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6 December 2025

00:00, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Sneeze Achiu

... that Sneeze Achiu (pictured) had documents listing him as Caucasian so that he would not be segregated from his teammates?
... that a nationwide survey found that one in three Japanese people have an oshi?
... that in 1900 Isabel Fidler was appointed as tutor to the 70 women students at the University of Sydney; by the time of her retirement in 1939 there were more than 800?
... that Luciano Berio composed Sequenza III for diverse mouth sounds interspersed with ecstatic singing?
... that Tjoo Tik Tjoen stood for the Indonesian Communist Party in a 1955 election, despite not having officially joined the party?
... that Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 features a mini-game called sushi-bowling?
... that the United States agreed Australian staff would support the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station in Alice Springs, but the United States Air Force runs it instead?
... that the Deer Creek Fire developed a nearly stationary fire tornado?
... that the appeal of the children's poem "On the Ning Nang Nong" has been attributed to the absurdity of its nonsense sounds, like teapots going "Jibber Jabber Joo"?

5 December 2025

00:00, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

The Banquet of Cleopatra

... that The Banquet of Cleopatra (pictured) depicts Cleopatra drinking a dissolved pearl to impress Mark Antony?
... that an on-stage incident traumatized Antonie Mielke so much that she retired from opera?
... that people entered the Bronze Age tombs at Volimidia centuries later in the Iron Age to leave offerings to the dead?
... that Zhang Xichen founded a magazine to compete with one made by his own employer?
... that Harvard's first modern feeder school cost twice as much as Harvard itself?
... that the text of "Heaven and Earth, and Sea and Air" was written by the man after whom the Neandertal was named?
... that the unique, if "Freudian", partnership between Richard A. Hunter and his mother was the most prolific in publishing in the history of psychiatry?
... that, contrary to the perception of Phytoseiidae, Amblyseius anacardii is observed as an agricultural pest?
... that, according to legend, Ngataba Min became king after eating the head of a rooster?

4 December 2025

00:00, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Marie Goldsmith

... that Nestor Makhno described the evolutionary biologist Marie Goldsmith (pictured) as one of the "titans of anarchism"?
... that a house that was once called "almost the opposite of a landmark" later became a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
... that two successive Hanthawaddy commanders who held the title of Smin Maw-Khwin surrendered to Ava forces in 1414?
... that The Patient's Playbook warns against overly hasty medical treatment, citing a case in which a man received heart stents before learning that the issue was in his lungs?
... that Renato Candida, not the assassinated general Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, inspired the character of Captain Bellodi in The Day of the Owl?
... that Geordie Greep announced his debut solo album just ten days after revealing that his band was on an indefinite hiatus?
... that Chris Jackson left the Cancer Society of New Zealand after his wife was elected to parliament?
... that Water World Lloret has been described as "a favourite of foreign tourists", with 60 per cent of its visitors coming from outside Spain?
... that the first Mass for Saint Cyprian Church, a Black Catholic congregation, had only one Black Catholic in attendance?

3 December 2025

00:00, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Soprillo

... that the soprillo saxophone (example pictured) is about half the length of a soprano saxophone and pitched one octave higher?
... that Stalin told the Turkestan Autonomy to invade the Soviet Commissariat in Tashkent instead of asking him to dissolve it?
... that Josèphe Jacquiot founded a museum that was named in her honour?
... that Serbia's smallest passenger airport has only one year-round scheduled flight – to Istanbul?
... that Brandon Saad was the first Saginaw Spirit alumnus to win the Stanley Cup?
... that a 2025 petition to the International Criminal Court alleges that 122 European politicians have committed crimes against humanity against migrants?
... that "nobody among the secretaries of the Middle Ages could reach such a level of influence over kings" as Fernán Díaz de Toledo?
... that the 2003 series Trouble frequently appears on lists of the worst or most controversial Spider-Man storylines?
... that in Māori culture a woman can end a speech during a pōwhiri by walking in front of the speaker?

2 December 2025

00:00, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Artist's depiction of an apocalyptic impact event

... that fiction about impact events (pictured) typically focuses more on the societal ramifications than on the science?
... that after her father's death, Thora Thersner completed his work documenting Swedish buildings and landscapes?
... that a 2025 musical film, which topped the U.S. box office within a weekend, had its global release plan scrapped in multiple countries?
... that Michael D. Coe completed The True History of Chocolate to fulfill a promise he made to his dying wife?
... that golfer Michael Brennan won in his first start as a professional on the PGA Tour?
... that the titular mandolin in Picasso's Girl with a Mandolin has been attributed with "a mild autoerotic suggestion"?
... that Jack Teele remained employed by the Los Angeles Rams under three different owners, six head coaches, and "umpteen different quarterbacks"?
... that in his early career Charlie Chaplin was booed, heckled, and pelted with oranges and coins until he left the stage of Foresters Music Hall?
... that Umamusume character Haru Urara became so popular that a website donating grass to feed her namesake racehorse crashed?

1 December 2025

00:00, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Fritz Skullerud

... that station master Fritz Skullerud (pictured) participated in the 1906 Olympic Games?
... that the novel There Is No Antimemetics Division was originally published on the SCP Wiki?
... that the author of The Take-Charge Patient became a patient herself half a year into writing the book?
... that a viral stray cat was, years later, found and adopted by the same journalist who had inadvertently turned her into a meme?
... that accused witch Graciana de Barrenechea was posthumously tried, convicted, and then absolved within a year?
... that French general Vital Joachim Chamorin dreamed of his death the night before he was killed in the 1811 Battle of Campo Maior?
... that the 2024 United States drone sightings resulted in flight restrictions over 22 communities in New Jersey and other sensitive sites?
... that the survival-horror video game Crow Country features a game mode with no enemies?
... that Kenneth D. McCullar was killed when a wallaby crashed his bomber on takeoff?

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