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Current time: 18:49, 13 October 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 18 hours ago() |
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- ... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)?
- ... that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
- ... that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
- ... that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
- ... that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
- ... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
- ... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
- ... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
- ... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?