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===31 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[St. Peter's Church, Malmö|St. Peter's Church]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Malmö]], Sweden, was once the largest town church in Denmark?
* ... that '''[[Doug Gurr]]''', head of [[Amazon (company)|Amazon UK]], has said that a [[Brexit negotiations#The "no deal" scenario|no-deal Brexit]] could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks"?
* ... that [[the Beach Boys]]' [[Transcendental Meditation|Transcendental Meditation-inspired]] '''''[[Friends (The Beach Boys album)|Friends]]''''' (1968) was their last album of the 1960s to involve former bandleader [[Brian Wilson]]?
* ... that referee '''[[Bob Nadin]]''' said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the [[Pierre de Coubertin medal]] for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
* ... that the '''[[Gut Holzhausen]]''' estate is a [[biodynamic agriculture|biodynamic farm]] and the venue for a festival called Voices?
* ... that '''[[Gaqo Çako]]''' was the lead tenor for more than three decades at the [[National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania]]?
* ... that the entire editorial board of the '''''[[International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health]]''''' resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief?
* ... that '''[[LeBron James Jr.]]''' received offers to play basketball at [[Duke Blue Devils men's basketball|Duke]] and [[Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball|Kentucky]] by the age of eleven?

===30 August 2018===
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* ... that in his final [[college basketball]] game, '''[[Andrew Rowsey]]''' ''(pictured)'' broke [[Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball|Marquette]]{{'}}s single-season scoring record set by [[Dwyane Wade]]?
* ... that the '''[[Acanthemblemaria maria|secretary blenny]]''' is a slender [[ambush predator]] with large eyes? 
* ... that '''[[William Preucil]]''' has served as [[concertmaster]] for four American orchestras—the [[Atlanta Symphony Orchestra|Atlanta Symphony]], [[Utah Symphony]], [[Nashville Symphony]], and [[Cleveland Orchestra]]? 
* ... that the British Army's [[Peninsular War]] '''[[Battalion of detachments|battalions of detachments]]''' were commended for their gallantry on the battlefield but criticised for their conduct in camp?
* ... that Dutch dermatologist '''[[Rudi Cormane]]''' pioneered research on [[immunofluorescence]] of the skin?
* ... that the video game '''''[[Dungeons 3]]''''' was described as the closest its developer came to creating a successor to the popular [[Dungeon Keeper (series)|''Dungeon Keeper'' series]]?
* ... that Japanese singer '''[[Reona]]''' was a [[cosplay]]er before starting her music career?<!--Special occasion hook for 29 August-->
* ... that the US [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] is looking for a man known as '''[[Jorge Luis Mendoza Cárdenas|The Claw]]'''?

===29 August 2018===
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* ... that after the [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]], the Austro-Hungarian cruiser '''{{SMS|Admiral Spaun}}''' ''(pictured)'' escorted the ship carrying his body back to [[Trieste]]?
* ... that as a high school basketball player, '''[[Lometa Odom]]''' set the [[Texas]] single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951? 
* ... that '''[[Takuyo-Daisan]]''' was once an island in the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific]] but is now a [[seamount]] off Japan?
* ... that the Thai Buddhist monk '''[[Luang Por Dhammajayo]]''' launched an anti-smoking and drinking campaign that won an award from the [[World Health Organization]]?
* ... that after his death, politician, jurist, and general '''[[Lucius Manlius Torquatus (Praetor 49 BC)|Lucius Torquatus]]''' was portrayed by Roman writer [[Cicero]] as an advocate for [[Epicureanism|Epicurean]] ethics?
* ... that '''''[[Migrant Architects of the NHS]]''''' recounts how doctors from the [[Indian subcontinent]] immigrated to Britain and became [[general practitioner]]s?
* ... that maritime fur trader '''[[Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe]]''' and most of his crew were killed by [[Native Hawaiians]] in revenge for the flogging of [[Kameʻeiamoku|a chief]] by [[Simon Metcalfe|Metcalfe's father]] days before?
* ... that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic "'''[[Loss (comic)|Loss]]'''" was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?

===28 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[El Tatio]]''' ''(pictured)'' is the largest [[geyser]] field in the southern hemisphere and one of two worldwide with the highest elevation? 
* ... that during Governor [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992|1992 presidential campaign]], political aide '''[[Carol Rasco]]''' took over Arkansas's "daily business"? 
* ... that the British TV series '''''[[Aap Kaa Hak]]''''' answered health, social and legal questions in Hindi and Urdu?
* ... that the 1810 Catholic hymnal by '''[[Christoph Bernhard Verspoell]]''', with his melodies and organ settings, contains [[Menschen, die ihr wart verloren|a song]] included in the Catholic hymnal ''[[Gotteslob]]'' in 2013?
* ... that during World War II, future [[Oregon]] state senator '''[[Gordon W. McKay]]''' participated in the [[Battle of Tarawa]] as a [[Seabee]]? 
* ... that the diet of the skeleton shrimp '''''[[Caprella equilibra]]''''' consists mainly of [[detritus]], but it also feeds on the [[Hydroid (zoology) |hydroids]] to which it clings? 
* ... that '''[[The Carpenters|the Carpenters]]''' received hate mail because they [[Goodbye to Love|combined a soft ballad with a loud electric guitar]]?
* ... that '''[[Mormon studies]]''' scholars have the sense that they are being watched, following previous [[Excommunication#The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|excommunications]] of Mormon historians in the field?

===27 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Margot Fonteyn]]''' ''(pictured)'' was [[The Royal Ballet]]'s ''prima ballerina'' for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in [[Panama]]? 
* ... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate [[Albert Einstein]], committed suicide less than a year after '''[[Murder of the family of Robert Einstein|his family was murdered]]''' by German soldiers in World War II? 
* ... that '''[[Ina Hartwig]]''', formerly on the editorial staff of ''[[Frankfurter Rundschau]]'', published a biography of [[Ingeborg Bachmann]] in 2017?
* ... that [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] set '''[[Psalm 47]]''' in English, ''O clap your hands'', as a motet for choir and orchestra in 1920?<!--Special occasion hook for 26 August-->
* ... that after [[FIBA]] rules changes limited the availability of [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] players, the '''[[2019 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team|U.S. men's basketball team]]''' decided to assemble rosters of primarily [[NBA G League|G Leaguers]] for the [[2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup|2019 World Cup]] qualifiers?
* ... that a story by Argentine mathematician '''[[Magdalena Mouján]]''' about a [[Basques|Basque]] family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the [[Francoist Spain|Franco regime]]? 
* ... that after being rebuilt in May 2018, the open-air '''[[Summer Theatre of Tirana]]''' held a show in which 400 artists participated?
* ... that the second test in the '''[[Operation Mosaic]]''' series under the command of '''[[Hugh Martell]]''' was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia?

===26 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 26 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] philosopher [[Averroes]] ''(pictured)'' theorized that '''[[Averroes' theory of the unity of the intellect|all human beings share a single intellect]]''', and [[Thomas Aquinas]] wrote a treatise to refute this theory?
* ... that '''''[[Altars of the World]]''''' was the final recipient of the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film]] before the award was retired? 
* ... that one of the financers of the '''[[Spire (Seattle building)|Spire]]''', a residential building in [[Seattle]], joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President [[Xi Jinping]]? 
* ... that '''[[Ülo Nugis]]''' was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join [[NATO]], even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
* ... that the ancestors of the '''[[grey cuckooshrike]]''' most likely spread to Africa from the [[Australia (continent)|Australo-Papuan region]]?
* ... that '''[[Serge Blanc (violinist)|Serge Blanc]]''' was the first to record [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"]]'' in France?<!--Special occasion hook for 25 August-->
* ... that the single road bridge to '''[[Great Island]]''' in [[Cork Harbour]] is more than 200 years old? 
* ... that in 1964, a school teacher survived for nine months after surgeon '''[[Keith Reemtsma]]''' transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into her?

===25 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 25 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that on 24 August 1878, [[Charles-Marie Widor]] premiered his '''[[Symphony for Organ No. 6]]''' for the inauguration of the [[Aristide Cavaillé-Coll|Cavaillé-Coll]] organ at the [[Trocadéro#Palais du Trocadéro|Palais du Trocadéro]] ''(pictured)'' as part of the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Paris World Exhibition]]?<!--Special occasion hook for August 24-->
* ... that [[Hope not Hate]] released commemorative mugs and teatowels to mark the retirement of '''[[Brian Parker (politician)|Brian Parker]]''', the [[British National Party]]'s last district councillor?
* ... that [[Seattle]]'s '''[[Denny Way]]''' was originally named "Depot Street" in hopes of luring a major train station?
* ... that '''[[Magema Magwaza Fuze]]''' was the first native speaker to publish a book in the [[Zulu language]]?
* ... that the preferred food of the [[copepod]] '''''[[Pseudocalanus newmani]]''''' includes [[diatom]]s of the genus ''[[Thalassiosira]]'', which can be toxic to its young?
* ... that basketball player '''[[Norvel Pelle]]''' holds citizenship in three countries—[[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Lebanon]], and the United States?
* ... that at the end of the unsuccessful '''[[Siege of Almería]]''', some of the defeated [[Crown of Aragon|Aragonese]] attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
* ... that the [[dermatology|dermatologist]] '''[[Peter Copeman]]''' was known as "Dr Spot"?

===24 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 24 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Ludwigsburg Palace]]''' ''(pictured)'', the "Versailles of Swabia", was home to four of [[Württemberg]]'s rulers?
* ... that '''[[Lydia May Ames]]''', one of [[Cleveland]]'s earliest women artists, is sometimes considered its first impressionist painter?
* ... that the seeds of the '''[[Leucospermum praemorsum|Nardouw fountain pincushion]]''' are carried underground by ants?
* ... that the writer '''[[İsmet Kür]]'''{{'}}s father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer?
* ... that the '''[[Austro-Italian ironclad arms race]]''' led to the [[Battle of Lissa (1866)|Battle of Lissa]], the first naval engagement between multiple armored warships?
* ... that in the midst of being chased by '''[[Aṅgulimāla]]''', a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
* ... that '''[[Red W Interactiva]]''', a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
* ... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by '''[[Evelyn Wang]]''', has been compared to the moisture vaporators in ''[[Star Wars]]''?

===23 August 2018===
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* ... that social media users made [[Joshua Reynolds]]'s '''''[[David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy]]''''' ''(pictured)'' into a meme based on the '''[[distracted boyfriend meme]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Nasr, Sultan of Granada|Abu al-Juyush Nasr]]''' became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of [[Muhammad III, Sultan of Granada|his brother]], only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
* ... that the goose barnacle '''''[[Conchoderma virgatum]]''''' rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a [[spot-fin porcupinefish|porcupinefish]]? 
* ... that US President [[Donald Trump]]'s nomination of meteorologist '''[[Kelvin Droegemeier]]''' to direct the [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] has been received positively by scientists? 
* ... that Claude Debussy composed '''''[[The Little Nigar]]''''', a [[cakewalk]], for a [[Method (music)#Piano|piano method]]?<!--Special occasion hook for 22 August-->
* ... that voice actress '''[[Rie Murakawa]]'''{{`s}} accolades include the Best Funny Radio and Best Comfort Radio awards in 2016?
* ... that '''[[Westbourne Terrace]]''' was one of 19 different "Westbourne" streets that appeared in the London ''Postal Guide'' in the nineteenth century?
* ... that '''[[Gavin Buckley]]''', the mayor of [[Annapolis, Maryland]], thinks of himself as Australian?

===22 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Alfons Tracki]]''' ''(pictured)'', a German-Albanian [[Christian martyrs|Christian martyr]], worked to eradicate [[Gjakmarrja]] (blood feuds) from Northern Albania?
* ... that hairs shed by caterpillars of the '''[[brown-tail moth]]''' can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to [[Toxicodendron radicans|poison ivy]]? 
* ... that '''[[Mimi Mondal]]''' is the first writer from India to be nominated for a [[Hugo Award]]?
* ... that after the original 1932 release of the film '''''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]''''', it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years? 
* ... that '''[[Jack Kirby]]''' created many famous comic book characters including [[Captain America]], but his conception of [[Spider-Man]] was rejected for being too heroic?
* ... that '''[[Alexa Bank]]''' is probably a drowned [[atoll]]? 
* ... that [[New Zealand]]-born '''[[Vance Drummond]]''' won the [[Gallantry Cross (Vietnam)|South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry]] as a [[Royal Australian Air Force]] pilot serving with the [[United States Air Force]]?
* ... that [[Neal McCoy]] wanted his [[U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present)|anti-protest]] song "'''[[Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)]]'''" to "bring people together"?

===21 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 21 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that the '''[[flag of the Romani people]]''' ''(pictured)'' was a [[Triband (flag)|triband]], before the red stripe was removed over suspicions that it [[Red flag (politics)|stood for communism]]? 
* ... that '''[[Cusack Patrick Roney|Sir Cusack Patrick Roney]]''' was knighted for his role as secretary to the [[Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)|Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853]]?
* ... that [[Priapulida|penis worms]] very similar to '''''[[Priapulus caudatus]]''''' created [[trace fossil]]s in the early [[Cambrian|Cambrian period]]?
* ... that minutes after a world record was set for ''[[Super Mario World]]'', '''[[SethBling]]''' completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
* ... that '''''[[Narmakosh]]''''', compiled by [[Narmad]], is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language? 
* ... that video artist [[Joan Braderman]] '''[[Joan Does Dynasty|superimposed herself]]''' onto scenes from the television series ''[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]'' to critique the characters, plots, and themes? 
* ... that if the [[Green Bay Packers]] [[American football|football]] team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to '''[[Green Bay Packers Foundation|its charitable foundation]]''' rather than its shareholders?
* ... that opera singer '''[[Catherine-Nicole Lemaure]]''' was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform?

===20 August 2018===
*'''''00:00, 20 August 2018 (UTC)'''''
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* ... that '''[[Matthias Rauchmiller]]''', the son of a butcher, designed both the [[Plague Column, Vienna|Plague Column in Vienna]] and the [[Statue of John of Nepomuk, Charles Bridge|oldest statue on Prague's Charles Bridge]] ''(clay model pictured)''?
* ... that the first screening of '''''[[Venom and Eternity]]''''' ended early following director [[Isidore Isou]]'s attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre? 
* ... that Ensign '''[[Robert Duncan (pilot)|Robert Duncan]]''' was the first person to shoot down a [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]] with a [[Grumman F6F Hellcat]]? 
* ... that the '''[[Redneck Fishing Tournament]]''' has seen thousands of [[Asian carp]] caught by its participants without the use of fishing poles? 
* ... that '''[[Telfair Hodgson]]''' was the original financial backer and first managing editor of ''[[The Sewanee Review]]'', the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States? 
* ... that a pair of yellow "dolphin-like creatures" from a '''[[Benty Grange hanging bowl|7th-century hanging bowl]]''' finds its closest parallel in [[illuminated manuscript|manuscript art]]? 
* ... that '''[[Eric Rose]]''' performed the first successful paediatric [[Heart transplantation|heart transplant]]?
* ... that '''[[Pteropus|flying fox]]''' teeth are used as currency on [[Makira]]?

===19 August 2018===
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* ... that the factory producing '''[[Capodimonte porcelain]]''' ''(snuffbox pictured)'', including forty workers and nearly five tons of material, was moved from Naples to Madrid in 1759?
* ... that '''[[Vicars Bell]]''' was the "village chronicler" of [[Little Gaddesden]]?
* ... that '''[[Stanwood, Washington]]''', was formed by the consolidation of two rival towns in order to fund a modern [[sewage treatment]] system?
* ... that '''[[Mindy Alper]]''', the visual artist featured in ''[[Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405]]'', helped [[Mary Stuart Masterson]] prepare for her role as a mentally ill woman in the 1993 film ''[[Benny & Joon]]''?
* ... that the flowers of the '''[[Leucadendron salignum|common sunshine conebush]]''' are pollinated by beetles?
* ... that '''[[Jenny Sabin]]'''{{`}}s installation ''Lumen'' is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night?
* ... that the 2018 [[roguelike]] video game '''''[[Wizard of Legend]]''''' received nearly 50 percent more than its funding goal in its [[Kickstarter]] campaign?
* ... that U.S. Army '''[[Hurricane Aircat]]''' airboats could ram and sink [[Viet Cong]] boats?

===18 August 2018===
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* ... that the '''[[Prostheceraeus vittatus|candy striped flatworm]]''' ''(pictured)'' appears to glide across the seabed, being moved by [[Cilium|cilia]] on its underside?
* ... that '''[[Leonard Owen]]''' oversaw the building of [[Sellafield#Calder Hall nuclear power station|Calder Hall]], the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale?
* ... that [[John F. Kennedy]] suggested the [[Washington (state)|State of Washington]] replace its unofficial motto "''[[List of U.S. state and territory mottos#State and territory mottos|Alki]]''{{Space+double}} with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from "'''[[Washington, My Home]]'''", the state song?
* ... that while working for the predecessor of NASA, Chinese physicist '''[[Wu Zhonghua]]''' pioneered the [[Lift (force)#Three-dimensional flow|three-dimensional flow]] theory, which has been used to design many aircraft engines? 
* ... that '''[[Brugada syndrome]]''' is known in the [[Philippines]] as ''Bangungut'', or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
* ... that American rapper '''[[Gizzle]]''' worked as a [[ghostwriter]] for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
* ... that the killer whale '''[[Tahlequah (orca)|Tahlequah]]''' carried her dead calf for over two weeks in an apparent showing of grief?

===17 August 2018===
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* ... that [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]'s ''(pictured)'' 1991 song "'''[[Rescue Me (Madonna song)|Rescue Me]]'''" made the highest debut for a song on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart since [[the Beatles]]' "[[Let It Be (song)|Let It Be]]" 21 years earlier?<!--Special occasion hook for August 16-->
* ... that publisher '''[[Tu Books]]''' was created via a [[Kickstarter]] campaign, then purchased by [[Lee & Low Books]] three months later?
* ... that adult '''[[Cestoda|tapeworm]]s''' parasitise the intestines of vertebrates but do not have guts of their own?
* ... that air conditioning refrigerant [[2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene|HFO-1234yf]], developed by a team led by '''[[Barbara Haviland Minor]]''', is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter [[global warming]]? 
* ... that although New York City's '''[[Bushwick Inlet Park]]''' was proposed in 2005, the land for the park was not fully purchased until 2016?
* ... that [[Periodontology|periodontist]] '''[[John Zamet]]''' was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
* ... that the publisher of '''''[[Life with My Sister Madonna]]''''', a tell-all book by [[Madonna (entertainer)|the singer]]'s younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
* ... that in 1394, '''[[John/Eleanor Rykener|John "Eleanor" Rykener]]''' was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in [[Cheapside]] and later confessed to having had sex with both [[friar]]s and [[nun]]s?

===16 August 2018===
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* ... that the painting '''''[[Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan]]''''' has been attacked and damaged twice ''(damage pictured)''?
* ... that [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]'s '''[[Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)|Piano Sonata No. 2]]''' contains as its third movement a ''[[Funeral march|Marche funèbre]]'', which was composed earlier than the other music?
* ... that [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ethnic Croat]] journalist '''[[Štefica Galić]]''' has been called the "[[Oskar Schindler|Schindler]] of [[Ljubuški]]" for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's [[Bosniaks]] during the [[Croat–Bosniak War]]?<!--Special occasion hook for August 15-->
* ... that [[Indian Railways]] runs loss-making trains on the '''[[Patna–Digha Ghat line]]''' to prevent [[Adverse possession|encroachment]]?
* ... that [[South Dakota]] architect '''[[Harold Spitznagel]]''' designed the original [[Mount Rushmore]] visitor center with [[Cecil J. Doty|Cecil Doty]] as part of [[Mission 66]], providing a setting for [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1959 film ''[[North by Northwest]]''?
* ... that [[Charles Darwin]] made descriptive notes on the '''[[Pinguipes brasilianus|Brazilian sandperch]]''' after a specimen was caught with hook and line off the coast of Patagonia during the [[Second voyage of HMS Beagle|voyage of ''Beagle'']]? 
* ... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. '''[[Patricia A. Gabow]]''' streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the [[Toyota Production System]]?
* ... that members of the '''[[Djajadiningrat family]]''' fought on both sides of the [[Indonesian National Revolution|Indonesian Revolution]]?

===15 August 2018===
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* ... that during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], each of Britain's "V force" squadrons kept one nuclear-armed '''[[V bomber]]''' ''([[Avro Vulcan]]s pictured)'' and crew at 15 minutes' readiness?  
* ... that '''[[Mary Fenton]]''', the first [[Anglo-Indian]] actress of the [[Parsi theatre|Parsi]], [[Gujarati theatre|Gujarati]], and [[Urdu]] theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, '''[[Kavasji Palanji Khatau]]'''?
* ... that '''''[[Helleria brevicornis]]''''' is the only terrestrial woodlouse that has retained the ancestral aquatic isopod behaviour of mate guarding?
* ... that American video game producer '''[[Ben Judd]]''' is fluent in the Japanese [[Kansai dialect]]?
* ... that '''[[Loggerheads Country Park]]''' has a corn mill with a restored [[water wheel]]? 
* ... that the South African composer [[Stefans Grové]] wrote a setting of '''[[Psalm 138]]''' for choir, children's choir, African drums, [[marimba]], and string orchestra?
* ... that the deposed Byzantine emperor '''[[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]]''' was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
* ... that '''[[Atlantis (commune)|Atlantis]]''' moved from [[Ireland]] to [[Colombia]]?

===14 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Marie Lehmann (soprano)|Marie Lehmann]]''', one of the [[Rhinemaidens]] ''(pictured)'' at the first [[Bayreuth Festival]] in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] for the groundbreaking of the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus|Bayreuth Festival Theatre]]? <!--Reserved for special occasion hook for August 13-->
* ... that '''[[Robert Lebel (ice hockey)|Robert Lebel]]''' was inducted in the inaugural class of three [[ice hockey]] halls of fame? 
* ... that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine [[scale model]]s of full-size [[steam locomotive]]s at '''[[Royden Park]]'''? 
* ... that when King [[Kamehameha III]] died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew [[Kamehameha IV]] instead of his son '''[[Albert Kūnuiākea]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică]]''', a self-proclaimed "[[King of the Gypsies|Voivode of the Gypsies]]", supported Romania's far-right groups, beginning with the '''[[National Agrarian Party]]'''?
* ... that '''[[Old North Building|Old North]]''', built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on [[Georgetown University]]'s campus?
* ... that '''[[Badr Shirvani]]''', a Persian poet from [[Shirvan]] in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
* ... that the plot of the 1994 comic book '''''[[Archie Meets the Punisher]]''''' was modeled after the 1948 film ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]''?

===13 August 2018===
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* ... that Chinese spy '''[[Zheng Pingru]]''' ''(pictured)'', who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella ''[[Lust, Caution (novella)|Lust, Caution]]'', and its [[Lust, Caution|film adaptation]]?
* ... that '''[[Wood-Tikchik State Park]]''', the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
* ... that '''[[Grace Macurdy]]''' shaped the field of [[classics]] by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
* ... that the flowers of the '''[[Leucospermum arenarium|Redelinghuys pincushion]]''' are pollinated by rodents? 
* ... that '''[[Chip Rives]]''' was one of the eight people named [[Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year|''Sports Illustrated'' Sportsperson of the Year]] in 1987?
* ... that the '''[[Mor Yakup Church|Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis]]''' in southeastern Turkey was originally the [[baptistery]] of a Syriac Orthodox cathedral which no longer exists? 
* ... that '''[[Michael Martin (engineer)|Michael Martin]]''', project director of the recently completed £1.4 billion [[Queensferry Crossing]], was inspired to study engineering through reading back issues of ''[[New Civil Engineer]]''? 
* ... that according to some accounts, the legendary [[Georgian mythology|Georgian]] hunting dog '''[[Q'ursha]]''' had eagle's wings, a thunderous bark and a gigantic leap?

===12 August 2018===
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* ... that the [[Church frescos in Sweden|frescos]] ''(pictured)'' in '''[[Fulltofta Church]]''' were discovered in 1907 after being hidden since the [[Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein|Reformation]]?
* ... that '''[[George Whitney Calhoun]]''' and [[Curly Lambeau]] founded the [[Green Bay Packers]] 99 years ago today?<!-- Special occasion hook for August 11 -->
* ... that in July 2018, [[U2]] topped the ''Billboard'' [[Dance Club Songs]] chart for the first time in seventeen years with "'''[[Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way]]'''"? 
* ... that [[Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia|Colombian Supreme Court]] judge '''[[Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán]]''' claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
* ... that the flatworm '''''[[Procerodes littoralis]]''''' is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
* ... that plastic surgeon '''[[Patrick Clarkson]]''' had the idea for the [[British Society for Surgery of the Hand|Hand Club]] to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at [[Guy's Hospital]]?
* ... that the '''[[Fisher Ridge Cave System]]''' is the fifth-longest cave in the United States and one of the longest in the world?
* ... that the [[Belgium national football team|Belgium international]] player '''[[Leander Dendoncker]]''' is one of three footballer brothers from a pig-farming family?

===11 August 2018===
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* ... that the '''[[Sycamore Gap Tree]]''' ''(pictured)'' has been featured in a Hollywood blockbuster, a [[Bryan Adams]] music video and a TV crime drama? 
* ... that the [[Russian Liberation Army]] defected for the second time when it turned against [[Nazi Germany]] in the '''[[Prague uprising]]''' on 6 May 1945? 
* ... that the [[blazar]] '''[[TXS 0506+056]]''' is the first identified source of high-energy [[Neutrino astronomy|astrophysical neutrinos]]? 
* ... that in 1965, [[Benjamin Steinberg (conductor)|'''Benjamin Steinberg''']], a violinist in the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] with [[Arturo Toscanini]], started the first racially integrated symphony orchestra in America, the [[Symphony of the New World]]? 
* ... that Mexican federal deputy '''[[Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga]]''' and his wife were found to own six properties worth a total of 14 million [[Mexican peso|pesos]] in the [[Chihuahua (state)|state of Chihuahua]]?
* ... that the '''[[Dr. Georgi Stranski University Hospital|University Hospital]]''' in [[Pleven]] was the first hospital in Bulgaria to perform [[robot-assisted surgery]]?
* ... that the research of 2017 [[Spinoza Prize]] winner '''[[Eveline Crone]]''' has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23?
* ... that despite being a crustacean, a '''[[Pennella exocoeti|parasitic copepod]]''' found on a flying fish was described as a "gill-worm" by '''[[Hans Severin Holten]]''', the Danish naturalist who discovered it?

===10 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Teuira Henry]]''' ''(pictured)'' reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing [[Tahiti#History|Tahitian history]] by using his notes?
* ... that '''[[Mexico at the 2014 Winter Paralympics|Mexico was represented by a single athlete]]''' at the [[2014 Winter Paralympics]]?
* ... that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano '''[[Alicia Nafé]]''' appeared in her signature role as Bizet's [[Carmen]] alongside [[Plácido Domingo]] in [[San Francisco Opera|San Francisco]], and at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] with Domingo as conductor?
* ... that the [[antependium]] of '''[[Lyngsjö Church]]''' has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"?
* ... that the ''Samec'niero'', written by '''[[Iase Tushi]]''', contains one of the earliest examples of a [[Georgian language|Georgian]]–[[Persian language|Persian]] dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in [[Iran]]?
* ... that [[brass band]]s have been a feature of '''[[Vale Park, New Brighton|Vale Park]]''' since its opening in 1899, when one played the crowd in through the gates?
* ... that '''''[[Neocalanus plumchrus]]''''' is able to uptake dissolved [[glucose]] directly from seawater despite its [[exoskeleton]]?
* ... that the [[Association football|footballer]] '''[[Mark Aizlewood]]''' once celebrated scoring a goal by [[V sign#As an insult|flicking the V]] at fans of his own team?

===9 August 2018===
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* ... that the '''[[Torrance Barrens]]''' ''(pictured)'' is Canada's first [[dark-sky preserve]]?
* ... that '''[[Erinea Garcia Gallegos]]''', one of the first college-educated [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of [[San Luis, Colorado|San Luis]] by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
* ... that '''[[German Equestrian Federation|Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung]]''', the governing body for the majority of [[List of equestrian sports|equestrian sports]] in Germany, promotes the status of the horse as a cultural asset?
* ... that '''[[Farouk Topan]]''' described the English language as "the elephant in the room" in relation to the use of [[Swahili language|Kiswahili]] in East Africa?
* ... that when the '''[[Siege of Berwick (1333)|besieged town of Berwick-upon-Tweed]]''' refused to surrender, the governor's son was hanged outside the town gates?
* ... that the '''[[history of the Jews in Atlanta]]''' dates to 1845, the same year the city changed its name from [[Marthasville, Georgia|Marthasville]]?
* ... that the sea chubs '''''[[Graus nigra]]''''' and '''''[[Medialuna ancietae]]''''', the '''[[Pinguipes chilensis|Chilean sandperch]]''', and the '''[[Semicossyphus darwini|Galápagos sheephead wrasse]]''' all live in the forest?
* ... that '''[[John Joseph Merlin]]''' crashed into a mirror at [[Carlisle House, Soho|Carlisle House]] while playing the violin on the roller skates that he had invented?

===8 August 2018===
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* ... that each of the sixty geese in [[Michael Snow]]'s '''''[[Flight Stop]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is decorated with the image of the same dead [[Canada goose]] culled from [[Toronto Islands|Toronto Island]]?
* ... that '''[[Clifford Braimah]]''', head of the [[Ghana Water Company]], is a supporter of [[Operation Vanguard]] and its mission to end [[galamsey|illegal mining]]?
* ... that the rising prosperity of the Wang family of [[Lingshi County]] during the [[Qing dynasty]] financed the multi-generation construction of a '''[[Wang Family Compound|grand residential complex]]''' of hundreds of courtyards with over 2,000 rooms?
* ... that [[Governor of Jalisco|Governor-elect of Jalisco]], '''[[Enrique Alfaro Ramírez]]''', was the first winning gubernatorial candidate to come from the [[Citizens' Movement (Mexico)|Movimiento Ciudadano]] party?
* ... that the [[YouTube]] channel '''[[ContraPoints]]''' releases humorous, [[Left-wing politics|left-leaning]] educational videos responding to the arguments of the growing community of [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] YouTubers?
* ... that the mezzo-soprano '''[[Carla Henius]]''' performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's ''[[Intolleranza 1960]]'' at [[La Fenice]], and had a composition by [[Dieter Schnebel]] written for her voice?
* ... that '''''[[Neocalanus cristatus]]''''' [[Crustacean larva#Nauplius|nauplii]] feed off their [[yolk]]s during the 40 days it may take them to ascend to the surface of the sea? 
* ... that chemical engineer '''[[Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone]]''' invented a flute made from the aluminium brass tubing used in oil refineries?

===7 August 2018===
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* ... that the conjoined liver of the [[Conjoined twins|Siamese twins]] '''[[Chang and Eng Bunker]]''' ''(pictured)'' is on display at the [[Mütter Museum]] in Philadelphia?
* ... that [[Malala Yousafzai]]'s 2013 autobiography '''''[[I Am Malala]]''''' was banned in 152,000 private schools in Pakistan?
* ... that followers of the second-century [[Carpocrates|Carpocratian]] Christian leader '''[[Marcellina (gnostic)|Marcellina]]''' venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus?
* ... that in 1918, [[Richard Strauss]] composed '''[[Sechs Lieder, Op. 68 (Strauss)|''Sechs Lieder'', Op. 68]]''', based on poems by [[Clemens Brentano]], with the voice of [[Elisabeth Schumann]] in mind?
* ... that '''[[Carrie Goldberg]]''', who is representing two women accusing [[Harvey Weinstein]] of sexual abuse, once served as a case manager for [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] victims?
* ... that [[Page of the United States Senate|US Senate page boys]] were required to wear [[Knickerbockers (clothing)|knickers]] when the film&nbsp;'''''[[Adventure in Washington]]'''''‎ was made in 1941? 
* ... that British surgeon '''[[Jim Dempster]]''' published more than 100 scientific articles on kidney transplantation in dogs?
* ... that '''[[Corynactis viridis|jewel anemones]]''' split apart but stay together?

===6 August 2018===
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* ... that the pinkish-red portion of the '''[[Flag of Sioux Falls, South Dakota|flag of Sioux Falls]]''' ''(pictured)'' represents the [[Sioux Quartzite]] stone which was quarried nearby and used to build early Sioux Falls buildings?
* ... that when '''[[Gaius Vettius Sabinianus Julius Hospes|Gaius Hospes]]''' wore his [[Civic Crown|award for valour]] at public gatherings, it was expected that he be applauded by every person present?
* ... that verses 2 to 6 of '''[[Psalm 97]]''' in Czech were set to music by [[Antonín Dvořák]] in his ''[[Biblical Songs]]''?
* ... that despite being portrayed favorably in a [[Propaganda in the Soviet Union|Soviet propaganda film]], '''[[Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev]]''' was later accused by [[Leon Trotsky]] of supporting Chinese monarchism?
* ... that the '''[[pharmacist-to-pharmacy technician ratio]]''' has generally increased as [[pharmacy technician|pharmacy technicians]] have become less like retail clerks and taken on more responsibilities?
* ... that '''[[Scott Smith (ice hockey)|Scott Smith]]'''{{`s}} management and marketing of international events was cited by the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]] as a reason for the growth of [[Hockey Canada]]?
* ... that the announcement of '''''[[Steel Division 2]]''''' came after half the team at [[Eugen Systems]], the video game's developers, went on strike?
* ... that after [[Isaac Stevens]], the governor of [[Washington Territory]], was found guilty of contempt over his conduct during '''[[martial law in Pierce County]]''', he pardoned himself?

===5 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Franz Schubert]]''' ''(pictured)'', a prolific composer of [[List of compositions by Franz Schubert by genre|songs, symphonies and other works]], gave only one public concert presenting his own works? 
* ... that '''[[butyrolactol A]]''', a [[polyketide]] derived from ''[[Streptomyces rochei]]'', demonstrates broad antimicrobial activity against fungi, including ''[[Candida albicans]]''?
* ... that '''[[John Davy Rolleston]]''' highlighted the seriousness of [[otitis media]] as a complication of [[scarlet fever]]?
* ... that the video game '''''[[Detroit: Become Human]]''''' has three playable characters, each with their own composer and style of cinematography?
* ... that the '''[[mangrove kingfisher]]''', found in Africa, migrates away from [[mangrove]]s to breed?
* ... that '''[[Kelly M. Quintanilla]]''', the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of [[Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi]]?
* ... that the [[World Wide Web]] inventor [[Tim Berners-Lee]] created the '''[[Solid (web decentralization project)|Solid Project]]''' to reclaim the Web from corporations and return control of data to users?
* ... that '''[[Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski]]''' were recognized as the most avid filmgoers in [[Poland]], having seen more than 13,000 movies together?

===4 August 2018===
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* ... that the '''[[Coeloplana astericola|creeping comb jelly]]''' lives on the surface of a '''[[Echinaster luzonicus|starfish]]''' ''(pictured)'' in the family '''[[Echinasteridae]]'''?
* ... that the 27-year-old Uzbekistani pianist '''[[Behzod Abduraimov]]''' has already performed at the [[The Proms|BBC Proms]] twice?
* ... that an '''[[Bratislava Working Group|illegal Jewish organization]]''' in an [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|Axis puppet state]] proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe [[Heinrich Himmler]] into halting the [[The Holocaust|systematic extermination of European Jews]]?
* ... that despite never completing his university studies, '''[[R. H. Wilenski]]''' was appointed a special lecturer in the [[history of art]] at the University of Manchester?
* ... that specimens of the fish '''''[[Palatogobius grandoculus]]''''' were collected as early as 1976 but not identified as a new species until 2002?
* ... that '''[[Gerd Hatje]]''' went from being a [[typesetting|typesetter]] to founding the internationally renowned [[Hatje Cantz Verlag|publishing house]] which still bears his name?
* ... that some '''[[railway surgery|railway surgeons]]''' opposed the introduction of [[first aid kit]]s on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work?
* ... that the developers of '''''[[Vampyr (video game)|Vampyr]]''''' chose to include only one [[Saved game|save slot]], so that the player's actions would have "real, meaningful impact"?

===3 August 2018===
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* ... that '''[[Dharma Bum Temple]]''' helped organize the first [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] college fraternity in the United States, [[Delta Beta Tau]] ''(pledge class pictured)'', at [[San Diego State University]]? 
* ... that Chinese-Indonesian businessman '''[[Sutanto Djuhar]]''' was the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four" of the [[Suharto]] era? 
* ... that the trunk of the '''[[King Oak]]''' is more than {{convert|8|m}} in girth?
* ... that '''[[Sara Hershkowitz]]''', who usually appears on the opera stage as the [[The Magic Flute|Queen of the Night]] and [[Ariadne auf Naxos|Zerbinetta]], parodied [[Donald Trump]] in Ligeti's ''[[Le Grand Macabre|Mysteries of the Macabre]]'' at the [[Lowlands (festival)|Lowlands Festival]]? 
* ... that prior to the first [[City council|town council]] elections in '''[[Loxahatchee Groves, Florida]]''', a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a [[Naturism#Naturist facilities|nudist resort]]?
* ... that '''[[Michael Peter Kaye]]''' was the first director of what became the largest [[International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation|registry of heart and lung transplantation data]] in the world? 
* ... that the '''[[purple eagle ray]]''' (''Myliobatis hamlyni'') was named after '''[[Ronald Hamlyn-Harris]]''', director of the Queensland Museum?
* ... that the sport of '''[[duck netting]]''' may be unique to the [[Imperial House of Japan]]?

===2 August 2018===
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* ... that in 1939, '''[[Benjamin Goodwin Seielstad|Benjamin Seielstad]]''' drew four different versions of the end of the world ''("giant meteor" collision pictured)'' for ''[[Popular Science|Popular Science Monthly]]''?
* ... that '''[[incendiary balloon]]s'''&mdash;made from condoms or party balloons&mdash;and [[incendiary kite]]s have been launched from the [[Gaza Strip]] and started hundreds of fires in Israel in 2018? 
* ... that '''[[Catherine Gayer]]''', who was a [[coloratura soprano]] for four decades at the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]], premiered Nono's ''[[Intolleranza 1960]]'' in Venice, and Reimann's ''[[Melusine (Reimann)|Melusine]]'' at the [[Schwetzingen Festival]]? 
* ... that the time limit in the puzzle game '''''[[Cloud Kingdoms]]''''' is calculated in 99 intervals called "manukas"?
* ... that when biochemist '''[[Li Lin (biochemist)|Li Lin]]''' was a Ph.D. student, he often went to slaughterhouses and [[wet market]]s to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments?
* ... that the $4 billion '''[[World Trade Center station (PATH)|World Trade Center Transportation Hub]]''', built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?
* ... that '''[[Averroes]]''' wrote on subjects as diverse as [[philosophy]], [[Fiqh|Islamic jurisprudence]], [[medicine]], and [[astronomy]]?
* ... that the first episode of the '''[[An Unearthly Child|first ''Doctor Who'' series]]''' had to be rerecorded because the [[TARDIS]] doors would not close?

===1 August 2018===
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* ... that scientist '''[[Gustaf Gabriel Hällström]]''' ''(pictured)'' initiated the first regular [[meteorology|meteorological]] observations in Finland?
* ... that the '''[[Flint Public Library (Flint, Michigan)|Flint Public Library]]''' created the [[Julia A. Moore]] Poetry Contest to celebrate [[poetaster|bad poetry]]? 
* ... that when '''[[Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus|Marcus Bibulus]]''' opposed a law proposed by [[Julius Caesar]], he was publicly soaked with excrement?
* ... that '''[[Ninurta]]''', the Mesopotamian god of hunting, is believed by many scholars to be the source of the biblical figure [[Nimrod]]?
* ... that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like '''''[[Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan]]''''' were uncommon on handheld systems like the [[Game Boy Advance]]?
* ... that '''[[Joseph Hermann Mohr|Joseph Mohr]]''' left Germany when [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] institutions were dissolved, and wrote [[Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet|his popular hymn]] abroad?
* ... that some '''[[leech]]es''' feed only twice a year?
* ... that before she became a star in [[Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling]], '''[[Dee Booher]]'''{{`s}} first professional match was against a {{convert|700|lb|adj=on}} bear?