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Current time: 06:43, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 6 hours ago() |
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- ... that Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (pictured) believed that hanging colored lights across San Salvador would cure a smallpox epidemic?
- ... that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
- ... that a German pastor let a deposed East German head of state stay in his house?
- ... that the 2024 American remake of Have I Got News for You has a permanent host, something that the original show dispensed with in 2002?
- ... that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
- ... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
- ... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
- ... that North Korean series The Taehongdang Party Secretary was created to help promote the consumption of potatoes during a rice shortage?
- ... that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?