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 Nitro(pictured) is a
roller coaster that features five
inversions during each cycle of two and a half minutes?
... that in a famous story in the Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi woke up from a dream wondering whether he was Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being him?
... that after Spanish academic and politician Manuel Broseta was assassinated by
ETA in 1992, a foundation named after him has handed out a Coexistence Prize every year?
... that the farm of Økern is mentioned in documents dating from the 13th century?
... that in the 1980s, the rate of population growth in Juniata County was more than 50 times higher than the rate of population growth in Pennsylvania?
... that the annual "Fatties versus Skinnies" soccer match in San Pedro de Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica, was started so people could identify each team's players, since they had no uniforms?
... that the 20-cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp of 1912 had the distinction of being the first stamp in history to depict an airplane, six years before the U.S. Post Office issued an
airmail stamp?
... that most non-
Peronist political parties in Argentina have united in the political coalition Broad Front UNEN?
... that not only does Paratarsotomus macropalpis run at a speed equivalent to a human running at 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h), it also does so at temperatures
lethal to most animals?
... that pianist Brad Mehldau compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
... that the 2014–15 FA Cup will be the first time that artificial pitches are allowed in all rounds of the competition, after they were banned in 1995?
... that rapper
Da' T.R.U.T.H. was able to experiment with diverse musical styles on Heartbeat because he released it through his own, newly established label?
... that when two members of alternative rock band
Too Much Joy posted 13 songs online under the name Wonderlick, they made $12,000 from online donations alone?
... that Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds(pictured), was built on an abandoned mine and has a bricked-up access to the mine from the sacristy?
... that the Valls Cabinet is the first French cabinet with a foreign-born prime minister?
... that the "Billy Boys" was ruled as a tolerated historic song by
UEFA despite it being banned in Scottish football grounds due to
sectarianism?
... that at one time
Nortel's Carling Campus in
Ottawa,
Canada, represented the city's aspirations of becoming a technology hotbed?
... that American journalist and author William Honan helped solve a
1945 heist in Quedlinburg, Germany, in which over US$200 million worth of items were stolen?
... that a
GamesRadar writer simply stated "Total bitch" about Amy Rose in an article with several sentences about each of the other Sonic the Hedgehog characters?
... that Pevensey Castle(gatehouse pictured), originally a Roman
Saxon Shore fortress, was reoccupied by the British, Canadian, and United States armies in 1940 to guard against a German invasion?
... that the Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein factory was the largest manufacturing company in Poland before being destroyed by the Germans during World War II?
... that Wilfred T. Webb delivered Arizona's official 1912
electoral vote certificate a day late because he stopped en route to Washington D.C. to court his future wife?
11 May 2014
22:21, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
... that after the Hildesheim Cathedral, a
World Heritage Site, was destroyed in World War II, the westwork (pictured) was restored without the additions made in 1840?
... that to avenge the execution of her son, Mother Lü beheaded her son's killer, sacrificed his head on her son's tomb, and became the first female rebel leader in Chinese history?
... that Turkish painter İbrahim Balaban's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who called him "my peasant painter"?
... that
B. R. Ambedkar published Annihilation of Caste, his speech intended for an anti-caste conference, after his invitation to present it was withdrawn?
... that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at
Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money?
... that in its earlier years, the
soft drinkBludwine was marketed as having health benefits, such as aiding in digestion, and some physicians in
Georgia prescribed it to their patients?
... that French printer Denis Janot (fl. 1529–1544) came from families of printers on both sides and married into another family of printers, and after his death his wife married another printer?
... that there are nearly 900 macroinvertebrates per square meter in the lower reaches of West Creek?
... that Kalman Mann, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, passed the entrance exam at the
London School of Economics though he could barely speak English?
... that the first act of the 1893 play Anatol earned playwright
Arthur Schnitzler the title of "psychological depth researcher" from
Sigmund Freud?
... that in 2012–13, the Himadri Station, India's first research base in the Arctic, was manned for 185 days, with 25 scientists visiting it to carry out studies?
... that even though the range of the Beautiful Nuthatch(pictured) is very large, approaching 376,000 km2 (234,000 mi2), the species is nevertheless rare, being highly localized in its distribution?
... that the spiralling whitefly, a major agricultural pest, has spread rapidly in tropical and subtropical regions since the mid-20th century?
... that German art photographer Michael Wesely recorded the reconstruction of Berlin's
Potsdamer Platz and New York's
MoMA using exposures of up to three years?
... that two
Harley-Davidson dealers from New Zealand started the Nairn Transport Company, which ran Buicks and Cadillacs across the desert from Beirut to Baghdad?
... that A Railway Collision, one of the first British films to use scale models, was thought to be so realistic that audiences were convinced that it showed a genuine rail disaster?
10:00, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
... that Chu Teh-Chun's(pictured) portrait of his wife was praised as the "Mona Lisa of the East"?
... that the music video for the song "Adore You" appears to simulate a sex tape?
... that Major Digby Tatham-Warter disabled a Nazi armoured car with an umbrella while wearing a bowler hat?
2 May 2014
23:57, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
... that during the Nazi era, Hedwig Bollhagen took over a Jewish workshop under "questionable circumstances" to make quality ceramics (example pictured)?
... that Ko Ko Gyi, a Burmese democracy activist who spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2012, may run for parliament in the
next Burmese election?
... that upon his being hired by the police, Commander X was hailed in the press as a "mystery supremo", yet journalists have claimed to know his identity?
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 Nitro(pictured) is a
roller coaster that features five
inversions during each cycle of two and a half minutes?
... that in a famous story in the Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi woke up from a dream wondering whether he was Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being him?
... that after Spanish academic and politician Manuel Broseta was assassinated by
ETA in 1992, a foundation named after him has handed out a Coexistence Prize every year?
... that the farm of Økern is mentioned in documents dating from the 13th century?
... that in the 1980s, the rate of population growth in Juniata County was more than 50 times higher than the rate of population growth in Pennsylvania?
... that the annual "Fatties versus Skinnies" soccer match in San Pedro de Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica, was started so people could identify each team's players, since they had no uniforms?
... that the 20-cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp of 1912 had the distinction of being the first stamp in history to depict an airplane, six years before the U.S. Post Office issued an
airmail stamp?
... that most non-
Peronist political parties in Argentina have united in the political coalition Broad Front UNEN?
... that not only does Paratarsotomus macropalpis run at a speed equivalent to a human running at 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h), it also does so at temperatures
lethal to most animals?
... that pianist Brad Mehldau compared the difficulty of composing music to a game of chess?
... that the 2014–15 FA Cup will be the first time that artificial pitches are allowed in all rounds of the competition, after they were banned in 1995?
... that rapper
Da' T.R.U.T.H. was able to experiment with diverse musical styles on Heartbeat because he released it through his own, newly established label?
... that when two members of alternative rock band
Too Much Joy posted 13 songs online under the name Wonderlick, they made $12,000 from online donations alone?
... that Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds(pictured), was built on an abandoned mine and has a bricked-up access to the mine from the sacristy?
... that the Valls Cabinet is the first French cabinet with a foreign-born prime minister?
... that the "Billy Boys" was ruled as a tolerated historic song by
UEFA despite it being banned in Scottish football grounds due to
sectarianism?
... that at one time
Nortel's Carling Campus in
Ottawa,
Canada, represented the city's aspirations of becoming a technology hotbed?
... that American journalist and author William Honan helped solve a
1945 heist in Quedlinburg, Germany, in which over US$200 million worth of items were stolen?
... that a
GamesRadar writer simply stated "Total bitch" about Amy Rose in an article with several sentences about each of the other Sonic the Hedgehog characters?
... that Pevensey Castle(gatehouse pictured), originally a Roman
Saxon Shore fortress, was reoccupied by the British, Canadian, and United States armies in 1940 to guard against a German invasion?
... that the Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein factory was the largest manufacturing company in Poland before being destroyed by the Germans during World War II?
... that Wilfred T. Webb delivered Arizona's official 1912
electoral vote certificate a day late because he stopped en route to Washington D.C. to court his future wife?
11 May 2014
22:21, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
... that after the Hildesheim Cathedral, a
World Heritage Site, was destroyed in World War II, the westwork (pictured) was restored without the additions made in 1840?
... that to avenge the execution of her son, Mother Lü beheaded her son's killer, sacrificed his head on her son's tomb, and became the first female rebel leader in Chinese history?
... that Turkish painter İbrahim Balaban's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who called him "my peasant painter"?
... that
B. R. Ambedkar published Annihilation of Caste, his speech intended for an anti-caste conference, after his invitation to present it was withdrawn?
... that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at
Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money?
... that in its earlier years, the
soft drinkBludwine was marketed as having health benefits, such as aiding in digestion, and some physicians in
Georgia prescribed it to their patients?
... that French printer Denis Janot (fl. 1529–1544) came from families of printers on both sides and married into another family of printers, and after his death his wife married another printer?
... that there are nearly 900 macroinvertebrates per square meter in the lower reaches of West Creek?
... that Kalman Mann, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, passed the entrance exam at the
London School of Economics though he could barely speak English?
... that the first act of the 1893 play Anatol earned playwright
Arthur Schnitzler the title of "psychological depth researcher" from
Sigmund Freud?
... that in 2012–13, the Himadri Station, India's first research base in the Arctic, was manned for 185 days, with 25 scientists visiting it to carry out studies?
... that even though the range of the Beautiful Nuthatch(pictured) is very large, approaching 376,000 km2 (234,000 mi2), the species is nevertheless rare, being highly localized in its distribution?
... that the spiralling whitefly, a major agricultural pest, has spread rapidly in tropical and subtropical regions since the mid-20th century?
... that German art photographer Michael Wesely recorded the reconstruction of Berlin's
Potsdamer Platz and New York's
MoMA using exposures of up to three years?
... that two
Harley-Davidson dealers from New Zealand started the Nairn Transport Company, which ran Buicks and Cadillacs across the desert from Beirut to Baghdad?
... that A Railway Collision, one of the first British films to use scale models, was thought to be so realistic that audiences were convinced that it showed a genuine rail disaster?
10:00, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
... that Chu Teh-Chun's(pictured) portrait of his wife was praised as the "Mona Lisa of the East"?
... that the music video for the song "Adore You" appears to simulate a sex tape?
... that Major Digby Tatham-Warter disabled a Nazi armoured car with an umbrella while wearing a bowler hat?
2 May 2014
23:57, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
... that during the Nazi era, Hedwig Bollhagen took over a Jewish workshop under "questionable circumstances" to make quality ceramics (example pictured)?
... that Ko Ko Gyi, a Burmese democracy activist who spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2012, may run for parliament in the
next Burmese election?
... that upon his being hired by the police, Commander X was hailed in the press as a "mystery supremo", yet journalists have claimed to know his identity?