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30 June 2018
00:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Falcon 78 rpm A459, "El Jornalero"
... that the founder of Falcon Records(label pictured) chose the name in part because it sounded the same in English and Spanish?
... that Li Qiang, the communications head of the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agency, was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union after the defection of his friend, the head of the assassination team?
... that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway, shot a popular character?
29 June 2018
00:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Maria Bengtsson
... that
sopranoMaria Bengtsson(pictured) was described as the quintessential
Strauss interpreter following her recent debut in the title role of Arabella?
... that the 2018 Osaka earthquake disrupted train services during the morning
rush hour, forcing passengers to walk between the tracks?
... that funding for Celia Brackenridge's research into child protection in football was ended because the sport "was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen"?
... that the Icelandic word for "drift whale" translates as "windfall", since the washed-up carcass provides meat, blubber, fat, and other benefits to the finders (pictured)?
... that a
phallic sculpture at Lakewood station attracted controversy because the area around the station had once been home to sex businesses?
... that
Gujarati theatre actor Bapulal Nayak started his stage career at the age of eleven for a salary of three rupees per month?
... that "starfish soup" made from Stichaster striatus is said to have been fed to workers in South America to discourage alcohol consumption?
... that 19 years after Will P. Brady prosecuted the "legal lynching" of a 15-year-old murder suspect,
Brady's brother, a judge, himself became the defendant in a
death penalty trial?
... that in 1966,
John Steinbeck visited the remnants of Mount Hope, a farm near
Jaffa that had been founded by his grandparents?
... that a theory that English nursery rhymes such as "Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark" could be understood by translating sound-alike
Dutch words back into English was called "ingenious if somewhat addlepated"?
... that flumezapine was at the center of a lawsuit filed by
Eli Lilly and Company against generic manufacturers who sought to void its patent on the antipsychotic
Zyprexa?
... that former Indian Prime Minister
P. V. Narasimha Rao called the Parkala Massacre the "
Jallianwala Bagh of the south", referring to the 1919 British slaughter of hundreds of people at a peaceful protest?
... that low-key photography(example pictured) consists of shooting dark-colored scenes while emphasizing light only on specific areas in the frame?
... that after she was fired by fascists for being a Jew, agronomist Elza Polak ran a network of gardens to feed the
Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement during World War II?
... that pianist David Garvey accompanied
Leontyne Price in the White House, on tours abroad, and in her "exceptional" first recital in
Carnegie Hall in "a true musical partnership"?
... that
Mormon novelist Mette Ivie Harrison attributes part of her success in writing to her
autism, which forces her to closely analyze human behavior?
... that bakers of sfenj, a
Maghrebi doughnut, are often nicknamed "Hitler"?
... that actress Edna Loftus freed her fiancé from an
asylum after his mother had him committed?
... that the
winner in Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers was awarded "Mickey Mouse money" by the jury, which was reduced on appeal for being disproportionate?
... that construction of the Penn South housing cooperative in
New York City was initially met with resistance because 7,500 residents would have been displaced?
... that the Icelandic
lava tubeRaufarhólshellir was temporarily closed in 2016 to remove several
tonnes of garbage left by visitors?
... that
Oregon rancher Bill Brown, known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote
checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
... that Japanese
voice actressHikaru Akao initially did not wish to pursue that career as she "hated her voice"?
... that despite having a wide distribution in shallow seas, the pufferfish Arothron multilineatus was not described until 2016?
... that hailing its "pioneering" approach, Professor John G. Hawthorne lauded the
University of Chicago for ending a student
sit-in "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts"?
... that the animation team of the film Frozen tried to model the movements of character Sven on a real-life reindeer, but due to its relative immobility, used the behavior of a dog instead?
... that Ryan Watts, whose parents were split on political ideology, does not state his party affiliation in a campaign video for the
US House of Representatives?
... that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000?
... that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender, who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's
Isolde, has been an influential voice teacher in
Frankfurt?
... that the French political party Nous Citoyens seeks to present an "alternative offer" to the
National Front by creating a program through "participatory democracy"?
... that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko and the
Security Service of Ukraine faked Babchenko's murder in order to arrest assassins who were actually planning to kill him?
... that according to
legend, Hinulugang Taktak(pictured), a national park and protected landscape in
Rizal, Philippines, gets its name from a bell thrown in the waterfall?
... that during Bob Nicholson's tenure as president of
Hockey Canada, national teams won 44 gold medals in international ice hockey competition?
... that Ojos Locos has waitresses called "chicas" and has been described as a "Mexican
Hooters"?
... that despite having no official role, the British
town crierTony Appleton(pictured) is internationally famous for his announcements of royal events such as the birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge?
... that members of the Yellow Sand Society believed that "magic and incantations" would make them immune to bullets?
... that despite gathering an emperor, six kings, and numerous princes at the Conference of Dresden, Napoleon was largely preoccupied with planning his
invasion of Russia?
... that Juliet Appiah is the first Ghanaian police officer to be awarded a
FIFA refereeing badge?
... that according to the book Passing on the Right,
conservative professors in the U.S. often have to employ "coping strategies that gays and lesbians have used in the military and other inhospitable work environments"?
... that Fleurs de Marécage by the Dutch poet
J. Slauerhoff, containing French poems and a translation of a poem by the Irish poet
W. B. Yeats, was published in Belgium?
... that Wolfgang Straßmann hid in the bed of a servant girl in
Meno Burg's house in Berlin while his comrades were executed by Prussian troops?
... that Aldus Manutius commissioned typefaces resembling the handwriting of famous
humanists of his day, one of which became the first known model of italic type?
... that though in a romantic relationship since the 1990s, the titular characters of the 2018
X-Men miniseries Rogue & Gambit had never previously headlined a comic book together?
... that some parts of the New York City Subway's signaling system have not been replaced in 80 years, causing over 11,000 train delays in the span of two months?
... that Sơn Tùng M-TP's misspelling of the word "tattoo" inspired a hit song?
... that Milena Mrazović(pictured), Bosnia-Herzegovina's first journalist, was branded an "unbearable, quarrelsome, scheming woman" for refusing to do the government's bidding in her newspaper?
... that Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus, a tapeworm that parasitizes whales, can grow to almost 40 m (130 ft) in length and produce billions of eggs during its lifetime?
... that the Quranic chapter Al-Mumtahanah(manuscript pictured) declares that marriages between Muslims and
polytheists are invalid according to
Islamic law?
... that the early 20th-century American rodeo event of mounted potato racing could become violent, with biting being almost the only tactic that was prohibited?
... that the bastard sole is a worm-eating bottom dweller?
2 June 2018
05:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Leptinella filiformis
... that the slender button daisy Leptinella filiformis(pictured), thought by botanists to be extinct, was rediscovered in 1998 growing on a hotel lawn?
... that 23-year-old Japanese
voice actress and singer Yurika Endō is retiring for health reasons after her solo concert today?
... that according to legend, the governor who ordered the execution of 17th-century Thai poet Si Prat was later executed with the same sword, fulfilling the poet's curse?
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.
30 June 2018
00:00, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Falcon 78 rpm A459, "El Jornalero"
... that the founder of Falcon Records(label pictured) chose the name in part because it sounded the same in English and Spanish?
... that Li Qiang, the communications head of the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agency, was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union after the defection of his friend, the head of the assassination team?
... that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway, shot a popular character?
29 June 2018
00:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Maria Bengtsson
... that
sopranoMaria Bengtsson(pictured) was described as the quintessential
Strauss interpreter following her recent debut in the title role of Arabella?
... that the 2018 Osaka earthquake disrupted train services during the morning
rush hour, forcing passengers to walk between the tracks?
... that funding for Celia Brackenridge's research into child protection in football was ended because the sport "was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen"?
... that the Icelandic word for "drift whale" translates as "windfall", since the washed-up carcass provides meat, blubber, fat, and other benefits to the finders (pictured)?
... that a
phallic sculpture at Lakewood station attracted controversy because the area around the station had once been home to sex businesses?
... that
Gujarati theatre actor Bapulal Nayak started his stage career at the age of eleven for a salary of three rupees per month?
... that "starfish soup" made from Stichaster striatus is said to have been fed to workers in South America to discourage alcohol consumption?
... that 19 years after Will P. Brady prosecuted the "legal lynching" of a 15-year-old murder suspect,
Brady's brother, a judge, himself became the defendant in a
death penalty trial?
... that in 1966,
John Steinbeck visited the remnants of Mount Hope, a farm near
Jaffa that had been founded by his grandparents?
... that a theory that English nursery rhymes such as "Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark" could be understood by translating sound-alike
Dutch words back into English was called "ingenious if somewhat addlepated"?
... that flumezapine was at the center of a lawsuit filed by
Eli Lilly and Company against generic manufacturers who sought to void its patent on the antipsychotic
Zyprexa?
... that former Indian Prime Minister
P. V. Narasimha Rao called the Parkala Massacre the "
Jallianwala Bagh of the south", referring to the 1919 British slaughter of hundreds of people at a peaceful protest?
... that low-key photography(example pictured) consists of shooting dark-colored scenes while emphasizing light only on specific areas in the frame?
... that after she was fired by fascists for being a Jew, agronomist Elza Polak ran a network of gardens to feed the
Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement during World War II?
... that pianist David Garvey accompanied
Leontyne Price in the White House, on tours abroad, and in her "exceptional" first recital in
Carnegie Hall in "a true musical partnership"?
... that
Mormon novelist Mette Ivie Harrison attributes part of her success in writing to her
autism, which forces her to closely analyze human behavior?
... that bakers of sfenj, a
Maghrebi doughnut, are often nicknamed "Hitler"?
... that actress Edna Loftus freed her fiancé from an
asylum after his mother had him committed?
... that the
winner in Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers was awarded "Mickey Mouse money" by the jury, which was reduced on appeal for being disproportionate?
... that construction of the Penn South housing cooperative in
New York City was initially met with resistance because 7,500 residents would have been displaced?
... that the Icelandic
lava tubeRaufarhólshellir was temporarily closed in 2016 to remove several
tonnes of garbage left by visitors?
... that
Oregon rancher Bill Brown, known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote
checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
... that Japanese
voice actressHikaru Akao initially did not wish to pursue that career as she "hated her voice"?
... that despite having a wide distribution in shallow seas, the pufferfish Arothron multilineatus was not described until 2016?
... that hailing its "pioneering" approach, Professor John G. Hawthorne lauded the
University of Chicago for ending a student
sit-in "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts"?
... that the animation team of the film Frozen tried to model the movements of character Sven on a real-life reindeer, but due to its relative immobility, used the behavior of a dog instead?
... that Ryan Watts, whose parents were split on political ideology, does not state his party affiliation in a campaign video for the
US House of Representatives?
... that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000?
... that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender, who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's
Isolde, has been an influential voice teacher in
Frankfurt?
... that the French political party Nous Citoyens seeks to present an "alternative offer" to the
National Front by creating a program through "participatory democracy"?
... that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko and the
Security Service of Ukraine faked Babchenko's murder in order to arrest assassins who were actually planning to kill him?
... that according to
legend, Hinulugang Taktak(pictured), a national park and protected landscape in
Rizal, Philippines, gets its name from a bell thrown in the waterfall?
... that during Bob Nicholson's tenure as president of
Hockey Canada, national teams won 44 gold medals in international ice hockey competition?
... that Ojos Locos has waitresses called "chicas" and has been described as a "Mexican
Hooters"?
... that despite having no official role, the British
town crierTony Appleton(pictured) is internationally famous for his announcements of royal events such as the birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge?
... that members of the Yellow Sand Society believed that "magic and incantations" would make them immune to bullets?
... that despite gathering an emperor, six kings, and numerous princes at the Conference of Dresden, Napoleon was largely preoccupied with planning his
invasion of Russia?
... that Juliet Appiah is the first Ghanaian police officer to be awarded a
FIFA refereeing badge?
... that according to the book Passing on the Right,
conservative professors in the U.S. often have to employ "coping strategies that gays and lesbians have used in the military and other inhospitable work environments"?
... that Fleurs de Marécage by the Dutch poet
J. Slauerhoff, containing French poems and a translation of a poem by the Irish poet
W. B. Yeats, was published in Belgium?
... that Wolfgang Straßmann hid in the bed of a servant girl in
Meno Burg's house in Berlin while his comrades were executed by Prussian troops?
... that Aldus Manutius commissioned typefaces resembling the handwriting of famous
humanists of his day, one of which became the first known model of italic type?
... that though in a romantic relationship since the 1990s, the titular characters of the 2018
X-Men miniseries Rogue & Gambit had never previously headlined a comic book together?
... that some parts of the New York City Subway's signaling system have not been replaced in 80 years, causing over 11,000 train delays in the span of two months?
... that Sơn Tùng M-TP's misspelling of the word "tattoo" inspired a hit song?
... that Milena Mrazović(pictured), Bosnia-Herzegovina's first journalist, was branded an "unbearable, quarrelsome, scheming woman" for refusing to do the government's bidding in her newspaper?
... that Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus, a tapeworm that parasitizes whales, can grow to almost 40 m (130 ft) in length and produce billions of eggs during its lifetime?
... that the Quranic chapter Al-Mumtahanah(manuscript pictured) declares that marriages between Muslims and
polytheists are invalid according to
Islamic law?
... that the early 20th-century American rodeo event of mounted potato racing could become violent, with biting being almost the only tactic that was prohibited?
... that the bastard sole is a worm-eating bottom dweller?
2 June 2018
05:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Leptinella filiformis
... that the slender button daisy Leptinella filiformis(pictured), thought by botanists to be extinct, was rediscovered in 1998 growing on a hotel lawn?
... that 23-year-old Japanese
voice actress and singer Yurika Endō is retiring for health reasons after her solo concert today?
... that according to legend, the governor who ordered the execution of 17th-century Thai poet Si Prat was later executed with the same sword, fulfilling the poet's curse?