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...that in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine
HMS Olympus hit a mine off
Malta?
...that the last territorial expansion of
Bratislava, the capital of
Slovakia, took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs?
...that Takemoto Gidayū's contributions to the form of bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre) were so influential that all chanters (narrators) in bunraku are now called gidayū?
...that David Nash, the managing director of Nash Timbers, single-handedly stopped the
Australian Government's practice of burning down old railway bridges, thus saving timber up to 400 years old?
...that
German explorers mounted many expeditions in the early 20th century to the Ramu river in
German New Guinea in the hope of finding gold and also
gutta-percha trees?
...that HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for
illegal fishing when she seized the British
trawlerLord Roberts in 1911?
...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus(
pictured) were so popular with the people of
San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret
WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the
Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
...that Huynh Phu So, the founder of the
Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a
mental asylum by the French colonial forces?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
...that in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine
HMS Olympus hit a mine off
Malta?
...that the last territorial expansion of
Bratislava, the capital of
Slovakia, took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs?
...that Takemoto Gidayū's contributions to the form of bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre) were so influential that all chanters (narrators) in bunraku are now called gidayū?
...that David Nash, the managing director of Nash Timbers, single-handedly stopped the
Australian Government's practice of burning down old railway bridges, thus saving timber up to 400 years old?
...that
German explorers mounted many expeditions in the early 20th century to the Ramu river in
German New Guinea in the hope of finding gold and also
gutta-percha trees?
...that HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for
illegal fishing when she seized the British
trawlerLord Roberts in 1911?
...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus(
pictured) were so popular with the people of
San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret
WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the
Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
...that Huynh Phu So, the founder of the
Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a
mental asylum by the French colonial forces?