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... that in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in
Boston"?
... that
Floor's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's
bingo wing"?
... that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km2) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the
Three Sisters Wilderness area?
... that Rhipicephalus pulchellus(pictured) is sometimes known by its
common name "the zebra
tick", both because zebras are one of its main
hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?
... that the Canales investigation heard 80 witnesses describing murders, kidnappings, and other crimes committed by the
Texas Rangers in the early 20th century?
... that John Potter's story of his role as a secret agent in
occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
... that people have suffered an
Antabuse-type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?
22 October 2017
00:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Artist's conception of a multitude of tiny diamonds next to a hot star
... that extraterrestrial diamonds(pictured) in meteorites preserve their history from before the Solar System formed?
... that
Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth(detail pictured), whose face resembles the artist's own, has been interpreted as a
self-portrait and expression of personal grief?
... that the discovery of a fossilized
frog in the Caves of Kesh in 1901 disproved a common belief that the species was only introduced into Ireland in 1699?
19 October 2017
00:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Loggerhead Key
... that Loggerhead Key(pictured) was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western Hemisphere
mangroves and
coral reefs?
... that
Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with
Monteverdi?
... that following her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, the
British Vogue health editor
Deborah Hutton campaigned to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking for teenage girls?
... that upon his retirement in January 1979, A. M. Aikin Jr. was the longest-tenured
legislator in the history of
Texas?
... that the Ex is a target practice mannequin that spouts blood when shot?
... that the name of the desert area Xiangshawan (literally, "resonant sand gorge") in
Inner Mongolia derives from the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down its sand dune?
... that in the Credo section of his Missa Ave Marie, composer Ludwig Daser clearly stated his Protestant beliefs to the Catholic court of
Albert V, Duke of Bavaria?
... that Chains of Love was described as "televised prostitution"?
... that the barred cuckoo-dove is similar to the little cuckoo-dove, but is larger and darker, and is black-barred at the mantle, breast, covert, and tail?
... that one critic described the plot of Nude for Satan as "the Devil is bored and wants to have an orgy. Oh, and Calderoni gets molested by a giant spider"?
... that after nearly six decades of collecting
Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina?
... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"?
... that
Prince of WallachiaRadu Paisie was deposed by his
Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"?
... that the milky ribbon worm feeds on
soft-shell clams, inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
... that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of
indigenous people, were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores?
... that Erich Mühe, the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by
laparoscopy, was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?
13 October 2017
01:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Optima Signature
... that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature(pictured) have access to a private club in the building?
... that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of
sodium carbonate?
... that Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?
... that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in
Moscow?
... that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as "
Frederick the Great" after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War?
... that The Rolling Stones are a British rock band? Okay, you probably did...
9 October 2017
02:30, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Blyth's kingfisher
... that the scientific name of the Blyth's kingfisher(pictured), which grows up to 23 centimetres (9 inches) long, derives from the Greek demigod
Hercules?
... that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
... that as UK secretary in the Economic Directorate of the
Allied Control Council in post-war Berlin, Lorna Arnold slept with a revolver under her pillow?
... that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?
... that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?
... that The Inquiry, a study group established by US President
Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919
Paris Peace Conference, suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
... that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of
Cuba?
... that before his death at the
Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?
2 October 2017
04:15, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Lydia Zvereva
... that Lydia Zvereva(pictured) was the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license?
... that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in
Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?
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 in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in
Boston"?
... that
Floor's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's
bingo wing"?
... that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km2) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the
Three Sisters Wilderness area?
... that Rhipicephalus pulchellus(pictured) is sometimes known by its
common name "the zebra
tick", both because zebras are one of its main
hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?
... that the Canales investigation heard 80 witnesses describing murders, kidnappings, and other crimes committed by the
Texas Rangers in the early 20th century?
... that John Potter's story of his role as a secret agent in
occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
... that people have suffered an
Antabuse-type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?
22 October 2017
00:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Artist's conception of a multitude of tiny diamonds next to a hot star
... that extraterrestrial diamonds(pictured) in meteorites preserve their history from before the Solar System formed?
... that
Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth(detail pictured), whose face resembles the artist's own, has been interpreted as a
self-portrait and expression of personal grief?
... that the discovery of a fossilized
frog in the Caves of Kesh in 1901 disproved a common belief that the species was only introduced into Ireland in 1699?
19 October 2017
00:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Loggerhead Key
... that Loggerhead Key(pictured) was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western Hemisphere
mangroves and
coral reefs?
... that
Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with
Monteverdi?
... that following her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, the
British Vogue health editor
Deborah Hutton campaigned to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking for teenage girls?
... that upon his retirement in January 1979, A. M. Aikin Jr. was the longest-tenured
legislator in the history of
Texas?
... that the Ex is a target practice mannequin that spouts blood when shot?
... that the name of the desert area Xiangshawan (literally, "resonant sand gorge") in
Inner Mongolia derives from the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down its sand dune?
... that in the Credo section of his Missa Ave Marie, composer Ludwig Daser clearly stated his Protestant beliefs to the Catholic court of
Albert V, Duke of Bavaria?
... that Chains of Love was described as "televised prostitution"?
... that the barred cuckoo-dove is similar to the little cuckoo-dove, but is larger and darker, and is black-barred at the mantle, breast, covert, and tail?
... that one critic described the plot of Nude for Satan as "the Devil is bored and wants to have an orgy. Oh, and Calderoni gets molested by a giant spider"?
... that after nearly six decades of collecting
Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina?
... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"?
... that
Prince of WallachiaRadu Paisie was deposed by his
Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"?
... that the milky ribbon worm feeds on
soft-shell clams, inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
... that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of
indigenous people, were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores?
... that Erich Mühe, the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by
laparoscopy, was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?
13 October 2017
01:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Optima Signature
... that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature(pictured) have access to a private club in the building?
... that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of
sodium carbonate?
... that Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?
... that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in
Moscow?
... that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as "
Frederick the Great" after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War?
... that The Rolling Stones are a British rock band? Okay, you probably did...
9 October 2017
02:30, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Blyth's kingfisher
... that the scientific name of the Blyth's kingfisher(pictured), which grows up to 23 centimetres (9 inches) long, derives from the Greek demigod
Hercules?
... that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
... that as UK secretary in the Economic Directorate of the
Allied Control Council in post-war Berlin, Lorna Arnold slept with a revolver under her pillow?
... that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?
... that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?
... that The Inquiry, a study group established by US President
Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919
Paris Peace Conference, suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
... that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of
Cuba?
... that before his death at the
Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?
2 October 2017
04:15, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Lydia Zvereva
... that Lydia Zvereva(pictured) was the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license?
... that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in
Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?