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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)
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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)
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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?