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... that
pro wrestlerGregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with
Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by
Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that the
namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
... that
Winston Churchill(pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
... that according to
Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in
funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained
tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
... that the
tides at Kachemak Bay,
Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same
colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
... that mazzatello—a method of
execution employed in the
Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a
mallet into the head of the condemned?
... that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public
policy?
... that the sinking of the year-old
Americancargo shipSS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of
raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
... that American physician John Ziegler pioneered
anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy
athletes are putting themselves in the same category as
drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
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
pro wrestlerGregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with
Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by
Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that the
namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
... that
Winston Churchill(pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
... that according to
Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in
funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained
tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
... that the
tides at Kachemak Bay,
Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same
colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
... that mazzatello—a method of
execution employed in the
Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a
mallet into the head of the condemned?
... that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public
policy?
... that the sinking of the year-old
Americancargo shipSS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of
raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
... that American physician John Ziegler pioneered
anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy
athletes are putting themselves in the same category as
drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"