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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that in the span of three days, a Florida man was approved by bankruptcy courts to buy TV stations in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia, and then arrested on charges of laundering millions in drug money?
... that goalkeeper Daniela Solera had the most touches of any Costa Rican player in their opening match of the
2023 World Cup?
... that tens of thousands of New Yorkers traveled to see Dreamland burn?
30 August 2023
00:00, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Entrance to the Fulton Street station
... that before the Fulton Street station(entrance pictured) was renovated in the 2010s, a New York Times reporter said the station "might be a good spot for
M. C. Escher to set up an easel"?
... that a stamp depicting an elephant compelled Plácido Ramón de Torres to flee Italy for his native Spain?
... that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
... that after breaking up,
Piri and
Tommy Villiers released a song about wanting to be treated nicely in a relationship?
... that
National Football League player Jacob Sykes took college courses in sixth grade and assisted in teaching college courses in seventh grade?
... that although Kississing Lake is threatened by water contaminated with
tailings, it is the main resource for nearby residents?
... that about 30 cases of Hanhart syndrome were reported between 1932 and 1991?
... that the mineral gauthierite(pictured) has only been found in one location, and only on very few specimens?
... that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist
Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?
... that Thelma Bates's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first
palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
... that Singaporean performance artist Josef Ng was fined
S$1,000 for partially exposing his buttocks and snipping his pubic hair during a public performance?
... that one critic described the lower portion of One Worldwide Plaza's facade as resembling "stone wallpaper"?
... that the Ängelholm UFO memorial reflects the account of Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, who attributed his success in life to encountering a
UFO in 1946?
28 August 2023
12:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
A Plunge into Space, with a preface attributed to Verne
... that to announce the first commercially broadcast
Green Bay Packers game in 1929, Russ Winnie sat in a studio and read out
telegrams sent from someone who was at the game?
... that depending on who you ask, an anomochilid could be a dwarf or a giant?
00:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Replica of the Kabwe skull
... that the Kabwe mine produced crystals and a fossilised pre-human skull (replica pictured), and has poisoned hundreds of thousands of people?
... that social media influencer Alix Earle's first video on
TikTok featured her and her friends showcasing outfits they had made out of trash bags?
... that the first Thai typewriter left out two letters, which eventually became obsolete?
... that during the 2013 Midwest floods, lightning struck a plane on the runway, according to officials at the airport?
... that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the
Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church?
... that of 42 pilot competitors who started the 2022 X-Pyr, a paragliding hike-and-fly endurance race, only four reached the final goal?
... that Bird Thomas Baldwin, the director of the first child research center of its kind, died due to a shaving accident?
27 August 2023
12:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
Martha Holliday in Yank, The Army Weekly (1946)
... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"?
... that Singaporean swimmer Marc Tay served in the
Gulf War as an eye surgeon?
... that in 1987, an estimated one-sixth of New York City's homeless children lived at the Martinique Hotel, even though it lacked basic facilities like kitchens?
... that although doctors said Mitchell Agude would live the rest of his life in a
vegetative state following a
skateboarding accident at age nine, he recovered in three days and now plays in the
NFL?
... that Master of Magic, released in 2022, is a faithful remake of the 1994 classic of the same name?
... that inventor Kamil Tolon manufactured the first Turkish electric engine after prime minister
Adnan Menderes prohibited him from importing them?
... that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall, a social and literary fraternity?
... that Ridho Rahmadi helped develop digital apps for the
Ummah Party before he was appointed its chairman?
... that Rampage was said to cause "an adrenaline-induced tingle"?
... that Jorge Medina – the first
Afro-Bolivian in
parliament – recalled being harassed as a young adult due to the superstitious belief that pinching a black person brought good luck?
... that Ice King, the antagonist of television series Adventure Time, was at first received negatively by critics but later praised for representing mental health issues such as
Alzheimer's disease?
... that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president
Marc Tessier-Lavigne?
... that Tylocephale possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another?
... that future state senator William T. Vinton was sent to jail for contempt of court when he refused to sign a city paving contract, but was later vindicated by an
Oregon Supreme Court decision?
... that to gain weight to increase his chance of being a college football
offensive lineman, John Ojukwu went on a diet that included consuming a gallon of milk a day and sometimes whole pizzas?
... that Jaleel McLaughlin went from being homeless to being college football's all-time leading rusher?
... that the Jewish cemetery in
Lucena, the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, was discovered in 2006 during construction of the city's southern ring road?
... that in 1975, a cache of 20,000 of Ernst Gottmann's photographic negatives was discovered in the basement of his company's old studio?
... that Chip Hawkes got his nickname after turning up at gigs while covered in wood shavings?
17 August 2023
00:00, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Make-Do and Mend poster
... that during the Second World War, the British government's campaign Make-Do and Mend(poster pictured) encouraged the public to fashion men's clothes into womenswear?
... that before Emine Arslan became a world
kickboxing champion she smoked two packets of cigarettes a day?
... that when coach C. O. Brocato led his high school football team to a winning record in 1960, it was the first time they had done so since 1948 – when he had captained them as a player?
... that comedian Pamela Stephenson was pleased that her 1987 book How to Be a Complete Bitch was described as "sexist, violent and crude"?
14 August 2023
00:00, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Roxani Soutzos
... that, commenting on her support for the egalitarian
Greek Republic as a
Phanariote dame, Roxani Soutzos(pictured) said it was "[b]etter to be a servant in Greece liberated than a princess in Greece enslaved"?
... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?
... that the "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown's voice in the roles of the Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of
Peter Pears?
... that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a
stockwhip a few months after it was published?
... that T Express is the tallest, tenth-fastest and third-longest wooden roller coaster in the world?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the
food co-op in
Belfast, Maine?
... that The Science of Dune contains a scientific analysis of the fictional concepts from the Dune franchise, such as
sandworms, stillsuits, and the fictional drug
melange?
... that two months after the
Black September Organization assassinated
Mossad operative Baruch Cohen in Madrid, his role in uncovering a Syria-directed spy ring in Israel was revealed?
... that Gladys Quander Tancil interpreted the lives of her enslaved ancestors at George Washington's Mount Vernon for more than twenty years?
... that the two residents of the Kabul synagogue argued with each other so much that the
Taliban imprisoned them both?
9 August 2023
00:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Golfers playing around fenced-off tombs in what is now Hyochang Park
... that the
Empire of Japan turned a Korean royal cemetery at what is now Hyochang Park into a golf course (pictured)?
... that Milton Grant went from disc jockey and bandstand host to an owner of television stations?
... that by 1967, staff at the
Home Office were told not to feed Peta morsels of food as she had become "inordinately fat"?
7 August 2023
00:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Diego Mateo Zapata
... that the
Spanish Inquisition sentenced Diego Mateo Zapata(pictured) to wear the
sanbenito, receive 200 lashes, have his 600 books confiscated, and be exiled, despite being acquitted?
... that the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly
flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by
Sunni scholars?
... that Vera Brodsky Lawrence(pictured) hated being called the "queen of ragtime" despite being a catalyst for the revival of
Scott Joplin's music?
... that Skyline Madrid was built on the most expensive plot of land ever sold in
Madrid?
... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a
piston-engine aircraft?
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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that in the span of three days, a Florida man was approved by bankruptcy courts to buy TV stations in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia, and then arrested on charges of laundering millions in drug money?
... that goalkeeper Daniela Solera had the most touches of any Costa Rican player in their opening match of the
2023 World Cup?
... that tens of thousands of New Yorkers traveled to see Dreamland burn?
30 August 2023
00:00, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Entrance to the Fulton Street station
... that before the Fulton Street station(entrance pictured) was renovated in the 2010s, a New York Times reporter said the station "might be a good spot for
M. C. Escher to set up an easel"?
... that a stamp depicting an elephant compelled Plácido Ramón de Torres to flee Italy for his native Spain?
... that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
... that after breaking up,
Piri and
Tommy Villiers released a song about wanting to be treated nicely in a relationship?
... that
National Football League player Jacob Sykes took college courses in sixth grade and assisted in teaching college courses in seventh grade?
... that although Kississing Lake is threatened by water contaminated with
tailings, it is the main resource for nearby residents?
... that about 30 cases of Hanhart syndrome were reported between 1932 and 1991?
... that the mineral gauthierite(pictured) has only been found in one location, and only on very few specimens?
... that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist
Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?
... that Thelma Bates's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first
palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
... that Singaporean performance artist Josef Ng was fined
S$1,000 for partially exposing his buttocks and snipping his pubic hair during a public performance?
... that one critic described the lower portion of One Worldwide Plaza's facade as resembling "stone wallpaper"?
... that the Ängelholm UFO memorial reflects the account of Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, who attributed his success in life to encountering a
UFO in 1946?
28 August 2023
12:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
A Plunge into Space, with a preface attributed to Verne
... that to announce the first commercially broadcast
Green Bay Packers game in 1929, Russ Winnie sat in a studio and read out
telegrams sent from someone who was at the game?
... that depending on who you ask, an anomochilid could be a dwarf or a giant?
00:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Replica of the Kabwe skull
... that the Kabwe mine produced crystals and a fossilised pre-human skull (replica pictured), and has poisoned hundreds of thousands of people?
... that social media influencer Alix Earle's first video on
TikTok featured her and her friends showcasing outfits they had made out of trash bags?
... that the first Thai typewriter left out two letters, which eventually became obsolete?
... that during the 2013 Midwest floods, lightning struck a plane on the runway, according to officials at the airport?
... that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the
Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church?
... that of 42 pilot competitors who started the 2022 X-Pyr, a paragliding hike-and-fly endurance race, only four reached the final goal?
... that Bird Thomas Baldwin, the director of the first child research center of its kind, died due to a shaving accident?
27 August 2023
12:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
Martha Holliday in Yank, The Army Weekly (1946)
... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"?
... that Singaporean swimmer Marc Tay served in the
Gulf War as an eye surgeon?
... that in 1987, an estimated one-sixth of New York City's homeless children lived at the Martinique Hotel, even though it lacked basic facilities like kitchens?
... that although doctors said Mitchell Agude would live the rest of his life in a
vegetative state following a
skateboarding accident at age nine, he recovered in three days and now plays in the
NFL?
... that Master of Magic, released in 2022, is a faithful remake of the 1994 classic of the same name?
... that inventor Kamil Tolon manufactured the first Turkish electric engine after prime minister
Adnan Menderes prohibited him from importing them?
... that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall, a social and literary fraternity?
... that Ridho Rahmadi helped develop digital apps for the
Ummah Party before he was appointed its chairman?
... that Rampage was said to cause "an adrenaline-induced tingle"?
... that Jorge Medina – the first
Afro-Bolivian in
parliament – recalled being harassed as a young adult due to the superstitious belief that pinching a black person brought good luck?
... that Ice King, the antagonist of television series Adventure Time, was at first received negatively by critics but later praised for representing mental health issues such as
Alzheimer's disease?
... that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president
Marc Tessier-Lavigne?
... that Tylocephale possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another?
... that future state senator William T. Vinton was sent to jail for contempt of court when he refused to sign a city paving contract, but was later vindicated by an
Oregon Supreme Court decision?
... that to gain weight to increase his chance of being a college football
offensive lineman, John Ojukwu went on a diet that included consuming a gallon of milk a day and sometimes whole pizzas?
... that Jaleel McLaughlin went from being homeless to being college football's all-time leading rusher?
... that the Jewish cemetery in
Lucena, the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, was discovered in 2006 during construction of the city's southern ring road?
... that in 1975, a cache of 20,000 of Ernst Gottmann's photographic negatives was discovered in the basement of his company's old studio?
... that Chip Hawkes got his nickname after turning up at gigs while covered in wood shavings?
17 August 2023
00:00, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Make-Do and Mend poster
... that during the Second World War, the British government's campaign Make-Do and Mend(poster pictured) encouraged the public to fashion men's clothes into womenswear?
... that before Emine Arslan became a world
kickboxing champion she smoked two packets of cigarettes a day?
... that when coach C. O. Brocato led his high school football team to a winning record in 1960, it was the first time they had done so since 1948 – when he had captained them as a player?
... that comedian Pamela Stephenson was pleased that her 1987 book How to Be a Complete Bitch was described as "sexist, violent and crude"?
14 August 2023
00:00, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Roxani Soutzos
... that, commenting on her support for the egalitarian
Greek Republic as a
Phanariote dame, Roxani Soutzos(pictured) said it was "[b]etter to be a servant in Greece liberated than a princess in Greece enslaved"?
... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?
... that the "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown's voice in the roles of the Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of
Peter Pears?
... that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a
stockwhip a few months after it was published?
... that T Express is the tallest, tenth-fastest and third-longest wooden roller coaster in the world?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the
food co-op in
Belfast, Maine?
... that The Science of Dune contains a scientific analysis of the fictional concepts from the Dune franchise, such as
sandworms, stillsuits, and the fictional drug
melange?
... that two months after the
Black September Organization assassinated
Mossad operative Baruch Cohen in Madrid, his role in uncovering a Syria-directed spy ring in Israel was revealed?
... that Gladys Quander Tancil interpreted the lives of her enslaved ancestors at George Washington's Mount Vernon for more than twenty years?
... that the two residents of the Kabul synagogue argued with each other so much that the
Taliban imprisoned them both?
9 August 2023
00:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Golfers playing around fenced-off tombs in what is now Hyochang Park
... that the
Empire of Japan turned a Korean royal cemetery at what is now Hyochang Park into a golf course (pictured)?
... that Milton Grant went from disc jockey and bandstand host to an owner of television stations?
... that by 1967, staff at the
Home Office were told not to feed Peta morsels of food as she had become "inordinately fat"?
7 August 2023
00:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Diego Mateo Zapata
... that the
Spanish Inquisition sentenced Diego Mateo Zapata(pictured) to wear the
sanbenito, receive 200 lashes, have his 600 books confiscated, and be exiled, despite being acquitted?
... that the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly
flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by
Sunni scholars?
... that Vera Brodsky Lawrence(pictured) hated being called the "queen of ragtime" despite being a catalyst for the revival of
Scott Joplin's music?
... that Skyline Madrid was built on the most expensive plot of land ever sold in
Madrid?
... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a
piston-engine aircraft?