1 April 2010

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* 18:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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* ... that Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, Yorkshire, boasts a wife-soothing cradle (pictured)?
* ... that Bertie Ahern speaks Bertiespeak?
* ... that humpbacked elves are rarely seen because their bodies are microscopic?
* ... that Lindbergh raced an airplane from Washington to New York in under three hours, without ever leaving the ground?
* ... that Robert Louis Stevenson took a pew from South Leith Parish Church?
* ... that Elvis is still alive and teaching soccer at Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School?
* ... that the first Territorial Governor of Montana, Sidney Edgerton, fought as a Squirrel Hunter during the American Civil War?
* ... that T. rex survives underground in Kenya?
* ... that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than The Beatles?

* 12:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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* ... that the materials used in the production of a Škoda Fabia car (pictured) in 2007 included margarine and orange sugar paste?
* ... that Tom Cruse was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantly charging hostile Indians?
* ... that the cod Yorkshire dialect, one on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle, in Monty Python's "Trouble at Mill" sketch actually means something?
* ... that Guinness Black Lager is a new black lager which is being test marketed in Malaysia by Diageo for sale in the west under its Guinness brand name?
* ... that the yellow morel was once a Phallus?
* ... that Leonid Malashkin was the true composer of Kodály's "Buttocks-Pressing Song"?
* ... that in October 1968, Dumbo was arrested in Las Palmas, Spain?
* ... that Wikipedia covers the whole shebang?
* ... that Perth, Western Australia, got rid of ugly men in 1948?

* 06:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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* ... that Ruth Belville (pictured) and her parents had a business selling people Greenwich Mean Time?
* ... that the Prada Store in Marfa, Texas, is never open?
* ... that Professor Dirk Obbink is an expert on material from garbage heaps and charred remains?
* ... that the Ilkley Museum in Yorkshire, England, is a notable habitat for Brunus edwardii?
* ... that the American television show Glee was written with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies?
* ... that Frank Hansford-Miller, founder of the English National Party, emigrated to Australia?
* ... that "Everything in Sussex is a She except a Tom Cat and she's a He"?
* ... that buttock mail was a form of punishment for fornication, an alternative to the stool of repentance?
* ... that William Shakespeare was nicknamed "The Merchant of Menace"?

* 00:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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* ... that Tamil Hindu parents dedicate their one-month-old children to the goddess Periyachi (pictured), who is depicted ripping a woman's womb?
* ... that the diamond mine in Pomona, German South-West Africa, was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?
* ... that Pope John Paul II traveled more than all his predecessors combined?
* ... that the world's northernmost grove of Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?
* ... that Duke Dunne, an Olympic pentathlete and Michigan football captain, later presided over the sale of the Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck and the Kansas City Athletics to Charlie Finley?
* ... that Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, Ohio, was designated a historic site after its destruction?
* ... that between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass, who had proselytized in Siberia, published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian?
* ... that the Hungarian Railway Museum exhibits an automobile that belonged to Prime Minister Jenő Fock but that was later converted to travel on rails?
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