Article | Date | Image | views | vph | DYK hook |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Infant swimming | 2014-09-22 | 295,306 [a] | 24,609 | ... that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater (pictured) until the age of six months? | |
Fall of the Berlin Wall | 2019-11-09 | 255,647 [b] | 10,651 | ... that the fall of the Berlin Wall (immediate aftermath pictured) was the result of a bureaucratic mistake? | |
Silver Cross Tavern | 2014-01-29 | 192,578 | 16,048 | ... that the Silver Cross Tavern (pictured) is the United Kingdom's only legal brothel? | |
United Airlines Flight 175 | 2021-09-11 | 152,176 | 6,341 | ... that after being hijacked, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had two mid-air collisions with other aircraft before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center (pictured)? | |
Frank Sinatra | 2015-12-12 | 123,052 | 5,127 | ... that after gaining a job as a singing waiter in 1938,
Frank Sinatra (pictured) boasted that he would "become so big that no one could ever touch him"? ... that American music critic Robert Christgau called Frank Sinatra (pictured) "the greatest singer of the 20th century"? [c] | |
War Doctor | 2013-11-23 | 64,809 | 8,362 | ... that the War Doctor -(played by John Hurt, pictured), introduced in " The Night of the Doctor", will be a "dark doctor" who will "bring an ancient battle to its devastating conclusion"? | |
The Night of the Doctor | 31,863 | 4,111.3 | |||
Total | 107,618 | 13,886 | |||
Paul the Octopus | 2010-07-11 | 79,320 [d] | 13,320 | ... that Paul the Octopus (pictured) predicts Spain winning the World Cup today, while Mani the Parakeet tips a victory by the Netherlands? | |
Mani the Parakeet | 18,448 [e] | 3074.7 | |||
Total | 92,952 | 15,492 | |||
Water bottle flipping | 2016-11-07 | 87,202 | 7,266 | ... that flipping water bottles (pictured) has been banned in some U.S. and British schools? | |
HMS Highlander (H44) | 2011-12-21 | 77,346 | 9,668 | ... that the British destroyer HMS Highlander (pictured) escorted Convoy SC 122 through the largest convoy battle of World War II in March 1943 and was unsuccessfully attacked by German submarine U-441 (2) and German submarine U-608 (2)? | |
Anthony Davis | 2012-04-03 | 76,984 [f] | 9,623 | ... that 2012 National Player of the Year Anthony Davis (pictured) was unknown locally and nationally through his junior year of high school basketball? | |
Bestwood Country Park | 2018-09-04 | 74,731 | 3,113 | ... that one account has it that King Charles II offered his mistress Nell Gwyn (pictured) "all the land she could ride around before breakfast"—and the next morning she rode out early and encircled what would become Bestwood Park? | |
Clinton Romesha | 2013-02-11 | 73,434 [g] | 8,955 | ... that Clinton Romesha (pictured), who today is being awarded the Medal of Honor, joined the United States Army after deciding not to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? | |
Race-reversed casting | 2020-07-01 | 73,086 | 3,045 | ... that Patrick Stewart (pictured) invented "photo negative" casting in order to play Othello when it had become no longer acceptable to perform the role in blackface? | |
2016 FA Cup Final | 2016-05-21 | 55,574 | 4,631.2 | ... that Manchester United seek to match Arsenal's FA Cup winners record with a win in the 2016 FA Cup Final (venue pictured) against Crystal Palace today? | |
Eternal Silence (sculpture) | 2011-10-31 | 71,800 | 5,983 | ... that according to folklore, people looking into the eyes of Eternal Silence (pictured) will see a vision of their own death? | |
Ivan Castro (soldier) | 2008-12-08 | 71,300 | 5,941 | ... that Captain Ivan Castro is the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces? | |
Poutine | 2019-07-01 | 29,514 [h] | 1229.8 | ... that poutine (example pictured) and back bacon on a bun were served while the Beaver was awarded to Made in Canada at the inaugural Canadian Comedy Awards? | |
Peameal bacon | 18,463 | 769.3 | |||
Made in Canada (TV series) | 10,639 | 443.3 | |||
Canadian Comedy Awards | 7,082 | 295.1 | |||
1st Canadian Comedy Awards | 1,777 | 74.0 | |||
Total | 64,225 | 2,676.0 | |||
Leroy Petry | 2011-07-12 | 63,900 [i] | 7,987 | ... that Leroy Petry (pictured) is receiving the U.S. Medal of Honor today, marking only the second time that the award has been bestowed upon a living soldier for actions after the end of the Vietnam War? | |
Operation Overlord | 2014-06-06 | 4,916 | ... that Operation Overlord (detail pictured), the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, was the largest seaborne invasion in history?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". | {{{6}}} | |
Sophia (robot) | 2017-11-13 | 59,972 | 2,499 | ... that Sophia (pictured) is the first robot to become a recognised citizen of a country? | |
Statue of Tara | 2013-12-11 | 41,411 | 3,453 | ... that the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka (partly pictured) was kept hidden for 30 years in the British Museum because it was considered too erotic? | |
Murder of Jane Britton | 2019-01-07 | 53,494 | 2,229 | ... that the
red ochre sprinkled on
the body of Jane Britton (pictured) 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a
red herring in solving her murder?
|
Notes
{{DYK stats table multi|Sarpa salpa|2|Sarpa salpa .jpg|2011-11-15||
|- id="Hallucinogenic fish" |style="text-align:center" | Hallucinogenic fish || style="text-align:center" | 6,582 || align="center" | File:11,483 + 41,786 (0 + 1,218) / 2 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=6,582&pages=Hallucinogenic_fish ... that Sarpa salpa (pictured) is a hallucinogenic fish that was used as a recreational drug during the Roman Empire? || style="text-align:center" | {{{5}}}Expression error: Unexpected < operator || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Fortress of Mimoyecques| Mimoyecques2.jpg|2011-06-29| 51,700| 8,616|... that the underground
Fortress of Mimoyecques (pictured) was built by Nazi Germany to bombard London with 10 shells a minute using the
V-3 supergun?
|- id="Soo Yeon Lee" |style="text-align:center" | Soo Yeon Lee || style="text-align:center" | Soo Yeon Lee by Eric Longden Table Tennis 1.jpg || align="center" | [[File: SPiN|100x100px]] || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Soo Yeon Lee by Eric Longden Table Tennis 1.jpg&pages=Soo_Yeon_Lee 2017-06-30 || style="text-align:center" | 2,154 || ... that table tennis player and model Soo Yeon Lee (pictured) has coached numerous celebrities and is a brand ambassador for a chain of table tennis bars?
{{DYK stats table row|Leonard Siffleet|2009-05-08|LeonardGSiffleet.jpg|49,500| 8,250| ... that
Sergeant
Len Siffleet was the subject of a famous photograph (pictured) depicting an
execution by the Japanese in
World War II?
|- id="Chadwick Boseman" |style="text-align:center" | Chadwick Boseman || style="text-align:center" | 2021-04-25 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 48,465 || style="text-align:center" | 4,038.8 || ... that Chadwick Boseman (pictured) was the seventh actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination?
|- id="28th Virginia battle flag" |style="text-align:center" | 28th Virginia battle flag || style="text-align:center" | 2022-01-18 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 47,387 || style="text-align:center" | 3,948.9 || ... that the 28th Virginia battle flag (pictured) is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
|- id="Tommy Tucker (squirrel)" |style="text-align:center" | Tommy Tucker (squirrel) || style="text-align:center" | Pet-Squirrel-Grid-LIFE-1944-single-image.jpg || align="center" | File:2016-11-12 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Pet-Squirrel-Grid-LIFE-1944-single-image.jpg&pages=Tommy_Tucker_(squirrel) 47,095 || style="text-align:center" | 5,886 || ... that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes (pictured), became famous during World War II, selling war bonds and entertaining children?
{{DYK stats table row|Śmigus-Dyngus|2013-04-01|Dyngus postcard cropped.jpg|46,706| 3,892| ... that Polish girls (pictured) are
getting wet and spanked today, but will have their revenge tomorrow?
|- id="Mercy dog" |style="text-align:center" | Mercy dog || style="text-align:center" | 2021-01-08 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 43,554 || style="text-align:center" | 3,630 || ... that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land?
{{DYK stats table row|Giovanni de Ventura|
plague doctor
beak doctor costume|
plague doctor contract| Beak Doctor.jpg|2010-10-31| 7,600 + 1,600 + 6,400 + 1, 700 + 17,800 + 5,000 + 3,700 + 865 =
44, 665| 7,444| ... that
Giovanni de Ventura, a
plague doctor who may have worn a
beak doctor costume (pictured), was restricted by
a covenant to treat only infectious patients?
|- id="Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick" |style="text-align:center" | Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick || style="text-align:center" | 2019-04-30 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 44,648 || style="text-align:center" | 1,860 || ... that the fashion designer Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (pictured) is the closest relative of Queen Elizabeth II who cannot succeed to the British throne because of conversion to Catholicism?
{{DYK stats table row|Longest recorded sniper kills|2010-05-08| AW_G22_Arctic_7.62mm_Sniper_Rifle.jpg|44,600| 5,575|... that the
longest recorded sniper kill is from 2,475 m (8,120 ft) using a
L115A3 Long Range Rifle (pictured)?
|- id="Battle for Castle Itter" |style="text-align:center" | Battle for Castle Itter || style="text-align:center" | Schloss Itter.JPG || align="center" | File:2013-07-26 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Schloss Itter.JPG&pages=Battle_for_Castle_Itter 42,120 || style="text-align:center" | 5,265 || ... that what has been called the strangest battle of World War II was fought at a medieval castle (pictured), and was the only battle of the war in which American and German soldiers fought as allies?
|- id="MagiCans"
|style="text-align:center" |
MagiCans || style="text-align:center" | 2013-04-22 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
(article moved) || style="text-align:center" | 5,083 || ... that defects in
Coca-Cola's
MagiCans (pictured) led a child to mistakenly drink foul-tasting liquid used to replace actual cola?
{{DYK stats table row|Bacon Explosion|2009-02-06| Bacon Explosion.jpg|40,500| 6,750|... that the 5,000-
calorie
Bacon Explosion (pictured) was created in response to a
Twitter challenge to develop "the ultimate
bacon recipe"?
|- id="Ronald J. Shurer" |style="text-align:center" | Ronald J. Shurer || style="text-align:center" | 2018-10-01 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 40,011 || style="text-align:center" | 1,667 || ... that US Army combat medic Ronald J. Shurer's (pictured) Silver Star commendation for service in Afghanistan is being upgraded to a Medal of Honor today?
|- id="Tammie Jo Shults,
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380"
|style="text-align:center" | [[Tammie Jo Shults,
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380]] || style="text-align:center" | Tammy Jo Shults.jpg || align="center" |
File:2018-07-06 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Tammy Jo Shults.jpg&pages=Tammie_Jo_Shults,
Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380 1,653 || style="text-align:center" | ... that
Tammie Jo Shults (pictured), captain of
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, was one of the first female fighter pilots in the US Navy?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Saxbe fix|2008-11-29| [[Image:Hclintonm cropped.jpg|39,600| 6,600|... that
Hillary Rodham Clinton (
pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as
United States Secretary of State by
Barack Obama unless a
Saxbe fix can be worked out?
{{DYK stats table row|Slow loris|2011-03-30| [[Image:Nycticebus_tooth_removal_01.jpg|39,200| 4,900|... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front teeth cut out ( pictured) due to fear of their toxic bite?
|- id="Daulat (Mughal painter)" |style="text-align:center" | Daulat (Mughal painter) || style="text-align:center" | 2020-04-16 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 38,839 || style="text-align:center" | 1,618 || ... that a Mughal painter described himself in his self-portrait (pictured) as "the lowly, needy, insignificant, Daulat"?
|- id="Jimmy Carter"
|style="text-align:center" |
Jimmy Carter || style="text-align:center" | 2021-10-01 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
1610.9 || style="text-align:center" |
... that
Jimmy Carter reported that
he had seen a UFO?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Kemna concentration camp"
|style="text-align:center" |
Kemna concentration camp || style="text-align:center" | 2012-01-20 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
38,567 || style="text-align:center" | 4,820 || ... that torture at
Kemna concentration camp (memorial pictured), one of the first
Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazis held hearings on it?
|- id="KA2N Gorgon IIA
CTV-N-2 Gorgon IIC"
|style="text-align:center" | [[KA2N Gorgon IIA
CTV-N-2 Gorgon IIC]] || style="text-align:center" | 2018-01-08 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
CTV-N-2_Gorgon_IIC 1,603 || style="text-align:center" | ...that the
United States Navy placed orders for the
Gorgon IIA (pictured) and
Gorgon IIC missiles with the
Singer Manufacturing Company, better known for its
sewing machines?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)"
|style="text-align:center" |
Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970) || style="text-align:center" | 2019-01-14 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
38,125 || style="text-align:center" | 1,588 || ... that the
Soviet destroyer Sposobny (pictured) was designed to survive a nuclear explosion?
|- id="Deutsches Reichsbräu"
|style="text-align:center" |
Deutsches Reichsbräu || style="text-align:center" | 2020-07-15 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
37,990 || style="text-align:center" | 3,165 || ... that the German police were called to investigate
Deutsches Reichsbräu beer because of the Nazi-style imagery on its logo (pictured)?
|- id="Big Long Slidin' Thing,
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl,
It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion),
Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes),
Big Ten Inch Record"
|style="text-align:center" | [[Big Long Slidin' Thing,
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl,
It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion),
Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes),
Big Ten Inch Record]] || style="text-align:center" | 2020-01-01 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
Need_a_Little_Sugar_in_My_Bowl,
It_Ain't_the_Meat_(It's_the_Motion),
Keep_On_Churnin'_(Till_the_Butter_Comes),
Big_Ten_Inch_Record 1,565 || style="text-align:center" | ... that a ranking of the greatest
double-entendre songs of all time included "
Big Long Slidin' Thing" by
Dinah Washington (pictured), "
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by
Bessie Smith, "
It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by
the Swallows, "
Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by
Wynonie Harris, and "
Big Ten Inch Record" by
Aerosmith?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="This Is Her First Lynching,
Lynching of Henry Lowry,
Lynching of George Hughes,
The Law Is Too Slow,
1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions,
Death (statue),
Aaron Goodelman"
|style="text-align:center" | [[This Is Her First Lynching,
Lynching of Henry Lowry,
Lynching of George Hughes,
The Law Is Too Slow,
1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions,
Death (statue),
Aaron Goodelman]] || style="text-align:center" | 2021-06-09 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
Lynching_of_Henry_Lowry,
Lynching_of_George_Hughes,
The_Law_Is_Too_Slow,
1935_New_York_anti-lynching_exhibitions,
Death_(statue),
Aaron_Goodelman || style="text-align:center" | ... that the
1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions included
Death (modeled after the
lynching of George Hughes), Necklace (by
Aaron Goodelman),
This Is Her First Lynching, and
The Law Is Too Slow (pictured), and were intended to support anti-lynching legislation, while earlier similar proposed legislation was supported by the NAACP using the
lynching of Henry Lowry?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies"
|style="text-align:center" |
List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies || style="text-align:center" | 2017-05-23 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
37,379 || style="text-align:center" | 1,557 || ... that visitors can stay overnight free of charge in
any of over ninety bothies (
Corrour Bothy pictured), but must bring their own fuel in order to watch "bothy TV"?
|- id="Jackie Summers"
|style="text-align:center" |
Jackie Summers || style="text-align:center" | Jackie Summers.jpg || align="center" |
File:2020-09-16 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Jackie Summers.jpg&pages=Jackie_Summers 37,332 || style="text-align:center" | 3,111 || ... that
Jackie Summers (pictured) quit his corporate job to pursue a "lifelong dream of day-drinking professionally"?
|- id="Catherine Lynch"
|style="text-align:center" |
Catherine Lynch || style="text-align:center" | 2018-03-11 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
37,237 || style="text-align:center" | 1,551 || ... that at the
inquest into the death of
Catherine Lynch (pictured), the presiding
coroner described her as "one of a class who were a nuisance to themselves, their husbands and everybody else"?
|- id="Michael Collins (astronaut)"
|style="text-align:center" |
Michael Collins (astronaut) || style="text-align:center" | 2019-07-21 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
1,554 || style="text-align:center" | ... that
Michael Collins (pictured), the
command module pilot for
Apollo 11, was the first person to perform two spacewalks in
a single mission?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Franz Halder"
|style="text-align:center" |
Franz Halder || style="text-align:center" | Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1970-052-08, Franz Halder.jpg || align="center" |
File:2019-10-20 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1970-052-08, Franz Halder.jpg&pages=Franz_Halder 37,135 || style="text-align:center" | 1,547 || ... that
Franz Halder (pictured), a former chief of staff of Nazi Germany's army, was the only German to be decorated by both Adolf Hitler and an American president?
|- id="2b2t"
|style="text-align:center" |
2b2t || style="text-align:center" | IronException 2b2t Spawn Render June 2019.png || align="center" |
File:2020-11-12 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=IronException 2b2t Spawn Render June 2019.png&pages=2b2t 1,546 || style="text-align:center" | ... that
2b2t, a no-rules
Minecraft multiplayer server running since 2010, has seen more than 580,000 distinct Minecraft players join and explore its nine-terabyte map (pictured)?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Pleuni Touw"
|style="text-align:center" |
Pleuni Touw || style="text-align:center" | Pleuni Touw.png || align="center" | [[File:
De Stille Kracht (television series)|100x100px]] || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Pleuni Touw.png&pages=Pleuni_Touw 2012-09-18 || style="text-align:center" | 24,877 || + 11,928
|- id="hit-to-kill"
|style="text-align:center" |
hit-to-kill || style="text-align:center" | SO4_Hoe_open_Web.jpg || align="center" |
File:2020-02-10 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=SO4_Hoe_open_Web.jpg&pages=hit-to-kill 36,550 || style="text-align:center" | Expression error: Unexpected < operator || ... that
hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy of
TNT?
|- id="Lisa Nowak"
|style="text-align:center" |
Lisa Nowak || style="text-align:center" | Lisa M. Nowak.jpg || align="center" |
File:2020-10-24 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Lisa M. Nowak.jpg&pages=Lisa_Nowak 36,330 || style="text-align:center" | 1,514 || ... that the 2019 film
Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the life of astronaut
Lisa Nowak (pictured)?
{{DYK stats table row|Laura Kamhuber|2018-04-09 | Laura-Kamhuber-Album.jpg|36,131| 1,505| ... that
Laura Kamhuber's (pictured) rendition of "
I Will Always Love You" at
The Voice Kids Germany is the most-watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist?
|- id="Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"
|style="text-align:center" |
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan || style="text-align:center" | Ivan the Terrible & son - destroyed.jpg || align="center" |
File:2018-08-15 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Ivan the Terrible & son - destroyed.jpg&pages=Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan 36,118 || style="text-align:center" | 1,504 || ... that the painting
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been attacked and damaged twice (damage pictured)?
|- id="State House (Zimbabwe)"
|style="text-align:center" |
State House (Zimbabwe) || style="text-align:center" |
Zimbabwe House, Harare || align="center" | [[File:
Statue of Robert Mugabe|100x100px]] || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=
Zimbabwe House, Harare&pages=State_House_(Zimbabwe)
State House (Bulawayo) || style="text-align:center" |
Blue RoofExpression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". || Government House, Bulawayo.jpg
|- id="James McDivitt"
|style="text-align:center" |
James McDivitt || style="text-align:center" | 2021-09-28 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
35,447 || style="text-align:center" | 1,477 || ... that astronaut
James McDivitt (pictured)saw a UFO during his first spaceflight?
|- id="Tett turret"
|style="text-align:center" |
Tett turret || style="text-align:center" | 2010-10-14 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
35,100 || style="text-align:center" | 5,850 || ... that the only exit from a
Tett turret (pictured) could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
|- id="Colossus of Ostermunzel"
|style="text-align:center" |
Colossus of Ostermunzel || style="text-align:center" | 2016-03-25 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
34,971 || style="text-align:center" | 2,976 || ... that the
Colossus of Ostermunzel (pictured) is significantly lighter than originally estimated?
|- id="Barn the Spoon"
|style="text-align:center" |
Barn the Spoon || style="text-align:center" | 2017-05-24 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
34,824 || style="text-align:center" | 1,451 || ... that it takes
Barn the Spoon (pictured) between twenty minutes and two hours to carve a spoon out of
green wood?
|- id="Elly Mayday"
|style="text-align:center" |
Elly Mayday || style="text-align:center" | 2019-03-28 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
34,666 || style="text-align:center" | 1,562 || .... that when
Elly Mayday (pictured) was diagnosed with
ovarian cancer, she not only continued to
model, but appeared in pictorials with a bald head from chemotherapy and surgery scars?
|- id="Tina Strobos" |style="text-align:center" | Tina Strobos || style="text-align:center" | TinaStrobos1941.jpg || align="center" | File:2018-07-12 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=TinaStrobos1941.jpg&pages=Tina_Strobos 120x133px]] || style="text-align:center" | 1,421 || ... that Dutch psychiatrist Tina Strobos (pictured), who rescued over 100 Jewish refugees during World War II, said that her grandmother was the only person she knew who scared the Gestapo?
|- id="Andaman Sea"
|style="text-align:center" |
Andaman Sea || style="text-align:center" | JamesBondEiland.jpg || align="center" | [[File:
Khao Phing Kan|100x100px]] || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=JamesBondEiland.jpg&pages=Andaman_Sea 2010-09-29 || style="text-align:center" | 5,667 || ... that there is a
James Bond Island (pictured) in the
Andaman Sea?
|- id="Baba Anujka"
|style="text-align:center" |
Baba Anujka || style="text-align:center" | Baba-Anujka.jpg || align="center" |
File:2019-09-19 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Baba-Anujka.jpg&pages=Baba_Anujka 33,721 || style="text-align:center" | 2,810 || ... that Serbian poisoner
Baba Anujka (pictured), aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor?
|- id="Hurricane (clipper)" |style="text-align:center" | Hurricane (clipper) || style="text-align:center" | 2020-05-18 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 33,191 || style="text-align:center" | 2,765 || ... that Hurricane (pictured), built in Hoboken by Isaac C. Smith in 1851, was reputedly the most extreme clipper ever constructed?
|- id="Urine deflector"
|style="text-align:center" |
Urine deflector || style="text-align:center" | 2021-07-14 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
33,023 || style="text-align:center" | Expression error: Unexpected < operator || ... that the
Bank of England has a
device to prevent unwanted deposits (pictured)?
|- id="Charles R. Ellet"
|style="text-align:center" |
Charles R. Ellet || style="text-align:center" | 2020-10-16 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
32,990 || style="text-align:center" | 1,374 || ... that 19-year-old
Union Army colonel
Charles R. Ellet (pictured) ran two separate steam-powered
ram ships past the batteries at
Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the American Civil War?
|- id="Rene Strange"
|style="text-align:center" |
Rene Strange || style="text-align:center" | Rene Strange puppeteer.jpg || align="center" |
File:2018-07-20 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Rene Strange puppeteer.jpg&pages=Rene_Strange 120x133px]] || style="text-align:center" | 32,967 || 1,373
|- id="Wang Danfeng"
|style="text-align:center" |
Wang Danfeng || style="text-align:center" | 2018-05-16 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
32,488 || style="text-align:center" | 1,354 || ... that "legendary" Chinese actress
Wang Danfeng (pictured) was invited to attend the inauguration of US President
Ronald Reagan?
|- id="Flag of Weihaiwei"
|style="text-align:center" |
Flag of Weihaiwei || style="text-align:center" | 2017-05-10 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
1,351 || style="text-align:center" | ... that the
flag of Weihaiwei (pictured) was redesigned to include
Mandarin ducks, as it was felt inappropriate to have a Chinese imperial dragon on a British flag?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Podoconiosis|2013-02-20| Ethiopian_Farmer_affected_by_Podoconiosis_-_NIH_-_March_2011.jpg|28,976 + 3,352 = 32,328| 4,041|... that an estimated four million people worldwide suffer from
podoconiosis?
|- id="Goat Canyon Trestle" |style="text-align:center" | Goat Canyon Trestle || style="text-align:center" | 2018-03-15 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 32,298 || style="text-align:center" | 1,346 || ... that the Goat Canyon Trestle (pictured) is the world's largest curved wooden trestle?
|- id="Lena Sundström"
|style="text-align:center" |
Lena Sundström || style="text-align:center" | 2016-10-03 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
32,283 || style="text-align:center" | 1,346 || ... that Swedish journalist
Lena Sundström (pictured) was a
foundling?
|- id="Antonija Mišura"
|style="text-align:center" |
Antonija Mišura || style="text-align:center" | 2012-08-23 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
32,282 || style="text-align:center" | 4,035 || ... that according to
Bleacher Report,
Antonija Mišura (pictured) was the most beautiful female competitor at the
2012 Olympics?
|- id="United States Zouave Cadets"
|style="text-align:center" |
United States Zouave Cadets || style="text-align:center" | 2019-01-11 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
32,243 || style="text-align:center" | 1,343 || ... that
The New York Times stated that, with one exception, the
United States Zouave Cadets (pictured) were "all young men of extraordinary muscular power"?
|- id="1907 Tiflis bank robbery"
|style="text-align:center" |
1907 Tiflis bank robbery || style="text-align:center" | Lenin-1895-mugshot.jpg || align="center" |
File:2010-12-20 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Lenin-1895-mugshot.jpg&pages=1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery 32,200 || style="text-align:center" | 5,367 || ... that a 1907
stagecoach robbery organized by
Vladimir Lenin (pictured) and
Joseph Stalin killed an estimated 40 people and netted approximately 250,000
rubles (over $3 million in current
USD)?
{{DYK stats table row|Spragg Bag|2010-12-21| Spragg Bag air test.jpg|32,200| 5,367|... that a large
waterbag (pictured) can bring water to
California and, according to its inventor, peace to the
Middle East?
|- id="Candy desk
2011-04-01"
|style="text-align:center" | [[Candy desk
2011-04-01]] || style="text-align:center" | Candy desk || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Candy desk&pages=Candy_desk
2011-04-01 32,100 || style="text-align:center" | 4,012 || ... that there is a
desk full of candy (pictured) on the floor of the
US Senate?
|- id="Paper car wheel"
|style="text-align:center" |
Paper car wheel || style="text-align:center" | 2018-09-06 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
31,839 || style="text-align:center" | 1,326 || ... that
paper wheels (pictured) provided a quiet and smooth ride in
Pullman dining and sleeping cars?
|- id="Operation Strength"
|style="text-align:center" |
Operation Strength || style="text-align:center" | BLU-82 Daisy Cutter Fireball.JPG || align="center" |
File:2016-03-18 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=BLU-82 Daisy Cutter Fireball.JPG&pages=Operation_Strength 31,726 || style="text-align:center" | 2,644 || ... that during
Operation Strength, a
15,000 lb (6.8 T) bomb (example of detonation pictured) served as a diversion to a diversion?
|- id="Women's Barracks"
|style="text-align:center" |
Women's Barracks || style="text-align:center" | 2020-11-23 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
31,693 || style="text-align:center" | 1,320 || ... that
Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of
lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States?
{{DYK stats table row|Daniel Lambert|2010-07-06| Marshall Lambert.jpg| 31,400| 5,233|... that English
gaol keeper and
animal breeder
Daniel Lambert (pictured) weighed 52 stone 11 lb (739 lb; 335 kg)?
{{DYK stats table row|Brittany CoxXx| Brittany CoxXx with flower in hair.jpg|2011-01-21| 31,400| 5,233| ... that Borat Sagdiyev's son, who appeared in photos in the movie Borat, was actually trans woman and porn star Brittany CoxXx (pictured)?
{{DYK stats table row|Walter Koch (Fallschirmjäger)| Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L04232, Walter Koch.jpg|2011-03-02| 31,200| 3,900| ... that German paratrooper Walter Koch (pictured) acted against the Commando Order and saved John Dutton Frost's British paratroopers from execution?
{{DYK stats table row|Fannie Lou Hamer|2018-02-27|Fannie_Lou_Hamer_1964-08-22.jpg|31,109| 1,296| ... that African-American civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (pictured) was brutally beaten on the orders of police in Mississippi for standing up against racial segregation?
{{DYK stats table row|Stannard Rock Light|2009-06-16| Stannard Rock Light USCG cropped.jpg| 31,000| 5,167|... that the Stannard Rock Light (pictured), known as the "Loneliest Place in the World", is the furthest lighthouse from land and described as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States?
|- id="Catherine Zeta-Jones" |style="text-align:center" | Catherine Zeta-Jones || style="text-align:center" | Catherine Zeta-Jones VF 2012 Shankbone 2.jpg || align="center" | File:2016-04-21 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Catherine Zeta-Jones VF 2012 Shankbone 2.jpg&pages=Catherine_Zeta-Jones 2,582 || style="text-align:center" | ... that Catherine Zeta-Jones' (pictured) wedding ceremony cost an estimated £1.5 million?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk|2009-09-17| Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-121-0012-15, Polen, deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade.jpg|30,900| 5,150| ... that a joint
Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (pictured) was held on September 22, 1939, to display the power of the newly formed
Soviet-Nazi pact to the whole world?
|- id="Thirst trap" |style="text-align:center" | Thirst trap || style="text-align:center" | 2020-07-18 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 30,853 || style="text-align:center" | 1,285 || ... that a thirst trap ( selfie pictured) can lead to harassment and bullying?
{{DYK stats table row|Brad Stevens|2010-04-05| Brad Stevens on Butler sideline.jpg| 30,800| 5,133|... that
Butler men's basketball head coach
Brad Stevens (pictured) has won 89 games in his first three years, exceeding the previous
NCAA record by 8 games?
|- id="Airplane Coaster" |style="text-align:center" | Airplane Coaster || style="text-align:center" | Airplane Coaster postcard vertical crop.jpg || align="center" | File:2017-08-04 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Airplane Coaster postcard vertical crop.jpg&pages=Airplane_Coaster 30,752 || style="text-align:center" | 1,281 || ... that numerous writers have called the Airplane Coaster (pictured) the greatest roller coaster ever built?
|- id="Sea of Japan"
|style="text-align:center" |
Sea of Japan || style="text-align:center" | Heishiiwa Rock Esashi crop.jpg || align="center" | [[File:
Kamome Island|100x100px]] || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Heishiiwa Rock Esashi crop.jpg&pages=Sea_of_Japan 2010-10-18 || style="text-align:center" | 5,117 || ... that according to a legend, the
Heishi rock (pictured) represents the God of the
Sea of Japan?
{{DYK stats table row|Love dart|2008-10-09| [[Image:Monachoides vicinus dart lateral.jpg|30,700| 4,385|... that some
hermaphrodite
snails and
slugs pierce each other with
love darts (
pictured) during
mating?
{{DYK stats table row|Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam| Disney Wonder 20110216.JPG|2012-03-22| 30,657| 3,832| ... that the disappearance of Rebecca Coriam from the Disney Wonder (pictured) one year ago today was the first such incident in the history of Disney Cruise Line?
|- id="Normandy landings" |style="text-align:center" | Normandy landings || style="text-align:center" | 2014-07-21 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 30,477 || style="text-align:center" | 2,540 || ... that a key target for the Normandy landings, Caen (pictured), was not captured by the Allies until 21 July 1944?
|- id="Gleno Dam"
|style="text-align:center" |
Gleno Dam || style="text-align:center" | 2011-03-23 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
30,400 || style="text-align:center" | 3,800 || ... that, in 1923, the
Gleno Dam (pictured) in
Italy
failed shortly after it was completed and its flooding killed at least 356 people?
|- id="Etruscan shrew"
|style="text-align:center" |
Etruscan shrew || style="text-align:center" | 2010-10-25 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
30,400 || style="text-align:center" | 5,067 || ... that the
Etruscan shrew (pictured on a human thumb) is the smallest known
mammal by weight?
{{DYK stats table row|Ernest R. Kouma|2011-08-10| Cmoh army.jpg|30,200| 3,775|... that US Army Master Sergeant
Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the
Medal of Honor (pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250
North Korean troops?
|- id="Hungry Tree" |style="text-align:center" | Hungry Tree || style="text-align:center" | 2018-10-03 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 30,126 || style="text-align:center" | 1,255 || ... that the Hungry Tree in Dublin is "eating" a park bench (pictured)?
{{DYK stats table row|Swimming Reindeer|2010-08-18| Swimming Reindeer cropetc.jpg| 30,000| 5,000| ... that the
Swimming Reindeer (pictured), a 13,000-year-old
Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until
Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
{{DYK stats table row|David B. Bleak| DavidBleak.jpg|2012-03-23| 29,847| 3,730| ... that combat medic David B. Bleak (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands?
{{DYK stats table row|Marching fire| GeorgeSPatton cropped.jpg|2011-12-18| 29,800| 3,725| ... that General George S. Patton (pictured) praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II?
|- id="Burnley Embankment" |style="text-align:center" | Burnley Embankment || style="text-align:center" | Burnley Embankment - geograph.org.uk - 4197.jpg || align="center" | File:2019-12-03 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Burnley Embankment - geograph.org.uk - 4197.jpg&pages=Burnley_Embankment 29,761 || style="text-align:center" | 1,240 || ... that the Straight Mile (pictured) is not a mile, and includes the Culvert, which is not a culvert?
|- id="Jim Delligatti"
|style="text-align:center" |
Jim Delligatti || style="text-align:center" | 2016-12-30 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
29,661 || style="text-align:center" | 1,236 || ... that
Jim Delligatti created the
Big Mac (pictured)?
|- id="West Loch Disaster"
|style="text-align:center" |
West Loch Disaster || style="text-align:center" | US Navy 030521-N-8157C-040 59 years after explosions rang out in Pearl Harbor^rsquo,s West Loch, a memorial of disaster reminds all of a quiet Sunday afternoon on May 21, 1944.jpg || align="center" |
File:2010-04-23 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=US Navy 030521-N-8157C-040 59 years after explosions rang out in Pearl Harbor^rsquo,s West Loch, a memorial of disaster reminds all of a quiet Sunday afternoon on May 21, 1944.jpg&pages=West_Loch_Disaster 29,500 || style="text-align:center" | 3,688 || ... that the
hulk of
LST-480 (
pictured) is the only remaining evidence of the
West Loch Disaster, the second tragedy to befall
Pearl Harbor during
World War II?
|- id="Janice Rand"
|style="text-align:center" |
Janice Rand || style="text-align:center" | Grace Lee Whitney Star Trek 1966 (cropped).JPG || align="center" |
File:2015-05-20 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Grace Lee Whitney Star Trek 1966 (cropped).JPG&pages=Janice_Rand 29,491 || style="text-align:center" | 2,458 || ... that
Star Trek producer
Bob Justman said you could hit
Janice Rand's (pictured) hair with a
sledgehammer and not leave a dent?
{{DYK stats table row|Giant huntsman spider|2008-12-19| [[Image:Heteropoda maxima 1.jpg|29,300| 4,883|... that with a leg-span of 30 centimetres (12 inches), the
giant huntsman (
pictured) is one of the world's largest
spiders?}}
|- id="Shu Xiuwen" |style="text-align:center" | Shu Xiuwen || style="text-align:center" | 2018-01-03 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 29,252 || style="text-align:center" | 1,218 || ... that Shu Xiuwen (pictured) became an escort dancing girl after her father tried to sell her to repay debts, but later supported him when she became a movie star?
|- id="Bodega cat"
|style="text-align:center" |
Bodega cat || style="text-align:center" | 2019-12-09 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
29,242 || style="text-align:center" | 1,218 || ... that
bodega cats (example pictured) are used as a form of
pest control in New York City?
{{DYK stats table row|Insular crozier| Lismore Crozier, c. 1100.jpg|2021-10-13| 29,224| 4,871|... that of the many
Insular croziers (pictured) made between c. 800–1200 AD, fewer than 20 fully intact examples survive?
{{DYK stats table row|Neel Kashkari|2008-10-13| Expression error: Unrecognized word "a". || 28,313
|- id="Hussein of Jordan"
|style="text-align:center" |
Hussein of Jordan || style="text-align:center" | King Hussein in uniform in 1953.jpg || align="center" |
File:2018-04-16 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=King Hussein in uniform in 1953.jpg&pages=Hussein_of_Jordan 28,275 || style="text-align:center" | 1,178 || ... that
Hussein (pictured) started his 46-year reign as
King of Jordan in 1952 when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy?
{{DYK stats table row|Raindrop cake| Raindrop Cake (28130238005).jpg|2018-09-05| 28,185| 1,178| ... that
raindrop cake (pictured) is a dessert made of water and
agar, and has practically no calories?
|- id="Sofia Richie" |style="text-align:center" | Sofia Richie || style="text-align:center" | 2017-07-13 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 28,100 || style="text-align:center" | 2,342 || ... that model Sofia Richie (pictured) played soccer until she broke her hip in a Segway accident?
|- id="Rollstone Boulder"
|style="text-align:center" |
Rollstone Boulder || style="text-align:center" | 2013-01-04 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
28,004 || style="text-align:center" | 2,334 || ... that in order to save the
Rollstone Boulder (pictured) from being demolished, it was blown up?
|- id="Nevertheless, she persisted"
|style="text-align:center" |
Nevertheless, she persisted || style="text-align:center" | 2017-05-02 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
27,948 || style="text-align:center" | 1,165 || ... that after
Mitch McConnell said, "
Nevertheless, she persisted" in reference to
Elizabeth Warren's silencing during a U.S. Senate debate, more than 100 women in
Minneapolis got tattoos (example pictured) of that
meme?
|- id="Clive Mantle"
|style="text-align:center" |
Clive Mantle || style="text-align:center" | 2013-04-01 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
3,484 || style="text-align:center" | ... that English actor
Clive Mantle (portrait pictured) beat up
Clint Eastwood?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Lazarus syndrome|2008-11-05| [[Image:Lazarus, Russian icon cropped.jpg|27,800| 6,780|... that the
Lazarus syndrome is named after
Lazarus of Bethany (
pictured), who the
Bible says was raised from the dead by
Jesus?
{{DYK stats table row|Elizabeth L. Gardner|2019-07-12| [[Image:Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, Women's Airforce Service Pilots, NARA-542191.jpg|27,656| 1152|... that Elizabeth L. Gardner served as a WASP during World War II and was the subject of a well-known photo (pictured)?
|- id="Jane Withers" |style="text-align:center" | Jane Withers || style="text-align:center" | 2020-11-29 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 27,540 || style="text-align:center" | 1,148 || ... that Jane Withers (pictured) rose to child stardom in the 1930s playing mischievous little girls, "tomboy rascals", and "America's favorite problem child"?
{{DYK stats table row|Omid Tahvili|2008-05-06|
|| style="text-align:center" |
27,118 || style="text-align:center" | 2,260 || ... that
Kaiser Wilhelm II (pictured) ordered
plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York?
|- id="Bedding ceremony"
|style="text-align:center" |
Bedding ceremony || style="text-align:center" | 2017-07-25 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
27,095 || style="text-align:center" | 2,258 || ... that the
bedding ceremony (pictured) symbolised the involvement of family, friends, and neighbours in the newlyweds'
sexual intimacy, but also had legal importance in parts of Western Europe?
{{DYK stats table row|Inexhaustible bottle| The Inexhaustible Bottle from Deschanel.png |2014-02-18| 27,049 | 3,381| … that the trick to the
inexhaustible bottle (illustrated) was so widely known that it became part of a common
hydrostatics demonstration for
physics students?
|- id="Chrysler Turbine Car" |style="text-align:center" | Chrysler Turbine Car || style="text-align:center" | 2018-02-08 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 27,991 – (248 + 1,728) / 2 || style="text-align:center" | 1,125 || ... that the Chrysler Turbine Car (pictured) could burn a variety of unusual fuels, ranging from furnace, peanut, and soybean oils to tequila?
{{DYK stats table row|Gömböc| Gomboc2.jpg|2009-10-09| 27,000| 4,500|... that the discovery of geometrical body
Gömböc (pictured) in 2006 helped understanding the body shape of
turtles?
{{DYK stats table row|Wait for me, Daddy| British Columbia Regiment 1940.jpg|2010-10-01| 26,900| 4,483| ... that 70 years ago on October 1, 1940, little "Whitey" Bernard was photographed running after his father (pictured) who was marching to war?
|- id="Fabiana Rosales" |style="text-align:center" | Fabiana Rosales || style="text-align:center" | 2019-04-22 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 26,823 || style="text-align:center" | 1,117 || ... that Venezuelan journalist Fabiana Rosales (pictured) has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for her husband's opposition party, towards resolving the crisis in Venezuela?
{{DYK stats table row|Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi| IJN carrier Amagi capsized off Kure in 1946.jpg|2011-11-06| 26,708 | 2,258| ... that the
Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi (wreck pictured)
capsized on 29 July 1945 as a result of cumulative damage inflicted by American
airstrikes on 24 and 28 July?
{{DYK stats table row|Termitaradus mitnicki| Termitaradus mitnicki (dorsal view).jpg|2010-04-01| 26,600| 4,433| ... that researchers have identified the pictured life form which no longer lives on this planet?
{{DYK stats table row|Akutan Zero|2008-12-07| | 26,301| 4,962| ... that an air well (pictured) collects water by promoting the condensation of moisture from air?
|- id="Door to Hell" |style="text-align:center" | Door to Hell || style="text-align:center" | 2012-11-01 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 26,298 || style="text-align:center" | 3,287 || ... that the Door to Hell (pictured) has been blazing since 1971?
|- id="Earth's shadow"
|style="text-align:center" |
Earth's shadow || style="text-align:center" | 2010-10-26 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
26,200 || style="text-align:center" | 4,367 || ... that the
Earth's shadow (pictured) can be observed during
twilight hours?
{{DYK stats table row|Elephant of the Bastille|2011-08-29| Elephant-siderography-LaBastille2.jpg|26,256| 3,282|... that
a giant elephant (engraving pictured) in
Paris was protected by a man living in one of its legs?
|- id="Girl with Peaches" |style="text-align:center" | Girl with Peaches || style="text-align:center" | 2017-02-01 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 2,184 || style="text-align:center" | ... that the girl with peaches (pictured) married the future chief prosecutor of the Most Holy Synod?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
{{DYK stats table row|Gallagh Man| Galagh Man.jpg|2021-06-14| 26,032| 2,169| ... that the Irish
bog body
Gallagh Man (pictured) preserves the remains of an
Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a
ritual killing or executed as a criminal??
{{DYK stats table row|Female urinal| Femaleurinal.jpg|2018-03-18|25,899| 1,126| ... that female urinals available today (example pictured) are typically used in a "skiing" position?
|- id="Economy coffin" |style="text-align:center" | Economy coffin || style="text-align:center" | 2021-08-03 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 25,871 || style="text-align:center" | Expression error: Unexpected < operator || ... that Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, caused outrage in 1784 when he ordered that people be buried naked in reusable coffins (example pictured) from which the body fell into the grave via a trapdoor?
|- id="Zofia Posmysz"
|style="text-align:center" |
Zofia Posmysz || style="text-align:center" | 2018-03-17 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
25,808 || style="text-align:center" | 1,075 || ... that
Zofia Posmysz (pictured),
Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel
Passenger,
a 1963 film, and
a 1968 opera?
{{DYK stats table row|Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols,
Chickie Geraci Poisson,
Betty Shellenberger,
Alice Putnam Willetts,
Joan Moser,
Anne McConaghie Volp,
F. Elizabeth Richey,
Adele Boyd,
Ruth Heller Aucott,
Phyllis Stadler Lyon| Phyllis Stadler.png|2021-02-06| 3,826 + 2,504 + 3,421 + 979 + 924 + 707 + 806 + 743 + 847 + 11,140 = 25,807| 2,158| ... that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included
a WASP pilot,
a World War II Marine, a "
Chickie",
a Hall of Fame lacrosse player,
a world-champion softball player,
an All-College basketball player,
the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States,
a professor and
a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and
a resident of Atlantis (pictured)
|- id="Goat tower" |style="text-align:center" | Goat tower || style="text-align:center" | Johnsons' Goat Tower, brightened.jpg || align="center" | File:2020-05-04 || style="text-align:center" | Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Johnsons' Goat Tower, brightened.jpg&pages=Goat_tower 25,703 || style="text-align:center" | 2,142 || ... that many goat towers (example pictured) have become tourist attractions?
|- id="PL-01"
|style="text-align:center" |
PL-01 || style="text-align:center" | 2014-01-03 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
25,748 || style="text-align:center" | 3,223 || ... that the
PL-01 (pictured) is a tank designed in
Poland?
{{DYK stats table row|Cat Daddy| [[Image:Kate Upton at the 2011 Jets VIP draft party (crop).jpg|2012-05-29| 25,686| 3,211|... that a
bikini-clad rendition of the "
Cat Daddy" dance by the reigning
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
cover model
Kate Upton (pictured) was temporarily banned from
YouTube?}}
{{DYK stats table row|Scowle|2008-10-06| [[Image:Puzzlewood.jpg|25,620| 3,203|... that the ancient opencast iron ore workings known as scowles ( pictured) in the Forest of Dean, England, are believed to have been an inspiration for settings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?
|- id="Gerp's mouse lemur" |style="text-align:center" | Gerp's mouse lemur || style="text-align:center" | 2012-01-18 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 25,495 || style="text-align:center" | 3,186 || ... that Gerp's mouse lemur is a newly discovered mouse lemur species from Madagascar, and is only known from an area smaller than the size of Puerto Rico?
{{DYK stats table row|Hotpants| Bebe Hot Pants 01 2008 (cropped).jpg|2017-05-09| 25,491| 1,062| ... that
hotpants (example pictured) were originally short
shorts made from materials such as velvet, silk, and fur?
|- id="Oscar C. Pfaus" |style="text-align:center" | Oscar C. Pfaus || style="text-align:center" | 2020-02-26 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 25,451 || style="text-align:center" | 1,060 || ... that Abwehr agent and Nazi propagandist Oscar Pfaus (pictured) once served in the U.S. Army?
|- id="Roger B. Chaffee"
|style="text-align:center" |
Roger B. Chaffee || style="text-align:center" | 2019-07-17 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
1,060 || style="text-align:center" | ... that when
Roger B. Chaffee (pictured) was selected for
Apollo 1, he was the youngest American astronaut to earn a
NASA mission assignment?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Westinghouse Time Capsules"
|style="text-align:center" |
Westinghouse Time Capsules || style="text-align:center" | Westinghouse replicas Sep 65.jpg || align="center" |
File:2008-01-08 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Westinghouse replicas Sep 65.jpg&pages=Westinghouse_Time_Capsules 25,252 || style="text-align:center" | 3,166 || ... that the
Westinghouse Time Capsules (pictured) of the
1939 New York World's Fair and the
1964 New York World's Fair were made of special metal
alloys to resist
corrosion for 5000 years, the time span of all previous recorded human history?
{{DYK stats table row|Unexpected John Cena| John Cena 2012.jpg|2016-04-01|25,226| 3,153| ... that somebody
stole the show in
Ghostbusters,
Breaking Bad, and
SpongeBob SquarePants, and his name is—
JOHN CENAAA!!! (pictured)
|- id="Taylor Swift" |style="text-align:center" | Taylor Swift || style="text-align:center" | 2016-08-23 || align="center" | || style="text-align:center" | 25,145 || style="text-align:center" | 2,095 || ... that Taylor Swift (pictured) is the first act to have three albums with opening week sales of one million copies in the US?
|- id="Yogo sapphire"
|style="text-align:center" |
Yogo sapphire || style="text-align:center" | 2011-11-23 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
25,141 || style="text-align:center" | 2,095 || ...that
Yogo sapphires (pictured) are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch,
Montana?
|- id="Camilla Nylund
2018-03-15"
|style="text-align:center" | [[Camilla Nylund
2018-03-15]] || style="text-align:center" | 25,129 || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
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2018-03-15 1,047 || style="text-align:center" | ... that
Camilla Nylund (pictured) appeared as the Countess in
Capriccio by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera, staged by
Brigitte Fassbaender, who set the opera in
Occupied France?Expression error: Unrecognized word "that". || {{{6}}}
|- id="Carmenelectra"
|style="text-align:center" |
Carmenelectra || style="text-align:center" | Picture deleted || align="center" |
File:2013-02-13 || style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=Picture deleted&pages=Carmenelectra 25,090 || style="text-align:center" | 3,136 || ... that
Carmenelectra was named after
the model (pictured) because both have "splendid" bodies?
|- id="Lord's honours boards"
|style="text-align:center" |
Lord's honours boards || style="text-align:center" | 2013-01-16 honours board]] || align="center" |
|| style="text-align:center" |
Error: Invalid time. Error&end=2013-01-16 honours board]&pages=Lord's_honours_boards 25,034] || style="text-align:center" | 3,129 || ... that
Australia's
Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were only listed on the
Lord's Honours Boards (pictured) 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements, due to the lack of a neutral board?