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Current time: 23:46, 14 April 2026 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 12 hours Last updated: 56 days ago() |
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- ... that the sound of the cimpoi (pictured), a type of pastoral bagpipe, was often mimicked by folk violins and shepherd's flutes, inspiring Béla Bartók to imitate it on the piano?
- ... that an investigation on the collision of Air Serbia Flight 324 noted that, despite the aircraft leaking fuel, it was sent to park at the terminal anyway?
- ... that mining in Greenland began in 1782 with coal extraction on Disko Island?
- ... that Jacqueline Wilson said she quickly wrote her 101st book due to previously saying that she would die after publishing her 100th novel?
- ... that a rear admiral was wounded while flying on a combat mission off the escort carrier USS Marcus IslandTemplate:-?
- ... that at the time of its construction, the MLC Building was the tallest building in Auckland?
- ... that visitors to the leisure area Piscinão de Ramos were warned not to wear red for their own safety?
- ... that the medieval Persian tale of a pact between three schoolfellows ended with a deadly clash between a ruler and a revolutionary?
- ... that during the 1944 founding congress of the Youth League of Transcarpathian Ukraine, Ivan Turyanytsia called for the formation of a people's militia invoking "an eye for an eye"?
- ... that Lim Chee Onn once worked as a roving condensed milk salesman, selling it from the back of a van, before becoming a Singaporean cabinet minister?
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