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A bulldog named Tillman became famous for being able to ride a skateboard by pushing off the ground with his paw. 🐶🛹 Animal FACTopia! is out in May 2023. Find out more about

@BritannicaBooks

Page spread from Animal FACTopia! featuring a cartoon of a dog riding a skateboard

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Aug 19

This portrait of a jumping spider was taken using a camera lens that is similar to one in a microscope.🔍📸 The slide has been magnified to around 40x its real size. Learn more magnificent facts in LISTIFIED! books.britannica.com/gb/bookshop-2/ #WorldPhotoDay #Listified

Page spread from the book LISTIFIED! featuring a jumping spider image.

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Aug 19

French fashion designer Coco Chanel—who, with her elegantly casual creations, ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades—was born #OnThisDay in 1883. 📷Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Aug 17

#OneGoodFact During World War II, sales of sliced bread were banned to conserve steel used in industrial slicing machines. The ban proved so unpopular that it was lifted after two months. ow.ly/QTpU50Kmh9v 📷© Bruno Monico/stock.adobe.com

Bread baked and cooked in a traditional oven

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Aug 16

#OneGoodFact Two Oregon settlers flipped a coin to decide whose hometown would be used to name their village. Had the man from Portland, Maine, not won, Oregon’s biggest city would now be named Boston. ow.ly/z2Mh50Kl79T 📷© Bruce Block—iStock/Getty Images

Photo of Portland, OR skyline and Mount Hood, Oregon.

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After some 10 years of work, the Panama Canal opened to ships #OnThisDay in 1914. Photo is of the construction of the Panama Canal, looking through locks before gates were placed, c1912. 📷F.R. Roberson/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. cph 3c17339)

Black and white photo of construction of the Panama Canal. Looking through locks before gates were placed, c1912.

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Aug 14

Originally started in 1248, construction of the cathedral (Kölner Dom) in Cologne, Germany—the largest Gothic church in northern Europe and the city's major landmark—was finally completed #OnThisDay in 1880. 📷© Westend61/Getty Images

Photo of a large passenger boat passes Cologne Cathedral situated on the shores of the River Rhine, Germany.

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Aug 13

American cooking expert Julia Child—who brought the art of French cooking to a vast number of Americans through her books and her programs on public television, where she became known for her humour and hearty voice—died #OnThisDay in 2004 at age 91. 📷© AP/REX/Shutterstock.com

Black and white photo of Chef Julia Child displays a salade nicoise she prepared in the kitchen of her vacation home in Grasse, southern France. August, 1978

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#OneGoodFact Sea otters are social animals that float on their backs in groups called “rafts” to rest. Sometimes these groups exceed 1,000 otters. ow.ly/Wi4550KiJSA 📷USFWS

Photo of a Southern Sea otter also called California sea otter floating on its back on the coast of central California, January 27, 2010.

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At age 11,

@StevieWonder

started recording and performing music professionally, as 'Little Stevie Wonder'.🎹🎶 Read about more remarkable feats that have been achieved by children in Listified! ow.ly/XAE250Kie4t #YouthDay #Listified

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#OnThisDay in 1877, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison made perhaps his most original discovery, the phonograph, and his early recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus. 📷Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Black and white photo of Thomas Edison listening to a phonograph.

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Aug 11

The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, had its U.S. premiere in New York City #OnThisDay in 1964; released during the height of Beatlemania, it's now widely considered a classic. Photo from the premier of "A Hard Day's Night" in Liverpool. 📷Mirrorpix/Newscom

Black and white photo from the premier of "A Hard Day's Night", crowds gather to catch sight of The Beatles before the Northern premier starts in Liverpool. 10th July 1964.

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Aug 11

#OneGoodFact There are 34,000 different species of fish. That’s more than all the other vertebrates (amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals) combined. ow.ly/7Jzu50KhPq1 📷© Corbis

Photo underwater of coral, sponges and a school of fish.

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Aug 10

#OneGoodFact The loudest documented sound on Earth was the 1883 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. It could be heard across 10 percent of Earth’s surface. ow.ly/RoSL50KgQU9 📷Public domain

Color lithograph of the eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano, Indonesia, 1883; from the Royal Society, The Eruption of Krakatoa and Subsequent Phenomena (1888).

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Aug 10

The

@MuseeLouvre

opened in Paris #OnThisDay in 1793, and it later became the most-visited museum in the world. 📷© irisphoto1/Shutterstock.com

Louvre Museum, Paris, with pyramid designed by I.M. Pei.

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Aug 9

#OneGoodFact Like human fingerprints, gorilla noses have unique formations and wrinkles that scientists use to keep track of the different gorillas. ow.ly/Si2e50KfSv2 📷© Miranda van der Froft/Shutterstock.com

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Aug 8

Faced with the near-certain prospect of impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation #OnThisDay in 1974 and was succeeded by Gerald Ford the following day. 📷Oliver F. Atkins—White House Photo

Richard M. Nixon. Watergate scandal. Candid photo of President Richard Nixon at his desk on the telephone in the oval office taken during filming a film for the GOP convention, June 23, 1972. 1972 campaign

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Did you know, cats have whiskers on the back of their front legs? 🐈🐱 Animal FACTopia! is coming out in May 2023! Find out more about

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Spread of illustrated and photographed cats including facts from Animal FACTopia!

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Aug 7

The first of the murders committed by Jack the Ripper took place in London's East End #OnThisDay in 1888. 📷Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Engraving showing "Jack The Ripper," the east end murderer of prostitutes in the 19th century, being caught red-handed, grasping one of his victims by the hair and holding a knife, from Illustrated Police News, 1889. (Whitechapel murders)

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Aug 6

#OnThisDay in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan—the blast killed more than 70,000 people and destroyed most of the city—in an effort to hasten the end of WWII. 📷U.S. Air Force

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the take-off, August 6, 1945.

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Aug 5

#OneGoodFact As revealed by DNA analysis, the closest living relative to the whale is the hippopotamus. ow.ly/57uW50KcTl5 📷© Digital Vision/Getty Images

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Aug 5

Thai businesswoman and politician Yingluck Shinawatra was elected prime minister of Thailand, #OnThisDay in 2011, becoming the first woman to hold that post. 📷Facundo Arrizabalaga—WPA/Getty Images

Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand Prime Minister Said to greet to the athletes at Thai government house on June 12, 2013 in Bangkok,Thailand

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Aug 4

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Close up photo of hands pulling a tablet out of a light blue backpack. The tablet is displaying the Britannica Kids website. Text: Britannica Kids

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Aug 3

#OneGoodFact The first-ever webcam was set up to monitor a pot of coffee so scientists wouldn’t have to go check if it was empty. ow.ly/pS8J50KaWXk © Svetlana Lukienko/Shutterstock.com

Roasted coffee beans, grinded and instant coffee in paper bags.

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Aug 3

#OnThisDay in 1958 the U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus passed beneath the thick ice cap of the North Pole, an unprecedented feat. 📷U.S. Navy photograph

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Aug 2

#OneGoodFact A ten-gallon hat holds only about ¾ gallon. The name is thought to come from the Spanish tan galán, meaning “very gallant,” or galón, “braid.” britannica.com/one-good-fact/

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Aug 2

#OnThisDay in 1992 at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon, becoming the first person to win the event in consecutive Games. 📷Steven E. Sutton/Duomo

Jackie Joyner-Kersee throwing the javelin during the heptathlon at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

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Jul 28

Using the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand as a pretext to present Serbia with an unacceptable ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Slavic country #OnThisDay in 1914, sparking World War I. 📷Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Black and white photo of a British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914-18.

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Jul 27

#OneGoodFact More people have walked on the Moon (12) than have been born in Antarctica (11). ow.ly/sBBZ50K5ObI 📷Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Jul 25

Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India #OnThisDay in 2007, becoming the first woman to hold the office. 📷Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs/U.S. Department of State

Pratibha Patil (Pratibha Devisingh Patil). The 12th and current President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office.

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Jul 24

Happy birthday

@JLo

! American actress & singer Jennifer Lopez—who is one of the highest-paid Latina actresses in the history of Hollywood & later found crossover success in the music industry—was born #OnThisDay in 1969. 📷© Paul Smith/Featureflash/Shutterstock.com

Jennifer Lopez at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. March 7, 2010 Los Angeles, CA

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Jul 23

With the launch of NASA's orbiter Columbia, U.S. astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission #OnThisDay in 1999. 📷NASA

Official portrait of Eileen Collins, mission commander on STS-114.

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Jul 22

American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world #OnThisDay in 1933; he covered 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. 📷Underwood & Underwood/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-87208)

Wiley Post. American pilot Wiley Post after his first around the world flight (June 23-July 1, 1931) with Harold Gatty in Winnie Mae a Lockheed Vega monoplane. Photo: July 6, 1931

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Jul 21

The world's lowest recorded temperature, −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), was measured at Vostok Station, Antarctica #OnThisDay in 1983. 📷© David Merron Photography—Moment/Getty Images

Tourists on a boat float past icebergs in Antarctica.

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Jul 20

#OneGoodFact Neptune has winds that blow faster than the speed of sound, with gusts reaching 1,500 mph. ow.ly/F3u850K04GK 📷NASA/JPL

Full-disk color image of Neptune, from Voyager 2. This picture was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera.

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Jul 20

At Chicago's Soldier Field, the first

@specialolyUSA

began #OnThisDay in 1968, and some 1,000 athletes—all of whom had intellectual disabilities—participated. 📷© Tokarsky/Dreamstime.com

Runners competing at 800 m during the Special Olympics European Summer Games in Warsaw. Photo taken on: September 20, 2010 in Warsaw, Poland

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