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... that near the Poplar River, a
locomotive, briefly used for
logging, lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
00:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
... that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in
Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement(pictured) was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"?
... that although St Cynfarwy was active in
Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him(pictured) cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding?
... that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed
CEO was reported?
... that during the
Second World War, what became the Battle of Britain House in
Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
... that research on
split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
... that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?
... that a lake (pictured) in the Langwieder lake district originated as a pit from which more than 2,000,000 cubic metres of
gravel were excavated for highway construction was once voted the cleanest lake in
Munich?
... that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in
Coahuila,
Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre
sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
... that Jessica Gallagher, the first Australian woman to win a medal at the
Winter Paralympics, has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
... that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?
00:00, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
... that Yogo sapphires(pictured) are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch,
Montana?
... that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous
Serapion Brothers literary group?
... that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
... that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
... that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpfbatted .405 in the
Northwestern League, higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
... that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough
retractions from
scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?
... that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex
Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?
... that the waffle-iron filter from
electronics is used on industrial
microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
... that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in
Dachau, had a long friendship with
Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
... that Welsh
goalkeeperTony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing
handstands?
... that the ruby red beverage called
hibiscus tea(flowers pictured) in English-speaking countries is called "water of
Jamaica" in Mexico, where it is widely available?
... that a flying scene in the music video for
Eminem's song "Not Afraid" has been compared to The Matrix?
08:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
... that when Lady Mary Calverley built Oddfellows' Hall(pictured) in
Chester, England in 1676, she was fined £20 because it caused the loss of a portion of the
Chester Rows?
... that the director of For the Moment described lead actor
Russell Crowe as a man who "likes to be a maverick"?
... that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for around thirty years in the group De Havenzangers, singing songs of sailors and the
1990 FIFA World Cup?
... that crime novelist
P. D. James listed the 2007 series Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested as one of the most embarrassing television programmes the BBC has ever produced?
... that the
tsunami caused by the 1746 Lima-Callao earthquake destroyed the port of
Callao, killing most of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants, and drove two warships nearly a mile inland over the ruins?
... that Jewish athlete Lilli Henoch, winner of ten German track and field championships, was murdered with her mother by the
Nazis during
the Holocaust?
... that
Mencius once said that the Chinese
egoist philosopher
Yang Zhu, founder of Yangism, believed that even if "plucking one hair might benefit the whole world", he would still refuse to do so?
... that Paralympic triple gold medalist Evan O'Hanlon was named as a finalist in
Cleo magazine's 2008 Bachelor of the Year contest?
... that while on the winter
death march out of
Auschwitz in January 1945, Dario Gabbai claimed he survived the cold by visualising
Athens in the sunshine?
... that two poppy factories in England and Scotland produce approximately 41 millionremembrance poppies(English example pictured) each year between them?
... that Hurricane Cindy of
1959 subdued a drought in
the Carolinas, bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
... that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
... that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theatre in Germany and film in Spain to working as a
boilerman and gardener in England?
... that the last residents of Independence, Colorado(remaining buildings pictured), billed their midwinter evacuation to nearby
Aspen as a ski club race with an entry fee of one ham sandwich?
... that Hans Spialek, after studying music while a Russian prisoner of war during World War I, orchestrated 147 American musicals?
00:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
... that Australian men's wheelchair basketballer Troy Sachs(pictured) has won seven championships in four different club leagues and gold medals at two Paralympic Games?
... that tenor William Brown, who performed for presidents Kennedy and Johnson, created the role of Lieutenant Jean l'Aiglon in Hugo Weisgall's Nine Rivers from Jordan?
... that box-top software licenses are non-enforceable in the United States if other contract terms have been agreed to?
... that professional wrestler Bob Starr was called to work for
World Championship Wrestling but hung up because an ear injury prevented him from knowing who had called?
... that
Garin Nugroho's family was worried that he could be killed for his reinterpretation of "the wounds of history" in Puisi Tak Terkuburkan?
... that the
neo-romantic literary cabaret Zielony Balonik from
Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?
... that the first time a circuit court weighed in on the scope of
DMCA §1202, which prohibits the removal of Copyright Management Information (CMI), was in the Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC case?
... that the Yakovlev AIR-7, a record-setting prototype high performance light aircraft, suffered a structural failure while being demonstrated before senior officers of the
Soviet Air Forces?
... that norteño band
Duelo launched a radio station to promote their album Solamente Tú?
... that those who believe in toilet gods hold that they can be appeased by praying, eating or offering rice, clearing one's throat, or biting the toilet?
00:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
... that the Brighton Wheel(pictured) in
Brighton, England, stood in South Africa last year?
... that oil shale deposits in Israel may cover approximately 15% of the country's territory, but only a small part of them are mineable for energy use?
... that in each episode of the musical documentary series The Dewarists, musicians visit a different place in India, and record a song in a
genre which reflects the local culture?
... that Bill Smith, who wrote a book considered the "bible" of
fell running, died recently, apparently from tumbling into a
peat bog while running across a fell?
... that after the two endangered
varieties of the Maguire daisy were combined into the one species due to genetic indistinction, it was no longer considered endangered?
... that despite being located in the
Orkney Islands, the sand lining of the Scar boat burial(plaque from site pictured) matches no known
Scottish sand?
... that during the British
aircraft carrierArgus's 1920 Spring Cruise with the
Atlantic Fleet, three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
... that the 856 Damghan earthquake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people in the
Persian province of Qumis, also badly disrupted the region's water supplies?
... that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for
Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight (pictured)?
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.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
... that near the Poplar River, a
locomotive, briefly used for
logging, lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
00:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
... that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in
Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement(pictured) was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"?
... that although St Cynfarwy was active in
Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him(pictured) cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding?
... that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed
CEO was reported?
... that during the
Second World War, what became the Battle of Britain House in
Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
... that research on
split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
... that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?
... that a lake (pictured) in the Langwieder lake district originated as a pit from which more than 2,000,000 cubic metres of
gravel were excavated for highway construction was once voted the cleanest lake in
Munich?
... that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in
Coahuila,
Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre
sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
... that Jessica Gallagher, the first Australian woman to win a medal at the
Winter Paralympics, has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
... that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?
00:00, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
... that Yogo sapphires(pictured) are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch,
Montana?
... that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous
Serapion Brothers literary group?
... that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
... that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
... that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpfbatted .405 in the
Northwestern League, higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
... that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough
retractions from
scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?
... that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex
Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?
... that the waffle-iron filter from
electronics is used on industrial
microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
... that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in
Dachau, had a long friendship with
Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
... that Welsh
goalkeeperTony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing
handstands?
... that the ruby red beverage called
hibiscus tea(flowers pictured) in English-speaking countries is called "water of
Jamaica" in Mexico, where it is widely available?
... that a flying scene in the music video for
Eminem's song "Not Afraid" has been compared to The Matrix?
08:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
... that when Lady Mary Calverley built Oddfellows' Hall(pictured) in
Chester, England in 1676, she was fined £20 because it caused the loss of a portion of the
Chester Rows?
... that the director of For the Moment described lead actor
Russell Crowe as a man who "likes to be a maverick"?
... that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for around thirty years in the group De Havenzangers, singing songs of sailors and the
1990 FIFA World Cup?
... that crime novelist
P. D. James listed the 2007 series Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested as one of the most embarrassing television programmes the BBC has ever produced?
... that the
tsunami caused by the 1746 Lima-Callao earthquake destroyed the port of
Callao, killing most of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants, and drove two warships nearly a mile inland over the ruins?
... that Jewish athlete Lilli Henoch, winner of ten German track and field championships, was murdered with her mother by the
Nazis during
the Holocaust?
... that
Mencius once said that the Chinese
egoist philosopher
Yang Zhu, founder of Yangism, believed that even if "plucking one hair might benefit the whole world", he would still refuse to do so?
... that Paralympic triple gold medalist Evan O'Hanlon was named as a finalist in
Cleo magazine's 2008 Bachelor of the Year contest?
... that while on the winter
death march out of
Auschwitz in January 1945, Dario Gabbai claimed he survived the cold by visualising
Athens in the sunshine?
... that two poppy factories in England and Scotland produce approximately 41 millionremembrance poppies(English example pictured) each year between them?
... that Hurricane Cindy of
1959 subdued a drought in
the Carolinas, bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
... that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
... that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theatre in Germany and film in Spain to working as a
boilerman and gardener in England?
... that the last residents of Independence, Colorado(remaining buildings pictured), billed their midwinter evacuation to nearby
Aspen as a ski club race with an entry fee of one ham sandwich?
... that Hans Spialek, after studying music while a Russian prisoner of war during World War I, orchestrated 147 American musicals?
00:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
... that Australian men's wheelchair basketballer Troy Sachs(pictured) has won seven championships in four different club leagues and gold medals at two Paralympic Games?
... that tenor William Brown, who performed for presidents Kennedy and Johnson, created the role of Lieutenant Jean l'Aiglon in Hugo Weisgall's Nine Rivers from Jordan?
... that box-top software licenses are non-enforceable in the United States if other contract terms have been agreed to?
... that professional wrestler Bob Starr was called to work for
World Championship Wrestling but hung up because an ear injury prevented him from knowing who had called?
... that
Garin Nugroho's family was worried that he could be killed for his reinterpretation of "the wounds of history" in Puisi Tak Terkuburkan?
... that the
neo-romantic literary cabaret Zielony Balonik from
Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?
... that the first time a circuit court weighed in on the scope of
DMCA §1202, which prohibits the removal of Copyright Management Information (CMI), was in the Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC case?
... that the Yakovlev AIR-7, a record-setting prototype high performance light aircraft, suffered a structural failure while being demonstrated before senior officers of the
Soviet Air Forces?
... that norteño band
Duelo launched a radio station to promote their album Solamente Tú?
... that those who believe in toilet gods hold that they can be appeased by praying, eating or offering rice, clearing one's throat, or biting the toilet?
00:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
... that the Brighton Wheel(pictured) in
Brighton, England, stood in South Africa last year?
... that oil shale deposits in Israel may cover approximately 15% of the country's territory, but only a small part of them are mineable for energy use?
... that in each episode of the musical documentary series The Dewarists, musicians visit a different place in India, and record a song in a
genre which reflects the local culture?
... that Bill Smith, who wrote a book considered the "bible" of
fell running, died recently, apparently from tumbling into a
peat bog while running across a fell?
... that after the two endangered
varieties of the Maguire daisy were combined into the one species due to genetic indistinction, it was no longer considered endangered?
... that despite being located in the
Orkney Islands, the sand lining of the Scar boat burial(plaque from site pictured) matches no known
Scottish sand?
... that during the British
aircraft carrierArgus's 1920 Spring Cruise with the
Atlantic Fleet, three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
... that the 856 Damghan earthquake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people in the
Persian province of Qumis, also badly disrupted the region's water supplies?
... that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for
Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight (pictured)?