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... that a reluctant
John Wooden was convinced by assistant coach Jerry Norman to use a
zone press, which became instrumental in the first two national titles won by the
UCLA basketball program?
... that the Flatiron Flyer bus rapid transit line is expected to carry 11,000 riders a day and be 10 to 15 minutes faster than the bus it replaces?
... that Eritha, one of the most significant priestesses in
MycenaeanPylos in c. 1200 BC, was involved in a dispute over the legal status of her
religious holdings?
... that only six percent of the watershed of Beaver Run is on forested land?
... that Tarik Badwan, the vocalist of LOOM, has been called "the angriest man to stalk a stage in ages"?
... that Munk's devil ray sometimes performs vertical leaps, somersaults and other acrobatic manoeuvres?
... that Jake Olson plays professional
Canadian football despite a congenital disorder that caused him to dislocate his left knee once and his right knee twice?
... that the organisation and curriculum of the
university in the Province of Bologna, founded in 1088, were emulated in other universities across Italy?
... that the fictional character Elvira Hancock, played by
Michelle Pfeiffer, has been described as an "embittered drug addict with the self-esteem of an empty bullet casing"?
... that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death?
29 August 2015
22:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Perovskia atriplicifolia
... that Perovskia atriplicifolia(pictured), commonly known as Russian sage, is neither Russian nor sage?
... that as well as commanding a view of the countryside, RAAF Eastern Area'sBlue Mountains headquarters incorporated a disused railway tunnel that offered "complete protection from
Atom Bomb attack"?
... that the original script outline for the romantic comedy The Other Woman (2014) was characterised as The First Wives Club (1996) but with a younger cast?
... that Jotnian sedimentary rocks are the oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to the
geological process of
metamorphism?
... that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"?
... that the Hammond Electric Bridge Table was the first bridge table to automatically shuffle and deal cards using electricity?
... that the Alamgir Mosque, Varanasi, built in the 17th century over the ruins of a Hindu temple, has been described as "like a fist thrust in the face of
Hinduism"?
... that "Donut Run", an episode of Veronica Mars, was the first professional directing job for series creator
Rob Thomas, who was even unsure when to call "action" during filming?
09:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Banksia burdettii
... that the flower spikes of Banksia burdettii(pictured) can contain over 900 individual flowers each?
... that Operation Shrouded Horizon was an 18-month international law enforcement investigation into an online forum described as "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers"?
... that the poet Malcolm Guite, who grew up in Nigeria, Canada, and England, decided he belonged in England partly after discovering
real ale – something "they don't have properly in Canada at all"?
... that the amir al-hajj supervised the funding and supply of the annual
Hajj pilgrim caravan to
Mecca and
Medina, and its protection from
Bedouin raiders?
... that Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret(pictured) illustrates the virtues of honour and chastity through the depiction of occultism, partial nudity, violent death and implied sexual torture?
... that
Romania's Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, after largely steering clear of controversy during his career, became a public and vociferous anti-Semite when he was nearly seventy?
... that 20 different macroinvertebrate taxa have been observed in Cider Run?
... that British nobleman
Lord Charles Beresford proposed marriage to the part-
Hawaiian chiefess Nancy Sumner but she refused, likely due to their social and racial differences?
... that Chester H. Pond invented the first electrical self-winding clock?
... that the phrase "Manny being Manny" is named after professional baseball player Manny Ramirez because of his frequent quirky behavior?
... that although the Unirea newspaper was published by the
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, its coverage focused on political rather than religious matters?
... that although 155,000 carats of diamonds were officially mined in Liberia in 2001, far more were smuggled to neighboring countries illegally?
... that Artur Talvik, who was the Estonian Free Party's prime ministerial candidate in the
2015 elections and received the most votes of all the party's candidates, was not a member of the party himself?
... that Lise(pictured) was accepted by the
Salon of 1868, but the jury considered
Renoir a rebel and moved his painting to a remote gallery known as the "rubbish dump"?
... that Romanian writer Lucia Mantu kept her real identity a close secret, with even her editor
Mihail Sadoveanu only finding out by accident?
... that Rapid Run was involved in a "blatant act of 'stream piracy'" about one million years ago?
... that according to historian Chris Coulthard-Clark, North-Western Area was "one of the few areas where the
RAAF was free to run its own show" in World War II?
... that on hearing of being awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics, Eugene Wigner confessed that he had "never expected to get my name in the newspapers without doing something wicked"?
23 August 2015
23:33, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Self-portrait of J.G. Bruff
... that in 1849, adventurer J. Goldsborough Bruff(pictured) led an expedition of 66 men to
California for the purpose of mining gold and conducting trade?
... that the mining industry of Madagascar was struggling in 2013 due to "low metals prices and distrustful companies", attributed to a 2009 coup?
... that Japanese epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama has been credited with publishing the first study linking
passive smoking to lung cancer in nonsmokers?
... that the house of Argentine journalist
Jorge Lanata was stoned and apparently shot at after he aired interviews about the 2008 triple crime?
... that after winning three national championships with the
UCLA Bruins, John Ecker played basketball overseas and married German Olympic gold medalist
Heide Rosendahl?
... that before
pingo scars were discovered near Halfway Run(pictured), the only known pingo scars in the United States were located on a plain in Illinois?
... that Greek singer Litsa Diamanti has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of
metapolitefsi"?
... that Takeshi Murata's digitally animated kinetic sculpture Melter 3-D uses the principles of a
3D-zoetrope to create the appearance that its surface is fluid and rippling?
... that the type specimen of Albicoccus, a scale insect, is entombed with two types of flies in amber?
... that Carl Nielsen's late piano pieces Tre Klaverstykker have been ascribed a "dual sense of childlike innocence and devilish improvisation"?
... that although the spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus is heavily exploited for food throughout its range, its total population seems relatively unaffected?
... that six or more keys on a keyring can be distinguished from each other by coloring the keys using only two colors, but rings of three, four, or five keys require more colors?
... that after
Charles and
Anne Lindbergh's son
was kidnapped from their home, Highfields(pictured), in the so-called "crime of the century", it became a juvenile rehabilitation center?
... that the film roles of Nepalese actress
Manisha Koirala(pictured) have included a Muslim married to a Hindu during the
Bombay Riots, the daughter of a mute and deaf couple, and a terrorist?
... that Dorothy McKibbin was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos"?
... that Leptopharsa tacanae was the first lace bug to be described from Mexican amber?
... that the Meadows of the
Bedni Bugyal in the
Chamoli district have camps for pilgrims to visit the Rup Kund lake which is covered with snow for 10 months in a year?
... that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself?
... that although the i-sala(pictured) headdresses have been described as
turbans, the bulk of the shape came from the bushy hair underneath the cloth?
... that the orange tulip ginger is not a citrus fruit, nor a tulip, nor a spice?
... that according to the Garbha Upanishad, the human foetus has knowledge of its past lives?
... that Sir Leonard Redshaw was part of a "Suicide Squad" of scientists and engineers who would be first responders in disasters involving
nuclear reactors?
... that Slough Fort in
Kent was one of around 70 forts constructed on the English coast in the 1860s in response to fears of a possible French invasion?
... that in the Akshi Upanishad, the Sun states that
Brahmavidya, knowledge of the absolute, is difficult to learn but will result in self-realization once acquired?
... that the architecture of John Goldicutt was influenced by his travels in Italy, where he produced architectural drawings such as View in Rome(pictured)?
... that the
Krun region of Pluto is named for Krun, the lord of the underworld in the
Mandaean religion of southern Iraq, who takes the form of a giant louse?
04:25, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Long-tongued bee
... that as flowers developed longer tubes, bees(pictured)coevolved by developing longer tongues to extract the
nectar?
... that the Rotherwas Room, once used as a private dining parlor for nobles in 17th-century England and for public poetry readings by
Robert Frost, is now open to visitors in the
Mead Art Museum?
... that soprano Susanne Rydén combined music by various Baroque composers in the musical show Christina's Journey, in which she sang, recited, and danced?
... that Canadian
gridiron football player Steven Clarke was a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that sought compensation for the alleged improper use of college athletes' images?
... that the Open Hand Monument(pictured) designed by
Le Corbusier symbolizes "the hand to give and the hand to take; peace and prosperity, and the unity of mankind"?
... that the art of William Etty(pictured) was considered so obscene, the press were concerned that it discouraged women from entering rooms where it was on display?
... that Arthur Dingle was selected to play rugby for
England in 1913, even though
Oxford had dropped him?
... that
Mark Ronson and
Jeff Bhaskar dropped in on churches, nightclubs, bars, and community centres in an attempt to find an appropriate vocalist for their song "I Can't Lose"?
... that Brad Carter became known as the "guy playing guitar during brain surgery" after he posted a video of his brain operation on
YouTube?
... that with S/O Satyamurthy,
Allu Arjun became the first
Telugu actor with two consecutive films earning more than ₹500 million worldwide?
... that in his house
on Pluto, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming?
3 August 2015
23:25, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Sarpa Satra
... that according to legend, emperor
Janamejaya organised the Sarpa Satrayagna(pictured) to exterminate all snakes after his father
Parikshit died of a snake bite?
... that the edible mushroom Tricholoma columbetta can have pink, violet, or green spots?
... that
Miss Utah 2015 Krissia Beatty is the fifth person in her family, after her grandmother, mother, and two aunts, to be crowned Miss Washington County?
... that the music video for
Demi Lovato's single "Cool for the Summer" is her "most sexually liberated video" and marks "a new chapter of her career"?
... that when the casket thought to contain Father Cyprien Liausu, founder of the Rouru Convent, was exhumed, the remains of an old woman were found inside instead?
2 August 2015
20:55, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
The Lutherkirche
... that the Lutherkirche in
Wiesbaden has two great organs, one behind the altar (pictured) built by
Walcker in 1911, the other opposite built by
Klais in the 1970s?
... that the 12th-century Eadwine Psalter has a famous portrait of Eadwine, "prince of scribes" (pictured), and illustrations to the
psalms copied from
a book then over 300 years old?
... that logger and farmer Bob Tarasuk plays himself in Bob and the Trees?
... that in elections in Guyana, the nominee of the party that receives the most votes becomes
President, even if the opposition win more seats (as happened
in 2011)?
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 a reluctant
John Wooden was convinced by assistant coach Jerry Norman to use a
zone press, which became instrumental in the first two national titles won by the
UCLA basketball program?
... that the Flatiron Flyer bus rapid transit line is expected to carry 11,000 riders a day and be 10 to 15 minutes faster than the bus it replaces?
... that Eritha, one of the most significant priestesses in
MycenaeanPylos in c. 1200 BC, was involved in a dispute over the legal status of her
religious holdings?
... that only six percent of the watershed of Beaver Run is on forested land?
... that Tarik Badwan, the vocalist of LOOM, has been called "the angriest man to stalk a stage in ages"?
... that Munk's devil ray sometimes performs vertical leaps, somersaults and other acrobatic manoeuvres?
... that Jake Olson plays professional
Canadian football despite a congenital disorder that caused him to dislocate his left knee once and his right knee twice?
... that the organisation and curriculum of the
university in the Province of Bologna, founded in 1088, were emulated in other universities across Italy?
... that the fictional character Elvira Hancock, played by
Michelle Pfeiffer, has been described as an "embittered drug addict with the self-esteem of an empty bullet casing"?
... that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death?
29 August 2015
22:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Perovskia atriplicifolia
... that Perovskia atriplicifolia(pictured), commonly known as Russian sage, is neither Russian nor sage?
... that as well as commanding a view of the countryside, RAAF Eastern Area'sBlue Mountains headquarters incorporated a disused railway tunnel that offered "complete protection from
Atom Bomb attack"?
... that the original script outline for the romantic comedy The Other Woman (2014) was characterised as The First Wives Club (1996) but with a younger cast?
... that Jotnian sedimentary rocks are the oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to the
geological process of
metamorphism?
... that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"?
... that the Hammond Electric Bridge Table was the first bridge table to automatically shuffle and deal cards using electricity?
... that the Alamgir Mosque, Varanasi, built in the 17th century over the ruins of a Hindu temple, has been described as "like a fist thrust in the face of
Hinduism"?
... that "Donut Run", an episode of Veronica Mars, was the first professional directing job for series creator
Rob Thomas, who was even unsure when to call "action" during filming?
09:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Banksia burdettii
... that the flower spikes of Banksia burdettii(pictured) can contain over 900 individual flowers each?
... that Operation Shrouded Horizon was an 18-month international law enforcement investigation into an online forum described as "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers"?
... that the poet Malcolm Guite, who grew up in Nigeria, Canada, and England, decided he belonged in England partly after discovering
real ale – something "they don't have properly in Canada at all"?
... that the amir al-hajj supervised the funding and supply of the annual
Hajj pilgrim caravan to
Mecca and
Medina, and its protection from
Bedouin raiders?
... that Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret(pictured) illustrates the virtues of honour and chastity through the depiction of occultism, partial nudity, violent death and implied sexual torture?
... that
Romania's Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, after largely steering clear of controversy during his career, became a public and vociferous anti-Semite when he was nearly seventy?
... that 20 different macroinvertebrate taxa have been observed in Cider Run?
... that British nobleman
Lord Charles Beresford proposed marriage to the part-
Hawaiian chiefess Nancy Sumner but she refused, likely due to their social and racial differences?
... that Chester H. Pond invented the first electrical self-winding clock?
... that the phrase "Manny being Manny" is named after professional baseball player Manny Ramirez because of his frequent quirky behavior?
... that although the Unirea newspaper was published by the
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, its coverage focused on political rather than religious matters?
... that although 155,000 carats of diamonds were officially mined in Liberia in 2001, far more were smuggled to neighboring countries illegally?
... that Artur Talvik, who was the Estonian Free Party's prime ministerial candidate in the
2015 elections and received the most votes of all the party's candidates, was not a member of the party himself?
... that Lise(pictured) was accepted by the
Salon of 1868, but the jury considered
Renoir a rebel and moved his painting to a remote gallery known as the "rubbish dump"?
... that Romanian writer Lucia Mantu kept her real identity a close secret, with even her editor
Mihail Sadoveanu only finding out by accident?
... that Rapid Run was involved in a "blatant act of 'stream piracy'" about one million years ago?
... that according to historian Chris Coulthard-Clark, North-Western Area was "one of the few areas where the
RAAF was free to run its own show" in World War II?
... that on hearing of being awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics, Eugene Wigner confessed that he had "never expected to get my name in the newspapers without doing something wicked"?
23 August 2015
23:33, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Self-portrait of J.G. Bruff
... that in 1849, adventurer J. Goldsborough Bruff(pictured) led an expedition of 66 men to
California for the purpose of mining gold and conducting trade?
... that the mining industry of Madagascar was struggling in 2013 due to "low metals prices and distrustful companies", attributed to a 2009 coup?
... that Japanese epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama has been credited with publishing the first study linking
passive smoking to lung cancer in nonsmokers?
... that the house of Argentine journalist
Jorge Lanata was stoned and apparently shot at after he aired interviews about the 2008 triple crime?
... that after winning three national championships with the
UCLA Bruins, John Ecker played basketball overseas and married German Olympic gold medalist
Heide Rosendahl?
... that before
pingo scars were discovered near Halfway Run(pictured), the only known pingo scars in the United States were located on a plain in Illinois?
... that Greek singer Litsa Diamanti has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of
metapolitefsi"?
... that Takeshi Murata's digitally animated kinetic sculpture Melter 3-D uses the principles of a
3D-zoetrope to create the appearance that its surface is fluid and rippling?
... that the type specimen of Albicoccus, a scale insect, is entombed with two types of flies in amber?
... that Carl Nielsen's late piano pieces Tre Klaverstykker have been ascribed a "dual sense of childlike innocence and devilish improvisation"?
... that although the spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus is heavily exploited for food throughout its range, its total population seems relatively unaffected?
... that six or more keys on a keyring can be distinguished from each other by coloring the keys using only two colors, but rings of three, four, or five keys require more colors?
... that after
Charles and
Anne Lindbergh's son
was kidnapped from their home, Highfields(pictured), in the so-called "crime of the century", it became a juvenile rehabilitation center?
... that the film roles of Nepalese actress
Manisha Koirala(pictured) have included a Muslim married to a Hindu during the
Bombay Riots, the daughter of a mute and deaf couple, and a terrorist?
... that Dorothy McKibbin was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos"?
... that Leptopharsa tacanae was the first lace bug to be described from Mexican amber?
... that the Meadows of the
Bedni Bugyal in the
Chamoli district have camps for pilgrims to visit the Rup Kund lake which is covered with snow for 10 months in a year?
... that actress Jenny Skavlan was married in 2014 in a dress she designed and made herself?
... that although the i-sala(pictured) headdresses have been described as
turbans, the bulk of the shape came from the bushy hair underneath the cloth?
... that the orange tulip ginger is not a citrus fruit, nor a tulip, nor a spice?
... that according to the Garbha Upanishad, the human foetus has knowledge of its past lives?
... that Sir Leonard Redshaw was part of a "Suicide Squad" of scientists and engineers who would be first responders in disasters involving
nuclear reactors?
... that Slough Fort in
Kent was one of around 70 forts constructed on the English coast in the 1860s in response to fears of a possible French invasion?
... that in the Akshi Upanishad, the Sun states that
Brahmavidya, knowledge of the absolute, is difficult to learn but will result in self-realization once acquired?
... that the architecture of John Goldicutt was influenced by his travels in Italy, where he produced architectural drawings such as View in Rome(pictured)?
... that the
Krun region of Pluto is named for Krun, the lord of the underworld in the
Mandaean religion of southern Iraq, who takes the form of a giant louse?
04:25, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Long-tongued bee
... that as flowers developed longer tubes, bees(pictured)coevolved by developing longer tongues to extract the
nectar?
... that the Rotherwas Room, once used as a private dining parlor for nobles in 17th-century England and for public poetry readings by
Robert Frost, is now open to visitors in the
Mead Art Museum?
... that soprano Susanne Rydén combined music by various Baroque composers in the musical show Christina's Journey, in which she sang, recited, and danced?
... that Canadian
gridiron football player Steven Clarke was a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that sought compensation for the alleged improper use of college athletes' images?
... that the Open Hand Monument(pictured) designed by
Le Corbusier symbolizes "the hand to give and the hand to take; peace and prosperity, and the unity of mankind"?
... that the art of William Etty(pictured) was considered so obscene, the press were concerned that it discouraged women from entering rooms where it was on display?
... that Arthur Dingle was selected to play rugby for
England in 1913, even though
Oxford had dropped him?
... that
Mark Ronson and
Jeff Bhaskar dropped in on churches, nightclubs, bars, and community centres in an attempt to find an appropriate vocalist for their song "I Can't Lose"?
... that Brad Carter became known as the "guy playing guitar during brain surgery" after he posted a video of his brain operation on
YouTube?
... that with S/O Satyamurthy,
Allu Arjun became the first
Telugu actor with two consecutive films earning more than ₹500 million worldwide?
... that in his house
on Pluto, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming?
3 August 2015
23:25, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Sarpa Satra
... that according to legend, emperor
Janamejaya organised the Sarpa Satrayagna(pictured) to exterminate all snakes after his father
Parikshit died of a snake bite?
... that the edible mushroom Tricholoma columbetta can have pink, violet, or green spots?
... that
Miss Utah 2015 Krissia Beatty is the fifth person in her family, after her grandmother, mother, and two aunts, to be crowned Miss Washington County?
... that the music video for
Demi Lovato's single "Cool for the Summer" is her "most sexually liberated video" and marks "a new chapter of her career"?
... that when the casket thought to contain Father Cyprien Liausu, founder of the Rouru Convent, was exhumed, the remains of an old woman were found inside instead?
2 August 2015
20:55, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
The Lutherkirche
... that the Lutherkirche in
Wiesbaden has two great organs, one behind the altar (pictured) built by
Walcker in 1911, the other opposite built by
Klais in the 1970s?
... that the 12th-century Eadwine Psalter has a famous portrait of Eadwine, "prince of scribes" (pictured), and illustrations to the
psalms copied from
a book then over 300 years old?
... that logger and farmer Bob Tarasuk plays himself in Bob and the Trees?
... that in elections in Guyana, the nominee of the party that receives the most votes becomes
President, even if the opposition win more seats (as happened
in 2011)?