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4 May 2022
- 00:00, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the recycling symbol (pictured) depicts a Möbius strip?
- ... that Nick Schmaltz's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
- ... that the former German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow called Wilhelm II's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
- ... that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
- ... that Port Vale F.C. is the only club to have beaten all 91 other clubs in the top four divisions of the current English football league system in a competitive league fixture?
- ... that Eoseira wilsonii "slime" likely helped in fossil preservation?
- ... that George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to songs written by George Gershwin, is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?
- ... that Klaus Wallrath composed a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
3 May 2022
- 00:00, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Phoenix's Chinese Cultural Center (pictured) was remodeled into an ordinary office building despite the objections of preservationists and community groups?
- ... that John Spencer "exploded two myths" by winning the 1977 World Snooker Championship with a two-piece cue that he had only been using for a couple of months?
- ... that Mansiya V. P., an Indian classical dancer, has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music?
- ... that there are only around 30 southern corroboree frogs in the wild?
- ... that man camps can overwhelm local infrastructure, including emergency services, and contribute to an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America?
- ... that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton?
- ... that visitors to Balmaclellan in Scotland can stay in a historic watermill that is "remarkable" for the preservation of its internal workings?
- ... that Japanese mixed martial artist Itsuki Hirata's nickname is "Android 18" due to being told she looks like the Dragon Ball character?
2 May 2022
- 00:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Interlingue, an international auxiliary language, was released 100 years ago under the name Occidental (advertisement pictured) by a Baltic German from Estonia?
- ... that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that "right to be forgotten" policies should not be applied to the Holocaust?
- ... that NYXL was the first organization to own and operate multiple New York esports franchises?
- ... that by devising the Fairfield Experiment in industrial relations, Iain Maxwell Stewart inspired The Bowler and the Bunnet, Sean Connery's sole film as a director?
- ... that the first show at the Gershwin Theatre was also the first Broadway show to lose US$1 million?
- ... that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945?
- ... that Of Monsters and Men filmed the music video for their song "Wild Roses" in 12 hours, just before beginning a tour?
- ... that the village of Eziler in Turkey has a girls' floor hockey team, but it has no gym?
1 May 2022
- 00:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the French mezzo-soprano Germaine Bailac (pictured) played the title role in Bizet's Carmen at least 3,000 times?
- ... that Hollywood star Gary Cooper was baptised at the Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis?
- ... that eight of ten ministers in the Bhagwant Mann ministry are first-term members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly?
- ... that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of Washington state public TV station KTNW?
- ... that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
- ... that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
- ... that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed?
- ... that the Guyim Vault House has been compared to a spaceship?