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... that Puzzled was one of twenty games that came with the 2012
Neo Geo X console?
... that after the
Duluth lynchings, the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
... that the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus assiniensis stings larger prey but kills smaller prey with a snap of its jaws?
... that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of
soy-based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
... that the artist Myles Murphy was seriously injured while painting himself in a wedding dress?
... that El Temblor in Guatemala is the site of a ruined ancient
Maya city that has not yet been excavated by archaeologists, but has been badly damaged by looters?
... that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that
Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
... that Min Bala staged a coup against King
Hkun Law of
Martaban, only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
28 April 2017
02:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Electric fire engine (left) and steam fire engine
... that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine (both pictured), but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
... that during the
Trunajaya rebellion, Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog, but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
... that the newly-opened Karşıyaka Tram will be free of charge for its first 50 days?
... that star wars took place in Mexico 1,500 years ago?
27 April 2017
00:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Unita Blackwell
... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell(pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of
Mississippi?
... that "Christ ist erstanden", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
... that despite topping his class at
Sandhurst, John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to
Tasmania to grow apples?
26 April 2017
00:00, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Statue of Rishabhanatha
... that Rishabhanatha(statue pictured), the traditional founder of
Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do?
... that a campaign mailer for Los Angeles' Measure S designed to look like an eviction notice drew the ire of
the sheriff's department after many recipients thought it was real?
... that during the
Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
... that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
... that the Sceriman family, a wealthy
Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained
Roman citizenship in 1696?
23 April 2017
00:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
A Caltrain express train
... that within a year of implementing express service(train pictured), San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail system
Caltrain experienced a 12 percent increase in ridership?
... that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?
... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine
spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?
... that the website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" (Lewis pictured) was a precursor to Facebook?
... that federal funding for the project to electrify Bay Area commuter railroad
Caltrain was pulled days before construction was scheduled to begin?
... that Angata, a Christian
Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on
Easter Island, claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
... that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
... that in 1894, a
flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrottekarst cave of Austria for ten days?
... that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber, many people lost their hands?
... that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father
Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the
Ottoman Empire?
... that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex
integumentary structures found in
vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
18 April 2017
00:00, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Chupe de camarones
... that a week in honor of the prawn soupchupe de camarones(pictured) took place in areas of
Peru in 2016?
... that the cheese producer Wyke Farms still uses an 1861 recipe?
17 April 2017
00:00, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Rimatara lorikeet
... that Queen Tamaeva V saved the
Rimatara lorikeet(pictured) from extinction through a royal
taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
... that Chocorua Island Chapel at
Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an
erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
... that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of
Easter Island by officers of the
Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
... that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
... that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
... that Helen King will be the first police officer to head an
Oxbridge college?
... that
Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi: "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an
FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
... that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
... that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy(pictured) score the batter a
double?
... that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
... that President
Donald Trump criticized
Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
... that some factions of the
Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of
Princess RegentMaha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
... that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal(pictured) in southwest Germany contains an elaborate
Baroque staircase that has been described as "ingenious and ravishing"?
... that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in
New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
... that cricketer Georgia Redmayne's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a
WNCL century for
Tasmanian Roar?
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
... that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?
... that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of
social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
... that President of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
... that thrust into a difficult situation, horney dicks failed to satisfy?
00:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Stone relief of a Marquesan Dog
... that
Thor Heyerdahl claimed that stone reliefs (pictured) on the
Marquesas Islands — now accepted to represent the extinct Marquesan Dog — depicted
llamas, so as to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America?
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 Puzzled was one of twenty games that came with the 2012
Neo Geo X console?
... that after the
Duluth lynchings, the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
... that the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus assiniensis stings larger prey but kills smaller prey with a snap of its jaws?
... that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of
soy-based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
... that the artist Myles Murphy was seriously injured while painting himself in a wedding dress?
... that El Temblor in Guatemala is the site of a ruined ancient
Maya city that has not yet been excavated by archaeologists, but has been badly damaged by looters?
... that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that
Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
... that Min Bala staged a coup against King
Hkun Law of
Martaban, only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
28 April 2017
02:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Electric fire engine (left) and steam fire engine
... that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine (both pictured), but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
... that during the
Trunajaya rebellion, Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog, but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
... that the newly-opened Karşıyaka Tram will be free of charge for its first 50 days?
... that star wars took place in Mexico 1,500 years ago?
27 April 2017
00:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Unita Blackwell
... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell(pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of
Mississippi?
... that "Christ ist erstanden", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
... that despite topping his class at
Sandhurst, John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to
Tasmania to grow apples?
26 April 2017
00:00, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Statue of Rishabhanatha
... that Rishabhanatha(statue pictured), the traditional founder of
Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do?
... that a campaign mailer for Los Angeles' Measure S designed to look like an eviction notice drew the ire of
the sheriff's department after many recipients thought it was real?
... that during the
Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
... that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
... that the Sceriman family, a wealthy
Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained
Roman citizenship in 1696?
23 April 2017
00:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
A Caltrain express train
... that within a year of implementing express service(train pictured), San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail system
Caltrain experienced a 12 percent increase in ridership?
... that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?
... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine
spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?
... that the website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" (Lewis pictured) was a precursor to Facebook?
... that federal funding for the project to electrify Bay Area commuter railroad
Caltrain was pulled days before construction was scheduled to begin?
... that Angata, a Christian
Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on
Easter Island, claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
... that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
... that in 1894, a
flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrottekarst cave of Austria for ten days?
... that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber, many people lost their hands?
... that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father
Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the
Ottoman Empire?
... that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex
integumentary structures found in
vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
18 April 2017
00:00, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Chupe de camarones
... that a week in honor of the prawn soupchupe de camarones(pictured) took place in areas of
Peru in 2016?
... that the cheese producer Wyke Farms still uses an 1861 recipe?
17 April 2017
00:00, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Rimatara lorikeet
... that Queen Tamaeva V saved the
Rimatara lorikeet(pictured) from extinction through a royal
taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
... that Chocorua Island Chapel at
Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an
erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
... that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of
Easter Island by officers of the
Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
... that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
... that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
... that Helen King will be the first police officer to head an
Oxbridge college?
... that
Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi: "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an
FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
... that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
... that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy(pictured) score the batter a
double?
... that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
... that President
Donald Trump criticized
Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
... that some factions of the
Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of
Princess RegentMaha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
... that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal(pictured) in southwest Germany contains an elaborate
Baroque staircase that has been described as "ingenious and ravishing"?
... that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in
New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
... that cricketer Georgia Redmayne's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a
WNCL century for
Tasmanian Roar?
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
... that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?
... that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of
social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
... that President of the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
... that thrust into a difficult situation, horney dicks failed to satisfy?
00:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Stone relief of a Marquesan Dog
... that
Thor Heyerdahl claimed that stone reliefs (pictured) on the
Marquesas Islands — now accepted to represent the extinct Marquesan Dog — depicted
llamas, so as to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America?