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
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... that Faith of Our Fathers, a collection of Catholic hymns which became one of Ireland's best-selling albums, was the brainchild of an insurance broker with no experience in the music industry?
... that Birjis Qadr, the
Nawab (leader) of
Awadh state in northern India, became a poet while in exile in
Nepal?
... that Hells Bells grow underwater in a cave in Mexico?
... that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American
ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in
ship ballast?
... that NASA Astronaut Group 4, selected in 1965 for the
Apollo program, was the first recruited primarily on the basis of scientific experience?
... that Mario Pouliot is the only ice hockey coach to win consecutive
Memorial Cups with different teams?
... that the Buddha, to whom many miracles were attributed, considered the "miracle of instruction" to be the greatest because it would not be taken for a mere magic trick?
... that right-wing political figures in the United Kingdom have recently been milkshaked?
26 June 2019
00:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Lion of Menecrates
... that the Lion of Menecrates (pictured) is thought to have been part of the Tomb of Menecrates in
Corfu, Greece, built for an ancient
Korkyrean ambassador who was lost at sea?
... that publisher Ping Hsin-tao launched the careers of two of Taiwan's most popular writers,
one of whom became his wife?
... that cut branches of the small tree Erythrina berteroana are used to make living fence posts?
... that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree?
... that Peter Hirsch conducted the premiere of the revised and complete version of Luigi Nono's Prometeo at
La Scala in 1985?
... that the
card game of Pollack is named after a bonus for holding the three top cards – the ten, nine, and
ace – of one
suit?
... that Canadian nurse Edith Campbell(pictured) was awarded the
Military Medal for her bravery during air raids on a First World War hospital in France?
... 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 Ernst Christoph Dressler, an 18th-century operatic tenor, violinist, composer, and music theorist, composed a march on which
Beethoven based his earliest published work?
... that every week Cincinnati's La Soupe turns 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) of
rescued food into 3,000 meals for people in need with the help of sixty local chef volunteers?
... that Soviet Vice-Admiral Nikolai Yegipko(pictured) had once been rejected for membership in the
Komsomol after it was reported that he used "perfumed" soap?
... that Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his ministers prefixed the name 'chowkidar' (watchman) to their Twitter profiles in response to the election slogan Chowkidar Chor Hai?
... that Dickie Haine flew in the
RAF's first night fighter patrol of the Second World War?
... that according to Buddhist texts, the
Buddha performed The Twin Miracle in a miracle contest against six rival religious leaders?
... that the first research center for potatoes in Cambodia was opened in the country in 2016?
... that after Fu Xinqi retired as an architect in his eighties, he took up painting and held a personal exhibition to celebrate his one-hundredth birthday?
... that Eduardo A. Roca, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations during the
Falklands War, accused the UK of aggression and condemned the US for supporting it?
... that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband,
August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)?
... that the McCollom Institute, a high school in
New Hampshire, closed in 1906 when the number of students had fallen to eleven?
... that when Hu Peizhao argued that capital investors receiving economic returns was a reasonable allocation of production gains, he was criticized by Marxists for justifying
exploitation of labour?
... that
Philip II of Spain approved funds for a convent because his illegitimate daughter was living there?
... that High Orchard in
Gloucester, England, was part of a medieval priory, then an industrial area (buildings pictured), and is now the site of a shopping centre?
... that the Arabian broodmare Bandola was called "The Queen of Poland?"
... that Matthias Goethe, who was born in
Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a
Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico?
... that the sea cucumber Leptopentacta elongata has a U-shaped or S-shaped body and occupies a burrow in the seabed?
... that Elizabeth Bartlet's PhD thesis on
Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"?
... that the largest English army to serve overseas prior to 1600 was gathered at the Siege of Calais in 1347?
... that the mathematician John Rigby was a leading authority on the relationship between maths and ornamental art?
... that if the disc coral Cycloseris cyclolites gets buried in sediment, it can "float" itself free?
... that prolific songwriter Matt Farley says he makes US$500 a month from a song containing only the word "poop"?
... that the symptoms of CPVT, a cause of sudden death in children, are often mistaken for simple faints?
... that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on
Mars?
... that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the
Pleistocene, produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the
Columbia River?
... that the book The Expanding Circle bridged
sociobiology and
ethics, discussing how humans have used reason to expand their moral considerations from family and tribe to the entire of society?
... that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in
Euchre and other historical games such as
Reunion and
Kontraspiel?
... that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes?
... that the fictional character Jakub Wędrowycz—an exorcist, drunkard, moonshine producer, and poacher—is one of the icons of Polish pop culture?
... that
Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the "
Green Nobel" prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of tropical forest land?
... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a
constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only?
... that Palmer Street was the location of a secret British spy base that intercepted the communications of London's embassies?
... that in the 2000 film No Place to Go, the central character jumps out of a window to her death, as
the director's mother had done some years before?
... that although Isabella Forshall did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery?
... that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of
Bohol?
... that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies?
... that during the First World War, Charles Cathcart and
Isaac Balfour proposed adopting the German idea of using
moss to treat wounded British soldiers?
... that InvisiblePeople.tv, which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
... that five sacks of documents dating back to 1154 were recovered from a damp potting-shed while Irvine Gray was an archivist at the
Gloucester Record Office?
... that Calma glaucoides has such a rich diet of eggs that it does not need an anus?
5 June 2019
00:00, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Boulder bridge in the North Woods of Central Park
... that North Woods in New York City's
Central Park contains a bridge (pictured) made of boulders, some weighing nearly 100 short tons (89 long tons), which are held together by gravity?
... that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook
Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore?
... that Yang Jiachi developed control systems for satellites, rockets, and nuclear tests?
... that the Killing Eve episode "Don't I Know You?" was generally praised for including diverse
LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
... that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the
Old Testament laws?
... that the roof of the Temple of Hera in
Corfu was decorated with large terracotta figures painted in vivid colour, making it one of the most intricately adorned buildings of
Archaic Greece?
... that from Edinburgh city centre, it is two miles to the Inch?
2 June 2019
00:00, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Astilbe flowers
... that despite a genus name referring to its dull leaves, Astilbe chinensis(pictured) was celebrated as the most important new hardy perennial by the
Royal Horticultural Society in 1902?
... that Samra, a male German rapper, performs under a feminine Arabic pseudonym?
... that convenience store chain
Wawa successfully forced
Philadelphia-area radio station WAWA to stop using its new
call letters?
... that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
... that Nepalese Prime Minister
Khadga Prasad Oli praised the 2019 sports drama Captain for "delivering patriotism"?
... that investigators considered the murder of Lisa Holm especially heinous as Holm was only seventeen years old and physically weaker than her killer?
... that British architect Bryan Thomas has designed for the Church of England, the Christian Scientists, and the Quakers?
... that the people who commissioned Our Trip to Africa demanded the film's destruction after seeing it?
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.
... that Faith of Our Fathers, a collection of Catholic hymns which became one of Ireland's best-selling albums, was the brainchild of an insurance broker with no experience in the music industry?
... that Birjis Qadr, the
Nawab (leader) of
Awadh state in northern India, became a poet while in exile in
Nepal?
... that Hells Bells grow underwater in a cave in Mexico?
... that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American
ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in
ship ballast?
... that NASA Astronaut Group 4, selected in 1965 for the
Apollo program, was the first recruited primarily on the basis of scientific experience?
... that Mario Pouliot is the only ice hockey coach to win consecutive
Memorial Cups with different teams?
... that the Buddha, to whom many miracles were attributed, considered the "miracle of instruction" to be the greatest because it would not be taken for a mere magic trick?
... that right-wing political figures in the United Kingdom have recently been milkshaked?
26 June 2019
00:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Lion of Menecrates
... that the Lion of Menecrates (pictured) is thought to have been part of the Tomb of Menecrates in
Corfu, Greece, built for an ancient
Korkyrean ambassador who was lost at sea?
... that publisher Ping Hsin-tao launched the careers of two of Taiwan's most popular writers,
one of whom became his wife?
... that cut branches of the small tree Erythrina berteroana are used to make living fence posts?
... that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree?
... that Peter Hirsch conducted the premiere of the revised and complete version of Luigi Nono's Prometeo at
La Scala in 1985?
... that the
card game of Pollack is named after a bonus for holding the three top cards – the ten, nine, and
ace – of one
suit?
... that Canadian nurse Edith Campbell(pictured) was awarded the
Military Medal for her bravery during air raids on a First World War hospital in France?
... 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 Ernst Christoph Dressler, an 18th-century operatic tenor, violinist, composer, and music theorist, composed a march on which
Beethoven based his earliest published work?
... that every week Cincinnati's La Soupe turns 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) of
rescued food into 3,000 meals for people in need with the help of sixty local chef volunteers?
... that Soviet Vice-Admiral Nikolai Yegipko(pictured) had once been rejected for membership in the
Komsomol after it was reported that he used "perfumed" soap?
... that Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his ministers prefixed the name 'chowkidar' (watchman) to their Twitter profiles in response to the election slogan Chowkidar Chor Hai?
... that Dickie Haine flew in the
RAF's first night fighter patrol of the Second World War?
... that according to Buddhist texts, the
Buddha performed The Twin Miracle in a miracle contest against six rival religious leaders?
... that the first research center for potatoes in Cambodia was opened in the country in 2016?
... that after Fu Xinqi retired as an architect in his eighties, he took up painting and held a personal exhibition to celebrate his one-hundredth birthday?
... that Eduardo A. Roca, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations during the
Falklands War, accused the UK of aggression and condemned the US for supporting it?
... that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband,
August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)?
... that the McCollom Institute, a high school in
New Hampshire, closed in 1906 when the number of students had fallen to eleven?
... that when Hu Peizhao argued that capital investors receiving economic returns was a reasonable allocation of production gains, he was criticized by Marxists for justifying
exploitation of labour?
... that
Philip II of Spain approved funds for a convent because his illegitimate daughter was living there?
... that High Orchard in
Gloucester, England, was part of a medieval priory, then an industrial area (buildings pictured), and is now the site of a shopping centre?
... that the Arabian broodmare Bandola was called "The Queen of Poland?"
... that Matthias Goethe, who was born in
Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a
Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico?
... that the sea cucumber Leptopentacta elongata has a U-shaped or S-shaped body and occupies a burrow in the seabed?
... that Elizabeth Bartlet's PhD thesis on
Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"?
... that the largest English army to serve overseas prior to 1600 was gathered at the Siege of Calais in 1347?
... that the mathematician John Rigby was a leading authority on the relationship between maths and ornamental art?
... that if the disc coral Cycloseris cyclolites gets buried in sediment, it can "float" itself free?
... that prolific songwriter Matt Farley says he makes US$500 a month from a song containing only the word "poop"?
... that the symptoms of CPVT, a cause of sudden death in children, are often mistaken for simple faints?
... that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on
Mars?
... that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the
Pleistocene, produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the
Columbia River?
... that the book The Expanding Circle bridged
sociobiology and
ethics, discussing how humans have used reason to expand their moral considerations from family and tribe to the entire of society?
... that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in
Euchre and other historical games such as
Reunion and
Kontraspiel?
... that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes?
... that the fictional character Jakub Wędrowycz—an exorcist, drunkard, moonshine producer, and poacher—is one of the icons of Polish pop culture?
... that
Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the "
Green Nobel" prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of tropical forest land?
... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a
constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only?
... that Palmer Street was the location of a secret British spy base that intercepted the communications of London's embassies?
... that in the 2000 film No Place to Go, the central character jumps out of a window to her death, as
the director's mother had done some years before?
... that although Isabella Forshall did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery?
... that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of
Bohol?
... that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies?
... that during the First World War, Charles Cathcart and
Isaac Balfour proposed adopting the German idea of using
moss to treat wounded British soldiers?
... that InvisiblePeople.tv, which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
... that five sacks of documents dating back to 1154 were recovered from a damp potting-shed while Irvine Gray was an archivist at the
Gloucester Record Office?
... that Calma glaucoides has such a rich diet of eggs that it does not need an anus?
5 June 2019
00:00, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Boulder bridge in the North Woods of Central Park
... that North Woods in New York City's
Central Park contains a bridge (pictured) made of boulders, some weighing nearly 100 short tons (89 long tons), which are held together by gravity?
... that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook
Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore?
... that Yang Jiachi developed control systems for satellites, rockets, and nuclear tests?
... that the Killing Eve episode "Don't I Know You?" was generally praised for including diverse
LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
... that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the
Old Testament laws?
... that the roof of the Temple of Hera in
Corfu was decorated with large terracotta figures painted in vivid colour, making it one of the most intricately adorned buildings of
Archaic Greece?
... that from Edinburgh city centre, it is two miles to the Inch?
2 June 2019
00:00, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Astilbe flowers
... that despite a genus name referring to its dull leaves, Astilbe chinensis(pictured) was celebrated as the most important new hardy perennial by the
Royal Horticultural Society in 1902?
... that Samra, a male German rapper, performs under a feminine Arabic pseudonym?
... that convenience store chain
Wawa successfully forced
Philadelphia-area radio station WAWA to stop using its new
call letters?
... that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
... that Nepalese Prime Minister
Khadga Prasad Oli praised the 2019 sports drama Captain for "delivering patriotism"?
... that investigators considered the murder of Lisa Holm especially heinous as Holm was only seventeen years old and physically weaker than her killer?
... that British architect Bryan Thomas has designed for the Church of England, the Christian Scientists, and the Quakers?
... that the people who commissioned Our Trip to Africa demanded the film's destruction after seeing it?