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 although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial(pictured) in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
... that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on
Mars?
... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
... that Auto-GPT, an autonomous
artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
29 April 2023
12:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Reproduced fresco depicting Aulus Vibenna on the far right
... that Fred Narganes is said to be the first Latino
wrestler to win an amateur US national championship or to compete for an American university, and among the first Latino-American
Olympians?
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist
Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of
chauvinistic fervour?
... that Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra laid the foundation for the Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanias, which legalized psychoactive substances in Mexico in 1940?
... that although he only had ten minutes to learn to play
offensive lineman, college football player Jake Witt was able to successfully block against "the best defensive line" in the U.S.?
... that Sujudi had his election to the post of rector of the
University of Indonesia overruled by the Indonesian government?
... that when Zenni Optical released a
Super Bowl LIV advertisement, its website told a number of customers that eyeglasses deliveries would be delayed for weeks?
... that Burmese princess Myat Phaya Gyi was impregnated by a servant, gave up her royal privileges, and lived a life of poverty?
... that after being featured on a Lithuanian website, Maya and Yehuda Devir(both pictured) got so many followers that they thought
Instagram had broken?
... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?
... that the creators of the 1990 game Star Control designed a starship for an alien race of female humanoids, naming it the Penetrator for its resemblance to a
ribbed condom?
... that Ilona Tóth testified that she had injected a man with gasoline?
... that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project, traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
... that as mayor, Muhammad Saleh Arifin permitted a temporary gambling area in
Medan, Indonesia, saying that it would fund a new street?
... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
... that Mardijo was sentenced to one, then two, then one, then two years in prison?
... that police investigating the murder of Una Crown initially thought that she had accidentally set herself on fire and cut her own throat with her scarf?
... that Liberian factions voted Bismarck Kuyon to be the chair of the transitional executive branch of the government, but his nomination was revoked before he was installed?
... that today is the Day of Books and Roses, which originated in
Barcelona in 1926 as the Day of the Book, described as a "festival of civility and intelligence"?
... that in 2009 Jeff Wrana helped to develop a
biological model that might play a role in predicting whether a woman is more likely to recover from
breast cancer?
... that the elite men's event at today's London Marathon featured four of the five fastest competitors of all time?
... that the 1917 Leeds Convention in Britain passed resolutions calling for the end of the First World War and praising the
February Revolution in Russia?
... that the 19-story Starrett–Lehigh Building was built on the principle of "every floor a first floor"?
23 April 2023
00:00, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
West Mata erupting underwater
... that the two primary vents of West Mata(pictured), a
submarine volcano, are called "Hades" and "Prometheus"?
... that for a rare performance in 2023 of the St Matthew Passion by the 18th-century composer
Homilius, the conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music?
... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—
HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on
a university entrance exam?
... that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it, but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider?
22 April 2023
00:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Lee at MIT's radio experiment station, 1925
... that Li Fu Lee(pictured), the first Chinese woman to attend
MIT, studied electrical engineering, which—according to The Boston Globe—its undergraduates at the time said was its hardest major?
... that President
James Monroe promised the eastern
Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase?
... that some British soldiers hung the First World War propaganda poster "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" in the trenches and left sarcastic answers to the daughter's question?
... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?
... that the Indonesian town of Tiakur experienced a shortage of specialist doctors due to them not renewing their contract?
... that comedian Kemah Bob maintains a
drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease?
... that
Meyers and Elle Leonard donated US$500,000 toward the renovation of the site of their first date?
... that
X-radiographs of
Jan Lievens's circa 1629–1630 Self-Portrait showed that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait?
... that the poem "Ovid in the Third Reich" has been described as "a classic reaction" to the
Eichmann trial, despite being published before the trial was held?
... that Airis Computer's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten
C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
... that street artist TVBoy, known for his murals of footballers in Barcelona (example pictured), painted uplifting art in regions of
Kyiv ahead of the one-year anniversary of the
2022 Russian invasion?
... that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and
Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
... that the St. Raphael Provincial Park in
Northern Ontario, Canada, is part of the 1,530 km2 (590 sq mi) St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values?
... that in the 1970s, residents of the Belnord in New York City had to sneak in refrigerators at night?
... that beekeeper Erika Thompson uses her bare hands to scoop up bees?
... that when recording what became "Suze (The Cough Song)",
Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
... that during the time of the
Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance?
... that Estonian minister of war Paul Lill resigned in 1939, citing the unacceptable conditions of the
Bases Treaty with the Soviet Union?
... that flying hummingbirds(example pictured) use oxygen at a rate which is relatively ten times greater than elite athletes?
... that when a tourist's corpse was found atop the Apthorp, The New York Times wrote that "it struck some tenants not as an oddity but as a metaphor" for life there?
... that before becoming the mayor of
Medan, Indonesia, Agus Salim Rangkuti acted in movies and oversaw a real-life political prison camp?
... that
M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata?
... that although Titian's Allegory of Marriage(pictured) left England in the 17th century, two early replicas, probably done from the original, remain in the
Royal Collection?
... that a revival of the comedy series Lizzie McGuire was ordered in 2019, but canceled mid-production after Disney deemed it not family-friendly enough?
... that King Charles III's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
... that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor
Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president
Kwame Nkrumah?
... that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda?
7 April 2023
00:00, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hart (left) and Roland
... that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a
New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)?
... that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar
Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile from the site where he was sold as a slave?
... that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as
the Salvation Army" after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900?
... that, amongst the kidneys of the
vertebrates, only those of mammals and birds can produce concentrated urine?
... that Constantine, an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a
cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?
... that the 2023 series Farzi tells the story of a counterfeiting ring as well as the fakeness of people?
... that a special case was instrumental to
harpistSteffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?
4 April 2023
00:05, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Parker House
... that after
Sea Girt, New Jersey, passed a law that banned live rock and disco music at the Parker House(pictured), a state judge overturned the ban as being "silly"?
... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a
gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
... that the 1919 suite of The Firebird contained "more than three hundred errors"?
... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
... that pianist Fujita Haruko, one of the first 19 female students enrolled at the
University of Tokyo, was taught by Leo Sirota, who was once called the "god of piano" (both pictured)?
... that as part of its strategy of political renovation,
National Convergence nominated a librarian to contest one of Bolivia's most competitive legislative districts?
... that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?
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 although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial(pictured) in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
... that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on
Mars?
... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
... that Auto-GPT, an autonomous
artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
29 April 2023
12:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Reproduced fresco depicting Aulus Vibenna on the far right
... that Fred Narganes is said to be the first Latino
wrestler to win an amateur US national championship or to compete for an American university, and among the first Latino-American
Olympians?
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist
Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of
chauvinistic fervour?
... that Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra laid the foundation for the Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanias, which legalized psychoactive substances in Mexico in 1940?
... that although he only had ten minutes to learn to play
offensive lineman, college football player Jake Witt was able to successfully block against "the best defensive line" in the U.S.?
... that Sujudi had his election to the post of rector of the
University of Indonesia overruled by the Indonesian government?
... that when Zenni Optical released a
Super Bowl LIV advertisement, its website told a number of customers that eyeglasses deliveries would be delayed for weeks?
... that Burmese princess Myat Phaya Gyi was impregnated by a servant, gave up her royal privileges, and lived a life of poverty?
... that after being featured on a Lithuanian website, Maya and Yehuda Devir(both pictured) got so many followers that they thought
Instagram had broken?
... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?
... that the creators of the 1990 game Star Control designed a starship for an alien race of female humanoids, naming it the Penetrator for its resemblance to a
ribbed condom?
... that Ilona Tóth testified that she had injected a man with gasoline?
... that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project, traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
... that as mayor, Muhammad Saleh Arifin permitted a temporary gambling area in
Medan, Indonesia, saying that it would fund a new street?
... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
... that Mardijo was sentenced to one, then two, then one, then two years in prison?
... that police investigating the murder of Una Crown initially thought that she had accidentally set herself on fire and cut her own throat with her scarf?
... that Liberian factions voted Bismarck Kuyon to be the chair of the transitional executive branch of the government, but his nomination was revoked before he was installed?
... that today is the Day of Books and Roses, which originated in
Barcelona in 1926 as the Day of the Book, described as a "festival of civility and intelligence"?
... that in 2009 Jeff Wrana helped to develop a
biological model that might play a role in predicting whether a woman is more likely to recover from
breast cancer?
... that the elite men's event at today's London Marathon featured four of the five fastest competitors of all time?
... that the 1917 Leeds Convention in Britain passed resolutions calling for the end of the First World War and praising the
February Revolution in Russia?
... that the 19-story Starrett–Lehigh Building was built on the principle of "every floor a first floor"?
23 April 2023
00:00, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
West Mata erupting underwater
... that the two primary vents of West Mata(pictured), a
submarine volcano, are called "Hades" and "Prometheus"?
... that for a rare performance in 2023 of the St Matthew Passion by the 18th-century composer
Homilius, the conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music?
... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—
HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on
a university entrance exam?
... that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it, but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider?
22 April 2023
00:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Lee at MIT's radio experiment station, 1925
... that Li Fu Lee(pictured), the first Chinese woman to attend
MIT, studied electrical engineering, which—according to The Boston Globe—its undergraduates at the time said was its hardest major?
... that President
James Monroe promised the eastern
Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase?
... that some British soldiers hung the First World War propaganda poster "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" in the trenches and left sarcastic answers to the daughter's question?
... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?
... that the Indonesian town of Tiakur experienced a shortage of specialist doctors due to them not renewing their contract?
... that comedian Kemah Bob maintains a
drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease?
... that
Meyers and Elle Leonard donated US$500,000 toward the renovation of the site of their first date?
... that
X-radiographs of
Jan Lievens's circa 1629–1630 Self-Portrait showed that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait?
... that the poem "Ovid in the Third Reich" has been described as "a classic reaction" to the
Eichmann trial, despite being published before the trial was held?
... that Airis Computer's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten
C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
... that street artist TVBoy, known for his murals of footballers in Barcelona (example pictured), painted uplifting art in regions of
Kyiv ahead of the one-year anniversary of the
2022 Russian invasion?
... that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and
Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
... that the St. Raphael Provincial Park in
Northern Ontario, Canada, is part of the 1,530 km2 (590 sq mi) St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values?
... that in the 1970s, residents of the Belnord in New York City had to sneak in refrigerators at night?
... that beekeeper Erika Thompson uses her bare hands to scoop up bees?
... that when recording what became "Suze (The Cough Song)",
Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
... that during the time of the
Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance?
... that Estonian minister of war Paul Lill resigned in 1939, citing the unacceptable conditions of the
Bases Treaty with the Soviet Union?
... that flying hummingbirds(example pictured) use oxygen at a rate which is relatively ten times greater than elite athletes?
... that when a tourist's corpse was found atop the Apthorp, The New York Times wrote that "it struck some tenants not as an oddity but as a metaphor" for life there?
... that before becoming the mayor of
Medan, Indonesia, Agus Salim Rangkuti acted in movies and oversaw a real-life political prison camp?
... that
M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata?
... that although Titian's Allegory of Marriage(pictured) left England in the 17th century, two early replicas, probably done from the original, remain in the
Royal Collection?
... that a revival of the comedy series Lizzie McGuire was ordered in 2019, but canceled mid-production after Disney deemed it not family-friendly enough?
... that King Charles III's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
... that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor
Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president
Kwame Nkrumah?
... that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda?
7 April 2023
00:00, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hart (left) and Roland
... that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a
New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)?
... that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar
Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile from the site where he was sold as a slave?
... that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as
the Salvation Army" after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900?
... that, amongst the kidneys of the
vertebrates, only those of mammals and birds can produce concentrated urine?
... that Constantine, an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a
cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?
... that the 2023 series Farzi tells the story of a counterfeiting ring as well as the fakeness of people?
... that a special case was instrumental to
harpistSteffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?
4 April 2023
00:05, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Parker House
... that after
Sea Girt, New Jersey, passed a law that banned live rock and disco music at the Parker House(pictured), a state judge overturned the ban as being "silly"?
... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a
gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
... that the 1919 suite of The Firebird contained "more than three hundred errors"?
... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
... that pianist Fujita Haruko, one of the first 19 female students enrolled at the
University of Tokyo, was taught by Leo Sirota, who was once called the "god of piano" (both pictured)?
... that as part of its strategy of political renovation,
National Convergence nominated a librarian to contest one of Bolivia's most competitive legislative districts?
... that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?