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28 February 2022
00:00, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Simulated surface-level view of Louth's ice mound
... that the ice mound (pictured) at the center of the crater Louth is the warmest permanent body of water on the
Martian surface?
... that English
nurserymanLuke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
... that the Louis Micheels House was called a building of "great significance", but the new owners wanted it gone?
... that the 2021 Bahamas Bowl was the first edition in which a team made a return appearance?
... that Operation Ivory Soap created and operated a fleet of aircraft repair vessels to support the United States'
island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during World War II?
... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne?
26 February 2022
00:00, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Milam Residence
... that the facade of geometric shapes on the Milam Residence(pictured) also provides shade to the interior?
... that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that following its victory over
Bologna in the 1229 battle of San Cesario, the city of
Modena returned the enemy's captured carroccio to prevent an escalation of the conflict?
... that LD has been called the "godfather of
UK drill"?
... that a showing of the 1914 film Lord Chumley on the roof of a New York City theatre was canceled with an on-screen announcement due to its 40-minute runtime?
21 February 2022
00:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Narrow end of the pie house
... that the pie house(pictured) gained media attention from a viral
TikTok that received more than one million views?
... that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs?
... that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town?
... that Sky Alps is the first airline to operate scheduled flights from
Bolzano Airport since 2015?
... that when American-born skier Katie Vesterstein chose to compete for Estonia, she had only visited the country once, and did not speak the language?
20 February 2022
00:00, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Anita Kiki Gbeho
... that Anita Kiki Gbeho(pictured) is still working for the
United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination?
... that Encanto character Bruno Madrigal was originally named Oscar, but his name was changed due to the number of real-life Oscar Madrigals in Colombia?
... that the residents of Derasar collect rainwater in
taankas since the village experiences eleven months of drought a year?
... that Nathan Safir, general manager of Texas radio station
KCOR for 44 years, was credited with being a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States?
... that the joint National War Fund was created during World War II so that American citizens would not get annoyed by multiple donation requests for service members' support and overseas relief?
... that the woodland garden(example pictured), "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that American psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
... that although it was only formed in late 1939, the French 87th African Infantry Division inflicted 6,600 casualties upon the German forces and fought until the very end of the
Battle of France?
... that at the height of their popularity, eight-ball jackets were such a status symbol in the
East Coast hip hop scene that they were frequently stolen at gunpoint?
... that in its final years, Mississippi radio station WKXG allegedly attempted to maintain its broadcast license by "taking turns" with another station in their transmitter facility?
... that the private members' club George has a bespoke menu for pet dogs?
13 February 2022
00:00, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Juliana Olshanskaya
... that Saint Juliana Olshanskaya(pictured) is said to have appeared to Archimandrite
Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics?
... that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of
Dronka with burning fuel?
... that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
... that Barrau de Sescas, a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled
admiral?
... that although the Courant–Snyder parameters in accelerator physics are often referred to as "Twiss parameters",
Richard Q. Twiss had no idea how his name came to be associated with them?
... that despite being undersized and not highly recruited, Casey Tiumalu became the
BYU Cougars' leader in both rushing and receiving, earning an honorable mention as an
All-American?
... that Eberhard Zeidler envisaged
Toronto Eaton Centre(pictured), which opened 45 years ago today, to be an "interior street" instead of simply a shopping mall?
... that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association
TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker?
... that Swiss archaeologist Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem created a service for the International Committee of the Red Cross to help prisoners of war from the French colonies during World War II?
... that a 1971 format change and firing of three Black disc jockeys contributed to the Mississippi radio station WSWG losing its
broadcast license?
... that British barrister Jonathan Cooper was "at the forefront of efforts to decriminalise homosexuality around the world"?
... that the act of trying a burger at Slutty Vegan for the first time is known as being "sluttified"?
... that
Progressive Corporation, an insurer, published 5,000 copies of a book credited to Dr. Rick, its fictional advertising campaign character?
... that the flag of the French Army's 92nd Infantry Regiment was lost when the destroyer Siroco sank off Dunkirk in 1940?
... that at age 12, Shaylee Mansfield became the first deaf actor to be credited alongside the voice actors for a
signed performance in an animated production?
... that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of
Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof?
... that mining entrepreneur and former model Tigui Camara is the first woman in Guinea to own a mining company, which she partially runs as a social enterprise?
... that the illusion of explanatory depth leads people to overestimate how knowledgeable they are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work?
... that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
... that as municipal architect, Albert L. Harris led the design of all city buildings in
Washington, D.C., from 1921 until his sudden death in 1934?
... that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist
Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?
... that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?
8 February 2022
12:00, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
North African amulet in the shape of a hand
... that in the jewellery of the Berber cultures, a silver amulet of a hand (example pictured) was believed by both Muslims and Jews to protect against the
evil eye?
... that the
Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
... that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the
Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another
Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that while seeking funding for The Clarion,
Carrie Best was told by a donor: "You are just a small voice crying in the wilderness – but keep on crying"?
... that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to
Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
... that the McLaren MCL36, McLaren's
2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between
Copenhagen and
Istanbul?
... that a would-be buyer of
San Angelo, Texas, radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?
5 February 2022
12:00, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Orphans decorating their fathers' graves in Glenwood Cemetery
... that Glenwood Memorial Gardens in
Broomall, Pennsylvania, was initially established in 1849 as Glenwood Cemetery (pictured) in North Philadelphia and contained the graves of 702 Union soldiers?
... that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an
LGBTQ picture book?
... that Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world?
... that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
... that when her local cafe was in
lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
... that the naturally formed arch of Marsden Rock(pictured) collapsed in 1996 following a winter of storms?
... that when Maria Keller was eight years old, she founded a nonprofit that would later go on to collect and distribute more than three million books to underprivileged children?
... that Fagus langevinii is considered to be the oldest extinct species of beech tree?
... that child actress and singer Sylvia Froos was noted for her ability to
mimic the vocal styles of famous celebrity performers?
... that
Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria?
... that Dave Dryburgh began a journalism career while reporting on the soccer games in which he played?
... that the paddle steamer Lotta Bernard was described as "altogether unfit for the traffic she was employed in" after she sank?
... that the League for Human Rights, established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
... that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
... that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
... that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
3 February 2022
00:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Palestinian-controlled West Bank
... that the proposed Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (map pictured) constitute an "archipelago" of 165 territories?
... that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
... that after viewing the Coates round house, the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
... that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the
Fatimids, became
Saladin's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his
epistolary writing?
... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
... that the Little Theatre, once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times?
... that the owner of the bus service connecting the two largest
Vietnamese-American communities in the United States was the target of an assassination plot by a competitor?
... that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about
Spinoza?
... that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169,
Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
...that Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own
blood pressure voluntarily?
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.
Did you know...
28 February 2022
00:00, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Simulated surface-level view of Louth's ice mound
... that the ice mound (pictured) at the center of the crater Louth is the warmest permanent body of water on the
Martian surface?
... that English
nurserymanLuke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
... that the Louis Micheels House was called a building of "great significance", but the new owners wanted it gone?
... that the 2021 Bahamas Bowl was the first edition in which a team made a return appearance?
... that Operation Ivory Soap created and operated a fleet of aircraft repair vessels to support the United States'
island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during World War II?
... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne?
26 February 2022
00:00, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Milam Residence
... that the facade of geometric shapes on the Milam Residence(pictured) also provides shade to the interior?
... that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that following its victory over
Bologna in the 1229 battle of San Cesario, the city of
Modena returned the enemy's captured carroccio to prevent an escalation of the conflict?
... that LD has been called the "godfather of
UK drill"?
... that a showing of the 1914 film Lord Chumley on the roof of a New York City theatre was canceled with an on-screen announcement due to its 40-minute runtime?
21 February 2022
00:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Narrow end of the pie house
... that the pie house(pictured) gained media attention from a viral
TikTok that received more than one million views?
... that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs?
... that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town?
... that Sky Alps is the first airline to operate scheduled flights from
Bolzano Airport since 2015?
... that when American-born skier Katie Vesterstein chose to compete for Estonia, she had only visited the country once, and did not speak the language?
20 February 2022
00:00, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Anita Kiki Gbeho
... that Anita Kiki Gbeho(pictured) is still working for the
United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination?
... that Encanto character Bruno Madrigal was originally named Oscar, but his name was changed due to the number of real-life Oscar Madrigals in Colombia?
... that the residents of Derasar collect rainwater in
taankas since the village experiences eleven months of drought a year?
... that Nathan Safir, general manager of Texas radio station
KCOR for 44 years, was credited with being a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States?
... that the joint National War Fund was created during World War II so that American citizens would not get annoyed by multiple donation requests for service members' support and overseas relief?
... that the woodland garden(example pictured), "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that American psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
... that although it was only formed in late 1939, the French 87th African Infantry Division inflicted 6,600 casualties upon the German forces and fought until the very end of the
Battle of France?
... that at the height of their popularity, eight-ball jackets were such a status symbol in the
East Coast hip hop scene that they were frequently stolen at gunpoint?
... that in its final years, Mississippi radio station WKXG allegedly attempted to maintain its broadcast license by "taking turns" with another station in their transmitter facility?
... that the private members' club George has a bespoke menu for pet dogs?
13 February 2022
00:00, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Juliana Olshanskaya
... that Saint Juliana Olshanskaya(pictured) is said to have appeared to Archimandrite
Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics?
... that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of
Dronka with burning fuel?
... that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
... that Barrau de Sescas, a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled
admiral?
... that although the Courant–Snyder parameters in accelerator physics are often referred to as "Twiss parameters",
Richard Q. Twiss had no idea how his name came to be associated with them?
... that despite being undersized and not highly recruited, Casey Tiumalu became the
BYU Cougars' leader in both rushing and receiving, earning an honorable mention as an
All-American?
... that Eberhard Zeidler envisaged
Toronto Eaton Centre(pictured), which opened 45 years ago today, to be an "interior street" instead of simply a shopping mall?
... that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association
TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker?
... that Swiss archaeologist Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem created a service for the International Committee of the Red Cross to help prisoners of war from the French colonies during World War II?
... that a 1971 format change and firing of three Black disc jockeys contributed to the Mississippi radio station WSWG losing its
broadcast license?
... that British barrister Jonathan Cooper was "at the forefront of efforts to decriminalise homosexuality around the world"?
... that the act of trying a burger at Slutty Vegan for the first time is known as being "sluttified"?
... that
Progressive Corporation, an insurer, published 5,000 copies of a book credited to Dr. Rick, its fictional advertising campaign character?
... that the flag of the French Army's 92nd Infantry Regiment was lost when the destroyer Siroco sank off Dunkirk in 1940?
... that at age 12, Shaylee Mansfield became the first deaf actor to be credited alongside the voice actors for a
signed performance in an animated production?
... that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of
Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof?
... that mining entrepreneur and former model Tigui Camara is the first woman in Guinea to own a mining company, which she partially runs as a social enterprise?
... that the illusion of explanatory depth leads people to overestimate how knowledgeable they are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work?
... that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
... that as municipal architect, Albert L. Harris led the design of all city buildings in
Washington, D.C., from 1921 until his sudden death in 1934?
... that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist
Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?
... that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?
8 February 2022
12:00, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
North African amulet in the shape of a hand
... that in the jewellery of the Berber cultures, a silver amulet of a hand (example pictured) was believed by both Muslims and Jews to protect against the
evil eye?
... that the
Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
... that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the
Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another
Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that while seeking funding for The Clarion,
Carrie Best was told by a donor: "You are just a small voice crying in the wilderness – but keep on crying"?
... that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to
Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
... that the McLaren MCL36, McLaren's
2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between
Copenhagen and
Istanbul?
... that a would-be buyer of
San Angelo, Texas, radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?
5 February 2022
12:00, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Orphans decorating their fathers' graves in Glenwood Cemetery
... that Glenwood Memorial Gardens in
Broomall, Pennsylvania, was initially established in 1849 as Glenwood Cemetery (pictured) in North Philadelphia and contained the graves of 702 Union soldiers?
... that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an
LGBTQ picture book?
... that Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world?
... that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
... that when her local cafe was in
lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
... that the naturally formed arch of Marsden Rock(pictured) collapsed in 1996 following a winter of storms?
... that when Maria Keller was eight years old, she founded a nonprofit that would later go on to collect and distribute more than three million books to underprivileged children?
... that Fagus langevinii is considered to be the oldest extinct species of beech tree?
... that child actress and singer Sylvia Froos was noted for her ability to
mimic the vocal styles of famous celebrity performers?
... that
Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria?
... that Dave Dryburgh began a journalism career while reporting on the soccer games in which he played?
... that the paddle steamer Lotta Bernard was described as "altogether unfit for the traffic she was employed in" after she sank?
... that the League for Human Rights, established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
... that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
... that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
... that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
3 February 2022
00:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Palestinian-controlled West Bank
... that the proposed Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (map pictured) constitute an "archipelago" of 165 territories?
... that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
... that after viewing the Coates round house, the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
... that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the
Fatimids, became
Saladin's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his
epistolary writing?
... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
... that the Little Theatre, once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times?
... that the owner of the bus service connecting the two largest
Vietnamese-American communities in the United States was the target of an assassination plot by a competitor?
... that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about
Spinoza?
... that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169,
Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
...that Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own
blood pressure voluntarily?