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2 February 2025
- 00:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
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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)
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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?