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
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...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
...that Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three
Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried
Montreal Canadiens games?
...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring
Led Zeppelin, crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
...that the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magicaanime were shown in a
nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
...that although Horse-eye jack (Carnax latus) generally fear
scuba divers,
schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the
Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the
Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into
New York City from the south or west?
...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in
Freetown,
Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
...that Yve Lavigueur, who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest
lotteryjackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
...that Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of
Yukos oil company?
...that a legend says that when
Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan, he was struck blind the next morning and his
hunting dogs went mad?
...that in attempting to stop
U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head, two
Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
...that Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York to jump 4.7% because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
...that Elise Primavera, author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus, says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
...that the Taiwan Cypress(Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the
Hinoki cypress(C. obtusa) in the Occident?
...that LPI Media is the largest publisher of
gay and
lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
...that scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of
neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive
intonation?
...that the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former
U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?
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 only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
...that Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three
Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried
Montreal Canadiens games?
...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring
Led Zeppelin, crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
...that the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magicaanime were shown in a
nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
...that although Horse-eye jack (Carnax latus) generally fear
scuba divers,
schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the
Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the
Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into
New York City from the south or west?
...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in
Freetown,
Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
...that Yve Lavigueur, who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest
lotteryjackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
...that Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of
Yukos oil company?
...that a legend says that when
Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan, he was struck blind the next morning and his
hunting dogs went mad?
...that in attempting to stop
U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head, two
Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
...that Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York to jump 4.7% because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
...that Elise Primavera, author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus, says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
...that the Taiwan Cypress(Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the
Hinoki cypress(C. obtusa) in the Occident?
...that LPI Media is the largest publisher of
gay and
lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
...that scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of
neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive
intonation?
...that the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former
U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?