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5 February 2025
- 00:00, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
Engraving of the columns, c. 1716
- ... that the top of the Julier Pass, 2,284 metres (7,493 ft) above sea level, is flanked by two ancient Roman columns (pictured)?
- ... that executive John Spytek helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign Tom Brady, more than 20 years after Spytek played with him?
- ... that a Florida TV station's decision to fire one of its main newscasters led to picketing?
- ... that the wuxia star Wu Suxin passed as a man in several of her films?
- ... that the pilot episode for a BBC series on a suicide prevention charity made some critics laugh?
- ... that Syrian vlogger Hayla Ghazal used online humour to explore the limitations placed on women in the Arab world?
- ... that the Polish subgenre of speculative fiction known as klerykal fiction emerged in the 1990s as a response to societal fears of church influence in politics?
- ... that the bugia, a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic bishops, is named after the Algerian city of Béjaïa, which was a source of candle wax?
- ... that Brooklyn's Roll-A-Palace has been called "the front-runner of the roller-disco craze"?
4 February 2025
- 00:00, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
An African Song or Chant from Barbados
- ... that An African Song or Chant from Barbados (manuscript pictured) was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register by someone who saw it in an online exhibition?
- ... that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure?
- ... that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner's death?
- ... that A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets (1873), following the cancellation of a planned second edition, was not reprinted until 2018?
- ... that Harold Harrington did not seek out new species, but was the first to collect a plant that was later named after him?
- ... that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy, and then again in a 2025 film?
- ... that a Bronze Age priestess named Eritha was the focus of the first recorded legal dispute in Europe?
- ... that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza?
- ... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?
3 February 2025
- 00:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Rose barnacles in Royal National Park
- ... that the rose barnacle (examples pictured) eats only when the current is strong?
- ... that Doris Tulifau, after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person?
- ... that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game?
- ... that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career?
- ... that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion hall, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building?
- ... that Ernesius, a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea, was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt?
- ... that Olde Raleigh Distillery is not located within its namesake city?
- ... that archaeologists found evidence at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC?
- ... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?
2 February 2025
- 00:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Li Minghui
- ... that Li Minghui (pictured) faced accusations of lewdness at the age of 12 after challenging Chinese stage conventions?
- ... that the Chauburji might have been the Mughal emperor Babur's original burial place?
- ... that the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle changed its name to just Chronicle two decades after its launch, to avoid being confused with the San Francisco Chronicle?
- ... that football manager Darren Moore led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion even after they lost the first leg of their play-off semi-final 4–0?
- ... that some locals have criticised the flag of Kagoshima Prefecture, which is supposed to depict the prefecture's topography but omits its outlying islands?
- ... that Richard Davis made the earliest known continuous land-based weather recordings in New Zealand?
- ... that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar?
- ... that the first minister of the Hopewell Baptist Church is presumed to be buried under the building?
- ... that a 2001 book shares the history of a small Tudor community through a 54-year-long "running commentary" by "a somewhat unamiable busybody"?
1 February 2025
- 00:00, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Lilium nobilissimum
- ... that the common Japanese name of Lilium nobilissimum (pictured) may refer to the sleeves used to carry it from the cliffs on which it grows?
- ... that the parked vehicle of one candidate in a 2024 Mexico City borough election was shot five times to "give her a scare"?
- ... that "The Man in the Yellow Tie", an episode of The Flash, concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series?
- ... that college football player Chad Brinker continued his career after undergoing brain surgery and eventually signed into the NFL?
- ... that Their Highest Potential shows the positive side of segregated schools, as written by a student who was taught in one?
- ... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse?
- ... that an Iowa TV station, in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
- ... that Henry A. Henry brought an extensive library of Jewish literature when he emigrated to the United States in 1849?
- ... that King Philip refused to give up Champagne?