This day in history: Did you know...

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the Italian pool frog (pictured) has been introduced into the United Kingdom?
... that The Verge predicts Apple Pay will do to the mobile payments market what the iPhone did to the smartphone market?
... that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party" despite serving only one term in parliament?
... that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
... that Flemish separatists took the German occupation of Belgium during World War I as an opportunity to declare independence in 1918?
... that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
... that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?

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