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Current time: 19:46, 30 November 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 19 hours ago() |
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- ... that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (pictured) has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
- ... that following its deconsecration, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
- ... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
- ... that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
- ... that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
- ... that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
- ... that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
- ... that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
- ... that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?