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31 July 2015
15:05, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Grain Tower at low tide
... that the Grain Tower(pictured), the last
Martello-style gun tower to be built in Britain, was designed to protect the mouth of the
River Medway?
... that Ray Davies was forced to make a round-trip flight from New York to London to rerecord two words in "Lola"?
00:40, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Wendiceratops
... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops(illustration pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration?
... that a reviewer commented that the name of Gangsta.'s fictional location "sounds like some sort of stomach disorder"?
... that Bisrakh village in
Greater Noida is believed to be the birthplace of the mythological king
Ravana of the epic
Ramayana, who in later years was the king of
Sri Lanka?
... that Dutch journalist Frans Goedhart(pictured) illegally founded a newsletter during World War II, was sentenced to death, escaped, and served in the
House of Representatives for 25 years?
... that
Canadian football defensive back John Ojo returned an interception 57 yards (52 m) for a touchdown in the first home game of his rookie season?
... that although Mathilde Wurm's death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the
Gestapo?
... that at 10,400 feet (3,200 m), the Staten Island Tunnel would have been the world's longest tunnel, but it was abandoned after only 150 feet (46 m) of it had been built?
... that Rodger Dudding got his start as the largest owner of
self-storage garages in the United Kingdom by buying ten units from his landlord?
... that Fanling Lodge, the summer residence for the then
Governor of Hong Kong, served as a venue for secret discussions between China and the United Kingdom in the years preceding the
1997 handover?
... that a controversial pool, built at South African president Jacob Zuma's
Nkandla compound and deemed as a "fire pool", has faced "public condemnation"?
... that Adam's ale is a humorous epithet alluding to the presumption that the biblical
first man had only water to drink?
... that the lyrics for "Crying", the lead track on
Heo Young-saeng's 2012 EP Solo, were written by Heo himself?
... that there was a 19th-century secret society in Minnesota dedicated to eliminating native Americans from the state?
... that in 1934, participants in a political rally in
Kelayres, Pennsylvania, were gunned down as they marched past the house of the local opposition party boss?
... that finds of the
Neolithic period from the archaeological excavations at
Zhejiang and
Jiangxi have led to a claim in China that the groundnut is an indigenous crop?
... that after signing a professional contract with Italian club
Palermo, Norwegian footballer Arne Kotte injured his knee five minutes into his first training match, and was out of action for six months?
... that Joseph Kaiha, mayor of the French Polynesian island of
Ua Pu, has lobbied for a helicopter to serve the
Marquesas Islands for medical emergencies?
... that despite her pregnancy, actress
Smita Patil continued filming for Thikana (1987), but died from childbirth complications before the film's release?
... that according to the philosopher
Julian Baggini, "
Vegans are the only group who can oppose China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival(typical dish pictured) without any fear of hypocrisy"?
... that the French submarine Mariotte was nicknamed the "toothbrush" on account of her unusual hull configuration?
... that a wooden bridge connecting the two towers of the Holy Cross Church(pictured) in
Lehre, Germany, was jokingly called the highest bridge in
Lower Saxony?
... that the vegetation stored by the tobacco cricket does not ferment, so it is probable that it is cut and allowed to wilt before being carried underground?
... that the flashes of folk humour in I. I. Mironescu's published stories reflect his reported talent as a raconteur?
... that the lyrics of "The Art of Seduction", the lead track on the album Life by
Heo Young-saeng, tell a story that is the complete opposite of its music video's plot?
... that the former England international rugby player Frank Tarr was killed on 18 July 1915 by a splinter from a shell after telling his men to keep cover?
... that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the
American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?
17 July 2015
12:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the fragile habitat of the silver-leaf sunray(pictured) is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?
... that John D. Voelker(pictured) wanted to be appointed to the
Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?
... that under the
Thai/
United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for
opium?
... that Australia's leading
Battle of Britainace, Pat Hughes, is thought to have died after his
Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
... that the deep sea, solitary Dactylotrochus cervicornis(pictured) is now included in a family of otherwise shallow-water,
colonial corals?
... that a 34-year-old university lecturer in China committed suicide on campus after learning he had lost out to a rival for the position of
Communist Youth League leader?
... that while the
Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Itri(pictured) was built for American Jewish
immigrants, the apartments were small by American standards?
... that in his
tone poemThe Oceanides, Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius "applied the
impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
... that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, winner of the
Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
13 July 2015
12:00, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
... that The World Before the Flood(detail pictured) was described on its initial exhibition as a "deadly sin against good taste"?
... that roving reference engages patrons beyond the traditional library?
... that Šime Budinić created a version of
Latin script, based on the
Cyrillic and
Glagolitic scripts, to make
Church writings accessible to 16th-century Southern Slavs?
... that, after
H2O.ai's open-source machine-learning software H2O was ranked best in its class, Fortune profiled H2O programmer Arno Candel as a Big-Data All-Star?
... that the soprano Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from
Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage?
... that the wasp Sceliphron laetumcaches up to nine spiders in a mud cell for consumption by its developing offspring?
... that early in his criminal career, Swedish bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to break
Clark Olofsson out of jail, but failed to do so because of a dynamite malfunction?
... that Jeff Seidel has sent thousands of Jewish college students to families in
Jerusalem to eat a
Shabbat meal?
... that the national park visitor centre of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in the
Galápagos Islands has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises?
... that when word got out that the
ShellPolar Pioneer and other Arctic
drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of kayaktivists came out to protest?
... that the
13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the
Chinese Zen monk Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986?
... that
Sian Heder had written the screenplay for Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June?
... that a toilet service(pictured), containing as many as 48 pieces in silver or
silver-gilt for the dressing-table, was a wedding present for rich women from the 17th century onwards?
... that after the attack at the
Curtis Culwell Center in
Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
... that the jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum can be eaten raw as a salad and has a crisp texture?
... that For Honor, a
hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
7 July 2015
12:35, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the intense lighting of The Wrestlers(pictured) highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple?
... that in a 2013 case, the
Singapore Court of Appeal held that the Prime Minister was wrong to say he had discretion under the Constitution not to call a by-election to fill a parliamentary vacancy?
... that some sketches in the upcoming TV Sucks last for only a few seconds?
... that the former site of the Old White Horse Cellar, one of the most famous
coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of
The Ritz?
... that the visually impaired
Romanian poet Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of
Toledo steel, which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
01:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the exhibition of Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm(detail pictured) prompted the comment that "no decent family can hang such sights against their wall"?
... that during World War II, James Franck's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in
aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
... that the snack kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of
Cirebon?
... that 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a
raja, whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river
Ganges?
... that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then-
public editor of The New York Times, said that the 2012 creation of NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times?
... that Boris Volkoff performed and choreographed under his mother's family name?
... that The Verge wrote that Google Photos had made obsolete the concept of paying for digital photo storage?
... that the wreck of the São José Paquete Africa is the first shipwreck ever discovered of a working slave ship, lost while in transit with its human cargo?
... that the British magazine Eastern Eye named Katrina Kaif the "Sexiest Asian Woman" from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2013?
... that more than 35,000 local governments in the US are served by 556 regional councils of governments?
... that the "P"-badge(pictured) for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by
Nazi Germany, preceding the "
Jewish yellow star" by over a year?
... that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
... that the golfer Bertie Snowball was a professional in all four
Home Nations before being killed in action during World War I, aged just 28?
... that most of the flow that Wilson Creek contributes to the Lackawanna River comes from one
acid mine drainage discharge?
... that the #NiUnaMenos demonstration against
femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people?
... that in 1681, a white woman married an African slave in colonial Maryland, even though she knew that doing so would condemn her to a life of slavery?
... that Shelley Cronau, who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of
binge drinking?
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.
31 July 2015
15:05, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Grain Tower at low tide
... that the Grain Tower(pictured), the last
Martello-style gun tower to be built in Britain, was designed to protect the mouth of the
River Medway?
... that Ray Davies was forced to make a round-trip flight from New York to London to rerecord two words in "Lola"?
00:40, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Wendiceratops
... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops(illustration pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration?
... that a reviewer commented that the name of Gangsta.'s fictional location "sounds like some sort of stomach disorder"?
... that Bisrakh village in
Greater Noida is believed to be the birthplace of the mythological king
Ravana of the epic
Ramayana, who in later years was the king of
Sri Lanka?
... that Dutch journalist Frans Goedhart(pictured) illegally founded a newsletter during World War II, was sentenced to death, escaped, and served in the
House of Representatives for 25 years?
... that
Canadian football defensive back John Ojo returned an interception 57 yards (52 m) for a touchdown in the first home game of his rookie season?
... that although Mathilde Wurm's death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the
Gestapo?
... that at 10,400 feet (3,200 m), the Staten Island Tunnel would have been the world's longest tunnel, but it was abandoned after only 150 feet (46 m) of it had been built?
... that Rodger Dudding got his start as the largest owner of
self-storage garages in the United Kingdom by buying ten units from his landlord?
... that Fanling Lodge, the summer residence for the then
Governor of Hong Kong, served as a venue for secret discussions between China and the United Kingdom in the years preceding the
1997 handover?
... that a controversial pool, built at South African president Jacob Zuma's
Nkandla compound and deemed as a "fire pool", has faced "public condemnation"?
... that Adam's ale is a humorous epithet alluding to the presumption that the biblical
first man had only water to drink?
... that the lyrics for "Crying", the lead track on
Heo Young-saeng's 2012 EP Solo, were written by Heo himself?
... that there was a 19th-century secret society in Minnesota dedicated to eliminating native Americans from the state?
... that in 1934, participants in a political rally in
Kelayres, Pennsylvania, were gunned down as they marched past the house of the local opposition party boss?
... that finds of the
Neolithic period from the archaeological excavations at
Zhejiang and
Jiangxi have led to a claim in China that the groundnut is an indigenous crop?
... that after signing a professional contract with Italian club
Palermo, Norwegian footballer Arne Kotte injured his knee five minutes into his first training match, and was out of action for six months?
... that Joseph Kaiha, mayor of the French Polynesian island of
Ua Pu, has lobbied for a helicopter to serve the
Marquesas Islands for medical emergencies?
... that despite her pregnancy, actress
Smita Patil continued filming for Thikana (1987), but died from childbirth complications before the film's release?
... that according to the philosopher
Julian Baggini, "
Vegans are the only group who can oppose China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival(typical dish pictured) without any fear of hypocrisy"?
... that the French submarine Mariotte was nicknamed the "toothbrush" on account of her unusual hull configuration?
... that a wooden bridge connecting the two towers of the Holy Cross Church(pictured) in
Lehre, Germany, was jokingly called the highest bridge in
Lower Saxony?
... that the vegetation stored by the tobacco cricket does not ferment, so it is probable that it is cut and allowed to wilt before being carried underground?
... that the flashes of folk humour in I. I. Mironescu's published stories reflect his reported talent as a raconteur?
... that the lyrics of "The Art of Seduction", the lead track on the album Life by
Heo Young-saeng, tell a story that is the complete opposite of its music video's plot?
... that the former England international rugby player Frank Tarr was killed on 18 July 1915 by a splinter from a shell after telling his men to keep cover?
... that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the
American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?
17 July 2015
12:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the fragile habitat of the silver-leaf sunray(pictured) is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?
... that John D. Voelker(pictured) wanted to be appointed to the
Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?
... that under the
Thai/
United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for
opium?
... that Australia's leading
Battle of Britainace, Pat Hughes, is thought to have died after his
Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
... that the deep sea, solitary Dactylotrochus cervicornis(pictured) is now included in a family of otherwise shallow-water,
colonial corals?
... that a 34-year-old university lecturer in China committed suicide on campus after learning he had lost out to a rival for the position of
Communist Youth League leader?
... that while the
Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Itri(pictured) was built for American Jewish
immigrants, the apartments were small by American standards?
... that in his
tone poemThe Oceanides, Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius "applied the
impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
... that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, winner of the
Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
13 July 2015
12:00, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
... that The World Before the Flood(detail pictured) was described on its initial exhibition as a "deadly sin against good taste"?
... that roving reference engages patrons beyond the traditional library?
... that Šime Budinić created a version of
Latin script, based on the
Cyrillic and
Glagolitic scripts, to make
Church writings accessible to 16th-century Southern Slavs?
... that, after
H2O.ai's open-source machine-learning software H2O was ranked best in its class, Fortune profiled H2O programmer Arno Candel as a Big-Data All-Star?
... that the soprano Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from
Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage?
... that the wasp Sceliphron laetumcaches up to nine spiders in a mud cell for consumption by its developing offspring?
... that early in his criminal career, Swedish bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to break
Clark Olofsson out of jail, but failed to do so because of a dynamite malfunction?
... that Jeff Seidel has sent thousands of Jewish college students to families in
Jerusalem to eat a
Shabbat meal?
... that the national park visitor centre of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in the
Galápagos Islands has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises?
... that when word got out that the
ShellPolar Pioneer and other Arctic
drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of kayaktivists came out to protest?
... that the
13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the
Chinese Zen monk Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986?
... that
Sian Heder had written the screenplay for Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June?
... that a toilet service(pictured), containing as many as 48 pieces in silver or
silver-gilt for the dressing-table, was a wedding present for rich women from the 17th century onwards?
... that after the attack at the
Curtis Culwell Center in
Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
... that the jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum can be eaten raw as a salad and has a crisp texture?
... that For Honor, a
hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
7 July 2015
12:35, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the intense lighting of The Wrestlers(pictured) highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple?
... that in a 2013 case, the
Singapore Court of Appeal held that the Prime Minister was wrong to say he had discretion under the Constitution not to call a by-election to fill a parliamentary vacancy?
... that some sketches in the upcoming TV Sucks last for only a few seconds?
... that the former site of the Old White Horse Cellar, one of the most famous
coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of
The Ritz?
... that the visually impaired
Romanian poet Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of
Toledo steel, which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
01:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
... that the exhibition of Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm(detail pictured) prompted the comment that "no decent family can hang such sights against their wall"?
... that during World War II, James Franck's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in
aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
... that the snack kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of
Cirebon?
... that 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a
raja, whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river
Ganges?
... that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then-
public editor of The New York Times, said that the 2012 creation of NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times?
... that Boris Volkoff performed and choreographed under his mother's family name?
... that The Verge wrote that Google Photos had made obsolete the concept of paying for digital photo storage?
... that the wreck of the São José Paquete Africa is the first shipwreck ever discovered of a working slave ship, lost while in transit with its human cargo?
... that the British magazine Eastern Eye named Katrina Kaif the "Sexiest Asian Woman" from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2013?
... that more than 35,000 local governments in the US are served by 556 regional councils of governments?
... that the "P"-badge(pictured) for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by
Nazi Germany, preceding the "
Jewish yellow star" by over a year?
... that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
... that the golfer Bertie Snowball was a professional in all four
Home Nations before being killed in action during World War I, aged just 28?
... that most of the flow that Wilson Creek contributes to the Lackawanna River comes from one
acid mine drainage discharge?
... that the #NiUnaMenos demonstration against
femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people?
... that in 1681, a white woman married an African slave in colonial Maryland, even though she knew that doing so would condemn her to a life of slavery?
... that Shelley Cronau, who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of
binge drinking?