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Current time: 15:51, 8 August 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 15 hours ago() |
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- ... that residents reported the first cycling club in Washington, D.C. (uniform pictured), to the police over concerns that bicycles posed a danger to pedestrians?
- ... that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Emmanuella Atora described her career as "I hit people for a living"?
- ... that an American citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government of Cambodia?
- ... that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms?
- ... that eight cardboard white elephants were put up as a form of public protest to lobby for the opening of Buangkok MRT station in Singapore?
- ... that "Lucki" Allen's prediction of the Tet Offensive was ignored, but she was later inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame?
- ... that the idea for Clustertruck came from a developer wanting to escape traffic?
- ... that American Olympic rugby player Sarah Levy is the great-granddaughter of a Springbok?
- ... that David Tennant filmed a Doctor Who mini-episode on his birthday?