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2 May 2024
- 00:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that the ancient Hawaiian village known as the Kāneiolouma Complex (pictured) is across the street from a popular beach on the island of Kauaʻi?
- ... that in Vladivostok, the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement?
- ... that the crater lake produced by the 1628–1627 BCE eruption of Mount Aniakchak generated one of the largest floods of the last 10,000 years?
- ... that a Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
- ... that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again" contains multiple ABBA references?
- ... that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174?
- ... that when offered a chance to repent before being burnt at the stake, one crypto-Jew allegedly told his tormentors to "throw more wood on the fire"?
- ... that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car?
- ... that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?
1 May 2024
- 00:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- ... that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder?
- ... that the Gusuku period saw massive castles built on "virtually every ridge"?
- ... that the enzyme histamine N-methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
- ... that the Labour Party received their highest share of the vote to date in the 1951 UK general election but still lost to the Conservatives, who received fewer votes?
- ... that Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022?
- ... that the 2004 documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing contains interviews from dozens of film editors, including women under-represented in the field?
- ... that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school, Notre Dame, Chris Hill instead chose Michigan State?
- ... that country music singer Waylon Jennings earned his GED by watching tapes of a Kentucky Educational Television series on his tour bus?
- ... that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a "cadaver kidney" for her son?