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Current time: 21:35, 9 December 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 21 hours ago() |
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- ... that Lizzie Esau (pictured) covered a 1955 song for a 2024 series about a 1553 queen?
- ... that a Syrian filmmaker repurposed footage from his first film in his last film in order to criticize his younger self?
- ... that Celeste Caeiro's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution?
- ... that Operation Blooming Onion uncovered instances of "modern-day slavery" amongst H-2A visa workers in the state of Georgia?
- ... that L'Attaque, the board game that became Stratego, was patented in 1908 by its designer, a 57-year-old woman?
- ... that the Australian Light Weight Air Warning Radar was once loaded using canoes and later manhandled up a 200-foot cliff?
- ... that Thomas Sewell said that in 2017 he attempted to recruit Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, into the Lads Society?
- ... that while supporting a law easing restrictions on abortion in Gabon, Prime Minister Rose Christiane Raponda said "it is not yet the right time"?
- ... that "the world's loneliest duck" arrived on the remote Pacific island country of Niue in 2018?