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 Biodiversity Action Plans are a primary tool of 189 nations to conserve
threatenedspecies, but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?
...that Mixmath is a
Canadianboard game similar to
Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
...that according to Externism, a pseudophilosophy proposed by the famous fictitious
Czech genius
Jára Cimrman, in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?
...that the language of the
Guatemalanethnic group of
Maya called Itza, who once ruled over
Chichen Itza, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them?
...that
American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly
engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
...that Baron Karl von Reichenbach, the prolific German chemist who discovered
paraffin,
creosote and
phenol, proposed the existence of a
quack physical energy, the
Odic force, that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?
...that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to
President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking
Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?
...that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?
02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the choice of location for
Florida's capital,
Tallahassee, was influenced by a waterfall in what is now Cascades Park(pictured)?
...that structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?
...that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of
Kullu,
Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?
...that Bonin Petrels (pictured) nesting on
Midway Atoll declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?
...that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in
Shanghai before she became famous for her
wallpaper designs?
...that Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the
Renaissance book
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
...that Hitler's Cross was a
Hitler-themed restaurant in
Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
... that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on
brass tables called "nails" (pictured), which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
...that one factor in the 1995 assassination of
Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
...that a
fielder in
cricket may only alter the
ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
...that the
gravestone of executed
murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the
State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
...that in the papal
Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the
fish market, in Sant'Angelo?
...that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
...that the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000
Nike shoes into the
Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
...that during the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?
...that Valéry Inkijinoff, a French actor of
Russian-
Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?
...that Maria Kazimiera, the 17th-century Queen of Poland, became famous for the love letters she and her husband, King
Jan III Sobieski, wrote to each other?
...that ski treks were popular with
Lev Landau, while
Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye?
...that the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land
conservation groups in the
United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the
Poconos?
...that when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in
1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a
targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
...that the Kamenny Monastery (pictured), the oldest in the north of
Russia, was destroyed in
1937 in order to help with the construction of a local
palace of culture?
...that
Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic
Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in
Europe?
...that a
noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in
Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated
golfer, but was removed because of perceived
racist undertones?
...that Bénilde Romançon's superiors at the
Christian Brothers' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?
...that Shangwen Fang received a fine for
cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?
...that the
Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?
...that the sting of the
rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?
...that The Daily Talk, the most widely read news medium in the
Liberian capital of
Monrovia, is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?
...that civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in
Manila during
World War II, believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?
6 August 2006
23:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the Potemkin Stairs (pictured) located in
Odessa, Ukraine create an
optical illusion, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
...that Flying University was the secret educational
conspiratorial enterprise that existed in
Warsaw,
Poland, in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
...that Monica Coghlan, at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord
Jeffrey Archer, was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of
perjury and vindicate her?
5 August 2006
17:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the era of the oil gusher (pictured) came to an end with the development of the first
blowout preventer in 1924?
...that the Canaanites are a movement in
Hebrew culture that seeks to recover its rootedness in ancient
Canaanite civilization?
...that in the
otaku culture, it is common to see trains, computer operating systems, warplanes, and even home appliances anthropomorphized as girls (pictured)?
...that overacting can be intentional for some roles, particularly when exaggerating the
evil characteristics of a
villain, but is often the subject of
parody and
satire?
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 Biodiversity Action Plans are a primary tool of 189 nations to conserve
threatenedspecies, but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?
...that Mixmath is a
Canadianboard game similar to
Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
...that according to Externism, a pseudophilosophy proposed by the famous fictitious
Czech genius
Jára Cimrman, in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?
...that the language of the
Guatemalanethnic group of
Maya called Itza, who once ruled over
Chichen Itza, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them?
...that
American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly
engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
...that Baron Karl von Reichenbach, the prolific German chemist who discovered
paraffin,
creosote and
phenol, proposed the existence of a
quack physical energy, the
Odic force, that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?
...that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to
President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking
Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?
...that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?
02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the choice of location for
Florida's capital,
Tallahassee, was influenced by a waterfall in what is now Cascades Park(pictured)?
...that structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?
...that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of
Kullu,
Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?
...that Bonin Petrels (pictured) nesting on
Midway Atoll declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?
...that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in
Shanghai before she became famous for her
wallpaper designs?
...that Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the
Renaissance book
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
...that Hitler's Cross was a
Hitler-themed restaurant in
Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
... that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on
brass tables called "nails" (pictured), which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
...that one factor in the 1995 assassination of
Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
...that a
fielder in
cricket may only alter the
ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
...that the
gravestone of executed
murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the
State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
...that in the papal
Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the
fish market, in Sant'Angelo?
...that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
...that the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000
Nike shoes into the
Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
...that during the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?
...that Valéry Inkijinoff, a French actor of
Russian-
Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?
...that Maria Kazimiera, the 17th-century Queen of Poland, became famous for the love letters she and her husband, King
Jan III Sobieski, wrote to each other?
...that ski treks were popular with
Lev Landau, while
Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye?
...that the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land
conservation groups in the
United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the
Poconos?
...that when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in
1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a
targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
...that the Kamenny Monastery (pictured), the oldest in the north of
Russia, was destroyed in
1937 in order to help with the construction of a local
palace of culture?
...that
Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic
Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in
Europe?
...that a
noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in
Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated
golfer, but was removed because of perceived
racist undertones?
...that Bénilde Romançon's superiors at the
Christian Brothers' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?
...that Shangwen Fang received a fine for
cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?
...that the
Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?
...that the sting of the
rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?
...that The Daily Talk, the most widely read news medium in the
Liberian capital of
Monrovia, is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?
...that civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in
Manila during
World War II, believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?
6 August 2006
23:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the Potemkin Stairs (pictured) located in
Odessa, Ukraine create an
optical illusion, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
...that Flying University was the secret educational
conspiratorial enterprise that existed in
Warsaw,
Poland, in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
...that Monica Coghlan, at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord
Jeffrey Archer, was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of
perjury and vindicate her?
5 August 2006
17:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
...that the era of the oil gusher (pictured) came to an end with the development of the first
blowout preventer in 1924?
...that the Canaanites are a movement in
Hebrew culture that seeks to recover its rootedness in ancient
Canaanite civilization?
...that in the
otaku culture, it is common to see trains, computer operating systems, warplanes, and even home appliances anthropomorphized as girls (pictured)?
...that overacting can be intentional for some roles, particularly when exaggerating the
evil characteristics of a
villain, but is often the subject of
parody and
satire?