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Current time: 02:13, 9 August 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 2 hours ago() |
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- ... that Hannibal von Degenfeld (pictured) played the leading role in establishing the Bavarian Army in 1682, before leading it to the Battle of Vienna a year later?
- ... that a reviewer did not expect a documentary on assisted suicide to be so funny?
- ... that while Sunny Choi and Logan Edra represent their country at the Olympics in breakdancing, Afghan breakdancer Manizha Talash competes as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team?
- ... that the 2025 Philippine general election is set to be the first to be held under a new voting system provider after the previous one was disqualified over bribery allegations?
- ... that the Piano Quintet by Dmitri Shostakovich has been called "the most expensive piece of chamber music ever composed"?
- ... that workers building Mercy Gilbert Medical Center plowed over alfalfa fields and chased off sheep during construction?
- ... that the discovery of a coffin belonging to Ahhotep I, which had been reused to bury a high priest, ignited a debate among scholars over the true number of Egyptian queens named Ahhotep?
- ... that Washington's participation in the 2024 Sugar Bowl marked the first appearance of any Pac-12 Conference team in the Sugar Bowl?
- ... that British physician John H. Bryant gave the first description of a blue scrotum caused by a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm?