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... that around divers, hooded cuttlefish are more curious and confident than squid or octopus?
... that an estimated 20,000
Muslim pilgrims, including a sister of Sultan
Osman III, were killed in a major Bedouin raid against the
Hajj caravan in 1757?
... that in the Alanya Archaeological Museum an important exhibit is a 2nd-century bronze statue of
Hercules(pictured), which measures 52 centimetres (20 in) in height?
... that Katie Page, CEO of
Harvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013
Magic Millions racing event?
... that the experimental drug vosoritide accelerated growth in a clinical study with children having
a form of dwarfism, but did not normalize body proportions?
... that the theatrical agent Robin Fox told his new wife "I have no intention of being faithful to you"?
... that when gallery owner Annely Juda moved back to London, she was followed by her nanny who took on paid work to help her?
27 September 2015
Mammillaria spinosissima var. 'rubrispina'
06:30, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
... that the cactus Mammillaria spinosissima(pictured) is
endemic to central Mexico and has berries that are club-shaped, smooth, and juicy?
... that Stephanie Langhoff, who has produced numerous films made by brothers
Jay and
Mark Duplass, has been referred to as "the honorary Duplass sister"?
... that BK Chicken Fries were discontinued in 2012, but reintroduced to Burger King's menu in 2014 after a highly successful social media campaign initiated by fans of the product?
... that in some breeding locations, the endangered Peruvian tern nests by the shore, while in others it uses sandy plains further inland?
... that Alan Wiggins set a professional baseball
stolen base record in 1980, but his team allowed him to be taken by another club in that year's
Rule 5 draft?
... that while both the Blue Mountain and the southern water skink produce live young, the latter can manipulate the sex of its offspring?
... that Iranian-born Azita Shariati, an executive with the French catering and support services multinational
Sodexo, has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden?
... that under the direction of Austin Cornelius Dunham the first transmitted three-phase electric current in the United States for a distance of several miles was done by
a public utility company?
... that Palazzo Alicorni in Rome (pictured), erected during the
Renaissance and thoroughly restored in 1928, was demolished three years later, only to be rebuilt in 1938?
... that film professor
Ray Carney found the first version of Shadows after searching for decades?
... that American epidemiologist Abraham Lilienfeld has been called "the father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology"?
... that in 2014 the Sunday Independent named Irish venture capitalist Elaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"?
... that three new species of beetle were identified from the stomach contents of the Colombian forest mouse?
... that professional
lacrosse player Matt Poskay set an American record of 362 goals scored in his high school career that stood for nearly a decade?
... that sculptor
Chester Beach was so tired of complaints about the design of the Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar(pictured) that he suggested he be sent to Hawaii to absorb the atmosphere?
... that when the
British Honduran Lands Department claimed no lands were available for women, Gwendolyn Lizarraga marched into the
swamp and measured lots to create land parcels?
... that Ann-Marie Campbell, southern division president for
The Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier?
... that Maiasmokk is said to be the oldest continuously operating café in Estonia, founded in 1864?
... that when investigators searched the homes of Vice Admiral Wang Shouye, they found US $2.5 million in a washing machine and
RMB¥ 52 million in refrigerators and microwaves?
... that Trinity Chain Pier(pictured) was built in 1821, eaten by worms, repaired, destroyed in a storm in 1898, then became a
pub where in the 1960s the landlady used weapons to chase customers away?
... that both species of the ant Pseudectatomma were described in 2012?
... that proposals to build a Muslim cemetery in Farmersville, Texas, have been met by death threats against city officials and threats to desecrate the site with pigs' blood?
... that within two years of the hiring of Sandi Peterson as group worldwide chairman of
Johnson & Johnson, the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions?
... that the Gol Talab pond is an official heritage site, designated by the city administration of
Dhaka?
... that
Azerbaijani human rights activist Rasim Aliyev was beaten and later died after criticizing a football player for an improper gesture during a game?
... that the River Ebro rises near the town of Reinosa in northern Spain and is impounded just below the town?
... that Touran Mirhadi has been called "the godmother of progressive education in Iran"?
01:05, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Owen Swift
... that the
bare-knuckleprize fighterOwen Swift(pictured) killed at least three opponents, leading to the rewriting of the rules of boxing?
... that
Nagy's painting Egyptian Revival, which had been displayed in the
Paris Salon and honored with a gold medal, is now in the Mohamed Nagy Museum?
... that the rose-collared piha feeds mainly on fruit, plucked while in flight?
... that the Mohale Dam(pictured) won South Africa's 2005 Fulton Award for "Best Construction Engineering Project and Best Construction Technique"?
... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande?
... that the bentfin devil ray is threatened by overfishing, both as a targeted species but also as
bycatch?
... that after the theatrical release of The Interview was cancelled due to
Sony Pictures being
hacked, it earned over $40 million from an online release?
... that the horse-fly(pictured) can transfer blood-borne diseases from one animal to another while feeding?
... that when the cargo ship Sinfra was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1943, the German guards machine-gunned the thousands of
Italian prisoners on board when they tried to escape the sinking vessel?
... that opinion turned so sharply against the Sentinel ABM system during the 1968 elections, that incoming President
Nixon was forced to cancel the program?
... that Martin Allwood translated
Gunvor Hofmo's "Alt jeg bad om, det er også skjedd, / og hjertet—men jeg er bare redd!" as "All I asked for has been granted me—Yet I am scared, although my heart is free."?
... that during
World War II, Roman Gross was rescued from the Jewish Tarnopol Ghetto by Józef Regent, whom he in turn had rescued from deportation earlier in the war?
... that the Atlantic bamboo rat lives in bamboo thickets and makes loud squeals when alarmed?
... that sand cockroaches vary in colour according to what food they eat?
13 September 2015
15:20, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
... that St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata(pictured), the largest in the city, was the first Episcopal Church of
Asia and the first to be built in the overseas territory of the
British Empire?
... that Public Health Reports was established in 1878 to meet the requirements of the National Quarantine Act, which required American consulates abroad to report on epidemic diseases?
... that the
hoist of the Sainte Marie Coal Mine should have been used only during
shaft mining, but was used after this, leading to the entrapment of five miners when it broke?
... that the
pathogen load of Stony Run is nearly seven quadrillion organisms per month?
... that Lieutenant Edwin P. Ramsey led the last US
cavalry charge in history and drove off a much larger Japanese
infantry force in the Philippines during the early part of
World War II?
... that future
Member of ParliamentSaul Bonnell was working locally as a physician on the day of one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history?
... that AVI Records was the second record label to use expanded grooves, after
Motown?
... that before her death in police custody, activist Sandra Bland posted, "In the news that we've seen as of late, you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed"?
... that the last use of capital punishment in Spain provoked international protests against the Spanish government, including the withdrawal of ambassadors and attacks on Spanish embassies?
... that a biochronology based on mammal fossils is defined for every continent except
Antarctica?
... that Garrison Point Fort in
Sheerness, Kent, is a rare example of a two-tiered casemated sea battery of the 1860s?
... that the British wheelchair basketball player Leah Evans launched a public appeal to raise funds for a new chair, which costs £3750?
... that the text of
Bach's Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228, a
motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by
Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"?
... that the Scottish footballer Omar Kader was signed by
Alloa Athletic after playing against them in a play-off game for
Forfar?
... that novelist
Nuruddin Farah's sister died in a terrorist attack, similar to how a character dies in his then newly finished novel Hiding in Plain Sight?
... that in the three years since
Xi Jinping became China's top leader, lieutenant general Yu Zhongfu has been appointed to three leadership positions in the military?
... that cave paintings in Puente Viesgo in northern Spain include a red disc which is believed to be over 40,000 years old?
... that Samuel L. M. Barlow I settled a dispute concerning a $1,600,000 contract to send arms to France?
... that a biography of the much-travelled Professor Josephine Tilden was titled "Algae of Acrimony"?
... that the flail space model models how a passenger will move in a collision with a roadside feature like a
guardrail, since
crash test dummies are not accurate in such cases?
... that
gridiron football player Lemar Durant achieved both the single-game conference record for touchdowns and season conference record for catches in his first year with the
Simon Fraser Clan?
... that more than 50 years after being designated as one of the most unremunerative railway lines in
Great Britain, part of the
Waverley Route has been rebuilt as the Borders Railway?
... that when Romanian headmaster Alexandru Lambrior was fired for political reasons, all but two of the teachers at his school resigned in protest within two days?
... that only the government of Tunisia is allowed to own the country's mines?
... that Ralph Townsend was described as "the most adamant and extreme of the voices in America defending Japanese policy"?
... that the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award is given out every year on India's Independence Day in honour of the 11th President of India?
... that during the history of the Province of Savona, the capital city and shipping in the port were destroyed several times by
Genoa?
... that Bill Sweek had expected to be kicked off the
UCLA basketball team, but Coach
John Wooden played him days later when they won their record-setting third straight national championship?
... that
BBC One's 5-Star Family Reunion involves teams of four alternating between multiple-choice questions and quick-fire questions for four rounds?
... that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out
wildfires—and it is against the law to refuse?
... that
Miss OregonStephenie Steers wore a swimsuit and cap made from recycled bicycle tire inner tubes in the 2011 Miss America Parade?
00:00, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Perijá tapaculo
... that specimens of the Perijá tapaculo(pictured) were classified as being from four different bird species before being identified as a separate species?
... that the first edition of Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș's collected works was destroyed because it contained too many typos, while nearly all copies of the second burned in a fire?
... that the partnership between model aircraft company Airtronics and transmitter manufacturer Sanwa helped increase the former's annual profit from less than $1 million in 1983 to $8 million in 1989?
... that the newly discovered Birmingham Quran manuscript(pictured) comprises fragments of an ancient
Quran that may date to near Muhammad's lifetime?
... that Paul Bujor rose from modest beginnings to become a zoology professor, a published fiction author, a member of the
Romanian Academy, and
president of his country's
Senate?
... that Gerard Shelley defended
Rasputin in December 1916 when most people were against him?
... that in one Lady's Magazine article printed in June 1775, a male doctor writes that women with red hair have "generally become the best breeders of the nation"?
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 around divers, hooded cuttlefish are more curious and confident than squid or octopus?
... that an estimated 20,000
Muslim pilgrims, including a sister of Sultan
Osman III, were killed in a major Bedouin raid against the
Hajj caravan in 1757?
... that in the Alanya Archaeological Museum an important exhibit is a 2nd-century bronze statue of
Hercules(pictured), which measures 52 centimetres (20 in) in height?
... that Katie Page, CEO of
Harvey Norman and an active supporter of women in sports, announced a $500,000 purse for horses owned or leased by women at the 2013
Magic Millions racing event?
... that the experimental drug vosoritide accelerated growth in a clinical study with children having
a form of dwarfism, but did not normalize body proportions?
... that the theatrical agent Robin Fox told his new wife "I have no intention of being faithful to you"?
... that when gallery owner Annely Juda moved back to London, she was followed by her nanny who took on paid work to help her?
27 September 2015
Mammillaria spinosissima var. 'rubrispina'
06:30, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
... that the cactus Mammillaria spinosissima(pictured) is
endemic to central Mexico and has berries that are club-shaped, smooth, and juicy?
... that Stephanie Langhoff, who has produced numerous films made by brothers
Jay and
Mark Duplass, has been referred to as "the honorary Duplass sister"?
... that BK Chicken Fries were discontinued in 2012, but reintroduced to Burger King's menu in 2014 after a highly successful social media campaign initiated by fans of the product?
... that in some breeding locations, the endangered Peruvian tern nests by the shore, while in others it uses sandy plains further inland?
... that Alan Wiggins set a professional baseball
stolen base record in 1980, but his team allowed him to be taken by another club in that year's
Rule 5 draft?
... that while both the Blue Mountain and the southern water skink produce live young, the latter can manipulate the sex of its offspring?
... that Iranian-born Azita Shariati, an executive with the French catering and support services multinational
Sodexo, has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Sweden?
... that under the direction of Austin Cornelius Dunham the first transmitted three-phase electric current in the United States for a distance of several miles was done by
a public utility company?
... that Palazzo Alicorni in Rome (pictured), erected during the
Renaissance and thoroughly restored in 1928, was demolished three years later, only to be rebuilt in 1938?
... that film professor
Ray Carney found the first version of Shadows after searching for decades?
... that American epidemiologist Abraham Lilienfeld has been called "the father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology"?
... that in 2014 the Sunday Independent named Irish venture capitalist Elaine Coughlan one of "The 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Business"?
... that three new species of beetle were identified from the stomach contents of the Colombian forest mouse?
... that professional
lacrosse player Matt Poskay set an American record of 362 goals scored in his high school career that stood for nearly a decade?
... that sculptor
Chester Beach was so tired of complaints about the design of the Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar(pictured) that he suggested he be sent to Hawaii to absorb the atmosphere?
... that when the
British Honduran Lands Department claimed no lands were available for women, Gwendolyn Lizarraga marched into the
swamp and measured lots to create land parcels?
... that Ann-Marie Campbell, southern division president for
The Home Depot with responsibility for 690 stores and 100,000 employees, started with the company as a part-time cashier?
... that Maiasmokk is said to be the oldest continuously operating café in Estonia, founded in 1864?
... that when investigators searched the homes of Vice Admiral Wang Shouye, they found US $2.5 million in a washing machine and
RMB¥ 52 million in refrigerators and microwaves?
... that Trinity Chain Pier(pictured) was built in 1821, eaten by worms, repaired, destroyed in a storm in 1898, then became a
pub where in the 1960s the landlady used weapons to chase customers away?
... that both species of the ant Pseudectatomma were described in 2012?
... that proposals to build a Muslim cemetery in Farmersville, Texas, have been met by death threats against city officials and threats to desecrate the site with pigs' blood?
... that within two years of the hiring of Sandi Peterson as group worldwide chairman of
Johnson & Johnson, the company doubled its number of women in executive leadership positions?
... that the Gol Talab pond is an official heritage site, designated by the city administration of
Dhaka?
... that
Azerbaijani human rights activist Rasim Aliyev was beaten and later died after criticizing a football player for an improper gesture during a game?
... that the River Ebro rises near the town of Reinosa in northern Spain and is impounded just below the town?
... that Touran Mirhadi has been called "the godmother of progressive education in Iran"?
01:05, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Owen Swift
... that the
bare-knuckleprize fighterOwen Swift(pictured) killed at least three opponents, leading to the rewriting of the rules of boxing?
... that
Nagy's painting Egyptian Revival, which had been displayed in the
Paris Salon and honored with a gold medal, is now in the Mohamed Nagy Museum?
... that the rose-collared piha feeds mainly on fruit, plucked while in flight?
... that the Mohale Dam(pictured) won South Africa's 2005 Fulton Award for "Best Construction Engineering Project and Best Construction Technique"?
... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande?
... that the bentfin devil ray is threatened by overfishing, both as a targeted species but also as
bycatch?
... that after the theatrical release of The Interview was cancelled due to
Sony Pictures being
hacked, it earned over $40 million from an online release?
... that the horse-fly(pictured) can transfer blood-borne diseases from one animal to another while feeding?
... that when the cargo ship Sinfra was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1943, the German guards machine-gunned the thousands of
Italian prisoners on board when they tried to escape the sinking vessel?
... that opinion turned so sharply against the Sentinel ABM system during the 1968 elections, that incoming President
Nixon was forced to cancel the program?
... that Martin Allwood translated
Gunvor Hofmo's "Alt jeg bad om, det er også skjedd, / og hjertet—men jeg er bare redd!" as "All I asked for has been granted me—Yet I am scared, although my heart is free."?
... that during
World War II, Roman Gross was rescued from the Jewish Tarnopol Ghetto by Józef Regent, whom he in turn had rescued from deportation earlier in the war?
... that the Atlantic bamboo rat lives in bamboo thickets and makes loud squeals when alarmed?
... that sand cockroaches vary in colour according to what food they eat?
13 September 2015
15:20, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
... that St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata(pictured), the largest in the city, was the first Episcopal Church of
Asia and the first to be built in the overseas territory of the
British Empire?
... that Public Health Reports was established in 1878 to meet the requirements of the National Quarantine Act, which required American consulates abroad to report on epidemic diseases?
... that the
hoist of the Sainte Marie Coal Mine should have been used only during
shaft mining, but was used after this, leading to the entrapment of five miners when it broke?
... that the
pathogen load of Stony Run is nearly seven quadrillion organisms per month?
... that Lieutenant Edwin P. Ramsey led the last US
cavalry charge in history and drove off a much larger Japanese
infantry force in the Philippines during the early part of
World War II?
... that future
Member of ParliamentSaul Bonnell was working locally as a physician on the day of one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history?
... that AVI Records was the second record label to use expanded grooves, after
Motown?
... that before her death in police custody, activist Sandra Bland posted, "In the news that we've seen as of late, you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed"?
... that the last use of capital punishment in Spain provoked international protests against the Spanish government, including the withdrawal of ambassadors and attacks on Spanish embassies?
... that a biochronology based on mammal fossils is defined for every continent except
Antarctica?
... that Garrison Point Fort in
Sheerness, Kent, is a rare example of a two-tiered casemated sea battery of the 1860s?
... that the British wheelchair basketball player Leah Evans launched a public appeal to raise funds for a new chair, which costs £3750?
... that the text of
Bach's Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228, a
motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by
Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"?
... that the Scottish footballer Omar Kader was signed by
Alloa Athletic after playing against them in a play-off game for
Forfar?
... that novelist
Nuruddin Farah's sister died in a terrorist attack, similar to how a character dies in his then newly finished novel Hiding in Plain Sight?
... that in the three years since
Xi Jinping became China's top leader, lieutenant general Yu Zhongfu has been appointed to three leadership positions in the military?
... that cave paintings in Puente Viesgo in northern Spain include a red disc which is believed to be over 40,000 years old?
... that Samuel L. M. Barlow I settled a dispute concerning a $1,600,000 contract to send arms to France?
... that a biography of the much-travelled Professor Josephine Tilden was titled "Algae of Acrimony"?
... that the flail space model models how a passenger will move in a collision with a roadside feature like a
guardrail, since
crash test dummies are not accurate in such cases?
... that
gridiron football player Lemar Durant achieved both the single-game conference record for touchdowns and season conference record for catches in his first year with the
Simon Fraser Clan?
... that more than 50 years after being designated as one of the most unremunerative railway lines in
Great Britain, part of the
Waverley Route has been rebuilt as the Borders Railway?
... that when Romanian headmaster Alexandru Lambrior was fired for political reasons, all but two of the teachers at his school resigned in protest within two days?
... that only the government of Tunisia is allowed to own the country's mines?
... that Ralph Townsend was described as "the most adamant and extreme of the voices in America defending Japanese policy"?
... that the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award is given out every year on India's Independence Day in honour of the 11th President of India?
... that during the history of the Province of Savona, the capital city and shipping in the port were destroyed several times by
Genoa?
... that Bill Sweek had expected to be kicked off the
UCLA basketball team, but Coach
John Wooden played him days later when they won their record-setting third straight national championship?
... that
BBC One's 5-Star Family Reunion involves teams of four alternating between multiple-choice questions and quick-fire questions for four rounds?
... that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden can summon any person aged 18 to 50 to assist in putting out
wildfires—and it is against the law to refuse?
... that
Miss OregonStephenie Steers wore a swimsuit and cap made from recycled bicycle tire inner tubes in the 2011 Miss America Parade?
00:00, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Perijá tapaculo
... that specimens of the Perijá tapaculo(pictured) were classified as being from four different bird species before being identified as a separate species?
... that the first edition of Romanian writer Calistrat Hogaș's collected works was destroyed because it contained too many typos, while nearly all copies of the second burned in a fire?
... that the partnership between model aircraft company Airtronics and transmitter manufacturer Sanwa helped increase the former's annual profit from less than $1 million in 1983 to $8 million in 1989?
... that the newly discovered Birmingham Quran manuscript(pictured) comprises fragments of an ancient
Quran that may date to near Muhammad's lifetime?
... that Paul Bujor rose from modest beginnings to become a zoology professor, a published fiction author, a member of the
Romanian Academy, and
president of his country's
Senate?
... that Gerard Shelley defended
Rasputin in December 1916 when most people were against him?
... that in one Lady's Magazine article printed in June 1775, a male doctor writes that women with red hair have "generally become the best breeders of the nation"?