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... that Operation PBFORTUNE, organized by the
CIA to topple Guatemalan President
Jacobo Árbenz, was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
... that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a
mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
... that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy"
tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in
Bomba Estéreo's "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video?
... that the refrain of "Heaven" by
Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
... that when
Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
... that Time magazine said The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?
... that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
... that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from
cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President
Abraham Lincoln?
... that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?
... that the mantou kiln, used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of
steamed bread bun?
... that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional
Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
... that in the carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
... that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of Apus are red-tinged?
... that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa, the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met
Pope Pius IX?
... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
... that in 2015, Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km)
Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
... that Martin Schmeding recorded the complete organ works by
Max Reger on thirteen different organs from the composer's period, including the Sauer organ at
Berlin Cathedral(pictured)?
... that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
... that lawyer and activist Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
... that after part of the dome of the
New Jersey State House was painted blue, George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
... that in the 1980s, the
West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader
Phizo?
... that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
... that Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both
the song and
the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?
19 December 2016
00:00, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Referee retrieving doll from ring
... that during
wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coaches threw plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, into the ring (pictured) if they wished to challenge a referee's call?
... that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman
Solon?
... that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000
SS officers, held as POWs after
World War II, was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
... that Kurile Lake is the site of the largest
volcanic eruption of
HoloceneKamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
... that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most
googled person in Israel in 2015?
... that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken?
... that I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer
Seven had invested six billion
won (US$5.24 million)?
... that Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
... that when introducing actress
Sharon Stone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
15 December 2016
00:00, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Parshvanatha temple magic square
... that an inscription at the circa 10th-century Parshvanatha temple features one of the oldest known 4×4
magic squares(pictured)?
... that the
labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
... that at Bexley Hospital, the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
... that the princess Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because
her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister Maria instead?
14 December 2016
00:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Mary Chase Walker
... that schoolteacher Mary Chase Walker(pictured) was boycotted in 1866 in
San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman?
... that El Progreso Department in
Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
... that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with
a prince?
... that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at
Notre Dame, Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the
FBI Academy?
... that Neues Geistliches Lied, a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
... that the male tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?
7 December 2016
00:00, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Performance of e-baby
... that Jane Caferella's play e-baby(
Ensemble Theatre performance pictured) was called "a very rare theatrical beast", as it explores the visceral experience of two women joined by
gestational surrogacy?
... that caterer Sir Joseph Lyons staged Venice in London(programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
... that 45-pound (20 kg) weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
... that the first known specimen of the
dinosaurTongtianlong limosus, which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
1 December 2016
00:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Soap-bubble chandelier
... that in La Science Amusante, Arthur Good constructed imaginative scientific apparatus such as the "soap-bubble chandelier" (illustrated) using common items like bottles, candles, and soap?
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 Operation PBFORTUNE, organized by the
CIA to topple Guatemalan President
Jacobo Árbenz, was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
... that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a
mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
... that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy"
tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in
Bomba Estéreo's "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video?
... that the refrain of "Heaven" by
Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
... that when
Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
... that Time magazine said The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?
... that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
... that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from
cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President
Abraham Lincoln?
... that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?
... that the mantou kiln, used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of
steamed bread bun?
... that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional
Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
... that in the carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
... that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of Apus are red-tinged?
... that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa, the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met
Pope Pius IX?
... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
... that in 2015, Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km)
Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
... that Martin Schmeding recorded the complete organ works by
Max Reger on thirteen different organs from the composer's period, including the Sauer organ at
Berlin Cathedral(pictured)?
... that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
... that lawyer and activist Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
... that after part of the dome of the
New Jersey State House was painted blue, George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
... that in the 1980s, the
West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader
Phizo?
... that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
... that Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both
the song and
the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?
19 December 2016
00:00, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Referee retrieving doll from ring
... that during
wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coaches threw plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, into the ring (pictured) if they wished to challenge a referee's call?
... that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman
Solon?
... that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000
SS officers, held as POWs after
World War II, was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
... that Kurile Lake is the site of the largest
volcanic eruption of
HoloceneKamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
... that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most
googled person in Israel in 2015?
... that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken?
... that I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer
Seven had invested six billion
won (US$5.24 million)?
... that Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
... that when introducing actress
Sharon Stone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
15 December 2016
00:00, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Parshvanatha temple magic square
... that an inscription at the circa 10th-century Parshvanatha temple features one of the oldest known 4×4
magic squares(pictured)?
... that the
labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
... that at Bexley Hospital, the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
... that the princess Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because
her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister Maria instead?
14 December 2016
00:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Mary Chase Walker
... that schoolteacher Mary Chase Walker(pictured) was boycotted in 1866 in
San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman?
... that El Progreso Department in
Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
... that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with
a prince?
... that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at
Notre Dame, Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the
FBI Academy?
... that Neues Geistliches Lied, a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
... that the male tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?
7 December 2016
00:00, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Performance of e-baby
... that Jane Caferella's play e-baby(
Ensemble Theatre performance pictured) was called "a very rare theatrical beast", as it explores the visceral experience of two women joined by
gestational surrogacy?
... that caterer Sir Joseph Lyons staged Venice in London(programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
... that 45-pound (20 kg) weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
... that the first known specimen of the
dinosaurTongtianlong limosus, which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
1 December 2016
00:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Soap-bubble chandelier
... that in La Science Amusante, Arthur Good constructed imaginative scientific apparatus such as the "soap-bubble chandelier" (illustrated) using common items like bottles, candles, and soap?