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7 October 2025

00:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Inland Steel Building

... that a window-washing railroad track ran atop Chicago's Inland Steel Building (pictured)?
... that Ted Aber created a series of alphabetized files on 1,600 family names while researching the history of Hamilton County, New York?
... that the 2022 German presidential election was held at Paul Löbe House instead of the Reichstag due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Béatrice Uria-Monzon, in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, preferred a "meditative" and "dreamy" performance over a "sexy" one?
... that Sonangol Sinopec International once outbid both ExxonMobil and British Petroleum for two oil sites in Angola?
... that the Armenians were enraged when their 60-year-old king married the 12-year-old Sibylla of Cyprus?
... that Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church has hosted a speech by US president Jimmy Carter and the funeral of his attorney general?
... that Alexander McQueen's second runway show featured a pregnant woman with a shaved head, a model in a plaster corset, and a woman pretending to put her finger in her vagina?
... that Tyler Neville overcame being born deaf, a sunken chest, a fractured back, more than 20 surgeries, and cancer to sign with an NFL team?

6 October 2025

00:00, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Mitchell Sabattis

... that Abenaki guide Mitchell Sabattis (pictured) co-invented the Adirondack guideboat?
... that President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez resigned prior to the 1935 Salvadoran presidential election so that he could circumvent a constitutional ban on re-election?
... that Hyde Park Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, was disassembled and moved in order to drive a saloon out of the neighborhood?
... that most cocoa in Samoa is consumed locally as a drink known as koko Samoa?
... that Chris Samuels, on the last play of his NFL career, caught a pass that set up a game-winning score – and broke his leg?
... that a dream of a concert inspired the creation of the band behind Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator?
... that Xymmer phungi was named after the revolutionary leader Phan Đình Phùng?
... that there was a baseball match between the two most common surnames in Japan?
... that Bootles' Baby's author's baby was Bootles?

5 October 2025

00:00, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Shaktikanta Das

... that Shaktikanta Das (pictured) qualified with a degree in history, yet rose to lead India's central bank?
... that to compete as Timor-Leste's first Winter Olympian at the 2014 Games, Yohan Goutt Gonçalves had to raise US$75,000, most of which came from himself and his family?
... that Zinaida Nevzorova entered into a marriage of convenience with Gleb Krzhizhanovsky to keep their activist group together, but they later developed a genuine romantic relationship?
... that destruction layers at the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh in Palestine were probably caused by the 749 Galilee earthquake?
... that a judicial decision urged Kenya to recognize the land of the Endorois people, but it still had not done so more than a decade later?
... that the 2025 Leagues Cup final set an attendance record for the tournament and for any sporting event at its host stadium?
... that Celine Dion won the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 for Switzerland by a single point?
... that Indonesia's ambassador to Serbia, Andreano Erwin, joined the foreign ministry because his trading company went bankrupt?
... that sabotage in World War II involved delaying the Nazi nuclear program, derailing trains, freeing Jews, and ... explosive rats?

4 October 2025

00:00, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Anne

... that Anne (pictured) was the last circus elephant in the United Kingdom?
... that priest Suitbert Mollinger served five years for fraud in a Dutch prison before founding one of the world's largest relic chapels in the United States?
... that agate gemstones have been found on every continent, including Antarctica?
... that Jackson Findlay is a fourth-generation Canadian Football League player?
... that people used Toontown Rewritten for virtual Black Lives Matter protests in 2020?
... that Walter of Montbéliard ruled Cyprus because his wife, Burgundia, was heir presumptive to the throne?
... that the Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language was so large that it had to be printed in Italy?
... that Shel Hershorn lost interest in photojournalism after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
... that North Korea built the 72-Hour Bridge after its troops killed two US soldiers for trimming a tree?

3 October 2025

00:16, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Ferber House

... that the Ferber House (pictured) was rumored to be haunted after the family who owned it went extinct?
... that voice actress Azusa Tachibana shares a name with a character from the anime K-On!, and so her mother pushed her to join a high school band?
... that a Maryland TV station's facilities originally housed a pharmacy and restaurant?
... that Japanese governor Takashi Kimura grew up admiring American baseball player Jim Abbott because both of them were missing a hand?
... that the Crystal Springs Dam survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake despite being built just 1,000 feet (300 m) from the San Andreas Fault?
... that Harold Putnam was the 59th member of his family to serve in the Massachusetts legislature?
... that the editor-in-chief of The Ladies' Journal was removed in 1925 after he advocated for polyamory?
... that Anne Bayley's clinical research in Zambia showed that, contrary to widespread opinion in the early 1980s, HIV could be spread through heterosexual sex?
... that in the Zootopia abortion comic, Nick and Judy's apartment is modeled after one in Seinfeld?

2 October 2025

00:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Josephine Hall

... that musical theatre actress Josephine Hall (pictured) became famous for performing a song that she purposefully sang high and off-key?
... that Northwest Marine Iron Works produced the last sternwheel steam tugboat operated in the United States?
... that Elias Peleti is said to have been the most forgettable Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in a century?
... that the UK's best-selling single of 2013 has been described as a "rape anthem"?
... that when Marianne Angermann earned her university entrance, the pronouns on her printed diploma were altered manually?
... that the Ostjuden antisemitic stereotype was used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe by both non-Jewish Germans and assimilated German Jews?
... that a lowly garrison soldier was responsible for relocating the capital of the Han dynasty?
... that Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960 was marked by the lowering of the Union Jack and the raising of the country's new flag before 40,000 people at the Lagos Race Course?
... that Ida Barber campaigned against corsets in her fashion journalism?

1 October 2025

00:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Great Armoury

... that in 1919 a restaurant with vending machines was opened in the 17th-century Great Armoury (pictured) in Gdańsk?
... that Livingstone Luboobi claimed that he chose to teach himself double mathematics at A-level because there was no teacher available?
... that Aso Tateno Dam started construction in 1983 and was only completed in 2024?
... that the family of a missing woman originally hid her that she was transgender to avoid prejudice during the search?
... that a mongrel lover wrote a typology of the dogs and a series of children's books based on them?
... that a Chinese art student who murdered her lover was released after only five years because the Japanese invaded?
... that Arthur Conan Doyle defeated Wilfrid Edgecombe at billiards every time he played him at The Harrogate Club?
... that the presumed skull of Menabe king Toera was returned to Madagascar by France almost 128 years after his death?
... that 83 manuscripts from Sozomeno da Pistoia's collection, which numbered 110 in 1460, have been found scattered across Europe?

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