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• 12:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Norse Peak

• ... that Norse Peak (pictured) is the namesake of a wilderness area, a wildfire, and a fleece jacket?
• ... that Mark Leiter spent four months working as a corrections officer while rehabilitating from shoulder surgery?
• ... that the two regions most devastated by Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam declined government funding for recovery efforts?
• ... that Benjamin Schreiber argued that his life sentence ended after he was resuscitated?
• ... that a National Guard pilot died while pursuing a reported flying saucer in 1948?
• ... that Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, before Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego?
• ... that when the French web series Blow Up briefly aired on television in 2014, its allotted airtime was too short to fit some of its episodes?
• ... that American Football's American Football, regarded by the band as a side project, went on to achieve cult status?
• ... that "Point the Finger", a comic-book story written in 1989, has been described as "Trump fiction"?

• 00:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Eosalmo driftwoodensis

• ... that the salmon Eosalmo (fossil example pictured) likely never migrated to the ocean?
• ... that professional baseball player Eric Reyzelman was twice cut from his high-school baseball team?
• ... that the Dakhni and Amanat Khan caravanserais, built to provide lodging to travelers, are situated on a little-used, Mughal-era highway between Agra and Lahore?
• ... that Huwie Ishizaki was often asked to "write his real name", despite Huwie being his actual name?
• ... that Joss Whedon was hired to "contribute creatively" to each film in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to writing and directing Avengers: Age of Ultron?
• ... that in the official historiography of the Chinese Communist Party, Wei Baqun is considered one of its great early peasant-movement leaders, along with Mao Zedong?
• ... that Post Malone publicly called his debut album "mediocre" less than a year after its release?
• ... that the Ming dynasty fantasy novel Journey to the South – whose protagonist accidentally amputates his right leg and converts to Buddhism – alludes to popular one-legged spirits?
• ... that Vince Gill once mooned a crowd that poorly received him as an opening act for Kiss?

• 00:00, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Mammillaria glassii

• ... that Bob Foster named a small cactus species (pictured) after his best friend, Charlie Glass, with whom he undertook more than a dozen plant-hunting expeditions to Mexico?
• ... that Autechre used something called "the system" during the composition of Sign?
• ... that a Roman Catholic archbishop was the first person to translate some of Shakespeare's works into Polish?
• ... that there was once a stalagmite heist from the longest cave in Arkansas?
• ... that the Korean royal palace Deoksugung mixes Korean and Western architectural styles?
• ... that May You Stay Forever Young is the first Hong Kong film to be banned following the amendment of the Film Censorship Ordinance?
• ... that Reine Abbas chose the name Wixel Studios, a blend of "Weird Pixel", in recognition of being one of the only gaming studios in Lebanon?
• ... that the Ibn Shillif brothers, evading the Ottoman authorities' pursuit after leading a local rebellion, found safe haven in the Alawite villages of Ayn al-Kurum and Annab?
• ... that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay?

• 00:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Paraquilegia microphylla plant

• ... that a 1920 article segregated members of Isopyrum into the new genus Paraquilegia – assigning it P. grandflorum, P. caespitosa, P. microphylla (example pictured), and P. uniflora – but had the "rather less fortunate" effect of expanding Semiaquilegia beyond S. adoxoides?
• ... that the publication of Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi, the first legally published manga in Poland, has been described as the event that created the manga fandom in the country?
• ... that when Wilson Starbuck's play Sea Dogs was staged in 1939 it "contained some of the foulest language heard on Broadway" at that point in history?
• ... that Harry Clarke's Geneva Window was never installed in Geneva because of the "grave offense" it might cause?
• ... that Michal Pivoňka's father was demoted at work as a result of his son signing with the Washington Capitals?
• ... that more than 5,000 genres on Spotify use the suffix -core?
• ... that blackface minstrel show performer George L. Wade was also a race car manufacturer?
• ... that transportation during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics accounted for 53 percent of the games' carbon footprint?
• ... that a specimen of Tyrannasorus rex had six legs and wings and was killed by a legume?

• 00:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Naide Gomes

• ... that Naide Gomes (pictured) broke the Portuguese long-jump record fourteen times in her career, raising it from 6.56 metres to 7.12 metres?
• ... that Documented is the first non-Chinese newsroom in the United States with a WeChat account?
• ... that Mao Zedong ordered the lenient treatment of bandit leader Cheng Lianzhen, as he thought it rare for a female bandit leader to be from an ethnic minority in China?
• ... that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea?
• ... that Fritz Strassmann, a co-discoverer of nuclear fission, concealed a Jewish woman in his home during World War II?
• ... that thimble cactus is one of the most commonly grown nipple cacti because it breaks into pieces at the slightest touch?
• ... that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies?
• ... that Michel Langevin described Rush's "Didacts and Narpets" as "a Max Roach–esque avant-garde jazz piece"?

• 00:00, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Grain Belt Beer Sign

• ... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
• ... that Pan Shu had to write psychological theory in secret during the Cultural Revolution?
• ... that a 1922 Brazilian film was presumed lost for more than 90 years until a copy was rediscovered in 2023?
• ... that peasant Agnieszka Machówna repeatedly deceived Polish nobles into thinking that she was a noble?
• ... that a former professional football player stated his intention to buy the rights to a 25-year-old children's sports game in his podcast?
• ... that Yuika was allowed by her parents to take a music-related course after playing one of her songs to them?
• ... that Walnut Valley, the neighborhood most affected by the 2023 Little Rock tornado, reported theft and illegal dumping during rebuilding efforts?
• ... that the fictional character Moira Pollock was described as a "battleaxe"?
• ... that a butt of malmsey was required to make "Tyre that is excellent", as part of a mixture of "fat Bastard, two gallons of Cute [and] Parrel"?

• 00:00, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Megaliths at the Pengkalan Kempas Historical Complex

• ... that attempts to draw tourism to the town of Pengkalan Kempas include the promotion of an ancient megalith site (pictured)?
• ... that eight Delta Air Lines executives were killed in the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision, including the airline's vice president of operations?
• ... that the South Indian restaurant New Krishna Bhavan served 600 litres (160 US gal) of sambar every day?
• ... that a historical society celebrated the 50th anniversary of its acquisition of Armstrong House by hosting a murder mystery?
• ... that there are more than 100 accepted species of columbines, but Aquilegia kubanica was identified as one of only four to live in the Caucasus?
• ... that Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain was developed during a week-long game jam?
• ... that although nine alibi witnesses placed Temujin Kensu more than 400 miles from a shooting in Port Huron, Michigan, in November 1986, he was convicted of murder and has been in prison ever since?
• ... that Luis Sera was designed to resemble Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings?
• ... that Magnus Gens was given ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars for developing a crash test dummy moose?