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=30 June 2012=
- 16:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that St Lawrence's Church, Appleby (pictured), in Cumbria, contains the monuments of Lady Anne Clifford and her mother Margaret, Countess of Cumberland?
- ... that the Gay Women's Alternative in Washington, D.C., began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971?
- ... that baseball pitcher Tyler Thornburg has drawn comparisons to Cy Young Award-winner Tim Lincecum?
- ... that a "powerful chorus" on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount forms the core of Bach's third cantata for Leipzig, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24?
- ... that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
- ... that Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville described Casey Elliott as "a super, super kid"?
- ... that in 2001, BBC One devoted a themed night of programming to text messaging?
- 08:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
- ... that Ellen Rosenblum is the first woman ever to serve as Oregon Attorney General?
- ... that Cale Yarborough won the 1976 Gwyn Staley 400 by beating both Richard Petty and the pace car out of the pits?
- ... that Joshua Jefferis, the only male Australian artistic gymnast at the London Games, was initially passed over?
- ... that caryopilite was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt?
- ... that Hal Elliott led the National League in games played by a pitcher in 1930, appearing in 48 games for the last place Philadelphia Phillies?
- ... that eggs of the greenhouse frog are laid on land and have been found under a flower pot?
- 00:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Marie Bankhead Owen (pictured) was the aunt of actress Tallulah Bankhead and helped create the Alabama state motto?
- ... that Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories are part of what Damian Thompson describes in Counterknowledge as a "pandemic of credulous thinking"?
- ... that Indonesian songwriter Maia Estianty is descended from the National Hero Tjokroaminoto?
- ... that the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Georgetown is a former historic industrial building?
- ... that Ross Youngs is the member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame who died at the youngest age?
- ... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the Rigveda?
- ... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?
=29 June 2012=
- 16:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the Karlskrona Ropewalk (pictured) is Sweden's longest wooden building?
- ... that the mountain Piotruś in the Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint John of Dukla is said to have rested?
- ... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain unstudied?
- ... that The Twitter Republic is based on Twitter use in the website's fifth-largest market?
- ... that Emily Little and Larrissa Miller are part of the Australian women's gymnastic team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ... that pilgrims would leap off a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp, near the Chorabari Glacier?
- ... that While She Sleeps' upcoming studio album This Is the Six is titled to reflect the band's connection with their fans?
- 08:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that 2008 and 2012 Australian artistic gymnastic Olympian Ashleigh Brennan (pictured) drinks coffee before every competition?
- ... that "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" marked Katherine Heigl's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy?
- ... that as late as 1945, between 450 and 500 stallions owned by the U.S. Army Remount Service bred with over 11,000 civilian-owned mares, producing 7,293 foals?
- ... that Chrisye was so disappointed with Pantulan Cita that he took a two-year sabbatical?
- ... that the Brown Thrasher was originally nominated as the state bird of Georgia by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?
- ... that Chris Archer pitched USA Baseball's International Performance of the Year in 2010?
- ... that the nine-armed sea star can turn its stomach inside out and engulf "mouthfuls" of sediment and detritus?
- 00:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the Brown Treecreeper (pictured) spirals up and down tree trunks while foraging?
- ... that Dangote Cement{{`s}} production facility in Obajana, Nigeria, is the largest cement plant in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- ... that Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire once contained a Norman motte and an RAF Chain Home?
- ... that theatre director and TV comedy producer Olga Lipińska launched her Cabaret under Soviet-style socialism hoping to make the world a better place?
- ... that the Marinmuseum acquired some of Johan Törnström{{`s}} figureheads?
- ... that Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
- ... that pitcher Johnny Gee, sometimes known as the "$75,000 Lemon", was the tallest person ever to play Major League Baseball until Randy Johnson debuted in 1988?
=28 June 2012=
- 16:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the Himalayan Lidder Valley (pictured) lies in the Vale of Kashmir and was formed by a river that originates at the Kolhoi Glacier?
- ... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country?
- ... that the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., has served heads of state and royalty?
- ... that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a fault has moved?
- ... that the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately {{convert|30|m|abbr=off}} before emptying into the Adriatic Sea?
- ... that 2012 Australian weightlifting Olympian Seen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
- ... that the hypothallus of a slime mold is produced by the plasmodium at the beginning of its fruiting?
- 08:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy (spectrum pictured) is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins?
- ... that SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog personally selected staff for the killing centre in Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Reichsgau Wartheland and supervised its daily operation from 1941?
- ... that Tropical Storm Debby is the earliest fourth named storm in the Atlantic Basin on record?
- ... that Leavine Family Racing is headquartered in Texas but races from a shop in North Carolina?
- ... that 2012–13 will be York City's first season back in the Football League since relegation in 2004?
- ... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
- ... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?
- 00:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam (pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of steelhead trout?
- ... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team?
- ... that the venomous box jellyfish (Chiropsalmus quadrumanus) once killed a child within forty minutes of his being stung?
- ... that General Manfred von Richthofen, like the air ace who was named after him and was his great-nephew, was awarded the "Blue Max" for his service in World War I?
- ... that Christian rock band Third Day, inspired by their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, aimed to show more of their southern roots in their 2010 album Move?
- ... that the Three Dikgosi Monument is the most visited tourist destination in Gaborone, Botswana?
- ... that geologist Richard Owen died of accidental poisoning after his grocer mistook a bottle of embalming fluid for mineral water?
=27 June 2012=
- 16:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that alpine skier Kyrra Grunnsund (pictured) was the second person to represent Australia at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
- ... that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
- ... that the Scandinavian fungus Inocybe saliceticola can grow among mosses such as heart-leaved spear moss?
- ... that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?
- ... that William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
- ... that the Japanese release of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
- ... that six bankers spent more than £44,000 on wine at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?
- 08:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Nobel Prize for Physics-winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (pictured) gave a speech about how an electric light works for his Bar Mitzvah?
- ... that astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett died when their plane crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being assembled?
- ... that Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in {{nowrap|July 2011}}?
- ... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
- ... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ... that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for FOX about his experiences as a single father?
- ... that the very rare ghost orchid was once found in Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve, near Monmouth, Wales?
- 00:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that a flashing blue light, used to alert local skiers that fresh powder snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area, sits atop the Hotel Baxter (pictured) in Bozeman, Montana?
- ... that on his tenth album, Adentro, Ricardo Arjona included a song about menstruation?
- ... that Holy Cross Church, Gilling, was at one time referred to as Saint Helena's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross?
- ... that by its third volume, the mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
- ... that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was recognised as the best coach of the decade despite never winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award?
- ... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ... that in 1971, Governor Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
=26 June 2012=
- 16:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the French paddle steamer Sphinx (model pictured) participated in the transfer of the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to Paris?
- ... that Australian Kookaburra Daniel Hotchkis plays his club hockey for the Canberra Lakers in the Australian Hockey League?
- ... that a writers' strike in 2008 threatened the international fashion industry by leaving stars with nowhere to wear their red carpet gowns?
- ... that Erica Kennedy{{`s}} first novel, Bling, reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie?
- ... that the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937, also called the "Spinach Riot", resulted in one death and 50 injuries and held up a {{nowrap|$6 million}} crop?
- ... that Church Clothes by Christian rapper Lecrae was controversial because it was hosted by Don Cannon and criticized church hypocrisy?
- ... that Mark Jankowski, the Calgary Flames' first round draft pick in 2012, is the highest-ever draft pick out of a Canadian high school?
- 08:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Juliet Opie Hopkins (pictured) was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South" and was given a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery?
- ... that the open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3?
- ... that Laura Basuki washed her hair with bottled water while shooting East of the Sun?
- ... that double silver Paralympic wheelchair rugby medalist Nazim Erdem became the first person with a spinal cord injury to paraglide solo?
- ... that Satria Mandala Museum in Jakarta has life-size statues of numerous National Heroes of Indonesia?
- ... that Spanish author J. J. Benítez has published more than 50 books in his career?
- ... that Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, in British Columbia, Canada, has one of the world's highest concentrations of mountain goats?
- 00:12, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Matt Cain (pictured) threw more pitches in his perfect game than any other perfect game pitcher before him?
- ... that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions?
- ... that unlike co-star Holly Quin-Ankrah, who both sang and acted during the 2008 talent show drama Rock Rivals, Sol Heras had his character's singing voice provided by a Swedish session singer?
- ... that the GDP generated in the city of Zagreb comprises 31.4% of Croatia's GDP, exceeding that of any other county of Croatia?
- ... that While She Sleeps' debut mini-album The North Stands for Nothing was given away free with an issue of Metal Hammer magazine?
- ... that Talbiseh, a small Syrian city, has been repeatedly attacked by the Syrian Army throughout the ongoing Syrian uprising for being a major opposition stronghold?
- ... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based MathStar, a fabless semiconductor company, raised {{dollar sign|USD|lk=on}}137 million, but never made a profit before ceasing to exist?
=25 June 2012=
- 16:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that rats treated with methylazoxymethanol acetate (molecular model pictured) during gestation are an animal model of schizophrenia?
- ... that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live in a rented Anglesey farmhouse on the Bodorgan Hall estate?
- ... that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ... that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?
- ... that in June 2012, Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
- ... that Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli was a late-medieval papal singer whose only known manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870?
- ... that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario?
- 08:42, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the NOT Tower (pictured) in Kraków was nicknamed Skeletor after it had been abandoned by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations and left unfinished for 30 years?
- ... that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell, to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics?
- ... that after defeating the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty in the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi province?
- ... that upon hearing of Khalid ibn al-Walid's reputation in battle, the Roman-led Arab Christian garrison of Arak peacefully surrendered their fort to his army?
- ... that Luciano Ercoli's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro?
- ... that the term New Labour was coined by Tony Blair at the {{nowrap|October 1994}} Labour Party conference, following his election as leader of the Labour Party earlier that year?
- ... that cartoonist Jovan Prokopljević sells chess-themed prints of "gnomish" players at chess tournaments?
- 00:57, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that pale spear-nosed bats (pictured) have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human primates?
- ... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
- ... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
- ... that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
- ... that the Saint Thomas Christian music of India may preserve elements of the earliest Christian music due to the Saint Thomas Christian community's isolation and resistance to outside influence?
- ... that German dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
- ... that the title of the Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?
=24 June 2012=
- 17:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats (pictured) were designed to confuse observers in U-boats with their dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
- ... that over five hundred Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in Hokkaidō?
- ... that Bach's chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, for St. John's Day, is based on Luther's hymn about the baptism of Jesus?
- ... that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ... that Adaptiv can hide a tank from thermal imaging systems, or make it look like a car?
- ... that Kyle Larson won the first stock car race he ever competed in?
- ... that the slime mold Willkommlangea reticulata is the only species of its genus?
- 09:27, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that a network of beacons in Okinawa (pictured on Taketomi) helped enforce the Tokugawa policy of "national seclusion"?
- ... that NAAFI Canteen Manager John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War?
- ... that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal?
- ... that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
- ... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?
- ... that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, now part of BNP Paribas, was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?
- ... that National Hero of Indonesia Nuku Muhammad Amiruddin had a British ship aid him in attacking the Dutch?
- 01:42, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Barry Stuppler (pictured) submitted a $50 million bid for the Berlin Wall and helped create the California State Quarter in 2003?
- ... that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single "Black Heart"?
- ... that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games?
- ... that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth, Wales, has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?
- ... that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate?
- ... that professional wrestler Ric Converse, a victim of childhood bullying, was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?
- ... that the German Sonne radio navigation system proved so useful to the British during WWII that they provided spare parts to keep them running?
=23 June 2012=
- 17:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that R. L. Holdsworth (pictured) reached the summit of Kamet, the highest mountain climbed at the time?
- ... that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida?
- ... that in the music video for her single "Me Haces Falta" (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?
- ... that 1972's Sette scialli di seta gialla was one of several "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo?
- ... that Book of Spells, an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter?
- ... that composer Włodzimierz Korcz received most recognition for the music to a protest song, which was adopted as an informal anthem of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland?
- ... that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone, Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
- 10:12, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that the freshwater crab Guinotia dentata (pictured) prefers shady rivers to sunny ones?
- ... that Major League Baseball pitcher Bob Glenn later became a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering from the 1920s through the 1950s?
- ... that the Yawata Steel Works were identified as the target for the bomb that fell on Nagasaki?
- ... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government?
- ... that The Chimneys{{`}} roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?
- ... that Third Eye Blind's discography includes an album that sold six million copies?
- ... that ARCA driver Darrell Basham{{`s}} race shop was demolished by a tornado in March 2012?
- 02:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Byzantine style frescos from 1380 in the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, were destroyed during World War II and finally restored in the 1960s (example pictured)?
- ... that Moose McCormick was considered the first great pinch hitter in Major League Baseball history?
- ... that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser {{HMS|New Zealand|1911|6}} wore for good luck in battle?
- ... that audience laughter during a scene in the Cheers episode "Coach's Daughter" between Coach and his daughter Lisa was muted out in the final cut?
- ... that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger?
- ... that Third Eye Blind's song "Blinded" is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?
- ... that the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor was likely to have been inspired by chair carved with a mermaid at St Senara's Church in Zennor?