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 the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park(pictured) was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
... that EastEnders producers decided to kill off Chantelle Atkins at the conclusion of a domestic-abuse plot after learning of the high statistic of women killed by a partner?
... that one reviewer described a TV station in St. Louis as appearing to be "not serious about the news"?
27 September 2023
00:00, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Cyprian Norwid
... that the 19th-century poet Cyprian Norwid(pictured), now recognized as one of the most important Polish poets, led a poverty-stricken life and his works were rarely appreciated until decades after his death?
... that ancient Rome's Temple of Piety was closely connected with the legend of a daughter who breastfed an imprisoned parent?
... that a freelance game developer successfully pitched a video game with a picture of a car driving around a lake?
... that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a
senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
... that David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, argues in his 2020 book that
monopolies are so interwoven with our lives that it is impossible to escape them?
... that much of the research in dress history has been done from documents, illustrations, and photographs rather than by studying items of clothing?
... that when Zhu Cilang was asked why his family lost the
Mandate of Heaven, he blamed it on their "treacherous ministers"?
... that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi?
... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in
Lima for over a year, held in
Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English
packet boat to Jamaica?
... that
Mihai Eminescu's poem "Out of All the Masts", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
... that the 1968 book Yanomamö: The Fierce People led to a major and decades-long controversy in the field of anthropology?
... that Major League Baseball player Wade Meckler was 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 metres) tall and weighed 75 pounds (34 kilograms) when he was a high-school freshman?
... that in
Greek architecture the round tholos form (example pictured) offered an escape from the "austere conventions" of
Greek temple design?
... that novelist Erskine Childers was an artilleryman in the British Army, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a major in the Royal Air Force, and a staff captain in the Irish Republican Army?
... that the spiky inedible grass Triodia scintillans tastes like salt and vinegar chips?
00:00, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Tamás Király
... that when the Hungarian Arts Fund denied a grant application by Tamás Király(pictured) for a fashion show, he used the rejection letter as a poster?
... that the fieldwork of Soviet ethnologist Evdokia Kozhevnikova(pictured) for her unfinished dissertation provides a valuable record of the culture and
the language of the
Georgian province of
Svaneti?
... that Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the mutiny on the Potemkin, emigrated to Ireland where he established a fish and chip shop that is still run by his descendants?
... that according to family tradition, admiral and painter Jacob Hägg decided to become a naval officer after seeing a Franco-British naval force during the
Crimean War?
... that a complaint signed by 52 people resulted in curriculum standards at New York State's private schools being subject to structured regulatory oversight for the very first time?
... that the first imported copies of Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent were confiscated by Australian customs authorities?
... that portions of Tennessee State Route 158 have been called "Front Street", "Front Avenue", "Lakefront Drive", "Neyland Drive", and "James White Parkway"?
... that known books bound in human skin include a highwayman's memoirs bound in his own skin, a novel about a man being left by his lesbian wife, and a
BDSM erotic poem?
... that according to sportswriter Jon Henderson, the 1943 Football League War Cup final was "widely regarded as the greatest club football match of the war"?
... that
Jiří Kylián's ballet Petite Mort(dancers pictured) uses slow movements from
Mozart's most famous piano concertos to contrast the physicality of the choreography?
... that the Adelaide L. T. Douglas House, built for a New York City socialite, housed the United States Olympic Committee before being sold to Guatemala?
... that ice hockey player Mitch Love once fought 34 times in one season, more than any other professional player in the world that year?
... that Hungarians Gyula Bajó and Endre Hevizi, who went on to design stained glass (example pictured) for the
Debre Libanos monastery, worked as labourers in a British pottery after the Second World War?
... that the mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, said that he was overlooked for not being a "Cameron Cutie"?
... that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
... that there is a folk tradition in Korea where children who
urinate while sleeping are made to wear a winnowing basket on their head and ask their neighbors for salt?
... that dwarf mollies hit rock bottom when they grow up?
13 September 2023
12:30, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
Restless Heart
... that record executive
Tim DuBois locked the members of Restless Heart(pictured) in an office for seven hours until they came up with a name for the band?
... that a photograph of Frances "the Shape" Vorne wearing a swimsuit made from remnants of a captured Nazi parachute (pictured) was one of the most sought-after pin-ups of
World War II?
... that the
play-by-email game Blood Pit was so complex that even its programmer had trouble winning?
... that
Loud LDN co-founder Maisi came joint last in the 2022
Maldon mud race, behind a naked runner who had been forced to start after everyone else?
... that the perpetrator of the 1976 Spring Hill shooting allegedly committed the attack in a rage after being denied membership to a model plane club?
... that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu, who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of
Michael the Brave, had to delete any mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"?
... that despite being the first women's football team in
Northern Ireland to sign players on professional contracts, Cliftonville Ladies F.C. were not the first club to register them?
... that several science fiction critics praised "Rock Diver", the first short story by American writer
Harry Harrison, for its compelling take on technology for passing through matter?
... that the first road tunnel in England, opened in 1823 in Reigate, Surrey, runs under the site of a medieval castle?
... that an initial gameplay concept for Diggin' Dogs was "possibly going to be worms eating into a diseased brain", with design input from
Edmund McMillen?
... that African
porters in
Salvador, Bahia, went on strike after the provincial government passed a law requiring them to wear metal identification tags?
... that an album of collectible cards from the German margarine brand Echte Wagner in 1930 presented a vision of the future that incorporated concepts such as wireless personal phones with screens?
... that the New York City-based fashion label Sandy Liang is inspired by grandmothers in Chinatown, and often features Liang's own grandmother as a model?
... that the Campanile, a bell tower in
Portmeirion, north Wales, was built in 1928 using stone from a nearby 12th-century castle?
... that Adam W. Oberlin, the 1917 Republican nominee to be the mayor of
Canton, Ohio, went missing and was found seven months later working as a carpenter in
Norfolk, Virginia?
... that Singaporean broadcaster Lee Fook Hong legally changed his name to Lee Dai Sor (literally 'Lee Big Fool' in
Cantonese) after being accused of tax evasion?
... that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time?
... that Governor Lauk Shein of
Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing
Hanthawaddy troops?
... that C/1990 K1 (Levy) was the first comet observed by the
Hubble Space Telescope, but only short exposures were obtained as the telescope was not yet able to track Solar System bodies?
... that an unfinished cut of Revolution+1, a film about the life of
the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister
Shinzo Abe, was released in theaters the day before Abe's state funeral?
... that the murderer of Yadira Arroyo was reportedly found mentally unfit to stand trial three times?
... that Nāmākēhā was sacrificed in 1797 after he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Hawaiian king
Kamehameha I?
... that the Roman historian Marcus Junius Gracchanus adopted his last name to show his support for Gaius Gracchus?
... that the deity of the Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb remains unidentified due to the absence of names of specific gods in unearthed inscriptions?
... that
Scholastic requested Maggie Tokuda-Hall remove the phrase "virulent racism" from the Author's Note in Love in the Library, a children's book about Japanese-American internment camps?
...that in 1819, members of the Catholic Tübingen school first published the Theologische Quartalschrift, which remains in print as the oldest journal of Catholic theology in the world?
... that in 2019, Chinese electronics company
Xiaomi posted a video of their third-quarterly financial report featuring a parody of the
anime song "Renai Circulation"?
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 the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park(pictured) was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
... that EastEnders producers decided to kill off Chantelle Atkins at the conclusion of a domestic-abuse plot after learning of the high statistic of women killed by a partner?
... that one reviewer described a TV station in St. Louis as appearing to be "not serious about the news"?
27 September 2023
00:00, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Cyprian Norwid
... that the 19th-century poet Cyprian Norwid(pictured), now recognized as one of the most important Polish poets, led a poverty-stricken life and his works were rarely appreciated until decades after his death?
... that ancient Rome's Temple of Piety was closely connected with the legend of a daughter who breastfed an imprisoned parent?
... that a freelance game developer successfully pitched a video game with a picture of a car driving around a lake?
... that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a
senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
... that David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, argues in his 2020 book that
monopolies are so interwoven with our lives that it is impossible to escape them?
... that much of the research in dress history has been done from documents, illustrations, and photographs rather than by studying items of clothing?
... that when Zhu Cilang was asked why his family lost the
Mandate of Heaven, he blamed it on their "treacherous ministers"?
... that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi?
... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in
Lima for over a year, held in
Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English
packet boat to Jamaica?
... that
Mihai Eminescu's poem "Out of All the Masts", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
... that the 1968 book Yanomamö: The Fierce People led to a major and decades-long controversy in the field of anthropology?
... that Major League Baseball player Wade Meckler was 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 metres) tall and weighed 75 pounds (34 kilograms) when he was a high-school freshman?
... that in
Greek architecture the round tholos form (example pictured) offered an escape from the "austere conventions" of
Greek temple design?
... that novelist Erskine Childers was an artilleryman in the British Army, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a major in the Royal Air Force, and a staff captain in the Irish Republican Army?
... that the spiky inedible grass Triodia scintillans tastes like salt and vinegar chips?
00:00, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Tamás Király
... that when the Hungarian Arts Fund denied a grant application by Tamás Király(pictured) for a fashion show, he used the rejection letter as a poster?
... that the fieldwork of Soviet ethnologist Evdokia Kozhevnikova(pictured) for her unfinished dissertation provides a valuable record of the culture and
the language of the
Georgian province of
Svaneti?
... that Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the mutiny on the Potemkin, emigrated to Ireland where he established a fish and chip shop that is still run by his descendants?
... that according to family tradition, admiral and painter Jacob Hägg decided to become a naval officer after seeing a Franco-British naval force during the
Crimean War?
... that a complaint signed by 52 people resulted in curriculum standards at New York State's private schools being subject to structured regulatory oversight for the very first time?
... that the first imported copies of Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent were confiscated by Australian customs authorities?
... that portions of Tennessee State Route 158 have been called "Front Street", "Front Avenue", "Lakefront Drive", "Neyland Drive", and "James White Parkway"?
... that known books bound in human skin include a highwayman's memoirs bound in his own skin, a novel about a man being left by his lesbian wife, and a
BDSM erotic poem?
... that according to sportswriter Jon Henderson, the 1943 Football League War Cup final was "widely regarded as the greatest club football match of the war"?
... that
Jiří Kylián's ballet Petite Mort(dancers pictured) uses slow movements from
Mozart's most famous piano concertos to contrast the physicality of the choreography?
... that the Adelaide L. T. Douglas House, built for a New York City socialite, housed the United States Olympic Committee before being sold to Guatemala?
... that ice hockey player Mitch Love once fought 34 times in one season, more than any other professional player in the world that year?
... that Hungarians Gyula Bajó and Endre Hevizi, who went on to design stained glass (example pictured) for the
Debre Libanos monastery, worked as labourers in a British pottery after the Second World War?
... that the mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, said that he was overlooked for not being a "Cameron Cutie"?
... that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
... that there is a folk tradition in Korea where children who
urinate while sleeping are made to wear a winnowing basket on their head and ask their neighbors for salt?
... that dwarf mollies hit rock bottom when they grow up?
13 September 2023
12:30, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
Restless Heart
... that record executive
Tim DuBois locked the members of Restless Heart(pictured) in an office for seven hours until they came up with a name for the band?
... that a photograph of Frances "the Shape" Vorne wearing a swimsuit made from remnants of a captured Nazi parachute (pictured) was one of the most sought-after pin-ups of
World War II?
... that the
play-by-email game Blood Pit was so complex that even its programmer had trouble winning?
... that
Loud LDN co-founder Maisi came joint last in the 2022
Maldon mud race, behind a naked runner who had been forced to start after everyone else?
... that the perpetrator of the 1976 Spring Hill shooting allegedly committed the attack in a rage after being denied membership to a model plane club?
... that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu, who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of
Michael the Brave, had to delete any mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"?
... that despite being the first women's football team in
Northern Ireland to sign players on professional contracts, Cliftonville Ladies F.C. were not the first club to register them?
... that several science fiction critics praised "Rock Diver", the first short story by American writer
Harry Harrison, for its compelling take on technology for passing through matter?
... that the first road tunnel in England, opened in 1823 in Reigate, Surrey, runs under the site of a medieval castle?
... that an initial gameplay concept for Diggin' Dogs was "possibly going to be worms eating into a diseased brain", with design input from
Edmund McMillen?
... that African
porters in
Salvador, Bahia, went on strike after the provincial government passed a law requiring them to wear metal identification tags?
... that an album of collectible cards from the German margarine brand Echte Wagner in 1930 presented a vision of the future that incorporated concepts such as wireless personal phones with screens?
... that the New York City-based fashion label Sandy Liang is inspired by grandmothers in Chinatown, and often features Liang's own grandmother as a model?
... that the Campanile, a bell tower in
Portmeirion, north Wales, was built in 1928 using stone from a nearby 12th-century castle?
... that Adam W. Oberlin, the 1917 Republican nominee to be the mayor of
Canton, Ohio, went missing and was found seven months later working as a carpenter in
Norfolk, Virginia?
... that Singaporean broadcaster Lee Fook Hong legally changed his name to Lee Dai Sor (literally 'Lee Big Fool' in
Cantonese) after being accused of tax evasion?
... that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time?
... that Governor Lauk Shein of
Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing
Hanthawaddy troops?
... that C/1990 K1 (Levy) was the first comet observed by the
Hubble Space Telescope, but only short exposures were obtained as the telescope was not yet able to track Solar System bodies?
... that an unfinished cut of Revolution+1, a film about the life of
the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister
Shinzo Abe, was released in theaters the day before Abe's state funeral?
... that the murderer of Yadira Arroyo was reportedly found mentally unfit to stand trial three times?
... that Nāmākēhā was sacrificed in 1797 after he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Hawaiian king
Kamehameha I?
... that the Roman historian Marcus Junius Gracchanus adopted his last name to show his support for Gaius Gracchus?
... that the deity of the Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb remains unidentified due to the absence of names of specific gods in unearthed inscriptions?
... that
Scholastic requested Maggie Tokuda-Hall remove the phrase "virulent racism" from the Author's Note in Love in the Library, a children's book about Japanese-American internment camps?
...that in 1819, members of the Catholic Tübingen school first published the Theologische Quartalschrift, which remains in print as the oldest journal of Catholic theology in the world?
... that in 2019, Chinese electronics company
Xiaomi posted a video of their third-quarterly financial report featuring a parody of the
anime song "Renai Circulation"?