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... that the cover of
the Beatles' Abbey Road is one of the best known in rock music, and regularly imitated by fans (pictured)?
... that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1
lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
... that Konstanze Vernon, prima ballerina in Munich remembered as
Giselle, created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner
Heinz Bosl?
... that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
... that no one knows where the water in Stratton Moat comes from?
25 February 2014
18:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Alexander Roslin painted a double portrait of himself and his wife in which she is working in
pastels on a portrait of Henrik Peill (pictured)?
... that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online, was announced?
... that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
... that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
... that the music video for
Kylie Minogue's 2010 single "All the Lovers" was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
... that although
Monsanto's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the
Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?
03:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
... that newer scholarship notices that the Cross of Otto and Mathilde(pictured) shows the siblings as family members and not as dignitaries?
... that the channeled basket snail can use its muscular foot to catapult itself through the air?
... that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies, Tuncay Mataracı, was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for
bribery and abuse of power?
... that when
Australian sprinter Arthur Postle lost the 1907 semi-final sprint at
Kalgoorlie to J. Condon, he carried on running, hopping a fence, to a bookmaker to bet on Condon winning the final?
... that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
... that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
... that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include
David Sejusa, a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
... that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
... that Musca is the only official
constellation that depicts an insect?
... that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
... that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for
£1, but no one bought it?
00:00, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Hungarian king Samuel Aba(pictured) not only abolished all laws introduced by
Peter the Venetian, who both preceded and succeeded him, but also had Peter's supporters killed or tortured?
... that the primary star of the
binary system Theta Tucanae has absorbed much of the mass of its once-larger companion?
... that Helen C. White's(pictured) graduate students called her "the Purple Goddess" partly due to her predominantly purple wardrobe and exceptional height?
... that the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and would ban the use of warrantless data in courts?
... that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter?
... that South Korea's proposed highest-denomination 100,000-
won banknote was cancelled in 2008, since the 19th-century map Daedongyeojido depicted on the note did not portray the
Liancourt Rocks?
00:00, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
... that the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment(gun team pictured) had an establishment of 549 men, but suffered 640 casualties in the fighting at Gallipoli?
... that Thomas Pilcher, who commanded a British division on the
first day of the Somme, was sacked ten days later after it had taken 4,771 casualties?
... that Anecdotes de Suède, a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822?
... that Hakan Kıran, Turkish architect of the
Golden Horn Metro Bridge, chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up?
... that Tio Tek Djien was so taken with the star of a play he watched that he ran away from home and married her?
... that collections left by naturalists Frederick Lukis and his daughter Louisa, wife of
Sark's feudal ruler William Thomas Collings, are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of
Guernsey?
... that
speed skaterJonathan Garcia(pictured) qualified for his first Olympics, was disqualified, and qualified again in a different event, all within 48 hours?
... that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
... that Spanish singer
Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the Argentine telenovela Somos familia, and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
... that Jose Salvador Alvarenga, an El Salvadorian fisherman, claimed in February 2014 to have survived 13 months at sea?
... that "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" is, according to its producer, "kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in
Arkansas"?
... that for 24 hours, for every download of the song "Invisible" by
U2, Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation
(RED), raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
... that Norwegian cross-country skier Finn Hågen Krogh was promised a spot in the
individual sprint in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was controversially dropped 8 days later?
... that Rita Lenihan wrote the Latin motto for the
WAVES and would later become their Director?
... that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
... that
2014 OlympianEmily Scott was preparing to apply for
food stamps when a USA Today article about her brought in over $48,000 in donations, allowing her to continue training?
... that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station, which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
... that in
Patrick Süskind's play Der Kontrabaß, the double bass in the title role is a "constant handicap" to its player, "humanly, socially, sexually, musically"?
... that Jim Gregory learned of his firing as general manager of the
Toronto Maple Leafs when he was offered the position of director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau?
... that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during
World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since?
... that Miguel Enríquez went from being a shoemaker to being one of the most wealthy and influential figures in the New World?
... that the Roselius House(pictured) in
Bremen, Germany, was completed in 1588 and is now a museum with items from the
Middle Ages through the
Baroque period?
... that Senator J. L. Carpenter's wife gave birth to Frankenstein?
... that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry?
... that the
Singapore Government takes the view that separation of powers is less important than choosing leaders that can be trusted and do not need to be fettered?
... that Lyman Hakes Howe was the first person to give full-length phonograph concerts?
... that Robert Farrar'sDonut, about a couple who eat a donut during sex, stars a straight couple in the film version but a gay couple on the stage?
7 February 2014
20:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
... that
2014 OlympianSugar Todd(pictured) convinced her parents to move from Nebraska to Wisconsin when she was nine to further her
speed skating career?
... that large negative earnings surprises may have legal and reputational costs to managers?
... that in a by-election in Britain in 1908, before women were given the vote, a Mrs Lois Dawson was allowed to vote because her name appeared on the electoral register by accident?
11:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Bimala Prasad(pictured) would be feared as the "lion guru" and respected as a "living encyclopedia"?
... that Gullifty's, a landmark
Pittsburgh restaurant known for its desserts (example pictured) and as "the city's premier jazz club, mostly by default", closed in 2013?
... that in July 2012 news media reported that the online encyclopedia
Wikipedia had been appointing new administrators much more slowly in recent years?
... that the Solomon Creek boreholes are the second-largest sources of iron discharge in the
Coal Region, contributing 9% of the iron load in the region?
... that the Staffordshire County League (South) was originally formed as the Walsall & District Junior League after a meeting of
football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in
Walsall?
... that Bernard Waldman flew on the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima to photograph the event with a high-speed camera, but took no footage because he forgot to open the camera shutter?
... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus(pictured) opposed the
pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?
... that traditional shweshwe fabric made in
South Africa was previously imported from Europe and popularised by 19th century German settlers and a
Sotho king?
... that Caesar Hull(pictured), a World War II fighter pilot of
Southern Rhodesian birth, has memorial monuments dedicated to him in Norway and England?
... that the Honduran Patriotic Front, an alliance formed ahead of the 1980s elections, called for an electoral boycott in protest against perceived fraud?
... that before it was converted to a
sewer, locals complained that
Philadelphia's Dock Creek was "offensive and injurious to the Health of the Inhabitants"?
... that The Castle, headquarters of internet company
Rackspace, was formerly an enclosed shopping mall that also hosted churches, a nightclub, and hurricane survivors?
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 the cover of
the Beatles' Abbey Road is one of the best known in rock music, and regularly imitated by fans (pictured)?
... that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1
lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
... that Konstanze Vernon, prima ballerina in Munich remembered as
Giselle, created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner
Heinz Bosl?
... that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
... that no one knows where the water in Stratton Moat comes from?
25 February 2014
18:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Alexander Roslin painted a double portrait of himself and his wife in which she is working in
pastels on a portrait of Henrik Peill (pictured)?
... that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online, was announced?
... that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
... that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
... that the music video for
Kylie Minogue's 2010 single "All the Lovers" was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
... that although
Monsanto's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the
Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?
03:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
... that newer scholarship notices that the Cross of Otto and Mathilde(pictured) shows the siblings as family members and not as dignitaries?
... that the channeled basket snail can use its muscular foot to catapult itself through the air?
... that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies, Tuncay Mataracı, was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for
bribery and abuse of power?
... that when
Australian sprinter Arthur Postle lost the 1907 semi-final sprint at
Kalgoorlie to J. Condon, he carried on running, hopping a fence, to a bookmaker to bet on Condon winning the final?
... that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
... that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
... that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include
David Sejusa, a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
... that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
... that Musca is the only official
constellation that depicts an insect?
... that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
... that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for
£1, but no one bought it?
00:00, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Hungarian king Samuel Aba(pictured) not only abolished all laws introduced by
Peter the Venetian, who both preceded and succeeded him, but also had Peter's supporters killed or tortured?
... that the primary star of the
binary system Theta Tucanae has absorbed much of the mass of its once-larger companion?
... that Helen C. White's(pictured) graduate students called her "the Purple Goddess" partly due to her predominantly purple wardrobe and exceptional height?
... that the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and would ban the use of warrantless data in courts?
... that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter?
... that South Korea's proposed highest-denomination 100,000-
won banknote was cancelled in 2008, since the 19th-century map Daedongyeojido depicted on the note did not portray the
Liancourt Rocks?
00:00, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
... that the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment(gun team pictured) had an establishment of 549 men, but suffered 640 casualties in the fighting at Gallipoli?
... that Thomas Pilcher, who commanded a British division on the
first day of the Somme, was sacked ten days later after it had taken 4,771 casualties?
... that Anecdotes de Suède, a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822?
... that Hakan Kıran, Turkish architect of the
Golden Horn Metro Bridge, chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up?
... that Tio Tek Djien was so taken with the star of a play he watched that he ran away from home and married her?
... that collections left by naturalists Frederick Lukis and his daughter Louisa, wife of
Sark's feudal ruler William Thomas Collings, are the most significant natural history collections displayed by the museums of
Guernsey?
... that
speed skaterJonathan Garcia(pictured) qualified for his first Olympics, was disqualified, and qualified again in a different event, all within 48 hours?
... that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
... that Spanish singer
Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the Argentine telenovela Somos familia, and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
... that Jose Salvador Alvarenga, an El Salvadorian fisherman, claimed in February 2014 to have survived 13 months at sea?
... that "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" is, according to its producer, "kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in
Arkansas"?
... that for 24 hours, for every download of the song "Invisible" by
U2, Bank of America was giving $1 to the organisation
(RED), raising $3,138,470 to fight HIV-AIDS?
... that Norwegian cross-country skier Finn Hågen Krogh was promised a spot in the
individual sprint in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was controversially dropped 8 days later?
... that Rita Lenihan wrote the Latin motto for the
WAVES and would later become their Director?
... that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
... that
2014 OlympianEmily Scott was preparing to apply for
food stamps when a USA Today article about her brought in over $48,000 in donations, allowing her to continue training?
... that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station, which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
... that in
Patrick Süskind's play Der Kontrabaß, the double bass in the title role is a "constant handicap" to its player, "humanly, socially, sexually, musically"?
... that Jim Gregory learned of his firing as general manager of the
Toronto Maple Leafs when he was offered the position of director of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau?
... that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during
World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since?
... that Miguel Enríquez went from being a shoemaker to being one of the most wealthy and influential figures in the New World?
... that the Roselius House(pictured) in
Bremen, Germany, was completed in 1588 and is now a museum with items from the
Middle Ages through the
Baroque period?
... that Senator J. L. Carpenter's wife gave birth to Frankenstein?
... that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry?
... that the
Singapore Government takes the view that separation of powers is less important than choosing leaders that can be trusted and do not need to be fettered?
... that Lyman Hakes Howe was the first person to give full-length phonograph concerts?
... that Robert Farrar'sDonut, about a couple who eat a donut during sex, stars a straight couple in the film version but a gay couple on the stage?
7 February 2014
20:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
... that
2014 OlympianSugar Todd(pictured) convinced her parents to move from Nebraska to Wisconsin when she was nine to further her
speed skating career?
... that large negative earnings surprises may have legal and reputational costs to managers?
... that in a by-election in Britain in 1908, before women were given the vote, a Mrs Lois Dawson was allowed to vote because her name appeared on the electoral register by accident?
11:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
... that Bimala Prasad(pictured) would be feared as the "lion guru" and respected as a "living encyclopedia"?
... that Gullifty's, a landmark
Pittsburgh restaurant known for its desserts (example pictured) and as "the city's premier jazz club, mostly by default", closed in 2013?
... that in July 2012 news media reported that the online encyclopedia
Wikipedia had been appointing new administrators much more slowly in recent years?
... that the Solomon Creek boreholes are the second-largest sources of iron discharge in the
Coal Region, contributing 9% of the iron load in the region?
... that the Staffordshire County League (South) was originally formed as the Walsall & District Junior League after a meeting of
football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in
Walsall?
... that Bernard Waldman flew on the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima to photograph the event with a high-speed camera, but took no footage because he forgot to open the camera shutter?
... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus(pictured) opposed the
pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?
... that traditional shweshwe fabric made in
South Africa was previously imported from Europe and popularised by 19th century German settlers and a
Sotho king?
... that Caesar Hull(pictured), a World War II fighter pilot of
Southern Rhodesian birth, has memorial monuments dedicated to him in Norway and England?
... that the Honduran Patriotic Front, an alliance formed ahead of the 1980s elections, called for an electoral boycott in protest against perceived fraud?
... that before it was converted to a
sewer, locals complained that
Philadelphia's Dock Creek was "offensive and injurious to the Health of the Inhabitants"?
... that The Castle, headquarters of internet company
Rackspace, was formerly an enclosed shopping mall that also hosted churches, a nightclub, and hurricane survivors?