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5 November 2025
- 00:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
Maher Abbas
- ... that future Olympic runner Maher Abbas (pictured) switched from basketball to track over his frustration of referees being "easy to bribe"?
- ... that non-destructive virtual unfolding was used to read burned or otherwise highly damaged scrolls?
- ... that the Hongguang Emperor was betrayed by his troops and handed over to the enemy, who criticised his poor battle strategy and allowed locals to humiliate him?
- ... that in 2025 the Pfizer Building was cited as the largest office-to-residential building conversion in the United States?
- ... that tenor Jean Bonhomme played for seven years on his university's Canadian football team before becoming an international opera star?
- ... that the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus has been ranked as both one of the US's most significant architectural works and its least beautiful college campus?
- ... that, after proclaiming it was her duty as a revolutionary never to be "tied down by a family", Lyubov Radchenko got married and had a child?
- ... that Nejishiki was a manga with a following among the 1960s avant-garde movement?
4 November 2025
- 00:00, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
Seated Rāgarāja
- ... that a 13th-century wooden sculpture (pictured) of Rāgarāja was carved from the debris of the Great Buddha Hall at Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan?
- ... that Habib Mousa wrote a song about the village of Enhil to object to the Turkification of Assyrian villages in Tur Abdin?
- ... that the leading engineer during the 1702 siege of Liège was so angered by a colleague's disobedience that he threatened to abandon the siege?
- ... that Antirrhinum barrelieri was split into two species in 1896, the other being Antirrhinum controversum?
- ... that Soebekti Soenarto performed the duties of the governor, vice governor, and provincial secretary of the Special Region of Yogyakarta simultaneously for several weeks in 1998?
- ... that the roof designs of Bukit Gombak and Bukit Batok stations were based on the logo of the Singapore Housing and Development Board?
- ... that actor Rory Gibson was cast on The Young and the Restless despite the producers not liking his initial self-tape?
- ... that A Far Better Thing is a retelling of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings?
3 November 2025
- 00:00, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
Sursock bronze
- ... that the Sursock bronze (pictured) was discovered in a damaged state with hacked parts, possibly after being vandalized by early Christian iconoclasts?
- ... that, according to a 2025 book about artificial superintelligence, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?
- ... that a Dutch publisher pirated the first four volumes of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, then hired the author to write more?
- ... that King Owodo, the last Ogiso of Igodomigodo, was deposed after killing a pregnant widow, an act punishable by deposition under the kingdom's law?
- ... that NFL player Bill Gutteron estimated that he helped over 50,000 people learn how to swim?
- ... that an early Chinese women's magazine ran afoul of a government ministry due to its sexual content and nudity?
- ... that the first bank of the Republic of Lithuania was bankrupt after nine years of operation?
- ... that the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center produced uranium for nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1989?
- ... that Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton's first collaboration sold only thirty-five copies?
2 November 2025
- 00:00, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
D. M. Clemson
- ... that the freighter D. M. Clemson (pictured) was one of the largest vessels on the Great Lakes in 1903?
- ... that Filipino politician Miriam Defensor Santiago is known as the "Iron Lady of Asia"?
- ... that a 16th-century ethnic term used in Africa is still used today for a Brazilian religion, a Togolese and Beninese ethnic group, and their language?
- ... that it took 40 years for Raghunath Brahmbhatt to be credited for the lyrics to a popular song he wrote, 21 years after his death?
- ... that My Dad, the first entry in My Family Member, a series of illustrated children books, was inspired by the author's discovery of his father's old gown?
- ... that John Adams Cameron lost twice to John Culpepper in elections for the United States Congress that were 14 years apart?
- ... that neighbors thought Naughty Dog was filming adult films due to their setup of shooting moves for Way of the Warrior from an apartment hallway?
- ... that painter and designer Mia Lee used to make doll fashions from her grandmother's scraps?
- ... that Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff to win the 1955 U.S. Open using Hogan's golf clubs?
1 November 2025
- 00:00, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
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Three of the Deir el-Balah sarcophagi
- ... that some of the Bronze Age Deir el-Balah sarcophagi (pictured) looted by Moshe Dayan became part of his private collection?
- ... that movie characters like Pennywise have been cited as contributing to some people's fear of clowns?
- ... that the Willows Inn, headed by chef Blaine Wetzel, was one of the restaurants that inspired the horror comedy film The Menu?
- ... that the animator of the Magic Cat Academy Halloween-themed Google Doodles overcame her arachnophobia to design a spider boss that was ultimately rejected as "way too scary"?
- ... that Cthulhu, Dagon, and Hydra are actually mud dragons living off the coast of Madagascar?
- ... that photographer Hal Hirshorn recreated the 1865 funeral of a wealthy Manhattanite for a 2011 photo series?
- ... that Charlie the goat hospitalized his co-star three times on the set of The Witch?
- ... that when a prospective funder called the script for his horror film All You Need Is Death "weird and confusing", Paul Duane got the phrase tattooed on his arm and funded the film himself?