [[mammal]]s are a descendant taxon?
*... that, in 2007, the spiritual needs of the residents of '''[[Linxia County]]''' were served by 445 [[imam]]s, 12 [[Taoist priest]]s, 31 [[Buddhist monk]]s, 15 [[lama]]s,  and 3 [[living Buddha]]s?
*... that the '''[[Chrysotriklinos]]''', the ceremonial hall of the [[Great Palace of Constantinople|Great Palace]] of [[Constantinople]], was the model for [[Charlemagne]]'s [[Palatine Chapel in Aachen|Palatine Chapel]] in the [[Palace of Aachen]]?
*... that at the [[United Kingdom general election, 1895|1895 United Kingdom General Election]], '''[[Tankerville Chamberlayne]]'''{{`s}} election as a [[Member of Parliament]] was declared void because of [[electoral fraud]]?
*... that the persecuted [[Cagots]] were only allowed to use the special [[holy water font]] when attending the church in '''[[Saint-Savin, Hautes-Pyrénées|Saint-Savin]]'''? 
*... that '''[[Typhoon Choi-wan (2009)|Typhoon Choi-wan]]''' was the first [[SSHS#Category 5|Category 5]] equivalent [[tropical cyclone|super typhoon]] on the [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale]] during 2009?
*... that when [[Member of Parliament|M.P.]] and [[Lord Mayor of London|Lord Mayor]], '''[[Sir James Sanderson, 1st Baronet|Sir James Sanderson, bart.]]''' died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of '''[[William Huntington (preacher)|William Huntington S.S.]]'''?
*... that the '''[[Black African Students Federation in France]]''' (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the [[France|French]] 1965 ''[[Loi Cadre]]'', which it considered as a move to [[Balkanization|Balkanize]] [[Africa]]?
* '''''04:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:French Chasseurs on outpost in Tunis 1881.jpg|100x100px|French troops in Tunis]]
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*... that the '''[[French occupation of Tunisia]]''' in 1881 ''(troops pictured)'' received the approval of both [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Great Britain]] and [[German Empire|Germany]], but that [[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Italy]] protested in vain?
*... that bankers, airline executives, [[Academy Award]]-winning directors, [[Bob Geldof]] and a representative from [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]] were among delegates who attended the '''[[Global Irish Economic Forum]]''' in September 2009?
*... that lawyer, politician and anti-immigration activist '''[[Erik Gjems-Onstad]]''' also initiated the [[cyclosportive]] [[Styrkeprøven]]?
*... that the [[United Bible Society]] and [[Norway|Norwegian]] Protestant Mission have provided a ''[[New Testament]]'' in the [[Xaasongaxango language|Khassonké language]] for the [[Mali]]an commune '''[[Tomora]]'''?
*... that in 1960, [[Archbishop]] '''[[Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara]]''' became the first [[Nunciature to Great Britain|papal representative]] to visit the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Houses of Parliament]] in four centuries?
*... that '''[[Matt Brown (track and field athlete)|Matt Brown]]''', from [[Idalou, Texas|Idalou]], [[Texas]], won the [[gold]] medal for [[discus]] with a prosthetic leg at the 2008 [[Parapan American Games]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]]?
*... that unlike most [[Great Depression|Depression]]-era [[armory (military)|armories]] in New York, the '''[[Schenectady Armory]]''' was built in the center of its city rather than on its outskirts?
*... that "'''[[Pawnee Zoo]]'''", an episode of the American television comedy ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', features a fictional [[same-sex marriage]] between two penguins?

===29 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Breakers Hotel.jpg|100x100px|Breakers Hotel]]
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*... that the Sky Room atop the '''[[Breakers Hotel (Long Beach, California)|Breakers Hotel]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the local Airwatch headquarters in [[World War II]]?
*... that '''[[ferritic nitrocarburizing]]''' is a [[ferrous]] [[case hardening]] process that causes little shape distortion because of its low temperature (below 650 °C)? 
*... that '''[[Mette Hanekamhaug]]''', at 22, became the youngest parliamentarian elected in the [[Norwegian parliamentary election, 2009|2009 Norwegian parliamentary election]]?
*... that the first '''[[USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships|United States national track and field championships]]''' were organized by the [[New York Athletic Club]] in 1876?
*... that the "severe" and "assertive" '''[[St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea|former St Peter's Church]]''' in [[Shoreham-by-Sea]] was converted into a [[nursing home]], retaining many of its original features?
*... that former [[Louisiana Public Service Commission]]er '''[[Dale Sittig]]''' was credited with obtaining lighting for the [[Louisiana State University at Eunice]]'s [[baseball]] stadium?
*... that '''[[Marcel Oopa]]''', [[French National Assembly]] member from [[Tahiti]] and the [[French Polynesia|Polynesian]] autonomist '''[[Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People|R.D.P.T]]''', died on [[Bastille Day]] 1961?
*... that [[Buster Keaton]] built a [[trestle bridge]] near '''[[Culp Creek, Oregon]]''', just to burn it down for [[The General (1927 film)|a movie]]?
* '''''12:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Torquato Tasso.jpg|100x100px|Torquato Tasso]]
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*... that ''[[Jerusalem Delivered]]'', the epic poem by [[Torquato Tasso]] ''(pictured)'', has inspired at least 100 '''[[List of operas set in the Crusades|operas set in the Crusades]]'''?
*... that [[Admiral (United Kingdom)|Admiral]] '''[[Francis Wheler|Sir Francis Wheler's]]''' mangled body was washed up two days after the loss of his [[flagship]] {{HMS|Sussex|1693|6}} in 1694?
*... that a pastor of the '''[[First Congregational Church (Long Beach, California)|First Congregational Church]]''' in [[Long Beach, California]], vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
*... that the historical region of [[Colchis]] in which the '''[[Kolkheti National Park]]''' of western [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] is now located appears in the [[Jason#The Quest for the Golden Fleece|Jason and the Argonauts]] myth?
*... that the 1955 Hindi film '''''[[Vachan]]''''' marked composer [[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]]'s debut as a film music director?
*... that after the [[Division I]] [[men's basketball]] [[coach (basketball)|coach]] '''[[Norman Shepard]]''' went undefeated in his first year, he quit?
*... that '''[[Travis Touchdown]]''', the [[anti-hero]] of the [[Wii]] [[video game]] ''[[No More Heroes (video game)|No More Heroes]]'', was so named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"?
* '''''04:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:SS West Haven.jpg|100x100px|SS West Haven]]
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*... that only one '''[[Skinner & Eddy]]''' ship built for [[World War I]] service was lost in that conflict, but 31—including '''{{SS|West Lashaway||2}}''', '''{{USS|West Elcasco|ID-3661|2}}''', '''{{SS|West Eldara||2}}''', '''{{USS|West Haven|ID-2159|2}}''' ''(pictured)'', '''{{USS|West Hobomac|ID-3335|2}}''', '''{{SS|West Humhaw||2}}''' and '''{{SS|West Maximus||2}}'''—were lost to enemy action in [[World War II]]?
*... that [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]'s annual '''[[National Ploughing Championships]]''' is Europe's largest [[Agriculture|agricultural]] event?
*... that '''[[Yilun Yang]]''' is ranked as a [[Go ranks and ratings|7 dan]] in the [[Go (game)|board game Go]]?
*... that the 1920 film '''''[[Sex (film)|Sex]]''''', opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in [[Pennsylvania]]?
*... that the [[rice rat]] "'''''[[Oryzomys hypenemus]]'''''", first identified from bones collected from caves in [[Antigua and Barbuda]] as early as 1958, still lacks a [[International Code of Zoological Nomenclature|formal scientific name]]?
*... that '''[[B.G. Dyess]]''' was elected to the [[Louisiana State Senate|Louisiana Senate]] at the age of 73?
*... that no one was allowed to take photographs of the '''[[Beardmore Relics]]''' for more than thirty years?

===28 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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*... that the first practical '''[[amphibious helicopter]]''' was created in 1941 when [[Igor Sikorsky]] fitted [[Floats (nautical)|floats]] to his [[Vought-Sikorsky VS-300|VS-300]] ''(pictured)''?
*...that when '''[[Friedrich Oskar Giesel|Friedrich Giesel]]''' discovered [[actinium]] independently from [[André-Louis Debierne]], he wanted to call it "emanium"?
*... that the '''[[First Presbyterian Church of Redmond|First Presbyterian Church]]''' of [[Redmond, Oregon|Redmond]], [[Oregon]], is the city's oldest church?
*... that '''[[Emanuel Levenson]]''' married the [[Fay Kleinman|widow]] of the [[Jack Skurnick|record producer]] of his only surviving recording?
*... that '''[[Lunugamvehera National Park]]''' is one of the [[protected area]]s where the [[near threatened]] species [[Tufted Gray Langur]] occurs?
*... that [[Romania]]n writer [[Eugène Ionesco]] deemed critic '''[[Şerban Cioculescu]]''' "stupid by obligation" during a cultural debate of the 1930s?
*... that [[Guo Moruo]] wrote a poem about the '''[[Liujiaxia Dam]]''', while the displaced farmers received about [[Renminbi|RMB]] 364 per person?
*... that [[Jo Swerling]] initially declined to rewrite [[Frank Capra]]'s first draft screenplay for the 1930 film '''''[[Ladies of Leisure]]''''' because he thought it was a "putrid piece of [[Gorgonzola (cheese)|gorgonzola]]"?
* '''''12:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Olmec mask 802.jpg|100x100px|Olmec mask]]
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*... that '''[[hardstone carving]]s''' in [[semi-precious]] stones range from [[Liangzhu culture|Neolithic]] [[Chinese jade]]s and [[Olmec]] face masks ''(example pictured)'' to tiny animals by [[House of Fabergé|Fabergé]]?
*... that besides being a [[clown]], [[mime]], [[juggler]], and [[sleight of hand]] [[magic (illusion)|magician]], [[vaudeville|vaudevillian]] '''[[Avner the Eccentric]]''' is a certified [[Ericksonian Hypnosis|Ericksonian hypnotist]]?
*... that the '''[[blurred lanternshark|blurred]]''' and '''[[smooth lanternshark]]s''' form a [[species group]] distinguished from the rest of their [[family (biology)|family]] by the shape and arrangement of their [[dermal denticle]]s?
*... that '''[[John C. Cremony]]''' was a [[Boston]] newspaperman and [[United States Army]] [[Major (United States)|Major]] who wrote the first [[dictionary]] of the [[Apache]] language and an account of their culture in 1869?
*... that [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], the only entire city in England to be a [[World Heritage Site]], was awarded that status largely because of its '''[[Buildings and architecture of Bath|buildings and architecture]]'''?
*... that '''[[Robert Bloet]]''', a medieval [[Bishop of Lincoln]], appointed his own son Simon as [[Dean of Lincoln]]?
*... that '''[[Trondheim Airport Station]]''' opened as the Nordic Countries's first [[airport rail link]] in 1994?
*... that '''[[Andy "The Bull" McSharry]]''', who was jailed for banning [[hillwalker]]s from his land, compared his opponents to the [[Mafia]] and patrolled his farm on a [[All-terrain vehicle|quad]]?
* '''''04:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Lanius excubitor srokosz AM.jpg|100x100px|A Great Grey Shrike roosting in Poland]]
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*... that '''[[Great Grey Shrike]]s''' ''(pictured)'' have been known to skilfully [[skinning|skin]] [[toad]]s to prevent the poisonous skin secretions from spoiling the meat?
*... that [[physical chemistry|physical chemists]] '''[[Isabella Karle]]''' and her [[Nobel Prize]]-winning husband [[Jerome Karle]] retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the [[United States Naval Research Laboratory|U.S. Naval Research Laboratory]]?
*... that reviewers called '''''[[The Wolf Woman]]''''' the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its star, [[Louise Glaum]], "the greatest vampire woman of all time"?
*... that '''[[Sandouping]]''', [[China]], has not only [[Three Gorges Dam|the world's largest power plant]], but also 1,000 hectares of [[citrus]] orchards?
*... that after limited success in [[film]], [[actor]] '''[[Patrick McVey]]''' won starring roles in three [[television series]]: ''[[Big Town]]'', ''[[Boots and Saddles (TV series)|Boots and Saddles]]'', and ''[[Manhunt (TV series)|Manhunt]]''?
*... that the [[United States]] [[revenue cutter]] '''''[[Jefferson Davis (revenue cutter)|Jefferson Davis]]''''' was named in 1853 for [[Jefferson Davis]], later president of the [[Confederate States of America]]?
*... that '''[[Ilyas Kashmiri (militant)|Ilyas Kashmiri]]''' was an elite [[Special Service Group|Pakistani commando]] before he was killed by a [[Drone attacks in Pakistan|U.S. drone]] in 2009?
*... that the landmark '''[[Insurance Exchange Building]]''' in [[Long Beach, California]], has housed a boy's clothing store, courthouse, dance studio, nightclub and [[Jamaica]]n restaurant?

===27 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Ayudha Pooja.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that in modern [[India]], the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of [[computer]]s during the '''[[Ayudha Puja]]''' ''(pictured)'', as practised in the past for other implements?
*... that '''[[Robert Waterman (sea captain)|Captain Robert Waterman]]''' set three speed records for sailing from [[China]] to [[New York]] in the 1840s? 
*... that '''''[[Studio Wall]]''''', an [[oil painting]] by the [[German]] artist [[Adolph Menzel]], is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity"?
*... that the '''[[Tibetan Annals]]''' form the oldest surviving [[Tibet]]an history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital, [[Chang'an]]? 
*... that the '''[[Benham Plateau]]''' is located in the West [[Philippines|Philippine]] Basin and its basement is probably a [[Continental fragment|micro-continent]]?
*... that the '''[[green lanternshark]]''' often preys on [[squid]] and [[octopus]] much larger than itself, which it may overwhelm by [[group hunting|attacking in packs]]?
*... that [[Ras (title)|Ras]] '''[[Alula Engida]]''' was called "the [[Garibaldi]] of [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]]"?
*... that [[Independence Day (United States)|U.S. Independence Day]] is celebrated every 4th of July in '''[[Rebild National Park]]''' in [[Himmerland]], [[Denmark]]?
* '''''12:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Il32-i.jpg|100x100px|Soviet transport glider Ilyushin Il-32]]
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*... that the nose and tail sections of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] '''[[Ilyushin Il-32]]''' prototype [[military glider|cargo glider]] ''(pictured)'' were hinged to open up to 95° to facilitate the loading of cargo?
*... that the '''[[Sanni Yakuma]]''' is a traditional [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]] [[exorcism]] and dance ritual that calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through comic and obscene enactments?
*... that as of 2009, '''[[Liz Shuler]]''' is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of [[AFL-CIO]] Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the [[national trade union center|labor federation's]] history?
*... that "'''[[Gossip (The Office)|Gossip]]'''", the [[The Office (U.S. TV series) season 6|sixth season]] premiere of ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'', saw an 18 percent [[Nielsen Ratings]] drop compared to the [[The Office (U.S. TV series) season 5|fifth season]] premiere, "[[Weight Loss (The Office)|Weight Loss]]"?
*... that just behind the [[Agave]] Garden on the '''[[Plaza Garibaldi]]''', a museum of [[tequila]] is being built, complete with a large tasting room?
*... that '''[[Jesse Sublett]]''' was a pioneer of the [[Austin, Texas]], [[punk rock]] scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the [[Texas Turnpike Authority]]?
*... that with [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]]'s victory in the '''[[2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final]]''', [[Tadhg Kennelly]] became the first person to win medals at the highest level of [[Australian rules football|Australian rules]] and [[Gaelic football]]?
*... that '''[[frogfish]]''' can suck prey into their mouths in just 6 [[millisecond]]s, too fast for other animals to see?
* '''''04:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Portland Vase BM Gem4036 n5.jpg|100x100px|Side A of the Portland Vase. Cameo-glass, probably made in Italy ca. 5–25 AD.]]
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*... that only about 200 fragments and 15 complete objects of early [[Roman glass|Roman]] '''[[cameo glass]]''' survive, including the [[Portland Vase]] ''(pictured)''?
*... that the song "'''[[Sentimental Lady]]'''," written by [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]], which appeared on [[Fleetwood Mac]]'s 1972 album, ''[[Bare Trees]]'', was re-recorded to feature on his 1977 debut album, ''[[French Kiss (album)|French Kiss]]''?
*... that during the [[sack of Rome (1527)|1527 sacking of Rome]] by imperial troops, '''[[William of Enckenvoirt]]''' paid 40,000 [[Italian scudo|scudi]] to protect his house and properties?
*... that '''[[Du Jun]]''' was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in [[Hong Kong]]'s biggest [[insider trading]] case?
*... that the '''[[Suceava North railway station]]''' in [[Suceava]] was selected as a location for the film ''[[Gruber's Journey]]'' because the filmmakers believed the architecture was reminiscent of [[World War II]]?
*... that some geologists say the '''[[Great Falls Tectonic Zone]]''' is a [[Shear (geology)|shear]], while others argue it is a [[Suture (geology)|suture]]?
*... that '''[[John T. Elson]]''', who famously asked, "[[Is God Dead?]]" in 1966, is dead at age 78?
*... that the '''[[largetooth cookiecutter shark]]''' has the largest [[shark tooth|teeth]] relative to its body of any living [[shark]]?

===26 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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*... that the adult ''(pictured)'' and juvenile specimens of the '''[[Red-capped Parrot]]''' were so different that its discoverer [[Heinrich Kuhl]] gave it the specific name ''spurius'', meaning "illegitimate"?
*... that the [[Italy|Italian]] [[comune]] of '''[[Acerno]]''' in the [[Province of Salerno]] was founded by refugees from [[Pontecagnano|Picentia]], destroyed by the [[Ancient Roman|Romans]] after the [[Second Punic War]]?
*... that the [[Carolina Liar]] single "'''[[Show Me What I'm Looking For]]'''" was described as "[[rock music]] for anyone who finds [[Snow Patrol]] a bit too giddy sometimes"?
*... that '''''[[Dirty Diaries]]''''' is a collection of [[Cinema of Sweden|Swedish]] [[pornography|pornographic]] [[feminist]] [[short film]]s that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money?
*... that the '''[[Ilyushin Il-18 (1947)|Ilyushin Il-18]]''' [[airliner]] was installed with different engines than those originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were unreliable?
*... that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, '''''[[Tulsa Tribune]]''''' as a cause of the [[Tulsa race riot]], but all copies of that page of the [[newspaper]] have apparently disappeared?
*... that the '''[[Peeters directive]]''' describes French-speaking residents of [[Flanders]], [[Belgium]], having [[municipalities with language facilities|the right to use French to deal with the government]] as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?
*... that after the release of [[The Beatles]]' "[[Lady Madonna]]" in March 1968, radio personality '''[[Larry Josephson]]''' liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
* '''''12:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:20080606 Tjasker Meestersveen Zeijen NL.jpg|100x100px|The tjasker near the Meestersveen, east of the Dutch village of Zeijen, Drenthe]]
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*... that one of the two [[tjasker]]s at '''[[Tjaskers in Drenthe|Zeijen, Drenthe]]''' (''pictured'') is listed as a [[Rijksmonument]]?
*... that the '''[[Chief Kno–Tah]]''' statue in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], was designed to incorporate features of [[Chief Joseph]]?
*... that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from '''[[Alice O'Sullivan]]'''{{'}}s victory in the 1959 [[The Rose of Tralee|Rose of Tralee]] pageant?
*... that '''[[Einar Sissener]]''' acted in the first Norwegian [[sound film]], ''Den store barnedåpen'' from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
*... that [[Tennessee]] politician '''[[Tommy Burnett]]''' easily won re-election to the [[Tennessee General Assembly|state legislature]] while he was in U.S. federal [[prison]]?
*... that '''[[Union College]]''' in [[Schenectady]], [[New York]], has the first comprehensively planned college [[campus]] and had the longest-serving [[University president|college or university president]] in the [[United States]]?
*... that according to Manichaean tradition '''[[Mar Ammo]]''' brought [[Manichaeanism]] east into [[Sogdiana]], and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]]?
*... that the [[AFL-CIO]] gained '''[[List of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO|its latest member union]]''' when the 265,000-member [[UNITE HERE]] reaffiliated on September 16, 2009?
* '''''04:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:SS Nikkosan Maru.jpg|100x100px|SS Nikkosan Maru (later USS Western Front)]]
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*... that many of the [[Cargo ship|freighters]] built by [[Skinner & Eddy]] for [[World War I]] service—including '''{{SS|Edenton||2}}''', '''{{SS|West Cressey||2}}''', '''{{SS|West Elcajon||2}}''', '''{{SS|West Gotomska||2}}''', '''{{SS|West Hosokie||2}}''', '''{{SS|West Loquassuck||2}}''', '''{{USS|West Mahomet|ID-3681|2}}''' and '''{{USS|Western Front|ID-1787|2}}''' ''(pictured)''—were quickly [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] into the [[United States Navy]] on completion?
*... that [[Sankey Tank]] in [[Bangalore]] is named after Sir '''[[Richard Hieram Sankey]]''', an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in [[British India]]?
*... that the namesake of the [[Victorian house|Victorian]] '''[[Bembridge House]]''' was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
*... that '''[[Trimön]]''', a [[Tibet]]an conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] [[14th Dalai Lama]] in 1935?
*... that the '''[[Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve]]''' in the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] of [[California]] contains an ancient [[seabed]] with [[fossil]]s of various marine lifeforms, such as [[sand dollar]]s and [[Bivalvia|bivalves]]?
*... that the history of '''[[Bulgarians in Italy]]''' dates to the 7th&nbsp;century, when groups of [[Bulgars]] settled in several regions of the [[Italian Peninsula]]?
*... that the first '''[[Red-fronted Parrot]]''' to be scientifically identified was named Congo Jack?

===25 September 2009===
* '''''20:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Lawrence the Indian statue, Schenectady, NY.jpg|100x100px|Statue of Lawrence the Indian, savior of Schenectady, NY, USA, at the center of the city's Stockade Historic District]]
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*... that [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]]'s '''[[Stockade Historic District]]''' ''(statue of Lawrence the Indian pictured)'' was the first one created by a local government in [[New York]]?
*... that '''[[Makiko Esumi]]''' won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual [[Japan Academy Prize (film)|Japan Academy Prize]] ceremonies and at the 38th [[Blue Ribbon Awards]] for her debut acting role in the 1995 film ''[[Maborosi]]''?
*... that [[Norwegian Independent Company 1|Kompani Linge]]'s '''[[Oslogjengen|Oslo Detachment]]''', a subgroup of the [[Special Operations Executive]], was the dominant sabotage group in [[Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|occupied]] Oslo between May and September 1944?
*... that professional wrestler '''[[Kerry Brown (wrestler)|Kerry Brown]]''' won a tag team championship with his real-life uncle, [[Bob Brown (wrestler)|Bob Brown]]?
*... that 851 children were reported to have been poisoned by a '''[[2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal|lead plant]]''' in [[Shaanxi]] province in [[People's Republic of China|China]] this year?
*... that [[Green Day]]'s [[Grammy Award]] winning [[concept album]] ''[[American Idiot]]'' has been adapted '''[[American Idiot (musical)|for the stage]]''' by the band members and two [[Tony Award]] winners?
*... that '''[[Leon Feiner]]''', a leader of the [[General Jewish Labour Union|Bund]] and of [[Żegota]], wrote many communiques to the Western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] describing [[the Holocaust in Poland]]?
*... that [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], based '''[[Norm Thompson Outfitters]]''' was started with an ad in ''[[Field & Stream]]'' magazine?
* '''''12:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Mars mission.jpg|100x100px|Artist's conception of a manned mission on the surface of Mars]]
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*... that the first [[engineering analysis]] of a '''[[List of manned Mars mission plans in the 20th century|manned mission to Mars]]''' ''(artist's conception pictured)'' was made by [[Wernher von Braun]] in 1948, which included ten ships with seventy crewmembers?
*... that the [[mushroom]]s '''''[[Boletus zelleri]]''''', '''''[[Boletus mirabilis|B.&nbsp;mirabilis]]''''', '''''[[Suillus americanus]]''''', '''''[[Suillus brevipes|S.&nbsp;brevipes]]''''', '''''[[Suillus lakei|S.&nbsp;lakei]]''''', and '''''[[Leccinum manzanitae]]''''' are all examples of [[edible mushroom|edible]] [[bolete]]s?
*... that [[gridiron football]] [[quarterback]] '''[[Mike Quinn]]''' was the final member of the [[Houston Texans]]' first signings left on the team?
*... that in 1946, the residents of the former [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] village of '''[[Biriyya]]''' [[Birya affair|were arrested]] after the discovery of an arms cache in the village?
*... that '''[[South Gate Assembly]]''', opened in 1936, was the first [[General Motors]] plant west of the [[Mississippi River]] and the first to build more than one car line?
*... that [[Australia]]n criminal '''[[Dennis Ferguson]]''' was forced to relocate to numerous locations around Australia due to public hostility and [[news media]] attention?
*... that the [[Senate of France]] has an '''[[Administrative Meeting for Senators not on the list of another Group|Administrative Meeting]]''', instead of a full fledged [[Parliamentary group|Group]], for Senators who are [[Independent (politician)|Independents]] or from small parties?
*... that in the 1977 [[pink film]] '''''[[Fairy in a Cage]]''''', according to actress [[Naomi Tani]], her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
* '''''04:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Zemi figure Metropolitan.jpg|100x100px|Wooden [[Zemi]]]]
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*... that among the [[Taíno]] people of the [[Caribbean]], a '''[[zemi]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit?
*... that '''[[Robert Searcy]]''', who served with the [[Tuskegee Airmen]] in [[World War II]], was employed after the war by [[United Airlines]] cleaning aircraft? 
*... that '''[[Arbois (grape)|Arbois]]''' is the only [[grape variety]] besides [[Chenin blanc]] permitted in the [[Loire Valley wine]] of [[Vouvray (wine)|Vouvray]]?
*... that the [[Cinema of South Africa|South African film]] '''''[[Jerusalema]]''''' is based on the real-life case of an [[organized crime]] figure taking over [[real estate]] in [[Johannesburg]]'s [[Hillbrow]] neighborhood?
*... that a [[weir]] built to aid fish traveling up a [[fish ladder]] in '''[[Little Butte Creek (Rogue River)|Little Butte Creek]]''' was destroyed just three months later?
*... that '''[[Viola Tree]]''', her father [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]], and her son [[David Tree]] all performed in premieres of [[Pygmalion (play)|play]] or [[Pygmalion (1938 film)|film]] versions of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]''?
*... that '''''[[The Book of est]]''''' compares [[Werner Erhard]]'s [[Erhard Seminars Training|est training]] to ''[[The Teachings of Don Juan]]'' by [[Carlos Castaneda]]?
*... that before the 2008 [[International Bowl]], [[American football]] [[linebacker]] '''[[Jamaal Westerman]]''' was asked questions about the weather in [[Greater Toronto Area|Toronto]], because he had lived there?

===24 September 2009===
* '''''20:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:GuinnessBeer.jpg|100x100px|Can of Guinness Original, plus the beer in a glass]]
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*... that '''[[Arthur's Day]]''' benefit concerts—celebrating the 250th anniversary of [[Guinness]] ''(pictured)''—will be held today in locations as diverse as [[Dublin]], [[New York City|New York]], [[Kuala Lumpur]] and [[Yaoundé]]?
*... that '''[[Louis Cordier]]''' expanded the geological collection of the ''[[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]]'' in [[Paris]] from 1,500 specimens in 1819 to 200,000 specimens in 1861?
*... that application of [[Chemical tests in mushroom identification#Iron salts|iron salts]] will turn a '''[[Ramariopsis kunzei|white coral]]''' green?
*... that [[Gary Ablett, Jr.]] won the '''[[2009 Brownlow Medal]]''', an award that his father, [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] member [[Gary Ablett, Sr.]], never won?
*... that some houses on '''[[Union Street Historic District (Schenectady, New York)|Union Street]]''' in [[Schenectady, New York]], were built with a [[veranda]]-width [[setback (land use)|setback]] to allow views of the [[Union College (New York)|Union College]] campus by those approaching it from downtown?
*... that Russian pilot '''[[Semyon Trofimovich Bychkov|Semyon Bychkov]]''' served both in the [[Soviet Air Forces]] and the [[Luftwaffe]] and was stripped of all Soviet awards posthumously?
*... that Mubarak Shah, founder of the lost city of Mubarakabad, was buried in [[Delhi]]'s '''[[Kotla Mubarakpur Complex]]''' in 1434?
*... that the '''[[chicken tax]]''' led to [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] importing light trucks to the [[United States]] from [[Turkey]] and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in [[Baltimore]]?
* '''''12:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Monkeyjar.jpg|100x100px|Monkey effigy jar for pulque, Aztec, 1200–1520 CE]]
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*... that '''[[pulque]]''' ''(jar pictured)'' was a popular [[Mexican cuisine|Mexican]] alcoholic drink made from [[plant sap|sap]] of the [[maguey]] plant?
*... that actor [[Bret Harrison]]'s first role was in ''[[Our Town]]'' at the '''[[Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre]]''' in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]?
*... that the [[coronation]] ceremonies of [[Russian Empire|Russian]] [[List of Russian rulers|Tsars]] [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]], [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] and [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] were decorated by [[Italians|Italian]] theatre [[set designer]] '''[[Pietro Gonzaga]]'''?
*... that violence in the 1970 '''[[Koza riot]]''' against [[United States Forces Japan|US military presence in Okinawa]] was directed specifically against [[White American|white]] servicemen, while care was taken to avoid attacking [[African American|black]] [[military police|MPs]]?
*... that the site of [[Diego Rivera]]'s first large-scale [[mural]] work was [[Mexico City]]{{'}}s '''[[Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters]]'''?
*... that [[Oregon]] [[Republican Party of the United States|Republican]] state senator '''[[Jeannette Hamby]]''' made several trips to [[Nicaragua]] and supported the [[socialism|socialist]] [[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinistas]]? 
*... that [[Romania]]'s ruling [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Social Democratic]]–[[Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)|Democratic Liberal]] coalition was divided over [[Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation (Romania)|Education Minister]] '''[[Ecaterina Andronescu]]'''{{'}}s intervention in the appointment of school directors?
*... that when '''[[Cooper Arms Apartments|Cooper Arms]]''' opened in [[Long Beach, California]], it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
* '''''04:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Ardettamaculata cropped.jpg|100x100px|New Zealand Little Bittern]]
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*... that the [[extinction|extinct]] '''[[New Zealand Little Bittern]]''' ''(pictured)'' was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place?
*... that although the '''[[French legislative by-election in Guinea, 1954|1954 Guinean by-poll]]''' was marred with irregularities, only the [[French Communist Party|communists]] and the [[African Democratic Rally]] voted against validating the results in the [[French National Assembly]]?
*... that the '''[[US Post Office-Long Beach Main|Long Beach Post Office]]''' has been called "Post-Quake [[Moderne]]" due to the local prevalence of the style after the [[Long Beach earthquake of 1933]]?
*... that [[Rafael Trujillo]]'s daughter presided as ''Queen Angelita I'' over the '''''[[Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World]]''''' in the [[Dominican Republic]]?
*... that '''[[Carl Rubin (architect)|Carl Rubin]]''' made significant modifications to [[Meir Dizengoff]]'s house changing it into an art museum, which would later become Israel's [[Independence Hall (Israel)|Independence Hall]]?
*... that although the '''[[Coronation (grape)|Coronation grape]]''' has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless [[table grape]] variety in southern [[Ontario]]?
*... that '''[[Rancho Las Mariposas]]''', unwanted by [[John C. Frémont]] until [[gold]] was discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest [[Ranchos of California|rancho]] in [[California]]?
*... that [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] was taught constitutional history by '''[[Henry Marten (educator)|Henry Marten]]'''?

===23 September 2009===
* '''''20:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Unidentified Fungus 5621.jpg|100x100px|Rhubarb bolete]]
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*... that despite its name, the edibility of the '''[[Boletellus obscurecoccineus|rhubarb bolete]]''' ''(pictured)'' is unknown?
*... that 50&nbsp;years ago today, on '''[[Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District|an Iowa farm]]''', farmer and [[Heterosis#Hybrid corn|hybrid corn]] salesman [[Roswell Garst]] hosted Soviet premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]]?
*... that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 [[World Orienteering Championships]], '''[[Martin Johansson (orienteer b. 1984)|Martin Johansson]]''' was injured by a wooden stick penetrating {{convert|12|cm|in|0}} into his leg? 
*... that '''''[[Son of Ingagi]]''''' was the first film with an all-[[black people|black]] cast in the [[science fiction film|science fiction]]-[[horror film]] genre?
*... that of [[Music of Japan|Japanese]] band '''[[Supercell (band)|Supercell]]'''{{`}}s eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers? 
*... that the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "'''[[The Revenge (Seinfeld)|The Revenge]]'''" was based on an experience by screenwriter [[Larry David]], who once quit his job at ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
* '''''12:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Dry Dock Engine Works machine shop 1894.jpg|100x100px|The Dry Dock Engine Works machine shop as it appeared in 1894]]
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*... that the machine shop in the '''[[Dry Dock Engine Works-Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex]]''' ''(pictured)'' was built with a then-novel load-bearing [[steel frame]], but has [[curtain wall]]s of traditional brick construction?
*... that the 1999 [[anime]] series '''''[[List of Digimon Adventure episodes|Digimon Adventure]]''''' was first seen as an imitation of [[Nintendo]]'s [[Pokémon|''Pokémon'' franchise]] when its episodes first aired in North America?
*... that '''[[Mirosław Iringh]]''', a leader of [[Slovaks|Slovak]] '''[[Platoon 535]]''', wore a [[Flag of Slovakia|white-blue-red]] armband made out of a [[France|French]] [[military decoration]] once bestowed upon a fellow [[Warsaw Uprising|insurrectionist]] by [[Marshal Foch]]?
*... that the '''[[Binford & Mort]]''' publishing company in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], was once the largest book publisher in the [[Northwestern United States]]?
*... that '''[[John Lawford]]''' was the only [[captain (Royal Navy)|captain]] who fought at [[Battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Copenhagen]] in 1801 to receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle?
*... that in 2009 two [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] students '''[[Project Icarus|made a vehicle to take pictures]]''' of the [[Earth]] from {{convert|93000|ft|m}} for {{dollarsign|USD}}148?
*... that '''[[Arnold Laven]]''' directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer, an army of giant [[mollusk]]s and [[George Armstrong Custer]], and episodes of ''[[The A-Team]]''?
* '''''04:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Palms - Southern Pacific Railroad Depot.jpg|100x100px|Palms Depot]]
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*... that '''[[Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot|Palms Depot]]''' ''(pictured)'' was known as the "Grasshopper Stop" because "grasshoppers were present in veritable clouds" when it opened?
*... that the tomb of '''[[Pope John V]]''' was destroyed in the [[Sack of Rome (846)|Sack of Rome in 846&nbsp;AD]], centuries before nearly all of the remainder of the [[papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica]] were demolished?
*... that [[Japanese popular culture|Japanese]] [[manga]] '''''[[Red Colored Elegy]]''''' has an eponymous [[single (music)|single]] performed by [[Morio Agata]], which ranked seventh in Japan's [[Oricon]] charts in 1972?
*... that '''[[Clayton W. Williams, Sr.]]''', an [[oil]]man and [[rancher]] from [[Fort Stockton, Texas|Fort Stockton]], [[Texas]], was part of the group that formed the [[American Legion]] in [[Paris, France|Paris]] in 1919?
*... that [[Visual impairment|visually impaired]] [[chess]] player '''[[Reginald Bonham]]''' founded the [[International Braille Chess Association]]?
*... that the land for '''[[53rd Avenue Park]]''' in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], was purchased from exercise equipment maker [[Soloflex]]?
*... that during the absence of [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Heraclius]] from [[Constantinople]] in 622–626, the [[patrikios|patrician]] '''[[Bonus (patrician)|Bonus]]''' defended the city from a major [[Eurasian Avars|Avar]] [[Siege of Constantinople (626)|siege]] in July 626?
*... that when describing his time fighting ''[[jihad]]'' in [[Afghanistan]], '''[[Mohamad Elzahabi]]''' said "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"?

===22 September 2009===
* '''''20:21, 22 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Scottish Rite Cathedral.jpg|100x100px|Scottish Rite Cathedral]]
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*... that the '''[[Scottish Rite Cathedral (Long Beach, California)|Scottish Rite Cathedral]]''' ''(pictured)'', covered in some 250&nbsp;tons of ornamental [[terra cotta]], was among the first eight structures designated as a [[List of City of Long Beach historic landmarks|Long Beach Historic Landmark]]?
*... that '''[[Tajammul Hussain Malik]]''' headed an unsuccessful [[coup]] attempt against [[Pakistan]]i dictator General [[Zia-ul-Haq]] in 1980?
*... that [[Metallica]]'s management company told '''[[The Quietus]]''' magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album ''[[Death Magnetic]]''? 
*... that after the merger of [[Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees|UNITE]] and [[Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union|HERE]] in 2004, the merged union '''[[UNITE HERE]]''' owned the [[Amalgamated Bank of Chicago]]?
*... that Czech [[ice-hockey]] [[goaltender]] '''[[Josef Mikoláš]]'''{{'}} career injuries included eight lost teeth, a broken [[cheekbone]], a double [[Bone fracture|fracture]] of his [[mandible|lower jaw]] and 35 head [[surgical suture|sutures]]?
*... that '''[[single-pass bore finishing]]''' can finish a [[wikt:bore|bore]] to a size [[tolerance (engineering)|tolerance]] of 0.001&nbsp;mm and a geometry tolerance of 0.0003&nbsp;mm?
*... that the [[Interbellum|prewar]] '''[[AVA Radio Company]]''', in [[Warsaw]], built all the [[electro-mechanical]] equipment used by [[Poland]]'s [[Biuro Szyfrów|Cipher Bureau]] to break German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] [[cipher]]s?
*... that '''[[Frank Coghlan, Jr.|Frank Coghlan]]''' said "damn" in ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', but is best known for saying "Shazam" in ''[[The Adventures of Captain Marvel|Captain Marvel]]'', the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero?
* '''''12:14, 22 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Demolished vehicles line Highway 80 on 18 Apr 1991.jpg|100x100px|Demolished vehicles line Highway 80, also known as the "Highway of Death", the route fleeing Iraqi forces took as they retreated fom Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm]]
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*... that after events of the [[Gulf War]] in February 1991, the highway which connects [[Kuwait City]] to '''[[Al Jahra]]''' became known as the [[Highway of Death]] ''(demolished vehicles on the highway pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Mike Milligan (coach)|Mike Milligan]]''' was a [[Division I]] head coach for [[American football|football]] and [[basketball]] at two different institutions?
*... that [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] aired the ''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]'' episode "'''[[The Outrage (Marcus Welby)|The Outrage]]'''" despite having been '''[[Zap (action)|zapped]]''' for the earlier episode "'''[[The Other Martin Loring]]'''"?
*... that [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] '''[[Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet|Isaac Coffin]]''' rescued a man from drowning while commanding '''[[HMS Alligator (1787)|HMS ''Alligator'']]''', but injured himself in doing so?
*... that the largely residential community of '''[[Dockton, Washington|Dockton]]''' on [[Maury Island, Washington]], was once an industrial center?
*... that '''''[[Kir Ianulea]]''''', a 1909 [[novella]] by [[Romania]]n author [[Ion Luca Caragiale]], relocated [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]'s ''[[Belfagor arcidiavolo]]'' into [[Phanariotes|Phanariote]]-era [[Bucharest]]?
*... that '''[[Gordon Faber]]''', as mayor of [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], once carried an ax while wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review?
* '''''04:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tutte 12-cage 3color edge.svg|100x100px|The Tutte 12-cage with a chromatic index of 3]]
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*... that the '''[[Tutte 12-cage]]''' ''(example pictured)'' is a 3-[[regular graph]] with 126 [[Vertex (graph theory)|vertices]] and 189 edges?
*... that [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] acting [[Dean (education)|dean]] '''[[Henry S. Coleman]]''', held hostage in the [[Columbia University protests of 1968]], later wrote law school recommendation letters for some of his student captors?
*... that in writing the [[1973 in music|1973]] song "'''[[Hypnotized (Fleetwood Mac song)|Hypnotized]]'''", [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]] drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in [[Hampshire]] that [[Fleetwood Mac]] were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
*... that a casket discovered by '''[[Anant Sadashiv Altekar]]''' near [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]], on display at the [[Patna Museum]], is said to contain the remains of the [[Buddha]]?
*... that '''[[Phlox hirsuta|Yreka phlox]]''', an [[endangered species|endangered]] flowering plant that grows in [[serpentine soil]], is the official city flower of [[Yreka, California]]?
*... that the '''[[Pedersen bicycle]]''' with its unusual [[cantilever]] [[Bicycle frame|frame]], though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
*... that the [[Interbellum|prewar]] '''[[AVA Radio Company]]''', in [[Warsaw]], built all the [[electro-mechanical]] equipment used by [[Poland]]'s [[Biuro Szyfrów|Cipher Bureau]] to break German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] [[cipher]]s?

===21 September 2009===
* '''''22:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Faravahar-BW.svg|100x100px|The Faravahar or Frawahr is one of the symbols of Zoroastrianism, also symbol of Persian Achaemenid Empire as it appears on many rock reliefs in south-western Iran.]]
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*... that in [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] tradition ''([[Faravahar]] pictured)'', [[Zoroaster]] was met with hostility when he arrived at the court of his future patron '''[[Vishtaspa]]'''?
*... that '''[[Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling]]''' saw the reunions of both [[Tekno Team 2000]] and the father and son team of [[Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)|Dusty]] and [[Dustin Rhodes]]?
*... that [[Nikolay Karamzin]] compared the architectural projects of '''[[Vasili Bazhenov]]''' to [[Plato]]'s ''[[The Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' and [[Thomas More]]'s ''[[Utopia (book)|Utopia]]''?
*... that the [[Higgins Industries]] '''[[A-1 lifeboat]]''' was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the [[North Sea]] in 1945?
*... that after seeing '''''[[Zero Hour (play)|Zero Hour]]''''', a play about the life of actor [[Zero Mostel]], [[Theodore Bikel]] wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
*... that the [[West Africa]]n [[trade union]] centre '''[[Confédération générale des travailleurs africains|CGTA]]''', a splinter-group of the [[France|French]] [[Confédération générale du travail|CGT]], rejected the notion of [[class struggle]], stating that there were no antagonistic classes in [[Africa]]?
*... that only 1% of students attending '''[[Oregon Connections Academy]]''' live within the school district?
* '''''16:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Amanishakheto pyrmaid Wad Naqa.jpg|100x100px|Illustration of the Pyramid of Amanishakheto, Wad Ban Naga, Sudan, before it was destroyed by looting]]
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*... that a pyramid ''(artist's impression pictured)'' that contained the grave of [[Amanishakheto|Queen Amanishakheto]] was located in '''[[Wad ban Naqa]]''' and her stone [[stele|stela]] was discovered in '''[[Naqa]]''', both of which are in modern-day [[Sudan]]?
*... that '''[[Andrew Berg]]''', a [[Finland|Finnish]] immigrant to the U.S. state of [[Alaska]], became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
*... that the 1921 '''[[Triumph Ricardo]]''' [[Great Britain|British]] [[motorcycle]] was capable of over 70&nbsp;mph and set three world speed records?
*... that [[Kilkenny GAA|Kilkenny]] beat favourites [[Galway GAA|Galway]] in a semi-final match of the '''[[All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009]]''' despite one third of their team being under the age of twenty?
*... that '''[[Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi)|Alfred Gottschalk]]''' performed the 1972 [[semikhah|rabbinic ordination]] of [[Sally Priesand]], the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of [[Judaism]]?
*... that the depiction of [[Cupid and Psyche|Eros and Psyche]] on the '''[[Marlborough gem]]''', a [[engraved gem|carved]] [[onyx]] [[Cameo (carving)|cameo]] from as early as the first century&nbsp;CE, was copied or reproduced by [[Giovanni Battista Cipriani|Cipriani]], [[Francesco Bartolozzi|Bartolozzi]], [[Josiah Wedgwood|Wedgwood]] and [[John Flaxman|Flaxman]]?
*... that one of [[Emmy Award]]-winning screenwriter '''[[Frank Deasy]]'''{{'}}s last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for [[Organ donation|organ donor]] cards?
*... that in October 1945, shortly after unexpectedly entering a cloud, '''[[National Airlines Flight 16]]''' crashed into a lake in [[Lakeland, Florida|Lakeland]], [[Florida]], drowning two passengers?
* '''''10:08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Carcharhinus signatus nmfs.jpg|100x100px|Night sharks (''Carcharhinus signatus'')]]
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*... that more than 90&nbsp;percent of the '''[[night shark]]s''' ''(pictured)'' caught off [[northeastern Brazil]] contain [[Mercury in fish|mercury concentrations]] higher than that considered safe by the local government?
*... that the first [[African American]] to see the '''[[Great Falls (Missouri River)|Great Falls]]''' of the [[Missouri River]] was [[York (explorer)|York]], a [[Slavery in the United States|slave]] who participated in the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]?
*... that two foiled attacks by '''[[National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf|N.D.F.L.O.A.G.]]''' guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a conspiracy to overthrow the [[Sultan of Oman]]?
*... that [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] organizers proposed to demonstrate '''[[American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics]]''' as a match-up between the defending [[NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship|national champions]] at [[USC Trojans football|USC]] and East Coast powerhouse [[Yale University]]?
*... that [[botanist]] '''[[Thomas Frederic Cheeseman]]''' had a wide range of interests including [[Māori]] [[ethnology]]?
*... that the artist who made a stone [[relief]] of the Menorah in [[Israel]]'s '''[[Migdal Synagogue]]''' in 50&nbsp;BCE – 100&nbsp;CE may have seen the original [[Menorah (Temple)|Menorah]] in the [[Second Temple]] before its destruction in 70&nbsp;CE?
*... that though he has won six nonconsecutive elections to the [[Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana State Senate]], '''[[Joe McPherson]]''' of [[Rapides Parish, Louisiana|Rapides Parish]] has twice failed in bids for his state's [[Louisiana Public Service Commission|Public Service Commission]]?
*... that [[Australia]]n band '''[[The Sundance Kids (band)|The Sundance Kids]]''' was formed in a shopping centre car park over takeaway pizza?
* '''''04:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Brian Cowen in Philadelphia.jpg|100x100px|Brian Cowen]]
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*... that the ''[[Sunday Independent]]'' claimed [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]'s [[Taoiseach]] [[Brian Cowen]] ''(pictured)'' was upset following his "mugging" on '''''[[The Late Late Show (season 47)|The Late Late Show]]'''''?
*... that when archaeologists excavated the [[Urartu|Urartian]] fortress-city of '''[[Erebuni Fortress|Erebuni]]''' they discovered a rich collection of [[Achaemenian Empire|Persian]] artifacts dating back 2,500 years?
*... that American [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[Walter Dix]]''' won two bronze medals at the [[2008 Beijing Olympics]] but hardly competed at all in 2009 due to injury and a [[legal dispute]] with his agent?
*... that the commander of the [[Croatian Defence Council|Croatian forces]] who carried out the '''[[Stupni Do massacre]]''' in 1993 during the [[Croat-Bosniak war]] had his name and rank changed as part of a cover-up?
*... that the city of [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]] bought and demolished several other hotels to ensure the success of the Hotel Van Curler, now [[Schenectady County Community College]]'s '''[[Elston Hall]]'''?
*... that the '''[[wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer]]''' was watched by a global television audience of 750&nbsp;million, at the time the most popular programme ever broadcast?
*... that '''[[Sylvan Friedman]]''', a member of both houses of the [[Louisiana State Legislature]] from 1944 to 1972, was part of a small but influential [[Jewish]] community in [[Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]]?
*... that in the 1985 hijacking of '''[[Braathens SAFE Flight 139]]''', the hijacker exchanged his gun for beer?

===20 September 2009===
* '''''22:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Intaglio Caracalla Cdm Paris Chab2101.jpg|100x100px|Portrait of Roman Emperor Caracalla; inscription in Greek letters and cross added at the Byzantine period in order to transform the portrait into that of St. Peter. Amethyst intaglio, ca. 212 AD.]]
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*... that collectors of '''[[engraved gem]]s''' ''(example pictured)'' include [[Julius Caesar]], [[Pope Paul II]], [[Rubens]], [[Christina of Sweden]] and [[Catherine the Great]]?
*... that '''[[Akaitcho]]''', Chief of the [[Yellowknives]], was [[John Franklin]]'s [[Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822|Coppermine Expedition]] guide?
*... that the luxurious '''[[Villa Riviera]]''' was the second tallest building in [[Southern California]] from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?
*... that '''[[James Aubrey (actor)|James Aubrey]]''', who appeared in the 1963 film version of ''[[Lord of the Flies (1963 film)|Lord of the Flies]]'', made his professional acting debut in ''Isle of Children''?
*... that the city of [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], asked residents to donate their used [[Christmas tree]]s for planting at '''[[Turner Creek Park]]'''?
*... that '''[[Lars Peder Brekk]]''' was [[Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs|Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs]] for only 56 days, due to [[First cabinet Bondevik|his cabinet]] withdrawing shortly after he was supplemented into it?
*... that the '''[[French conquest of Senegal]]''' started in 1659 with the establishment of a trading post in [[Saint-Louis, Senegal|Saint-Louis]]?
*... that when artist '''[[Sérvulo Gutiérrez]]''' sold a nude portrait of his lover [[Doris Gibson]], Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
* '''''16:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:HarveyLocke.JPG|100x100px|Harvey Locke]]
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*... that '''[[Harvey Locke]]''' ''(pictured)'' conceived the [[Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative]], with the goal to create a continuous wilderness corridor from [[Yellowstone National Park]] in the [[United States]] to the [[Yukon]] in [[Canada]]?
*... that the '''[[Food rheology|rheology]]''' of food affects how pleasant a food [[mouthfeel|feels in the mouth]] and therefore how desirable it is to the [[consumer]]?
*... that prior to writing the book '''''[[Twisted Scriptures]]''''', Mary Alice Chrnalogar had belonged to the religious group [[Church Universal and Triumphant]]?
*... that while serving in the [[California Assembly]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] '''[[Michael D. Duvall]]''' was described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize [[gay marriage]]?
*... that the '''[[southern African frilled shark]]''' preys mainly on smaller [[shark]]s, which it swallows whole with its greatly distensible mouth?
*... that '''[[City View Charter School|City View]]''' was the first [[charter school]] in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], when it opened in 2004?
*... that [[Norway|Norwegian]] ship-owner '''[[Ludvig G. Braathen]]''' founded the airline [[Braathens SAFE]] in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
*... that the co-founder of the '''[[New England Institute of Religious Research]]''' was a court-appointed guardian of 13 children removed from a religious sect in [[Attleboro, Massachusetts]]?
* '''''10:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:BSA Type A 770 cc 1921.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that the 1919 '''[[BSA Model E]]''' [[Great Britain|British]] [[motorcycle]] ''(pictured)'' was the first of a long line of popular [[V twin]]s?
*... that the '''[[Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict]]''' involved the houses of [[House of Ascania|Ascania]], [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]], [[House of Luxembourg|Luxembourg]], [[House of Pomerania|Pomerania]], [[House of Sweden|Sweden]] and [[House of Wittelsbach|Wittelsbach]]?
*... that '''[[Hayden Bridge]]''', a [[covered bridge]] on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], had to be repaired in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it?
*... that a car-driving [[collie]] recently auditioned for the '''[[The All Ireland Talent Show (series 2)|second series]]''' of ''[[The All Ireland Talent Show]]''?
*... that '''[[Barbara Atkinson]]''' appeared with the [[National Theatre Company]] for their 1969–1970 season?
*... that the [[AIDS]] activist group [[ACT UP]] twice shut down production of the ''[[Midnight Caller]]'' episode "'''[[After It Happened]]'''", believing that it would encourage [[Vigilante|vigilantism]] against people with AIDS?
*... that in only his third full [[Major League Baseball]] season, '''[[Chuck Workman (baseball)|Chuck Workman]]''' hit 25 home runs, second in the National League?
*... that the '''[[Bromley equation]]''' is important for the understanding of ions in river, lake and sea-water?
* '''''04:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Nyctalus azoreum.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that the '''[[Azores Noctule]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the only species of [[bat]] that primarily hunts during the [[Diurnality|day]]?
*... that '''[[Jon Olav Alstad]]''' was elected to the [[Norwegian Parliament]] at the age of 25?
*... that two [[windmill]]s in [[Burdaard]], the [[Netherlands]], are named after '''[[De Olifant, Burdaard|the elephant]]''' and '''[[De Zwaluw, Burdaard|the swallow]]''', and that both mills are [[Rijksmonument]]s?
*... that the '''[[Cannock Chase murders]]''' sparked one of the largest [[Manhunt (law enforcement)|manhunts]] in [[Great Britain|British]] history?
*... that the [[mineral processing]] plant at the '''[[Kittilä mine]]''' includes a [[Air-raid shelter|bomb shelter]], as required by a 1917 law?
*... that [[Romania]]n actress '''[[Ecaterina Nazare]]''' appeared in a theatrical version of [[Shakespeare's sonnets]], produced and staged by the [[National Theatre Bucharest]]?
*... that Belgian [[dredging]] company '''[[Jan De Nul]]''' launched the world's largest [[Dredging#Types of dredging vessels|dredger]] in June 2008 with the 46,000m³ capacity ''Cristobal Colon''?
*... that '''[[James A. Kowalski]]''', dean of the [[Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York]], had a [[Roman Catholic]] father and a [[Jewish]] mother, but they joined the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] when they started a family?

===19 September 2009===
* '''''22:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Swashplate anim metal.gif|100x100px|How hydrostatic drive works]]
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*... that the '''[[Honda DN-01]]''' motorcycle is the first road-going consumer vehicle with [[Continuously variable transmission#Hydrostatic CVTs|hydrostatic drive]] ''(pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Trabzonspor (women)|Trabzonspor]]''' were the first [[Turkey|Turkish]] soccer team entitled to participate in the [[UEFA Women's Champions League]]?
*... that '''[[Arthur P. Luff]]''' is considered one of the founders of 20th century [[forensic medicine]]?
*... that almost 30 years after quitting his career as a [[composer]], '''[[Gervase Hughes]]''' returned to music in 1960 as a writer of books on musical subjects? 
*... that '''[[Rancho Buena Ventura]]''', the northernmost [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant in California]], was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen? 
*... that the '''''[[Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend]]''''' was ostensibly published by [[Martin Luther King]] in 1967, but is actually a forgery that first appeared 30&nbsp;years after King's death?
*... that Italian '''[[Gigi Peronace]]''' has been described as the first [[Association football|football]] [[Sports agent|agent]] in England?
*... that when British [[fine art|mosaicist]] '''[[Elaine M Goodwin]]''' and three fellow artists founded an [[art exhibition|exhibiting group]] in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "[[mosaic]]" due to its negative perception in the [[art world]]?
* '''''16:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Rocher du Diamant Mayer.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that '''[[James Wilkes Maurice]]''' '''[[Battle of Diamond Rock|defended]]''' [[Diamond Rock]] ''(pictured)'' for three days in 1805 until surrendering due to water and [[ammunition]] shortages?
*... that Jerusalem's historic '''[[Stern House]]''' houses an Israeli bookstore that once had branches in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad?
*... that over the course of his 44&nbsp;year career as a writer and editor with the [[Bend, Oregon|Bend]] [[The Bulletin (Bend)|''Bulletin'']], '''[[Phil Brogan]]''' trained numerous young [[journalist]]s including [[Tom McCall]], who later became governor of [[Oregon]]?
*... that unlike most other elections held in other parts of [[French West Africa]] on the same day, the '''[[Senegalese Territorial Assembly election, 1957|31 March 1957 assembly election]]''' in [[Senegal]] was not dominated by the [[African Democratic Rally]] (RDA)?
*... that 4,000 people applied to be in the audience of [[Pat Kenny]]'s new programme '''''[[The Frontline (Irish TV series)|The Frontline]]'''''?
*... that the [[machinima]]-based [[music video]] '''''[[Dance, Voldo, Dance]]''''' was featured at the [[San Jose Museum of Art]] as part of an exhibit in 2006?
*... that [[Australian Army]] engineers uncovered and destroyed more than {{convert|17|km|mi}} of [[Viet Cong]] tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of '''[[Operation Crimp]]''' during the [[Vietnam War]]?
*... that '''[[Vilhelm Evang]]''' served as head of the [[Norwegian Intelligence Service]] for almost twenty years, from 1946?
* '''''09:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Maria Rayevskaya.jpg|100x100px|Maria Rayevskaya]]
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*... that Countess '''[[Mariya Volkonskaya]]''' ''(pictured)'' renounced her rights, titles and possessions to follow her husband in [[Siberia]]n exile?
*... that radio star [[Rolf Kirkvaag]] walked through a blizzard with a broken leg to get help after surviving the '''[[Hummelfjell Accident|plane crash at Hummelfjell]]'''?
*... that the Perry Professorship of [[Jurisprudence]] at the [[Government Law College, Mumbai|Government Law School]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] was established in 1855 to honour judge '''[[Thomas Erskine Perry]]'''?
*... that the archaeological site of '''[[Chan-Chan]]''' gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a [[archaeological culture]] extending acoss [[Chile]] from 37° to 55° South?
*... that the series '''''[[Svenska Hollywoodfruar]]''''' follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the [[Hollywood]]-area with rich American husbands?
*... that the [[gambrel roof|gambrel-roofed]] '''[[David and Maggie Aegerter Barn]]''' is the only [[Linn County, Oregon]] [[barn]] featuring [[overhang (architecture)|overhang]] on all sides?
*... that '''[[Herbert K. Pililaau]]''' was the first person from [[Hawaii]] to receive the [[Medal of Honor]]?
* '''''03:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Bellary Fort3.jpg|100x100px|Bellary Fort seen from below]]
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* ... that a French engineer who built the '''[[Bellary Fort]]''' ''(pictured)'' was executed by [[Hyder Ali]] because the fort was lower than a nearby hill?
*... that [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] donated his birthday, by formal [[deed]], to '''[[Henry Clay Ide]]'''{{`}}s daughter, Anne, because she was born on [[Christmas Day]]?
*... that '''[[Pope Sergius I]]''' successfully avoided arrest by the Byzantine ''[[protospatharios]]'' after rejecting the canons of the [[Quinisext Council]]?
*... that [[2009 Michigan Wolverines football team|2009 Michigan Wolverines]] senior [[running back]] '''[[Brandon Minor]]''' rushed for 209&nbsp;yards in his first [[high school football]] game and 24&nbsp;yards in his first [[college football]] carry?
*... that the removal of an [[icon]] of [[Christ]] from the '''[[Chalke]]''', the main ceremonial entrance to the [[Great Palace of Constantinople|Great Palace]] of [[Constantinople]], marked the beginning of the [[Byzantine Iconoclasm]]?
*... that the '''[[silky shark]]''' is the most common source of ornamental shark jaws sold to [[tourism|tourists]] in the [[tropics]]?
*... that [[Bulgaria]]n [[far right]] politician '''[[Ivan Dochev]]''' died in 2005 despite being given three separate [[death sentence]]s in the 1940s?
*... that the '''[[Taxpayer March on Washington]]''' was the largest demonstration against [[Presidency of Barack Obama|President Barack Obama's administration]] to date?

===18 September 2009===
* '''''21:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Beitweizmann03.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that the '''[[Weizmann House|House of Chaim Weizmann]]''' ''(pictured)'', the first [[President of Israel]], was made by architect [[Erich Mendelsohn]] for under £15,000 after lengthy price negotiations?
*... that '''[[Angelika Amon]]''' discovered two [[gene regulatory networks]] that regulate the exit of cells from [[mitosis]] to the [[G1 phase]]?
*... that '''''[[Cencoroll]]''''' is a 2009 30-minute Japanese [[Anime|animated]] [[science fiction film]] nearly singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by [[Mangaka|manga author]] Atsuya Uki?
*... that the [[General Electric Research Laboratory|researchers]] who lived in the '''[[General Electric Realty Plot|GE Realty Plot]]''' in [[Schenectady, New York]], were collectively responsible for over 400 [[patent]]s and one [[Nobel Prize]]?
*... that the '''[[Zappas Olympics]]''' were a series of four athletic contests held in [[Athens]] between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern [[Olympic Games]]?
*... that [[baseball]] player '''[[Slick Coffman]]''' pitched an 11-inning victory over [[Baseball Hall of Fame|Hall of Famer]] [[Lefty Grove]] in his first game in [[Major League Baseball]]?
*... that the [[Champ Car|CART]] motor racing series changed the [[2001 CART season|2001]] German 500's name to the '''[[2001 American Memorial|American Memorial]]''' following the [[September 11 attacks]]?
*... that [[George Cruikshank]], in '''''[[Artist and the Author]]''''', disputed the origin of '''[[William Harrison Ainsworth]]'''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> stories about '''[[Rookwood (novel)|evil gypsies]]''', '''[[Jack Sheppard (novel)|a famous thief]]''', '''[[Guy Fawkes (novel)|treasonous Catholics]]''', '''[[The Tower of London (novel)|a dark prison]]''', '''[[Old St. Paul's (novel)|burned sinners]]''', '''[[The Miser's Daughter|an old miser]]''', '''[[Windsor Castle (novel)|a horny king]]''', and '''[[St. James's (novel)|a stupid queen]]'''?
* '''''13:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Bitwa pod Parkanami.jpg|100x100px|Battle of Parkany]]
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*... that the leader of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces at the '''[[Battle of Parkany]]''' ''(painting pictured)'' was later executed for failing to defend their Hungarian lands?
*... that on '''[[Pitru Paksha|Sarvapitri amavasya]]''' (today), [[Hinduism|Hindus]] offer food to the ancestors, who are believed to accept the offering through a crow?
*... that '''[[Alf Rolfsen]]''' has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of [[Oslo City Hall]], where the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] ceremony is held every year?
*... that [[center (basketball)|center]] '''[[George Gregory (basketball)|George Gregory]]''' led the [[Columbia Lions]] in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the [[Ivy League]], and was later named as the first [[African American]] [[All-America]]n basketball player?
*... that the [[Nikkatsu]] [[Pink film#The second wave .28The Nikkatsu Roman Porno era 1971-1982.29|Roman Porno]] film '''''[[Love Hunter]]''''' (1972) was confiscated by the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], and became the last film to be tried for obscenity in [[Japan]] to this day? 
*... that gymnast [[Věra Čáslavská]] was four times elected the '''[[Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia)|Sportsperson of the Year of Czechoslovakia]]'''? 
*... that the [[France|French]] colonial administration in [[Guinea]] opposed the founding of the [[political party]] '''[[Socialist Democracy of Guinea|Socialist Democracy]]''' in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti-[[Sékou Touré]] vote?
*... that when [[Cannes Film Festival]] officials called [[Zhang Yimou]]'s '''''[[Not One Less]]''''' a [[propaganda]] piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against [[Cinema of China|Chinese cinema]] and withdrew the film from the festival?
* '''''07:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:MolenNijeveen.jpg|100x100px|De Sterrenberg windmill]]
</div>
*... that '''[[De Sterrenberg, Nijeveen|De Sterrenberg]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the only [[windmill]] in [[Drenthe]] winded by a [[windmill fantail|fantail]]?
*... that Czech Republic [[orienteering]] world champion '''[[Michal Smola]]''' joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
*... that the radar screen of the prototype reconnaissance version of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] '''[[Tupolev Tu-14]]''' twin-jet [[torpedo bomber]] could be recorded by a special camera?
*... that as dean of [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]], '''[[Carl Hovde]]''' advocated for more lenient treatment of participants in the [[Columbia University protests of 1968]], as "the demonstrations were not without cause"?
*... that a '''[[persimmon regiment]]''' was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating [[persimmon]]s?
*... that [[2009 Michigan Wolverines football team|2009 Michigan Wolverines]] starting [[quarterback]] '''[[Tate Forcier]]''' got his nickname from the 1991 movie ''[[Little Man Tate]]''?
*... that in the [[wrongful death]] lawsuit '''''[[Estate of Jack Slee v. Werner Erhard|Slee v. Erhard]]''''', the plaintiff claimed her son's death was due to [[Erhard Seminars Training|est training]]?
* '''''01:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-121-0012-15, Polen, deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade.jpg|100x100px|Nazi and Soviet soldiers standing together shoulder
to shoulder during the parade]]
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*... that a joint '''[[Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk]]''' ''(pictured)'' was held on September 22, 1939, to display the power of the newly formed [[Soviet-Nazi pact]] to the whole world?
*... that [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] winning [[Association football|soccer player]] '''[[José Andrade]]''' once played drums in a carnival band?
*... that although '''[[Atka mackerel]]''' are most common to the [[Bering Sea]], they have been reported as far south as [[Redondo Beach, California]]?
*... that '''[[Walter Colquhoun Grant]]''' introduced [[cricket]] and the invasive plant [[Cytisus scoparius|Scotch broom]] to the [[Colony of Vancouver Island]] in 1849?
*... that [[Hurricane Grace (1991)|'''1991's Hurricane Grace''']] contributed to the formation of the [[1991 Halloween Nor'easter]], commonly known as the "Perfect Storm"?
*... that [[Human Rights Watch]] war crimes investigator '''[[Marc Garlasco]]''' wrote a book on [[Nazi]] war medals?
*... that while [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] lost some territories in the '''[[Peace of Turin]]''' in 1381, it was in fact winning the [[Venetian–Genoese Wars]]?
*... that [[music licensing]] for [[Rihanna]]'s song, "[[Take a Bow (Rihanna song)|Take a Bow]]", was offered at a discounted price for the ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'' television episode "'''[[Showmance]]'''"?
*... that '''[[Heroes Cross on Caraiman Peak]]''', illuminated at night by 300 light bulbs of 500 [[watt]]s each, can be seen from dozens of miles away?

===17 September 2009===
* '''''13:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Suraj Kund.jpg|100x100px|Surajkund reservoir.]]
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*... that the 10th century reservoir '''[[Surajkund]]''' ''(pictured)'' and the 8th century dam '''[[Anagpur Dam|Anagpur]]''' are both located in [[Haryana]], [[India]]?
*... that although [[color-blind]], '''[[Nicholas U. Mayall]]''' was better able to detect faint [[Galaxy|galaxies]] than most other [[astronomer]]s?
*... that [[William Warren Bartley]], author of the biography '''''[[Werner Erhard (book)|Werner Erhard]]''''', also served several years as philosophical consultant to [[Werner Erhard|Erhard]]'s [[Erhard Seminars Training|est training]]?
*... that [[Dublin]]'s 2009 '''[[The Liffey Swim|Liffey Swim ]]''' was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
*... that the bass-baritone '''[[Gustav Hölzel]]''' was dismissed from the [[Vienna State Opera]] because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of [[Friar Tuck]]?
*... that '''[[Bjørn Kjos]]''', former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of [[Norwegian Air Shuttle]], débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
*... that the public activist group '''[[Citizen Action]]''' shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
*... that the [[Texas]] [[historian]] '''[[Ernest Wallace]]''' was once a consultant to the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] regarding suits filed by the [[Kiowa]] and [[Comanche]] against the [[U.S. government]]?
* '''''07:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Rockall wave March 1943.jpg|100x100px|Rockall, one of the most isolated islets in the world.]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[List of outlying islands of Scotland|outlying islands of Scotland]]''' include the highest [[sea stack]] in the British Isles and one of the most isolated [[islet]]s ''(pictured)'' in the oceans of the world?
*... that [[Grammy award]] winning guitarist [[John Jorgenson]] of the '''[[John Jorgenson Quintet]]''' portrays French guitarist [[Django Reinhardt]] in the film ''[[Head in the Clouds]]''? 
*... that the '''[[Tedder (machine)|hay tedder]]''' was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of [[hay]]?
*... that '''[[Charles Bond (pilot)|Maj. Gen. Charles Bond]]''' was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the [[Flying Tigers]] in [[Burma]] and [[China]]?
*... that the '''[[Pakistan National Congress]]''' represented [[Hindus]] and other minorities and won 28 seats in the [[East Bengal|East Bengal Legislature]] in 1954?
*... that '''[[Maurice Lenz]]''', a physician, professor, and [[radiation therapy]] pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
*... that the reviewer from ''[[The Times]]'' was so unnerved by [[Sarah Waters]]' book '''''[[The Little Stranger]]''''' that she confessed she had to stop reading it? 
*... that [[basketball]] pioneer '''[[Lou Bender|Lou "Lulu" Bender]]''' earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
* '''''01:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim.jpg|100x100px|Portrait of Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim]]''' ''(pictured)'', an influential figure in [[Haifa]] and a leader of the [[Independence Party (Palestine)|Istiqlal]], was exiled to the [[Seychelles]] for his role in the [[1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|1936 Arab revolt]] in [[Palestine]]?
*... that the '''[[Oregon Chorale]]''' based in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], USA has performed five [[concert tour|tours]] in Europe?
*... that '''[[Chick Lathers]]''' quit [[Major League Baseball]] in 1913 to become a car salesman for [[Ford Motor Company]]?
*... that '''[[St. Anne's Church, Trani|St. Anne's Church]]''' in Trani, Italy, was built as a medieval synagogue?
*... that '''[[Tecolutla, Veracruz]]''' is famous for the "Tecolutla Monster" that washed up on shore in 1969?
*... that, in a rare set of circumstances, an '''[[1991 unnamed hurricane|unnamed hurricane in 1991]]''' formed from the center of [[1991 Halloween Nor'easter|another, larger low pressure system]]?
*... that lawyer '''[[Albert L. Gordon]]''', a heterosexual who became a [[gay rights]] activist after his son [[came out]], successfully challenged a 1915 [[California]] law that criminalized [[oral sex]]?
*... that the '''[[Moine Supergroup]]''', a sequence of [[Neoproterozoic]] [[metasediment]]s forming the main [[outcrop]] in the northwest [[Scottish Highlands]], is named after 'a'Mhoine', a [[peat bog]] in northern [[Sutherland]]?

===16 September 2009===
* '''''19:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Pieniny Trzy Korony.jpg|100x100px|Trzy Korony]]
</div>
*... that the observation deck atop '''[[Trzy Korony]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Pieniny National Park (Poland)]] hangs over a {{convert|500|m|ft|adj=on}} [[precipice]] with a near perfect view of the [[Dunajec River Gorge]]?
*... that '''[[Lankapura Dandanatha]]''', a general of the army of [[Parakramabahu I]], led an expeditionary force to [[South India]] to assist a [[Pandyan Dynasty|Pandyan]] king?
*...that '''[[Star Air Service]]''', founded by three pilots in 1932, is the predecessor to [[Alaska Airlines]]?
*... that [[Glenn Scobey Warner|"Pop" Warner]]'s undefeated 1917 [[Pitt Panthers football]] team, known as "The Fighting Dentists", featured dental students '''[[Katy Easterday|"Katy" Easterday]]''', [[George McLaren|"Tank" McLaren]], '''[[Skip Gougler|"Skip" Gougler]]''' and '''[[E.A. "Jake" Stahl|"Jake" Stahl]]'''?
*... that in the entire '''[[George Michael discography|discography of George Michael]]''', the most successful release in his homeland is a 1998 compilation titled ''[[Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael|Ladies & Gentlemen]]'', which has been [[British Phonographic Industry|certified]] sevenfold platinum?
*... that [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]-''[[Untersturmführer]]'' '''[[Hans Stark]]''' admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], he inserted the [[Zyklon B]] into the [[Gas chamber#Nazi Germany|gas chamber]] himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
*... that the 2006 [[Honda]] [[advertising|ad]] '''''[[Cog (advert)|Cog]]''''' won more awards than any other advertisement in history?
*... that the '''[[Cimarron Redoubt]]''' in southwestern [[Kansas]] was built as a fortification and later converted to a [[post office]]?
* '''''13:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Austrianbattleship Radetzky.jpg|100x100px|Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Radetzky]]
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*... that the first [[seaplane]]s to be used in combat were based on the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] [[battleship]]s of the '''{{sclass|Radetzky|battleship|4}}''' in 1912 (the [[lead ship]] '''{{SMS|Radetzky||2}}''' pictured)?
*... that the '''[[milk shark]]''' is so named because of a belief in [[India]] that eating its meat improves [[lactation]]?
*... that '''[[Pabonka Hermitage]]''', near [[Lhasa]], is one of the earliest known buildings built by [[Songtsän Gampo]] in the [[Tibetan Empire]] and is believed to be the site at which the [[Tibetan language|Tibetan alphabet]] was invented?
*... that, prior to the formation of the '''[[District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department|Washington, D.C. fire department]]''', building owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control?
*... that sale of the '''[[Classic Controller|Wii Classic Controller]]''' was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
*... that '''[[Hurricane Fred (2009)|Hurricane Fred]]''', which formed and dissipated near [[Cape Verde]] earlier this month, was the strongest [[North Atlantic tropical cyclone]] on record to appear east of 35°W?
*... that [[Cannonball Adderley]] recorded "I'm on My Way," his 11-year-old nephew '''[[Nat Adderley, Jr.]]'''{{'}}s first song, for his 1967 album ''[[Why Am I Treated So Bad!]]''?
*... that '''[[Charterhouse Cave]]''' is the deepest [[cave]] in [[Southern England]]?
* '''''07:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Apocalypse.jpg|100x100px|Page from the Apocalypse (from between 1450 and 1500)]]
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*... that '''[[block books]]''' ''(page pictured)'', short religious books printed from woodcuts containing both the text and illustrations, were once believed to pre-date the [[Gutenberg Bible]] (c. 1455), but are now known to date mostly from the 1460s and later?
*... that the '''[[Oregon PHL/DEQ Laboratories|State of Oregon laboratories for health and environmental quality]]''' used to be located in an old parking garage before moving to a new facility in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]?
*... that former [[PLO]] member '''[[Wahid Khalil Baroud]]''' was ordered deported and put on a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in airports for the next eight months?
*... that the {{convert|120|mph|km/h}} '''[[Healey 1000/4]]''' [[Great Britain|British]] [[motorcycle]] of 1973 was fitted with a 1000cc engine designed by [[Edward Turner]] in 1928?
*... that [[Pitt Panthers football|Pitt]] [[All-American]] '''[[Tom Davies]]''' threw a [[touchdown]] [[forward pass|pass]], ran 80&nbsp;yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90&nbsp;yards and returned an [[interception]] 60&nbsp;yards in the same game?
*... that the passenger capacity of a [[public transit system]] is affected by '''[[headway]]'''?
*... that '''[[William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick|William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick]]''', a British [[List of World War I flying aces|flying ace in the First World War]], scored his first victory when he was a [[test pilot]] and was awarded the [[Military Cross]] for capturing that enemy plane?
*... that during conversion of the '''[[Dequindre Cut]]''' into a [[Greenway (landscape)|greenway]], the existing [[graffiti]] art was left in place and new additions encouraged?
* '''''01:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Roppongi Hills Mori Tower from Tokyo Tower Day.jpg|100x100px|Roppongi Hills Mori Tower]]
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*... that a six-year-old boy was killed in 2004 when his head was crushed in a [[revolving door]] at the entrance of '''[[Roppongi Hills Mori Tower]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Tokyo]]?
*... that retired [[banker]] and former [[Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana legislator]] '''[[Loy F. Weaver]]''' was as an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]]?
*... that the '''[[Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants]]''' aimed to prevent girls in [[London]] from becoming [[prostitute]]s, [[crime|criminals]] and [[Alcoholism|alcoholics]] by training them as [[Domestic worker|domestic servants]]?
*... that [[French Resistance]] fighter and spy '''[[Hélène Deschamps Adams]]''' served as the basis for video game character [[Manon Batiste]]?
*... that '''[[Queen Teuta of Issa]]''', who briefly ruled [[Illyria]] in the [[3rd century BC]], is depicted on the [[Albania]]n 100 [[Albanian lek|lekë]] coin?
*... that the 16th century [[Moro people|Moro]] [[blacksmith]] '''[[Panday Pira]]''' is known as the "First Filipino Cannon-maker"?
*... that the region formed by '''[[List of Romanian counties by foreign trade|Ilfov County and Bucharest]]''' accounts for 19% of exports and 40% of imports in [[Romania]]?
*... that [[blues]] singer '''[[Jesse Fortune]]''', better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in [[Europe]] because he did not want to disappoint customers at his [[Chicago]] barbershop?

===15 September 2009===
* '''''18:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Myzus_persicae.jpg|100x100px|Green peach aphid (Myzus persicae)]]
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*... that as many as twenty generations of the agricultural pest '''[[Myzus persicae|green peach aphid]]''' ''(pictured)'' have been reported in warmer climates over the course of a year?
*... that ''[[The Chicago Reader]]'' in 2007 said the 1971 [[science fiction]] [[theatrical production]] '''''[[Warp!]]''''' "anticipated the ''[[Star Wars]]'' phenom by several years"?
*... that the '''[[Geumsansa]]''' temple in [[Gimje]], [[South Korea]], served as the training ground for the [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhist]] volunteer corps along with monks against [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions of Korea]] in the end of the 16th century?
*... that Greek monk [[Maximus the Confessor]] dominated the '''[[Lateran Council of 649]]''', the first council convened by a [[pope]] to claim [[ecumenical council|ecumenical status]]?
*... that the [[Peekskill, New York]], '''[[U.S. Post Office (Peekskill, New York)|post office]]''' includes [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] arched windows in its [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]] design?
*... that [[List of 20th-century classical composers by name|20th-century composers]] including [[Mauricio Kagel|Kagel]], [[György Ligeti|Ligeti]], and [[Iannis Xenakis|Xenakis]] wrote music for [[cellist]] '''[[Siegfried Palm]]'''?
*... that [[Charlie Burns (ice hockey)|Charlie Burns]] is the only person to have been a [[List of Minnesota North Stars players|player]] and a '''[[List of Minnesota North Stars head coaches|head coach]]''' for the [[Minnesota North Stars]] [[player-coach|at the same time]], doing so in the [[1969–70 NHL season]]?
*...that the British [[RSPCA]] now formally prosecutes individuals who are '''[[Pain in fish|cruel to fish]]'''?
* '''''12:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Paul Dresser, 1897.jpg|100x100px|Paul Dresser]]
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*... that [[songwriter]] and [[composer]] '''[[Paul Dresser]]''' ''(pictured)'' amassed a large fortune writing songs in the 1890s but spent and gave away most of it before dying penniless in 1906?
*... that growth rates for [[Hardwood|broadleaved]] '''[[Forestry in the United Kingdom|trees on the British Isles]]''' exceed those of [[Continental Europe|mainland Europe]]?
*... that '''[[Anders Nordberg]]''' was elected ''[[Orienteer]] of the year 2007'' by [[Norway|Norwegian]] sports journalists?
*... that five&nbsp;years before he was cast as [[banker]] [[Theodore J. Mooney]] on ''[[The Lucy Show]]'', [[Gale Gordon]] played the co-owner of a [[department store]] on the [[NBC]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]] '''''[[Sally (1957 TV series)|Sally]]'''''?
*... that [[2009 US Open (tennis)|2009 US Open]] [[2009 US Open - Girls' Singles|girls' singles]] champion '''[[Heather Watson]]''' was the [[2008 Commonwealth Youth Games]] tennis gold-medalist?
*... that after being named to the All–[[Western Athletic Conference]] team before the [[2008 Utah State Aggies football team|2008 season]], [[American football]] [[tight end]] '''[[Rob Myers]]''' suffered a [[turf toe]] injury that forced him to miss the entire season?
*... that '''[[Jan Birger Jansen]]''', '''[[Johan Scharffenberg]]''' and '''[[Sven Arntzen]]''', all with background in the [[Norwegian resistance movement]], were later members of the '''[[Landsforbundet for folkeavstemning|National Association for Referendum]]'''?
* '''''06:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Harry Linacre goalie.jpg|100x100px|Harry Linacre]]
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*... that soccer club [[Club Atlético Independiente|Atlético Independiente]] changed to play in red after seeing '''[[Harry Linacre]]''' ''(pictured)'' and [[Nottingham Forest F.C.]] on the club's first foreign tour in 1905?
*... that '''[[Icehouse Wilson]]''', a member of "[[Oakland, California|Oakland]]'s first World Champion [[Baseball]] team," had a career [[batting average]] of .000 in [[Major League Baseball]]?
*... that in a 2001 survey of ''[[Animage]]'' magazine readers, the 50-episode series '''''[[List of Digimon Adventure 02 episodes|Digimon Adventure 02]]''''' was ranked 17th on the list of [[anime]] that should be remembered?
*... that although '''[[Paul W. Bryant High School]]''' in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama]] is named for [[American football|football]] [[coach (sport)|coach]] [[Bear Bryant|Paul "Bear" Bryant]], a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot?
*... that the [[British]] anti-Islamist group '''[[Stop the Islamification of Europe]]''' was inspired by a [[Danish]] group of the same name?
*... that '''[[Lloyd Brazil]]''', once called "the ideal [[American football|football]] player," averaged more than eight&nbsp;yards per carry and gained 5,861&nbsp;yards in three&nbsp;years at the [[University of Detroit Mercy|University of Detroit]]?
* '''''00:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Sakae Menda.jpg|100x100px|Sakae Menda]]
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*... that '''[[Sakae Menda]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first person in the history of [[Japan]] to be [[Exoneration|exonerated]] while on [[death row]]?
*... that on the final day of the [[1959–60 Football League|1959–60 Football League season]], '''[[Trevor Meredith]]''' scored the goal that won the [[Football League First Division|league]] title for [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]?
*... that, as a [[publicity stunt]], the makers of the film '''''[[Asylum Seekers (film)|Asylum Seekers]]''''' arranged for a couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's [[premiere]]?
*... that the '''[[Scottish Referendum Bill 2010]]''' proposes that a referendum on [[Scottish independence]] be held on [[St. Andrew's Day]] 2010, Scotland's official [[national day]]?
*... that [[Sierra Leonean]] physician '''[[Aniru Conteh]]''' saved thousands of lives from [[Lassa fever]] before dying from the disease himself?
*... that the tower of '''[[St Lawrence Church, Ipswich|St Lawrence's]]''' in [[Ipswich]] houses the oldest ring of [[church bells]] in the world?
*... that '''''[[bellum se ipsum alet]]''''', "war feeds itself", was a [[military strategy]] used during the [[Thirty Years' War]]?
*... that [[jasmine]] is the '''[[Culture of Tunisia|national flower of Tunisia]]'''?

===14 September 2009===
* '''''18:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Cephaloscyllium laticeps 1.jpg|100x100px|Australian swellshark]]
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*... that the '''[[Australian swellshark]]''' ''(pictured)'' can survive out of water for more than a day?
*... that the '''[[Church of St Matthew and St James, Liverpool|Church of St Matthew and St James]]''' is described in the ''[[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Buildings of England]]'' series as "one of the best [[Victorian era|Victorian]] churches in [[Liverpool]]"?
*... that in 1900, '''[[Wilf Waller]]''' was the first [[South Africa]]n [[association football|footballer]] to play in the English [[Football League]]?
*... that grants given to the [[British Library]] by the '''[[Friends of the British Library]]''' have enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the [[Dering Roll]]?
*... that '''[[Claude Lambie]]''' scored [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]'s first-ever competitive [[hat-trick]]?
*... that according to ancient [[Tibetan language|Tibetan]] annals, the founder of the [[Tibetan Empire]], [[Songtsän Gampo]], is believed to be buried at the '''[[Valley of the Kings (Tibet)|Valley of the Kings]]''' in modern day [[Qonggyai County]]?
*... that the wild population of the [[critically endangered]] '''[[Helmeted Honeyeater]]''' comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the '''[[Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve]]'''?
*... that the [[lawn mower]] was invented in a small English village called '''[[Thrupp and Brimscombe|Thrupp]]'''?
* '''''12:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Emajõgi and Võidu bridge.jpg|100x100px|Emajõgi in Tartu]]
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*... that the only operating [[cable ferry]] in [[Estonia]] crosses the '''[[Emajõgi]]''' river ''(pictured)'' in [[Kavastu, Tartu County|Kavastu]]?
*... that '''[[Music on The O.C.|music on ''The O.C.'']]''' included world premieres of singles by the [[Beastie Boys]], [[Gwen Stefani]] and [[U2]]?
*... that the [[City Beautiful movement|City Beautiful]]-inspired '''[[Foster Building]]''' was the first [[Glazed architectural terracotta|terra cotta]] building in [[Schenectady, New York]]?
*... that '''[[David Avadon]]''' earned his livelihood for 30&nbsp;years as "a daring [[pickpocketing|pickpocket]] with dashing finesse"?
*... that the '''[[14th Searchlight Battery (Finland)|14th Searchlight Battery]]''' was the only [[Finnish Army]] unit comprised entirely of women during [[World War II]]?
*... that the '''[[Wii Zapper]]''' was first conceived when a staff member of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess's]]'' development team created a makeshift gun-like frame using rubber bands and wires?
*... that physician '''[[Hans Eng]]''' was a part of the [[Osvald Group]]'s hit list during [[World War II]]?
*... that former [[Motown Records]] president '''[[Skip Miller]]''' began his career as a stock clerk and has been credited with helping to develop the [[Hip hop music|rap]] genre?
* '''''06:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Tontine coffee house.jpg|100x100px|The Tontine Coffee House in New York City]]
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*... that the '''[[Tontine Coffee House]]''' ''(pictured)'', established in 1793, is recognized as the antecedent to the [[New York Stock Exchange]]?
*... that [[Literary criticism|literary critic]] [[Boris Eikhenbaum]] considered '''[[skaz]]''' as a central element of [[Russia]]n culture and literature?
*... that, after defeating the troops of [[Petro Doroshenko]] in the '''[[Battle of Podhajce (1667)|Battle of Podhajce]]''', [[John III Sobieski]] was promoted to [[Grand Crown Hetman]], the highest military rank in the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]?
*... that '''[[Grunge Lit]]''' is an [[Australia]]n [[literary genre]] which features gritty depictions of [[urban]] and [[suburban]] life revolving around a [[Nihilism|nihilistic]] pursuit of [[sex]], [[drugs]] and [[alcohol]]?
*... that as director of the [[Xerox]] [[Palo Alto Research Center]] in the 1970s, '''[[Robert Spinrad]]''' oversaw development of such products as [[Ethernet]], [[laser printer]]s and "the first modern [[personal computer]]"?
*... that 14 of the 16 founding [[congregation|congregants]] of [[New York]]'s '''[[Peekskill Presbyterian Church]]''' were women?
*... that '''[[Caleb Green (basketball player)|Caleb Green]]''' holds [[The Summit League]]'s all-time scoring and rebounding records?
*... that specimens of the '''[[Cypraea tigris|tiger cowry]]''' have been found at [[Pompeii]], where they were most likely used as [[jewellery|ornaments]]?
* '''''00:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Gundari closeup.jpg|100x100px|Gundari]]
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*... that the '''[[Buddhist Pantheon]]''' ''(personage pictured)'' incorporates more than 3,000 [[Buddha]]s and [[deities]]?
*... that [[USC Trojans football|USC]] [[quarterback]] '''[[Gaius Shaver]]''' was the leading [[Rush (American football)|rusher]] in the [[American football]] competition at the [[1932 Summer Olympic Games]]?
*... that at the '''[[Blind Chess Olympiad]]''', the players are required to announce their moves, so the games are often recorded on tape rather than paper?
*... that the '''[[Legal Framework Order, 1970]]''', issued by Gen. [[Yahya Khan]], set the rules for the [[Pakistani general election, 1970|first direct popular elections]] in the history of [[Pakistan]]?
*... that '''[[Jimmy Melbourne]]''', who co-incidentally was murdered in [[Melbourne]], was the first [[Indigenous Australian]] to play [[Australian rules football]] at a senior level?
*... that the city of [[Anadarko, Oklahoma|Anadarko]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Oklahoma]] is named for the '''[[Nadaco]]''', a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe from [[Texas]]?
*... that '''[[Josefin Crafoord]]''' originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish version of ''[[Dancing on Ice]]'' because she did not know how to [[Ice-skating|skate]]?
*... that [[Havelock Ellis]] called '''''[[peau d’Espagne]]''''' “of all [[perfume]]s that which most nearly approaches the odor of a woman's skin”?

===13 September 2009===
* '''''18:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:CaffeinatedSpider2.jpg|100x100px|Webs built by the same spider before (left) and after taking caffeine. Image can be improved]]
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*... that '''[[Effect of psychoactive drugs on animals|after ingesting caffeine]]''', spiders fail to build a proper [[Spider web|web]] ''(see picture)''?
*... that [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan]] [[Center (American football)|center]] '''[[George C. Paterson|"Bubbles" Paterson]]''' was the namesake of an award recognizing academic achievement by [[American football|football]] players?
*... that the '''[[Bridge of Nations Bell]]''' which hung in [[Shuri Castle]] on [[Okinawa]] is so named for the inscription upon it, alluding to the central role of the [[Ryūkyū Kingdom]] in the region's maritime trade?
*... that [[Josephus]] used the chronicles of '''[[Demetrius the Chronographer]]''' for his ''[[Antiquities of the Jews]]'' and adopted his chronological system?
*... that the [[Wayne Wonder]] song '''"[[No Letting Go]]"''' is about a girl who is not mentioned by name?
*... that the Baroque '''[[Cherasco Synagogue]]''' was built on a courtyard so that the sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger the Jewish community?
*... that '''[[Virginia Shehee]]''', [[Louisiana]]'s first woman [[Louisiana State Legislature|state senator]], once bought a pig at a [[4-H Club|4-H]] show, the proceeds of which helped a boy with [[cerebral palsy]] to learn how to walk?
*... that the residents of [[England]]'s '''[[Butt Hole Road]]''' raised [[Pound sterling|£]]300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
* '''''12:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Cole Hamels 2008 v Reds.JPG|100x100px|Cole Hamels pitching against Cincinnati Reds]]
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*... that in {{mlby|2008}}, [[Cole Hamels]] ''(pictured)'' became the fifth player in [[Major League Baseball]] history to win the [[World Series MVP Award]] and the '''[[League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award|League Championship Series MVP Award]]''' in the same season?''
*... that [[Finnish]] soldiers nicknamed the '''[[20 ITK 40 VKT]]''' "Vekotin", or "[[gadget]]"?
*... that '''[[William Chaloner]]''' was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter, and ''[[agent provocateur]]'', who was convicted by [[Isaac Newton]], sent to [[Newgate Prison]], and hanged on the gallows at [[Tyburn]]?
*... that [[Montana]]'s 30 percent [[Ecotax|tax]] on coal production, upheld in '''''[[Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana]]''''' (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
*... that '''[[Nan Vernon]]''' provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's ''[[Halloween (franchise)|Halloween]]'' films and has been noted for being part of the "[[singer-songwriter]] trend" of women nurturing [[folk music]]'s rebirth?
*... that the '''''[[Ryūkyū Shimpō]]''''', founded in 1893 by former royal prince [[Shō Jun (1873-1945)|Shō Jun]], was the first newspaper in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]?
*... that the '''[[Oregon Geographic Names Board]]''' was established by Governor [[George Chamberlain]] in 1908 to assist the [[United States Board on Geographic Names]] in naming geographic features within the state of [[Oregon]]?
*... that the '''[[lollipop catshark]]''' is shaped like a [[tadpole]] and has an almost [[gelatin]]ous body?
* '''''06:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Squirrel monkey1-cropped.jpg|100x100px|Central American Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)]]
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*... that the range of the [[Central American Squirrel Monkey]] ''(pictured)'' '''[[List of Panamanian monkey species|within Panama]]''' has been reduced, and no longer includes its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] of [[David, Panama|David]]?
*... that as [[Clarenceux King of Arms]], '''[[Robert Cooke (officer of arms)|Robert Cooke]]''' arranged the [[state funeral]] of Sir [[Philip Sidney]]?
*... that the prototype of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] '''[[Ilyushin Il-22 (1947)|Il-22]]''' jet bomber made the first ever Soviet [[JATO|jet-assisted]] take-off on 7 February 1948 with a pair of SR-2 boosters?
*... that the [[Louisiana]] [[oral historian]] '''[[Hubert D. Humphreys]]''' was a charter member of the faculty at [[Louisiana State University in Shreveport]]?
*... that [[University College London Union]] is the '''[[List of Students' Unions in the United Kingdom|oldest students' union in England]]'''?
*... that [[Burkina Faso|Burkinabè]] politician and revolutionary ideologue '''[[Valère Somé]]''' was forced into exile to [[Congo-Brazzaville]] after the overthrow of [[Thomas Sankara]]?
*... that [[Chrysler]] vehicles won 34 races in the '''[[1966 in NASCAR|1966 NASCAR season]]''', after winning only six in the previous season?
*... that somebody jumped {{convert|8|ft|6|in|m}} high on a [[pogo stick]] at '''[[Pogopalooza]]''' this year?
* '''''00:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Welsh 2162906189 312aca1fef o.jpg|100x100px|George W. Beatty (right) and Al Welsh (left)]]
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*... that '''[[George William Beatty]]''' ''(pictured, right)'' flew his [[first solo flight]] on July 23, 1911, and set a [[United States|U.S.]] altitude record with '''[[Arthur L. Welsh|Al Welsh]]''' ''(pictured, left)'' that same day?
*... that after the [[Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|German occupants]] shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, '''''[[Bulletinen]]''''' was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the [[Norwegian resistance movement|civil resistance]]?
*... that '''[[William Sharman]]''', a finalist in the [[110 meter hurdles]] at the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics]], is also a classically trained [[piano|pianist]] and has a [[master's degree|master's]] in banking and finance?
*... that in the midst of the 1962 [[Cuban missile crisis]], the [[Indonesia]]n '''[[Murba Party]]''' pledged to send volunteers to [[Cuba]]?
*... that the [[Louisiana]] [[short story]] writer '''[[Ada Jack Carver Snell]]''' had a [[France|French]] grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits?
*... that the first time the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] prototype of the '''[[Ilyushin Il-40]]''' [[ground-attack aircraft]] fired its guns in the air its pilot was temporarily blinded and both jet engines [[Flameout|flamed out]]?
*... that after a failed jail escape, anarchist '''[[Harold H. Thompson (anarchist)|Harold Thompson]]''' had 31&nbsp;years added to his [[life imprisonment|life sentence]]?
*... that the '''[[Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator]]''' generates [[complaint]] letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?

===12 September 2009===
* '''''18:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Bhima Devi.jpg|100x100px|Sculptures at Bhima Devi Temple]]
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*... that '''[[Bhima Devi Temple Complex]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Haryana]], India, includes the restored ruins of a [[Hindu temple]] dated from the 8th to 11th century AD and [[Pinjore Gardens]] from the [[17th century]]?
*... that '''[[Dennis Gorski]]''' sponsored legislation in the [[New York State Assembly]] that preserved the right to declare "loss of [[fetus]]" as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
*... that the first '''[[airborne lifeboat]]''' carried by [[bomber]]s converted to [[air-sea rescue]] service was designed in the UK by [[Uffa Fox]]?
*... that '''[[The Edw. Malley Co.]]''' [[department store]] operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of [[Connecticut]]"?
*... that according to 1996 research into '''[[sexuality in music videos]]''', [[hip-hop]] and [[R&B]] scored highest in an analysis of sexual content?
*... that part of '''[[Audenshaw]]''', [[Greater Manchester]] and a section of an [[Nico Ditch|ancient ditch]] that according to folklore was the site of a bloody battle between [[Saxon]]s and [[Viking]]s, was destroyed in the 19th century by the construction of [[Audenshaw Reservoirs]]?
*... that Syrian political activist Faeq al-Mir was '''[[Faeq al-Mir arrest controversy|arrested]]''' and potentially faced life in prison for a phone call?
*... that '''[[Maltman Barry]]''', a British political activist, was a friend of [[Karl Marx]], but stood for election as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]?
* '''''12:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Mereszowszczyzna.jpg|100x100px|Manor in the village of Mereszowszczyzna, Kosava, Belarus]]
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*... that the architectural style of the '''[[Dwór (manor house)|manor houses known as ''dwór'' or ''dworek'']]''' ''(example pictured)'' that evolved during the late [[Polish Renaissance]] period still inspires some contemporary Polish manors?
*... that staff members of the '''[[Maria Mitchell Association]]''' conduct research into topics as varied as [[exoplanet]]s and the [[American Burying Beetle]]?
*... that '''{{SMS|Weißenburg}}''', a [[German Empire|German]] [[pre-dreadnought battleship]], was sold to the [[Ottoman Navy]], and later came to the rescue of the [[battlecruiser]] {{SMS|Goeben||2}}, another former German warship in Ottoman service?
*... that [[Southern Miss Golden Eagles]] quarterback '''[[Austin Davis]]''' broke 15&nbsp;different school records his [[redshirt (college sports)|redshirt]] freshman season?
*... that the song "'''[[Voices Carry (song)|Voices Carry]]'''" was originally written and sung by [['Til Tuesday]]'s lead singer, [[Aimee Mann]], as to a woman?
*... that the distinctive "na-na-na-na" sound found in the '''[[music of the Katamari Damacy series|music of the ''Katamari Damacy'' series]]''' was created by [[sound director]] [[Yū Miyake]] as an experiment in creating memorable [[video game music]]?
*... that the convicted killers known as the '''[[Scissor Sisters (convicted killers)|Scissor Sisters]]''' dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his [[penis]] and dumped most of his body in the [[Royal Canal]]?
*... that at the heart of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]'s decision in '''''[[Communications Workers of America v. Beck]]''''' is a dispute over a {{dollarsign|USD}}10-a-month [[agency shop]] fee?
* '''''06:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Frans Hals - Luitspelende nar.jpg|100x100px|Buffoon playing a lute, Frans Hals (circa 1623–1624)]]
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*... that in '''[[Dutch Golden Age painting]]''' a [[lute]] ''(example pictured)'', [[stocking]] or bird may represent a visual sexual [[pun]]? 
*... that the first peace-time '''[[air-sea rescue]]''' unit equipped entirely with [[helicopter]]s was [[No. 275 Squadron RAF]] in 1953?
*... that [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] '''[[Andy Hastings]]''' led the 1916 [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|Pitt football]] team to a national championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club?
*... that after being driven mad, some survivors of the Brazilian [[cruiser]] '''{{Ship|Brazilian cruiser|Bahia||2}}''' jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks?
*... that two of the three daughters of the [[Louisiana]] [[real estate]] developer and [[Springhill, Louisiana|Springhill]] [[mayor]] '''[[Jesse L. Boucher]]''' became [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]] [[actor|actresses]]?
*... that [[Vickers Viscount]] G-ALWE '''[[List of accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Viscount|crashed on approach]]''' to [[Manchester Airport|Ringway Airport, Manchester]] when a bolt on the starboard flap mechanism failed?
*... that the '''[[Battle of San Marino]]''' was fought between [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] and [[Nazi Germany|German]] forces inside a [[neutral country]]?
*... that after being reported as dead in [[LIFE]] magazine, '''[[Don Bell (radio broadcaster)|Don Bell]]''' was greeted with "Hello, [[Lazarus]]" by [[Douglas MacArthur|General MacArthur]]?
* '''''00:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Boeing SB-17G 100px.jpg|100x100px|Modified B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, carrying a yellow lifeboat, serving as a Dumbo rescue flight]]
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*... that American '''[[Dumbo (air-sea rescue)|Dumbo]]''' rescue flights ''(aircraft pictured)'' worked with [[submarine]]s and [[ship|surface boats]] to help save downed airmen in the [[Pacific War]]?
*... that when the '''[[Vladimir Dudintsev]]''' novel '''''[[Not by Bread Alone]]''''' was published in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1956, it was so popular that copies sold for five times the cover price?
*... that the '''[[Petrotel Lukoil Refinery|Romanian–American Refinery]]''' was one of several refineries bombarded by the [[Allies of World War II|allied powers]] in [[Operation Tidal Wave]] during [[World War II]]?
*... that "'''[[Kicks (song)|Kicks]]'''," a 1966 [[hit single]] by [[Paul Revere & the Raiders]], was called "a dumb anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter [[David Crosby]]?
*... that '''''[[Cut (advert)|Cut]]''''', a 2009 [[advertisement|ad]] designed to promote [[domestic violence]] awareness, was deemed too violent to appear on [[Television in the United Kingdom|British television]]?
*... that the [[19th century]] [[New York City]] [[Bar (establishment)|saloon]] '''[[Hole-in-the-Wall (saloon)|Hole-in-the-Wall]]''' employed two female criminals as [[Bouncer (doorman)|bouncers]]?
*... that '''[[Shirley Huffman]]''', the first female [[Hillsboro, Oregon|mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon]], worked to change the [[Municipal corporation|city's charter]] to allow her more time in office?
*... that while racing in the 2009 [[World Orienteering Championships]] gold medalist '''[[Thierry Gueorgiou]]''' rescued an injured competitor?

===11 September 2009===
* '''''18:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Tamatave bombarded and occupied by the French 11 June 1883.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that [[France]]'s '''[[First Madagascar expedition|Madagascar expedition of 1883]]''' ''(bombing action pictured)'' was triggered by the will to remove [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] economic and religious influence from the island of [[Madagascar]]?
*... that '''[[Caroline Moore]]''' was 14 years old when she discovered '''[[SN 2008ha|supernova 2008ha]]'''?
*... that the '''[[Scolanova Synagogue]]''', one of four [[synagogue]]s confiscated and turned into churches in [[Trani]], [[Italy]] in 1380, is now a synagogue again?
*... that in 1729, when his plantation '''[[Corotoman]]''' was destroyed, [[Robert Carter I|Robert "King" Carter I]] lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his [[wine cellar]]?
*... that '''[[David Snell (journalist)|David Snell]]''', who was the first person to allege that [[Japan]] had tested its own [[Nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]] prior to [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Hiroshima and Nagasaki]], later became a writer for ''[[Life Magazine]]''?
*... that in the legal case '''''[[Werner Erhard and Associates v. Christopher Cox for Congress]]''''' the plaintiff claimed charges of [[libel]] and [[slander]] for being referred to as a "[[destructive cult]]"?
*... that the film based on the novel '''''[[Names in Marble]]''''' is the most successful [[Estonia]]n film in terms of box office profits?
* '''''12:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:N300.jpg|100x100px|Ultraviolet/Visible Camera image of NGC 300]]
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*... that in May 2008, an amateur astronomer discovered an unusual [[supernova]]-like object in the galaxy '''[[NGC 300]]''' ''(ultraviolet image pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Forensics in antiquity|forensic techniques in antiquity]]''' included pulling donkey tails and filling the mouths of suspects with rice?
*... that director [[Frank Capra]] cast street people from [[Downtown Los Angeles]] as [[Extra (actor)|extras]] in the 1933 film '''''[[Lady for a Day]]'''''?
*... that a '''''[[sotie]]''''' is different from a [[farce]] in that it uses [[Allegory|allegorical]] [[protagonist]]s, rather than real people?
*... that the '''[[List of Union College alumni|list of alumni of Union College]]''' in [[Schenectady, New York]], includes one [[President of the United States]], a [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] from both the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] and the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], and numerous [[United States Congress|Congressmen]]?
*... that in 2007, '''[[Jon Willis]]''' became the first British [[fencing|fencer]] to win a [[World cup competition|World Cup]] since 1981?
*... that '''[[Fighter Wing 71]]''' is the sole unit in the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'' still operating the [[F-4 Phantom II]] fighter?
*... that the 2007 drama '''''[[The Memory Thief]]''''' made use of interview footage of actual [[Holocaust]] survivors?
* '''''05:21, 11 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Eugenia Tadolini 2.jpg|100x100px|Italian soprano Eugenia Tadolini (1808–1872)]]
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*... that [[Giuseppe Verdi]] did not want '''[[Eugenia Tadolini]]''' ''(pictured)'' to sing [[Lady Macbeth]] in his opera ''[[Macbeth (opera)|Macbeth]]'' because her voice was too beautiful?
*... that the [[Video hosting service|video sharing]] [[website]] '''[[Trilulilu]]''' is one of the most visited websites in [[Romania]], with an average of 2.2&nbsp;million unique visitors per month?
*... that in the lawsuit '''''[[Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard]]''''', a [[default judgment]] of over {{dollarsign|USD}}500,000 was entered against [[Werner Erhard|Erhard]]?
*... that the '''[[Tasmanian Masked Owl]]''' is threatened by competition for [[tree hollow|nest hollows]] by [[feral]] [[European honey bee|bees]], [[Laughing Kookaburra|kookaburras]] and [[Common Brushtail Possum|possums]]?
*... that [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], based '''[[Beyond Words Publishing]]'''{{`}}s first book retailed for over US{{dollarsign}}2,000, with one copy presented as a gift to the [[Emperor of Japan|Japanese Emperor]]?
*... that the ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|Montreal Gazette]]'' of November 18, 2008, included the '''[[Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve]]''' in the 10 hot spots of [[Quebec]]'s wilderness that "you should experience before you die"?
*... that the 1964 [[Great Britain|British]] '''[[BSA Thunderbolt]]''' motorcycle was capable of over {{convert|100|mph|km/h}}?
*... that '''[[Arsenal Park Transilvania]]''', one of [[Europe]]'s few military-themed [[amusement park]]s, has villas named after [[Douglas MacArthur]], [[Julius Caesar]], and [[Eremia Grigorescu]]?

===10 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Coprinellus micaceus 2.jpg|100x100px|Mica cap (Coprinellus micaceus)]]
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*... that the '''[[Coprinellus micaceus|mica cap]]''' mushroom ''(pictured)'' has glistening particles on top that are remnants of a [[universal veil]]?
*... that '''[[Yaakov Bodo]]''' played the character "Moishe Ventilator" more than 1,000 times?
*... that the author of the American book '''''[[How the Scots Invented the Modern World]]''''' is from the [[Midwestern United States]] and has no [[Scottish people|Scottish]] in his ancestral background?
*... that the [[Fédération nationale des boulangers et pâtissiers du Burkina|F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union]], founded in 1960, is the oldest member of the '''''[[Confédération générale du travail du Burkina]]''''' [[trade union]] centre in [[Burkina Faso]]?
*... that the one off '''[[Winton Train]]''' commemorates [[Nicholas Winton|Sir Nicholas Winton]], the "English [[Oskar Schindler]]"?
*... that [[Canadian Football League|CFL]] rookie '''[[Bobby Keyes (gridiron football)|Bobby Keyes]]''' won a {{dollarsign}}1,000 player pool for grabbing the [[Edmonton Eskimos]]' first [[Interception (American football)|interception]] of the [[2009 Edmonton Eskimos season|2009 season]]?
*... that '''''[[Carletonomys]]''''', a [[rodent]] related to modern [[rice rat]]s, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over [[Ensenadan|1&nbsp;million&nbsp;year]] old [[silt]] deposits in [[Argentina]]?
*... that '''[[Fred Allison]]''' erroneously claimed to have discovered new chemical elements he called [[alabamium]] and [[virginium]] in 1930?
* '''''17:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:SMS Kurfuerst Friedrich Wilhelm 1900.jpg|100x100px|SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm]]
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*... that '''{{SMS|Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm}}''' ''(pictured)'', a [[German Empire|German]]-built [[pre-dreadnought]] [[battleship]], was sold to the [[Ottoman Empire]], renamed ''Heireddin Barbarossa'', and sunk by a British [[submarine]] during [[World War I]]?
*... that [[Australia]]n singer '''[[Lana Cantrell]]''', a [[Grammy Awards of 1968|1968 Grammy Award]] nominee for [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]], later became an [[entertainment law]]yer in [[New York City]]?
*... that '''[[Tawang Monastery]]''' in northeastern [[India]] is said to be the largest [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] monastery in the world outside of [[Lhasa]], [[Tibet]]?
*... that [[Miranda Lambert]]'s new album '''''[[Revolution (Miranda Lambert album)|Revolution]]''''' is slated to include songs co-written by [[Blake Shelton]] as well as Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of [[Lady Antebellum]]?
*... that, in his 1765 work '''''[[A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World]]''''', [[theologian]] [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] argued that God's purpose in creating the world was not human happiness but His own glory ? 
*... that '''[[Fred McQueen]]''', the son of [[Steve McQueen]], is in ''[[20th Century Boys|20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope]]'', one of the most expensive [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] films ever made?
*... that in the 1950 confidence vote for the [[Indonesia]]n [[Natsir Cabinet|Natsir cabinet]], the '''[[National People's Party (Indonesia)|National People's Party]]''' was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government?
*... that '''[[Leonid Rogozov]]''' had to perform an [[appendectomy]] on himself because he was the only doctor stationed at the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Antarctic]] research station [[Novolazarevskaya]]?
* '''''11:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:W.E.F. Britten - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Mariana.jpg|100x100px|Illustration of ''Mariana'' by William Britten in 1901]]
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*... that '''[[William Britten]]''' illustrated many images from [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Lord Tennyson's]] early poems, including: '''[[Mariana (poem)|a lonely woman]]''' ''(pictured)'', '''[[The Deserted House|a corpse]]''', '''[[Oenone (poem)|a jilted lover]]''', '''[[The Lotos-Eaters|drug users]]''', '''[[St Simeon Stylites (poem)|an odd saint]]''', '''[[The Day-Dream|a sleeping lady]]''', '''[[Sir Galahad (poem)|a knight]]''', and '''[[Break, Break, Break|waves]]'''?
*... that '''[[Ridge A]]''' in [[Antarctica]] has been identified as the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth?
*... that, at seventeen years old, '''[[Charles L. Gilliland]]''' was the youngest [[Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Korean War]]?
*... that the declared purpose of the '''[[Texas Psychological Association]]''' is to advance the field of [[psychology]] as a science, profession, and means of promoting human welfare?
*... that '''[[Albert Pape]]''' scored a goal for [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] against [[Leyton Orient F.C.|Clapton Orient]] in 1925, despite only completing a [[transfer (football)|transfer]] from Orient to United an hour before kick-off?
*... that singer [[Myriam Montemayor Cruz|Myriam]] received a [[Music recording sales certification|gold certification]] in [[México]] for an album that included a cover version of the [[List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 1989|number-one]] song "'''[[Simplemente Amigos]]'''"?
*... that the '''[[Yibir]]''' are a [[Demographics of Somalia#Somalis|Somali]] clan of [[itinerant]] magicians who give blessings to newborns and newly married couples?
*... that the '''[[daggernose shark]]''' can adjust the timing of events in its [[sexual reproduction|reproductive cycle]] by several months?
* '''''05:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:USAF Lucky Lady II.jpg|100x100px|The Lucky Lady II.]]
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*... that after [[B-50 Superfortress]] '''''[[Lucky Lady II]]''''' ''(pictured)'' ended the first round-the-world airplane flight, [[Curtis LeMay]] of [[Strategic Air Command|SAC]] said the [[United States Air Force|USAF]] could now fly to "any place in the world that required the atomic bomb"?
*... that at the [[2000 Camp David Summit]], [[Yasser Arafat]] '''[[Temple Denial|denied]]''' that a [[Temple in Jerusalem|Jewish Temple]] ever existed in Jerusalem?
*... that '''[[Pavel Argeyev]]''', a [[Russian people|Russian]] [[flying ace]], fought on both the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]] and the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] for both [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and [[French Third Republic|France]] during the [[First World War]]?
*... that the [[Indonesia]]n '''[[Murba Women's Union]]''' ran programmes to help women start [[batik]] and [[weaving]] household industries?
*... that while heading the [[Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage]], '''[[Harry Fett]]''' worked for the preservation of the site [[Bryggen]] in [[Bergen]], and the mining town [[Røros]]?
*... that the then Crown Prince of [[Austria–Hungary|Austria]] [[Charles I of Austria|Karl I]] praised [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]]'s [[Jew]]s for their patriotism during the '''[[Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia, 1914-1915|Russian occupation]]''' of 1914–15?
*... that '''[[Chamchuri Square]]''', an office/residential/retail building complex in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], stood uncompleted for almost ten years due to the [[1997 Asian Financial Crisis]]?
*... that after leading [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]] to "the greatest [[American football|football]] upset of all time," '''[[Bart Macomber]]''' left school for the [[Orpheum Circuit, Inc.|Orpheum]] [[vaudeville]] circuit?

===9 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Sofia-oberbauer.png|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that 70 paintings of [[Sofia]] ''(example pictured)'', the capital of [[Bulgaria]], by [[County of Tyrol|Tyrolean]]-born painter and engineer '''[[Joseph Oberbauer]]''' are to be exhibited in Sofia's planned museum of local history?
*... that '''[[decltype]]''' can be used to "clean up function syntax mess" in [[C++]] [[computer programming|programming]]?
*... that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of '''[[Alma, Palestine|Alma]]''' was once the biggest centre for growing [[olive]]s in the [[District of Safad]]?
*... that [[Buffalo All-Americans|Buffalo]]'s '''[[Ockie Anderson|"Ockie" Anderson]]''' scored more points in the [[1920 NFL season]] (the league's first) than four entire teams?
*... that the pilot in the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] '''[[Ilyushin Il-20 (1948)|Il-20]]''' [[ground attack aircraft]] prototype sat on top of the engine, directly behind the propeller?
*... that '''[[Martha Wollstein]]''' became the first female member of the [[American Pediatric Society]] in 1930?
*... that Judge [[Richard Posner]]'s 2009 book, '''''[[A Failure of Capitalism]]''''', moves away from his past advocacy of [[free-market capitalism]] and criticizes the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]]'s policies?
*... that '''[[Eddie Gillette]]''' led the [[Wisconsin Badgers football]] team to an undefeated season and in [[baseball]] "beat some of the best [[pitcher]]s in the '[[Three-Eye League]]'"?
* '''''17:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:General view of the gateway of the fort, Belgaum.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that [[Mahatma Gandhi]] was imprisoned in the '''[[Belgaum Fort]]''' ''(pictured)'' during India's [[Indian independence movement|struggle for independence]]?
*... that before 1977, hundreds of wild [[Indian Elephant|elephants]] in [[North-East India]] were captured each year by '''[[mela shikar]]''', a traditional method involving a [[lasso]]?
*... that '''[[Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet|Sir John Henry Pelly]]''' was [[Hudson's Bay Company#Governors|Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company]] and [[Governor of the Bank of England]]?
*... that although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, '''[[Thomas Z. Morrow]]'''{{`}}s [[William O. Bradley|brother-in-law]] and [[Edwin P. Morrow|son]] were both elected [[governor of Kentucky]] in 1895 and 1919, respectively?
*... that the '''[[HAWAII MR1]]''' mapping system was used to find the {{USS|Yorktown|CV-5|6}}, a shipwreck 17,000 feet underwater?
*... that [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], native '''[[Rick Dancer]]''' announced he was running for [[Oregon Secretary of State]] while on air working for [[KEZI]]?
*... that the murder of 17-year-old '''[[Raonaid Murray]]''' has still not been solved ten years after it occurred?
*... that [[iPod Touch]]/[[iPhone]] game '''[[Doodle Jump]]''' has been the top paid downloaded app in five countries including the [[US]]?
* '''''11:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Adam Christodoulou Oulton Park (Pit Exit).JPG|100x100px|CR Scuderia driver Adam Christodoulou during a qualifying session]]
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*... that British [[auto racing]] team '''[[CRS Racing|CR Scuderia]]''' won races in all three series it participated in during 2008 as well as two championships?
*... that '''[[Pope Constantine]]''', in 711, was the last pope to visit [[Constantinople]] for over 1250&nbsp;years?
*...that '''[[Tropical Storm Wendy (1999)|Tropical Storm Wendy of 1999]]''' was labeled "the most serious storm of the century" by the local government in [[Wenzhou|Wenzhou, China]], where it killed 133 people?
*... that '''[[Charles of Lorraine-Commercy]]''' was the one of the most trusted lieutenants of [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]]?
*... that the '''[[Constanţa South Container Terminal|CSCT]]''' is the largest container terminal in the [[Black Sea]] basin, having an annual traffic capacity of 1,500,000 [[twenty-foot equivalent unit]] (TEUs)?
*... that ''[[No Jacket Required]]'' is highest selling release from the '''[[Phil Collins discography|discography of Phil Collins]]''', having been [[RIAA certification|certified diamond]] for sales of over 10&nbsp;million copies in the [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|United States]]?
*... that between studying [[mathematics|maths]] at [[Cambridge University]] and becoming a [[ISI highly cited researcher|highly cited]] [[neuroscientist]], '''[[Stephen Dunnett]]''' was a [[social worker]] in the [[London Borough of Southwark]] in the mid-[[1970s]]?
*... that U.S. [[President of the United States|President]] [[Herbert Hoover]] was once the manager of the '''[[Gwalia Gold Mine]]''' in [[Western Australia]]?
* '''''05:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Egawa Hidetatsu autoportrait.jpg|100x100px|Egawa Hidetatsu]]
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*... that '''[[Egawa Hidetatsu]]''' ''(pictured)'' designed and built in 1853–54 the [[artillery battery|artillery batteries]] of [[Odaiba]] at the entrance of [[Edo]] (modern [[Tokyo]]), to prevent an intrusion by the [[United States]] fleet of [[Matthew C. Perry|Commodore Perry]]?
*... that the [[Nyack, New York]], '''[[U.S. Post Office (Nyack, New York)|post office]]''' has been renamed in memory of two local police officers and a security guard slain in the [[Brinks robbery (1981)|1981 Brinks robbery]]?
*... that '''[[Wilhelm Munthe]]''' served four years as president of the [[International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions]] (IFLA)?
*... that '''[[Faith Bible High School]]''' in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]], closed for a day after a student received a threatening message on [[AOL Instant Messenger]]?
*... that '''[[Fred Griffiths (footballer)|Fred Griffiths]]''', who played twice for the [[Wales national football team]], was killed in action during the [[World War I|First World War]]?
*... that the [[Indonesia]]n '''[[Dayak Unity Party]]''' was dissolved in 1959 when President [[Sukarno]] issued a ban on ethnic [[political party|political parties]]?
*... that [[Carrie Underwood]]'s single "'''[[Cowboy Casanova]]'''" was rush-released on [[YouTube]] after an unfinished mix of the song leaked online?
*... that after losing both arms in a [[coal mining]] accident, '''[[Vladislav Titov]]''' wrote several books by holding a pen with his teeth?

===8 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Magnolia_wieseneri.jpg|100x100px|Magnolia × wieseneri]]
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*... that the fragrance of the flowers of '''''[[Magnolia × wieseneri]]''''' ''(pictured)'' has been likened to that of a [[pineapple]]?
*... that the [[U.S. Coast Guard]]'s '''[[Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron]]''' uses .50-caliber rifles to shoot out the engines of fleeing drug runners?
*... that '''[[Tore Gjelsvik]]''' headed the [[Norwegian Polar Institute]] for more than twenty years?
*... that [[Francisco Goya]]'s series of [[etching]]s '''''[[The Disasters of War]]''''' was not published until 35 years after his death, when there was no risk of political repercussions?
*... that the [[International Labour Organization|ILO]]'s [[Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949|Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention]] neither authorizes nor prohibits '''[[union security agreement]]s''', "such questions being matters for regulation in accordance with national practice"?
*... that '''[[Samuel Clucas]]''' was offered a [[Association football|soccer]] [[scholarship]] in the [[United States]] after studying sports development at [[Lincoln College, Lincolnshire|Lincoln College]]?
*... that the owners of the '''[[Flickinger Center for Performing Arts]]''' in [[Alamogordo, New Mexico]], gave the building away to local government so that state funding could be used to renovate the building?
*... that the songs on '''[[Ferdinand Richard]]'''{{`}}s solo album '''''[[En Avant]]''''' are sung in eight different languages?
* '''''17:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Thomas H Hoatson House Laurium MI 2009.jpg|100x100px|Thomas H. Hoatson House]]
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*... that the {{convert|13000|ft2|m2|adj=on}} '''[[Thomas H. Hoatson House]]''' in [[Laurium, Michigan]] ''(pictured)'', is the largest mansion in the western [[Upper Peninsula]] of Michigan?
*... that when actress '''[[Gerda Ring]]''' had to flee from Norway to Sweden during [[World War II]], she started the theatre group ''Fri Norsk Scene'', together with her husband [[Halfdan Christensen]]?
*... that in '''[[Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc]]''', the mortal remains of [[Cuauhtémoc|the last]] [[Aztec emperors family tree|Aztec emperor]] are on public display?
*... that in 1949, a [[monument]] in recognition of '''[[Niels Ebbesen Hansen|Dr. Niels Ebbesen Hansen]]''' and his contributions to the [[Horticultural]] Department was erected on the campus of [[South Dakota State College]]? 
*... that 94% of the Members of Parliament elected in the '''[[Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992|1992 election in Burkina Faso]]''' were male?
*... that Dr. '''[[Wacław Olszak]]''', [[Polish minority in the Czech Republic|Polish]] physician and former mayor of [[Karviná]], [[Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938)|Czechoslovakia]], was murdered by Nazis just ten days after the war started?
*... that the religious '''[[Vision Interfaith Satellite Network]]''' evolved into the [[Hallmark Channel]]?
*... that according to [[Hindu mythology]], god [[Shiva]] proposed to his consort [[Parvati]] at '''[[Guptakashi]]'''?
* '''''11:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Haploblepharus edwardsii Puffadder shyshark.jpg|100x100px|Puffadder shyshark (Haploblepharus edwardsii)]]
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*... that the '''[[dark shyshark|dark]]''', '''[[puffadder shyshark|puffadder]]''', '''[[brown shyshark|brown]]''', and '''[[Natal shyshark|Natal]] [[Haploblepharus|shysharks]]''' ''(puffadder shyshark pictured)'' of [[South Africa]] are so named because they curl into a ring when threatened and "shyly" cover their eyes with their tails?
*... that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese '''[[Jiabiangou|Jiabiangou labor camp]]''' died within three&nbsp;years, mostly from starvation?
*... that the recently discovered '''''[[Speleonectes atlantida]]''''' is an eyeless [[crustacean]] equipped with powerful [[prehensile]] [[limb (anatomy)|limbs]] and poisonous fangs that function as [[hypodermic needle]]s?
*... that while filming '''''[[Counsellor at Law]]''''', director [[William Wyler]] had to resort to placing [[cue card]]s around the set because lead actor [[John Barrymore]] kept forgetting his lines?
*... that '''[[Christopher Elrington]]''', general editor of the ''[[Victoria County History]]'', was a professor at the [[University of London]] even though he never taught there?
*... that in 1770, [[James Cook]] named two landmarks near '''[[Cook Island, New South Wales]]''', [[Mount Warning]] and [[Point Danger (Australia)|Point Danger]] because he nearly shipwrecked there?
*... that most of the [[Collection (museum)|exhibits]] at the '''[[Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg|International Maritime Museum Hamburg]]''' are from the private collection of [[Peter Tamm]], who started collecting when he was six&nbsp;years old?
*... that [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]] [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] and [[College Football Hall of Fame]] inductee '''[[Everett Strupper|"Stroop" Strupper]]''' used lip-reading to overcome [[Hearing impairment|deafness]]?
* '''''05:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Takashima Shuhan photograph.jpg|100x100px|Takashima Shuhan]]
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*... that '''[[Takashima Shūhan]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the first major proponent of Western [[firearms]] at the end of [[Japan]]'s [[Sakoku|Seclusion period]] in the 19th century?
*... that a [[Lufthansa]] [[Junkers Ju 52]] was the first plane to land at '''[[Oslo Airport, Fornebu]]''' in Norway, nine months before it opened?
*... that '''[[Norman Luxton]]''' sailed across the [[Pacific Ocean]] in a 100-year old [[Nuu-chah-nulth|Nootka]] [[dugout canoe]] for five months before being forced to stop from injuries?
*... that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date '''[[SL95]]''' trams of [[Oslo]], [[Norway]], were ordered until all units were in service?
*... that the {{convert|122|mi|km}} '''[[Dorcheat Bayou]]''' in [[Arkansas]] and [[Louisiana]] was once navigable for several months a year to access the [[Red River (Mississippi watershed)|Red River]]?
*... that even though '''[[Karen Platou]]''' in 1921 was the first woman elected to the [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Storting|Parliament]], the first woman to sit in that assembly was '''[[Anna Rogstad]]''', ten&nbsp;years earlier?
*... that in '''[[Taxco]]''' during Holy Week some perform penance walking with {{convert|50|kg|lb}} bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs?
*... that '''[[Yummy Dough]]''' is [[modelling clay]] that can be eaten as well as played with?

===7 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Jens Book-Jenssen.jpg|100x100px|Jens Book-Jenssen in 1939]]
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*... that '''[[Jens Book-Jenssen]]''' ''(pictured)'' was [[Norway]]'s best-selling recording artist of the 20th century?
*... that several '''[[List of Armillaria species|''Armillaria'' species]]''' are [[Bioluminescence|bioluminescent]]?
*... that '''[[Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr.|Clarence Cazalot]]''' quadrupled [[Marathon Oil]]'s net income during his first year as [[chief executive]]?
*... that the '''[[Election Commission of Nepal]]''' oversaw approximately 10,000 polling places, 10,000 candidates, and 234,000 election workers during voting for the [[Nepalese Constituent Assembly]]?
*... that '''[[William of Pagula]]'''{{`}}s book '''''[[Oculus Sacerdotis]]''''', intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?
*... that '''[[Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi]]''', a fertile [[Ranchos of California#Mexican era|California ranch]] exceeding {{convert|8780|acre|km2|1}}, was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
*... that semi-professional [[Association football|football]] player '''[[Nevin Saroya]]''' featured in the football-themed film ''[[Mean Machine (film)|Mean Machine]]''?
*... that [[Katsura Hoshino]] based her [[manga]] character '''[[Allen Walker]]''' on a female character, only altering the hair length?
* '''''17:22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Lal Darwaza.jpg|100x100px|Sher Shah Suri gate]]
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*... that after William Finch described [[Delhi]] in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more '''[[Gates of Delhi]]''' ''(example pictured)'' were built by the [[Mughal architecture|Mughals]] and [[British people|British]] — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition?
*... that [[Mount Widerøe]], Antarctica, is named for '''[[Viggo Widerøe]]''', who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km<sup>2</sup> (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
*... that at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, '''[[New Jersey Route 64]]''' is a [[state highway]] that consists primarily of a bridge over [[Amtrak]]-maintained [[railroad track]]s?
*... that [[Electorate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]] and [[Duchy of Pomerania|Pomerania]] settled their conflicts in the '''[[Treaty of Soldin (1466)|Treaty of Soldin]]''', but fought it out when Pomerania disobeyed?
*... that the Swedish [[reality show]] '''''[[Wild Kids]]''''' has been described as a children's version of ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]''?
*... that [[Jim Bunning]], currently a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Kentucky]], was the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]]' '''[[List of Pittsburgh Pirates Opening Day starting pitchers|Opening Day starting pitcher]]''' in [[1968 in baseball|1968]]?
*... that [[Poland|Polish]] archaeologist '''[[Mieczysław Domaradzki]]''', who was based in [[Bulgaria]] for 22&nbsp;years studying the archaeology of [[Thrace]], discovered the ancient market centre [[Pistiros]]?
*... that '''[[Beverly Hills Oil Field|Beverly Hills]]''', [[California]], produces more than 874,000 [[Barrel (volume)|barrels]] of oil a year, with approximately 11 million barrels in [[oil reserve|reserve]], and [[oil well]]s on campus at the [[Beverly Hills High School#Oil wells|local high school]]?
* '''''11:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Portrait of Jacobus van Rensselaer (1713-1762).jpg|100x100px|Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant)]]
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*... that '''[[Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant)|Kiliaen van Rensselaer]]''' ''(pictured)'' is an ancestor of the [[:Category:Rensselaer family|van Rensselaer family]] of [[New York]], which included two [[Lieutenant Governor of New York|Lieutenant Governors]], five [[United States House of Representatives|Congressmen]], and the [[Stephen van Rensselaer III|tenth-richest man]] in [[History of the United States|American history]]?
*... that the [[gorgon]] [[Medusa]] is a common theme in the mosaic decoration of '''[[Villa Armira]]''', a [[Roman villa]] near modern [[Ivaylovgrad]], [[Bulgaria]]?
*... that [[Jacques Callot]]'s series of etchings '''''[[Les Grandes Misères de la guerre|The Large Miseries of War]]''''' were so called to distinguish them from a smaller set of ''Miseries''?
*... that of the two formats of '''[[Ashokan Edicts (Delhi)]]''' namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links [[Delhi]]’s history with the [[Ashoka]]n era (273–236 BC)?
*... that the [[Simpson Investment Company|'''Simpson Railroad''']] is one of the last operational logging [[railroad]]s in the continental United States?
*... that [[Austria]]n [[Jew]]ish author '''[[Elfriede Gerstl]]''' as a child had to hide in a wardrobe to avoid deportation to a [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]]?
*... that all but one of [[Masami Hirosaka]]'s [[International Federation of Model Auto Racing|IFMAR]] titles were won driving cars by '''[[Yokomo]]''' and their home market distributor [[Associated Electrics]]?
*... that in the world's '''[[University Centre in Svalbard|northernmost university]]''' it is obligatory to take self-defence shooting classes?
* '''''05:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:AlaskaHighwayRte51Mile16 cropped.jpg|100x100px|Vehicle being towed out of the mud, 1939, Alaska Rt 51 mile 16]]
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*... that commissioners of the '''[[Alaska Road Commission]]''' declared that it had "no pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel" ''(bad road pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Gershom Schocken]]''' was the editor of ''[[Haaretz]]'' for over 50&nbsp;years?
*... that the ''hydraulis'' or [[water organ]] of the '''[[Dion Archaeological Museum]]''' is the first water organ found in [[Greece]], and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
*... that the history of '''[[transport in Somerset]]''' has gone from the [[Sweet Track]], an ancient [[causeway]], to a modern international airport?
*... that '''[[polyaryletherketone]]''' (PAEK) is a family of [[thermoplastic]]s that are used in high temperature applications and [[surgical implant]]s?
*... that mainstream Japanese film journal [[Kinema Junpo]] chose director [[Tatsumi Kumashiro]]'s '''''[[The World of Geisha]]''''' as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973 despite its being in the [[Softcore pornography|softcore]] [[Pink film#The second wave .28The Nikkatsu Roman Porno era 1971-1982.29|''Roman porno'']] genre?
*... that the '''[[2009 Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crash]]''' killed [[Lieutenant Colonel]] Rade Randjelovic, [[Serbian Air Force]]'s display pilot and commander of the [[98th Air Base]]?
*... that [[Kingdom of León|Leonese]] nobleman '''[[Fruela Díaz]]''' gave, as a gift to [[Urraca of León|Queen Urraca of León]], a horse worth the equivalent of 5,000 sheep?

===6 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Scoliodon_laticaudus_Day.jpg|100x100px|Spadenose shark]]
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*... that the '''[[spadenose shark]]''' ''(pictured)'' exhibits the most advanced form of [[viviparity|placental reproduction]] in [[fish]]es?
*... that '''[[No. 6 Commando]]''', a [[British Commandos|British commando]] unit, used American uniforms and equipment during [[Operation Torch]] in an attempt to placate the [[Vichy France|Vichy French]]?
*... that '''[[The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York)|The Homestead]]''', one of the oldest buildings in [[Haverstraw (village), New York|Haverstraw, New York]], has been home to a [[New York State Legislature|state legislator]] and [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]], the [[Rockland County, New York|county]] [[sheriff]] and the local [[superintendent (education)|school superintendent]]?
*... that the thirteen-year-old '''[[Hino Kumawaka|Kumawakamaru]]''' took revenge for his father by assassinating the monk Homma Saburō with his own sword?
*... that the two roads that use former '''[[New Jersey Route 65]]''', Port Street and Doremus Avenue, dead-end just after their respective intersection?
*... that '''[[Edward Atienza]]''' made his [[London]] theatrical debut in 1954, as the [[Mole]] in ''[[Toad of Toad Hall]]''?
*... that the [[United States Navy]] conducted '''[[Operation Teardrop]]''' in 1945 in the mistaken belief that German [[U-boat]]s were ''en route'' to attack the United States east coast with [[V-1 flying bomb]]s?
*... that [[Japan]]'s incoming [[First Lady]] '''[[Miyuki Hatoyama]]''' claims to have been abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped [[UFO]] and to have known [[Tom Cruise]] when he was Japanese in a [[reincarnation|prior incarnation]]?
* '''''17:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Trinity Church Trowbridge.jpg|100x100px|Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge]]
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*... that '''[[Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge]]''' ''(pictured)'' is known locally as "The Church on the [[Roundabout]]"?
*... that prior to [[mine reclamation|reclamation]] of the '''[[Polaris mine]]''', the {{convert|700|ft|m}} long warehouse that stored concentrated [[ore]] was the largest building in [[Nunavut]]?
*... that in 1947 a group broke away from the [[Communist Party of Indonesia]] (PKI) and founded the rival '''[[Communist Party of Indonesia (Red)|Red Communist Party]]''', in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the [[Netherlands|Dutch]]?
*... that the [[Russell Drysdale]]'s 1948 painting '''''[[The cricketers]]''''' has been described as "possibly the most famous Australian painting of the 20th century"?
*... that the '''[[Battle of Oldendorf]]''' was one of only two battles in the [[Thirty Years' War]] where both armies attacked?
*... that the [[cabaret|political cabaret]] show '''''[[Neues aus der Anstalt]]''''' is the first of its kind to be broadcast on the [[ZDF|second German public-service channel]] since 1979?
*... that British Isles and Australian rugby player '''[[Blair Swannell]]''' played every game in the same pair of unwashed [[breeches]]? 
*... that in combat areas of the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front of World War II]], [[Nazi Germany|German]] soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an '''[[anti-tank dog]]'''?
* '''''11:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Kerkouane - panorama.jpg|100x100px|View of Kerkouane seaside]]
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*... that a [[sarcophagus]] found in the '''[[Necropolis of Kerkouane]]''' ''([[Kerkouane]] seaside pictured)'' is one of the only known [[Punic]] wood carvings still in existence?
*... that '''[[Jacob van Deventer (cartographer)|Jacob van Deventer]]''' spent fifteen&nbsp;years making hundreds of maps of Dutch cities, but his work was only rediscovered 299&nbsp;years after he began?
*... that '''[[Battle of Long Khanh]]''' was the last joint American-Australian battalion-sized operation in Vietnam?
*... that '''[[wet storage stain]]''', more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of [[corrosion]] that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
*... that [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]]–[[Italy|Italian]] [[Futurism|Futurist]] painter '''[[Nikolay Diulgheroff]]''', an honorary citizen of [[Turin]], studied at the original [[Bauhaus]] in [[Weimar]]?
*... that the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] '''[[Ilyushin Il-8|Il-8-2]]''' ground-attack aircraft prototype mounted a cassette of ten AG-2 aerial grenades to drop in the path of pursuing fighters?
*... that the '''[[German hospital ship Ophelia|German hospital ship ''Ophelia'']]''' was seized by the [[Royal Navy|British Navy]] as a spy ship in 1914 only to be [[torpedo]]ed and sunk by [[Imperial German Navy|German]] [[U-boat]] [[SM UB-10|''UB-10'']] a year later?
*... that [[mob boss]] '''[[Gennaro Angiulo]]''''s high-school ambition was to be a lawyer?
* '''''05:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Amazona collaria -St. Andrew -Jamaica-8a.jpg|100x100px|Yellow-billed Amazon (Amazona collaria)]]
</div>
*... that the pet [[parrot]] species the '''[[Yellow-billed Amazon]]''' ''(pictured)'' is only found on the island of [[Jamaica]]?
*... that the giant '''[[Tiber oilfield]]''' was found {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} down, in some of the oldest offshore rock layers ever drilled for oil?
*... that '''''[[San Jose Mercury News West Magazine]]''''' received awards for reporting on [[Japanese American internment]], environmental policies of the [[Reagan administration]], and effects of [[Proposition 13]]?
*... that in the churchyard of '''[[St Mary's Church, Hale]]''', [[Cheshire]], [[England]], is the grave of [[John Middleton (giant)|John Middleton]], who was reputed to have been over {{convert|9|ft|m|0}} tall?
*... that [[Haiti]]an pianist and composer '''[[Ludovic Lamothe]]''' was hailed as the "black [[Frédéric Chopin]]" after years of recitals to the Haitian elite?
*... that the four '''{{sclass|Brandenburg|battleship|2}}s''' were the first ocean-going [[battleship]]s built by the [[German Empire|German]] [[Kaiserliche Marine|Imperial Navy]]?
*... that in the [[United Kingdom]] a '''[[Drought in the United Kingdom|drought]]''' is defined as fifteen consecutive days or more with less than 0.2&nbsp;[[millimetre]]s of [[Precipitation (meteorology)|rainfall]]?

===5 September 2009===
* '''''23:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Eutactic star 3D.png|100x100px|Eutactic star consisting of 5 pairs of vectors in three-dimensional space]]
</div>
*... that a '''[[eutactic star]]''' ''(pictured)'', so named because it is deemed to be "well-situated" or "well-arranged", may be used to prove that any form is "eutactic"?
*... that '''[[Gaylord Stinchcomb]]''', one of the stars of [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]]'s first [[American football|football]] victory over [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan]], also won the 1921 NCAA championship in the [[longjump|broad jump]]?
*... that as the result of a wrong order, the elite [[United Kingdom|British]] '''[[T-Force]]''' moved in to [[Kiel]] just prior to [[VE Day]] while a strong [[Wehrmacht|German]] force was still present in the city?
*... that a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the '''[[Argos Archaeological Museum]]''' in [[Greece]] is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
*... that after being part of the [[Communist Party of Burma]] for 20 years, '''[[Pheung Kya-shin]]''' [[mutiny|mutinied]] against the party and established his own army?
*... that in the initial '''[[Anglo-Italian Cup]]''' [[association football|football]] tournaments, one point was awarded for every goal scored?
*... that the [[Kingdom of England|English]] explorer '''[[Robert Machin]]''', who has been credited with discovering the island of [[Madeira]], may never have existed?
* '''''17:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Mahenovo divadlo 2.jpg|100x100px|Mahen Theatre]]
</div>
*... that ballet [[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]] by [[Sergei Prokofiev]] was premiered in '''[[Mahen Theatre]]''' ''(pictured)'', [[Brno]], [[Czech Republic]]?
*... that [[Romania]]n [[DJ]] '''[[David Deejay]]''' was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, ''I Can Feel '' and ''So Bizzare''{{sic}}, with the last becoming a number one hit?
*... that [[Ford]] developed a [[people mover]] system known as '''[[Ford ACT|ACT]]''', but the only one to see passenger service was built between the [[Hyatt Regency]] hotel and [[Fairlane Town Center]] [[shopping mall]] on Ford-developed lands in [[Dearborn, MI]]?
*... that [[Pope Pius XII]] appointed '''[[Hilarius Breitinger]]''' as [[Apostolic Administrator]] to the [[Reichsgau Wartheland]], the portion of Poland annexed by [[Nazi Germany]]?
*... that during the '''[[2009 Big Ten Conference football season]]''' nine teams open their seasons at [[home (sports)|home]]?
*... that the building of the '''[[Archaeological Museum of Chania]]''' in [[Crete]] was once the main church of a [[Franciscan]] monastery and survived a major earthquake in 1595?
*... that [[African-American]] [[groom (horses)|groom]] '''[[Eddie Sweat]]''' is depicted with [[Secretariat (horse)|Secretariat]] in a life-sized statue at the [[Kentucky Horse Park]]?
*... that '''''[[Kirātārjunīya]]''''', a [[Sanskrit]] poem by '''[[Bharavi]]''', is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
* '''''11:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Alice Ayres, ILN.jpg|100x100px|Alice Ayres]]
</div>
*... that in 1885, over 10,000 mourners attended the funeral of [[English people|English]] [[maid]]servant '''[[Alice Ayres]]''' ''(pictured)''?
*... that '''[[Henry Gerber]]''' founded '''[[Society for Human Rights|the first gay rights organization in the United States]]''' in 1924, only to see it destroyed in less than a year following accusations that it was a "strange sex cult"?
*... that '''[[Roy Nielsen]]''' was one of the two saboteurs responsible for sinking the German [[Troopship|troop ship]] [[SS Donau|SS ''Donau'']] in the [[Oslofjord]] in January 1945?
*... that [[Travis Tritt]]'s song "'''[[Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man]]'''" features [[Brooks & Dunn]], [[T. Graham Brown]], [[George Jones]], [[Little Texas]], [[Dana McVicker]], [[Tanya Tucker]] and [[Porter Wagoner]]?
*... that the '''[[Edenton Tea Party]]''' was one of the first instances of political activism by women in the [[Thirteen Colonies]]?
*... that although [[Tennessee Williams]] co-wrote the screenplay for the '''[[The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)|1950 film version]]''' of his play ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'', he called the film a "dishonest" adaptation of his work?
*... that [[Grini (station)|the Oslo Metro station]] serving the district of '''[[Grini]]''' in [[Bærum]] was closed in 1995 because many passengers chose to walk to [[Ekraveien (station)|another station]] from whence the fare was cheaper?
* '''''05:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Leucopholiota decorosa 24649.jpg|100x100px|Leucopholiota decorosa]]
</div>
*... that the appearance of the '''[[Leucopholiota|decorated Pholiota]]''' ''(pictured)'' at a 1994 North Carolina [[mushroom hunting|mushroom foray]] led to its re-[[scientific classification|classification]] two years later?
*... that '''[[Christian Kølle]]''' introduced the [[Grammatical gender|feminine grammatical gender]] in Norway in an [[anonymous work]] released in 1785?
*... that a '''''[[turma]]''''' signified a cavalry squadron of 30 men in the [[Roman army]], but evolved into a regiment of up to 6,000 men in the [[Byzantine Empire]]?
*... that [[Germany|German]] [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] politician '''[[Karl-Josef Laumann]]''' was appointed Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs for [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] in 2005?
*... that '''[[Turner Contemporary]]''', a visual arts venue in [[Margate]], has begun construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the [[North Sea]]?
*... that '''[[bonnetmouth]]s''' can be found at depths from {{convert|3|to|90|m|ft}}, but mainly occur in [[school (fish)|schools]] at about {{convert|64|m|ft}} deep?
*... that the [[Great Britain|British]] '''[[Velocette Valiant]]''' [[motorcycle]] launched in 1956 was criticised for its underpowered engine?
*... that [[Singapore]]an author '''[[Rex Shelley]]''' wrote his first [[novel]] ''The Shrimp People'', about the [[Eurasians in Singapore|Eurasian community in Singapore]], in 1991 at age 61?

===4 September 2009===
* '''''23:16, 4 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Fiddlers Reach Maine Sound Signal.JPG|100x100px|Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal, with beam to hold bell, in August 2009]]
</div>
*... that the '''[[Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal]]''' ''(pictured)'' on Maine's [[Kennebec River]] originally had a [[bell (instrument)|bell]] run by a clockwork [[counterweight]] mechanism that had to be wound by hand every four hours?
*... that the herald '''[[Robert Glover (officer of arms)|Robert Glover]]''' was appointed to the office of [[Norroy and Ulster King of Arms|Norroy King of Arms]] jointly with his 82-year-old father-in-law '''[[William Flower (officer of arms)|William Flower]]''' in 1580?
*... that [[Hamburg]]'s '''[[Wellingsbüttel Manor]]''' was the former home of [[Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck|Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]], and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
*... that '''[[Lewis A. McArthur|Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur]]''' paid to have his book, ''[[Oregon Geographic Names]]'', published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today?
*... that in the 1894–95 '''[[Madagascar expedition]]''', [[France]] lost only 25 men [[Killed in action|in combat]], but as many as 4,800 men to [[disease]]s?
*... that '''[[Helga Karlsen]]''', who was the first female Member of [[Storting|Parliament]] from the [[Norwegian Labour Party]], died only four days before she could be elected for a third term?
*... that members of the '''[[15th Arizona Territorial Legislature]]''' used a [[glass eye]] and the services of a [[prostitute]] to ensure passage of the session's first [[Statute|act]]?
* '''''17:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Western_Lowland_Gorilla.jpg|100x100px|Gorilla knuckle-walking]]
</div>
*... that '''[[knuckle-walking]]''' ''(pictured)'' is done not only by [[chimpanzee]]s, [[bonobo]]s and [[gorilla]]s but also [[giant anteater]]s and [[platypus]]es?
*... that [[England|English]] former [[association football|footballer]] '''[[David Hamilton (footballer)|David Hamilton]]''' was [[Wigan Athletic F.C.|Wigan Athletic]]'s first ever full-time [[scout (sport)|scout]]?
*... that the '''[[Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library]]''' is the oldest [[charter]]ed [[public library]] in [[Rockland County, New York]]?
*... that '''[[Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (1882-1904)|Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg]]''' became the youngest soldier in the world when assigned to the 15th Mecklenburg Dragoons by [[William I, German Emperor|German Emperor William I]] shortly after his birth?
*... that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens '''[[List of ballot initiatives to repeal LGBT anti-discrimination laws|voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance]]''', [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], [[Colorado]], became the only American city to adopt a [[LGBT rights in the United States|gay rights]] law through popular referendum?
*... that the former [[actress]] '''[[Sherry Boucher]]''', formerly married to [[George Peppard]], is now a [[Realtor]] in [[Bossier Parish, Louisiana|Bossier Parish]], [[Louisiana]]?
*... that '''[[Death Risk Rankings]]''', nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as [[murder]], in a twelve-month span?
* '''''11:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
[[File:Kielder viaduct (1).jpg|100x100px|Kielder Viaduct]]
</div>
*... that '''[[Kielder Viaduct]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Northumberland]], [[England]], was built in 1862 in a [[Scots baronial style|baronial style]] and decorated with a battlemented parapet and faux [[Balistraria|arrow slits]] in order to gain approval of the [[Duke of Northumberland|local landowner]]?
*... that the former secretary to the [[French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire|French embassy to Constantinople]] and army officer '''[[Étienne Soulange-Bodin]]''' set up a horticultural institute near Paris to rival [[Kew Gardens|Kew]] in the early 19th century?
*... that [[Shirley Temple]] film vehicles '''''[[Curly Top (film)|Curly Top]]''''' and ''[[The Littlest Rebel]]'' were both named to ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'''s list of top box office draws for 1935?
*... that [[Old Norse poetry|Old Norse poems]] attributed to '''[[Torf-Einarr]]''' describe his defeat of Hálfdan Longlegs?
*... that '''[[De Eendracht, Anjum|De Eendracht]]''', a [[smock mill]] in [[Anjum]], [[Netherlands]], is used as a [[visitor center|tourist information office]] as well as being a working mill?
*... that '''[[George Quaintance]]''' was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly [[homoerotic]]" depictions of men appeared in [[beefcake magazines|physique magazines]]?
*... that the deepest living '''[[demersal fish]]''' ever retrieved, ''[[Abyssobrotula galatheae]]'', was found in the [[Puerto Rico Trench]] at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)?
* '''''05:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Admiral John MacBride.jpg|100x100px|Admiral John MacBride]]
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*... that '''[[John MacBride (Royal Navy officer)|John MacBride]]''' ''(pictured)'' defeated '''''[[HMS Pylades (1781)|Hercules]]''''' and '''''[[HMS Orestes (1781)|Mars]]''''' in a single battle?
*... that '''[[Lake Bistineau]]''' in northwestern [[Louisiana]] was originally formed in 1800 by flooding stemming from a large [[log jam]] on the nearby [[Red River (Mississippi watershed)|Red River]]?
*... that on [[New Year's Day]] in 1980, 60 people were killed by an '''[[1980 Azores Islands earthquake|earthquake in the Azores Islands]]'''?
*... that when designing ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)|The Spectacular Spider-Man]],'' '''[[Victor Cook]]''' looked at the style of ''[[Hellboy: Blood and Iron]],'' which he directed, for inspiration?
*... that the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight|RAF Memorial Flight]] [[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfire]] Mk IIa P7350 is the only '''[[List of Supermarine Spitfire survivors|surviving Spitfire]]''' from the [[Battle of Britain]] still flying?
*... that '''''[[Church of Heavenly Peace, Fuzhou|Tien Ang Tong]]''''' is the first [[Methodist church]] built in [[China]] that provided services in the [[English language]]?
*... that [[Romania]]n writer [[Alexandru Odobescu]] viewed [[Antisemitism|antisemites]] preventing linguist '''[[Lazăr Şăineanu]]''' from obtaining [[naturalization]] as "[[cannibal]]s" devouring "a civilized man"?

===3 September 2009===
* '''''23:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Negaprion acutidens sydney2.jpg|100x100px|<!--Insert rollover text here-->]]
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*... that the closure of the [[Tethys Sea]] 10–14&nbsp;million years ago led to the '''[[sicklefin lemon shark]]''' ''(pictured)'' and the [[lemon shark]] becoming separate [[species]]?
*... that '''[[Sapta Puri]]''' represents the seven holy [[Hinduism|Hindu]] cities of [[Ayodhya]], [[Dwarka]], [[Haridwar]], [[Ujjain]], [[Kanchipuram]], [[Mathura, Uttar Pradesh|Mathura]] and the holiest, [[Varanasi]]?
*... that many well-known works of [[Renaissance art]] passed through the hands of connoisseur [[art dealer]] '''[[Stefano Bardini]]''' of [[Florence]]?
*... that [[Winnfield, Louisiana|Winnfield]], home of the '''[[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]]''', is known as "the birthplace of [[Louisiana]] politics" because three [[governor]]s, [[Huey Long|Huey]] and [[Earl Long]] and [[O.K. Allen]], were born there?
*... that '''[[Med Hondo]]''' is an award-winning [[Mauritania]]n film director who [[Dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbed]] the voice of [[Donkey (Shrek)|Donkey]] in the French language version of ''[[Shrek]]''?
*... that since 2006, a [[Gibraltarian people|Gibraltarian]] no longer needs be a [[Gibraltar Parliament|Member of Parliament]] to become '''[[Mayor of Gibraltar]]'''?
*... that after cancelling the political [[cabaret]] series '''''[[Notizen aus der Provinz]]''''' in 1979, the [[ZDF]] did not broadcast a similar show for 28 years?
* '''''17:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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*... that the cargo of the '''[[Dalarö wreck]]''' ''(pictured)'', sunk in the [[Baltic Sea]], included coal and several '''[[Bartmann jug]]s'''?
*... that three-time [[All-American]] '''[[Eddie Mahan]]''' was named by [[Jim Thorpe]] as the greatest [[American football|football]] player of all time?
*... that [[William Blake]]'s unfinished manuscript '''''[[An Island in the Moon]]''''' contains early versions of three of his famous ''[[Songs of Innocence]]''?
*... that the '''[[waviness]]''' of [[bearing ball]]s and [[race (bearing)|bearing races]] surfaces is one of the reasons for bearing noise and vibrations?
*... that the '''[[1986 Vrancea earthquake]]''' in [[Romania]], which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as [[Poland]] and as far southwest as [[Italy]]?
*... that '''[[Francesco Torniello]]''' was the first to define the [[Point (typography)|point]] as a unit of measurement in typography?
*... that the position of '''[[Clerk of the Parliaments]]''' has existed in [[England]] since at least 1315?
*... that the rule of the '''[[Palacio del Sal|Salt Hotel]]''' is "don't lick the walls"?
* '''''11:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:KoishikawaArtillery1882.jpg|100x100px|Japanese artilleryman, c. 1882]]
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*... that the 19th-century '''[[artillery of Japan]]''' ''(example pictured)'' utilized widely disparate technologies, from primitive [[wooden cannon]] to state-of-the-art [[Armstrong gun|breech loaders]]?
*... that [[Norway|Norwegian]] professor of [[bacteriology]] '''[[Sverre Dick Henriksen]]''' was an honorary member of the [[Chamber of Physicians and Dentists|Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists]], despite having never worked in [[Poland]]?
*... that Severe Tropical '''[[Cyclone Keli]]''' was the first recorded [[tropical cyclone]] to form within the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific Ocean]] in June?
*... that '''[[Henry Dorling]]''', step-father of cookery writer [[Mrs Beeton]], was the first Clerk of the Course of [[Epsom Downs Racecourse|Epsom Racecourse]]?
*... that the farmland at '''[[Ramstad]]''', [[Norway]], was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the [[Drammen Line]] and the [[European route E18]]?
*... that in 1974, '''[[Louis-Gaston Mayila|Louis Gaston Mayila]]''' became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then [[President of Gabon]], [[Omar Bongo]]?
*... that the treadmill '''[[Treadmill with Vibration Isolation System|COLBERT]]''' (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the [[International Space Station]] was named after political satirist [[Stephen Colbert (character)|Stephen Colbert]]?
* '''''05:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Euanthe sanderiana.jpg|100x100px|Waling-waling (Euanthe sanderiana)]]
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*... that '''''[[Euanthe sanderiana]]''''' ''(pictured)'', also called the Waling-waling, was proposed in the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines]] to replace the [[Jasminum sambac|Sampaguita]] as the country's national flower?
*... that '''[[Robin Hoare]]''' received the [[Albert Medal (lifesaving)|Albert Medal]] for removing [[depth charges]] from a ship while it was on fire?
*... that critics praised ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)|The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' episode "'''[[Natural Selection (The Spectacular Spider-Man)|Natural Selection]]'''" for its action and fight sequences?
*... that the term '''[[surface integrity]]''' is defined as the nature of the surface condition of a workpiece after being affected by [[manufacturing]] processes?
*... that one of the largest [[Fish farming|fish culture]] stations in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], is in '''[[Lac-des-Écorces, Quebec|Lac-des-Écorces]]'''?
*... that '''''[[Triangle (The Beau Brummels album)|Triangle]]''''', the 1967 album by [[The Beau Brummels]], was partially inspired by the [[California Palace of the Legion of Honor|Legion of Honor]]?
*... that '''[[Martin Demaine]]''' founded the first one-man [[art glass]] [[art studio|studio]] in Canada and [[homeschooling|home-schooled]] his son [[Erik Demaine|Erik]] to become [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]{{'}}s youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?

===2 September 2009===
* '''''23:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Confederate cannon at Mansfield Historic Site IMG_2436.JPG|100x100px|Confederate cannon at Mansfield Historic Site]]
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*... that the '''[[Mansfield State Historic Site]]''' in western [[Louisiana]] commemorates an 1864 [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] victory by [[General]] [[Richard Taylor (general)|Richard Taylor]], which prevented a pending Union invasion of [[Texas]]?
*... that ''[[Auld Lang Syne]]'' was written by [[Robert Burns]] at '''[[Ellisland Farm, Dumfries|Ellisland Farm]]''' near [[Dumfries]], [[Scotland]]?
*... that supporters invaded the [[pitch (sports)|pitch]] on three occasions during a '''[[2009 Upton Park riots|football match]]''' between [[West Ham United]] and [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] in 2009?
*... that the '''[[Intimidator (roller coaster)|Intimidator]]''' [[roller coaster]] on the [[South Carolina]] side of the [[Carowinds]] [[amusement park]] takes its name from the nickname of former [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]]?
*... that according to government records in 2006, more than a third of the total number of '''[[Chinese people in Botswana|Chinese residents in Botswana]]''' worked in the [[construction]] business?
*... that the '''[[Germantown Colony and Museum]]''' near [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]], preserves the remnants of a [[Utopia]]n religious [[Commune (intentional community)|commune]] active between 1835 and 1871?
*... that '''[[Giveamanakick]]'''{{'}}s live performances involved [[gas mask]]s and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"? 
* '''''17:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Mount Hope Estate2.jpg|100x100px|Mount Hope Estate during Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire]]
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*... that '''[[Mount Hope Estate]]''' ''(pictured)'' is home to the [[Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire]], a [[winery]], a [[brewpub]], and a rare pre-1840 American [[formal garden]]?
*... that all proceeds from the 2009 [[Radiohead]] song "'''[[Harry Patch (In Memory Of)]]'''" were donated to [[The Royal British Legion]]?
*... that '''[[Giuseppe Ricciotti]]'''{{`s}} book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times?
*... that as a result of the '''[[Okęcie Airport Incident]]''' in [[1980]], four top players of the [[Poland national football team|Polish national football team]] were disqualified, and one of them never [[Cap (sport)|capped]] for Poland again?
*... that '''[[Alexander Gordon Lyle]]''' is one of only two dental officers ever to receive the [[United States]]' highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]]?
*... that, predicted to appear in at least 1 in 20,000 humans, the [[Duplication (genetics)|microduplication]] of a [[Karyotype|band]] on [[chromosome 17 (human)|chromosome 17]] leads to the [[rare disease]] '''[[Potocki-Lupski syndrome]]'''?
*... that King [[Louis IX of France]] said that he would rather break [[:wikt:clod|clods]] behind a plough than accept the 1264 '''[[Peace of Canterbury]]'''?
* '''''11:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Doryphora sassafras Goodenia Road.jpg|100x100px|Doryphora sassafras]] 
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*... that '''''[[Doryphora sassafras]]''''' ''(pictured)'' of southeastern Australia gains its name from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the [[Sassafras albidum|Sassafras]] of eastern North America?
*... that the [[Kingdom of Castile|Castilian]] nobleman '''[[Fernando Núñez de Lara]]''' became a [[Knight Hospitaller]] on his deathbed in exile in [[Marrakesh]]?
*... that [[Joginder Singh (rally driver)|Joginder Singh]] and Nick Nowicki were twice members of a group nicknamed the '''[[Unsinkable Seven]]''' after managing to be among the seven survivors of the [[Safari Rally|East African Safari Rally]] in 1963 and 1968?
*... that users in the upcoming [[MMORPG]] '''''[[DUST 514]]''''' will be able to interact with users from another game, ''[[EVE Online]]'', through [[mercenary]] assistance?
*... that the '''[[Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names]]''' determined 32,138 [[toponym]]s of Poland inbetween 1946 and 1950?
*... that the [[White-throated Round-eared Bat]] creates roosts inside the nests of the [[termite]], '''''[[Nasutitermes corniger]]'''''?
*... that [[William Hutton (historian)|William Hutton]], [[François Pierre La Varenne]] and [[Benjamin Disraeli]] wrote about '''[[game pie]]''', and [[Josiah Wedgwood]] made cooking dishes for it?
* '''''05:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Honore de Balzac 1899 portrait.jpg|100x100px|Honore de Balzac]]
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*... that French author [[Honoré de Balzac]] ''(pictured)'' found inspiration for his 1840 [[novelette]] '''''[[Z. Marcas]]''''' from a sign outside a tailor's shop in Paris?
*... that groups considered '''[[List of UFO religions|UFO religions]]''' by scholars include [[Aetherius Society]], [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]], [[Order of the Solar Temple]], [[Raëlism]], and [[Scientology]]?
*... that the 1966 film '''''[[Alice of Wonderland in Paris]]''''' reimagined the [[Lewis Carroll]] heroine as an [[U.S.|American girl]] who is obsessed with visiting the [[Paris|French capital]]?
*... that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 [[Yokohama Film Festival]] Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese [[adult video]] director '''[[Tohjiro]]'''?
*... that about a third of the population of '''[[Sheridan, Oregon]]''', are criminals?
*... that '''[[Fuzhou Tanka (ethnic group)|Fuzhou Tanka]]''' people in [[Fujian]] lived on boats most of their lives?
*... that the [[Indonesia]]n [[political party]] '''''[[Permai]]''''' was also a mystical religious movement?

===1 September 2009===
* '''''23:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Bako.jpg|100x100px|Paul Bako]]
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*... that [[journeyman (sports)|journeyman]] '''[[Paul Bako]]''' ''(pictured)'' has played for 11 [[Major League Baseball]] teams in his 12-year career, and was formerly [[Greg Maddux]]'s personal [[catcher]]?
*... that in the [[1990s]] many users gained [[Internet]] access by using '''[[Slirp]]''' to emulate a [[TCP/IP]] connection via a [[dial-up]] [[shell account]]?
*... that after ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief '''[[William Emerson (journalist)|William Emerson]]''' wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
*... that '''[[Caney Lakes Recreation Area]]''' and nearby [[Lake Bistineau]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]] have been plagued with the [[giant salvinia]] fern, which impairs [[boating]]?
*... that 80% of the taxis used for '''[[transport in Hamburg]]''' are driver-owned? 
*... that the 1930 musical '''''[[The New Yorkers]]''''' received criticism for bad taste, and its song "[[Love for Sale (song)|Love for Sale]]" was subsequently banned from the radio?
*... that Mexico celebrates its '''[[Celebration of Mexican political anniversaries in 2010|Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexico Revolution]]''' in 2010?
* '''''17:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:MA-8 liftoff.gif|100x100px|Liftoff of Mercury-Atlas 8]]
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*... that the '''[[Mercury-Atlas 8]]''' spaceflight ''(pictured)'' in October 1962 was piloted by a [[Ancient Order of Turtles|Turtle]]?
*... that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left '''[[Postman's Park]]''', a former [[burial ground]] in the [[City of London]], elevated above street level?
*... that '''[[Al Purvis]]''' played for the [[Edmonton Mercurys]], an [[ice hockey]] team sponsored by a local car dealership, that won the [[gold medal]] at the [[1952 Winter Olympics]]?
*... that the extensive [[ornament (architecture)|ornamentation]] on the [[Haverstraw (village), New York|Haverstraw, New York]], '''[[U.S. Post Office (Haverstraw, New York)|post office]]''' may be due to the influence of [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] [[James Farley]], a native of the area?
*... that the '''[[Somali Ostrich]]''' faces eradication in the [[Horn of Africa]]?
*... that the [[Philadelphia Savings Fund Society|Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's]] [[Loews Philadelphia Hotel|'''headquarters building''']] was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 [[International style (architecture)|International style]] exhibition at the [[Museum of Modern Art]]?
*... that architect '''[[Charles Durrett]]''' has designed more than 50 [[cohousing]] communities in North America?
* '''''11:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:HMHS Britannic postcard.jpg|100x100px|Britannic seen on a 1914 postcard]]
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*... that {{RMS|Titanic||2}}{{'}}s [[sister ship]] [[HMHS Britannic|''Britannic'']] ''(pictured)'' was one of the '''[[List of hospital ships sunk in World War I|hospital ships sunk during the First World War]]'''?
*... that the [[documentary film|documentary]] '''''[[Harvard Beats Yale 29-29]]''''' gets its name from an actual headline in the ''[[Harvard Crimson]]''?
*... that Japanese [[Pink film|erotic film]] actress '''[[Motoko Sasaki]]''' made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?
*... that despite leading the [[New York Giants]] in [[Tackle (football move)|tackles]] in 2004, '''[[Kevin Lewis (American football)|Kevin Lewis]]''' was released before 2005?
*... that the '''[[Map of Rensselaerswyck]]''' shows that [[Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant)|Kiliaen van Rensselaer]] originally named areas around the [[Hudson River|upper Hudson River]], near [[Fort Orange]], after the women in his life?
*... that Venezuelan performer [[José Luis Rodríguez (singer)|José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma"]] received a [[Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album|Grammy Award nomination]] for his [[List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 1989|number-one]] song "'''[[Baila Mi Rumba]]'''"?
* '''''05:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)'''''
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[[File:Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building.jpg|100x100px|Green - Wyatt Federal Building]]
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*... that a single bucket of water was used to extinguish a [[Multiple-alarm fire|three-alarm fire]] at the '''[[Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Portland, Oregon]], USA?
*... that five months after the '''[[2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature]]''' created [[Pah-Ute County, Arizona|Pah-Ute County]] most of the county's land was given to [[Nevada]]?
*... that following the depopulation of the Palestinian village of '''[[ Bayt Susin]]''' in 1948, the moshav of [[Ta'oz]] was established just two years later?
*... that '''[[Robert Sommers]]''', who became [[British Columbia]] Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the [[British Commonwealth]] to be imprisoned for taking [[bribery|bribes]]?
*... that the '''[[1st Special Squadron (Japanese Navy)|1st Special Squadron]]''' of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] was tasked with defending [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] during [[World War I]]?
*... that both '''[[scutching]]''' and '''[[heckling (flax)|heckling]]''' are steps in the process of turning [[flax]] into [[linen]]?
*... that '''[[Bathwick Hill, Bath]]''' is the site of a large [[Italianate]] villa, built by [[Henry Goodridge]] as his own house?