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1 August 2024
- 00:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- ... that China launched a military exercise in response to the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as president of Taiwan (pictured)?
- ... that although Luxembourg has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times, none of the winning artists representing the country have been native Luxembourgers?
- ... that basketball player Dylan Travis played for nine head coaches in nine years?
- ... that The Chinese in America documents how people in California, during the gold rush era, mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
- ... that a member of the House of Lords was the principal of a Canadian junior school?
- ... that despite being invented in the 2000s, Frutiger Aero was not named until 2017?
- ... that Roscoe "Red" Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
- ... that Cameroonian-born Joel Embiid opted to play for the 2024 U.S. Olympic basketball team instead of France in part because his son is American?
- ... that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism?