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... that the
UAW's 1941 union contract with the
Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes?
... that the urban legend Herobrine was ranked on a Guinness World Records poll of the best video game villains, despite never existing?
30 March 2024
12:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher(pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets?
... that "End Zone" Jones ran for a career high in his final regular season game with
Nebraska to finish third in the school's history in career
rushing yards?
... that the Khalij, an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
... that following a
boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month?
... that Mexican filmmaker David Zonana wrote his first feature film after producing for two other directors?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
... that Townsends, a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for
macaroni and cheese?
00:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Jack A. Bade
... that despite receiving a head injury, and the guns of his fighter becoming jammed after being attacked by enemy aircraft, Jack A. Bade(pictured) continued to defend American bombers over
Guadalcanal?
... that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?
... that in accordance with Hale's law,
sunspot groups have
magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator?
... that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
... that during the rollout of her album Can You See Me?,
Rezz released a sex toy?
... that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
... that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
... that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of
the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
... that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding
Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the
Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
...that the influential Armenian merchants Petik and Sanos expanded the Armenian
Church of the Forty Martyrs in Aleppo, in spite of Ottoman laws that banned new construction and expansion of churches?
... that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
... that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a
vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns?
... that Institutiones rei herbariae, published in 1700, sought to give a unique name to every plant based on their "essence"?
28 March 2024
12:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Anna Filosofova
... that after being criticized for dressing "like a doll" at an important meeting, pioneering Russian feminist Anna Filosofova(pictured) replied that "clothes do not make the woman"?
... that although his leg was shortened by 5 cm (2.0 in) following a battlefield injury, Raoul Augereau continued his military service?
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and
hyraxes?
... that before Sean Jackson won three
Ivy League basketball championships, he won high school state championships in both baseball and basketball?
... that Aaron Bushnell said that his action of setting himself on fire was less extreme than "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers"?
... that Francis Fogarty, who went on to manage an NFL franchise for nearly two decades, was taken prisoner by the Nazis in World War II but managed to escape while wounded?
... that while named for
alliums, the fossil Paleoallium(pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species?
... that as music director of the
Oper Hagen, Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects?
... that the psychological inner space genre was a rebellion against the traditional focus of science fiction on literal
outer space?
... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named?
... that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed
Mozart's Cherubino, a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"?
... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and
Hank Williams?
... that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's
Baggotonia, was inadvertent?
... that
Piri formed
a band with Porij's guitarist after matching with him on Tinder?
... that the
Love Island series 8 contestant Tasha Ghouri went viral in early 2024 after uploading a video to TikTok using her "deaf accent"?
... that John Blackinger quit his job as the general manager of a professional football team to work in the dairy business?
... that during their two-minute performance at the
Oulu City Theatre, the group Jumalan teatteri caused a huge scandal by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt at the audience?
24 March 2024
00:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Proprietor of the Mussel Inn pouring a beer
... that the proprietor of the music venue the Mussel Inn(pictured) in
Onekaka built tables strong enough for up to eight people to dance on?
... that Grounded, an opera about drone warfare, was sponsored by
General Dynamics, a major military contractor?
23 March 2024
00:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Portrait of a woman from the Myanmar Photo Archive
... that the Myanmar Photo Archive(example photograph shown) revealed "a side of modern Myanmar that, until very recently, remained hidden in dusty attics"?
... that jazz singer Judi Singh's mother and father were, respectively, among the earliest Black and
Sikh settlers of
Alberta, Canada?
... that the Elmwood Tower may have once been the tallest building in
Omaha?
... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum(pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated?
... that Samoa House was the first fale (traditional Samoan house) built outside of Samoa?
... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at
Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player
Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
... that the record label Tidy Trax released an album in 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of
Tony De Vit, the "godfather of
UK hard house"?
... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter
Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
... that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?
14 March 2024
00:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Elbert E. Martin
... that former football player Elbert E. Martin(pictured) stopped an assassin from killing former US president Theodore Roosevelt?
... that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
... that Lovro Šitović, a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
... that the creators of the cartoon Jade Armor filmed live-action martial arts stunts to visualize the show's animated action sequences?
... that
trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to
come out publicly?
... that several organisers of the Hindu Mela were involved in a secret society that manufactured matchsticks?
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the
Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"?
12 March 2024
00:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Onekaka Dam under construction in the late 1920s
... that the rebuilt Onekaka Power Station is controlled remotely using text messages via the cellular phone network?
... that as part of the Hardpointmissile defense system,
ARPA developed missiles able to hit 377 g of acceleration with reaction times in milliseconds?
... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan?
... that only months after going out of business, Milkrun relaunched?
... that after criticising horsegiirL's "My Barn My Rules" live on air, the British DJ
Arielle Free was suspended from
BBC Radio 1 for a week?
... that the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in New York City was designed by "the only architects in the city who had not begged for the job"?
... that Marcos G. McGrath, the Catholic archbishop of Panama, was allowed to enter
Manuel Noriega's "witch house" and other residences, and found evidence of torture, devil worship, and voodoo?
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II
propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"?
... that The One(pictured), a private residence in
Los Angeles, has 21 bedrooms, 42 bathrooms, a 30-car garage, a four-lane bowling alley, a casino, a nightclub, and five swimming pools including a moat?
... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones were moved to the public cemetery?
... that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood, a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m3) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail?
... that the Fighting Vanguard waged a guerrilla war against the Syrian government in the 1970s and 1980s?
... that Robert Brigandyne constructed the first purpose-built dry dock in England, after
King Henry VII's new warships grew too big to be repaired on mudbanks?
... that a well-publicised conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover
propylene?
2 March 2024
00:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
John Cowans
... that British prime minister
H. H. Asquith described John Cowans(pictured) as "the best Quartermaster since Moses"?
... that historians oppose the removal of a 150-year-old mosque in New Delhi for alleged traffic congestion, citing its cultural significance?
... that the Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux is credited with the economic revival of the independent newspaper Le Devoir?
... that Mount Churchill, a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
... that although the
Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the
Qing's ban on Christianity and enter China?
1 March 2024
00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Tōrō-dō Hall, Okunoin
... that the hall of worship of Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns (pictured), two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years?
... that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
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
UAW's 1941 union contract with the
Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes?
... that the urban legend Herobrine was ranked on a Guinness World Records poll of the best video game villains, despite never existing?
30 March 2024
12:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher(pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets?
... that "End Zone" Jones ran for a career high in his final regular season game with
Nebraska to finish third in the school's history in career
rushing yards?
... that the Khalij, an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
... that following a
boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month?
... that Mexican filmmaker David Zonana wrote his first feature film after producing for two other directors?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
... that Townsends, a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for
macaroni and cheese?
00:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Jack A. Bade
... that despite receiving a head injury, and the guns of his fighter becoming jammed after being attacked by enemy aircraft, Jack A. Bade(pictured) continued to defend American bombers over
Guadalcanal?
... that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?
... that in accordance with Hale's law,
sunspot groups have
magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator?
... that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
... that during the rollout of her album Can You See Me?,
Rezz released a sex toy?
... that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
... that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
... that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of
the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
... that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding
Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the
Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
...that the influential Armenian merchants Petik and Sanos expanded the Armenian
Church of the Forty Martyrs in Aleppo, in spite of Ottoman laws that banned new construction and expansion of churches?
... that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
... that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a
vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns?
... that Institutiones rei herbariae, published in 1700, sought to give a unique name to every plant based on their "essence"?
28 March 2024
12:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Anna Filosofova
... that after being criticized for dressing "like a doll" at an important meeting, pioneering Russian feminist Anna Filosofova(pictured) replied that "clothes do not make the woman"?
... that although his leg was shortened by 5 cm (2.0 in) following a battlefield injury, Raoul Augereau continued his military service?
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and
hyraxes?
... that before Sean Jackson won three
Ivy League basketball championships, he won high school state championships in both baseball and basketball?
... that Aaron Bushnell said that his action of setting himself on fire was less extreme than "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers"?
... that Francis Fogarty, who went on to manage an NFL franchise for nearly two decades, was taken prisoner by the Nazis in World War II but managed to escape while wounded?
... that while named for
alliums, the fossil Paleoallium(pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species?
... that as music director of the
Oper Hagen, Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects?
... that the psychological inner space genre was a rebellion against the traditional focus of science fiction on literal
outer space?
... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named?
... that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed
Mozart's Cherubino, a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"?
... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and
Hank Williams?
... that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's
Baggotonia, was inadvertent?
... that
Piri formed
a band with Porij's guitarist after matching with him on Tinder?
... that the
Love Island series 8 contestant Tasha Ghouri went viral in early 2024 after uploading a video to TikTok using her "deaf accent"?
... that John Blackinger quit his job as the general manager of a professional football team to work in the dairy business?
... that during their two-minute performance at the
Oulu City Theatre, the group Jumalan teatteri caused a huge scandal by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt at the audience?
24 March 2024
00:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Proprietor of the Mussel Inn pouring a beer
... that the proprietor of the music venue the Mussel Inn(pictured) in
Onekaka built tables strong enough for up to eight people to dance on?
... that Grounded, an opera about drone warfare, was sponsored by
General Dynamics, a major military contractor?
23 March 2024
00:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Portrait of a woman from the Myanmar Photo Archive
... that the Myanmar Photo Archive(example photograph shown) revealed "a side of modern Myanmar that, until very recently, remained hidden in dusty attics"?
... that jazz singer Judi Singh's mother and father were, respectively, among the earliest Black and
Sikh settlers of
Alberta, Canada?
... that the Elmwood Tower may have once been the tallest building in
Omaha?
... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum(pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated?
... that Samoa House was the first fale (traditional Samoan house) built outside of Samoa?
... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at
Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player
Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
... that the record label Tidy Trax released an album in 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of
Tony De Vit, the "godfather of
UK hard house"?
... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter
Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
... that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?
14 March 2024
00:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Elbert E. Martin
... that former football player Elbert E. Martin(pictured) stopped an assassin from killing former US president Theodore Roosevelt?
... that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
... that Lovro Šitović, a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
... that the creators of the cartoon Jade Armor filmed live-action martial arts stunts to visualize the show's animated action sequences?
... that
trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to
come out publicly?
... that several organisers of the Hindu Mela were involved in a secret society that manufactured matchsticks?
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the
Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"?
12 March 2024
00:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Onekaka Dam under construction in the late 1920s
... that the rebuilt Onekaka Power Station is controlled remotely using text messages via the cellular phone network?
... that as part of the Hardpointmissile defense system,
ARPA developed missiles able to hit 377 g of acceleration with reaction times in milliseconds?
... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan?
... that only months after going out of business, Milkrun relaunched?
... that after criticising horsegiirL's "My Barn My Rules" live on air, the British DJ
Arielle Free was suspended from
BBC Radio 1 for a week?
... that the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in New York City was designed by "the only architects in the city who had not begged for the job"?
... that Marcos G. McGrath, the Catholic archbishop of Panama, was allowed to enter
Manuel Noriega's "witch house" and other residences, and found evidence of torture, devil worship, and voodoo?
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II
propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"?
... that The One(pictured), a private residence in
Los Angeles, has 21 bedrooms, 42 bathrooms, a 30-car garage, a four-lane bowling alley, a casino, a nightclub, and five swimming pools including a moat?
... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones were moved to the public cemetery?
... that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood, a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m3) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail?
... that the Fighting Vanguard waged a guerrilla war against the Syrian government in the 1970s and 1980s?
... that Robert Brigandyne constructed the first purpose-built dry dock in England, after
King Henry VII's new warships grew too big to be repaired on mudbanks?
... that a well-publicised conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover
propylene?
2 March 2024
00:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
John Cowans
... that British prime minister
H. H. Asquith described John Cowans(pictured) as "the best Quartermaster since Moses"?
... that historians oppose the removal of a 150-year-old mosque in New Delhi for alleged traffic congestion, citing its cultural significance?
... that the Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux is credited with the economic revival of the independent newspaper Le Devoir?
... that Mount Churchill, a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
... that although the
Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the
Qing's ban on Christianity and enter China?
1 March 2024
00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Tōrō-dō Hall, Okunoin
... that the hall of worship of Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns (pictured), two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years?
... that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?