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She studied paramedicine. She also carried type for a secret press.While studying in Saratov in the Russian Empire, Anna Weisman smuggled literature and printing type in 1902 t…
An emperor penguin reached New Zealand. For a while, it eclipsed the prime minister.In 2011, an emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet appeared on a New Zealand beach roughly 3,200 kilometres fro…
A brewer was kidnapped in 1933. A ransom note changed the investigation.After US brewery executive William Hamm Jr. was kidnapped and released, FBI investigators used silver nitrate…
A flower is nicknamed jam tarts. It faces down toward the ground.Australia's Melichrus procumbens gets its common name from the shape and abundant nectar of its flowers. They…
To save the Pokémon, you have to brush your own teeth.Released in 2020, Pokémon Smile uses a phone camera to turn toothbrushing into a game. On screen, bacteria ho…
His name moved on and off rosters. At last, he reached an NFL game.Wide receiver Brandon Smith signed and was waived by several teams after 2021, repeatedly returning on practi…
The governor locked his office and left. A senator came in through the window.In Oregon in 1913, Governor Oswald West shut his office to avoid receiving bills. Senate president Daniel Mal…
How do you record a whole way of life? This questionnaire asked 2,087 questions.The first volume of Der Mentsch, prepared after a Jewish ethnographic expedition, was printed in St. Petersbu…
It hides ads from you. Then it simulates clicks on them.Created in 2014, the browser extension AdNauseam blocks ads from view while automatically simulating clicks o…
A dog retrieved baseball bats. A camera rode on his back.Ripken the Labrador collected discarded bats during US baseball games. A GoPro mounted on his back filmed his…
The sonata was finished in 1939. Its score appeared in 1945.Paul Creston completed his saxophone sonata in 1939, with publication planned for 1940. Wartime staffing shor…
He joined a new football team. His surname became the joke.When Canadian football player Charles Assmann joined Edmonton in 1998, a newspaper reported that teammates ma…
A 1931 Chinese film survived. Its soundtrack did not.Two Stars in the Milky Way used written intertitles for dialogue and separately recorded sound for songs. It…
A legal word meant 'unowned'. Poets made it mean 'abandoned'.In Jewish law, hefker refers to ownerless property. In twentieth-century Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, writers a…
A Japanese manga became a Japanese drama. Its first audience was in Taiwan.The live-action adaptation of Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender was produced in Japan but premiered on Tai…
The siege dragged on. Soldiers started stealing watermelons.During the 1853 siege of Ak-Mechet in what is now Kazakhstan, the slow advance left some troops bored. Accoun…
Japan coined a vivid name for crashes. The statistics tell a quieter story.The Japanese slang Prius Missile spread online after widely reported crashes. Yet transport-ministry data cit…
In an old tale, the Magi shared food. Those who ate it saw visions.The Syriac Revelation of the Magi says a star multiplied the travellers' provisions. Back home, they shared t…
An elephant once roamed Europe. Mature bulls averaged about 13 tonnes.The extinct straight-tusked elephant lived in Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene. Fully grown mal…
The players wore 70, 73 and 77. Their line got a TV-show nickname.Los Angeles Kings forwards Tanner Pearson, Tyler Toffoli and Jeff Carter all wore numbers in the 70s. Their 2…
He interviewed a writer. He was accidentally high during it.One episode of the American Longform podcast featured host Max Linsky interviewing writer Sam Fragoso while u…
The programme tapes arrived. The broadcast rights had not.Former staff recalled that, during financial trouble in the early 1990s, US station WTVX received programmes…
Shakespeare reached a Chinese stage. The script travelled through Japanese.The troupe that followed China's Spring Willow Society adapted Othello as The Traitor from a Japanese transla…
Arms folded, standing firm. A character made the pose famous.Noriko Takaya of Gunbuster helped popularise the arm-folded Gainax Pose. The gesture had appeared earlier, bu…
A Baltimore Christmas wish: crabs. It became a local song.David DeBoy recorded the humorous Crabs for Christmas in 1980, building the song around Baltimore's local fla…
He began with hair clips. Then he sold records others avoided.Korean immigrant Wan Joon Kim started trading at Los Angeles swap meets and opened a stall at the Compton Swa…
The crew tried to make eerie dialogue. The first redo sounded like Yoda.For the Reservation Dogs episode Deer Lady, the sound team tried rearranging the nuns' words in new recording…
Built in 760, then lost. A Korean bridge reopened in 2018.Gyeongju's Woljeonggyo was first built in the Silla period and disappeared during the Joseon era. After archa…
He logged weather twice a day. The notes became climate evidence.Richard Davis recorded temperature and pressure in northern New Zealand from 1839 onward, with a gap during m…
To make a chariot-racing game, he studied 43 ancient arenas.Spanish developer Daniel Lopez Soria drew inspiration from a 1979 board game for Qvadriga, released in 2014.…
People kept misspelling his surname. He legally changed it.American football player Ray Jennison was born with the surname Jenison. He said people repeatedly added an e…
She recorded the new season. The screams came from the archive.While pregnant during recording for Phineas and Ferb's fifth season, Ashley Tisdale chose not to record new s…
Two fleets met in a narrow strait. Night and a storm joined them.On 13 February 1352, Genoese ships fought an allied Venetian, Aragonese and Byzantine fleet in the Bosporus.…
Ad companies can match their user IDs. Some tracking can resist deletion.Cookie syncing lets advertising parties connect separate identifiers for the same browser. Research notes tha…
Five members in one boy band. Two came from North Korea.South Korean group 1Verse debuted in July 2025. Members Hyuk and Seok are North Korean defectors, making it t…
He signed with the Packers. Then he played against them.George Seeman signed with the Green Bay Packers in April 1940. Before joining their training camp that August…
A reserve keeper held a coin. The club lost two league points.Comorian club Djabal Club d'Iconi had two points deducted in the 2023–24 season after its reserve goalkeeper…
The river's first bridge opened in 1855. Walking across cost five cents.Minnesota's Hennepin Avenue Bridge opened in January 1855 and is described as the first bridge across the Mis…
A survey counted 146 invasive species. Almost half were birds.A 2015 study of invasive species in the United Arab Emirates listed 146 species and found birds made up 49 pe…
He copied a trick with limbs. His own leg was really cut off.In the Ming-era fantasy novel Journey to the South, arhats pretend to sever their limbs to trick the hero Hua…
She kept returning to the rope. Her last act came at age 76.French performer Madame Saqui continued tightrope work into her seventies. At her last appearance in 1862, ag…
He was being flown back to Spain. His 'bomb' was made of soap.After the 1954 Guatemalan coup, Francoist agents put Spanish exile Alejandro Finisterre on a plane back to Sp…
A college worked on wartime uranium. The overhead helped build a TV station.Iowa State College received a five-percent overhead allowance for wartime research connected with uranium pro…
This leech lives on land. It can endure months of drought.Australia's Chtonobdella limbata burrows into soil and enters a nearly inactive state during dry conditions.…
You visit two friends in a game. Soon they ask you to fix their marriage.In the 2005 interactive drama Façade, players type freely to speak with Grace and Trip. Their conversation tu…
She had trained for only days. Then she qualified for competition.Solfrid Koanda entered weightlifting in 2020 after a CrossFit coach recruited her. Within days she qualified…
The band lived together to rehearse. So did two giant snakes.While preparing the Brazilian album Fruto Proibido, Rita Lee lived in a borrowed house with her band and two…
The governor asked to see the view. By nightfall he held the fort.In 1620s Macau, Governor Francisco Mascarenhas asked Jesuits to let him into their hilltop fortress for a vie…
They made intricate lace. Some of their songs were gruesome.Lacemakers' short chants, known as lace tells, accompanied work in parts of Europe. Some English examples wer…
Tea comes with novvot. The name changes across regions.Novvot is a traditional sugar confection enjoyed in Central Asia and nearby regions; in Iran, nabat is a comm…
His pursuer sat in a café. He paid the man's coffee bill.In 1945, anti-Franco guerrilla Marcelino Massana visited a café frequented by a Civil Guard captain who had v…
Carrot recorder, pumpkin drum. They build fresh instruments for each show.The London Vegetable Orchestra plays instruments carved from produce, including courgette trumpets and auberg…
New York, 1917. The marchers were silent; drums were not.An estimated 8,000 to 15,000 African Americans marched down Fifth Avenue in 1917 to protest lynching and disc…
From sunset to sunrise on Venus: days. About 58 Earth days of them.Venus rotates slowly and in the opposite direction to Earth. At a given location, night lasts just over 58 Ea…
A villain arrived in 1975. The same voice returned in 2024.Doctor Who introduced Sutekh in the 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars. The villain returned in a 2024 two-part sto…
The new team went 8–0. Two seasons later, it was shut down.Gannon College began its football programme in 1949 and finished the first season unbeaten, shutting out six…
Its title says 2024. The video came in 2023; streaming in 2025.Playboi Carti put the video for 2024 on YouTube in December 2023. The track did not reach major streaming pla…
The station aired local youth baseball. The field was on its own grounds.In its early years, Ohio television station WLIO broadcast Little League games from a ballfield on its studio…
A megacity has wild big cats nearby. Los Angeles is one such place.Mountain lions live in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. The area is cited as one of two cases of…
A cozy game took years to make. The label began to grate on its director.Development of Wanderstop began around 2018. Director Davey Wreden joked it took so long that cozy game had b…
The FBI's acting director? A website listed the wrong man.In 2025, Brian Driscoll was expected to serve as acting deputy director. The White House website instead list…
Blocked parking space? Carl Zoll picked up the car.Former wrestler and Packers player Carl Zoll was remembered for reportedly lifting his Ford Model T out of ti…
A pilgrim's memory, pressed from wood onto skin.The Razzouk family has tattooed Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem since the 18th century. Carved olive-wood blo…
A sea cucumber walks the seabed. A young crab shelters underneath.Deep-sea Scotoplanes, nicknamed sea pigs, move on enlarged tube feet. Juvenile crabs have been observed shelt…
SZA named a song after Scorsese. A day later, he heard it.SZA released 'Scorsese Baby Daddy' on 20 December 2024. The next day, Martin Scorsese's daughter played it fo…
Auditions on weekdays. Luxury dog food on weekends.British actor Darcy Grey sold premium dog food while pursuing auditions. The company hired actors because the…
The name says Raleigh. The address says Zebulon.North Carolina's Olde Raleigh Distillery opened in 2021 in nearby Zebulon, not Raleigh itself. Moving to its…
His target was not an army. It was Poverty, made into a person.A Mughal miniature from about 1616–1618 shows Emperor Jahangir standing on a globe and shooting arrows at the…
A tiny sea slug that looks like a sheep. Its cells keep borrowed chloroplasts.Costasiella kuroshimae was discovered off Kuroshima, Okinawa. This 5–10 mm sea slug retains chloroplasts from…
Episode 8055: all women on screen, and behind it too.For International Women's Day in 2019, Australian soap Neighbours aired an episode with an all-female cast. W…
He practised tricks after an online video. Then a baseball star followed him.Shlomo Levinger began practising magic after watching a card-trick video. In 2021, baseball star Mike Trout f…
A tower ready to send signals upward. Old tunnels lay underneath.While building a Pittsburgh TV station in the 1960s, crews found abandoned mine shafts beneath planned tower…
Army transport, circus, early film. All on one camel's résumé.Topsy was among camels brought to the United States for a military transport experiment in the 1850s. After t…
The author says: I didn't write it. I translated an old manuscript.Don Quixote uses the 'found manuscript' device: Cervantes presents much of the tale as a translation from an…
Design a giant robot. Print it in 34 parts.For a 2025 Doctor Who episode, the larger robot costumes were digitally designed, divided into 34 pieces for…
From the mountain to the temple, a monkey comes to see a nun.Xing Xing, a Tibetan macaque in China's Zhejiang province, lost an arm and came under the care of a temple. S…
A developer posted a red box. The crowd turned it into a sports game.#IDARB began with a 2014 post showing a simple red box. Developer Mike Mika asked followers what to do with i…
Built in 618. Still standing through centuries of earthquakes.Armenia's Saint Hripsime Church has remained largely intact since 618. It has not suffered major earthquake d…
Even a roadside flower has an ancient paper trail.The leaves of Taraxacum mongolicum, a dandelion species, were documented in the Chinese materia medica Xinxiu…
Taylor Swift released 'Fortnight'. Americans looked up the word.'Fortnight' means two weeks. On the day Taylor Swift released a song with that title, US Google searches for…
Meet the pope at the White House? The priest clicked delete.American priest James Shea received an email inviting him to meet Pope Benedict XVI at the White House. Think…
Fifty-two warning sirens vanished. Officials suspected music competitions.In about a year up to May 2023, 52 tsunami sirens were stolen in Auckland. Emergency officials suspected link…
Kyoto's Golden Pavilion looks ancient. The present building is postwar.An arson attack destroyed Kyoto's Golden Pavilion in 1950. Reconstruction began in 1952 and was completed in…
Months after the tornado, corn appeared around town.Following the 2024 tornado in Greenfield, Iowa, maize grew in and around the town. The storm is thought to ha…
A joke about his family? They get a say first.American comedian Dustin Nickerson often jokes about parenting and marriage. He says his family members can v…
Film school, then alchemy classes. Suddenly: a medieval studies minor.While studying film at New York University, director Jeff Baena took several classes related to his interest…
This is the entire park. Five square metres of granite.Chicago's Park No. 474 consists of a 54-square-foot granite slab with a sculpture. Funding rules required the…
Herbert Hoover attended the dedication. Decades later came Trump World Tower.The United Engineering Center opened in New York in 1961, with former president Herbert Hoover attending its…
Rain enters the ground. On average, it travels eight years.Water takes an average of eight years to pass through New Zealand's Wharepapa Arthur Marble Aquifer. It suppl…
No studio. Too much outside noise. The singer went under a blanket.Filipino singer TJ Monterde recorded his 2020 song 'Puhon' in his bedroom. To reduce outside noise, he sang b…
'Maybe I'm a jinx. Send me to the other team.'American football player Tom Farris told the Packers coach that he might be a jinx because he had never playe…
Walk into his backyard. There is a museum about him.Former Jakarta governor Sutiyoso has a house in Bekasi, Indonesia. In its backyard stands the Bang Yos Museum…
The wreck was found in 2002. By 2016, only its outline remained.The Dutch cruiser De Ruyter sank in World War II and its wreck was found in 2002. A memorial expedition in 20…
Senegal and Ethiopia. Are these really the same species?Populations classified as desert musk shrews occur in Senegal and Ethiopia, far apart on opposite sides of Af…
The characters communicate by whistling. The show consulted the game's sound crew.In season two of The Last of Us, the Seraphites use a whistled language. For episode five, the television tea…
Ottawa on Friday. Winnipeg on Sunday.Canadian football player Leon Hatziioannou appeared for Ottawa on October 14, 1988. He learned the next day t…
A dogsled race. The humans sometimes run too.In Ivakkak, a dogsled race in Canada's Nunavik region, pairs of Inuit mushers travel on wide traditional sled…
Built in the 1100s. Cars crossed it until the 1960s.Armenia's stone Sanahin Bridge dates to the late 12th century. It has been restored over time and carried mot…
The ancient cone decayed. Its hollow shape survived in mud.Sequoites dakotensis was first described in 1935 from North Dakota fossils. The original cones had decayed, l…
Record a song in a rented house. Shoot the video that same day.Musicians Glaive and Ericdoa recorded 'Cloak n Dagger' in one day at a short-term rental in North Carolina in…
Two games in, he boarded a bus home. The coaches drove to the next stop.In 1995, Xavier basketball player Lenny Brown felt he did not fit in and boarded a bus to leave. University s…
'Back in two to four weeks.' The signal returned in 1994.Oregon television station KEBN went off the air in October 1992 while moving operations. A spokesperson expec…
He was expected to succeed the king. Then the king outlived him.In 12th-century Jerusalem, William of Montferrat was considered a likely successor to the ill King Baldwin IV…
Its body is unknown. Its footprints are about 20 cm across.In Alaska's Denali National Park, researchers found roughly 70-million-year-old bird tracks averaging about 2…
He watched anime on American TV. Then helped build a studio in Japan.The US technology channel TechTV aired an anime block called Anime Unleashed. Arthell Isom, later a co-founde…
He was close to giving up. Then the call came before the final game.Kicker Curtis Burrow heard from Green Bay several times during the 1988 NFL season without joining the team.…
The world's smallest state has a cycling team too.Vatican Cycling joined the Union Cycliste Internationale in 2021. It became the first Vatican sports body adm…
A coup began before dawn. The president was still in pajamas.On August 15, 1995, soldiers staged a coup in São Tomé and Príncipe. They searched the presidential palace fo…
The muscles fossilized. The limbs did not.Keurbos fossils from roughly 445-million-year-old rocks in South Africa preserve internal anatomy unusually w…
Two drum kits. Two basses. First, the producer needed lessons.Jorge Ben's 1976 Brazilian album África Brasil used an unusually large lineup, including two drum kits and tw…
The nearest bank was seven miles away. He opened one in town.Sheldon Toomer of Auburn, Alabama, grew tired of making an almost full-day round trip to a bank seven miles a…
No ticket for the bridge concert? Watch from the river.Seventeen premiered 'Thunder' on a Seoul bridge in May 2025. Seats on the bridge were allotted by lottery. So…
The main road closed. Locals built a temporary replacement.When a road near Kelston, England, closed over landslip fears in 2014, local entrepreneurs built a private to…
A sprint at the 1972 Olympics. Its image traveled on Voyager.A photograph of Motsapi Moorosi, Lesotho's first Olympian, running at the Munich Games was included on the Vo…
He thought it was This Is Us. It was The Last of Us.When actor Joe Pantoliano heard about a role in The Last of Us, he initially thought it was for This Is Us, a…
The referees were snowed in. Two players took their places.At a January 1983 NHL game in Hartford, a snowstorm kept a referee and linesman from arriving. Active players…
A fishing contest in a desert. Jesus versus the devil.A Coptic Christian homily probably composed in Egypt between the sixth and eighth centuries imagines the devi…
His fellow nationalists criticized him. His song later became their anthem.Journalist Johann Jannsen helped Estonia's 19th-century national awakening but was criticized within the move…
Sixty consonants. Eleven tones.Nizaa, spoken in northern Cameroon, is described as having 60 distinct consonant phonemes and eleven tones. I…
The title means 'chalice'. It sounds like 'shut up'.Brazilian song 'Cálice' used the similarity between the Portuguese words for 'chalice' and 'be quiet' to crit…
He first saw snow as a student. Six years later, he skied for Fiji.Rusiate Rogoyawa moved from Fiji to Norway to study electrical engineering in 1982 and saw snow for the first…
Someone posted a photo on lettuce. The store was found in 15 minutes.In 2012, a Burger King worker in the United States anonymously posted a photo of someone standing on lettuce.…
Designed in 1952. Opened in 2022.Mies van der Rohe designed a building for Indiana University in 1952, but funding ended the plan. The drawing…
Invented for a science-fiction book. Adopted in real life.Polish writer Jacek Dukaj devised gender-neutral grammatical forms for a 2004 science-fiction novel. Some non…
Build a village on a giant creature. Then choose to feed it your villagers.Swiss-developed game The Wandering Village puts a settlement on the back of a huge creature. A community vote…
His next rival was a train. He reportedly arrived eight hours ahead.After competing at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Ecuadorian distance runner Alberto Jarrín challenged a train trav…
The stadium stands were coming down. The field was still in use.Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee began removing its aging grandstand after a 1976 decision. Demolition continue…
Coins surfaced in 1846. The same field held more in 1967.Around 2,000 old coins were found in a field at Bolton Percy, England, in 1846. In 1967, schoolboys discovere…
You do not need to know the language. The clues are enough.Russian linguist Andrey Zaliznyak devised self-contained linguistic puzzles in 1963. They ask solvers to infe…
Need help? Summon an armadillo. Or an eagle. Or a chimpanzee.In the 1991 game Danan: The Jungle Fighter, collecting animal symbols lets the player summon one of three cre…
A teenage weightlifter. Ninety-eight records in a year.Zoe Smith was invited to try weightlifting while training as a gymnast. In 2008 she set British national reco…
A goat for city council? Voters unofficially chose him.Ioiô, a well-known goat in Fortaleza, Brazil, became the subject of a protest vote in a 1922 city council ele…
The rubbish was not collected. Residents piled it in the streets.In East Harlem in 1969, residents and the Young Lords protested neglected rubbish collection. After organizin…
GOAT now means the greatest. A goat once meant the one who blew it.Today sports fans use GOAT for 'greatest of all time'. Historically, lowercase goat could mean the athlete wh…
A new game's announcement date. Printed on a pizza receipt.In 2022, Activision sent influencers pizza boxes with receipts attached. A message at the bottom teased a Dec…
Run a marathon as a rhino. Then do it 112 more times.Britain's Chris Green began running in a roughly 10-kilogram rhinoceros costume named Spike to support rhino…
A Santa Claus special counts as education? One station said yes.Under 1990s US children's television rules, stations had to report educational programs. At least one station…
Pigeons in the fur coat sleeves. Customers tried them on.John Morris later described hiding pigeons in the sleeves of fur coats during a sale at a Philadelphia depart…
These beetles look much alike. Their genitals reveal the differences.A 2014 revision of the tiny Caccothryptus beetles, found across parts of Asia, reorganized seven recognized s…
The song was recorded. The borrowed music was not cleared.Frank Ocean's 2011 track 'American Wedding' used the instrumental from the Eagles' 'Hotel California'. After…
No catch for 402 days. Then an NFL team called.After being cut, Don Summers sold cars. A local paper reported that he went 402 days without catching a footb…
Did a duck say 'you bloody fool'? The recording survived for decades.Recordings of an Australian musk duck named Ripper, made in 1987, capture a door-slamming imitation and a voi…
Its score was lost at sea. The reconstruction was lost in war.Kōsaku Yamada composed Japan's first symphony in 1912. He said the score was lost in a maritime accident afte…
Drug tests at chess tournaments. The evidence came years later.The international chess federation began drug testing at events in 2001 while the effect of performance-enhan…
The club needed a band name. A TV cartoon supplied one.A Nashville country band needed a name so a club could advertise its show. Singer Michael Reynolds chose Pinm…
He wanted pasta to hold more sauce. He spent three years redesigning it.Food podcaster Dan Pashman worked with a US pasta maker from 2018 to 2021 on a new shape. The result, cascate…
'I'll coach seriously now,' said a fake post. Then the team started winning.Parody account NBACentel invented a 2024 quote claiming Milwaukee's coach would start taking coaching serious…
A hill appears in an old epic. A teacher suspected a fort beneath it.Estonian epic Kalevipoeg mentioned the hill at Iru. Teacher Artur Spreckelsen proposed that it might hold an…
Two different catfish species. One hunting group.In Botswana's Okavango Delta, Clarias ngamensis and another catfish species, C. gariepinus, have been observe…
The song won Iceland's selection. Their outfits sold out too.Icelandic duo Væb won the country's 2025 Eurovision selection. They later released Ash Wednesday costumes bas…
He sent out an irreverent photo of the president. Then came the uranium mines.Czechoslovak photographer Jindřich Marco supplied a foreign agency with an irreverent photograph of President…
A new TV station went on air. Before week one ended, it had a buyer.Kansas City's KCMO-TV began broadcasting on September 27, 1953. Before its first week ended, its company agre…
He asked for his grandfather's remains. A treaty had already promised their return.Tanganyikan chief Adam Sapi Mkwawa began seeking the return of his grandfather's skull from Germany in 1948.…
'More powerful' and hard to understand. The chip never spread widely.Rockwell announced its unusual 8-bit PPS-8 processor in 1974. Computer writer Adam Osborne described it as po…
A song caught on through TikTok. Then it topped a national chart.Filipino group Bini released 'Pantropiko' in 2023. It later spread on TikTok and reached number one on Billbo…
A college choir went on tour. Its earnings helped build a dorm.Facing financial trouble, Hampton Institute formed a touring choir in 1872 under Thomas P. Fenner. Its concer…
The minister disliked his Wikipedia page. His ministry asked for it to be deleted.In 2019, Brazil's education ministry emailed a Portuguese Wikipedia administrator seeking deletion of the edu…
A football game brought missiles onto the field.Chicago's Armed Forces Benefit Game ran from 1946 to 1970 with military ceremonies. Two Nike Ajax anti-aircra…
Archaeologists found hundreds of bells. Most were around dogs' necks.At Yinxu in China, about 350 late-Shang clapper-bells known as ling have been recovered. Most were found arou…
A portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec. He is cooking in a kitchen.Édouard Vuillard's 1898 painting shows fellow artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec cooking lobster at a country h…
She escaped occupied Hong Kong. Then kept nursing across Asia.US-born Elsie Chin nursed the wounded during the 1941 battle for Hong Kong. After the Japanese occupation, sh…
He filmed an abandoned hospital. He found a missing man's body.In 2020, Taiwanese streamer Goodnight Chicken explored an abandoned Taipei hospital and found the body of a m…
Olympic gold in boxing. Twelve years later, gold on ice.American Eddie Eagan won light-heavyweight boxing gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. At the 1932 Wi…
The world's tallest structure once belonged to a local TV station.A North Dakota station completed a transmission mast in 1963, about 590 meters high with a roughly 34-meter a…
Two brothers founded a film studio. The younger brother and his partner starred.Shanghai's Huaju Film Company was founded in 1925 by brothers Zhang Qingpu and Zhang Huimin. Many of its film…
She thought her film was gone. It resurfaced 35 years later.A 1973 short film of singer Zeinab Shaath was among cultural materials seized by Israeli forces during the 19…
A station won the ABC affiliation. Then a $50,000 bribe emerged.Ohio's WKTR-TV became a primary ABC affiliate in 1970. A scandal followed: an ABC manager had told the statio…
They planned a new federal building. Then found 419 people's remains.During excavation for a New York federal building in 1991, workers uncovered a historic African burial ground…
A big board game became a game for two. The spinoff sold twice as fast.Released in 2015, 7 Wonders Duel reworked 7 Wonders for two players. It sold one million copies in five years…
The singer was performing in Italy. 'She' was also appearing in Germany.After Haiducii's cover of 'Dragostea din tei' became popular, impersonators lip-synced at several booked appe…
Punishments did not work on her. Teachers called her a 'female tiger'.Taiwan-born scholar Jing Tsu recalled being a difficult primary-school student. Her teachers nicknamed her 'f…
Why was a fan favorite missing? 'He's too big' became the joke.Fans long wanted Metroid's Ridley in Super Smash Bros. The series director discussed how shrinking his huge b…
His 70,000-book library was sealed. He wrote in school copybooks.During China's Cultural Revolution, historian Gu Jiegang lost access to a library of more than 70,000 volumes…
Height was not enough. They made the giant ride twist.Raging Bull opened in Illinois in 1999 as the first 'hyper-twister' roller coaster. It pairs a tall, fast rid…
School was out. The brothers went to a producer's house.The Lemon Twigs reached producer Jonathan Rado after sending demos online. Still in high school, the brothers…
She began a campaign online. Then moved to Samoa to grow it.US-raised Doris Tulifau launched Brown Girl Woke online in 2014 to support women and girls and challenge dome…
Guess the bargain price. Then viewers could buy the product.The 1987 US show Bargain Hunters mixed price-guessing games with home shopping, offering merchandise to peopl…
Was the king's brother drowned in wine? The execution is real; the method is lore.George, Duke of Clarence, was convicted of treason and privately executed in London's Tower in 1478. The famo…
What if it rains on a whale-watching day? A weather policy offered an answer.Taiwanese meteorologist Peng Chi-ming is credited with drafting the country's first weather-insurance policy.…
A new episode each week. One story across the whole season.Doctor Who's thirteenth series, aired in 2021, used all six episodes for one story called Flux. It was the fi…
A band practice at age nine. The venue belonged to her teacher.British singer Erin LeCount learned music without formal lessons. Her primary-school music teacher let her an…
Play the music. Leave out the song names.In 1970s Minnesota, FM station WGGR favored a music-heavy format with little talking. News and weather were k…
To return to Chile in secret, he changed his appearance.Chilean politician Luis Corvalán was detained after the 1973 coup and freed in a 1976 prisoner exchange. In t…
Neptune on live television. The pictures took four hours to arrive.In 1989, US public television covered Voyager 2's Neptune flyby through a nine-hour overnight broadcast. Imag…
The studio was called Wixel. It meant 'weird pixel'.Lebanese game designer Reine Abbas co-founded Wixel Studios in 2008. The name shortened 'weird pixel', reflec…
He visited friends for three days. Then signed to play basketball there.American basketball player Barry Leibowitz stopped in Israel for a three-day visit with friends during a vaca…
CBS bought a television station. A golf-club membership came with it.CBS's 2011 purchase of WLNY included a membership at a golf club built by the station's former owner. A 2021…
A Japanese comic about Polish history became a publishing first in Poland.Riyoko Ikeda's Ten no Hate Made tells the story of Polish prince Józef Poniatowski. Published in Japan from 1…
They found a new cactus together. One friend's name stayed on it.American horticulturist Bob Foster and his friend Charlie Glass made 15 plant-hunting trips to Mexico between…
Cannes gave it a mixed reception. Decades later, opinion shifted.Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me drew a polarized reaction at Cannes in 1992; contemporary reports described bot…
He was hired to demolish it. After seeing it, he called city officials.A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Arizona faced demolition for redevelopment in 2012. Landscaper Alexander Malate…
Could paper towels empty a pool? It would take over a million.YouTuber Tyler Oliveira posted a 2020 video trying to absorb a swimming pool with large numbers of paper towe…
A building for sorting letters. A guard's shooting range on the roof.New York's Bronx General Post Office opened in 1937 with extensive mail-sorting facilities. Its original buil…
Its body is about 20 centimeters long. The display feathers can exceed 50.Male standard-winged nightjars in Africa grow elongated wing feathers for the breeding season. The feathers c…
Recording began in a basement. The album arrived over a decade later.Rapper Boldy James and producer Sterling Toles began recording Manger on McNichols in a Detroit basement betw…
A former soldier was injured by a car. Dance classes helped her move again.LaTasha Barnes worked in satellite communications in the US Army and later at the White House Communications…
The opera was a tragedy. His costume dropped twice.During a 1935 performance of Rigoletto at Boston Opera House, singer Ettore Verna's lower costume fell to his…
A thin silver sheet was too fragile to open. CT scans revealed its words.A third-century silver amulet found in Frankfurt in 2018 contained a rolled-up sheet. Researchers used high-r…
The sun sets, but stored heat remains. Molten salt and sand can hold it.Concentrated solar power first turns sunlight into heat. That heat can be stored in molten salts or a solid m…
How did the band describe itself? Five people with a 'tofu mentality'.Japanese band Gohobi was formed around the idea of making listeners feel at home. Early on, the members also…