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[edit]2 July 2025
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Women's 400 metres final at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
- ... that Libania Grenot was the first woman in three decades to successfully defend the European 400-metres title (final pictured)?
- ... that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing?
- ... that Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness in which a person coughs up flowers due to unrequited love, is often used in queer fan fiction to symbolize repressed desire?
- ... that Carmel Naughton, having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
- ... that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House, the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
- ... that Nicolas Cage was trained by award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker for one of his films?
- ... that a subcontractor working on the tower of a Nevada TV station recorded footage of the PEPCON disaster as it unfolded nearby?
- ... that Maude Simmons played the mother of Paul Robeson on stage and the mother of Sidney Poitier on screen?
- ... that the Japanese government responded to the rice riots of 1918, which involved up to 10 million participants, with a "candy and whip" policy?
1 July 2025
[edit]- 12:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Jean-Baptiste Belley
- ... that in 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley (pictured), a former black slave, was elected as a deputy to the French National Convention?
- ... that "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean credits all four Beatles as songwriters?
- ... that the McKenzie & Willis Store was demolished after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, but its facade was kept and restored?
- ... that Suzy Knickerbocker called James Ross Mellon one of the world's most eligible bachelors?
- ... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
- ... that Alena Veselá, at age 101, was present at the cornerstone ceremony for a new concert hall in Brno, which she had promoted for decades?
- ... that residents of the Acres hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design their houses, but eventually lost patience with him over his approach to the project?
- ... that artist Agnes Gallus fled Hungary for Canada during the 1956 revolution?
- ... that a single horsehair helped solve the murder of Nancy Titterton?
- 00:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Terrorism Confinement Center, El Salvador
- ... that the Terrorism Confinement Center (pictured) in El Salvador has a capacity of 40,000 inmates?
- ... that operatic tenor Vladyslav Gorai was a Merited Artist of Ukraine who died while on a volunteer mission during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
- ... that although abortion in Tunisia has been available for free at government clinics since 1965, it is estimated that most abortions take place at private facilities?
- ... that the Town Walls of Index, Washington, have 402 climbing routes?
- ... that Jonas I Losovičius's relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries?
- ... that a Serbian columbine species might be luring some animals with mixtures of molecular compounds?
- ... that after playing in the NFL, Eddie Garcia became a salesman who "could sell ice to a penguin"?
- ... that a scene of a man eating a crab in the music video for "Dungka!" symbolised a crab mentality among Filipinos?
- ... that Giulio Basetti-Sani began as a missionary believing Muhammad to be a "prophet of Satan" and ended believing that the Quran was a prophecy of Christ?