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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2017/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2017/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2017/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2016 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/May">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/June" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/June">Jun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2016/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2015 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/May">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/June" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/June">Jun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2015/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2014 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2014/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2014/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2014/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2014/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2014/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/May">May</a> </td> <td><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/May">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/June" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/June">Jun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2013/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2012 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2012/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/May">May</a> </td> <td><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/February">Feb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/March" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/March">Mar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/April" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April">Apr</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/May" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/May">May</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/June" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/June">Jun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2011/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/June" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/June">Jun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2009 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/July" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/July">Jul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/August" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/August">Aug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/September" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/September">Sep</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/October" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/October">Oct</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/November" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/November">Nov</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2008/December" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December">Dec</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2007 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2007/January" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/January">Jan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2007/February" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/February">Feb</a> </td> 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Pouce-pied_Raz_01.jpg/150px-Pouce-pied_Raz_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Pouce-pied_Raz_01.jpg/200px-Pouce-pied_Raz_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Pollicipes_pollicipes" title="Pollicipes pollicipes">Pollicipes pollicipes</a> (pictured), a <a href="/wiki/Goose_barnacle" title="Goose barnacle">goose barnacle</a> found on <a href="/wiki/Rocky_shore" title="Rocky shore">rocky shores</a> in the north-east <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, is a delicacy in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> where it may fetch up to <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">€</a>90 per kilogram?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Royal_Parker" title="Royal Parker">Royal Parker</a>, who played a <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_television_series" title="Children's television series">children's television show</a> character on Baltimore's <a href="/wiki/WBAL-TV" title="WBAL-TV">WBAL-TV</a>, also broadcast the news bulletin of <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy assassination">U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination</a> on November 22, 1963?</li> <li>... that today <a href="/wiki/Rare_Disease_Day" title="Rare Disease Day">Rare Disease Day</a>, coordinated by the <a href="/wiki/National_Organization_for_Rare_Disorders" title="National Organization for Rare Disorders">National Organization for Rare Disorders</a>, is being observed in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> for the first time ever?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Walter_A._McDougall" title="Walter A. McDougall">Walter A. McDougall</a> received the 1986 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_History" title="Pulitzer Prize for History">Pulitzer Prize for History</a> for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age?</li> <li>... that though it never made it on the air, <a href="/wiki/Faze_TV_(TV_channel)" title="Faze TV (TV channel)">Faze TV</a> was planned as the first <a href="/wiki/Television_channel" title="Television channel">television channel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> specifically targeted towards gay men?</li> <li>... that while a professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a>, future <a href="/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission" title="Interstate Commerce Commission">I.C.C.</a> commissioner <a href="/wiki/Balthasar_H._Meyer" title="Balthasar H. Meyer">Balthasar H. Meyer</a> taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kandurata_province_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandurata province cricket team">Kandurata province cricket team</a> entered the finals of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Inter-Provincial_Cricket_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament">2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament</a> unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the <a href="/wiki/Trophy" title="Trophy">trophy</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Yellow-throated_Honeyeater" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow-throated Honeyeater">Yellow-throated Honeyeater</a> is known for collecting hair from live animals such as horses, dogs and humans for lining its nest?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Rocksavage_c1818.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Rocksavage"><img alt="Rocksavage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Rocksavage_c1818.jpg/95px-Rocksavage_c1818.jpg" decoding="async" width="95" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Rocksavage_c1818.jpg/142px-Rocksavage_c1818.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Rocksavage_c1818.jpg/189px-Rocksavage_c1818.jpg 2x" data-file-width="839" data-file-height="887"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the ruined <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_architecture" title="Elizabethan architecture">Elizabethan</a> mansion of <a href="/wiki/Rocksavage" title="Rocksavage">Rocksavage</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Runcorn" title="Runcorn">Runcorn</a> was once the second-largest house in <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Arpechim_Refinery" title="Arpechim Refinery">Arpechim Refinery</a> owned by <a href="/wiki/Petrom" title="Petrom">Petrom</a> produces around sixty percent of all the <a href="/wiki/Asphalt" class="mw-disambig" title="Asphalt">bitumen</a> used in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins" title="Massacre of the Latins">Massacre of the Latins</a> occurred in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>, the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, in 1182?</li> <li>... that sexual activism group <a href="/wiki/Sex_Panic!" title="Sex Panic!">Sex Panic!</a> criticized the efficacy of 1990s <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States" title="HIV/AIDS in the United States">US anti-HIV campaigns</a> that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Thika_River" title="Thika River">Thika River</a> supplies eighty percent of the water for <a href="/wiki/Nairobi" title="Nairobi">Nairobi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Naval_Academy_alumni_(Astronauts)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Astronauts)">more American astronauts</a> have graduated from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Academy" title="United States Naval Academy">United States Naval Academy</a> than any other institution of higher learning?</li> <li>... that the winner of the <a href="/wiki/Djiboutian_presidential_election,_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Djiboutian presidential election, 2005">2005 Djiboutian presidential election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Omar_Guelleh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismail Omar Guelleh">Ismail Omar Guelleh</a>, said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> gave <a href="/wiki/Martha_Parke_Custis_Peter" title="Martha Parke Custis Peter">Martha Parke Custis</a> a <a href="/wiki/Miniature_(illuminated_manuscript)" title="Miniature (illuminated manuscript)">miniature</a> of himself as a <a href="/wiki/Wedding#_Wedding_gifts" title="Wedding">wedding gift</a>, and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his <a href="/wiki/Will_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Will (law)">will</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Orbitron_side.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Orbitron"><img alt="Orbitron" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Orbitron_side.jpg/100px-Orbitron_side.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Orbitron_side.jpg/150px-Orbitron_side.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Orbitron_side.jpg/200px-Orbitron_side.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Orbitron" title="Orbitron">Orbitron</a> (pictured in restored state), an <a href="/wiki/Ed_Roth" title="Ed Roth">Ed Roth</a>-built <a href="/wiki/Custom_car" title="Custom car">custom car</a>, was feared lost until its 2007 rediscovery in dilapidated condition in front of a <a href="/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez" title="Ciudad Juárez">Ciudad Juárez</a> adult bookstore?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Polish</a> caricaturist <a href="/wiki/Eryk_Lipi%C5%84ski" title="Eryk Lipiński">Eryk Lipiński</a> worked for the <a href="/wiki/Polish_resistance_during_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish resistance during World War II">Polish resistance during World War II</a>, forging documents, and was imprisoned in <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Auschwitz">Auschwitz</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/1886_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team" title="1886 Michigan Wolverines football team">1886 Michigan football team</a> had a "goalkeeper" and played games measured in "innings"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Svein_D%C3%B8vle_Larssen" title="Svein Døvle Larssen">Svein Døvle Larssen</a>, a newspaper editor by occupation, also served in three different <a href="/wiki/Municipal_council_(Norway)" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal council (Norway)">municipal councils</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party of Norway">Conservative Party of Norway</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Boxhill_(Louisville)" title="Boxhill (Louisville)">Boxhill</a>, a mansion near <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of <a href="/wiki/Bert_T._Combs" class="mw-redirect" title="Bert T. Combs">a former Kentucky governor</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schutz" title="Peter Schutz">Peter Schutz</a> saved the <a href="/wiki/Porsche_911" title="Porsche 911">Porsche 911</a> from extinction when he took over the CEO position at <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a> in 1981?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Colonies" title="Middle Colonies">Middle Colonies</a> were the most ethnically diverse <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">British colonies in North America</a>?</li> <li>... that the plot of the "<a href="/wiki/4-D_(The_X-Files)" title="4-D (The X-Files)">4-D</a>" episode of <a href="/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a> was inspired by <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> journalist <a href="/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby" title="Jean-Dominique Bauby">Jean-Dominique Bauby</a>, who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?</li></ul> <ul><li>02:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Tommy_Merritt.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tommy Merritt"><img alt="Tommy Merritt" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Tommy_Merritt.jpg/83px-Tommy_Merritt.jpg" decoding="async" width="83" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Tommy_Merritt.jpg/124px-Tommy_Merritt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Tommy_Merritt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="146" data-file-height="176"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Merritt" title="Tommy Merritt">Texas State Representative Tommy Merritt</a> (pictured) co-authored the <a href="/wiki/Bill_(proposed_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill (proposed law)">bill</a> which added "Under God" to the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Flag">Texas Pledge of Allegiance</a> in 2007?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> pilots flew more than 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Sortie" title="Sortie">sorties</a> over <a href="/wiki/Bosnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnia">Bosnia</a> during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight" title="Operation Deny Flight">Operation Deny Flight</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Knut_Kors%C3%A6th" title="Knut Korsæth">Knut Korsæth</a>, former mayor of <a href="/wiki/Lillehammer" title="Lillehammer">Lillehammer</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Governor" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="County Governor">County Governor</a> of <a href="/wiki/List_of_County_Governors_of_Oppland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of County Governors of Oppland">Oppland</a>, is also an honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Olympic_and_Paralympic_Committee_and_Confederation_of_Sports" title="Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports">Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/MBM_(architecture_firm)" title="MBM (architecture firm)">MBM</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> based <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures?</li> <li>... that Norwegian <a href="/wiki/Speed_skating" title="Speed skating">speed skater</a> <a href="/wiki/Randi_Thorvaldsen" title="Randi Thorvaldsen">Randi Thorvaldsen</a> won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Conservation_Society" title="Alaska Conservation Society">Alaska Conservation Society</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots">grassroots</a> <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmental conservation</a> organization created in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> state of <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Petrobrazi_Refinery" title="Petrobrazi Refinery">Petrobrazi Refinery</a> owned by <a href="/wiki/Petrom" title="Petrom">Petrom</a> is the most efficient <a href="/wiki/Oil_refinery" title="Oil refinery">refinery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> having a <a href="/wiki/Nelson_complexity_index" title="Nelson complexity index">Nelson complexity index</a> of 11.4?</li> <li>... that in February 2008, <a href="/wiki/David_Mendell" title="David Mendell">David Mendell</a> received an <a href="/wiki/NAACP_Image_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NAACP Image Award">NAACP Image Award</a> for Outstanding Literary Work for <a href="/wiki/Obama:_From_Promise_to_Power" title="Obama: From Promise to Power">Obama: From Promise to Power</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="27_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-27_February_2009-Did_you_know...">27 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 27 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>19:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Horace_Prettyman_(1890).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Horace Prettyman (1890)"><img alt="Horace Prettyman (1890)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg/96px-Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg/143px-Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg/191px-Horace_Prettyman_%281890%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1155" data-file-height="1209"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Horace_Greely_Prettyman" title="Horace Greely Prettyman">Horace Prettyman</a> (pictured) played eight years of <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">"college" football</a> for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a <a href="/wiki/Student" title="Student">student</a>?</li> <li>... that the heads of some <a href="/wiki/Pheidologeton_diversus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pheidologeton diversus">East Indian harvesting ant</a> <a href="/wiki/Task_allocation_and_partitioning_of_social_insects" class="mw-redirect" title="Task allocation and partitioning of social insects">workers</a> are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a>?</li> <li>... that an <a href="/wiki/Rural_Cemetery_Act" title="Rural Cemetery Act">1847 New York state law</a> led to bodies buried in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> graveyards being dug up for reburial in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> warlord <a href="/wiki/Li_Shidao" title="Li Shidao">Li Shidao</a>, hoping to save his ally Wu Yuanji, assassinated the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellor of Tang Dynasty">chancellor</a> Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access (publishing)">open access</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review">peer reviewed</a> journal <a href="/wiki/Trials_(journal)" title="Trials (journal)">Trials</a> encourages publication of <a href="/wiki/Clinical_trial_protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Clinical trial protocol">protocols</a>, which the journal's editor <a href="/wiki/Doug_Altman" title="Doug Altman">Doug Altman</a> has suggested may reduce <a href="/wiki/Data_dredging" title="Data dredging">data dredging</a> and <a href="/wiki/Publication_bias" title="Publication bias">publication bias</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Chojecki" title="Edmund Chojecki">Edmund Chojecki</a> co-founded <a href="/wiki/Le_Temps_(Paris)" title="Le Temps (Paris)">Le Temps</a>, predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, <a href="/wiki/Le_Monde" title="Le Monde">Le Monde</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hebron,_Utah" title="Hebron, Utah">Hebron</a>, now a <a href="/wiki/Ghost_town" title="Ghost town">ghost town</a> in <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, was destroyed by an <a href="/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> in 1902?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Bluespotted_trevally.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="Bluespotted trevally"><img alt="Bluespotted trevally" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bluespotted_trevally.PNG/100px-Bluespotted_trevally.PNG" decoding="async" width="100" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bluespotted_trevally.PNG/150px-Bluespotted_trevally.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bluespotted_trevally.PNG/200px-Bluespotted_trevally.PNG 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="375"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Bluespotted_trevally" title="Bluespotted trevally">Bluespotted trevally</a> (Caranx bucculentus, pictured) is a major <a href="/wiki/Predator" class="mw-redirect" title="Predator">predator</a> of <a href="/wiki/Prawn" title="Prawn">prawns</a> on the coasts of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Australia" title="Northern Australia">Northern Australia</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Child_actor" title="Child actor">child actor</a> <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Kay" title="Robbie Kay">Robbie Kay</a> made his acting debut in the 2006 film <a href="/wiki/The_Illusionist_(film)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Illusionist (film)">The Illusionist</a>, but was eventually cut from the film?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Olive_(1952)" title="Typhoon Olive (1952)">Typhoon Olive</a> struck <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a> in 1952, <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <a href="/wiki/Bunker" title="Bunker">bunkers</a> provided shelters for 700 people, resulting in zero fatalities despite the destruction of 85% of the island's structures?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czech</a>–<a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">architect</a> <a href="/wiki/Josef_Schnitter" title="Josef Schnitter">Josef Schnitter</a>, chief architect of <a href="/wiki/Plovdiv" title="Plovdiv">Plovdiv</a> from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_County_Courthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana County Courthouse">Indiana County Courthouse</a> was featured with <a href="/wiki/Indiana,_Pennsylvania" title="Indiana, Pennsylvania">Indiana, Pennsylvania</a>-native <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="Jimmy Stewart">Jimmy Stewart</a> on the cover of <a href="/wiki/LIFE" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="LIFE">LIFE</a> in 1945?</li> <li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Cow" class="mw-redirect" title="Cow">cow</a> once got stuck in Boot's <a href="/wiki/Folly" title="Folly">Folly</a> at <a href="/wiki/Strines_Reservoir" title="Strines Reservoir">Strines Reservoir</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, after climbing its staircase?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Reedville_Creek_Park" title="Reedville Creek Park">Reedville Creek Park</a> had the first <a href="/wiki/Skatepark" title="Skatepark">skatepark</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon" title="Hillsboro, Oregon">Hillsboro, Oregon</a>, park when it opened in 2003?</li> <li>... that at the <a href="/wiki/Expert_Committee_on_Questions_of_Population_and_Racial_Policy" title="Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy">Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> <a href="/wiki/Eugenicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugenicist">eugenicist</a> <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick" title="Wilhelm Frick">Wilhelm Frick</a> claimed that up to 20% of the German population had <a href="/wiki/Genetic_disorders" class="mw-redirect" title="Genetic disorders">genetic disorders</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Joachim Boldsen"><img alt="Joachim Boldsen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg/100px-Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg/150px-Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg/200px-Joachim_Boldsen_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1280"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Team_handball" class="mw-redirect" title="Team handball">handball player</a> <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Boldsen" title="Joachim Boldsen">Joachim Boldsen</a> (pictured) has participated in the Danish version of <a href="/wiki/Dancing_with_the_Stars" title="Dancing with the Stars">Dancing with the Stars</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> forces won <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Palmito_Ranch" title="Battle of Palmito Ranch">the last battle</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Conclusion_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Conclusion of the American Civil War">end of the American Civil War</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mark_Perrin_Lowrey" title="Mark Perrin Lowrey">Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey</a>, the founder of <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountain_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Mountain College">Blue Mountain College</a>, died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?</li> <li>... that archaeologists have discovered in <a href="/wiki/Sagardighi,_Murshidabad" title="Sagardighi, Murshidabad">Sagardighi</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, small <a href="/wiki/Stone_Age" title="Stone Age">Stone Age</a> weapons not normally found in the <a href="/wiki/Ganges" title="Ganges">Gangetic</a> <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plain" title="Alluvial plain">alluvial plains</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rowing_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_-_Men%27s_eight" class="mw-redirect" title="Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's eight">Olympic Rower</a> <a href="/wiki/Steven_Coppola" title="Steven Coppola">Steven Coppola</a> was the first athlete from <a href="/wiki/Western_New_York" title="Western New York">Western New York</a>'s <a href="/wiki/West_Side_Rowing_Club" title="West Side Rowing Club">West Side Rowing Club</a> to medal at the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Harald_Str%C3%B8m" title="Harald Strøm">Harald Strøm</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Long_track_speed_skating" class="mw-redirect" title="Long track speed skating">speed skating</a> <a href="/wiki/World_record_progression_5,000_m_speed_skating_men" class="mw-redirect" title="World record progression 5,000 m speed skating men">World Record in 5,000 metres</a> set at <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Frogner_Stadion" class="mw-redirect" title="Frogner Stadion">Frogner Stadion</a> in 1922 lasted seven years?</li> <li>... that it took 66 years for an <a href="/wiki/Arrowhead" title="Arrowhead">arrowhead</a> found near the <a href="/wiki/Boaz_mastodon" class="mw-redirect" title="Boaz mastodon">Boaz mastodon</a> to be positively identified?</li> <li>... that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a <a href="/wiki/Chromatron" title="Chromatron">Chromatron</a> color television set to work properly, prompting <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> to develop the famed <a href="/wiki/Trinitron" title="Trinitron">Trinitron</a>?</li> <li>... that publicist <a href="/wiki/Joe_Goldstein" title="Joe Goldstein">Joe Goldstein</a> generated media buzz for the first <a href="/wiki/International_Trot" title="International Trot">International Trot</a> <a href="/wiki/Harness_racing" title="Harness racing">harness racing</a> event at <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Raceway_(harness_racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Raceway (harness racing)">Roosevelt Raceway</a> by placing ads that read "French Trotter Needs Artichokes. Can You Help?"</li></ul> <ul><li>02:22, 27 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Anostoma octodentatum shell"><img alt="Anostoma octodentatum shell" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg/100px-Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg/150px-Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg/200px-Anostoma_octodentatum_shell_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="640"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that adult land snails in the tropical genera <a href="/wiki/Anostoma" title="Anostoma">Anostoma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ringicella" title="Ringicella">Ringicella</a> carry their oddly-shaped <a href="/wiki/Gastropod_shell" title="Gastropod shell">shells</a> (pictured) upside down (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Spire_(mollusc)" title="Spire (mollusc)">spire</a> down)?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a> <a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">pilot</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Egger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Egger (page does not exist)">Paul Egger</a> was later awarded the <a href="/wiki/Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross" title="Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross">Knight's Cross</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Tiger_I" title="Tiger I">Tiger tank</a> commander in the <a href="/wiki/Waffen-SS" title="Waffen-SS">Waffen-SS</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mongkol_Borei_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongkol Borei District">Mongkol Borei District</a> was part of <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> until the <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> demanded it back in 1907?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kodish" title="Paul Kodish">Paul Kodish</a>, best known as the current <a href="/wiki/Drummer" title="Drummer">drummer</a> for <a href="/wiki/Drum_and_bass" title="Drum and bass">drum and bass</a> band <a href="/wiki/Pendulum_(band)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Pendulum (band)">Pendulum</a>, performed in 1986 with <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip hop</a> act <a href="/wiki/Whodini" title="Whodini">Whodini</a>?</li> <li>... that nearly half the area of <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>'s 342 km2 (132 sq mi) <a href="/wiki/Alam-Pedja_Nature_Reserve" title="Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve">Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve</a> was once a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces" title="Soviet Air Forces">Soviet Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Bombing_range" title="Bombing range">bombing range</a> and its surrounding buffer zone?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/John_Cassavetes" title="John Cassavetes">John Cassavetes</a> film <a href="/wiki/Husbands_(film)" title="Husbands (film)">Husbands</a>, praised by <a href="/wiki/Time_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Time magazine">Time</a> <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Kael" title="Pauline Kael">Pauline Kael</a> and other prominent critics?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> personally rewrote <a href="/wiki/Falsifiers_of_History" title="Falsifiers of History">Falsifiers of History</a> to respond to U.S.-released information about the <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks" title="German–Soviet Axis talks">German–Soviet Axis talks</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Heian_period" title="Heian period">Heian period</a> Japanese story <a href="/wiki/Torikaebaya_Monogatari" title="Torikaebaya Monogatari">Torikaebaya Monogatari</a> is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="26_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-26_February_2009-Did_you_know...">26 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 26 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>20:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=BigRed(thumb).jpg" class="new" title="File:BigRed(thumb).jpg">A sprite</a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sprites_(lightning)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sprites (lightning)">sprites</a> (pictured), large but very brief reddish forms of <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a> that occur high over <a href="/wiki/Thunderstorm" title="Thunderstorm">thunderstorms</a>, were not photographed until 1989?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Gordon_McMillan" title="Gordon McMillan">Gordon McMillan</a> from <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wally_Grant_(ice_hockey)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wally Grant (ice hockey)">Wally Grant</a> from Minnesota's <a href="/wiki/Iron_Range" title="Iron Range">Iron Range</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wally_Gacek" title="Wally Gacek">Wally Gacek</a> from <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> led the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines" title="Michigan Wolverines">Michigan Wolverines</a> to the first ever <a href="/wiki/1948_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Ice_Hockey_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament">Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship</a> in 1948?</li> <li>... that there were almost 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Women_in_the_Australian_military" title="Women in the Australian military">women serving in the Australian military</a> in 1944?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> warlord <a href="/wiki/Wu_Shaoyang" title="Wu Shaoyang">Wu Shaoyang</a> often pillaged the <a href="/wiki/Tea" title="Tea">tea</a>-growing hills of neighboring <a href="/wiki/Lu%27an" title="Lu'an">Shou Prefecture</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Financial_Group" title="Stanford Financial Group">Stanford Financial Group</a>, whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of <a href="/wiki/Securities_fraud" title="Securities fraud">investment fraud</a>, was the lead <a href="/wiki/Financier" class="mw-redirect" title="Financier">financier</a> of the 2007 film <a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Gift" title="The Ultimate Gift">The Ultimate Gift</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Althea_Byfield" title="Althea Byfield">Althea Byfield</a> played collegiate <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional <a href="/wiki/Netball" title="Netball">netball</a> in New Zealand, and has represented <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> internationally in both sports?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">paleolithic</a> implements and a variety of <a href="/wiki/Speleothems" class="mw-redirect" title="Speleothems">speleothems</a> have been found in the <a href="/wiki/Borra_Caves" title="Borra Caves">Borra Caves</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> state of <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Leif_Tronstad" title="Leif Tronstad">Leif Tronstad</a>, who helped establish the <a href="/wiki/Norsk_Hydro_Rjukan" title="Norsk Hydro Rjukan">Norsk Hydro</a> <a href="/wiki/Heavy_water" title="Heavy water">heavy water</a> plant at <a href="/wiki/Vemork" title="Vemork">Vemork</a>, organized a <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage" title="Norwegian heavy water sabotage">sabotage mission</a> against it later?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Phallus_hadriani.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Phallus hadriani"><img alt="Phallus hadriani" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Phallus_hadriani.jpg/84px-Phallus_hadriani.jpg" decoding="async" width="84" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Phallus_hadriani.jpg/126px-Phallus_hadriani.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Phallus_hadriani.jpg/169px-Phallus_hadriani.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="2276"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that depending on the author, the <a href="/wiki/Odor" title="Odor">odor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Stinkhorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Stinkhorn">stinkhorn</a> mushroom <a href="/wiki/Phallus_hadriani" title="Phallus hadriani">Phallus hadriani</a> (pictured) has been described as sweet, or fetid?</li> <li>... that two members of the <a href="/wiki/$100,000_infield" title="$100,000 infield">$100,000 infield</a> have been inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tank_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Tank ship">tanker ship</a> <a href="/wiki/CHANT_(ship_type)" title="CHANT (ship type)">CHANT 26</a> ended up discharging her cargo in a <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> field during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Roger_Gaskell_Hetherington" title="Roger Gaskell Hetherington">Sir Roger Hetherington</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Institution_of_Civil_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers">president</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers" title="Institution of Civil Engineers">Institution of Civil Engineers</a> in 1944 after the death of the president-elect, the second successive year this had happened?</li> <li>... that in the <a href="/wiki/Somaliland_constitutional_referendum,_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="Somaliland constitutional referendum, 2001">2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum</a>, 97.1% of those who voted approved the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Somaliland" title="Constitution of Somaliland">constitution</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_Prowse" title="William Prowse">William Prowse</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> as an <a href="/wiki/Able_seaman" title="Able seaman">able seaman</a>, saw action at the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_First_of_June" title="Glorious First of June">Glorious First of June</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St_Vincent_(1797)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)">Cape St Vincent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Finisterre_(1805)" title="Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)">Cape Finisterre</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Trafalgar</a>, and died a <a href="/wiki/Rear-Admiral" class="mw-redirect" title="Rear-Admiral">Rear-Admiral</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Asistencia_Asesor%C3%ADa_y_Administraci%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Asistencia Asesoría y Administración">AAA</a>'s first <a href="/wiki/Tripleman%C3%ADa" title="Triplemanía">Triplemanía</a> event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican <a href="/wiki/Professional_wrestling" title="Professional wrestling">professional wrestling</a> event?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kjell_Magne_Yri" title="Kjell Magne Yri">Kjell Magne Yri</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguist</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oslo" title="University of Oslo">University of Oslo</a>, began his career as a <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> translator and priest in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>?</li> <li>... that despite support from <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, the 1988 <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service_Lottery" title="National Health Service Lottery">National Health Service Lottery</a> was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:51, 26 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Gold-whiskered_Barbet.ogv/100px--Gold-whiskered_Barbet.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" 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data-width="320" data-height="240"/></video> </div> <ul><li>... that the diet of the <a href="/wiki/Gold-whiskered_Barbet" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold-whiskered Barbet">Gold-whiskered Barbet</a> (video shown) includes <a href="/wiki/Papaya" title="Papaya">papaya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lizard" title="Lizard">lizards</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mel_Wakabayashi" title="Mel Wakabayashi">Mel Wakabayashi</a>, born in a wartime <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Canadian_internment" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Canadian internment">Japanese-Canadian internment camp</a>, was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines" title="Michigan Wolverines">Michigan</a> sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?</li> <li>... that the skating club <a href="/wiki/Oslo_SK" title="Oslo SK">Christiania Skøiteklub</a> had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Christiania</a> had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Avadhanum_Paupiah" title="Avadhanum Paupiah">Avadhanum Paupiah</a>, Indian dubash of the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a> was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Television_syndication" class="mw-redirect" title="Television syndication">syndicated</a> <a href="/wiki/Television_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Television series">TV series</a> <a href="/wiki/Sheriff_of_Cochise" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheriff of Cochise">Sheriff of Cochise</a> was created by co-star <a href="/wiki/Stan_Jones_(songwriter)" title="Stan Jones (songwriter)">Stan Jones</a>, best known for the <a href="/wiki/Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">Western</a> <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">song</a> "<a href="/wiki/Ghost_Riders_in_the_Sky" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghost Riders in the Sky">Ghost Riders in the Sky</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a> situated in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a>, off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Newfoundland, Canada">Newfoundland, Canada</a>, have <a href="/wiki/International_status_and_usage_of_the_euro" title="International status and usage of the euro">adopted the euro</a> as their national currency?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Welterweight_(MMA)" title="Welterweight (MMA)">welterweight</a> <a href="/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts" title="Mixed martial arts">mixed martial arts</a> fighter <a href="/wiki/Satoru_Kitaoka" title="Satoru Kitaoka">Satoru Kitaoka</a> cut down to <a href="/wiki/Lightweight_(MMA)" title="Lightweight (MMA)">lightweight</a> in 2008 and captured the <a href="/wiki/Sengoku_Lightweight_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Sengoku Lightweight Championship">Sengoku Lightweight Championship</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hand_House" title="Walter Hand House">Walter Hand House</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall,_New_York" title="Cornwall, New York">Cornwall, New York</a>, was built in 1870 to serve as both a <a href="/wiki/Farmhouse" title="Farmhouse">farmhouse</a> and a tourist <a href="/wiki/Boarding_house" title="Boarding house">boarding house</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:38, 26 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="location of the Wannsee Conference"><img alt="location of the Wannsee Conference" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg/100px-Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg/150px-Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg/200px-Wannsee_Conference_Villa_picture_4589.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Wannsee_Conference" title="Wannsee Conference">Wannsee Conference</a> was held in a house (pictured) that was sold to the Nazi <a href="/wiki/RSHA" class="mw-redirect" title="RSHA">security services</a> by <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Minoux" title="Friedrich Minoux">Friedrich Minoux</a> while he was imprisoned for fraud?</li> <li>... that the largest <a href="/wiki/Shale_oil" title="Shale oil">shale oil</a> plant in the world uses the <a href="/wiki/Fushun_process" title="Fushun process">Fushun process</a> technology?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a> entertainer <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Wayne" title="Cathy Wayne">Cathy Wayne</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> woman killed in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, when a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">US Marine</a> shot her on stage while she was performing?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Daewoo_Mangalia_Heavy_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries">Daewoo Mangalia</a> <a href="/wiki/Shipyard" title="Shipyard">shipyard</a> has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Bell_(New_Hampshire_politician)" title="John Bell (New Hampshire politician)">John Bell</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>'s 18th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">governor</a>, was both the brother of 14th governor <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bell" class="mw-disambig" title="Samuel Bell">Samuel Bell</a> and the father of 46th governor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Bell" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Henry Bell">Charles Henry Bell</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Army_ship_Crusader_(AV2767)" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Army ship Crusader (AV2767)">Crusader</a> was the largest ship <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> into service with the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Army" title="Australian Army">Australian Army</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Puma_Project" title="Bay Area Puma Project">Bay Area Puma Project</a> is the first major study of <a href="/wiki/Cougar" title="Cougar">mountain lions</a> living in the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a>?</li> <li>... that though trained as a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_physics" title="Nuclear physics">nuclear physicist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peer_Portner" title="Peer Portner">Peer Portner</a> created the <a href="/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device" title="Ventricular assist device">ventricular assist device</a>, a pump that assists a patient's heart until a <a href="/wiki/Heart_transplantation" title="Heart transplantation">heart transplant</a> can be performed?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="25_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-25_February_2009-Did_you_know...">25 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 25 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>16:58, 25 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wonsam"><img alt="Wonsam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg/66px-Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="66" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg/100px-Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg/133px-Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3008"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Wonsam" title="Wonsam">wonsam</a> (pictured) was a female ceremonial <a href="/wiki/Hanbok" title="Hanbok">robe</a> for the queen, royalty, and <a href="/wiki/Yangban" title="Yangban">nobility</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a>, though <a href="/wiki/Sangmin" title="Sangmin">commoners</a> could wear it for their weddings?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Wales_national_rugby_union_team" title="Wales national rugby union team">Wales</a> <a href="/wiki/Triple_Crown_(rugby_union)" title="Triple Crown (rugby union)">Triple Crown</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Norman_Biggs" title="Norman Biggs">Norman Biggs</a> was killed after being struck by a <a href="/wiki/Arrow_poison" title="Arrow poison">poison arrow</a> while on military duty in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Nigeria">Northern Nigeria</a>?</li> <li>... that prior to the <a href="/wiki/1962_Bou%27in-Zahra_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake">1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earthquake_lights" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthquake lights">earthquake lights</a> were sighted?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Flying_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Flying Officer">Flying Officer</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Air_Commodore" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Commodore">Air Commodore</a>) <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lukis" title="Frank Lukis">Frank Lukis</a> was one of the original twenty-one officers in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force" title="Royal Australian Air Force">RAAF</a> when it was formed in 1921?</li> <li>... that though fruiting as a typical "<a href="/wiki/Little_brown_mushroom" class="mw-redirect" title="Little brown mushroom">little brown mushroom</a>", <a href="/wiki/Inocybe_lacera" title="Inocybe lacera">Inocybe lacera</a> is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive <a href="/wiki/Spore" title="Spore">spores</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Major" title="István Major">István Major</a> held the <a href="/wiki/High_jump" title="High jump">high jump</a> record at the <a href="/wiki/European_Indoor_Championships_in_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="European Indoor Championships in Athletics">European Indoor Championships</a> from 1972 to 1977?</li> <li>... that five <a href="/wiki/UH-1_Iroquois" class="mw-redirect" title="UH-1 Iroquois">UH-1 Iroquois</a> helicopters of the <a href="/wiki/Experimental_Military_Unit" title="Experimental Military Unit">Experimental Military Unit</a> were shot down by a single <a href="/wiki/Viet_Cong" title="Viet Cong">Viet Cong</a> soldier armed with an <a href="/wiki/AK-47" title="AK-47">AK-47</a> rifle?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Stafford,_1st_Earl_of_Devon" title="Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon">Humphrey Stafford</a> was only <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Devon" title="Earl of Devon">Earl of Devon</a> for three months before being killed by a mob?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Columbian">pre-Columbian</a> <a href="/wiki/Zapotec_civilization" title="Zapotec civilization">Zapotec</a> storm god <a href="/wiki/Cocijo" title="Cocijo">Cocijo</a> was said to have created the world from his breath?</li></ul> <ul><li>11:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow,_Sispara.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Traveller's Bungalow, Sispara"><img alt="Traveller's Bungalow, Sispara" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg/100px-Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg/150px-Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg/200px-Peacocke-Travellers_Bungalow%2C_Sispara.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1223"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Lithography" title="Lithography">lithograph</a> (pictured) of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Ponsonby_Peacocke" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke">Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke</a>'s painting of the <a href="/wiki/Sispara#Sispara_bungalow" title="Sispara">new bungalow</a> at <a href="/wiki/Sispara" title="Sispara">Sispara</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> was published nine years after the <a href="/wiki/Sispara#Sispara_ghat" title="Sispara">Sispara ghat</a> mountain trail was completed in 1838?</li> <li>... that, although it is traditionally classified as a <a href="/wiki/Transition_metal" title="Transition metal">transition metal</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Compounds_of_zinc" class="mw-redirect" title="Compounds of zinc">forming compounds</a> the element <a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">zinc</a> has similarities to the <a href="/wiki/Alkaline_earth_metal" title="Alkaline earth metal">alkaline earth metals</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Biehl" title="John Biehl">John Biehl</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chilean</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_(government)" title="Minister (government)">government minister</a> in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for <a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rican</a> president <a href="/wiki/%C3%93scar_Arias" title="Óscar Arias">Óscar Arias</a> to win the 1987 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a>?</li> <li>... that the Grenville Canal on the <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_River" title="Ottawa River">Ottawa River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Grenville,_Quebec" title="Grenville, Quebec">Grenville, Quebec</a>, Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jens-Anton_Poulsson" title="Jens-Anton Poulsson">Jens-Anton Poulsson</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/War_Cross_with_Sword" class="mw-redirect" title="War Cross with Sword">War Cross with Sword</a> for his actions in the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage" title="Norwegian heavy water sabotage">Norwegian heavy water sabotage</a>?</li> <li>... that following a number of <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Irish_banking_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2008–2009 Irish banking crisis">recent banking controversies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> ruling party <a href="/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" title="Fianna Fáil">Fianna Fáil</a> was overtaken in <a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">opinion polls</a> by the country's <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Ireland)" title="Labour Party (Ireland)">Labour Party</a> for the first time in history?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilkie" title="Gordon Wilkie">Gordon Wilkie</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines" title="Michigan Wolverines">Michigan Wolverines</a> teammates scored 21 points in a single <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> game against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a>, their coach threatened to bench anyone else who <a href="/wiki/Running_up_the_score" title="Running up the score">scored</a>?</li> <li>... that some living people claim to have traced their <a href="/wiki/Descent_from_Adam_and_Eve" class="mw-redirect" title="Descent from Adam and Eve">genealogy back to Adam and Eve</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:49, 25 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Tapsel_Gate,_Pyecombe_Church_(Half_Open).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tapsel gate"><img alt="Tapsel gate" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg/100px-Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg/150px-Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg/200px-Tapsel_Gate%2C_Pyecombe_Church_%28Half_Open%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="460"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Transfiguration,_Pyecombe" title="Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe">Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe</a>, England, has a rare <a href="/wiki/Tapsel_gate" title="Tapsel gate">Tapsel gate</a> (pictured), which has a central <a href="/wiki/Pivot" class="mw-disambig" title="Pivot">pivot</a> and was designed to keep cattle out and allow <a href="/wiki/Coffin" title="Coffin">coffins</a> through easily?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bunning" title="Jim Bunning">Jim Bunning</a> threw the only <a href="/wiki/Perfect_game" class="mw-disambig" title="Perfect game">perfect game</a> out of the nine <a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_no-hitters" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies no-hitters">no-hitters</a> in <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Philadelphia_Phillies" title="History of the Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies history</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Corcovado_National_Park" title="Corcovado National Park">Corcovado National Park</a> is the only <a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national park</a> in which all of <a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a>'s <a href="/wiki/List_of_Costa_Rican_monkey_species" title="List of Costa Rican monkey species">four native monkey species</a> can be found?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kenelm_Hubert_Digby" title="Kenelm Hubert Digby">Kenelm Hubert Digby</a> was the proposer of the notorious 1933 <a href="/wiki/The_King_and_Country_debate" class="mw-redirect" title="The King and Country debate">"King and Country" debate</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Dexter_(episode)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dexter (episode)">pilot of Showtime's Dexter</a> was filmed through <a href="/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2005 Atlantic hurricane season">three hurricanes in 2005</a>?</li> <li>... that writer <a href="/wiki/Paul_Georgescu" title="Paul Georgescu">Paul Georgescu</a> helped enforce <a href="/wiki/Socialist_realism_in_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist realism in Romania">Socialist Realism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Communist_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Romania">Communist Romania</a> while concealing his sympathy for <a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a>?</li> <li>... that an <a href="/wiki/Oleum" title="Oleum">oleum</a> leak at <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Richmond_Refinery" title="Chevron Richmond Refinery">Chevron Richmond Refinery</a> sent 25,000 people to the hospital in 1993?</li> <li>... that Kenyan <a href="/wiki/Long-distance_track_event" class="mw-redirect" title="Long-distance track event">long distance</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Athletics_(track_and_field)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Athletics (track and field) (page does not exist)">athlete</a> <a href="/wiki/Evans_Cheruiyot" title="Evans Cheruiyot">Evans Cheruiyot</a> and his teammates were stranded in France by their manager without food, money, or shelter?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">Gospel music</a> station <a href="/wiki/WIKG" title="WIKG">WNUZ</a> in <a href="/wiki/Talladega,_Alabama" title="Talladega, Alabama">Talladega, Alabama</a>, has been <a href="/wiki/Off-the-air" class="mw-redirect" title="Off-the-air">off-the-air</a> since its <a href="/wiki/Transmitter" title="Transmitter">transmitter</a> was destroyed by <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="24_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-24_February_2009-Did_you_know...">24 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 24 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>18:46, 24 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Pauline_Joran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pauline Joran"><img alt="Pauline Joran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Pauline_Joran.jpg/71px-Pauline_Joran.jpg" decoding="async" width="71" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Pauline_Joran.jpg/107px-Pauline_Joran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Pauline_Joran.jpg/142px-Pauline_Joran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="257" data-file-height="361"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that as a blindfolded child, opera singer <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Joran" title="Pauline Joran">Pauline Joran</a> (pictured) could identify <a href="/wiki/Absolute_pitch" title="Absolute pitch">absolute pitch</a> and the notes of <a href="/wiki/Chords" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Chords">chords</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Heard_Shag" class="mw-redirect" title="Heard Shag">Heard Shag</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Bird" title="Bird">bird</a> with a black crest, pink feet, orange <a href="/wiki/Wattle_(anatomy)" title="Wattle (anatomy)">caruncles</a> and blue eye-rings?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Foliot" title="Hugh Foliot">Hugh Foliot</a> took custody of <a href="/wiki/Hereford_Castle" title="Hereford Castle">Hereford Castle</a> in 1223 as part of <a href="/wiki/Hubert_de_Burgh,_1st_Earl_of_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent">Hubert de Burgh</a>'s takeover of power from <a href="/wiki/Peter_des_Roches" title="Peter des Roches">Peter des Roches</a>?</li> <li>... that in his 1999 book <a href="/wiki/The_Trouble_With_Normal_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Trouble With Normal (book)">The Trouble With Normal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a> author <a href="/wiki/Michael_Warner" title="Michael Warner">Michael Warner</a> argued that <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a> is an undesirable goal for the <a href="/wiki/Gay_rights_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights movement">gay rights movement</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Yehoshua_Cohen" title="Yehoshua Cohen">Yehoshua Cohen</a>, the assassin of diplomat <a href="/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte" title="Folke Bernadotte">Folke Bernadotte</a>, later became a close friend of <a href="/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion" title="David Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Sutton_Hall" title="John Sutton Hall">John Sutton Hall</a> at <a href="/wiki/Indiana_University_of_Pennsylvania" title="Indiana University of Pennsylvania">Indiana University of Pennsylvania</a> was set for demolition until its listing on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>?</li> <li>... that five members of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>' <a href="/wiki/2008_World_Series" title="2008 World Series">2008 world championship team</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Pat_Burrell" title="Pat Burrell">Pat Burrell</a>, were also <a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_first-round_draft_picks" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies first-round draft picks">first-round draft picks</a> of the franchise?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Margo_Sappington" title="Margo Sappington">Margo Sappington</a> received a <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_Achievement_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime Achievement Award">Lifetime Achievement Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Choreography" title="Choreography">choreography</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Joffrey_Ballet" title="Joffrey Ballet">Joffrey Ballet</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Equus_Survival_Trust" title="Equus Survival Trust">Equus Survival Trust</a> is the only <a href="/wiki/Conservation_organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservation organization">conservation organization</a> in the world that specializes in <a href="/wiki/Equine" class="mw-redirect" title="Equine">equines</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>12:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Ed Chynoweth Cup"><img alt="Ed Chynoweth Cup" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG/55px-Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG" decoding="async" width="55" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG/82px-Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG/110px-Ed_Chynoweth_Cup.JPG 2x" data-file-width="431" data-file-height="784"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_WHL_season" title="1988–89 WHL season">1988–89</a> <a href="/wiki/Swift_Current_Broncos" title="Swift Current Broncos">Swift Current Broncos</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Western_Hockey_League" title="Western Hockey League">Western Hockey League</a> team to win the <a href="/wiki/Ed_Chynoweth_Cup" title="Ed Chynoweth Cup">Ed Chynoweth Cup</a> (pictured) without losing a <a href="/wiki/Playoffs" title="Playoffs">playoff</a> game?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Trondheim" title="Trondheim">Trondheim</a> newspaper <a href="/wiki/Ny_Tid_(Trondheim)" title="Ny Tid (Trondheim)">Ny Tid</a> switched allegiance from <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Labour Party">Labour</a> to <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Norway" title="Communist Party of Norway">Communist</a> when <a href="/wiki/Knut_Olai_Thorn%C3%A6s" title="Knut Olai Thornæs">Knut Olai Thornæs</a> was its editor?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Woods_and_Water_Route" title="Northern Woods and Water Route">Northern Woods and Water Route</a> is a 2,400 <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a> (1,490 <a href="/wiki/Mile" title="Mile">mi</a>) highway route through northern <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Dawson_Creek,_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Dawson Creek, British Columbia">Dawson Creek, British Columbia</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg,_Manitoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnipeg, Manitoba">Winnipeg, Manitoba</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Carpenter" title="Ralph Carpenter">Ralph Carpenter</a>'s restoration of <a href="/wiki/Hunter_House_(Newport,_Rhode_Island)" title="Hunter House (Newport, Rhode Island)">Hunter House</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">historic</a> building in <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport, Rhode Island</a> that had been scheduled for <a href="/wiki/Demolition" title="Demolition">demolition</a>, was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Norman_Marjoribanks" title="Norman Marjoribanks">Norman Marjoribanks</a>, later acting <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Madras">Governor of Madras</a>, headed a commission to investigate the plight of <a href="/wiki/Indian_Tamils_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka">indentured Tamil labourers</a> on plantations in <a href="/wiki/Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon">Ceylon</a>?</li> <li>... that the title of the 1960–61 <a href="/wiki/Television_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Television program">TV series</a> <a href="/wiki/COronado_9" class="mw-redirect" title="COronado 9">COronado 9</a> refers to the <a href="/wiki/Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a> exchange for the <a href="/wiki/Coronado,_California" title="Coronado, California">home town</a> of fictional <a href="/wiki/Detective" title="Detective">detective</a> Dan Adams?</li> <li>... that the first discovery of the remains of <a href="/wiki/Dorset_culture" title="Dorset culture">Dorset culture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paleo-Eskimo" title="Paleo-Eskimo">Paleo-Eskimo</a> people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on <a href="/wiki/Dorset_Island" title="Dorset Island">Dorset Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a>, Canada?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Moorhuhn" class="mw-redirect" title="Moorhuhn">Moorhuhn</a>, a series of <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Computer_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer game">computer games</a> that has spawned much <a href="/wiki/Merchandise" class="mw-redirect" title="Merchandise">merchandise</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a> series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a <a href="/wiki/Whisky" title="Whisky">whisky</a> <a href="/wiki/Advertising" title="Advertising">advertisement</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>03:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:CSSShenandoah.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="CSS Shenandoah"><img alt="CSS Shenandoah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/CSSShenandoah.jpg/100px-CSSShenandoah.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/CSSShenandoah.jpg/150px-CSSShenandoah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/CSSShenandoah.jpg/200px-CSSShenandoah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="581"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that 42 <a href="/wiki/Australia_and_the_American_Civil_War" title="Australia and the American Civil War">Australians</a> became crewmembers of <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> ship <a href="/wiki/CSS_Shenandoah" title="CSS Shenandoah">CSS Shenandoah</a> (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>?</li> <li>... that a song about <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarian</a> rebel leader <a href="/wiki/Delyo" title="Delyo">Delyo</a> was sent into space in 1977 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record" title="Voyager Golden Record">Voyager Golden Record</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1971, half the houses in <a href="/wiki/Noel_Park" title="Noel Park">Noel Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, were still lacking basic facilities such as <a href="/wiki/Bathtub" title="Bathtub">baths</a>, internal <a href="/wiki/Toilet" title="Toilet">toilets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Water_heating" title="Water heating">hot water</a>?</li> <li>... that Italian architect <a href="/wiki/Ercole_Manfredi" title="Ercole Manfredi">Ercole Manfredi</a> took up <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thai</a> citizenship to overcome nationalist policies pursued by the Thai government?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/The_French_Democracy" title="The French Democracy">The French Democracy</a> is an ironically titled political film about the <a href="/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 civil unrest in France">2005 civil unrest in France</a>?</li> <li>... that during the <a href="/wiki/Korean" class="mw-disambig" title="Korean">Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon</a> period, royal physicians squeezed milk from cows to make <a href="/wiki/Tarakjuk" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarakjuk">tarakjuk</a>, a milk <a href="/wiki/Porridge" title="Porridge">porridge</a>, which was served only for <a href="/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Korea" title="List of monarchs of Korea">the king</a> and royalty?</li> <li>... that 18th-century bookseller <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cadell_(publisher)" title="Thomas Cadell (publisher)">Thomas Cadell</a> refused to publish <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Turner Smith">Charlotte Turner Smith</a>'s novel Desmond because it was too <a href="/wiki/Radicalism_(historical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radicalism (historical)">radical</a>?</li> <li>... that the 1862 opening of the second <a href="/wiki/The_Causeway" title="The Causeway">Causeway</a> in <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Perth, Western Australia">Perth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>, was disrupted by a young man on <a href="/wiki/Horseback" class="mw-redirect" title="Horseback">horseback</a> who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Suffragette" title="Suffragette">suffragette</a> <a href="/wiki/Norah_Elam" title="Norah Elam">Norah Elam</a> campaigned in 1918 for the internment of <a href="/wiki/Enemy_alien" title="Enemy alien">enemy aliens</a> but in 1940 was interned herself as an <a href="/wiki/Defence_Regulation_18B" title="Defence Regulation 18B">18B</a> detainee due to her membership in the <a href="/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists" title="British Union of Fascists">British Union of Fascists</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="23_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-23_February_2009-Did_you_know...">23 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 23 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:05, 23 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Austrattborgen.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Austrått Manor in Norway"><img alt="Austrått Manor in Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Austrattborgen.jpg/100px-Austrattborgen.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Austrattborgen.jpg/150px-Austrattborgen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Austrattborgen.jpg/200px-Austrattborgen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the manor at <a href="/wiki/Austr%C3%A5tt" title="Austrått">Austrått</a> (pictured) harbored a pretender to the <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> throne during the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> as the Protestant <a href="/wiki/Inger,_Lady_of_Austraat" class="mw-redirect" title="Inger, Lady of Austraat">Lady Inger of Austrått</a> battled the last <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Nidaros" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese of Nidaros">Norwegian Catholic Archbishop</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Granholm" title="Jennifer Granholm">Jennifer Granholm</a> became the first female governor of <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> after winning the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_gubernatorial_election,_2002" class="mw-redirect" title="Michigan gubernatorial election, 2002">2002 Michigan gubernatorial election</a>?</li> <li>... that, with an oil-processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year, the <a href="/wiki/Petromidia_Constan%C5%A3a_Refinery" class="mw-redirect" title="Petromidia Constanţa Refinery">Petromidia Constanţa Refinery</a> is the largest <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> <a href="/wiki/Oil_refinery" title="Oil refinery">refinery</a>?</li> <li>... that it took <a href="/wiki/William_Edwards_(architect)" title="William Edwards (architect)">William Edwards</a> four attempts to build the <a href="/wiki/Old_Bridge,_Pontypridd" title="Old Bridge, Pontypridd">Old Bridge</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pontypridd" title="Pontypridd">Pontypridd</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Quake_III_Arena" title="Quake III Arena">Quake III Arena's</a> <a href="/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root" title="Fast inverse square root">fast inverse square root</a> code uses a "magic number" to generate a quick first approximation to <a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_method" title="Newton's method">Newton's method</a> of <a href="/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots" title="Methods of computing square roots">computing roots</a>?</li> <li>... that the 1955–56 <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> <a href="/wiki/Television_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Television program">series</a> <a href="/wiki/Frontier_(1955_TV_series)" title="Frontier (1955 TV series)">Frontier</a> was only the second <a href="/wiki/Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">western</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthology" title="Anthology">anthology</a> program on <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a>, preceded by <a href="/wiki/Death_Valley_Days" title="Death Valley Days">Death Valley Days</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">tree-ring dating</a> has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a> to 1179, during the episcopate of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Foliot" title="Robert Foliot">Robert Foliot</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Hare_Indian_dog" class="mw-redirect" title="Hare Indian dog">Hare Indian dog</a>, now <a href="/wiki/Extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Extinct">extinct</a>, was not known to <a href="/wiki/Bark_(dog)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bark (dog)">bark</a>, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the <a href="/wiki/Dog_breed" title="Dog breed">breed</a> was introduced to <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Imposter_trevally.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="Imposter trevally"><img alt="Imposter trevally" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Imposter_trevally.PNG/100px-Imposter_trevally.PNG" decoding="async" width="100" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Imposter_trevally.PNG/150px-Imposter_trevally.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Imposter_trevally.PNG/200px-Imposter_trevally.PNG 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="469"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that an important identifying feature of the <a href="/wiki/Imposter_trevally" title="Imposter trevally">Imposter trevally</a> (Carangoides talamparoides, pictured) is its white or pale grey tongue?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/LaVelle_Smith_Jnr" class="mw-redirect" title="LaVelle Smith Jnr">LaVelle Smith Jnr</a> has won the <a href="/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="MTV Video Music Award">MTV Video Music Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Choreography" title="MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography">Best Choreography</a> five times, including one for <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Janet_Jackson" title="Janet Jackson">Janet Jackson</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Scream/Childhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Scream/Childhood">Scream</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rod_Cameron" class="mw-disambig" title="Rod Cameron">Rod Cameron</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Television_syndication" class="mw-redirect" title="Television syndication">syndicated</a> <a href="/wiki/Crime_drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime drama">crime drama</a> <a href="/wiki/City_Detective_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="City Detective (TV series)">City Detective</a> was sold in 1955 for distribution to a then record 171 <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> stations?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwandan</a> Interior Minister and <a href="/wiki/Political_dissident" class="mw-redirect" title="Political dissident">political dissident</a> <a href="/wiki/Seth_Sendashonga" title="Seth Sendashonga">Seth Sendashonga</a> recognized one of his assailants in a failed <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a> attempt as his old government bodyguard?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Polyporus_alveolaris" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyporus alveolaris">hexagonal-pored polypore</a> <a href="/wiki/Mushroom" title="Mushroom">mushroom</a> produces the <a href="/wiki/Antifungal" title="Antifungal">antifungal</a> <a href="/wiki/Polypeptide" class="mw-redirect" title="Polypeptide">polypeptide</a> alveolarin?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dentist" title="Dentist">dental student</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kavanaugh" title="Robert Kavanaugh">Robert Kavanaugh</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Medal_(lifesaving)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Medal (lifesaving)">Albert Medal</a> following his rescue of a fourteen-year-old boy during a shark attack?</li> <li>... that as part of the <a href="/wiki/Canterbury-York_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury-York dispute">Canterbury-York dispute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Medieval_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval England">medieval England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerard_(Archbishop_of_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerard (Archbishop of York)">Gerard</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_York" title="Archbishop of York">Archbishop of York</a>, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>'s?</li> <li>... that the career of <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> player <a href="/wiki/Mark_Maley" title="Mark Maley">Mark Maley</a> was ended after he was accidentally shot in the eye by teammate <a href="/wiki/John_Oster" title="John Oster">John Oster</a> with an <a href="/wiki/Air_gun" title="Air gun">air gun</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Geopyxis carbonaria"><img alt="Geopyxis carbonaria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg/100px-Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg/150px-Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg/200px-Geopyxis_carbonaria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2805" data-file-height="2301"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that several species in the <a href="/wiki/Mushroom" title="Mushroom">mushroom</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_(biology)" title="Order (biology)">order</a> <a href="/wiki/Pezizales" title="Pezizales">Pezizales</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Geopyxis_carbonaria" title="Geopyxis carbonaria">Geopyxis carbonaria</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Peziza_violacea" title="Peziza violacea">Peziza violacea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peziza_praetervisa" title="Peziza praetervisa">Peziza praetervisa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rhizina_undulata" title="Rhizina undulata">Rhizina undulata</a>, grow on burned-over ground?</li> <li>... that 18th-century English historian <a href="/wiki/William_Rider" title="William Rider">William Rider</a>'s 50-volume A New History of England was later described by <a href="/wiki/William_Thomas_Lowndes" title="William Thomas Lowndes">William Thomas Lowndes</a> as one of the vilest <a href="/wiki/Grub_Street" title="Grub Street">Grub Street</a> compilations ever published?</li> <li>... that the death of Libby Zion resulted in an <a href="/wiki/Libby_Zion_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Libby Zion law">eponymous law</a> that regulates working hours during <a href="/wiki/Medical_residency" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical residency">medical residency</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State">New York State</a>?</li> <li>... that at an expected cost of US$1 billion, a 3.15-kilometre (1.96 mi) long <a href="/wiki/Suspension_bridge" title="Suspension bridge">suspension bridge</a> linking <a href="/wiki/Vladivostok" title="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</a> with <a href="/wiki/Russky_Island" title="Russky Island">Russky Island</a> is due to be built in time for <a href="/wiki/APEC_Russia_2012" title="APEC Russia 2012">APEC Russia 2012</a>?</li> <li>... that from 14th to 17th century, the <a href="/wiki/T%C4%99czy%C5%84ski" title="Tęczyński">Tęczyński</a> family from <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> had a major influence in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland" title="Kingdom of Poland">Kingdom of Poland</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> warlord <a href="/wiki/Wang_Chengzong" title="Wang Chengzong">Wang Chengzong</a>, fearing reprisals after the defeat of his ally Wu Yuanji, offered his sons as <a href="/wiki/Hostage" title="Hostage">hostages</a> and two of his six prefectures to <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Florida_State_Fair" title="Florida State Fair">Florida State Fair</a>, which includes the <a href="/wiki/Cracker_Country" title="Cracker Country">Cracker Country</a> <a href="/wiki/Living_history" title="Living history">living history</a> museum, offers food oddities like <a href="/wiki/Chocolate_covered_bacon" class="mw-redirect" title="Chocolate covered bacon">chocolate covered bacon</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dangui"><img alt="Dangui" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg/75px-Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg/112px-Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg/150px-Korean_royal_costume-Dangui_and_Seuranchima-01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="963" data-file-height="1284"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dangui" title="Dangui">dangui</a> (pictured) was an upper <a href="/wiki/Hanbok" title="Hanbok">garment</a> worn by the royal women and <a href="/wiki/Gungnyeo" title="Gungnyeo">court ladies</a> for ceremonial occasions during the <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tilted_Kilt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tilted Kilt">Tilted Kilt</a> is a bar and <a href="/wiki/Restaurant_chain" class="mw-redirect" title="Restaurant chain">restaurant chain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> described as "<a href="/wiki/Hooters" title="Hooters">Hooters</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Scotland" title="Culture of Scotland">Scottish</a> twist"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Erna_Hanfstaengl" title="Erna Hanfstaengl">Erna Hanfstaengl</a> was claimed both to be romantically involved with <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> and involved in a plot to overthrow him?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Willow_Prairie_Cabin" title="Willow Prairie Cabin">Willow Prairie Cabin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Rogue_River-Siskiyou_National_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest">Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest</a>, built by a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service" title="United States Forest Service">Forest Service</a> crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Haruna" title="Japanese battleship Haruna">Haruna</a> was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Leges_Henrici_Primi" title="Leges Henrici Primi">Leges Henrici Primi</a> (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?</li> <li>... that besides delivering <a href="/wiki/Electric_shock" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric shock">electric shocks</a>, the characteristic defensive behaviour of a <a href="/wiki/Giant_electric_ray" class="mw-redirect" title="Giant electric ray">giant electric ray</a> when threatened by a predator includes performing a "<a href="/wiki/Somersault" title="Somersault">somersault</a>" in the water?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Does_Judy_at_Carnegie_Hall" title="Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall">Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Live_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Live album">live album</a> recorded from <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Wainwright" title="Rufus Wainwright">Rufus Wainwright</a>'s June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="22_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-22_February_2009-Did_you_know...">22 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 22 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>18:58, 22 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Beverly Eckert"><img alt="Beverly Eckert" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg/94px-Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="94" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg/141px-Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg/188px-Obama_and_Beverly_Eckert_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="265"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Eckert" title="Beverly Eckert">Beverly Eckert</a> (pictured) died in the crash of <a href="/wiki/Continental_Connection_Flight_3407" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental Connection Flight 3407">Flight 3407</a> while on her way to award a scholarship in honor of her husband, who was killed in the events of <a href="/wiki/September_11th_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="September 11th attacks">9/11</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">India's government</a> <a href="/wiki/Sampoorna_Grameen_Rozgar_Yojana" title="Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana">launched a programme</a> in 2001 to provide employment for poor people living in rural areas?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Windet" title="John Windet">John Windet</a> published composer <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Hume" title="Tobias Hume">Tobias Hume</a>'s First Part of Ayres, which contains what may be the earliest examples of <a href="/wiki/Pizzicato" title="Pizzicato">pizzicato</a> and <a href="/wiki/Col_legno" title="Col legno">col legno</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Emu_Brewery" title="Emu Brewery">Emu Brewery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Perth, Western Australia">Perth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>, traced its history to the town's first standalone <a href="/wiki/Brewery" title="Brewery">brewery</a>, which was founded less than a decade after <a href="/wiki/Swan_River_Colony" title="Swan River Colony">settlement</a>?</li> <li>... that, although she was born in <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kate_Dennison" class="mw-redirect" title="Kate Dennison">Kate Dennison</a> now holds the indoor <a href="/wiki/British_records_in_athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="British records in athletics">British record</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Pole_vault" title="Pole vault">pole vault</a>?</li> <li>... that thousands of illegal <a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_Malaysia" title="Filipinos in Malaysia">Filipino immigrants</a> are deported from <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> every year?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a> reportedly signed one of his most lucrative <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>' contracts at <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Ruppert" title="Jacob Ruppert">Jacob Ruppert</a>'s Eagles' Rest estate in <a href="/wiki/Garrison,_New_York" title="Garrison, New York">Garrison, New York</a>, now <a href="/wiki/Saint_Basil_Academy_(Garrison,_New_York)" title="Saint Basil Academy (Garrison, New York)">Saint Basil Academy</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Taxidermist" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxidermist">taxidermist</a> <a href="/wiki/Walter_Potter" title="Walter Potter">Walter Potter</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Diorama" title="Diorama">diorama</a>, "The Death and Burial of <a href="/wiki/Cock_Robin" title="Cock Robin">Cock Robin</a>", created when he was 19, features 98 stuffed <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> birds?</li></ul> <ul><li>12:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tekkiye Mosque"><img alt="Tekkiye Mosque" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg/75px-Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg/112px-Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg/150px-Masjid_al-Tak%C4%AByah_al-Sulaym%C4%81n%C4%AByah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tekkiye_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Tekkiye Mosque">Tekkiye Mosque</a> (pictured), built by the architect <a href="/wiki/Sinan" title="Sinan">Sinan</a>, has been described as "the finest example in <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_architecture" title="Ottoman architecture">Ottoman architecture</a>"?</li> <li>... that when the <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> general <a href="/wiki/Tian_Hongzheng" title="Tian Hongzheng">Tian Hongzheng</a> was young, his brother Tian Rong battered him after he won an archery contest, believing that he was drawing unnecessary attention to himself?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Versailles_Cuban_restaurant" class="mw-redirect" title="Versailles Cuban restaurant">Versailles Cuban restaurant</a> is part of actress <a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a>'s ideal weekend in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>?</li> <li>... that despite claims that <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> made the <a href="/wiki/Anza_(missile)" title="Anza (missile)">Anza</a> locally, it is believed the <a href="/wiki/MANPAD" class="mw-redirect" title="MANPAD">MANPAD</a> was created with <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations" title="China–Pakistan relations">Chinese assistance</a> via <a href="/wiki/Technology_transfer" title="Technology transfer">technology transfers</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan_Athletic_Hall_of_Honor" title="University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor">University of Michigan Hall of Honor</a> inductee <a href="/wiki/Dave_Debol" title="Dave Debol">Dave Debol</a>, known in the 1970s as "the <a href="/wiki/Guy_LaFleur" class="mw-redirect" title="Guy LaFleur">Guy LaFleur</a> of college hockey", set an NCAA record by scoring three goals in less than one minute?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Fine_rolls" title="Fine rolls">fine rolls</a> record offers of money to the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of England">Kings of England</a> for concessions and favours?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mario_%26_Sonic_at_the_Olympic_Winter_Games" title="Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games">Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games</a> is the second video game based on the Olympics to star <a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a>'s once-rival mascots, <a href="/wiki/Mario" title="Mario">Mario</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog" title="Sonic the Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>06:08, 22 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Brazilian battleship Minas Gerais"><img alt="Brazilian battleship Minas Gerais" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg/100px-Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="57" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg/150px-Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg/200px-Minas_Gerais_after_refit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="581"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that with the <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_battleship_Minas_Gerais" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian battleship Minas Gerais">Minas Gerais</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> became the third country to have a <a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">dreadnought</a> under construction, ahead of traditional powers like <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>?</li> <li>... that although <a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Melun" title="Robert of Melun">Robert of Melun</a> disagreed with some of <a href="/wiki/Peter_Abelard" title="Peter Abelard">Peter Abelard</a>'s teachings, he still defended Abelard against <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heresy</a> charges?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Woodlouse" title="Woodlouse">woodlouse</a> <a href="/wiki/Trichoniscus_pusillus" title="Trichoniscus pusillus">Trichoniscus pusillus</a> has some populations that reproduce <a href="/wiki/Sexual_reproduction" title="Sexual reproduction">sexually</a> and others that reproduce <a href="/wiki/Parthogenesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Parthogenesis">clonally</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Internet_hunting" title="Internet hunting">internet hunting</a> is the practice of <a href="/wiki/Hunting" title="Hunting">hunting</a> via remotely controlled <a href="/wiki/Firearm" title="Firearm">firearms</a> that can be aimed and shot using online <a href="/wiki/Webcam" title="Webcam">webcams</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a>" story, <a href="/wiki/Tum_Teav" title="Tum Teav">Tum Teav</a>, is set in <a href="/wiki/Tbong_Khmom_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Tbong Khmom District">Tbong Khmom District</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Martin_Kolberg" title="Martin Kolberg">Martin Kolberg</a> will retire as <a href="/wiki/Party_secretary" title="Party secretary">party secretary</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Labour Party">Norwegian Labour Party</a> to run in the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_parliamentary_election,_2009" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian parliamentary election, 2009">2009 parliamentary elections</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Josh_Gibson_Field" title="Josh Gibson Field">Josh Gibson Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, is named for <a href="/wiki/Negro_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Negro League">Negro League</a> star <a href="/wiki/Josh_Gibson" title="Josh Gibson">Josh Gibson</a>, who has been called the "black <a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a>?"</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Clothes-Line" title="Clothes-Line">Clothes-Line</a>, aired in 1937, was the first <a href="/wiki/Television_programme" class="mw-redirect" title="Television programme">television programme</a> on <a href="/wiki/Fashion_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Fashion history">fashion history</a> and also probably the first to feature a heavily pregnant female <a href="/wiki/Presenter" class="mw-disambig" title="Presenter">presenter</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-21_February_2009-Did_you_know...">21 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 21 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>23:46, 21 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chocolate covered bacon from the Minnesota State Fair"><img alt="Chocolate covered bacon from the Minnesota State Fair" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg/100px-Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg/150px-Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg/200px-Chocolate_covered_bacon_from_Minnesota_State_Fair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="375"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Chocolate_covered_bacon" class="mw-redirect" title="Chocolate covered bacon">chocolate covered bacon</a> (pictured) is sold as "Pig Lickers" at the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_State_Fair" title="Minnesota State Fair">Minnesota State Fair</a>, "Pig Candy" in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and "Mo's Bacon Bar" in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_and_Dartmoor_Railway" title="Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway">Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway</a> linking <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princetown" title="Princetown">Princetown</a> was almost twice as long as the distance between the two cities?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Movement_for_National_Liberation" title="Democratic Movement for National Liberation">Democratic Movement for National Liberation</a> was the sole <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> faction in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> that supported the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1952" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 1952">1952 Revolution</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Armadillidiidae" title="Armadillidiidae">pill bug</a> <a href="/wiki/Armadillidium_vulgare" title="Armadillidium vulgare">Armadillidium vulgare</a> can reach <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population densities</a> of 10,000 per square metre?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ed_Schock" title="Ed Schock">Ed Schock</a> earned an annual salary of just $7,000 as mayor of <a href="/wiki/Elgin,_Illinois" title="Elgin, Illinois">Elgin, Illinois</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Assumption_(Uzundzhovo)" title="Church of the Assumption (Uzundzhovo)">Church of the Assumption</a> in <a href="/wiki/Uzundzhovo" title="Uzundzhovo">Uzundzhovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, was initially built as a <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> and was probably commissioned to famous architect <a href="/wiki/Sinan" title="Sinan">Sinan</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Anders_Buen" title="Anders Buen">Anders Buen</a> was removed as editor of the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Labour Party">Norwegian Labour Party</a> organ <a href="/wiki/Dagsavisen" title="Dagsavisen">Social-Demokraten</a> in 1903, but continued as a prominent party member until 1921?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a> episode "<a href="/wiki/Ocean%27s_Three_and_a_Half" title="Ocean's Three and a Half">Ocean's Three and a Half</a>" includes the actual audio of <a href="/wiki/Christian_Bale" title="Christian Bale">Christian Bale</a>'s outburst on the set of <a href="/wiki/Terminator_Salvation" title="Terminator Salvation">Terminator Salvation</a>, making it appear to be directed at <a href="/wiki/Peter_Griffin" title="Peter Griffin">Peter Griffin</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>17:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Folkestone White Horse"><img alt="Folkestone White Horse" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg/100px-Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg/150px-Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg/200px-Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="279" data-file-height="201"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> declared the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Folkestone_White_Horse" title="Folkestone White Horse">Folkestone White Horse</a> (pictured) unlawful?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tornado" title="Tornado">tornadoes</a> have passed through <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, on <a href="/wiki/List_of_District_of_Columbia_tornadoes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of District of Columbia tornadoes">at least seven occasions</a>, and have damaged such landmarks as the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Botanic_Garden" title="United States Botanic Garden">United States Botanic Garden</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Arboretum" title="United States National Arboretum">National Arboretum</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Palace" title="Luxembourg Palace">Luxembourg Palace</a>, the meeting place of the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate of France">French Senate</a>, used to be the residence of <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Marguerite_of_Orl%C3%A9ans" class="mw-redirect" title="Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans">Princess Élisabeth Marguerite of Orléans</a>, who gave it to the <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis XIV of France">King of France</a> in 1694?</li> <li>... that after ceasing operations in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, the West Jersey Railroad operated in <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> for several months before being renamed <a href="/wiki/West_Michigan_Railroad" title="West Michigan Railroad">West Michigan Railroad</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> general <a href="/wiki/Liu_Pi" class="mw-disambig" title="Liu Pi">Liu Pi</a>, who rebelled against the authority of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong</a>, was described by the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellor of Tang Dynasty">chancellor</a> <a href="/wiki/Du_Huangshang" class="mw-redirect" title="Du Huangshang">Du Huangshang</a> as an "insane civilian" as Du urged military action?</li> <li>... that some of the <a href="/wiki/12%22/45_caliber_Mark_5_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="12"/45 caliber Mark 5 gun">12"/45 caliber Mark 5 naval guns</a>, which were first deployed on the 1906 <a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-dreadnought">pre-dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Connecticut_(BB-18)" title="USS Connecticut (BB-18)">USS Connecticut</a>, may still be in service in Brazil today?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Mapenor" title="Hugh de Mapenor">Hugh de Mapenor</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hereford" title="Bishop of Hereford">Bishop of Hereford</a> in 1216 even though he was not on King <a href="/wiki/John_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="John of England">John of England</a>'s list of candidates?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Holiday_Bowl_(building)" title="Holiday Bowl (building)">Holiday Bowl</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> was a popular gathering place for the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_diaspora" title="Japanese diaspora">Nikkei</a> community and <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African Americans</a>, with the coffee shop serving <a href="/wiki/Grits" title="Grits">grits</a>, <a href="/wiki/Udon" title="Udon">udon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chow_mein" title="Chow mein">chow mein</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hamburgers" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamburgers">hamburgers</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>11:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków"><img alt="Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg/74px-Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg" decoding="async" width="74" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg/112px-Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg/149px-Adam-Mickiewicz-Monument-by-Rygier-Krakow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1832" data-file-height="2456"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that sculptor <a href="/wiki/Cyprian_Godebski_(sculptor)" title="Cyprian Godebski (sculptor)">Cyprian Godebski</a> lost the <a href="/wiki/Commission_(art)" title="Commission (art)">commission</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz_Monument,_Krak%C3%B3w" title="Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków">Adam Mickiewicz Monument</a> in <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a> (pictured) to a newcomer, <a href="/wiki/Teodor_Rygier" title="Teodor Rygier">Teodor Rygier</a>, but erected his statue ten years later in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a> for 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Ruble" title="Ruble">rubles</a>?</li> <li>... that after long-standing <a href="/wiki/Racket_(crime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Racket (crime)">racketeering</a> allegations, the <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> raided <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pui_Tak_Center" title="Pui Tak Center">Pui Tak Center</a>, then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Knowles,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet">Sir Charles Knowles</a> successfully sued <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Smollett" title="Tobias Smollett">Tobias Smollett</a> for <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libelling</a> him in Smollett's magazine <a href="/wiki/The_Critical_Review" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Critical Review">The Critical Review</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Homestead" title="Carnegie Library of Homestead">Carnegie Library of Homestead</a> in <a href="/wiki/Munhall,_Pennsylvania" title="Munhall, Pennsylvania">Munhall, Pennsylvania</a>, trained four <a href="/wiki/Olympic" class="mw-disambig" title="Olympic">Olympic</a> swimmers and sponsored both one of the 1890s' best <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> clubs and a baseball team with <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall of Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Rube_Waddell" title="Rube Waddell">Rube Waddell</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a> archbishop <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Lefebvre" title="Marcel Lefebvre">Marcel Lefebvre</a>'s father <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Lefebvre" title="René Lefebvre">René Lefebvre</a> died in a <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi</a> <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi concentration camp">concentration camp</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Armet_%26_Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Armet & Davis">Armet & Davis</a> was an <a href="/wiki/Architectural_firm" title="Architectural firm">architectural firm</a> in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> that designed buildings in the so-called <a href="/wiki/Googie_architecture" title="Googie architecture">Googie architecture</a> style popular during the 1950s?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> <a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuch</a> <a href="/wiki/Tutu_Chengcui" title="Tutu Chengcui">Tutu Chengcui</a> was killed after <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong</a>'s death over his refusal to support the <a href="/wiki/Crown_prince" title="Crown prince">crown prince</a> <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Muzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Muzong of Tang">Li Heng</a> as the emperor's successor?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Prairie_Bluff,_Alabama" title="Prairie Bluff, Alabama">Prairie Bluff, Alabama</a>, is a <a href="/wiki/Ghost_town" title="Ghost town">ghost town</a> whose only remaining physical feature is a <a href="/wiki/Cemetery" title="Cemetery">cemetery</a> with <a href="/wiki/Grave_(burial)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grave (burial)">marked graves</a> dating from the 1830s to the 1860s?</li></ul> <ul><li>04:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lactarius quietus"><img alt="Lactarius quietus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg/100px-Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg/150px-Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg/200px-Lactarius_spec._-_Lindsey_9a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the mushroom <a href="/wiki/Lactarius_quietus" title="Lactarius quietus">Lactarius quietus</a> (pictured) is found exclusively under <a href="/wiki/Quercus" class="mw-redirect" title="Quercus">oak trees</a> in Europe?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Henry_McCardie" title="Henry McCardie">Henry McCardie</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a>, he often worked so late that his <a href="/wiki/Chambers_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chambers (law)">chambers</a> were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Elm_City_Resident_Card" title="Elm City Resident Card">Elm City Resident Card</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Municipal" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal">municipal</a> <a href="/wiki/Identification_card" class="mw-redirect" title="Identification card">identification card</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>?</li> <li>... that the population of <a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" title="Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates">Filipinos</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> declined by 20% in 2008?</li> <li>... that the largest <a href="/wiki/Hindu_temple" title="Hindu temple">Hindu temple</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_East_England" title="South East England">South East England</a> <a href="/wiki/Churches_and_places_of_worship_in_Crawley" class="mw-redirect" title="Churches and places of worship in Crawley">is being built in Crawley</a>, where 3.4% of residents are <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a> compared to 1.1% in England as a whole?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/1881_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team" title="1881 Michigan Wolverines football team">1881 Michigan Wolverines football team</a> is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Salvia_pentstemonoides" title="Salvia pentstemonoides">Salvia pentstemonoides</a> ("Big red sage") was thought to be <a href="/wiki/Extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Extinct">extinct</a> until a botanist rediscovered it while taking photos for a book on <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> wildflowers?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jaime_Fonalledas" title="Jaime Fonalledas">Jaime Fonalledas</a> is the President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns <a href="/wiki/Plaza_Las_Americas" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Plaza Las Americas">the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Lamb_of_God_(band)" title="Lamb of God (band)">Lamb of God</a> was banned from performing in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles</a>, for <a href="/wiki/The_Subliminal_Verses_World_Tour" title="The Subliminal Verses World Tour">The Subliminal Verses World Tour</a> because their former name was Burn the Priest?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-20_February_2009-Did_you_know...">20 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 20 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>23:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse"><img alt="Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg/100px-Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg/150px-Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg/200px-Wayne_Morse_Courthouse_opening.jpg 2x" data-file-width="889" data-file-height="527"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Wayne_L._Morse_United_States_Courthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse">Morse U.S. Courthouse</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</a>, was the first new federal courthouse to earn a <a href="/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design">LEED</a> Gold certification and the first U.S. courthouse featured at the <a href="/wiki/Venice_Biennale_of_Architecture" title="Venice Biennale of Architecture">Venice Biennale of Architecture</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Mycena" class="mw-redirect" title="Orange Mycena">Orange Mycena</a> mushroom is <a href="/wiki/Bioluminescent" class="mw-redirect" title="Bioluminescent">bioluminescent</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/World_Netball_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="World Netball Series">World Netball Series</a> is a new international <a href="/wiki/Netball" title="Netball">netball</a> competition, with modified rules inspired from <a href="/wiki/Twenty20" title="Twenty20">Twenty20</a> cricket designed to make matches faster and more television-friendly?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Toy" title="Humphrey Toy">Humphrey Toy</a> financed the publication of the first <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> translation of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1863, the <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">U.S.</a> gave <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a> plans to build <a href="/wiki/Uragan_class_monitor" class="mw-redirect" title="Uragan class monitor">ten Passaic class monitors</a>, partly because of the fear that the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> would escalate into war between <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Britain</a> and Russia?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Frederick_Gibbs" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanley Frederick Gibbs">Stanley Frederick Gibbs</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Medal_(lifesaving)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Medal (lifesaving)">Albert Medal</a> in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a <a href="/wiki/Shark_attack" title="Shark attack">shark attack</a>, during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Barbeque" title="Kansas City Barbeque">Kansas City Barbeque</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Restaurant" title="Restaurant">restaurant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bar" class="mw-disambig" title="Bar">bar</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, made famous after scenes in <a href="/wiki/Top_Gun_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Top Gun (film)">Top Gun</a> were filmed there?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Henry" title="Wendy Henry">Wendy Henry</a>, one of the first female <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_editor" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper editor">newspaper editors</a> on <a href="/wiki/Fleet_Street" title="Fleet Street">Fleet Street</a>, later became a full-time dog re-socialiser for the <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Dogs%27_Home" class="mw-redirect" title="Battersea Dogs' Home">Battersea Dogs' Home</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>17:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Xanthoria_elegans.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Xanthoria elegans"><img alt="Xanthoria elegans" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Xanthoria_elegans.jpg/100px-Xanthoria_elegans.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Xanthoria_elegans.jpg/150px-Xanthoria_elegans.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Xanthoria_elegans.jpg/200px-Xanthoria_elegans.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that a study of <a href="/wiki/Lichen" title="Lichen">lichen</a> growth in the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Rockies" title="Canadian Rockies">Canadian Rockies</a> showed that <a href="/wiki/Xanthoria_elegans" class="mw-redirect" title="Xanthoria elegans">Xanthoria elegans</a> (pictured) expands at a rate of 0.5 mm per year for the first century before slowing down?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Henry_Weinhard" title="Henry Weinhard">Henry Weinhard</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Brewing" title="Brewing">brewer</a> in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>, offered to pump free <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">beer</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Skidmore_Fountain" title="Skidmore Fountain">Skidmore Fountain</a> when it was dedicated?</li> <li>... that six <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> <a href="/wiki/German_Type_UB_II_submarine" class="mw-redirect" title="German Type UB II submarine"> German Type UB II U-boats</a>—<a href="/wiki/SM_UB-42" title="SM UB-42">UB-42</a>, <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-43" title="SM UB-43">UB-43</a>, <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-44" title="SM UB-44">UB-44</a>, <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-45" title="SM UB-45">UB-45</a>, <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-46" title="SM UB-46">UB-46</a>, and <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-47" title="SM UB-47">UB-47</a>—were built in <a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a> but cut apart and shipped by <a href="/wiki/Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad">rail</a> for reassembly at the <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a> port of <a href="/wiki/Pula" title="Pula">Pola</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Dedication" class="mw-disambig" title="Dedication">dedication</a> of <a href="/wiki/St_Cosmas_and_St_Damian_Church,_Keymer" title="St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer">St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer</a>, England—commemorating <a href="/wiki/Saints_Cosmas_and_Damian" title="Saints Cosmas and Damian">twin Christian martyrs</a> from <a href="/wiki/Syria_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Syria (Roman province)">Syria</a>—occurs on only two other extant churches in England?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sam_(koala)" title="Sam (koala)">Sam</a> the <a href="/wiki/Koala" title="Koala">koala</a> rose to fame when a video of her rescue from the <a href="/wiki/2009_Victorian_bushfires" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Victorian bushfires">2009 Victorian bushfires</a> was distributed across the internet?</li> <li>... that members of <a href="/wiki/Metal_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Metal music">metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Slipknot_(band)" title="Slipknot (band)">Slipknot</a> found the <a href="/wiki/Slipknot_(band)#Image_and_identities" title="Slipknot (band)">masks</a> that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their <a href="/wiki/Tattoo_the_Earth" title="Tattoo the Earth">Tattoo the Earth</a> <a href="/wiki/Concert_tour" title="Concert tour">concert tour</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Gandar-Dower" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenneth Gandar-Dower">Kenneth Gandar-Dower</a> introduced <a href="/wiki/Cheetah" title="Cheetah">cheetah</a> racing to <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._theme" title="Super Mario Bros. theme">Super Mario Bros. theme</a> has been listed as one of the top ten most downloaded <a href="/wiki/Ringtone" title="Ringtone">ringtones</a> in the United States for 226 consecutive weeks?</li></ul> <ul><li>11:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Anderson Ruffin Abbott"><img alt="Anderson Ruffin Abbott" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg/69px-Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg" decoding="async" width="69" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg/103px-Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg/137px-Anderson-Ruffin-Abbott.jpg 2x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="346"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Anderson_Ruffin_Abbott" title="Anderson Ruffin Abbott">Anderson Ruffin Abbott</a> (pictured), the first licenced <a href="/wiki/Black_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Canadian">Black Canadian</a> <a href="/wiki/Physician" title="Physician">physician</a>, attended <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Death_bed" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Death bed">death bed</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Sideling_Hill_Tunnel" title="Sideling Hill Tunnel">Sideling Hill Tunnel</a> is one of the two tunnels that make up the <a href="/wiki/Abandoned_Pennsylvania_Turnpike" title="Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike">Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> <a href="/wiki/Long_jump" title="Long jump">long jumper</a> <a href="/wiki/Nils_Uhlin_Hansen" title="Nils Uhlin Hansen">Nils Uhlin Hansen</a> was killed as a <a href="/wiki/Saboteur" class="mw-redirect" title="Saboteur">saboteur</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Morison_equation" title="Morison equation">Morison equation</a>, an equation in <a href="/wiki/Fluid_dynamics" title="Fluid dynamics">fluid dynamics</a> introduced in 1950, is used in the design of <a href="/wiki/Oil_platform" title="Oil platform">oil platforms</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Offshore_construction" title="Offshore construction">offshore structures</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Loeb" title="Marshall Loeb">Marshall Loeb</a>, managing editor of <a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a>, called his colleague <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Seligman" title="Daniel Seligman">Daniel Seligman</a>, author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness"?</li> <li>... that children's novel <a href="/wiki/Nordy_Bank_(novel)" title="Nordy Bank (novel)">Nordy Bank</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sheena_Porter" title="Sheena Porter">Sheena Porter</a>, set in <a href="/wiki/Nordy_Bank" title="Nordy Bank">Nordy Bank</a> on <a href="/wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill" title="Brown Clee Hill">Brown Clee Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a>, was awarded the 1964 <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_in_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnegie Medal in Literature">Carnegie Medal in Literature</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Pisa" title="Republic of Pisa">Republic of Pisa</a> <a href="/wiki/1113%E2%80%931115_Balearic_Islands_expedition" title="1113–1115 Balearic Islands expedition">launched a crusade</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> <a href="/wiki/Balearic_Islands" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mark_Shepherd_(businessman)" title="Mark Shepherd (businessman)">Mark Shepherd</a>, who served as CEO of <a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a> where he spearheaded development of the firms' <a href="/wiki/Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">integrated circuits</a>, constructed a <a href="/wiki/Vacuum_tube" title="Vacuum tube">vacuum tube</a> at the age of six and a radio a year later?</li></ul> <ul><li>05:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cascin Adelaide Barolo & decanter"><img alt="Cascin Adelaide Barolo & decanter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg/100px-Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg/150px-Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg/200px-Cascin_Adelaide_Barolo_%26_decanter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2267" data-file-height="1793"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that prior to the mid 19th century, the <a href="/wiki/Tannic" class="mw-redirect" title="Tannic">tannic</a> <a href="/wiki/Italian_wine" title="Italian wine">Italian wine</a> <a href="/wiki/Barolo" title="Barolo">Barolo</a> (pictured) was made as a <a href="/wiki/Sweet_wine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweet wine">sweet wine</a>?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Elton_Wieman" class="mw-redirect" title="Elton Wieman">Elton Wieman</a> moved east to play football for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> in 1915, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> called it "a calamity of almost national importance"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lactarius_pallidus" title="Lactarius pallidus">Lactarius pallidus</a> is typically found half-buried in <a href="/wiki/Leaf_litter" class="mw-redirect" title="Leaf litter">leaf litter</a> at the base of <a href="/wiki/Beech" title="Beech">beech</a> or <a href="/wiki/Birch" title="Birch">birch</a> trees?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a> called <a href="/wiki/David_Mendell" title="David Mendell">David Mendell</a>'s biography <a href="/wiki/Obama:_From_Promise_to_Power" title="Obama: From Promise to Power">Obama: From Promise to Power</a> "the single best source of background information on our new president"?</li> <li>... that the original mission of the <a href="/wiki/Cini_Foundation" title="Cini Foundation">Cini Foundation</a> included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of <a href="/wiki/San_Giorgio_Maggiore" title="San Giorgio Maggiore">San Giorgio Maggiore</a> of <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Francisco_de_Peralta" title="José Francisco de Peralta">José Francisco de Peralta</a> was elected to represent <a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a> to the Constituent Congress of the <a href="/wiki/First_Mexican_Empire" title="First Mexican Empire">Mexican Empire</a>, but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> firm of <a href="/wiki/Sauerbruch_Hutton" title="Sauerbruch Hutton">Sauerbruch Hutton</a> designed the <a href="/wiki/Museum_Brandhorst" title="Museum Brandhorst">Museum Brandhorst</a> in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Torero#Matador" class="mw-redirect" title="Torero">matador</a> <a href="/wiki/Diego_Mazquiar%C3%A1n" title="Diego Mazquiarán">Diego Mazquiarán</a> once used his overcoat as a cape to fight a bull that was running wild on the <a href="/wiki/Gran_Via" class="mw-disambig" title="Gran Via">Gran Via</a> of <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-19_February_2009-Did_you_know...">19 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 19 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>23:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="La Maratona bicycle race"><img alt="La Maratona bicycle race" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg/100px-Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg/150px-Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg/200px-Maratona_dles_Dolomites_-_Dolomites.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that according to <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maratona_dles_Dolomites" title="Maratona dles Dolomites">La Maratona</a> (2008 race pictured), an annual competition held in the <a href="/wiki/Dolomites" title="Dolomites">Dolomites</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a>, is "one of the biggest, most passionate, and most chaotic <a href="/wiki/Road_bicycle_racing" title="Road bicycle racing">bike races</a> on Earth"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> general <a href="/wiki/Tian_Huaijian" title="Tian Huaijian">Tian Huaijian</a> was, at age 10, briefly the ruler of Weibo Circuit before he was overthrown?</li> <li>... that the uncommon <a href="/wiki/Benign" class="mw-redirect" title="Benign">benign</a> lesion <a href="/wiki/Verruciform_xanthoma" title="Verruciform xanthoma">verruciform xanthoma</a> is usually found on the <a href="/wiki/Oral_mucosa" title="Oral mucosa">oral mucosa</a> of middle-aged people, but has also been reported on the <a href="/wiki/External_genitalia" class="mw-redirect" title="External genitalia">external genitalia</a> in some recent cases?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Albert_Bassermann" title="Albert Bassermann">Albert Bassermann</a>, bearer of the <a href="/wiki/Iffland-Ring" title="Iffland-Ring">Iffland-Ring</a>, considered the ring cursed after all three of the successors he named died shortly after he named them?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Comedy_film" title="Comedy film">comedy film</a> <a href="/wiki/Skills_Like_This" class="mw-redirect" title="Skills Like This">Skills Like This</a>, created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 <a href="/wiki/South_by_Southwest" title="South by Southwest">South by Southwest</a> film festival?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Fennemore_Craig" title="Fennemore Craig">Fennemore Craig</a>, founded in 1885, is the oldest <a href="/wiki/Law_firm" title="Law firm">law firm</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Rylands_Papyri" title="Rylands Papyri">Rylands Papyri</a> held by <a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester" title="University of Manchester">Manchester University</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> contain <a href="/wiki/Rylands_Library_Papyrus_P52" title="Rylands Library Papyrus P52">P52</a>, believed by many scholars to be the oldest extant fragment from the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Christian_Holtermann_Knudsen" title="Christian Holtermann Knudsen">Christian Holtermann Knudsen</a> was a founder of the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Labour Party">Norwegian Labour Party</a> and the newspaper <a href="/wiki/Dagsavisen" title="Dagsavisen">Dagsavisen</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_Sudell" title="William Sudell">William Sudell</a> coined the name "<a href="/wiki/The_Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="The Football League">Football League</a>"?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Corts_008.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cortinarius triumphans"><img alt="Cortinarius triumphans" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Corts_008.jpg/86px-Corts_008.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Corts_008.jpg/129px-Corts_008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Corts_008.jpg/172px-Corts_008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1864" data-file-height="2168"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Mushroom" title="Mushroom">mushroom</a> <a href="/wiki/Cortinarius_triumphans" class="mw-redirect" title="Cortinarius triumphans">Cortinarius triumphans</a> (pictured) has a cap which is slimy in wet weather and sticky in dry?</li> <li>... that while serving as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">Governor of New Hampshire</a> from 1842 to 1844, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Hubbard" title="Henry Hubbard">Henry Hubbard</a> argued for reduced taxes for female <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> owners?</li> <li>... that thousands of <a href="/wiki/Grooves_(archaeology)" title="Grooves (archaeology)">grooves</a> have been found carved into rock in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Europe" title="Northern Europe">Northern Europe</a>, but no one knows how or why they were made?</li> <li>... that attorney <a href="/wiki/Bill_MacFarland_(ice_hockey)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill MacFarland (ice hockey)">Bill MacFarland</a> had a dislocated knee and six broken teeth after playing 11 seasons of professional <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a>?</li> <li>... that the never-completed <a href="/wiki/Design_1047_battlecruiser" title="Design 1047 battlecruiser">Design 1047 battlecruisers</a> were intended to be the first line of defense for the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>?</li> <li>... that economist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hall_(economist)" title="Charles Hall (economist)">Charles Hall</a> claimed that <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">the poor</a> retained less than one-eighth of what they produced due to <a href="/wiki/Capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist">capitalist</a> exploitation?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Pinkie_Road" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinkie Road">Pinkie Road</a>, a part of the Global Transportation Hub intermodal port authority facility, will link the <a href="/wiki/Trans_Canada_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans Canada Highway">Trans Canada</a> <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_Highway_1" title="Saskatchewan Highway 1">Highway 1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_Highway_11" title="Saskatchewan Highway 11">Highway 11</a> as a part of the <a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific_Gateway_and_Corridor_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative">Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Air_Vice_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Vice Marshal">Air Vice Marshal</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Hewitt_(RAAF_officer)" title="Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer)">Joe Hewitt</a> began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy" title="Royal Australian Navy">Royal Australian Navy</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:31, 19 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Cappy_Cappon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Franklin "Cappy" Cappon"><img alt="Franklin "Cappy" Cappon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cappy_Cappon.jpg/100px-Cappy_Cappon.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cappy_Cappon.jpg/150px-Cappy_Cappon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Cappy_Cappon.jpg/200px-Cappy_Cappon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="877" data-file-height="835"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Cappon" title="Franklin Cappon">"Cappy" Cappon</a> (pictured), known for his "five-man weave" <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> offense, was mentor to <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a> athletes from the 1930s to the 1960s, including <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bill Bradley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Deford" title="Frank Deford">Frank Deford</a>?</li> <li>... that so far there have been more than 20 <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_arsons_in_Coatesville,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="2008–2009 arsons in Coatesville, Pennsylvania">arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area</a> since January 1, 2009, and 15 reported arsons there in 2008?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Histria_Perla" title="Histria Perla">Histria Perla</a> was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service classification from the <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> company <a href="/wiki/Germanischer_Lloyd" title="Germanischer Lloyd">Germanischer Lloyd</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Clussexx_Three_D_Grinchy_Glee" title="Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee">Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Sussex_Spaniel" title="Sussex Spaniel">Sussex Spaniel</a> also known as "Stump", is the oldest dog to win <a href="/wiki/Best_in_Show" class="mw-disambig" title="Best in Show">Best in Show</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Dog_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="Westminster Dog Show">Westminster Dog Show</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Red_Bull_RB5" title="Red Bull RB5">Red Bull RB5</a> is among the first generation of <a href="/wiki/Formula_One_car" title="Formula One car">Formula One cars</a> to feature a <a href="/wiki/Regenerative_brake#Kinetic_Energy_Recovery_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Regenerative brake">Kinetic Energy Recovery System</a>, which traps energy expelled while braking for later use?</li> <li>... that French botanist <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Labillardi%C3%A8re" title="Jacques Labillardière">Jacques Labillardière</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Novae_Hollandiae_plantarum_specimen" class="mw-redirect" title="Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen">Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen</a>, published in 1804–1806, was the first major scientific study of Australia flora?</li> <li>... that under <a href="/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman" title="Pigford v. Glickman">Pigford v. Glickman</a>, the United States government paid nearly US$1 billion to <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> farmers to compensate for 1980s and 1990s <a href="/wiki/Racial_discrimination" title="Racial discrimination">racial discrimination</a>?</li> <li>... that 2009 <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan_Athletic_Hall_of_Honor" title="University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor">Michigan Hall of Honor</a> inductee <a href="/wiki/Mindy_Gehrs" title="Mindy Gehrs">Mindy Gehrs</a> was called "the best swimmer to ever part the waters of the Atomic City"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Universe_of_Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender#Fire_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender">Fire Nation</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Universe_of_Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender" class="mw-redirect" title="Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender">Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender</a>, was inspired by photos of <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_island" title="Volcanic island">volcanic islands</a> of <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A World Series of Poker bracelet"><img alt="A World Series of Poker bracelet" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg/100px-2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg/150px-2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg/200px-2005_WSOP_gold_bracelet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="311"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that a <a href="/wiki/London_Clubs_International" class="mw-redirect" title="London Clubs International">London Clubs International</a> casino hosted the <a href="/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker_Europe" title="World Series of Poker Europe">World Series of Poker Europe</a> event in which <a href="/wiki/Annette_Obrestad" title="Annette Obrestad">Annette Obrestad</a> became the youngest person to win a <a href="/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker_bracelet" title="World Series of Poker bracelet">WSOP bracelet</a> (pictured)?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Welcome_to_Macintosh_(film)" title="Welcome to Macintosh (film)">Welcome to Macintosh</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary</a> focusing on <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Macintosh">Macintosh</a> line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder <a href="/wiki/Steve_Wozniak" title="Steve Wozniak">Steve Wozniak</a> for being the most accurate film about the company?</li> <li>... that in 1993, an officer in <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Diplomatic_Protection_Squad" class="mw-redirect" title="Diplomatic Protection Squad">Diplomatic Protection Squad</a> accidentally discharged a <a href="/wiki/Pistol" title="Pistol">pistol</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Very_Important_Person" class="mw-redirect" title="Very Important Person">VIP</a> aircraft while in flight?</li> <li>... that the first <a href="/wiki/Offshore_oil_and_gas_in_the_United_States" title="Offshore oil and gas in the United States">discovery of oil</a> off the <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> coast came in 1941?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_McAloney" title="William McAloney">William McAloney</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Medal_(lifesaving)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Medal (lifesaving)">Albert Medal</a> for his attempted rescue of a pilot trapped in a burning aircraft?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Craig_Stevens_(actor)" title="Craig Stevens (actor)">Craig Stevens</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Broadcasting System">CBS</a> <a href="/wiki/Television_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Television series">series</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mr._Broadway" class="mw-disambig" title="Mr. Broadway">Mr. Broadway</a>, featured <a href="/wiki/Liza_Minnelli" title="Liza Minnelli">Liza Minnelli</a> in her first <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">dramatic</a> role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Alan_Muir_Wood" title="Alan Muir Wood">Sir Alan Muir Wood</a> worked on the 80 km (50 mi) <a href="/wiki/Orange%E2%80%93Fish_River_Tunnel" title="Orange–Fish River Tunnel">Orange–Fish River Tunnel</a>, the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world?</li> <li>... that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> used the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Road" title="Michigan Road">Michigan Road</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1945, <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">footballer</a> <a href="/wiki/Doug_McGibbon" title="Doug McGibbon">Doug McGibbon</a> scored six goals in one match, one of which was timed at under five seconds from the second half kick-off?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-18_February_2009-Did_you_know...">18 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 18 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:His_Majesty%27s_Theatre,_Perth.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="His Majesty's Theatre in Perth"><img alt="His Majesty's Theatre in Perth" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg/100px-His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg/150px-His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg/200px-His_Majesty%27s_Theatre%2C_Perth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/His_Majesty%27s_Theatre,_Perth" title="His Majesty's Theatre, Perth">His Majesty's Theatre</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Perth, Western Australia">Perth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>, is thought to be Australia's only remaining working <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwardian period">Edwardian</a> <a href="/wiki/Theatre_(structure)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre (structure)">theatre</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Broadcasting" title="Broadcasting">broadcaster</a> <a href="/wiki/Dean_Miller_(broadcaster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dean Miller (broadcaster)">Dean Miller</a>, who played the son-in-law on <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Broadcasting System">CBS</a>'s <a href="/wiki/December_Bride" title="December Bride">December Bride</a>, later bought what became <a href="/wiki/WMVR-FM" title="WMVR-FM">WMVR-FM</a> <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> in his native <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>?</li> <li>... that communities of the <a href="/wiki/Dagaaba_people" title="Dagaaba people">Dagaaba people</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a> in the 1990s still used <a href="/wiki/Cowrie_shells" class="mw-redirect" title="Cowrie shells">cowrie shells</a> as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the <a href="/wiki/Ghanaian_cedi" title="Ghanaian cedi">Ghanaian cedi</a>?</li> <li>... that on January 22 <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> issued an <a href="/wiki/Executive_order_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive order (United States)">executive order</a> requiring interrogations by any U.S. agency to comply with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a>'s <a href="/wiki/FM_2-22.3_Human_Intelligence_Collector_Operations" title="FM 2-22.3 Human Intelligence Collector Operations">Human Intelligence Collector Operations</a> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Field_Manuals" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Field Manuals">field manual</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Callimachi" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexandru Callimachi">Alexandru Callimachi</a> was <a href="/wiki/Dragoman" title="Dragoman">Dragoman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sublime_Porte" title="Sublime Porte">Sublime Porte</a> before becoming <a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Moldavia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of rulers of Moldavia">Prince of Moldavia</a> in 1795?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rascal_Flatts" title="Rascal Flatts">Rascal Flatts</a>' 2009 single "<a href="/wiki/Here_Comes_Goodbye" title="Here Comes Goodbye">Here Comes Goodbye</a>" was co-written by <a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a> season 6 finalist <a href="/wiki/Chris_Sligh" title="Chris Sligh">Chris Sligh</a>?</li> <li>... that unlike the queens of other <a href="/wiki/Eusociality" title="Eusociality">eusocial</a> species, a queen of the <a href="/wiki/Paper_wasp" title="Paper wasp">paper wasp</a> <a href="/wiki/Ropalidia_marginata" title="Ropalidia marginata">Ropalidia marginata</a> is docile and maintains her reproductive monopoly in her colony without physical aggression?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/Fashion_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Fashion model">fashion model</a> <a href="/wiki/Gail_O%27Neill" title="Gail O'Neill">Gail O'Neill</a> refused to appear in advertisements for <a href="/wiki/Cigarette" title="Cigarette">cigarettes</a> or for sponsors with substantial investments in <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Izmir Clock Tower"><img alt="Izmir Clock Tower" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg/67px-Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="67" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg/100px-Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg/133px-Izmir_Clock_Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2334" data-file-height="3500"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Levantine" class="mw-disambig" title="Levantine">Levantine</a> architect of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> descent <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Charles_P%C3%A8re" class="mw-redirect" title="Raymond Charles Père">Raymond Charles Père</a>, who designed the landmark <a href="/wiki/Izmir_Clock_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Izmir Clock Tower">Izmir Clock Tower</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, was a native of <a href="/wiki/Izmir" class="mw-redirect" title="Izmir">Izmir</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Dayton_Triangles" title="Dayton Triangles">Dayton Triangles</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Traveling_team" title="Traveling team">traveling team</a>, folded after their <a href="/wiki/1929_Dayton_Triangles_season" title="1929 Dayton Triangles season">1929 season</a>, losing their final seventeen games as a <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> franchise by a combined score of 301–22?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton_March" title="Frederick Hamilton March">Frederick Hamilton March</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Empire_Gallantry_Medal" title="Empire Gallantry Medal">Empire Gallantry Medal</a> for his conduct during the assassination of the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor-General">Governor-General</a> of <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan" title="Anglo-Egyptian Sudan">Sudan</a>, Sir <a href="/wiki/Lee_Stack" title="Lee Stack">Lee Stack</a>?</li> <li>... that detection of fungal infection by the <a href="/wiki/Wood-decay_fungus" title="Wood-decay fungus">wood-decay fungus</a> <a href="/wiki/Fuscoporia_torulosa" title="Fuscoporia torulosa">Fuscoporia torulosa</a> can be performed in six hours using the <a href="/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction" title="Polymerase chain reaction">polymerase chain reaction</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dini" title="Joe Dini">Joe Dini</a>, the owner of <a href="/wiki/Dini%27s_Lucky_Club" title="Dini's Lucky Club">Dini's Lucky Club</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Casino" title="Casino">casino</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yerington,_Nevada" title="Yerington, Nevada">Yerington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, was the longest serving member of the <a href="/wiki/Nevada_Assembly" title="Nevada Assembly">Nevada State Assembly</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Apartment_Building_63" title="Apartment Building 63">Apartment Building 63</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a> is the largest single <a href="/wiki/Residential_area" title="Residential area">residential building</a> in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Luke_Smith_(writer)" title="Luke Smith (writer)">Luke Smith</a> left <a href="/wiki/Video_game_journalism" title="Video game journalism">video game journalism</a> to work for <a href="/wiki/Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">game developer</a> <a href="/wiki/Bungie" title="Bungie">Bungie</a>, after he had called their game <a href="/wiki/Halo_2" title="Halo 2">Halo 2</a> "broken"?</li> <li>... that, unusually for an eighteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a>, the heroine of <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Turner Smith">Charlotte Turner Smith</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Emmeline" title="Emmeline">Emmeline</a> does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sodolak's chicken fried bacon"><img alt="Sodolak's chicken fried bacon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg/100px-Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg/150px-Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg/200px-Chicken_Fried_Bacon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the recipe for <a href="/wiki/Chicken_fried_bacon" title="Chicken fried bacon">chicken fried bacon</a> (pictured) was developed in the small town of <a href="/wiki/Snook,_Texas" title="Snook, Texas">Snook, Texas</a>, at Sodolak's Original Country Inn?</li> <li>... that English <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Keble" title="Joseph Keble">Joseph Keble</a> went to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_(England)" title="Court of King's Bench (England)">Court of King's Bench</a> every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a <a href="/wiki/Brief_(law)" title="Brief (law)">brief</a> for a client?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kramer_(baseball)" title="Jack Kramer (baseball)">Jack Kramer</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">St. Louis Browns'</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_St._Louis_Browns_Opening_Day_starting_pitchers" title="List of St. Louis Browns Opening Day starting pitchers">Opening Day starting pitcher</a> in 1944, the only season the Browns played in the <a href="/wiki/1944_World_Series" title="1944 World Series">World Series</a>?</li> <li>... that the new <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Somalia">Prime Minister</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omar_Abdirashid_Ali_Sharmarke" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke">Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke</a>, has <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> citizenship and his family is based in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>?</li> <li>... that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel at <a href="/wiki/Parc_naturel_r%C3%A9gional_d%27Armorique" title="Parc naturel régional d'Armorique">Parc naturel régional d'Armorique</a> is the highest point in <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>?</li> <li>... that musician and <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_(U.S.A.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)">Presbyterian</a> minister <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Jones,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Isaiah Jones, Jr.">Isaiah Jones, Jr.</a> was named "best songwriter of the year" in 1973 by the Gospel Music Academy?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Permanent_University_Fund" title="Permanent University Fund">Permanent University Fund</a>'s US$8.8 billion and 2.1 million-acre (840,000 ha) land assets help fund public <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Texas#Colleges_and_universities" title="Education in Texas">higher education in Texas</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rolling_meth_lab" title="Rolling meth lab">rolling meth labs</a> used for the illegal production of <a href="/wiki/Methamphetamine" title="Methamphetamine">methamphetamine</a> have been known to <a href="/wiki/Explode" class="mw-redirect" title="Explode">explode</a>, endangering motorists and <a href="/wiki/Police_officer" title="Police officer">police officers</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-17_February_2009-Did_you_know...">17 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 17 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>19:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="64 pounder gun firing at Fort Glanville"><img alt="64 pounder gun firing at Fort Glanville" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg/100px-64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg/150px-64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg/200px-64_pounder_gun_firing_-_fort_glanville.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3065" data-file-height="2392"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Glanville_Conservation_Park" title="Fort Glanville Conservation Park">Fort Glanville Conservation Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Semaphore_South,_South_Australia" title="Semaphore South, South Australia">Semaphore South, South Australia</a>, there are regular firings of 19th-century <a href="/wiki/RML_64_pounder_64_cwt_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun">RML 64 pounder 64 cwt guns</a> (pictured)?</li> <li>... that refugee <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a> <a href="/wiki/Emil_Grosswald" title="Emil Grosswald">Emil Grosswald</a>'s first three <a href="/wiki/Scientific_papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific papers">scientific papers</a> were published under a <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Rice_Northwest_Museum_of_Rocks_and_Minerals" title="Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals">Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon" title="Hillsboro, Oregon">Hillsboro, Oregon</a>, is the biggest of its kind in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" title="Pacific Northwest">Pacific Northwest</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> general <a href="/wiki/Li_Qi_(Tang_Dynasty)" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Qi (Tang Dynasty)">Li Qi</a> paid his best <a href="/wiki/Archer" class="mw-redirect" title="Archer">archers</a> and soldiers of <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kumo_Xi" title="Kumo Xi">Xi</a> ancestry ten times as much as other soldiers, to garner their loyalty?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_Close" title="William Close">William Close</a>, the physician father of actress <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn Close</a>, played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Ebola" title="Ebola">Ebola</a> virus in <a href="/wiki/Zaire" title="Zaire">Zaire</a> in 1976?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>'s Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Hun_Sen" title="Hun Sen">Hun Sen</a> was born in a small village on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Mekong" title="Mekong">Mekong</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stueng_Trang_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Stueng Trang District">Stueng Trang District</a>?</li> <li>... that after scoring six touchdowns for <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">Michigan</a> against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football" title="Ohio State Buckeyes football">Ohio State</a> in 1902, <a href="/wiki/Albert_E._Herrnstein" title="Albert E. Herrnstein">Albert Herrnstein</a> became the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Winningest" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Winningest">winningest</a> coach in Ohio State football history up to the time he retired?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Acqua_pazza_(food)" title="Acqua pazza (food)">acqua pazza</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> herbed <a href="/wiki/Broth" title="Broth">broth</a> used to cook <a href="/wiki/Seafood" title="Seafood">seafood</a>, is literally translated as "crazy water"?</li></ul> <ul><li>13:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=AlanScottCrop.jpg" class="new" title="File:AlanScottCrop.jpg">Alan Scott (blacksmith)</a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Alan_Scott_(blacksmith)" title="Alan Scott (blacksmith)">Alan Scott</a> (pictured) was a <a href="/wiki/Blacksmith" title="Blacksmith">blacksmith</a> who designed and built <a href="/wiki/Brick_oven" class="mw-redirect" title="Brick oven">brick ovens</a> and promoted <a href="/wiki/Artisan" title="Artisan">artisanal</a> bread-making techniques and stone <a href="/wiki/Mill_(grinding)" title="Mill (grinding)">flour milling</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Callington_Mill" title="Callington Mill">Callington Mill</a>?</li> <li>... that upon entering the <a href="/wiki/Stadio_Olympica" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Stadio Olympica">Stadio Olympica</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games_ceremony" title="Olympic Games ceremony">opening ceremonies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1956_Winter_Olympics" title="1956 Winter Olympics">1956 Winter Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo" title="Cortina d'Ampezzo">Cortina d'Ampezzo</a>, the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_flame" title="Olympic flame">Olympic flame</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Omlie" title="Phoebe Omlie">Phoebe Omlie</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_United_States" title="Pilot certification in the United States">licensed</a> female <a href="/wiki/Airline_Transport_Pilot_License" class="mw-redirect" title="Airline Transport Pilot License">transport pilot</a>, was considered by <a href="/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States" title="First Lady of the United States">First Lady</a> <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"?</li> <li>... that while most <a href="/wiki/Vegetarianism_and_beer" title="Vegetarianism and beer">beers are vegetarian</a>, some—like British <a href="/wiki/Cask_ale" class="mw-redirect" title="Cask ale">cask ales</a> which use <a href="/wiki/Isinglass" title="Isinglass">fish parts</a> to clear the finished product—are not?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Monroe_Sweetland" title="Monroe Sweetland">Monroe Sweetland</a> was the first Democrat elected to represent <a href="/wiki/Clackamas_County,_Oregon" title="Clackamas County, Oregon">Clackamas County, Oregon</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Oregon_House_of_Representatives" title="Oregon House of Representatives">Oregon House of Representatives</a> in 20 years?</li> <li>... that in 114 years of existence the <a href="/wiki/Constan%C5%A3a_Shipyard" class="mw-redirect" title="Constanţa Shipyard">Constanţa Shipyard</a> in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> constructed 432 ships with a total of over four million metric tons <a href="/wiki/Deadweight_tonnage" title="Deadweight tonnage">deadweight</a> (DWT)?</li> <li>... that in January 2009, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Pollock" title="Mark Pollock">Mark Pollock</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/Blindness" class="mw-redirect" title="Blindness">blind</a> person to reach the <a href="/wiki/South_Pole" title="South Pole">South Pole</a>?</li> <li>... that applying <a href="/wiki/Potassium_hydroxide" title="Potassium hydroxide">potassium hydroxide</a> to the blue and yellow <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> mushroom <a href="/wiki/Cortinarius_rotundisporus" title="Cortinarius rotundisporus">Cortinarius rotundisporus</a> will turn it pinkish-purple?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Loutherbourg,_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1795."><img alt="Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1795." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg/100px-Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg/150px-Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg/200px-Loutherbourg%2C_The_Glorious_First_of_June.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="497"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Knowles,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet">Sir Charles Knowles</a> claimed that the theories on <a href="/wiki/Naval_tactics_in_the_age_of_sail" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval tactics in the age of sail">naval tactics</a> expressed in his 1777 book were reflected in <a href="/wiki/Richard_Howe,_1st_Earl_Howe" title="Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe">Lord Howe's</a> <a href="/wiki/Glorious_First_of_June" title="Glorious First of June">victory in 1794</a> (pictured)?</li> <li>... that most buildings damaged in the <a href="/wiki/1848_Marlborough_earthquake" title="1848 Marlborough earthquake">1848 Marlborough earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington, New Zealand">Wellington, New Zealand</a> were rebuilt with wood, reducing the damage and loss of life in the more powerful <a href="/wiki/1855_Wairarapa_earthquake" title="1855 Wairarapa earthquake">Wairarapa earthquake</a> of 1855?</li> <li>... that in 1920, <a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ameln" title="Henrik Ameln">Henrik Ameln</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party of Norway">Conservative Party</a> politician to serve as <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Bergen" title="List of mayors of Bergen">mayor of Bergen</a> since <a href="/wiki/Christian_Michelsen" title="Christian Michelsen">Christian Michelsen</a> in 1893?</li> <li>... that despite the fact that self-described <a href="/wiki/Alligator_farm" class="mw-redirect" title="Alligator farm">alligator farms</a> have existed since the 1890s, true commercial farming of <a href="/wiki/Crocodilians" class="mw-redirect" title="Crocodilians">crocodilians</a> did not begin until the mid-20th century?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Princess_Taihe" title="Princess Taihe">Princess Taihe</a>, who became the Kedun (empress) of its ally <a href="/wiki/Huigu" class="mw-redirect" title="Huigu">Huigu</a>, suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> newspaper <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Staats-Zeitung" title="Illinois Staats-Zeitung">Illinois Staats-Zeitung</a>, published in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, played an important role in building the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> in <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> in the 1850s?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Atherton" title="Bobby Atherton">Bobby Atherton</a> was the last <a href="/wiki/Hibernian_F.C." title="Hibernian F.C.">Hibernian</a> captain to win the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Cup" title="Scottish Cup">Scottish Cup</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Cup_1901%E2%80%9302" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Cup 1901–02">1902</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Timetoget" title="Timetoget">Timetoget</a> bought <a href="/wiki/Diesel_multiple_unit" title="Diesel multiple unit">diesel trains</a> to operate on the <a href="/wiki/Bratsberg_Line" title="Bratsberg Line">Bratsberg Line</a>, despite it being <a href="/wiki/Railway_electrification_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway electrification system">electrified</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Comet steamboat"><img alt="Comet steamboat" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg/100px-SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg/150px-SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg/200px-SS_Comet_under_sail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="518" data-file-height="450"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Comet_(steamboat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Comet (steamboat)">Comet</a> (pictured), which <a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1875" title="List of shipwrecks in 1875">sank in 1875</a>, was described by the <a href="/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie_Evening_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Sault Ste. Marie Evening News">Evening News</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie,_Michigan" title="Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan">Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan</a>, in 1980 as the "only known treasure ship on the bottom of" <a href="/wiki/Lake_Superior" title="Lake Superior">Lake Superior</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Poles" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Poles">Polish</a> historian, army officer, and independence activist <a href="/wiki/Wac%C5%82aw_Lipi%C5%84ski" title="Wacław Lipiński">Wacław Lipiński</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Cursed_soldiers" title="Cursed soldiers">anti-communist resistance</a>, was arrested by <a href="/wiki/Urz%C4%85d_Bezpiecze%C5%84stwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Urząd Bezpieczeństwa">communist secret police</a> in 1947 and died in prison two years later?</li> <li>... that an outburst by <a href="/wiki/Christian_Bale" title="Christian Bale">Christian Bale</a> on the set of <a href="/wiki/Terminator_Salvation" title="Terminator Salvation">Terminator Salvation</a> inspired the band <a href="/wiki/The_Mae_Shi" title="The Mae Shi">The Mae Shi</a> to write the song "<a href="/wiki/R_U_Professional" title="R U Professional">R U Professional</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/800_metres" title="800 metres">800 metres</a> runner <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hart_(athlete)" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Hart (athlete)">Andrew Hart</a> was the fastest non-<a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> in his event at the <a href="/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1998_Commonwealth_Games" title="Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games">1998 Commonwealth Games</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sanggung" title="Sanggung">Sanggung</a> was an official title of the senior fifth rank, the highest attainable for <a href="/wiki/Gungnyeo" title="Gungnyeo">gungnyeo</a>, a lady-in-waiting during the <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>?</li> <li>... that following his rescue of a swimmer during a <a href="/wiki/Shark_attack" title="Shark attack">shark attack</a> in 1922, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Chalmers" title="Jack Chalmers">Jack Chalmers</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Medal_(lifesaving)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Medal (lifesaving)">Albert Medal</a> and gifted £3000?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Hannigan_discography" title="Lisa Hannigan discography">discography</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Hannigan" title="Lisa Hannigan">Lisa Hannigan</a> includes collaborations with <a href="/wiki/Mic_Christopher" title="Mic Christopher">Mic Christopher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mick_Flannery" title="Mick Flannery">Mick Flannery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Davey" title="Cathy Davey">Cathy Davey</a> and members of <a href="/wiki/Snow_Patrol" title="Snow Patrol">Snow Patrol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bell_X1_(band)" title="Bell X1 (band)">Bell X1</a>, plus her well-known work with <a href="/wiki/Damien_Rice" title="Damien Rice">Damien Rice</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rinku_Singh" class="mw-disambig" title="Rinku Singh">Rinku Singh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Patel" title="Dinesh Patel">Dinesh Patel</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indians</a> to sign <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> contracts after throwing a <a href="/wiki/Baseball_(ball)" title="Baseball (ball)">baseball</a> for the first time a year earlier?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="16_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-16_February_2009-Did_you_know...">16 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 16 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>16:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ann Thornton"><img alt="Ann Thornton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg/62px-%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg" decoding="async" width="62" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg/93px-%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg/124px-%2BAnn_Thornton_Going_Aloft.jpg 2x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="400"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tall_ship" title="Tall ship">seafaring</a> adventures of <a href="/wiki/Anne_Jane_Thornton" title="Anne Jane Thornton">Anne Jane Thornton</a> (pictured) inspired the <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballad</a> The Female Sailor Bold?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Norway" title="Extreme points of Norway">extreme points of Norway</a> include <a href="/wiki/Ross%C3%B8ya" title="Rossøya">Rossøya</a>, at 80° North, and arguably the <a href="/wiki/South_Pole" title="South Pole">South Pole</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Allama_Prabhu" title="Allama Prabhu">Allama Prabhu</a>, the mystic-saint of 12th century <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, was also an accomplished <a href="/wiki/Vachana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vachana">Vachana</a> poet?</li> <li>... that in 2008 a <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Black_Lightning" title="Vincent Black Lightning">Vincent Black Lightning</a> sold for £221,500 becoming the most expensive <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle" title="Motorcycle">motorcycle</a> sold at auction in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>?</li> <li>... that former newspaper editor <a href="/wiki/John_W._Grace" title="John W. Grace">John W. Grace</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/Privacy_Commissioner_of_Canada" title="Privacy Commissioner of Canada">Privacy Commissioner of Canada</a> in 1983?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Grassroots_(organization)" title="Grassroots (organization)">Grassroots</a>, an organization formed by <a href="/wiki/Neighborhood_association" title="Neighborhood association">block club</a> leaders, has had members elected to the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Common_Council" title="Buffalo Common Council">Buffalo Common Council</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">New York State Assembly</a>?</li> <li>... that while <a href="/wiki/Long_jump" title="Long jump">long jumper</a> <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Szalma" title="László Szalma">László Szalma</a> won six medals in total at the <a href="/wiki/European_Indoor_Championships_in_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="European Indoor Championships in Athletics">European Indoor Championships</a>, his best result at both the <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Summer Olympics">Summer Olympics</a> and the <a href="/wiki/IAAF_World_Championships_in_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="IAAF World Championships in Athletics">World Championships</a> was fourth place?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mule_Bone" title="Mule Bone">Mule Bone</a>, a play by <a href="/wiki/Langston_Hughes" title="Langston Hughes">Langston Hughes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" title="Zora Neale Hurston">Zora Neale Hurston</a>, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?</li></ul> <ul><li>11:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Greatauk-london.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Great Auk"><img alt="Great Auk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Greatauk-london.jpg/62px-Greatauk-london.jpg" decoding="async" width="62" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Greatauk-london.jpg/93px-Greatauk-london.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Greatauk-london.jpg/124px-Greatauk-london.jpg 2x" data-file-width="244" data-file-height="393"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that on <a href="/wiki/Stac_an_Armin" title="Stac an Armin">Stac an Armin</a>, the highest <a href="/wiki/Stack_(geology)" title="Stack (geology)">stack</a> in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, the last <a href="/wiki/Great_auk" title="Great auk">great auk</a> (example pictured) in the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> was clubbed to death in 1840 because it was thought to be a <a href="/wiki/Witch" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch">witch</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Eslanda_Goode_Robeson" title="Eslanda Goode Robeson">Eslanda Goode Robeson</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a>, was the first black to head the Surgical Pathology Department at <a href="/wiki/New_York-Presbyterian_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="New York-Presbyterian Hospital">New York-Presbyterian Hospital</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Surtshellir" title="Surtshellir">Surtshellir</a>, named for the <a href="/wiki/Fire_giant" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire giant">fire giant</a> <a href="/wiki/Surtr" title="Surtr">Surtr</a>, is the longest <a href="/wiki/Lava_cave" title="Lava cave">lava cave</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Isaac_D._Barnard" title="Isaac D. Barnard">Isaac D. Barnard</a> fought at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Plattsburg">Battle of Plattsburg</a> in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, and later became <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Pennsylvania" title="Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania">Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Prey_Chhor_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Prey Chhor District">Prey Chhor District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, is home to an ancient temple built more than a thousand years ago?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Wictor_Esbensen" class="mw-redirect" title="Wictor Esbensen">Wictor Esbensen</a>, a manager of the <a href="/wiki/Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa_Argentina_de_Pesca" title="Compañía Argentina de Pesca">Compañía Argentina de Pesca</a>, is the namesake of <a href="/wiki/Esbensen_Bay" title="Esbensen Bay">Esbensen Bay</a> off <a href="/wiki/South_Georgia" title="South Georgia">South Georgia</a> island?</li> <li>... that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office estimates that 80% of <a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_Palau" title="Filipinos in Palau">Filipinos in Palau</a> are <a href="/wiki/Undocumented_immigrant" class="mw-redirect" title="Undocumented immigrant">undocumented immigrants</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mira_Rostova" title="Mira Rostova">Mira Rostova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_Clift" title="Montgomery Clift">Montgomery Clift</a>'s acting coach, was sent off the set of the 1960 film <a href="/wiki/Wild_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Wild River">Wild River</a> by director <a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> after a single day of filming?</li></ul> <ul><li>04:48, 16 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Khan As'ad Pasha, Damascus"><img alt="Khan As'ad Pasha, Damascus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg/100px-Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg/150px-Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg/200px-Khan_As%27ad_Pacha_Al-%27Azem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="853"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Khan_As%27ad_Pasha" title="Khan As'ad Pasha">Khan As'ad Pasha</a> (pictured), built by <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a> governor As'ad Pasha al-Azem, is the largest <a href="/wiki/Caravansary" class="mw-redirect" title="Caravansary">khan</a> in the city?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> star <a href="/wiki/Albie_Booth" title="Albie Booth">Albie Booth</a> became famous after he scored all of <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale</a>’s points in a 1929 upset win over <a href="/wiki/Army_Black_Knights_football" title="Army Black Knights football">Army</a>?</li> <li>... that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in <a href="/wiki/Srey_Santhor_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Srey Santhor District">Srey Santhor District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> <a href="/wiki/Art_director" title="Art director">art director</a> <a href="/wiki/Jeannine_Oppewall" title="Jeannine Oppewall">Jeannine Oppewall</a> was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers <a href="/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames" title="Charles and Ray Eames">Charles and Ray Eames</a>, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?</li> <li>... that early favorites in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Kentucky_Derby" title="2009 Kentucky Derby">2009 Kentucky Derby</a> include the <a href="/wiki/Filly" title="Filly">filly</a> <a href="/wiki/Stardom_Bound" title="Stardom Bound">Stardom Bound</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hans_Kristian_Seip" title="Hans Kristian Seip">Hans Kristian Seip</a>, the father of <a href="/wiki/Jens_Arup_Seip" title="Jens Arup Seip">Jens Arup Seip</a>, also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Norway_by_Nazi_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany">Nazi occupants in Norway</a> in 1941?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/WNCV" title="WNCV">a radio station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Evergreen,_Alabama" class="mw-disambig" title="Evergreen, Alabama">Evergreen, Alabama</a>, made national headlines in 1992 when the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama Supreme Court">Supreme Court of Alabama</a> ruled that state law allowed a <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockey</a> to be fired just because she is a <a href="/wiki/Woman" title="Woman">woman</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Charles_White_(physician)" title="Charles White (physician)">Dr Charles White</a>, co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Royal_Infirmary" title="Manchester Royal Infirmary">Manchester Royal Infirmary</a>, kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="15_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-15_February_2009-Did_you_know...">15 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 15 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>22:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:CharlotteSmith.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Charlotte Turner Smith"><img alt="Charlotte Turner Smith" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/CharlotteSmith.jpg/100px-CharlotteSmith.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/CharlotteSmith.jpg/150px-CharlotteSmith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/CharlotteSmith.jpg/200px-CharlotteSmith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1763" data-file-height="1178"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that novelist <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Turner Smith">Charlotte Turner Smith</a> (pictured) condemned her father for forcing her to marry and turning her into a "legal prostitute"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Zaytuna_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaytuna Mosque">Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna</a>, the oldest <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tunis" title="Tunis">Tunis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>, was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of <a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthage</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Regenvanu" title="Ralph Regenvanu">Ralph Regenvanu</a> has been described as <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a>'s first <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologist</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Hashomer_Hatzair_Workers_Party_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine">Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party</a> was the sole <a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionist</a> party in <a href="/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine" class="mw-disambig" title="British Mandate of Palestine">Mandate Palestine</a> to advocate national rights for <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian Arabs</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year <a href="/wiki/Steve_Addington" title="Steve Addington">Steve Addington</a> as the "complementary ice to driver <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Busch" title="Kyle Busch">Kyle Busch</a>'s fire"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Special_Boarding_Unit" title="Special Boarding Unit">Special Boarding Unit</a> was created by the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force" title="Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force">Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces</a> in response to the alleged presence of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brumley" title="Tom Brumley">Tom Brumley</a>'s performance on "<a href="/wiki/Together_Again_(Buck_Owens_song)" title="Together Again (Buck Owens song)">Together Again</a>" for <a href="/wiki/Buck_Owens" title="Buck Owens">Buck Owens</a> was called "one of the finest <a href="/wiki/Steel_guitar" title="Steel guitar">steel guitar</a> solos in the history of <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a>"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Maasai" class="mw-disambig" title="Maasai">Maasai</a> common name for the plant <a href="/wiki/Salvia_merjamie" title="Salvia merjamie">Salvia merjamie</a> is Naingungundeu, which means "smells of rats"?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Chewton_mendip_church.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Church of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip"><img alt="Church of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Chewton_mendip_church.jpg/100px-Chewton_mendip_church.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Chewton_mendip_church.jpg/150px-Chewton_mendip_church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Chewton_mendip_church.jpg/200px-Chewton_mendip_church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2576" data-file-height="1952"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that near the altar of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalene,_Chewton_Mendip" title="Church of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip">Church of St Mary Magdalene</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Chewton_Mendip" title="Chewton Mendip">Chewton Mendip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, there is a stone seat for criminals taking <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum#Medieval_right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">sanctuary in the church</a>?</li> <li>... that although <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Hammer_throw" title="Hammer throw">hammer thrower</a> <a href="/wiki/Bal%C3%A1zs_Kiss" class="mw-disambig" title="Balázs Kiss">Balázs Kiss</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Olympic</a> <a href="/wiki/Gold_medal" title="Gold medal">gold medal</a>, his best result at the <a href="/wiki/IAAF_World_Championships_in_Athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="IAAF World Championships in Athletics">World Championships</a> was two fourth places?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> quarries near <a href="/wiki/Ein_Yabrud" title="Ein Yabrud">Ein Yabrud</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Judean_Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Judean Mountains">Judean Mountains</a> have produced the only fossils for the extinct <a href="/wiki/Snakes" class="mw-redirect" title="Snakes">snakes</a> <a href="/wiki/Pachyrhachis" title="Pachyrhachis">Pachyrhachis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haasiophis" title="Haasiophis">Haasiophis</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Environmentalist" title="Environmentalist">environmentalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Hayes" title="Ron Hayes">Ron Hayes</a> worked to establish the first <a href="/wiki/Earth_Day" title="Earth Day">Earth Day</a> in 1970 and to preserve the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park" title="Grand Canyon National Park">Grand Canyon National Park</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ponhea_Kraek_District" title="Ponhea Kraek District">Ponhea Kraek District</a> was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>’s oldest man?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joan_Baez" title="Joan Baez">Joan Baez</a> had a #8 <a href="/wiki/Hit_single" class="mw-redirect" title="Hit single">hit single</a> with "<a href="/wiki/There_but_for_Fortune_(song)" title="There but for Fortune (song)">There but for Fortune</a>" the same week her album <a href="/wiki/Joan_Baez_in_Concert,_Part_2" title="Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2">Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2</a> reached #8?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> <a href="/wiki/Coach_(ice_hockey)" title="Coach (ice hockey)">coach</a> <a href="/wiki/Janne_Karlsson" class="mw-disambig" title="Janne Karlsson">Janne Karlsson</a> has won two <a href="/wiki/Swedish_ice_hockey_champions" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish ice hockey champions">Swedish Championships</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Ice_Hockey_World_Championships" title="Ice Hockey World Championships">World Championship</a>, and one <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_Olympic_Games" title="Ice hockey at the Olympic Games">Olympic</a> gold medal?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Peterson-Dumesnil_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Peterson-Dumesnil House">Peterson-Dumesnil House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?</li></ul> <ul><li>08:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sporting school of England"><img alt="Sporting school of England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg/100px-Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg/150px-Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg/200px-Horse_with_Groom_and_Hounds.jpg 2x" data-file-width="598" data-file-height="480"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flemish</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tillemans" title="Peter Tillemans">Peter Tillemans</a> was one of the founders of the <a href="/wiki/Hunting_and_shooting_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom">sporting</a> school of painting (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>?</li> <li>... that merchants from <a href="/wiki/History_of_India" title="History of India">ancient India</a> brought <a href="/wiki/Roman_commerce" title="Roman commerce">Roman goods</a> of <a href="/wiki/Styrax" title="Styrax">styrax</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a> to <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Han_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Economy of the Han Dynasty">Han Dynasty</a> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>?</li> <li>... that during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kasper_Idland" title="Kasper Idland">Kasper Idland</a> was one of the four saboteurs who entered the <a href="/wiki/Vemork" title="Vemork">Vemork</a> <a href="/wiki/Heavy_water" title="Heavy water">heavy water</a> facility to conduct <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage" title="Norwegian heavy water sabotage">heavy water sabotage</a>?</li> <li>... that as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Madras">Governor of Madras</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Sinclair,_1st_Baron_Pentland" title="John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland">John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland</a>, had <a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_McFarland_(ice_hockey)" title="John McFarland (ice hockey)">John McFarland</a> was taken first overall in the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Hockey_League" title="Ontario Hockey League">Ontario Hockey League</a> Priority Selection?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Kohansky_Roberts" title="Kerry Kohansky Roberts">Kerry Kohansky Roberts</a> attended <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>'s film school at the same time as <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sollett" title="Peter Sollett">Peter Sollett</a>, but did not meet him until they collaborated on <a href="/wiki/Nick_and_Norah%27s_Infinite_Playlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist">Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Radio_Telef%C3%ADs_%C3%89ireann" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Telefís Éireann">RTÉ</a> television series <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Great Escape (TV series)">The Great Escape</a> follows families as they relocate to countries such as <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bo_Molenda" title="Bo Molenda">Bo Molenda</a> played professional <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> and was the "workhorse" for the <a href="/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers" title="Green Bay Packers">Green Bay Packers</a> teams that won three consecutive <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> championships from 1929 to 1931?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:So-ya.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Japanese icebreaker So-ya"><img alt="Japanese icebreaker So-ya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/So-ya.jpg/100px-So-ya.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/So-ya.jpg/150px-So-ya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/So-ya.jpg/200px-So-ya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="1288"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Icebreaker" title="Icebreaker">icebreaker</a> <a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dya_(icebreaker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sōya (icebreaker)">Sōya</a> (pictured) survived a <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoing</a> by the <a href="/wiki/USS_Greenling_(SS-213)" title="USS Greenling (SS-213)">USS Greenling</a> in 1943 and rescued the <a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Husky" title="Sakhalin Husky">Sakhalin Huskies</a> <a href="/wiki/Nankyoku_Monogatari" class="mw-redirect" title="Nankyoku Monogatari">Taro and Jiro</a> from <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a> in 1958?</li> <li>... that the first reported sighting of the <a href="/wiki/Nidulariaceae" title="Nidulariaceae">bird's nest fungus</a> <a href="/wiki/Cyathus_helenae" title="Cyathus helenae">Cyathus helenae</a> was on mountain <a href="/wiki/Scree" title="Scree">scree</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Rockies" title="Canadian Rockies">Canadian Rockies</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Newman" title="Bonnie Newman">Bonnie Newman</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff">chief of staff</a> to <a href="/wiki/Judd_Gregg" title="Judd Gregg">Judd Gregg</a>, had been named to replace him in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> until Gregg withdrew his nomination for <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce" title="United States Secretary of Commerce">Secretary of Commerce</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jangipara" title="Jangipara">Jangipara</a>, a block in the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="States and territories of India">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, includes a <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> built in 1375?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a> <a href="/wiki/Danny_Elfman" title="Danny Elfman">Danny Elfman</a> was <a href="/wiki/List_of_Danny_Elfman_awards_and_nominations" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Danny Elfman awards and nominations">nominated</a> for an <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Award</a> in 1990 for creating "<a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_Theme" title="The Simpsons Theme">The Simpsons Theme</a>" and in <a href="/wiki/57th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="57th Primetime Emmy Awards">2005</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Desperate_Housewives" title="Desperate Housewives">Desperate Housewives</a> theme?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Walter_of_Albano" title="Walter of Albano">Walter of Albano</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Papal_legate" title="Papal legate">papal legate</a> to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of <a href="/wiki/Pope_Urban_II" title="Pope Urban II">Pope Urban II</a> by King <a href="/wiki/William_II_of_England" title="William II of England">William II of England</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> student group <a href="/wiki/Free_Education_for_Everyone" title="Free Education for Everyone">Free Education for Everyone</a> has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over <a href="/wiki/Tuition" class="mw-disambig" title="Tuition">tuition</a>?</li> <li>... that after their 1951 marital breakup, popular <a href="/wiki/Old_Mother_Riley" title="Old Mother Riley">Old Mother Riley</a> actor <a href="/wiki/Kitty_McShane" title="Kitty McShane">Kitty McShane</a> filmed her last scenes with husband <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lucan" title="Arthur Lucan">Arthur Lucan</a> on separate days?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="14_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-14_February_2009-Did_you_know...">14 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 14 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>18:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Sputnik_asm.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sputnik"><img alt="Sputnik" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sputnik_asm.jpg/100px-Sputnik_asm.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sputnik_asm.jpg/150px-Sputnik_asm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sputnik_asm.jpg/200px-Sputnik_asm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1094" data-file-height="896"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that for the 1957 launch of <a href="/wiki/Sputnik_1" title="Sputnik 1">Sputnik</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Ben_Blank" title="Ben Blank">Ben Blank</a> filmed a <a href="/wiki/Golf_ball" title="Golf ball">golf ball</a> attached to a <a href="/wiki/Clothes_hanger" title="Clothes hanger">clothes hanger</a> rotating around a globe for use by <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> in what has been described as the first <a href="/wiki/Newscast" class="mw-redirect" title="Newscast">newscast</a> graphic?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ou_Reang_Ov_District" title="Ou Reang Ov District">Ou Reang Ov District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, was one of the 2008 sites for <a href="/wiki/Operation_Pacific_Angel" title="Operation Pacific Angel">Operation Pacific Angel</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Humanitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanitarian">humanitarian</a> mission of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a>, and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marines</a>?</li> <li>... that model <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Hart_(model)" title="Jessica Hart (model)">Jessica Hart</a>, who was selected to appear in the 2009 <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated_Swimsuit_Issue" title="Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue">Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue</a>, is known for her <a href="/wiki/Gap_tooth" class="mw-redirect" title="Gap tooth">gap tooth</a> smile?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a> band <a href="/wiki/Echo_%26_the_Bunnymen" title="Echo & the Bunnymen">Echo & the Bunnymen</a>'s eighth <a href="/wiki/Studio_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Studio album">studio album</a>, <a href="/wiki/What_Are_You_Going_to_Do_with_Your_Life%3F" title="What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?">What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?</a>, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Shimun_VIII_Yohannan_Sulaqa" title="Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa">Yohannan Sulaqa</a>, to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>: traveled to <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> and was there consecrated <a href="/wiki/Patriarch" title="Patriarch">patriarch</a> in 1553?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese rock garden">Zen rock garden</a> in the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Zuisen-ji" title="Zuisen-ji">Zuisen-ji</a> temple, near <a href="/wiki/Kamakura,_Kanagawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamakura, Kanagawa">Kamakura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Donald_Luddington" title="Donald Luddington">Sir Donald Luddington</a> was the last person in history to be appointed <a href="/wiki/High_Commissioner_for_the_Western_Pacific" title="High Commissioner for the Western Pacific">High Commissioner for the Western Pacific</a>?</li> <li>... that an <a href="/wiki/Anomalocaridid" class="mw-redirect" title="Anomalocaridid">anomalocaridid</a>, a bizarre <a href="/wiki/Cambrian" title="Cambrian">Cambrian</a> organism, <a href="/wiki/Schinderhannes_bartelsi" title="Schinderhannes bartelsi">has been found</a> 100 million years later, in the <a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">Devonian</a> era?</li></ul> <ul><li>11:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Armenian Postage Stamps by Archak Fetvajian"><img alt="Armenian Postage Stamps by Archak Fetvajian" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg/100px-Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg/150px-Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg/200px-Stamps_Armenia_1919-1921.jpg 2x" data-file-width="747" data-file-height="498"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that in addition to designing <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamps</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> painter <a href="/wiki/Arshak_Fetvadjian" title="Arshak Fetvadjian">Arshak Fetvadjian</a> also painted the monuments of the <a href="/wiki/Bagratuni_Kingdom_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia">medieval Armenian</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Christ_Bongo" title="Christ Bongo">Christ Bongo</a> was one of only three <a href="/wiki/Congo_(Brazzaville)" class="mw-redirect" title="Congo (Brazzaville)">Congolese</a> <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">footballers</a> to score in final qualifying for the <a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CAF)" title="2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)">2002 FIFA World Cup</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Akanthosuchus" title="Akanthosuchus">Akanthosuchus</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Extinct">extinct</a> <a href="/wiki/Crocodilia" title="Crocodilia">crocodilian</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Paleocene" title="Paleocene">Paleocene</a>, is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed <a href="/wiki/Osteoderm" title="Osteoderm">armor</a>?</li> <li>... that after King <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a> ordered the death of <a href="/wiki/Rhys_ap_Rhydderch" title="Rhys ap Rhydderch">Rhys ap Rhydderch</a>, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Vick" title="Ernie Vick">Ernie Vick</a> was an <a href="/wiki/All-America" title="All-America">All-American</a> <a href="/wiki/Center_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Center (American football)">football center</a> while enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to <a href="/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)" title="Practice (learning method)">practice</a> with the team?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> musicians <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Hannigan" title="Lisa Hannigan">Lisa Hannigan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Damien_Rice" title="Damien Rice">Damien Rice</a> dueted on "<a href="/wiki/Unplayed_Piano" title="Unplayed Piano">Unplayed Piano</a>", a <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burmese</a> protest song that <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">charted</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> and was praised by <a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a> as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Li_Ning_(Tang_Dynasty)" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Ning (Tang Dynasty)">Li Ning</a> was made a <a href="/wiki/Crown_prince" title="Crown prince">crown prince</a> of the<a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a>, but his mother, a <a href="/wiki/Consort" class="mw-disambig" title="Consort">consort</a>, had to settle for a much lesser honour?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Cartwright" title="Nancy Cartwright">Nancy Cartwright</a> wrote an <a href="/wiki/Autobiography" title="Autobiography">autobiography</a>, later adapted into a <a href="/wiki/One_person_show" class="mw-redirect" title="One person show">one-woman play</a>, called <a href="/wiki/My_Life_as_a_10-Year-Old_Boy" title="My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy">My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>04:11, 14 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Kentucky Railway Museum Station"><img alt="Kentucky Railway Museum Station" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG/100px-KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG/150px-KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG/200px-KY_Railway_Museum_Station.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Railway_Museum" title="Kentucky Railway Museum">Kentucky Railway Museum</a> (pictured), next door to an <a href="/wiki/New_Sherwood_Hotel" title="New Sherwood Hotel">historic hotel</a>, features the <a href="/wiki/L_%26_N_Steam_Locomotive_No._152" class="mw-redirect" title="L & N Steam Locomotive No. 152">official state locomotive</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Louisville_and_Nashville_Combine_Car_Number_665" title="Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665">"Jim Crow" car</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Mt._Broderick_Pullman_Car" title="Mt. Broderick Pullman Car">four-star hotel on rails</a>, and the only <a href="/wiki/Frankfort_and_Cincinnati_Model_55_Rail_Car" title="Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car">gas-powered motor rail car</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">southeastern United States</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> suspected some <a href="/wiki/Saxifraga" title="Saxifraga">saxifrages</a> to be <a href="/wiki/Protocarnivorous_plant" title="Protocarnivorous plant">protocarnivorous plants</a>?</li> <li>... that when called by the opposition to quit after the <a href="/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting" title="Kauhajoki school shooting">Kauhajoki school shooting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Finland" title="Politics of Finland">Finnish politician</a> <a href="/wiki/Anne_Holmlund" title="Anne Holmlund">Anne Holmlund</a> refused and compared resigning her post as <a href="/wiki/Interior_ministry" title="Interior ministry">Interior Minister</a> to "<a href="/wiki/Desertion" title="Desertion">desertion</a>"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/World_War_Memorial_(Kimball,_West_Virginia)" title="World War Memorial (Kimball, West Virginia)">World War Memorial</a>, built in 1928 in <a href="/wiki/Kimball,_West_Virginia" title="Kimball, West Virginia">Kimball, West Virginia</a>, was the first memorial to <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Americans" title="Military history of African Americans">African-American veterans</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> in the United States?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ionel_Fernic" title="Ionel Fernic">Ionel Fernic</a> made the first <a href="/wiki/Parachute" title="Parachute">parachute jump</a> in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the <a href="/wiki/Aurel_Vlaicu_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Aurel Vlaicu International Airport">Băneasa Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hamilton" class="mw-disambig" title="Elizabeth Hamilton">Elizabeth Hamilton</a> originally published <a href="/wiki/Memoirs_of_Modern_Philosophers" title="Memoirs of Modern Philosophers">Memoirs of Modern Philosophers</a> in 1800 under a pseudonym because "even the sex of a writer may unwittingly bias the reader’s mind"?</li> <li>... that the architect <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Ayrton" title="Maxwell Ayrton">Maxwell Ayrton</a> co-designed the old <a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium_(1923)" title="Wembley Stadium (1923)">Wembley Stadium</a> of 1923 with his partner <a href="/wiki/John_William_Simpson" title="John William Simpson">John William Simpson</a>?</li> <li>... that, in the <a href="/wiki/Faroe_Islands" title="Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a>, one way of preparing <a href="/wiki/Faroese_puffin" class="mw-redirect" title="Faroese puffin">puffins</a> as food is to stuff them with sweet <a href="/wiki/Cake" title="Cake">cake</a> <a href="/wiki/Dough" title="Dough">dough</a>, raisins, and spices?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="13_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-13_February_2009-Did_you_know...">13 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 13 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Soybeanaphid.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Soyboean aphid"><img alt="Soyboean aphid" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Soybeanaphid.jpg/100px-Soybeanaphid.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Soybeanaphid.jpg/150px-Soybeanaphid.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Soybeanaphid.jpg/200px-Soybeanaphid.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1431" data-file-height="1035"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that besides feeding on <a href="/wiki/Soybean" title="Soybean">soybeans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vector_(disease)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vector (disease)">transmitting</a> <a href="/wiki/Plant_virus" title="Plant virus">viruses</a> to them, a <a href="/wiki/Soybean_aphid" title="Soybean aphid">soybean aphid</a> (pictured) can also injure the plant by interfering with its <a href="/wiki/Photosynthesis" title="Photosynthesis">photosynthetic</a> pathways?</li> <li>... that although Abbot <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwig" title="Æthelwig">Æthelwig</a> of <a href="/wiki/Evesham_Abbey" title="Evesham Abbey">Evesham Abbey</a> was known for his loyalty to <a href="/wiki/William_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="William I of England">William the Conqueror</a>, he had an uncle who died fighting for <a href="/wiki/Harold_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold II of England">King Harold</a>, the man William deposed?</li> <li>... that the short-lived <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Biak-na-Bato" title="Republic of Biak-na-Bato">Republic of Biak-na-Bato</a> ended after a <a href="/wiki/Pact_of_Biak-na-Bato" title="Pact of Biak-na-Bato">pact</a> was signed by <a href="/wiki/Emilio_Aguinaldo" title="Emilio Aguinaldo">Emilio Aguinaldo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Primo_de_Rivera" title="Fernando Primo de Rivera">Fernando Primo de Rivera</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Formation_of_Vegetable_Mould_through_the_Action_of_Worms" class="mw-redirect" title="The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms">final scientific book</a> discussed the formation of <a href="/wiki/Earthworm#Locomotion_and_importance_to_soil" title="Earthworm">mould</a> through the action of <a href="/wiki/Earthworm" title="Earthworm">earthworms</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Antigua" title="Orlando Antigua">Orlando Antigua</a> survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a> and first non-black to play for the <a href="/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters" title="Harlem Globetrotters">Harlem Globetrotters</a> in 52 years?</li> <li>... that in 2005 <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> proclaimed <a href="/wiki/Moravian_traditional_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Moravian traditional music">the Moravian male recruit dance</a> verbuňk as part of the <a href="/wiki/Intangible_Cultural_Heritage" class="mw-redirect" title="Intangible Cultural Heritage">Intangible Cultural Heritage</a> of Mankind?</li> <li>... that, according to <a href="/wiki/Architectural_historian" title="Architectural historian">architectural historian</a> Neil Levine, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright" title="Frank Lloyd Wright">Frank Lloyd Wright</a> agreed to hold the 1930 <a href="/wiki/Kahn_Lectures" title="Kahn Lectures">Kahn Lectures</a> for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Fishing_industry_in_the_Maldives" title="Fishing industry in the Maldives">fishing</a> for <a href="/wiki/Giant_clam" title="Giant clam">giant clams</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a> was banned by the island's government in 1991, just one year after the <a href="/wiki/Fishery" title="Fishery">fishery</a> was established?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sir Thomas Allin"><img alt="Sir Thomas Allin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg/82px-Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg" decoding="async" width="82" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg/122px-Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg/163px-Sir_Thomas_Allin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1046" data-file-height="1280"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Allin,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet">Sir Thomas Allin's</a> (pictured) service during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Second Anglo-Dutch War">Second Anglo-Dutch War</a> included covering the retreat at the <a href="/wiki/Four_Days_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Four Days Battle">Four Days Battle</a>, and then leading the attack at the <a href="/wiki/St._James%27s_Day_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James's Day Battle">St. James's Day Battle</a>?</li> <li>... that the idea that <a href="/wiki/Molecular_evolution" title="Molecular evolution">molecular evolution</a> is dominated by <a href="/wiki/Genetic_drift" title="Genetic drift">genetic drift</a> originally took its name from the 1969 paper "<a href="/wiki/Non-Darwinian_Evolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Darwinian Evolution">Non-Darwinian Evolution</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tim_Cole" title="Tim Cole">Tim Cole</a> was the first person in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on <a href="/wiki/DNA_profiling" title="DNA profiling">DNA evidence</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Spencer" title="Herbert Spencer">Herbert Spencer</a>, secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Derby_Philosophical_Society" title="Derby Philosophical Society">Derby Philosophical Society</a>, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>'s idea of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Hechal_Yehuda_Synagogue" title="Hechal Yehuda Synagogue">Hechal Yehuda Synagogue</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the <a href="/wiki/Seashell" title="Seashell">seashells</a> on the shores of <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessaloniki</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Zheng_(Xu%C4%81nzong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Dowager Zheng (Xuānzong)">Consort Zheng</a>, <a href="/wiki/Concubine" class="mw-redirect" title="Concubine">concubine</a> of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong of Tang</a>, was originally a servant girl for his wife <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Guo_(Muzong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Dowager Guo (Muzong)">Consort Guo</a>?</li> <li>... that two species of <a href="/wiki/Nidulariaceae" title="Nidulariaceae">bird's nest fungi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyathus_olla" title="Cyathus olla">Cyathus olla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cyathus_stercoreus" title="Cyathus stercoreus">Cyathus stercoreus</a>, have been researched for use in <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Paul_Galloway" title="Paul Galloway">Paul Galloway</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Greene" title="Bob Greene">Bob Greene</a> co-wrote Bagtime, a serial published in the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times" title="Chicago Sun-Times">Chicago Sun-Times</a> about a fictional <a href="/wiki/Bagger" title="Bagger">supermarket bagger</a>, which was made into a <a href="/wiki/Stage_musical" class="mw-redirect" title="Stage musical">stage musical</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Television_pilot" title="Television pilot">pilot for a TV series</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The Gollaher cabin, a cabin of Lincoln's neighbour now located at Knob Creek Farm"><img alt="The Gollaher cabin, a cabin of Lincoln's neighbour now located at Knob Creek Farm" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG/100px-Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG/150px-Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG/200px-Lincoln_Knob_Creek_Gollaher_Cabin.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home <a href="/wiki/Knob_Creek_Farm" class="mw-redirect" title="Knob Creek Farm">Knob Creek Farm</a> (pictured)?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> conducted a psychological study of his son <a href="/wiki/William_Erasmus_Darwin" title="William Erasmus Darwin">William Erasmus Darwin</a> where he compared the child to <a href="/wiki/Orangutan" title="Orangutan">orangutan</a> babies?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/T4_rII_system" title="T4 rII system">T4 rII experimental system</a> enabled <a href="/wiki/Biologist" title="Biologist">biologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Seymour_Benzer" title="Seymour Benzer">Seymour Benzer</a> to map a <a href="/wiki/Gene" title="Gene">gene</a> down to the level of one or two <a href="/wiki/Base_pair" title="Base pair">base pairs</a> before the invention of <a href="/wiki/DNA_sequencing" title="DNA sequencing">DNA sequencing</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xu%C4%81nzong_of_Tang" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Xuānzong of Tang">Emperor Xuānzong of Tang</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong</a> by a <a href="/wiki/Concubine" class="mw-redirect" title="Concubine">concubine</a>, suspected Xianzong's wife <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Guo_(Muzong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Dowager Guo (Muzong)">Consort Guo</a> of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Chronicon_Abbatiae_de_Evesham" title="Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham">Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham</a> covers the history of <a href="/wiki/Evesham_Abbey" title="Evesham Abbey">Evesham Abbey</a> from 714 to 1539?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joe_M._Rodgers" title="Joe M. Rodgers">Joe M. Rodgers</a>, who spent six hours a day for four months learning <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> after being named <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_France" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to France">U.S. Ambassador to France</a>, later became CEO of language school operator <a href="/wiki/Berlitz_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlitz International">Berlitz International</a>?</li> <li>... that to help promote their single "<a href="/wiki/Showdown_(Pendulum_song)" title="Showdown (Pendulum song)">Showdown</a>", <a href="/wiki/Drum_and_bass" title="Drum and bass">drum and bass</a> band <a href="/wiki/Pendulum_(band)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Pendulum (band)">Pendulum</a> released a <a href="/wiki/Space_Invaders" title="Space Invaders">Space Invaders</a> themed <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a>?</li> <li>... that during the <a href="/wiki/Frankfort_and_Cincinnati_Railroad" title="Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad">Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad</a>'s last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private <a href="/wiki/Sedan_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sedan (car)">vehicle</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>03:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Canton_Island.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Canton Island, a coral reef atoll"><img alt="Canton Island, a coral reef atoll" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Canton_Island.png/100px-Canton_Island.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Canton_Island.png/149px-Canton_Island.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Canton_Island.png/199px-Canton_Island.png 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="634"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/The_Structure_and_Distribution_of_Coral_Reefs" title="The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs">The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>'s first published theory, explains how <a href="/wiki/Coral" title="Coral">coral</a> <a href="/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atolls</a> (example pictured) form?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Imports" class="mw-redirect" title="Imports">imports</a> fell by 47% and <a href="/wiki/Exports" class="mw-redirect" title="Exports">exports</a> by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_India" title="Great Depression in India">Great Depression</a>?</li> <li>... that on its first day of open <a href="/wiki/Beta_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Beta testing">beta testing</a>, 20,000 players created 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Player_characters" class="mw-redirect" title="Player characters">player characters</a> in the free online <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a> <a href="/wiki/Runes_of_Magic" title="Runes of Magic">Runes of Magic</a>?</li> <li>... that because of the strict <a href="/wiki/Sex_segregation" title="Sex segregation">sex segregation</a> of the era based on <a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a> created a class of specialist <a href="/wiki/Women_in_medicine" title="Women in medicine">female physicians</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Uinyeo" title="Uinyeo">Uinyeo</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tsarong_Dzasa" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsarong Dzasa">Tsarong Dzasa</a> was regarded by officials in <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a> as "the most powerful friend of <a href="/wiki/His_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="His Majesty's Government">His Majesty's Government</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a>"?</li> <li>... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "<a href="/wiki/Sickle_Cell_Anemia,_a_Molecular_Disease" title="Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease">Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease</a>" became the basis for <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a>'s later views on <a href="/wiki/Molecular_evolution" title="Molecular evolution">molecular evolution</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">eugenics</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Coaches_of_the_Great_Western_Railway" title="Coaches of the Great Western Railway">coaches of the Great Western Railway</a> were built up to 13 feet (4 m) longer than most other <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Railway_carriage" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway carriage">railway carriages</a> of the time?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lucian_Piane" title="Lucian Piane">Lucian Piane</a> created a <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> <a href="/wiki/Techno" title="Techno">techno</a> <a href="/wiki/Remix" title="Remix">remix</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Bale_Out" title="Bale Out">Bale Out</a>", utilizing a verbal rant actor <a href="/wiki/Christian_Bale" title="Christian Bale">Christian Bale</a> made on the set of <a href="/wiki/Terminator_Salvation" title="Terminator Salvation">Terminator Salvation</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="12_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-12_February_2009-Did_you_know...">12 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 12 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:27, 12 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lincoln Memorial building"><img alt="Lincoln Memorial building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg/100px-Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg/150px-Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg/200px-Lincoln-Boyhood-NMem-memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="611" data-file-height="363"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Boyhood_National_Memorial" title="Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial">Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial</a> (pictured) marks where <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> lived in <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, and where his sister and <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Hanks" class="mw-redirect" title="Nancy Hanks">birth mother</a> died?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Plinian_Society" title="Plinian Society">Plinian Society</a> student naturalists' club at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">Edinburgh University</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/One_gene-one_enzyme_hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" title="One gene-one enzyme hypothesis">one gene-one enzyme hypothesis</a> is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called <a href="/wiki/Molecular_biology" title="Molecular biology">molecular biology</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1915, <a href="/wiki/T._V._Seshagiri_Iyer" title="T. V. Seshagiri Iyer">T. V. Seshagiri Iyer</a> founded the Indian Boat Club at <a href="/wiki/Kodaikanal" title="Kodaikanal">Kodaikanal</a> in response to discrimination against <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indians</a> at the English Boat Club?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Annunciation_Melkite_Catholic_Cathedral" title="Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral">Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral</a> in <a href="/wiki/Roslindale,_Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts">Boston</a> is the principal <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Newton" title="Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton">Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton</a> which encompasses the entire <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>?</li> <li>... that some historians argue that <a href="/wiki/Urse_d%27Abetot" title="Urse d'Abetot">Urse d'Abetot</a> (d. 1108) was one of the first <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Baron_of_the_Exchequer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer">barons of the Exchequer</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> provided a site in northern <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> for the secret <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi German</a> <a href="/wiki/Naval_base" title="Naval base">naval base</a> <a href="/wiki/Basis_Nord" title="Basis Nord">Basis Nord</a> as a part of a broader <a href="/wiki/Bilateral_relation" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilateral relation">bilateral relation</a> which included <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">strategic</a> and <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940)" title="German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)">commercial agreements</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Snow_of_1717" title="The Great Snow of 1717">The Great Snow of 1717</a> lasted nine days and caused <a href="/wiki/Snowdrift" title="Snowdrift">snowdrifts</a> more than 20 feet (6 m) high in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Sesquipedale.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sesquipedale orchid"><img alt="Sesquipedale orchid" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sesquipedale.jpg/78px-Sesquipedale.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sesquipedale.jpg/117px-Sesquipedale.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Sesquipedale.jpg/156px-Sesquipedale.jpg 2x" data-file-width="935" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that in <a href="/wiki/Fertilisation_of_Orchids" title="Fertilisation of Orchids">Fertilisation of Orchids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> showed how beautiful <a href="/wiki/Orchids" class="mw-redirect" title="Orchids">orchids</a> (example pictured) evolved through <a href="/wiki/Natural_selection" title="Natural selection">natural selection</a> for <a href="/wiki/Insect_pollination" class="mw-redirect" title="Insect pollination">insect pollination</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Homestead_State_Park" title="Lincoln Homestead State Park">Lincoln Homestead State Park</a> contains the house in which <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s father <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lincoln" title="Thomas Lincoln">Thomas</a> proposed to his mother <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Hanks" class="mw-redirect" title="Nancy Hanks">Nancy</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_A._F._Browne" title="William A. F. Browne">William A. F. Browne</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Radicalism_(historical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radicalism (historical)">radical</a> student who proposed <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Plinian_Society" title="Plinian Society">Plinian Society</a>, became a <a href="/wiki/Psychiatrist" title="Psychiatrist">psychiatrist</a> and pioneered <a href="/wiki/Art_therapy" title="Art therapy">art therapy</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hiking" title="Hiking">hikers</a> can take a <a href="/wiki/Commuter_rail" title="Commuter rail">commuter train</a> from <a href="/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal" title="Grand Central Terminal">Grand Central Terminal</a> in New York City to two <a href="/wiki/Request_stop" title="Request stop">request stops</a> near <a href="/wiki/Trailhead" title="Trailhead">trailheads</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Highlands_State_Park" title="Hudson Highlands State Park">Hudson Highlands State Park</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> film actors <a href="/wiki/M._K._Thyagaraja_Bhagavathar" title="M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar">M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar</a> and <a href="/wiki/N._S._Krishnan" title="N. S. Krishnan">N. S. Krishnan</a> spent 30 months in jail in connection with the <a href="/wiki/Lakshmikanthan_Murder_Case" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakshmikanthan Murder Case">Lakshmikanthan Murder Case</a> before being acquitted?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Takalik_Abaj" title="Takalik Abaj">Takalik Abaj</a>, an archaeological site in lowland <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, has one of the greatest concentrations of <a href="/wiki/Olmec" class="mw-redirect" title="Olmec">Olmec</a>-style sculpture outside of the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a> coast?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Shane_Hurlbut" title="Shane Hurlbut">Shane Hurlbut</a> became the youngest <a href="/wiki/Cinematographer" title="Cinematographer">cinematographer</a> ever to have been nominated for an <a href="/wiki/American_Society_of_Cinematographers" title="American Society of Cinematographers">American Society of Cinematographers</a> award for a debut film, for his work on <a href="/wiki/The_Rat_Pack_(film)" title="The Rat Pack (film)">The Rat Pack</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> singer <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Hannigan" title="Lisa Hannigan">Lisa Hannigan</a> did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, <a href="/wiki/Sea_Sew" title="Sea Sew">Sea Sew</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Abraham Lincoln Statue"><img alt="Abraham Lincoln Statue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg/90px-Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg/135px-Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg/180px-Hodgenville_Lincoln_Statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="380" data-file-height="422"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hodgenville,_Kentucky" title="Hodgenville, Kentucky">Hodgenville, Kentucky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Abraham_Lincoln_(Hodgenville,_Kentucky)" title="Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville, Kentucky)">Abraham Lincoln Statue</a> (pictured) was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Orb_Aqueduct" title="Orb Aqueduct">Orb Aqueduct</a> in <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9ziers" title="Béziers">Béziers</a>, France, was opened in 1858 and carries the <a href="/wiki/Canal_du_Midi" title="Canal du Midi">Canal du Midi</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Orb_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Orb River">Orb River</a> at a height of 12 metres (39 ft)?</li> <li>... that during the <a href="/wiki/Darwin_Centennial_Celebration_(1959)" title="Darwin Centennial Celebration (1959)">Darwin Centennial Celebration</a> of 1959, <a href="/wiki/Religious_humanism" title="Religious humanism">religious humanist</a> <a href="/wiki/Julian_Huxley" title="Julian Huxley">Julian Huxley</a> delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Lincoln_House" class="mw-disambig" title="Mordecai Lincoln House">Mordecai Lincoln House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Kentucky" title="Washington County, Kentucky">Washington County</a> is the only home of a member of <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s family that still stands in <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>?</li> <li>... that illustrator <a href="/wiki/Blair_Lent" title="Blair Lent">Blair Lent</a> and author <a href="/wiki/Arlene_Mosel" title="Arlene Mosel">Arlene Mosel</a> collaborated on <a href="/wiki/Tikki_Tikki_Tembo" title="Tikki Tikki Tembo">Tikki Tikki Tembo</a>, called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> in 1997?</li> <li>... that three years before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn" title="Battle of the Little Bighorn">Battle of the Little Bighorn</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer" title="George Armstrong Custer">George Armstrong Custer</a> faced the forces of <a href="/wiki/Sitting_Bull" title="Sitting Bull">Sitting Bull</a> in battle at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Honsinger_Bluff" title="Battle of Honsinger Bluff">Honsinger Bluff</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Nagavarma_II" title="Nagavarma II">Nagavarma II</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a> <a href="/wiki/Grammarian" class="mw-disambig" title="Grammarian">grammarian</a> of the 11th century, authored important writings in <a href="/wiki/Prosody_(poetry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prosody (poetry)">prosody</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poetics" title="Poetics">poetics</a> and vocabulary?</li> <li>... that the Belletable House, now located at the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Rock_Valley_Historical_Homestead_Museum" title="Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum">Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum</a>, is thought to be the largest home built in the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Rock" title="Fort Rock">Fort Rock</a> Valley during the area's homestead era?</li></ul> <ul><li>03:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Darwin_1881.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Portrait of Charles Darwin"><img alt="Portrait of Charles Darwin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Darwin_1881.jpg/63px-Darwin_1881.jpg" decoding="async" width="63" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Darwin_1881.jpg/94px-Darwin_1881.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Darwin_1881.jpg/126px-Darwin_1881.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1197" data-file-height="1898"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the numerous <a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_Charles_Darwin" title="Portraits of Charles Darwin">photographs of Charles Darwin</a>—at least 53 (example pictured)—may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?</li> <li>... that in his 1970 book <a href="/wiki/Vitamin_C_and_the_Common_Cold" class="mw-redirect" title="Vitamin C and the Common Cold">Vitamin C and the Common Cold</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a> explains <a href="/wiki/Primate" title="Primate">primates</a>' inability to synthesize <a href="/wiki/Vitamin_C" title="Vitamin C">vitamin C</a> as a result of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Petersen_House" title="Petersen House">Petersen House</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on?</li> <li>... that the title of <a href="/wiki/Rao_Bahadur" class="mw-redirect" title="Rao Bahadur">Rao Bahadur</a> was bestowed upon Indian historian <a href="/wiki/S._Krishnaswami_Aiyangar" title="S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar">S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar</a>?</li> <li>... that because it is difficult to approach, the <a href="/wiki/Nymphalidae" title="Nymphalidae">nymphalid</a> butterfly <a href="/wiki/Euptoieta_claudia" title="Euptoieta claudia">Euptoieta claudia</a> was given a <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> name which means "easily scared" in <a href="/wiki/Greek_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Language">Greek</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Krychevsky" title="Mykhailo Krychevsky">Mykhailo Krychevsky</a>, a respected military commander, switched sides during the <a href="/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising" title="Khmelnytsky Uprising">Khmelnytsky Uprising</a>, joining the <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossacks</a>, and died soon afterwards in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Loyew_(1649)" title="Battle of Loyew (1649)">Battle of Loyew</a>?</li> <li>... that sources indicate that <a href="/wiki/Cedric_C._Smith" title="Cedric C. Smith">Cedric "Pat" Smith</a>, who later worked at <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Rouge_plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Rouge plant">Rouge plant</a>, was either the second or third leading scorer in the <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> during its first season in 1920?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Lincoln_Inn" title="Nancy Lincoln Inn">Nancy Lincoln Inn</a> was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Birthplace_National_Historic_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site">Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="11_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-11_February_2009-Did_you_know...">11 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 11 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Yeay Mao"><img alt="Yeay Mao" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG/100px-Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG/150px-Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG/200px-Yeay_mao_cambodia.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that travellers in southern <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> must stop to pay their respects to the spirit of <a href="/wiki/Yeay_Mao" title="Yeay Mao">Yeay Mao</a>?</li> <li>... that the 1988–1992 <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> television comedy <a href="/wiki/Nighthawks_(TV_series)" title="Nighthawks (TV series)">Nighthawks</a> was documented in the first episode of the 2008 Irish television show <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boom!_Boom!&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boom! Boom! (page does not exist)">Boom! Boom! The Explosion of Irish Comedy</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Butch_Hartman_(racer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Butch Hartman (racer)">Butch Hartman</a>, the first rookie to lead a <a href="/wiki/Daytona_500" title="Daytona 500">Daytona 500</a>, later won five championships in a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Automobile_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Automobile Club">rival</a> <a href="/wiki/Stock_car_racing" title="Stock car racing">stock car racing</a> series?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/A_Cat_in_the_Brain" class="mw-redirect" title="A Cat in the Brain">A Cat in the Brain</a> is based on the reactions of its writer and director, <a href="/wiki/Lucio_Fulci" title="Lucio Fulci">Lucio Fulci</a>, to real-life murders in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> <a href="/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy">diplomat</a> <a href="/wiki/Mihail_F%C4%83rc%C4%83%C5%9Fanu" class="mw-redirect" title="Mihail Fărcăşanu">Mihail Fărcăşanu</a> published in the newspaper a translation of <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls" title="For Whom the Bell Tolls">For Whom the Bell Tolls</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> press called Fărcăşanu a <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Palaemon_serratus" title="Palaemon serratus">Palaemon serratus</a> is the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>' largest native <a href="/wiki/Shrimp" title="Shrimp">shrimp</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/All_America" class="mw-redirect" title="All America">All-American</a> <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> player <a href="/wiki/Art_Walker" class="mw-disambig" title="Art Walker">Art Walker</a> played in 479 of 540 minutes in the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines" title="Michigan Wolverines">Michigan Wolverines</a>' 1954 season and later played seven years for the <a href="/wiki/Edmonton_Eskimos" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmonton Eskimos">Edmonton Eskimos</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_India" title="Portuguese India">Portuguese</a> destroyed <a href="/wiki/Korlai_Fort" title="Korlai Fort">Korlai Fort</a> only 73 years after building it because they did not have enough men to guard the fort?</li></ul> <ul><li>21:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Porcelain model by Bustelli"><img alt="Porcelain model by Bustelli" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg/100px-Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg/150px-Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg/200px-Franz_Anton_Bustelli_Liebesgruppe_1756-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="1805"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Franz_Anton_Bustelli" title="Franz Anton Bustelli">Franz Anton Bustelli</a>, who worked at <a href="/wiki/Nymphenburg_Porcelain_Factory" class="mw-redirect" title="Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory">Nymphenburg</a> near <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of <a href="/wiki/Porcelain" title="Porcelain">porcelain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Rococo" title="Rococo">Rococo</a> style (example pictured)?</li> <li>... that between 1903 and 1924 <a href="/wiki/Rover_(motorcycles)" title="Rover (motorcycles)">Rover</a> produced more than 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle" title="Motorcycle">motorcycles</a>?</li> <li>... that prominent <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Beninese</a> merchant and politician <a href="/wiki/Paul_Darboux" title="Paul Darboux">Paul Darboux</a> went missing from 1963 to 1970?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Visna_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="Visna virus">Visna virus</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Retrovirus" title="Retrovirus">retrovirus</a> that causes <a href="/wiki/Encephalitis" title="Encephalitis">encephalitis</a> and chronic <a href="/wiki/Pneumonitis" title="Pneumonitis">pneumonitis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sheep" title="Sheep">sheep</a>, is used as a <a href="/wiki/Model_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Model system">model system</a> for <a href="/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a> infection?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Yeongjo_of_Joseon" title="Yeongjo of Joseon">King Yeongjo</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a> was said to have been born of a <a href="/wiki/Concubine" class="mw-redirect" title="Concubine">concubine</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Musuri" title="Musuri">musuri</a> slave class?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Michael_Homer" title="Michael Homer">Michael Homer</a> created <a href="/wiki/Netscape" title="Netscape">Netscape</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Business_plan" title="Business plan">business plan</a> and developed <a href="/wiki/Marketing_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Marketing campaign">marketing campaigns</a> for its <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browser</a> at a time when few had heard of the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>?</li> <li>... that as of 2007, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> has an installed <a href="/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_Romania" title="List of wind farms in Romania">wind power capacity</a> of only seven <a href="/wiki/Watt#Megawatt" title="Watt">megawatts</a>?</li> <li>... that comedian <a href="/wiki/Freddie_Roman" title="Freddie Roman">Freddie Roman</a> eulogized <a href="/wiki/Milton_Parker" title="Milton Parker">Milton Parker</a>, who bought the famed <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> <a href="/wiki/Delicatessen" title="Delicatessen">deli</a> with <a href="/wiki/Leo_Steiner" title="Leo Steiner">Leo Steiner</a>, saying that "<a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Deli" title="Carnegie Deli">Carnegie Deli</a> caused more <a href="/wiki/Heartburn" title="Heartburn">heartburn</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jewish</a> world than anything I've ever heard of"?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG" class="mw-file-description" title="O.J. Simpson"><img alt="O.J. Simpson" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG/74px-O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG" decoding="async" width="74" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG/111px-O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG/148px-O.J._Simpson_1990_%C2%B7_DN-ST-91-03444_crop.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="789"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that as CEO of <a href="/wiki/The_Hertz_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hertz Corporation">The Hertz Corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_L._Stone" title="Robert L. Stone">Robert L. Stone</a> chose <a href="/wiki/O._J._Simpson" title="O. J. Simpson">O. J. Simpson</a> (pictured) for a series of <a href="/wiki/Car_rental" title="Car rental">car rental</a> ads that featured O.J. running through <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">airports</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Cobalt_crust_fungus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cobalt crust fungus">cobalt crust fungus</a> was selected as the <a href="/wiki/German_Mycological_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="German Mycological Society">German Mycological Society</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungus</a> of the year in 2009?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Long_jump" title="Long jump">long jumper</a> and <a href="/wiki/Triple_jump" title="Triple jump">triple jumper</a> <a href="/wiki/Gyula_P%C3%A1l%C3%B3czi" title="Gyula Pálóczi">Gyula Pálóczi</a> has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the <a href="/wiki/European_Athletic_Association" title="European Athletic Association">European Athletic Association</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Boss_Weeks" title="Boss Weeks">Boss Weeks</a> was quarterback of <a href="/wiki/Fielding_H._Yost" title="Fielding H. Yost">Fielding H. Yost</a>'s "Point-a-Minute" <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">football</a> teams in 1901–1902 that outscored opponents 1,211 to 12?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> devotional song "<a href="/wiki/Kurai_Onrum_Illai" title="Kurai Onrum Illai">Kurai Onrum Illai</a>" was composed by <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/Statesman" class="mw-disambig" title="Statesman">statesman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_India" title="Governor-General of India">Governor-General</a>, <a href="/wiki/C._Rajagopalachari" title="C. Rajagopalachari">C. Rajagopalachari</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="National Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall of Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Carlton" title="Steve Carlton">Steve Carlton</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_Phillies_Opening_Day_starting_pitchers" title="List of Philadelphia Phillies Opening Day starting pitchers">started</a> 14 <a href="/wiki/Opening_Day" title="Opening Day">Opening Day</a> games for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> singer <a href="/wiki/Adele_(singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adele (singer)">Adele</a> was <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Adele" title="List of awards and nominations received by Adele">nominated for</a> four 2009 <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Awards</a> for "<a href="/wiki/Chasing_Pavements" title="Chasing Pavements">Chasing Pavements</a>", winning in the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist" title="Grammy Award for Best New Artist">Best New Artist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance">Best Female Pop Vocal Performance</a> categories?</li> <li>... that inmates at the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Oregon_Correctional_Institution" title="Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution">Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pendleton,_Oregon" title="Pendleton, Oregon">Pendleton, Oregon</a>, manufacture Prison Blues brand <a href="/wiki/Jeans" title="Jeans">jeans</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Denim" title="Denim">denim</a> garments that are sold throughout the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couple</a> <a href="/wiki/Jerzy_and_Irena_Kr%C4%99pe%C4%87" title="Jerzy and Irena Krępeć">Jerzy and Irena Krępeć</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Polish_Righteous_among_the_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish Righteous among the Nations">Polish Righteous among the Nations</a>, saved over 30 <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jewish</a> refugees during the <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">Holocaust</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Knightsville,_Utah" title="Knightsville, Utah">Knightsville, Utah</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Company_town" title="Company town">company town</a> owned and operated by <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Mormon</a> entrepreneur <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Knight" title="Jesse Knight">Jesse Knight</a>, was known as "the only mining camp in the United States without a <a href="/wiki/Western_saloon" title="Western saloon">saloon</a>"?</li> <li>... that in his later years, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> <a href="/wiki/C._Karunakara_Menon" title="C. Karunakara Menon">C. Karunakara Menon</a> was detested by the extremists of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_independence_movement" title="Indian independence movement">Indian independence movement</a> as well as the Government of <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> narrated <a href="/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(album)" title="E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (album)">E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial</a>, the soundtrack of <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>'s <a href="/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial" title="E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial">1982 film</a>?</li> <li>... that after an <a href="/wiki/Alpine_skiing" title="Alpine skiing">alpine skiing</a> career with modest results, <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Kraus" title="Tomáš Kraus">Tomáš Kraus</a> switched to competing in <a href="/wiki/Skicross" class="mw-redirect" title="Skicross">skicross</a>, and became a double <a href="/wiki/FIS_Freestyle_World_Ski_Championships" title="FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships">world champion</a>?</li> <li>... that singer <a href="/wiki/Ray_LaMontagne" title="Ray LaMontagne">Ray LaMontagne</a> was <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Ray_LaMontagne" title="List of awards and nominations received by Ray LaMontagne">nominated for</a> five 2005 <a href="/wiki/Boston_Music_Awards" title="Boston Music Awards">Boston Music Awards</a>, including Best Act, Best Male Vocalist, Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Best Song for "<a href="/wiki/Trouble_(Ray_LaMontagne_song)" title="Trouble (Ray LaMontagne song)">Trouble</a>", and Best Album for his <a href="/wiki/Trouble_(Ray_LaMontagne_album)" title="Trouble (Ray LaMontagne album)">debut CD</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hamam_al-Sammara" title="Hamam al-Sammara">Hamam al-Sammara</a> is the only remaining <a href="/wiki/Turkish_bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkish bath">Turkish bathhouse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gaza" class="mw-disambig" title="Gaza">Gaza</a> of the original five that continues to function?</li> <li>... that college mathematics professor <a href="/wiki/David_Bressoud" title="David Bressoud">David Bressoud</a> chose to major in <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> because that was the quickest way to complete his degree and get away from college and <a href="/wiki/Academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academia">academia</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>03:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_(C._von_Eygerd,_1663).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Battle of Loyew (1649)"><img alt="Battle of Loyew (1649)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg/100px-%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg/150px-%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg/200px-%C5%81oje%C5%AD._%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B5%D1%9E_%28C._von_Eygerd%2C_1663%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1820" data-file-height="1364"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Loyew_(1649)" title="Battle of Loyew (1649)">Battle of Loyew</a> (pictured) in 1649, dismounted <a href="/wiki/Polish_hussars" title="Polish hussars">Polish hussars</a> took a <a href="/wiki/Cossack" class="mw-redirect" title="Cossack">Cossack</a> <a href="/wiki/Wagon_fort" title="Wagon fort">wagon fort</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Headache" title="Headache">headache</a> is a symptom commonly described by patients suffering from <a href="/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus" class="mw-redirect" title="Systemic lupus erythematosus">lupus</a>, but the existence of <a href="/wiki/Lupus_headache" title="Lupus headache">lupus headache</a> as a specific disorder is contested?</li> <li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Sermon" title="Sermon">sermon</a> by <a href="/wiki/Asterius_of_Amasia" class="mw-redirect" title="Asterius of Amasia">St Asterius</a>, a 4th-century <a href="/wiki/Amasia_(titular_see)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amasia (titular see)">Bishop of Amasia</a>, was cited twice at the <a href="/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea" title="Second Council of Nicaea">Second Council of Nicaea</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_council" title="Ecumenical council">ecumenical council</a> in 787, as evidence supporting the <a href="/wiki/Veneration" title="Veneration">veneration</a> of religious <a href="/wiki/Icon" title="Icon">icons</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Buck_Creek_State_Park" title="Buck Creek State Park">Buck Creek State Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> contains a <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Corps of Engineers">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</a> dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Homestead_(buildings)" class="mw-redirect" title="Homestead (buildings)">homestead</a>, and patches of original <a href="/wiki/Prairie" title="Prairie">prairie</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Lizondo" title="Vicente González Lizondo">Vicente González Lizondo</a>, then President of the <a href="/wiki/Corts_Valencianes" title="Corts Valencianes">Valencian regional parliament</a>, died a few days after collapsing from a fatal heart attack during a parliamentary session in 1996?</li> <li>... that besides causing <a href="/wiki/Anemia" title="Anemia">anemia</a> and reducing weight gains in <a href="/wiki/Domestic_sheep" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic sheep">sheep</a>, the blood-feeding <a href="/wiki/Fly" title="Fly">fly</a> <a href="/wiki/Melophagus_ovinus" title="Melophagus ovinus">Melophagus ovinus</a> can also stain the <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">wool</a> and devalue it?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Joy_(Jah_Roots_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joy (Jah Roots album)">fifth album</a> by <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a> band <a href="/wiki/Jah_Roots" title="Jah Roots">Jah Roots</a> featured former <a href="/wiki/Bob_Marley_%26_The_Wailers" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Marley & The Wailers">Bob Marley & The Wailers</a> lead guitarist <a href="/wiki/Junior_Marvin" title="Junior Marvin">Junior Marvin</a>?</li> <li>... that students hoping to increase their brainpower before exams made offerings of incense to the body of a two-headed calf in <a href="/wiki/Koh_Sotin_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Koh Sotin District">Koh Sotin District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="10_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-10_February_2009-Did_you_know...">10 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 10 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ernest "Aqua" Allmendinger"><img alt="Ernest "Aqua" Allmendinger" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg/100px-Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg/150px-Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg/200px-Ernest_Allmendinger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="871" data-file-height="782"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> player <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Allmendinger" title="Ernest Allmendinger">"Aqua" Allmendinger</a> (pictured), once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Memot_District" title="Memot District">Memot District</a> in eastern <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> is home to several huge prehistoric villages that date to the first millennium <a href="/wiki/BCE" class="mw-redirect" title="BCE">BCE</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Beninese</a> politician <a href="/wiki/Sourou-Migan_Apithy" title="Sourou-Migan Apithy">Sourou-Migan Apithy</a> was said to have ended slavery in Benin, although in fact he was not involved with the abolition bill?</li> <li>... that one episode of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a>'s <a href="/w/index.php?title=Project_Ha_Ha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project Ha Ha (page does not exist)">Project Ha Ha</a> was criticised for featuring mainly <a href="/wiki/Australian" class="mw-disambig" title="Australian">Australian</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> accents?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> singers <a href="/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Beck" title="Johann Nepomuk Beck">Johann Nepomuk Beck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Wilt" title="Marie Wilt">Marie Wilt</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hans_von_Rokitansky" title="Hans von Rokitansky">Hans von Rokitansky</a> all performed in the world premiere of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Goldmark" title="Karl Goldmark">Karl Goldmark</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Die_K%C3%B6nigin_von_Saba" title="Die Königin von Saba">Die Königin von Saba</a> on 10 March 1875?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius">Church of St Porphyrius</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church" title="Greek Orthodox Church">Greek Orthodox</a> church at the site where <a href="/wiki/Porphyry_of_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Porphyry of Gaza">St Porphyrius of Gaza</a> was buried, is the oldest active church in <a href="/wiki/Gaza" class="mw-disambig" title="Gaza">Gaza City</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Adams_(merchant)" title="John Adams (merchant)">John Adams</a> served as a member of the Executive Council of <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Gungnyeo" title="Gungnyeo">gungnyeo</a> is a generic <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> term referring to <a href="/wiki/Lady-in-waiting" title="Lady-in-waiting">court ladies</a> who waited on the king and royalty during the <a href="/wiki/Goryeo" title="Goryeo">Goryeo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon dynasties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:56, 10 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Oslo_tinghus.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Oslo District Court"><img alt="Oslo District Court" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Oslo_tinghus.jpg/100px-Oslo_tinghus.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Oslo_tinghus.jpg/150px-Oslo_tinghus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Oslo_tinghus.jpg/200px-Oslo_tinghus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1345" data-file-height="929"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Oslo_District_Court" title="Oslo District Court">Oslo District Court</a> accounted in 2007 for 50% of the usage of <a href="/wiki/Interpretation" class="mw-disambig" title="Interpretation">interpreters</a> in <a href="/wiki/Courts_of_justice_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Courts of justice of Norway">courts in Norway</a>, being used in 23% of cases?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pettus_Park" title="Terry Pettus Park">a park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> is named after <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pettus" title="Terry Pettus">Terry Pettus</a>, a onetime <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_USA" title="Communist Party USA">Communist</a> whose conviction for <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)#Conspiracy_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy (crime)">conspiracy</a> to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a>?</li> <li>... that male <a href="/wiki/Field_cricket" title="Field cricket">field crickets</a> of the species <a href="/wiki/Gryllus_veletis" title="Gryllus veletis">Gryllus veletis</a> attract sexually receptive mates by <a href="/wiki/Stridulation" title="Stridulation">acoustic signals</a>, and one changes his "courtship song" when a female enters his territory?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Shunzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Shunzong of Tang">Emperor Shunzong of Tang</a>'s close associate <a href="/wiki/Wang_Pi" title="Wang Pi">Wang Pi</a> was described by historians as ugly, lacking ambition, and speaking in <a href="/wiki/Wu_Chinese" title="Wu Chinese">Wu Chinese</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip hop</a> group <a href="/wiki/Black_Eyed_Peas" title="Black Eyed Peas">Black Eyed Peas</a> have <a href="/wiki/Black_Eyed_Peas_discography" title="Black Eyed Peas discography">released</a> two number one albums in both <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a>?</li> <li>... that in the <a href="/wiki/Wii" title="Wii">Wii</a> video game <a href="/wiki/Neighborhood_Games" title="Neighborhood Games">Neighborhood Games</a>, when playing with more than one person, <a href="/wiki/Player_character" title="Player character">player characters</a> can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?</li> <li>... that "<a href="/wiki/The_Peanut_Vendor" title="The Peanut Vendor">The Peanut Vendor</a>", composed by <a href="/wiki/Cubans" title="Cubans">Cuban</a> <a href="/wiki/Bandleader" title="Bandleader">orchestra leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s_Simons" title="Moisés Simons">Moisés Simons</a>, has been recorded by over 160 bands?</li> <li>... that in the 15th century, cutting down a <a href="/wiki/Nebbiolo" title="Nebbiolo">Nebbiolo</a> <a href="/wiki/Grapevine_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grapevine (wine)">grapevine</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Piedmont_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Piedmont (wine)">Piedmont</a> region of <a href="/wiki/La_Morra_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="La Morra (wine)">La Morra</a> was punishable by a heavy <a href="/wiki/Fine_(penalty)" title="Fine (penalty)">fine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging">hanging</a>, or having your right hand <a href="/wiki/Amputation" title="Amputation">cut off</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>10:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=Golar_spirit.jpg" class="new" title="File:Golar spirit.jpg">Golar Spirit</a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Golar_Spirit" title="Golar Spirit">Golar Spirit</a> (pictured) is the world's first floating storage and regasification vessel converted from a <a href="/wiki/LNG_carrier" title="LNG carrier">LNG carrier</a>?</li> <li>... that cycling world champion <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Henie" title="Wilhelm Henie">Wilhelm Henie</a> was his daughter <a href="/wiki/Sonja_Henie" title="Sonja Henie">Sonja Henie</a>'s guide and manager in her <a href="/wiki/Figure_skating" title="Figure skating">figure skating</a> career?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Price_war" title="Price war">price war</a> started by <a href="/wiki/Color_Air" title="Color Air">Color Air</a> in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?</li> <li>... that the restoration of <a href="/wiki/Ifield_Water_Mill" title="Ifield Water Mill">Ifield Water Mill</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a>, England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Naomi_Klein" title="Naomi Klein">Naomi Klein</a>'s second book, <a href="/wiki/Fences_and_Windows" title="Fences and Windows">Fences and Windows</a>, is a collection of newspaper articles about the <a href="/wiki/Anti-globalization" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-globalization">anti-globalization</a> movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, <a href="/wiki/No_Logo" title="No Logo">No Logo</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco 49ers</a> <a href="/wiki/Wide_receiver" title="Wide receiver">wide receiver</a> <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilson_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Billy Wilson (American football)">Billy Wilson</a> has been described as "probably one of the most underrated players in <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> history"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>’s current First Lady, <a href="/wiki/Bun_Rany" title="Bun Rany">Bun Rany</a>, was once in charge of a <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a> hospital in <a href="/wiki/Krouch_Chhmar_District" title="Krouch Chhmar District">Krouch Chhmar District</a>?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">Prince Philip</a> first saw the <a href="/wiki/Stumpery" title="Stumpery">stumpery</a> at <a href="/wiki/Highgrove_House" title="Highgrove House">Highgrove House</a> he asked his son, <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Charles</a>, "when are you going to set fire to this lot?"?</li></ul> <ul><li>04:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Neil_Snow.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Neil Snow"><img alt="Neil Snow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Neil_Snow.jpg/100px-Neil_Snow.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Neil_Snow.jpg/150px-Neil_Snow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Neil_Snow.jpg/200px-Neil_Snow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1219" data-file-height="1081"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Neil_Snow" title="Neil Snow">Neil Snow</a> (pictured), ranked by <a href="/wiki/Grantland_Rice" title="Grantland Rice">Grantland Rice</a> as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in <a href="/wiki/College_athletics" class="mw-redirect" title="College athletics">college sports</a>, died of <a href="/wiki/Heart_failure" title="Heart failure">heart failure</a> at age 34 after a game of <a href="/wiki/Squash" class="mw-disambig" title="Squash">squash</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Schooner" title="Schooner">schooner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Research_vessel" title="Research vessel">research vessel</a> <a href="/wiki/RV_Vema" class="mw-redirect" title="RV Vema">Vema</a> was initially a <a href="/wiki/Luxury_yacht" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxury yacht">luxury yacht</a> built for <a href="/wiki/Edward_Francis_Hutton" title="Edward Francis Hutton">E.F. Hutton</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Wang_Yongmin" title="Wang Yongmin">Wang Yongmin</a>, developer of the <a href="/wiki/Wubi_method" title="Wubi method">Wubi method</a>, brought the first case for protection of <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectual property in the People's Republic of China">intellectual property rights</a> in the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Chocolataire" title="Chocolataire">chocolataires</a>, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to <a href="/wiki/Tea_party" title="Tea party">tea parties</a>—once even for a kindergarten <a href="/wiki/Fundraiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundraiser">fundraiser</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, USA?</li> <li>... that to ensure his 1948 reelection, Republican Congressman <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> <a href="/wiki/Cross-filing" title="Cross-filing">cross-filed</a> in the Democratic primary, beating <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Zetterberg" title="Stephen Zetterberg">Stephen Zetterberg</a> who ran after Nixon's 1946 foe, <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Voorhis" title="Jerry Voorhis">Jerry Voorhis</a> declined to run?</li> <li>... that 467 mass graves containing 32,690 victims were found in the grounds of a <a href="/wiki/Pagoda" title="Pagoda">pagoda</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kang_Meas_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Kang Meas District">Kang Meas District</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bert_Shelley" title="Bert Shelley">Bert Shelley</a> made 448 appearances for <a href="/wiki/Southampton_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Southampton Football Club">Southampton Football Club</a> between 17 January 1920 and 16 April 1932, a club record that was broken by <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Traynor" class="mw-disambig" title="Tommy Traynor">Tommy Traynor</a> in 1966?</li> <li>... that after <a href="/wiki/John_Rich_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rich (musician)">John Rich</a> of <a href="/wiki/Big_%26_Rich" title="Big & Rich">Big & Rich</a> released his single "<a href="/wiki/Shuttin%27_Detroit_Down" title="Shuttin' Detroit Down">Shuttin' Detroit Down</a>", <a href="/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit, Michigan">Detroit</a> radio station <a href="/wiki/WDTW-FM" class="mw-redirect" title="WDTW-FM">WDTW</a> began playing the song hourly?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="9_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-9_February_2009-Did_you_know...">9 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 9 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>22:48, 9 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Valhalla crater on Callisto"><img alt="Valhalla crater on Callisto" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg/100px-Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg/150px-Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg/200px-Valhalla_crater_on_Callisto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1196" data-file-height="714"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Valhalla_(crater)" title="Valhalla (crater)">Valhalla</a> structure (pictured) on <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>'s moon <a href="/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a> is the largest multi-ring basin in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> band <a href="/wiki/Scissor_Sisters" title="Scissor Sisters">Scissor Sisters</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Scissor_Sisters" title="List of awards and nominations received by Scissor Sisters">won all three international categories</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2005_BRIT_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 BRIT Awards">2005</a> <a href="/wiki/BRIT_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="BRIT Awards">BRIT Awards</a> for their <a href="/wiki/Scissor_Sisters_(album)" title="Scissor Sisters (album)">debut album</a>?</li> <li>... that in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact" class="mw-redirect" title="Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> signed three economic agreements: <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1939)" class="mw-redirect" title="German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1939)">in 1939</a>, <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940)" title="German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)">in 1940</a> and <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Commercial_Agreement" title="German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement">in 1941</a>?</li> <li>... that the white <a href="/wiki/Piedmont_wine" title="Piedmont wine">Piedmont wine</a> grape <a href="/wiki/Arneis" title="Arneis">Arneis</a> is known as "white <a href="/wiki/Barolo" title="Barolo">Barolo</a>" because it was traditionally blended with <a href="/wiki/Nebbiolo" title="Nebbiolo">Nebbiolo</a> to soften that grape's harsh <a href="/wiki/Tannin" title="Tannin">tannins</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_George_Cross_recipients" title="List of Australian George Cross recipients">22 Australians</a> have been decorated with the <a href="/wiki/George_Cross" title="George Cross">George Cross</a>, the highest <a href="/wiki/Civil_decoration" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil decoration">civil decoration</a> for heroism in the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>?</li> <li>... that the grandfather of <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s new <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Secretary">Cabinet Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Lu" title="Chris Lu">Chris Lu</a>, was <a href="/wiki/Attorney_general" title="Attorney general">attorney general</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China">Republic of China</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Teddy_Air" title="Teddy Air">Teddy Air</a> was the first airline to win a <a href="/wiki/Public_service_obligation" title="Public service obligation">public service obligation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>?</li> <li>... that one critic described the <a href="/wiki/Arliss_Howard" title="Arliss Howard">Arliss Howard</a> film <a href="/wiki/Big_Bad_Love" title="Big Bad Love">Big Bad Love</a> about an <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic">alcoholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_veteran" title="Vietnam veteran">Vietnam veteran</a> as "a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence"?</li></ul> <ul><li>16:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Georgette_Leblanc.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Georgette Leblanc"><img alt="Georgette Leblanc" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Georgette_Leblanc.jpg/70px-Georgette_Leblanc.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Georgette_Leblanc.jpg/105px-Georgette_Leblanc.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Georgette_Leblanc.jpg/141px-Georgette_Leblanc.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3578" data-file-height="5085"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Georgette_Leblanc" title="Georgette Leblanc">Georgette Leblanc</a> (pictured) portrayed the role of Ariane in the original 1899 play Ariane et Barbe-bleue by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Ariane_et_Barbe-bleue" title="Ariane et Barbe-bleue">1907 opera adaptation</a> by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dukas" title="Paul Dukas">Paul Dukas</a>?</li> <li>... that before his <a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" class="mw-disambig" title="Inauguration of Barack Obama">inauguration</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> read <a href="/wiki/The_Defining_Moment" title="The Defining Moment">The Defining Moment</a>, planning to apply some of <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>'s strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Kayser" title="Fredrik Kayser">Fredrik Kayser</a> volunteered for the <a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a>, served in the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Campaign">Norwegian Campaign</a>, and helped sabotage the <a href="/wiki/German_nuclear_energy_project" class="mw-redirect" title="German nuclear energy project">Nazi nuclear programme</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Walden,_New_York)" title="St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Walden, New York)">St. Andrew's Episcopal Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Walden,_New_York" title="Walden, New York">Walden, New York</a>, was not <a href="/wiki/Consecration" class="mw-redirect" title="Consecration">consecrated</a> for nine years as it took that long to pay off the construction debt?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Slipper_lobster" title="Slipper lobster">slipper lobster</a> <a href="/wiki/Scyllarus_arctus" title="Scyllarus arctus">Scyllarus arctus</a> is less common around <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> than the <a href="/wiki/Giant_squid" title="Giant squid">giant squid</a> Architeuthis dux?</li> <li>... that before he flew the <a href="/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis" title="Spirit of St. Louis">Spirit of St. Louis</a> on his historic <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic" class="mw-disambig" title="Transatlantic">transatlantic</a> flight, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a>'s first choice of aircraft was the <a href="/wiki/Ryan_M-1" title="Ryan M-1">Ryan M-2</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political party</a> the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats" class="mw-disambig" title="Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> received £456,000 in state <a href="/wiki/Political_funding_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Political funding in the United Kingdom">political funding</a> in 2006?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedian" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand-up comedian">stand-up comedian</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Johnagin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tommy Johnagin (page does not exist)">Tommy Johnagin</a> achieved two personal career goals within one year: to appear on the <a href="/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a> and to host his own <a href="/wiki/Comedy_Central_Presents" title="Comedy Central Presents">Comedy Central Presents</a> special?</li></ul> <ul><li>10:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres"><img alt="Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg/82px-Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="82" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg/123px-Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg/164px-Vice-Admiral_James_Richard_Dacres_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="527"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain's</a> Dacres family produced an <a href="/wiki/Admiral_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral (United Kingdom)">Admiral</a> and <a href="/wiki/First_Sea_Lord" title="First Sea Lord">First Naval Lord</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Dacres" title="Sydney Dacres">Sydney</a>, three <a href="/wiki/Vice-admiral" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice-admiral">vice-admirals</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Richard_Dacres_(1749%E2%80%931810)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Richard Dacres (1749–1810)">James Richard</a> (pictured), <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dacres_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="Richard Dacres (Royal Navy officer)">Richard</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Richard_Dacres_(1788%E2%80%931853)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Richard Dacres (1788–1853)">James Richard</a>, a naval <a href="/wiki/Captain_(Royal_Navy)" title="Captain (Royal Navy)">Captain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrington_Dacres" title="Barrington Dacres">Barrington</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal (United Kingdom)">field marshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dacres_(British_Army_officer)" title="Richard Dacres (British Army officer)">Richard James</a>?</li> <li>... that the first <a href="/wiki/Antarctopelta" title="Antarctopelta">dinosaur</a> to be discovered in <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a> was unearthed in 1986 from the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Marta_Formation" title="Santa Marta Formation">Santa Marta Formation</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Rudge_Ulster" title="Rudge Ulster">Rudge Ulster</a> <a href="/wiki/Racing_motorcycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Racing motorcycle">racing motorcycle</a> was named after <a href="/wiki/Graham_Walker" class="mw-disambig" title="Graham Walker">Graham Walker</a>'s 1928 race win in the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Grand_Prix" title="Ulster Grand Prix">Ulster Grand Prix</a>, the first time a road race had been won at over 80 mph?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Zamindar" title="Zamindar">zamindar</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ramnad_estate" title="Ramnad estate">estate of Ramnad</a> held the title "Sethupathi" or "protector of the bridge"?</li> <li>... that the operation of the <a href="/wiki/Adria_oil_pipeline" title="Adria oil pipeline">Adria oil pipeline</a> was stopped in 1991 because of the <a href="/wiki/Croatian_War_of_Independence" title="Croatian War of Independence">conflict in Croatia</a>?</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">pitcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Dave_Wainhouse" title="Dave Wainhouse">Dave Wainhouse</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a>-born player to be selected in the first round of the <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball Draft">Major League Baseball Draft</a>?</li> <li>... that Bridgemere Garden World in <a href="/wiki/Bridgemere" title="Bridgemere">Bridgemere</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, now one of the largest <a href="/wiki/Garden_centre" title="Garden centre">garden centres</a> in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Kitagawa" title="Johnny Kitagawa">Johnny Kitagawa</a> has held a virtual monopoly on the creation of <a href="/wiki/Boy_bands" class="mw-redirect" title="Boy bands">boy bands</a> in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> for more than 40 years?</li></ul> <ul><li>05:08, 9 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tirumala natural stone arch"><img alt="Tirumala natural stone arch" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg/100px-Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg/150px-Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg/200px-Tirumala_natural_stone_arch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Natural_Arch,_Tirumala_hills" title="Natural Arch, Tirumala hills">Natural Arch, Tirumala hills</a>, located in <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a>, is a naturally formed geological wonder in <a href="/wiki/Quartzite" title="Quartzite">quartzites</a> with estimated geological age of 1600 to 570 <a href="/wiki/Megaannum" class="mw-redirect" title="Megaannum">Ma</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Adams_(businessman)" title="Joseph Adams (businessman)">Joseph Adams</a> oversaw the creation of a <a href="/wiki/Trading_post" title="Trading post">trading post</a> from which <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Moose_Factory,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Moose Factory, Ontario">first English settlement</a> originated?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Marque" class="mw-redirect" title="Marque">marque</a> <a href="/wiki/AJW_Motorcycles_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="AJW Motorcycles Ltd">AJW</a> built high-end 1000cc <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle" title="Motorcycle">motorcycles</a> in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxer</a> <a href="/wiki/Gogea_Mitu" title="Gogea Mitu">Gogea Mitu</a> is listed by the <a href="/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" title="Guinness World Records">Guiness Book of World Records</a> as the world's tallest <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">professional boxer</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS">Nintendo DS</a> video game, <a href="/wiki/Elebits:_The_Adventures_of_Kai_and_Zero" title="Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero">Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero</a>, requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with <a href="/wiki/Electricity" title="Electricity">electricity</a>?</li> <li>... that in the middle of building <a href="/wiki/Fagernes_Airport,_Leirin" title="Fagernes Airport, Leirin">Fagernes Airport, Leirin</a>, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the <a href="/wiki/Runway" title="Runway">runway</a> length?</li> <li>... that in c. 990, <a href="/wiki/Nagavarma_I" title="Nagavarma I">Nagavarma I</a> authored the earliest available work on the science of <a href="/wiki/Prosody_(poetry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prosody (poetry)">prosody</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Glen_Hansard" title="Glen Hansard">Glen Hansard</a> was a regular visitor to <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Road_Records" title="Road Records">Road Records</a> store before its closure in January 2009?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricketer</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Maynard_(cricketer)" title="John Maynard (cricketer)">John Maynard</a> gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his <a href="/wiki/Fast_bowling" title="Fast bowling">fast</a> <a href="/wiki/Delivery_(cricket)" title="Delivery (cricket)">deliveries</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-8_February_2009-Did_you_know...">8 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 8 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>23:16, 8 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="USS Connecticut (BB 8)"><img alt="USS Connecticut (BB 8)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg/100px-USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg/150px-USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg/200px-USS_Connecticut_-_NH_553.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6897" data-file-height="5612"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that when the <a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-dreadnought">pre-dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleship</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Connecticut_(BB-18)" title="USS Connecticut (BB-18)">Connecticut</a> (pictured) ran aground in 1907, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> tried to cover it up, prompting <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> to consider an official inquiry?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joan_Bright_Astley" title="Joan Bright Astley">Joan Bright Astley</a> is believed to be one of the women on whom <a href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">novelist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming">Ian Fleming</a> based the <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> series character <a href="/wiki/Miss_Moneypenny" title="Miss Moneypenny">Miss Moneypenny</a>?</li> <li>... that although it is now <a href="/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemic</a> to <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossils</a> attributed to the <a href="/wiki/Fiji_Goshawk" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiji Goshawk">Fiji Goshawk</a> have been found in <a href="/wiki/%27Eua" class="mw-redirect" title="'Eua">ʻEua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbi</a> <a href="/wiki/Leon_Klenicki" class="mw-redirect" title="Leon Klenicki">Leon Klenicki</a> called the <a href="/wiki/We_Remember:_A_Reflection_on_the_Shoah" title="We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah">We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah</a> significant in establishing that "the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">deniers of the Holocaust</a> in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> now have to deal with the <a href="/wiki/Vatican" class="mw-disambig" title="Vatican">Vatican</a>"?</li> <li>... that the 2007 <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_film" title="Science fiction film">science fiction film</a> <a href="/wiki/Eden_Log" title="Eden Log">Eden Log</a>, created by first-time <a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">director</a> Franck Vestiel, was shot using only <a href="/wiki/Hand-held_camera" title="Hand-held camera">hand-held cameras</a>?</li> <li>... that about 600 ships have been wrecked on the <a href="/wiki/Doom_Bar" title="Doom Bar">Doom Bar</a> at the estuary of the <a href="/wiki/River_Camel" title="River Camel">River Camel</a> on <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>'s north coast in the past 200 years?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Grady_Nutt" title="Grady Nutt">Grady Nutt</a>, known as "The Prime Minister of Humor" for his humorous <a href="/wiki/Comedy_sketch" class="mw-redirect" title="Comedy sketch">sketches</a> of <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> culture in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a>, was a licensed <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)" title="Minister (Christianity)">minister</a> at age thirteen?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Beer_Day_(Iceland)" title="Beer Day (Iceland)">Beer Day</a> in <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> celebrates the end of <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_Iceland" title="Prohibition in Iceland">prohibition</a> of <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">beer</a> on 1 March 1989, though <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Distilled_beverage" class="mw-redirect" title="Distilled beverage">spirits</a> had been legal since 1935?</li></ul> <ul><li>13:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Scene on the Magdalene (Church)"><img alt="Scene on the Magdalene (Church)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg/100px-La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg/150px-La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg/200px-La_Magdalena_aka_Scene_on_the_Magdalena_Frederic_Edwin_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1275" data-file-height="856"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Effects_of_the_financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932009_on_museums" class="mw-redirect" title="Effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums">effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums</a> have included the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Design" title="National Academy of Design">National Academy of Design</a>'s controversial sale of <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church" title="Frederic Edwin Church">Frederic Edwin Church</a>'s Scene on the Magdalene (pictured)?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Rideau_(company)" title="Rideau (company)">Rideau</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> company to be granted its own <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> by <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Heraldic_Authority" title="Canadian Heraldic Authority">The Heraldic Authority</a>?</li> <li>... that according to <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" title="Indigenous peoples">indigenous</a> chronicles, the <a href="/wiki/Chajom%C3%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Chajomá">Chajomá</a> kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> before the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Conquest" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Conquest">Spanish Conquest</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Bagot" title="Arthur Bagot">Arthur Bagot</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Medal_(lifesaving)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Medal (lifesaving)">Albert Medal</a> in 1918 for removing <a href="/wiki/Depth_charge" title="Depth charge">depth charges</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Motor_launch" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor launch">motor launch</a> whilst the launch was ablaze?</li> <li>... that on 28 May 1931, a <a href="/wiki/Bellanca_CH-300" class="mw-redirect" title="Bellanca CH-300">Bellanca CH-300</a>, fitted with a <a href="/wiki/Packard_DR-980" title="Packard DR-980">Packard DR-980</a> <a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">diesel engine</a>, set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Steve_Carson" title="Steve Carson">Steve Carson</a>, the producer/director husband of <a href="/wiki/Radio_Telef%C3%ADs_%C3%89ireann" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Telefís Éireann">RTÉ</a> host <a href="/wiki/Miriam_O%27Callaghan" title="Miriam O'Callaghan">Miriam O'Callaghan</a>, has been named as the channel's Director of Television?</li> <li>... that in <a href="/wiki/Medieval_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval England">medieval England</a> the <a href="/wiki/Regalian_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Regalian right">regalian right</a> was an important, if irregular, source of income for the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of England">kings</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Roger_Neilson" title="Roger Neilson">Roger Neilson</a> was made the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ottawa_Senators_head_coaches" title="List of Ottawa Senators head coaches">head coach of the Ottawa Senators</a> for the last two games of the <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NHL_season" title="2001–02 NHL season">2001–02 season</a> to become the ninth head coach in <a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">National Hockey League</a> history to coach 1,000 games?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Jaffa Clock Tower"><img alt="Jaffa Clock Tower" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG/58px-Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG" decoding="async" width="58" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG/88px-Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG/117px-Jaffa_Tour_horloge.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="2412"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Jaffa_Clock_Tower" title="Jaffa Clock Tower">Jaffa Clock Tower</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> was built to celebrate the <a href="/wiki/Silver_jubilee" title="Silver jubilee">silver jubilee</a> of the reign of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Dynasty">Ottoman Sultan</a> <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Hamid_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Hamid II">Abd al-Hamid II</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Smith_Haldimand_Dickens" title="Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens">Sydney Dickens</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novelist</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, accumulated so much debt that his father refused to see him?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Informed_consent" title="Informed consent">informed consent</a> for <a href="/wiki/Icos" title="Icos">Icos</a>'s experimental drug <a href="/wiki/Rovelizumab" title="Rovelizumab">rovelizumab</a> (LeukArrest) was waived during <a href="/wiki/Clinical_trial" title="Clinical trial">clinical trials</a> if the patient was unconscious and had a high chance of dying?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Wilhelm_Eger" title="Conrad Wilhelm Eger">Conrad Wilhelm Eger</a> was an associate of <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> <a href="/wiki/Industrialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrialist">industrialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Sam_Eyde" title="Sam Eyde">Sam Eyde</a>, serving as <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a> of <a href="/wiki/Elkem" title="Elkem">Elkem</a> from 1912 to 1950?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Mechanics_Bank" title="Mechanics Bank">Mechanics Bank</a> based in <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond, California</a>, declined a 60 million dollar <a href="/wiki/Global_financial_crisis_of_2008%E2%80%932009" class="mw-redirect" title="Global financial crisis of 2008–2009">government bailout</a>?</li> <li>... that two <a href="/wiki/Court_order" title="Court order">court orders</a> sought to force the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Basketball_Association" title="Philippine Basketball Association">Philippine Basketball Association</a> to allow <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Filipino</a> <a href="/wiki/Basketball_in_the_Philippines" title="Basketball in the Philippines">basketball</a> player <a href="/wiki/Asi_Taulava" title="Asi Taulava">Asi Taulava</a> to play in the <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_PBA_Philippine_Cup" title="2004–05 PBA Philippine Cup">2004–05 PBA Philippine Cup</a> despite him being suspended?</li> <li>... the first bridge over the <a href="/wiki/Mekong" title="Mekong">Mekong</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> was built in <a href="/wiki/Kampong_Cham_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampong Cham District">Kampong Cham District</a>?</li> <li>... that actor <a href="/wiki/Peter_Falk" title="Peter Falk">Peter Falk</a>, the affable detective in the long-running TV series <a href="/wiki/Columbo_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbo (TV series)">Columbo</a>, was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film <a href="/wiki/Murder,_Inc._(film)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Murder, Inc. (film)">Murder, Inc.</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:CambridgeCAP1979.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cambridge CAP computer"><img alt="Cambridge CAP computer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/CambridgeCAP1979.jpg/68px-CambridgeCAP1979.jpg" decoding="async" width="68" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/CambridgeCAP1979.jpg/102px-CambridgeCAP1979.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/CambridgeCAP1979.jpg/136px-CambridgeCAP1979.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="828"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/CAP_computer" title="CAP computer">Cambridge CAP</a> (pictured) was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of <a href="/wiki/Capability-based_security" title="Capability-based security">capabilities</a>, both in hardware and software?</li> <li>... that in 1938, <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time magazine</a> stated that <a href="/wiki/Carleton_Beals" title="Carleton Beals">Carleton Beals</a> is "now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> expects to <a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Albania_to_NATO" class="mw-redirect" title="Accession of Albania to NATO">accede</a> to <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> this April after individual <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_NATO" class="mw-redirect" title="List of members of NATO">NATO member states</a> ratify its <a href="/wiki/Accession" class="mw-disambig" title="Accession">accession</a> protocol?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ray_Edwin_Powell" title="Ray Edwin Powell">Ray Edwin Powell</a> was the president of <a href="/wiki/Alcan" title="Alcan">Alcan</a>, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_(education)" title="Chancellor (education)">Chancellor</a> of <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> in 1957?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dessert_bars" class="mw-redirect" title="Dessert bars">dessert bars</a> are considered one of two essentials for <a href="/wiki/Potlucks" class="mw-redirect" title="Potlucks">potlucks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>, the other being <a href="/wiki/Hotdish" title="Hotdish">hotdish</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dag_Berggrav" title="Dag Berggrav">Dag Berggrav</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Eivind_Berggrav" title="Eivind Berggrav">father</a> and <a href="/wiki/Otto_Jensen" class="mw-disambig" title="Otto Jensen">grandfather</a> both were bishops, served as the vice president of the <a href="/wiki/International_Ski_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="International Ski Federation">International Ski Federation</a> from 1979 to 1983?</li> <li>... that during <a href="/wiki/Clinical_trial" title="Clinical trial">clinical trials</a> of the experimental drug <a href="/wiki/Erlizumab" title="Erlizumab">erlizumab</a> (rhuMAb), four patients suddenly started coughing up blood and later died?</li> <li>... that American <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Matt_Kramer_(wine_writer)" title="Matt Kramer (wine writer)">Matt Kramer</a> coined the definition of <a href="/wiki/Terroir" title="Terroir">terroir</a> as a wine's "somewhereness"?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="7_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-7_February_2009-Did_you_know...">7 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 7 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Khan al-Umdan"><img alt="Khan al-Umdan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg/100px-Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg/150px-Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg/200px-Akko-13-The_Khan_al-Umdan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the well-preserved <a href="/wiki/Khan_al-Umdan" title="Khan al-Umdan">Khan al-Umdan</a> (pictured), located in <a href="/wiki/Acre,_Israel" title="Acre, Israel">Acre</a>, is the largest <a href="/wiki/Caravanserai" title="Caravanserai">caravanserai</a> in <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Santovenia" title="Nelson Santovenia">Nelson Santovenia</a> <a href="/wiki/Caught_stealing" title="Caught stealing">caught</a> <a href="/wiki/Vince_Coleman" class="mw-disambig" title="Vince Coleman">Vince Coleman</a> stealing on July 28, 1989, ending Coleman's streak of 50 consecutive <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Gulag" title="Gulag">Gulag</a> ship <a href="/wiki/SS_Indigirka" title="SS Indigirka">Indigirka</a> was <a href="/wiki/Shipwreck" title="Shipwreck">shipwrecked</a> trying to enter the <a href="/wiki/La_Perouse_Strait" class="mw-redirect" title="La Perouse Strait">La Perouse Strait</a> with a <a href="/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters" title="List of maritime disasters">loss of 741 lives</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_Agar_Adamson" title="William Agar Adamson">William Agar Adamson</a>, who was the personal chaplain to <a href="/wiki/Lord_Sydenham" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Sydenham">Lord Sydenham</a>, the first Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a>, also wrote a book on <a href="/wiki/Salmon" title="Salmon">salmon</a> fishing?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Coast_Aero_Center" title="Coast Aero Center">Coast Aero Center</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norving" title="Norving">Norving</a> were the first airlines with scheduled services at <a href="/wiki/Geilo_Airport,_Dagali" title="Geilo Airport, Dagali">Geilo Airport, Dagali</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Hol" class="mw-redirect" title="Hol">Hol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> gymnast <a href="/wiki/Beth_Wymer" title="Beth Wymer">Beth Wymer</a> won three consecutive <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Gymnastics_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship">NCAA championships</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Uneven_bars" title="Uneven bars">uneven bars</a> and was a first-team <a href="/wiki/All-America" title="All-America">All-American</a> in the all-around and <a href="/wiki/Balance_beam" title="Balance beam">balance beam</a>?</li> <li>... that the 500-year-old title <a href="/wiki/Yeonguijeong" title="Yeonguijeong">Yeonguijeong</a> was created in 1400 CE during the <a href="/wiki/Joseon_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseon Dynasty">Joseon Dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, and given to the Chief State <a href="/wiki/Councilor" class="mw-redirect" title="Councilor">Councilor</a> as the highest government position of "<a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Joseon" title="State Council of Joseon">Uijeongbu</a>"?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Giannini_sextuplets" title="Giannini sextuplets">Giannini sextuplets</a>, the second set of <a href="/wiki/Sextuplet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextuplet">sextuplets</a> in the world to live past infancy, were born in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> six years to the date after <a href="/wiki/Rosenkowitz_sextuplets" title="Rosenkowitz sextuplets">the first set</a> of surviving sextuplets?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Rila_14.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Defensive tower in Rila Monastery"><img alt="Defensive tower in Rila Monastery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rila_14.jpg/75px-Rila_14.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rila_14.jpg/112px-Rila_14.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rila_14.jpg/150px-Rila_14.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hrelja" title="Hrelja">Hrelja</a>, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbian</a> suzerainty, built the defensive tower (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>'s largest monastery, the <a href="/wiki/Rila_Monastery" title="Rila Monastery">Rila Monastery</a>?</li> <li>... that in the <a href="/wiki/Burn_Notice_(season_2)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burn Notice (season 2)">second season</a> of <a href="/wiki/Burn_Notice_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burn Notice (TV series)">Burn Notice</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Michael_Weston" title="Michael Weston">main character</a> offers <a href="/wiki/Aside" title="Aside">asides</a> on topics such as how to <a href="/wiki/Burglary" title="Burglary">burglar</a>-proof a house or <a href="/wiki/Prison_escape" title="Prison escape">break out of prison</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Police_Medal" title="King's Police Medal">King's Police Medal</a> was created to reward the <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">gallantry</a> of three <a href="/wiki/Police_officer" title="Police officer">police officers</a> involved in the <a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Outrage" title="Tottenham Outrage">Tottenham Outrage</a> in 1909?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Perek_Shirah" class="mw-redirect" title="Perek Shirah">Perek Shirah</a>, an ancient <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> text, contains 84 songs of various elements of <a href="/wiki/Creation_according_to_Genesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Creation according to Genesis">creation</a>, ranging from <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_astronomy" title="Hebrew astronomy">the heavens</a> to dogs, based upon <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Biblical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmudic</a> verses?</li> <li>... that according to <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> general <a href="/wiki/Henry_Maitland_Wilson" title="Henry Maitland Wilson">"Jumbo" Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermione,_Countess_of_Ranfurly" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly">Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly</a> "outmanoeuvred every general in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East_Theatre_of_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle East Theatre of World War II">Middle East</a>" in her efforts to remain in the theatre of war?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Jannus_Award" title="Tony Jannus Award">Tony Jannus Award</a> for distinguished achievement in <a href="/wiki/Commercial_aviation" title="Commercial aviation">commercial aviation</a> is named for <a href="/wiki/Tony_Jannus" title="Tony Jannus">the pilot</a> of the first scheduled <a href="/wiki/Commercial_airline" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial airline">commercial airline</a> flight?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Tuva_or_Bust!" title="Tuva or Bust!">Tuva or Bust!</a>, a book about <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a>-winning physicist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a>'s efforts to visit <a href="/wiki/Tannu_Tuva" class="mw-redirect" title="Tannu Tuva">Tannu Tuva</a>, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Tannu_Tuva" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva">postage stamps from Tannu Tuva</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Cinderella_(musical)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Cinderella (musical)">Cinderella</a>, as broadcast on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> in March 1957, is the only <a href="/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hammerstein" title="Rodgers and Hammerstein">Rodgers and Hammerstein</a> <a href="/wiki/Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musical</a> written for <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>08:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Two_Xochipala_figurines_(Met_by_Ched).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Two Xochipala figurines"><img alt="Two Xochipala figurines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg/98px-Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="98" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg/146px-Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg/195px-Two_Xochipala_figurines_%28Met_by_Ched%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="2656"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Xochipala" title="Xochipala">Xochipala</a>-style <a href="/wiki/Figurine" title="Figurine">figurines</a> (pictured) are considered some of the earliest and most <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(arts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalism (arts)">naturalistic</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ignatz_Urban" title="Ignatz Urban">Ignatz Urban</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Biological_type" class="mw-redirect" title="Biological type">type</a> collections of <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> <a href="/wiki/Herbarium" title="Herbarium">Herbarium</a>?</li> <li>... that more than 900 different <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_telegraphic_codes" title="Great Western Railway telegraphic codes">Great Western Railway telegraphic codes</a> were in use to make the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">GWR</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Electrical_telegraph" title="Electrical telegraph">telegraph</a> messages more efficient?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lu_Chen" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Lu Chen">Lu Chen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Magic_(illusion)" title="Magic (illusion)">magic show</a> was the second-most popular performance in China's 2009 <a href="/wiki/CCTV_New_Year%27s_Gala" class="mw-redirect" title="CCTV New Year's Gala">CCTV Spring Festival special</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/The_Go-Getter_(film)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The Go-Getter (film)">The Go-Getter</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Film_release" class="mw-redirect" title="Film release">theatrical run</a> in the U.S. lasted only three days in June 2008?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A1sp%C3%A1r_B%C3%A9k%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Gáspár Békés">Gáspár Békés</a> organized two unsuccessful rebellions against <a href="/wiki/Stephen_B%C3%A1thory_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Báthory of Poland">Stephen Báthory of Poland</a> but later became Báthory's close advisor despite differences in their religions?</li> <li>... that in <a href="/wiki/Gretchen_(play)" title="Gretchen (play)">Gretchen</a>, a play by <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a> based on <a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Goethe's Faust</a>, Faustus hopes to be purified by loving Gretchen, but instead his influence corrupts and eventually kills her?</li> <li>... that while <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Achintre" title="Auguste Achintre">Auguste Achintre</a> was traveling to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> as <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>'s ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as <a href="/wiki/Ambassador" title="Ambassador">ambassador</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>02:24, 7 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:American_bison_k5680-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="American Bison"><img alt="American Bison" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/American_bison_k5680-1.jpg/100px-American_bison_k5680-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/American_bison_k5680-1.jpg/150px-American_bison_k5680-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/American_bison_k5680-1.jpg/200px-American_bison_k5680-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2700" data-file-height="1761"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Passenger Pigeon">passenger pigeons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eskimo_Curlew" class="mw-redirect" title="Eskimo Curlew">eskimo curlews</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Bison" class="mw-redirect" title="American Bison">buffaloes</a> (pictured), and <a href="/wiki/Gopher_(animal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gopher (animal)">gophers</a> were <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Saskatchewan" title="Fauna of Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan wildlife</a> of great population which diminished due to massive over-hunting and natural <a href="/wiki/Habitat" title="Habitat">habitat</a> change?</li> <li>... that American author <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_MacPherson_(writer)" title="Malcolm MacPherson (writer)">Malcolm MacPherson</a> was inspired to become a journalist after interviewing <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister of India</a> <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a> while attending a high school summer program in <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>?</li> <li>... that only 33 Portuguese soldiers survived the 1638 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gannoruwa" title="Battle of Gannoruwa">Battle of Gannoruwa</a>, fought between the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Ceylon" title="Portuguese Ceylon">occupying Portuguese forces</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinhala people">Sinhalese</a> army?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Angers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Angers (page does not exist)">Robert Angers</a> in 1977 established the International Relations Association of <a href="/wiki/Acadiana" title="Acadiana">Acadiana</a> to foster goodwill and <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commerce</a> with <a href="/wiki/French_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="French (language)">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish (language)">Spanish</a>-speaking nations?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_L%C3%A1zaro_C%C3%A1rdenas" title="Port of Lázaro Cárdenas">Port of Lázaro Cárdenas</a> is the largest <a href="/wiki/Seaport" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaport">seaport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, handling 20,860,647 tonnes of <a href="/wiki/Cargo" title="Cargo">cargo</a> in 2008?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australian</a> <a href="/wiki/Drosera_stolonifera" title="Drosera stolonifera">Drosera stolonifera</a> <a href="/wiki/Cryptic_species_complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Cryptic species complex">species complex</a> was split into six related species in 2005?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Duncan_Watson" title="John Duncan Watson">John Duncan Watson</a> was responsible for the construction of the first large-scale <a href="/wiki/Percolating_filter" class="mw-redirect" title="Percolating filter">percolating filter</a> <a href="/wiki/Sewage_treatment" title="Sewage treatment">sewage treatment</a> plant?</li> <li>... that after the cult comedy show <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000" title="Mystery Science Theater 3000">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a> was cancelled, the writing staff created an <a href="/wiki/Animated_cartoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Animated cartoon">animated</a> <a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">comedy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> <a href="/wiki/Miniseries" title="Miniseries">miniseries</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sci Fi Channel">Sci Fi Channel</a> website called <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Less" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward the Less">Edward the Less</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="6_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-6_February_2009-Did_you_know...">6 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 6 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>20:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Bacon_Explosion.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bacon Explosion"><img alt="Bacon Explosion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Bacon_Explosion.jpg/100px-Bacon_Explosion.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Bacon_Explosion.jpg/150px-Bacon_Explosion.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Bacon_Explosion.jpg/200px-Bacon_Explosion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the 5,000-<a href="/wiki/Food_energy" title="Food energy">calorie</a> <a href="/wiki/Bacon_Explosion" title="Bacon Explosion">Bacon Explosion</a> (pictured) was created in response to a <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> challenge to develop "the ultimate <a href="/wiki/Bacon" title="Bacon">bacon</a> recipe"?</li> <li>... that the didactic <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jain</a> literature, <a href="/wiki/Vaddaradhane" title="Vaddaradhane">Vaddaradhane</a>, written by <a href="/wiki/Shivakotiacharya" title="Shivakotiacharya">Shivakotiacharya</a> in c. 900, is the earliest available prose work in the <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a>?</li> <li>... that during the <a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" class="mw-disambig" title="Inauguration of Barack Obama">inauguration of Barack Obama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macon_Phillips" title="Macon Phillips">Macon Phillips</a>, the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> Director of <a href="/wiki/New_media" title="New media">New Media</a>, posted the first official <a href="/wiki/Obama_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama Administration">Obama Administration</a> <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blog</a> entry from <a href="/wiki/Whitehouse.gov" title="Whitehouse.gov">Whitehouse.gov</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sgurr_na_Ciste_Dhuibhe" class="mw-redirect" title="Sgurr na Ciste Dhuibhe">Sgurr nan Spainteach</a>, a mountain in <a href="/wiki/Glen_Shiel" title="Glen Shiel">Glen Shiel</a>, was named after the <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a> soldiers who retreated up it during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Glen_Shiel" title="Battle of Glen Shiel">Battle of Glen Shiel</a>?</li> <li>... that the plant genus <a href="/wiki/Tricarpelema" title="Tricarpelema">Tricarpelema</a> contains seven <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asian</a> species from moist <a href="/wiki/Tropical_forest" title="Tropical forest">tropical forests</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> species found on dry <a href="/wiki/Inselberg" title="Inselberg">inselbergs</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Dubois-Sarles_Octagon" title="Dubois-Sarles Octagon">Dubois-Sarles Octagon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marlboro,_New_York" title="Marlboro, New York">Marlboro, New York</a>, has a <a href="/wiki/Alcove" class="mw-disambig" title="Alcove">recessed</a> entrance and sidehall interior plan, both unusual in mid-19th century <a href="/wiki/Octagon_house" title="Octagon house">octagon houses</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Ugandan</a> <a href="/wiki/800_metres" title="800 metres">800 metres</a> runner <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Chepkirwok" title="Abraham Chepkirwok">Abraham Chepkirwok</a> missed out on the <a href="/wiki/2007_World_Championships_in_Athletics" title="2007 World Championships in Athletics">2007 World Championships</a> bronze medal by only 0.02 seconds?</li> <li>... that when <a href="/wiki/Hayden_Edwards" class="mw-redirect" title="Hayden Edwards">Hayden Edwards</a> asked fellow <a href="/wiki/Empresario" title="Empresario">empresario</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_F._Austin" title="Stephen F. Austin">Stephen F. Austin</a> to support the <a href="/wiki/Fredonian_Rebellion" title="Fredonian Rebellion">Fredonian Rebellion</a>, Austin replied "You are deluding yourselves and this delusion will ruin you"?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lysurus periphragmoides"><img alt="Lysurus periphragmoides" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg/74px-Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg" decoding="async" width="74" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg/111px-Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg/148px-Lysurus_periphragmoides.jpg 2x" data-file-width="627" data-file-height="849"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that because he misidentified the <a href="/wiki/Lysurus_periphragmoides" title="Lysurus periphragmoides">stalked lattice stinkhorn</a> <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungus</a> (pictured) as a new <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a>, George Atkinson was ridiculed in print by fellow <a href="/wiki/Mycologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Mycologist">mycologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Gates_Lloyd" title="Curtis Gates Lloyd">Curtis Gates Lloyd</a>?</li> <li>... that the recently announced <a href="/wiki/Marianna_Fault" title="Marianna Fault">Marianna Fault</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> was discovered due to the stretches of fine <a href="/wiki/Sand" title="Sand">sand</a> in otherwise <a href="/wiki/Fertile_soil" class="mw-redirect" title="Fertile soil">fertile soil</a>?</li> <li>... that efforts taken by <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> missionary <a href="/wiki/Henrique_Henriques" title="Henrique Henriques">Henrique Henriques</a> to publish <a href="/wiki/Religious_book" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious book">religious books</a> in local languages led him to be called The Father of <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> press?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Gresham,_Norfolk" title="Gresham, Norfolk">Gresham, Norfolk</a>, once had a 14th-century <a href="/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castle</a> with four <a href="/wiki/Round_tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Round tower">round towers</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Moat" title="Moat">moat</a>, now ruined and overgrown by trees?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Gymnastics" title="Gymnastics">gymnastics</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Bev_Plocki" title="Bev Plocki">Bev Plocki</a> led <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">Michigan</a> to 15 <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten</a> championships and 18 <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Gymnastics_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship">NCAA championship tournaments</a> after taking over a last-place program in 1990?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fahd_Armored_Personnel_Carrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier">Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier</a> has specialized variants ranging from an <a href="/wiki/Infantry_fighting_vehicle" title="Infantry fighting vehicle">infantry fighting vehicle</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Command_post_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Command post vehicle">command post vehicle</a> to deal with different threats?</li> <li>... that advertising executive turned <a href="/wiki/Vintner" class="mw-redirect" title="Vintner">vintner</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Palmer_(vintner)" title="Robert Palmer (vintner)">Robert Palmer</a> was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the <a href="/wiki/North_Fork,_Suffolk_County,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="North Fork, Suffolk County, New York">North Fork</a> of <a href="/wiki/New_York" class="mw-disambig" title="New York">New York</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Decking" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Decking">decking</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Pier" title="Pier">pier</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Sihanoukville_Autonomous_Port" title="Sihanoukville Autonomous Port">Sihanoukville Autonomous Port</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> was so heavy that a <a href="/wiki/Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway">railway</a> had to be constructed to move it?</li></ul> <ul><li>08:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stag's horn fungus"><img alt="Stag's horn fungus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg/66px-Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg" decoding="async" width="66" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg/100px-Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg/133px-Xylaria_hypoxylon1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="750"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Xylaria_hypoxylon" title="Xylaria hypoxylon">stag's horn fungus</a> (pictured) contains a <a href="/wiki/Lectin" title="Lectin">sugar binding protein</a> with potent <a href="/wiki/Antineoplastic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antineoplastic">anti-tumor</a> properties?</li> <li>... that worldwide there are four million commercial <a href="/wiki/Fishing_vessel" title="Fishing vessel">fishing vessels</a>, including 1.8 million <a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">undecked</a> traditional craft still powered by <a href="/wiki/Oar" title="Oar">oars</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sail" title="Sail">sail</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a>'s autobiography, <a href="/wiki/Moon_Walk_(autobiography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Moon Walk (autobiography)">Moon Walk</a>, was given the <a href="/wiki/Code_name" title="Code name">code name</a> "<a href="/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a>", that of the first "moonwalker"?</li> <li>... that in a festival at the Norse <a href="/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala" title="Temple at Uppsala">Temple at Uppsala</a>, men and male animals were <a href="/wiki/Norse_pagan_worship" class="mw-redirect" title="Norse pagan worship">sacrificed</a> by hanging?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Milton-Madison_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Milton-Madison Bridge">Milton-Madison Bridge</a>, which carries <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_421" title="U.S. Route 421">U.S. Route 421</a> across the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a>, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Kh-31" title="Kh-31">Kh-31</a> was the first supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched by tactical aircraft?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Larry_Brown_(basketball)" title="Larry Brown (basketball)">Larry Brown</a> is the only one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Clippers_head_coaches" title="List of Los Angeles Clippers head coaches">22 head coaches in franchise history</a> with a winning <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> <a href="/wiki/Regular_season" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular season">regular season</a> record?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/K-Space_(band)" title="K-Space (band)">K-Space</a>'s third album, <a href="/wiki/Infinity_(K-Space_album)" title="Infinity (K-Space album)">Infinity</a>, was a new type of <a href="/wiki/Compact_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact Disc">CD</a> that is different every time it is played?</li></ul> <ul><li>02:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Fivefold-Scapular.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Red Scapular of the Passion"><img alt="Red Scapular of the Passion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Fivefold-Scapular.jpg/100px-Fivefold-Scapular.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Fivefold-Scapular.jpg/150px-Fivefold-Scapular.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Fivefold-Scapular.jpg/200px-Fivefold-Scapular.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the idea for the <a href="/wiki/Red_Scapular_of_the_Passion" title="Red Scapular of the Passion">Red Scapular of the Passion</a> (pictured) approved by <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> <a href="/wiki/Pius_IX" class="mw-redirect" title="Pius IX">Pius IX</a> is said to have been given to a <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Nun" title="Nun">nun</a> by <a href="/wiki/Visions_of_Jesus_and_Mary" title="Visions of Jesus and Mary">visions of Jesus and Mary</a> in 1846?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Belonio" title="Alexis Belonio">Alexis Belonio</a>, for his innovations on the <a href="/wiki/Rice_husk" class="mw-redirect" title="Rice husk">rice husk</a> stove, becomes the first <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Filipino</a> to receive a <a href="/wiki/Rolex_Awards_for_Enterprise" title="Rolex Awards for Enterprise">Rolex Award for Enterprise</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Nelson_County_Jail" title="Nelson County Jail">old stone jail</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky" title="Bardstown, Kentucky">Bardstown, Kentucky</a>, an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>?</li> <li>... that the English architectural historian <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hubbard" class="mw-disambig" title="Edward Hubbard">Edward Hubbard</a> wrote the definitive biography of the <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> architect <a href="/wiki/John_Douglas_(architect)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="John Douglas (architect)">John Douglas</a>, but died before it could be published?</li> <li>... that various species in the <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungal</a> genus <a href="/wiki/Antrodia" title="Antrodia">Antrodia</a>, used in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> as <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine" title="Traditional Chinese medicine">traditional</a> <a href="/wiki/Crude_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude medicine">medicines</a>, have been shown to have <a href="/wiki/Antioxidant" title="Antioxidant">antioxidant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anticancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Anticancer">anticancer</a> properties?</li> <li>... that the first ever mission of the <a href="/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">U.S. Peace Corps</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> began in the <a href="/wiki/Kampong_Siem_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampong Siem District">Kampong Siem District</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Developmental_biology" title="Developmental biology">developmental biologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Aron_Moscona" title="Aron Moscona">Aron Moscona</a>'s research on growth of embryos into complex tissues and organs led to the discovery of <a href="/wiki/Cadherin" title="Cadherin">cadherins</a>, which help cells recognize each other and cluster together?</li> <li>... that in some countries, <a href="/wiki/Digital_DJ_licensing" title="Digital DJ licensing">digital DJ licensing</a> is required before <a href="/wiki/DJ" class="mw-redirect" title="DJ">DJs</a> can legally perform with a <a href="/wiki/Laptop" title="Laptop">laptop</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="5_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-5_February_2009-Did_you_know...">5 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 5 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>20:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Coast Air ATR-42"><img alt="Coast Air ATR-42" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG/100px-Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG/150px-Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG/200px-Coast_Air_ATR-42_LN-FAP.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the airline <a href="/wiki/Vildanden_(airline)" title="Vildanden (airline)">Vildanden</a> started its first route with <a href="/wiki/Wet_lease" class="mw-redirect" title="Wet lease">wet leased</a> aircraft (example pictured) from <a href="/wiki/Coast_Air" title="Coast Air">Coast Air</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Stock_Exchange_Luncheon_Club" title="Stock Exchange Luncheon Club">Stock Exchange Luncheon Club</a> closed in 2006 after more than a century on <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a>?</li> <li>... that former <a href="/wiki/Six_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Six (band)">Six</a> band member <a href="/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_Shepherd" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinéad Shepherd">Sinéad Shepherd</a> returned to <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> television on <a href="/wiki/The_All_Ireland_Talent_Show" title="The All Ireland Talent Show">The All Ireland Talent Show</a> in February 2009?</li> <li>... that Haung Falls in the <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodian</a> <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Cambodia" title="Administrative divisions of Cambodia">district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dambae_District" title="Dambae District">Dambae</a> have carved out a 1,425 square metre stone crater under the cascade?</li> <li>... that mountaineer <a href="/wiki/Otto_Meiling" title="Otto Meiling">Otto Meiling</a> kept in such good physical shape, he made a one-day ascent of Argentina's <a href="/wiki/Mount_Tronador" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Tronador">Mount Tronador</a> in his mid 80s?</li> <li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Drosera_stolonifera_subsp._monticola" class="mw-redirect" title="Drosera stolonifera subsp. monticola">subspecies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Carnivorous_plant" title="Carnivorous plant">carnivorous plant</a> <a href="/wiki/Drosera_stolonifera" title="Drosera stolonifera">Drosera stolonifera</a> has only been collected from the summits of two mountains, <a href="/wiki/Bluff_Knoll" title="Bluff Knoll">Bluff Knoll</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toolbrunup" title="Toolbrunup">Toolbrunup</a> in <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Firefighter" title="Firefighter">firefighters</a> had to shut off a <a href="/wiki/Fire_hydrant" title="Fire hydrant">fire hydrant</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaii</a> after it was struck by a <a href="/wiki/Rockslide" title="Rockslide">rockslide</a> as a result of heavy rainfall from <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Darby_(2004)" title="Hurricane Darby (2004)">Hurricane Darby</a> in 2004?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Francois-Gabriel_D%27Angeac" class="mw-redirect" title="Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac">Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Prefect_of_Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Prefect of Saint Pierre and Miquelon">French governor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a>, began his military career at age eight?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Cocoontower.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower"><img alt="Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Cocoontower.jpg/50px-Cocoontower.jpg" decoding="async" width="50" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Cocoontower.jpg/76px-Cocoontower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Cocoontower.jpg/101px-Cocoontower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1137" data-file-height="2248"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that after being completed in October 2008, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mode_Gakuen_Cocoon_Tower" title="Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower">Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower</a> (pictured) is the second-tallest educational building in the world, at 204 metres (669 ft)?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Colrat" title="Adolphe Colrat">Adolphe Colrat</a>, the <a href="/wiki/High_Commissioner_of_the_Republic_in_French_Polynesia" class="mw-redirect" title="High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia">High Commissioner of the Republic</a> in <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>, previously worked as the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff">chief of staff</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Police_commissioner" title="Police commissioner">police commissioner</a> of <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9union" title="Réunion">Réunion</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a>'s 1933 role in <a href="/wiki/Rufus_Jones_for_President" title="Rufus Jones for President">Rufus Jones for President</a> is considered to be the first portrayal of an <a href="/wiki/Black_president_in_popular_culture_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black president in popular culture (United States)">African American president of the United States in popular culture</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1953, <a href="/wiki/Jessurun_Cardozo" title="Jessurun Cardozo">Jessurun Cardozo</a> became the first rabbi to conduct Jewish <a href="/wiki/High_Holidays" class="mw-redirect" title="High Holidays">High Holidays</a> services in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> since the <a href="/wiki/Alhambra_Decree" title="Alhambra Decree">Alhambra Decree</a> of 1492 expelled <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a> from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>?</li> <li>... that in <a href="/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_Florida_Panthers_season" title="1995–96 Florida Panthers season">1995–96</a>, fans of the <a href="/wiki/NHL" class="mw-redirect" title="NHL">NHL</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Florida_Panthers" title="Florida Panthers">Florida Panthers</a> celebrated goals by <a href="/wiki/Rat_trick" title="Rat trick">throwing plastic rats on the ice</a> as their team reached its first <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a> final?</li> <li>... that in late 2008, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> novelist <a href="/wiki/Johan_Harstad" title="Johan Harstad">Johan Harstad</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Brage_Prize" title="Brage Prize">Brage Prize</a> and was hired as the first in-house <a href="/wiki/Playwright" title="Playwright">playwright</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Nationaltheatret" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationaltheatret">National Theatre of Norway</a>?</li> <li>... that after the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad" title="New York Central Railroad">New York Central Railroad</a> ended service to it, the <a href="/wiki/Milton_Railroad_Station" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Milton Railroad Station">Milton Railroad Station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Milton,_Ulster_County,_New_York" title="Milton, Ulster County, New York">Milton, New York</a>, was used by a local <a href="/wiki/Winery" title="Winery">winery</a> for <a href="/wiki/Wine_tasting" title="Wine tasting">tastings</a>?</li> <li>... that a relative of the culinary herb <a href="/wiki/Salvia_officinalis" title="Salvia officinalis">sage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salvia_involucrata" title="Salvia involucrata">Salvia involucrata</a>, has been found to contain <a href="/wiki/Acetylcholine_receptor" title="Acetylcholine receptor">compounds</a> that can help prevent memory loss?</li></ul> <ul><li>09:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A print depicting Great Tom, circa 1776"><img alt="A print depicting Great Tom, circa 1776" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg/88px-Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg/132px-Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg/175px-Bell_great_tom_of_westminster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="373" data-file-height="425"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that in 1716, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Phelps_(bell-founder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Phelps (bell-founder)">Richard Phelps</a> cast the hour bell popularly known as "Great Tom" (illustration pictured) still in use at <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>?</li> <li>... that of all <a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Orleans_Hornets_head_coaches" class="mw-redirect" title="List of New Orleans Hornets head coaches">head coaches</a> of what are now the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Hornets" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans Hornets">New Orleans Hornets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Hall of Fame">Basketball Hall of Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">Dave Cowens</a> has had the best record, winning more than 60% of games in his three seasons coaching the team?</li> <li>... that British novelist <a href="/wiki/Mary_Shelley" title="Mary Shelley">Mary Shelley</a> was <a href="/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmailed</a> by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the <a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">travel narrative</a> <a href="/wiki/Rambles_in_Germany_and_Italy" title="Rambles in Germany and Italy">Rambles in Germany and Italy</a>?</li> <li>... that before a <a href="/wiki/Shogun" title="Shogun">shogunate</a> tribunal in 1787, the temples <a href="/wiki/My%C5%8Dh%C5%8D%E2%80%93ji" title="Myōhō–ji">Myōhō–ji</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ankokuron-ji" title="Ankokuron-ji">Ankokuron-ji</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D-ji" title="Chōshō-ji">Chōshō-ji</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kamakura,_Kanagawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamakura, Kanagawa">Kamakura</a> all claimed to be the site where <a href="/wiki/Nichiren" title="Nichiren">Nichiren</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism" title="Nichiren Buddhism">Nichiren Buddhism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, had his <a href="/wiki/Hermitage_(religious_retreat)" title="Hermitage (religious retreat)">hermitage</a> in a hut in the 13th century?</li> <li>... that 19th-century English portrait painter <a href="/wiki/Henry_William_Pickersgill" title="Henry William Pickersgill">Henry William Pickersgill</a> was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Academy">Royal Academy</a> for almost 50 years, and showed a total of 384 works there?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Keith_Smith_(Australian_footballer)" title="Keith Smith (Australian footballer)">Keith Smith</a> was a leading <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules footballer</a> of the 1930s and '40s?</li> <li>... that 19th-century French newspaper <a href="/wiki/Le_Constitutionnel" title="Le Constitutionnel">Le Constitutionnel</a> established the reputation of critics such as <a href="/wiki/Charles_Augustin_Sainte-Beuve" title="Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve">Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve</a>?</li> <li>... that despite what its <a href="/wiki/Scientific_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific name">scientific name</a> implies, the <a href="/wiki/Perennial" title="Perennial">perennial</a> garden plant <a href="/wiki/Salvia_indica" title="Salvia indica">Salvia indica</a> is not naturally found in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>03:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Silver Buffaloberry"><img alt="Silver Buffaloberry" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg/100px-SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg/150px-SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg/200px-SilverBuffaloberry-SK..jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the indigenous <a href="/wiki/Flora_of_Saskatchewan" title="Flora of Saskatchewan">flora of Saskatchewan</a> (example pictured) is used for jellies, jams, pies, herbal teas, medicinal <a href="/wiki/Decoction" title="Decoction">decoctions</a> and technological products?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producers</a> <a href="/wiki/Keith_Calder" title="Keith Calder">Keith Calder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Felipe_Marino" title="Felipe Marino">Felipe Marino</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Neurauter" title="Joe Neurauter">Joe Neurauter</a> acquired <a href="/wiki/All_the_Boys_Love_Mandy_Lane" title="All the Boys Love Mandy Lane">their first script</a> within a week of forming their <a href="/wiki/Production_company" title="Production company">production company</a>, Occupant Films?</li> <li>... that art and architecture collective <a href="/wiki/Fashion_Architecture_Taste" title="Fashion Architecture Taste">Fashion Architecture Taste</a> designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in <a href="/wiki/Scheveningen" title="Scheveningen">Scheveningen</a> that appeared on the 69c <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a> <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamp</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jack_Brennan" title="Jack Brennan">Jack Brennan</a>'s accidental interruption of the <a href="/wiki/The_Nixon_Interviews" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nixon Interviews">Frost/Nixon interviews</a> allowed <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>'s staff to convince Nixon to offer a <a href="/wiki/Mea_culpa" title="Mea culpa">mea culpa</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> <a href="/wiki/Old_Punch_Bowl" title="Old Punch Bowl">Old Punch Bowl</a> in <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a <a href="/wiki/Tearoom_(U.K._and_U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tearoom (U.K. and U.S.)">tearoom</a>, an officers' <a href="/wiki/Mess" title="Mess">mess</a>, a <a href="/wiki/YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a> and a bank, and is now a <a href="/wiki/Public_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Public house">pub</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Carol_Hutchins" title="Carol Hutchins">Carol Hutchins</a>, coach of the first eastern team to win the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_College_World_Series" title="Women's College World Series">Women's College World Series</a>, is the winningest coach in the history of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> in any sport?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Taranakite" title="Taranakite">taranakite</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Mineral" title="Mineral">mineral</a> formed from the <a href="/wiki/Chemical_reaction" title="Chemical reaction">reaction</a> of clays or <a href="/wiki/Alum" title="Alum">aluminous</a> rocks with materials derived from bat or bird <a href="/wiki/Guano" title="Guano">guano</a>, was first found in <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Loaf_Islands" title="Sugar Loaf Islands">Sugar Loaf Islands</a> in 1865?</li> <li>... that, according to the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Tang" class="mw-disambig" title="Book of Tang">Book of Tang</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Dynasty</a> official <a href="/wiki/Wang_Shuwen" title="Wang Shuwen">Wang Shuwen</a> first became a staff member of then-<a href="/wiki/Crown_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Prince">Crown Prince</a> <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Shunzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Shunzong of Tang">Li Song</a> because of his <a href="/wiki/Go_(game)" title="Go (game)">Go</a> abilities?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="4_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-4_February_2009-Did_you_know...">4 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 4 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Crazywell_cross_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Crazywell Cross"><img alt="Crazywell Cross" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Crazywell_cross_1.JPG/100px-Crazywell_cross_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Crazywell_cross_1.JPG/150px-Crazywell_cross_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Crazywell_cross_1.JPG/200px-Crazywell_cross_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that some <a href="/wiki/Dartmoor_crosses" title="Dartmoor crosses">Dartmoor crosses</a> (example pictured) were probably used not for religious purposes, but rather to mark the tracks between <a href="/wiki/Buckfast_Abbey" title="Buckfast Abbey">Buckfast Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tavistock_Abbey" title="Tavistock Abbey">Tavistock Abbey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buckland,_Devon" title="Buckland, Devon">Buckland Abbey</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Ira_Eaker_(Back_Stage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ira Eaker (Back Stage)">Ira Eaker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Allen_Zwerdling" title="Allen Zwerdling">Allen Zwerdling</a> established <a href="/wiki/Back_Stage" class="mw-redirect" title="Back Stage">Back Stage</a> in 1960, considered the "casting bible" for <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">theater performers</a>?</li> <li>... that despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salvia_interrupta" title="Salvia interrupta">Salvia interrupta</a> can only be found in nature in the <a href="/wiki/Atlas_Mountains" title="Atlas Mountains">Atlas Mountains</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> country of <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm" title="Shirley Chisholm">Shirley Chisholm</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/African_American_candidates_for_president_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="African American candidates for president of the United States">African American candidate for president of the United States</a> for a major <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political party</a> when she <a href="/wiki/Political_campaign" title="Political campaign">campaigned</a> during the <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election, 1972">1972 election</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1018, <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> general <a href="/wiki/Eustathios_Daphnomeles" title="Eustathios Daphnomeles">Eustathios Daphnomeles</a> entered the stronghold of <a href="/wiki/Ibatzes_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibatzes of Bulgaria">Ibatzes of Bulgaria</a> and blinded and captured him, thereby ending <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgarian</a> resistance to the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Bulgarian_Wars#Byzantine_conquest_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars">Byzantine conquest</a>?</li> <li>... that although it was founded in 1924, <a href="/wiki/Congregation_Beth_Israel_(Berkeley,_California)" title="Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California)">Congregation Beth Israel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley, California</a>, did not hire its first <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> until 1963?</li> <li>... that the monuments of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Seibal" title="Seibal">Seibal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> display an unusual mix of Maya and foreign elements?</li> <li>... that unlike most other <a href="/wiki/Lemur" title="Lemur">lemurs</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Collared_Brown_Lemur" class="mw-redirect" title="Collared Brown Lemur">Collared Brown Lemurs</a> do not demonstrate female dominance?</li></ul> <ul><li>15:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Arms_of_Schaw_of_Sauchie.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arms of Schaw of Sauchie"><img alt="Arms of Schaw of Sauchie" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Arms_of_Schaw_of_Sauchie.svg/91px-Arms_of_Schaw_of_Sauchie.svg.png" decoding="async" width="91" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Arms_of_Schaw_of_Sauchie.svg/136px-Arms_of_Schaw_of_Sauchie.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="mw-disambig" title="Administrator">administrator</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Region_of_Bougainville" title="Autonomous Region of Bougainville">Autonomous Region of Bougainville</a>, also served as <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ambassador" title="Ambassador">ambassador</a> to <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>?</li> <li>... that in 2008, <a href="/wiki/Unionsexpressen" title="Unionsexpressen">Unionsexpressen</a> started a luxury intercity train service between <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>, in competition with the state-owned <a href="/wiki/SJ_AB" title="SJ AB">SJ</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Operatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Operatic">operatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Tenor" title="Tenor">tenor</a> <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Walter" title="Gustav Walter">Gustav Walter</a> portrayed the role of Assad in the world premiere of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Goldmark" title="Karl Goldmark">Karl Goldmark</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Die_K%C3%B6nigin_von_Saba" title="Die Königin von Saba">Die Königin von Saba</a>?</li> <li>... that after <a href="/wiki/Noel_Coward" class="mw-redirect" title="Noel Coward">Noel Coward</a>'s play cycle <a href="/wiki/Tonight_at_8.30" title="Tonight at 8.30">Tonight at 8.30</a> premiered, he added four more plays, including <a href="/wiki/Family_Album_(play)" title="Family Album (play)">Family Album</a> and <a href="/wiki/Still_Life_(play)" title="Still Life (play)">Still Life</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bateay_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Bateay District">Bateay District</a> in Kampong Cham Province, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, was the site of an outbreak of the deadly <a href="/wiki/H5N1_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="H5N1 virus">H5N1 virus</a> in 2006?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Flip_Saunders" title="Flip Saunders">Flip Saunders</a> is the only <a href="/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_Timberwolves_head_coaches" title="List of Minnesota Timberwolves head coaches">Minnesota Timberwolves head coach</a> to have been to the <a href="/wiki/Playoff" class="mw-redirect" title="Playoff">playoffs</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Timberwolves</a>?</li> <li>... that during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Shunzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Shunzong of Tang">Emperor Shunzong of Tang</a>, who was debilitated by a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a>, his <a href="/wiki/Concubine" class="mw-redirect" title="Concubine">concubine</a> <a href="/wiki/Consort_Niu" title="Consort Niu">Consort Niu</a> was one of the key decision-makers?</li></ul> <ul><li>06:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Vietnamese water puppet theatre"><img alt="Vietnamese water puppet theatre" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG/100px-Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG/150px-Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG/200px-Thang_Long_Water_Puppet_Theatre2_cropped.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2334" data-file-height="1737"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Water_puppetry" title="Water puppetry">water puppetry</a> (pictured) from <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> dates back to the 11th century CE?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Ellis" class="mw-disambig" title="William Henry Ellis">William Henry Ellis</a>'s tenure as <a href="/wiki/Master_Cutler" title="Master Cutler">Master Cutler</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Company_of_Cutlers_in_Hallamshire" title="Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire">Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire</a> lasted for four years instead of just one because of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>?</li> <li>... that to survive during <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prohibition (United States)">Prohibition</a>, some <a href="/wiki/Winemaking" title="Winemaking">winemaking</a> families in what is now <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Russian_River_Valley_AVA" title="Russian River Valley AVA">Russian River Valley AVA</a> converted to <a href="/wiki/Rum-running" title="Rum-running">bootlegging</a> operations that sold a water-based <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a> known as "jackass <a href="/wiki/Brandy" title="Brandy">brandy</a>"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Karl_Graul" title="Karl Graul">Karl Graul</a>, former director of <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a> <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a> <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">mission</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> <a href="/wiki/Scholar" title="Scholar">scholar</a>, believed that <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Missionaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Missionaries">missionaries</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> should not interfere with the local traditions including the <a href="/wiki/Caste_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Caste system">caste system</a>?</li> <li>... that within the <a href="/wiki/Source_Seine" class="mw-redirect" title="Source Seine">Source Seine</a> <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_the_C%C3%B4te-d%27Or_department" title="Communes of the Côte-d'Or department">commune</a> in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Source_(river)" class="mw-redirect" title="Source (river)">source</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Seine" title="Seine">Seine</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> player <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Burris" title="Buddy Burris">Buddy Burris</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Oklahoma Sooner</a> to be named an <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> three times?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Evangelische_Oberschule" title="Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule">Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>'s oldest <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> school, has been running since 1873?</li> <li>... that <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sammy_Stephens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sammy Stephens (page does not exist)">Sammy Stephens</a>, an <a href="/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena#Advertising" title="List of Internet phenomena">internet sensation</a> for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Flea_Market_Montgomery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Flea Market Montgomery (page does not exist)">Flea Market Montgomery</a>, got his start in broadcasting at <a href="/wiki/WMGY" title="WMGY">WMGY</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama" title="Montgomery, Alabama">Montgomery, Alabama</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>00:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Maple_Lawn,_Balmville,_NY.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Maple Lawn"><img alt="Maple Lawn" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg/100px-Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg/150px-Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg/200px-Maple_Lawn%2C_Balmville%2C_NY.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1778" data-file-height="1664"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Maple" title="Maple">trees</a> that gave <a href="/wiki/Maple_Lawn" title="Maple Lawn">Maple Lawn</a> (pictured), a <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Clarke_Withers" title="Frederick Clarke Withers">Frederick Clarke Withers</a>-designed house in <a href="/wiki/Balmville,_New_York" title="Balmville, New York">Balmville, New York</a>, its name were later destroyed in a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">hurricane</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Celebrity_chef" title="Celebrity chef">television chef</a> <a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Espelid_Hovig" title="Ingrid Espelid Hovig">Ingrid Espelid Hovig</a> is considered the "<a href="/wiki/Culinary_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Culinary art">culinary</a> mother" of <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Isidore_de_Lara" title="Isidore de Lara">Isidore de Lara</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Messaline" title="Messaline">Messaline</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> by an English <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a> to be produced at <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>?</li> <li>... that the prolific author <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Gray" title="Maxwell Gray">Maxwell Gray</a>, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Isle_of_Wight" title="Newport, Isle of Wight">Newport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a>?</li> <li>... that, when the <a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen_RFC" title="München RFC">München RFC</a> played the Bad Tölz US Army in June 1978, it was the first game of <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> played in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> in almost 50 years?</li> <li>... that the film <a href="/wiki/Dark_Habits" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Habits">Dark Habits</a> was rejected by the <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a> because the organizing committee considered it sacrilegious, blasphemous and anti-Catholic?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/S._Muthiah_Mudaliar" title="S. Muthiah Mudaliar">S. Muthiah Mudaliar</a> spent <a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">Rs.</a> 4 <a href="/wiki/Lakh" title="Lakh">lakhs</a> on a propaganda campaign <a href="/wiki/Prohibition#South_Asia" title="Prohibition">against consumption of liquor</a> in the late 1920s?</li> <li>... that although it has not been formally assessed by the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature">IUCN</a>, the plant <a href="/wiki/Justicia_flaviflora" title="Justicia flaviflora">Justicia flaviflora</a> is considered <a href="/wiki/Critically_endangered_species" class="mw-redirect" title="Critically endangered species">critically endangered</a> because it can only be naturally found on one mountain in <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Derek_Forster" title="Derek Forster">Derek Forster</a> became the youngest <a href="/wiki/Sunderland_A.F.C." title="Sunderland A.F.C.">Sunderland</a> <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">footballer</a> to have made a first team appearance when he was 15 years 185 days old?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="3_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-3_February_2009-Did_you_know...">3 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 3 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>18:56, 3 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Maryland Residence"><img alt="Maryland Residence" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg/100px-Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="56" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg/150px-Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg/200px-Maryland_Residence_by_Cesar_Pelli.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2218" data-file-height="1242"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_Residence" title="Maryland Residence">Maryland Residence</a> (pictured) in <a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>, one of the few houses designed by <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli" title="César Pelli">César Pelli</a>, consists of five <a href="/wiki/Pavilion_(structure)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavilion (structure)">pavilions</a> linked by a central gallery?</li> <li>... that 11th-century "minister of war and peace" <a href="/wiki/Durgasimha" title="Durgasimha">Durgasimha</a> wrote the <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a> version of the <a href="/wiki/Panchatantra" title="Panchatantra">Panchatantra</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">Indian vernacular</a> adaptation of these <a href="/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">fables</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Apalachia_Dam" title="Apalachia Dam">Apalachia Dam</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric powerhouse</a> 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Wang_(Xianzong)" title="Empress Dowager Wang (Xianzong)">Empress Dowager Wang</a>, the mother of <a href="/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Dynasty">Tang Chinese</a> <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xianzong of Tang">Emperor Xianzong</a>, was to be a <a href="/wiki/Concubine" class="mw-redirect" title="Concubine">concubine</a> of his great-grandfather <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Daizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Daizong of Tang">Daizong</a>, but as she was young, was instead given to Xianzong's father, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Shunzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Shunzong of Tang">Shunzong</a>?</li> <li>... that most of <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_2_in_Vermont" title="U.S. Route 2 in Vermont">U.S. Route 2 in Vermont</a> was originally part of the <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_International_Highway" title="Theodore Roosevelt International Highway">Theodore Roosevelt International Highway</a>, an early transcontinental North American <a href="/wiki/Auto_trail" title="Auto trail">auto trail</a>?</li> <li>... that in <a href="/wiki/1946_FA_Cup_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1946 FA Cup Final">1946</a>, <a href="/wiki/Football_in_Wales" title="Football in Wales">Welsh</a> international <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">footballer</a> <a href="/wiki/Bert_Turner_(footballer_born_1909)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bert Turner (footballer born 1909)">Bert Turner</a> became the first player to score for both sides in an <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup_Final" title="FA Cup Final">FA Cup Final</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Chamkar_Leu_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamkar Leu District">Chamkar Leu District</a> in eastern <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> is home to a 6,000-hectare (15,000-acre) <a href="/wiki/Natural_rubber" title="Natural rubber">rubber</a> <a href="/wiki/Plantation" title="Plantation">plantation</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/David_Yuile" title="David Yuile">David Yuile</a> and his brother William attempted to control the <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> <a href="/wiki/Glass" title="Glass">glass</a> manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass?</li></ul> <ul><li>13:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Skuon fried spiders"><img alt="Skuon fried spiders" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg/100px-Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg/150px-Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg/200px-Skun_spiders_closeup.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Skuon" title="Skuon">Skuon</a> town in <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cheung_Prey_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheung Prey District">Cheung Prey District</a> is famous for <a href="/wiki/Fried_spider" title="Fried spider">fried spiders</a> (pictured) seasoned with garlic and salt?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Lucien_Galtier" title="Lucien Galtier">Lucien Galtier</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> priest in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>, was responsible for renaming the city of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota" title="Saint Paul, Minnesota">Saint Paul, Minnesota</a>, from its previous name of <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Parrant" title="Pierre Parrant">Pig's Eye</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/NSB_Gj%C3%B8vikbanen" class="mw-redirect" title="NSB Gjøvikbanen">NSB Gjøvikbanen</a> won the first, and so far only, rail transport <a href="/wiki/Public_service_obligation" title="Public service obligation">public service obligation</a> tender in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> in 2005?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Angus_Goetz" title="Angus Goetz">Angus Goetz</a> played for <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffalo All-Americans">Buffalo</a> in the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> on the weekends while attending <a href="/wiki/Medical_school" title="Medical school">medical school</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_Mali" title="Communes of Mali">commune</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gory,_Mali" title="Gory, Mali">Gory</a> in south-western <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> is the subject of a $950,000 <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>–<a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> educational project, funded by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Norway">Norwegian government</a>?</li> <li>... that singer <a href="/wiki/Phil_Ochs" title="Phil Ochs">Phil Ochs</a> wrote "<a href="/wiki/The_War_Is_Over_(song)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="The War Is Over (song)">The War Is Over</a>" in 1967 to declare that the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> was over, eight years before the war actually ended?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature" title="World Wide Fund for Nature">World Wide Fund for Nature</a> rates the <a href="/wiki/Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin_rain_forests" class="mw-redirect" title="Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests">Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests</a> bordering <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> (Burma) as "Globally Outstanding" in <a href="/wiki/Biodiversity" title="Biodiversity">biological distinctiveness</a>?</li> <li>... that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build <a href="/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky" title="Bardstown, Kentucky">Bardstown, Kentucky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cobblestone_Path" title="Cobblestone Path">Cobblestone Path</a> or be subject to a fine?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:SA_Jews.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Nazi brownshirts enforcing boycott of Jewish store, April 1933"><img alt="Nazi brownshirts enforcing boycott of Jewish store, April 1933" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/SA_Jews.jpg/100px-SA_Jews.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/SA_Jews.jpg/150px-SA_Jews.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/SA_Jews.jpg/200px-SA_Jews.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="350"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda">Propaganda Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a> warned that <a href="/wiki/Nazi_boycott_of_Jewish_businesses" title="Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses">their boycott of Jewish businesses</a> (pictured) "will be resumed... until German Jewry has been annihilated", if the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Nazi_Boycott_of_1933" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933">Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933</a> was not ended?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sinuessa" title="Sinuessa">Sinuessa</a>, the last town of <a href="/wiki/Latium" title="Latium">Latium</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Appian_Way" title="Appian Way">Appian Way</a>, was famous for its springs whose visitors included <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_John_Calvin" class="mw-redirect" title="List of works by John Calvin">John Calvin's works</a> include some 1,300 letters, making him "the great letter-writer of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> age" according to <a href="/wiki/B._B._Warfield" title="B. B. Warfield">B. B. Warfield</a>?</li> <li>... that during the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Palmach" title="Palmach">Palmach</a> referred to the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian Arab</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Burayr" title="Burayr">Burayr</a> as "the village of the killers"?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Victor_Vacquier" title="Victor Vacquier">Victor Vacquier</a> escaped <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russia</a> by sleigh across the frozen <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Finland" title="Gulf of Finland">Gulf of Finland</a> and went on to pioneer the use of <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector" title="Magnetic anomaly detector">submarine detectors</a> for investigating <a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics" title="Plate tectonics">plate tectonics</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> railway company <a href="/wiki/Ofotbanen_(company)" title="Ofotbanen (company)">Ofotbanen</a> went bankrupt due to the minority owner <a href="/wiki/Autolink" title="Autolink">Autolink</a> starting the competitor <a href="/wiki/Cargolink" title="Cargolink">Cargolink</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Joan_Snyder" title="Joan Snyder">Joan Snyder</a>, a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Fellow</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellow</a>, has had her <a href="/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">paintings</a> exhibited at <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Museum_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Museum (New York)">Jewish Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York" class="mw-disambig" title="New York">New York</a>?</li> <li>... that every household in the <a href="/wiki/Dhaniakhali" title="Dhaniakhali">Dhaniakhali</a> bloc of <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, has at least one <a href="/wiki/Loom" title="Loom">loom</a>, where handloom <a href="/wiki/Sari" title="Sari">saris</a> are made?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Three Crosses in Vilnius, Lithuania"><img alt="Three Crosses in Vilnius, Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg/100px-Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg/150px-Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg/200px-Vilnius_Three_Crosses.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Three_Crosses" title="Three Crosses">Three Crosses</a> (pictured) were built on the same hill in <a href="/wiki/Kalnai_Park" title="Kalnai Park">Kalnai Park</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Vilnius_Castle_Complex" title="Vilnius Castle Complex">Crooked Castle</a>, destroyed during the <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Civil_War_(1389%E2%80%931392)" title="Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)">Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/John_Isaacs" title="John Isaacs">John Isaacs</a>, signed out of high school by the all-<a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">Black</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Renaissance" title="New York Renaissance">New York Renaissance</a> team, led the Rens over the <a href="/wiki/Oshkosh_All-Stars" title="Oshkosh All-Stars">Oshkosh All-Stars</a> to win the first <a href="/wiki/World_Professional_Basketball_Tournament" title="World Professional Basketball Tournament">World Professional Basketball Tournament</a>, held in 1939?</li> <li>... that the critically endangered <a href="/wiki/Philippine_eagle" title="Philippine eagle">Philippine eagle</a> is the namesake of the <a href="/wiki/Agila_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Agila 2">Agila 2</a> <a href="/wiki/Communications_satellite" title="Communications satellite">communications satellite</a>?</li> <li>... that a civil rights lawsuit brought by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_W._Cooper" title="Andrew W. Cooper">Andrew W. Cooper</a> led to the election of <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm" title="Shirley Chisholm">Shirley Chisholm</a>, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Sex_workers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex workers">sex workers</a> across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand <a href="/wiki/Sex_workers%27_rights" title="Sex workers' rights">sex workers’ rights</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Decriminalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Decriminalisation">decriminalisation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Prostitution" title="Prostitution">prostitution</a> and equal protection under the law?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegalese</a> <a href="/wiki/Long_jump" title="Long jump">long jumper</a> and <a href="/wiki/Triple_jump" title="Triple jump">triple jumper</a> <a href="/wiki/Ndiss_Kaba_Badji" title="Ndiss Kaba Badji">Ndiss Kaba Badji</a> was the only person from <a href="/wiki/Senegal_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics" title="Senegal at the 2008 Summer Olympics">his country</a> to reach a final at the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Summer Olympics</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> romantic comedy <a href="/wiki/Little_White_Lie_(TV_drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Little White Lie (TV drama)">Little White Lie</a> followed the attempts of an <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> to attract the attention of a <a href="/wiki/Television_presenter" title="Television presenter">television presenter</a> by pretending he was a <a href="/wiki/Psychiatrist" title="Psychiatrist">psychiatrist</a>?</li> <li>... that prior to becoming a <a href="/wiki/Chocolatier" title="Chocolatier">chocolatier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Barnett_(chocolatier)" title="Louis Barnett (chocolatier)">Louis Barnett</a> trained <a href="/wiki/Birds_of_prey" class="mw-redirect" title="Birds of prey">birds of prey</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Falconry" title="Falconry">falconry</a> centre to gain permission to keep a pet <a href="/wiki/Eagle_owl" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle owl">eagle owl</a>?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-2_February_2009-Did_you_know...">2 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 2 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>19:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Jane_Allgood_detail.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Sample of English embroidery"><img alt="Sample of English embroidery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jane_Allgood_detail.png/100px-Jane_Allgood_detail.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jane_Allgood_detail.png/150px-Jane_Allgood_detail.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Jane_Allgood_detail.png/200px-Jane_Allgood_detail.png 2x" data-file-width="356" data-file-height="240"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/English_embroidery" title="English embroidery">English embroidery</a> (example pictured) includes styles called <a href="/wiki/Opus_Anglicanum" title="Opus Anglicanum">Opus Anglicanum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stumpwork" title="Stumpwork">stumpwork</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crewel_Work" class="mw-redirect" title="Crewel Work">crewel work</a> and <a href="/wiki/Art_needlework" title="Art needlework">art needlework</a>?</li> <li>... that an episode of the <a href="/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary</a> series <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hostage_(TV_series)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hostage (TV series) (page does not exist)">Hostage</a> detailed <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s placing of two <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Irish</a> civilians as "human shields" at sites of strategic importance during the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Parc_de_Belleville" title="Parc de Belleville">Parc de Belleville</a> is the highest park in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Michael_Watson" title="Michael Watson">Michael Watson</a> took six days to complete the <a href="/wiki/London_Marathon" title="London Marathon">London Marathon</a> in 2003, an achievement that won him the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Sports_Personality_of_the_Year_Helen_Rollason_Award" title="BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award">BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award</a> that year?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> historian and scientist <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_N._Beneshevich" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir N. Beneshevich">Vladimir N. Beneshevich</a> was arrested on charges of <a href="/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">spying</a> for <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and executed because one of his books was translated into <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> in 1937?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Chatuge_Dam" title="Chatuge Dam">Chatuge Dam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottely_Dam" title="Nottely Dam">Nottely Dam</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a> were originally constructed in 1942 solely for <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a> to maximize <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric production</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hiwassee_Dam" title="Hiwassee Dam">Hiwassee Dam</a>, but were only outfitted with <a href="/wiki/Electrical_generator" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical generator">power generators</a> later in the 1950s?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">operatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Tenor" title="Tenor">tenor</a> <a href="/wiki/Andreas_Dippel" title="Andreas Dippel">Andreas Dippel</a> portrayed the title role in <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Franchetti" title="Alberto Franchetti">Alberto Franchetti</a> <a href="/wiki/Asrael" title="Asrael">Asrael</a> in its United States premiere at the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/DSV_78/08_Ricklingen" title="DSV 78/08 Ricklingen">DSV 78/08 Ricklingen</a>, the oldest <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> club in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, was formed under the leadership of 15 year old <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand-Wilhelm_Fricke" title="Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke">Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke</a> in 1878?</li></ul> <ul><li>13:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General Aircraft Hamilcar"><img alt="General Aircraft Hamilcar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg/100px-Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg/150px-Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg/200px-Hamilcar_glider_on_the_landing_zone_near_Arnhem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="516"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that to open the swing door on the <a href="/wiki/General_Aircraft_Hamilcar" title="General Aircraft Hamilcar">General Aircraft Hamilcar</a> <a href="/wiki/Military_glider" title="Military glider">glider</a> (pictured) and allow vehicles to emerge, <a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">pilots</a> had to climb out of the glider's <a href="/wiki/Cockpit" title="Cockpit">cockpit</a> and slide down 15 feet (4.6 m) of <a href="/wiki/Fuselage" title="Fuselage">fuselage</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> professional <a href="/wiki/Armwrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Armwrestling">armwrestler</a> <a href="/wiki/Ion_Oncescu" title="Ion Oncescu">Ion Oncescu</a> is the current <a href="/wiki/World_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="World champion">world champion</a> for both the left and the right arms?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Endemic_flora_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago">endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago</a> consists of 59 plant species, including one that was last collected between 1786 and 1791?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Laurie_D._Cox" title="Laurie D. Cox">Laurie D. Cox</a> performed the first comprehensive tree census in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in 1915, finding that most street trees in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> were in bad condition?</li> <li>... that the first <a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Filipinos in Saudi Arabia">Filipinos</a> to settle in <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> arrived in 1973?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions" title="Jim Crockett Promotions">Jim Crockett Promotions</a> hosted an unusual series of <a href="/wiki/Pro_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro wrestling">pro wrestling</a> <a href="/wiki/Tag_team" title="Tag team">tag team</a> matches in the 1970s, as <a href="/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling)" title="Heel (professional wrestling)">heel</a> (villain) teams such as the <a href="/wiki/Blond_Bombers" title="Blond Bombers">Blond Bombers</a> (<a href="/wiki/Rip_Hawk" title="Rip Hawk">Rip Hawk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swede_Hanson_(wrestler)" title="Swede Hanson (wrestler)">Swede Hanson</a>) faced fellow heels <a href="/wiki/Brute_Bernard" title="Brute Bernard">Brute Bernard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skull_Murphy" title="Skull Murphy">Skull Murphy</a>?</li> <li>... that a <a href="/wiki/Predominance_diagram" title="Predominance diagram">predominance diagram</a> purports to show the conditions of concentration and pH where a <a href="/wiki/Chemical_compound" title="Chemical compound">chemical species</a> has the highest concentration in solutions in which there are multiple <a href="/wiki/Acid-base" class="mw-redirect" title="Acid-base">acid-base</a> <a href="/wiki/Equilibria" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Equilibria">equilibria</a>?</li> <li>... that the largest ship sunk by the <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boat</a> <a href="/wiki/SM_U-32_(Austria-Hungary)" title="SM U-32 (Austria-Hungary)">SM U-32</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> was carrying <a href="/wiki/Onion" title="Onion">onions</a> from <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>07:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Wilkinson_850cc.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wilkinson TMC"><img alt="Wilkinson TMC" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wilkinson_850cc.jpg/100px-Wilkinson_850cc.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wilkinson_850cc.jpg/150px-Wilkinson_850cc.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wilkinson_850cc.jpg/200px-Wilkinson_850cc.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3330" data-file-height="2510"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Wilkinson_TMC" title="Wilkinson TMC">Wilkinson</a> <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle" title="Motorcycle">motorcycle</a> (pictured) failed to impress the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British military</a> – despite having a <a href="/wiki/Maxim_machine_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxim machine gun">Maxim machine gun</a> mounted on the handlebars?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky" title="Bardstown, Kentucky">Bardstown, Kentucky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wickland" class="mw-disambig" title="Wickland">Wickland</a>, namesake of <a href="/wiki/Shelbyville,_Kentucky" title="Shelbyville, Kentucky">Shelbyville, Kentucky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wickland_(Shelbyville)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wickland (Shelbyville)">Wickland</a>, was the home of three different U.S. state governors?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Thriller_%E2%80%93_Live" title="Thriller – Live">Thriller – Live</a> is a new <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> musical, directed by the creator of a <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> <a href="/wiki/Fansite" title="Fansite">fansite</a>?</li> <li>... that the recently defunct <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Magazine" title="Pacific Magazine">Pacific Magazine</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Current_affairs_(news_format)" title="Current affairs (news format)">current affairs</a> publication focusing on the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islands">Pacific Islands</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a>, was the region's longest continuously published <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Adolph_C._Miller" title="Adolph C. Miller">Adolph C. Miller</a> served as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior</a> before being appointed as an original Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Reserve System">Federal Reserve System</a>?</li> <li>... that the account of the death of 12,000 <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">prisoners</a> aboard the <a href="/wiki/Gulag" title="Gulag">Gulag</a> ship <a href="/wiki/Dzhurma" class="mw-redirect" title="Dzhurma">Dzhurma</a> has been disproven?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening <a href="/wiki/Theme_song" class="mw-redirect" title="Theme song">theme song</a> of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chrome_Shelled_Regios_episodes" title="List of Chrome Shelled Regios episodes">episodes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chrome_Shelled_Regios" title="Chrome Shelled Regios">Chrome Shelled Regios</a> <a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Catarcio" title="Maurice Catarcio">Maurice Catarcio</a>, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in <a href="/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" title="Guinness World Records">The Guinness Book of World Records</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>01:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Amy Winehouse performing in Berlin, 2007"><img alt="Amy Winehouse performing in Berlin, 2007" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg/100px-AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg/150px-AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg/200px-AmyWinehouseBerlin2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="373"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that singer <a href="/wiki/Amy_Winehouse" title="Amy Winehouse">Amy Winehouse</a> (pictured) gained entry to the <a href="/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" title="Guinness World Records">Guinness World Records</a> in 2009 for having <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Amy_Winehouse" title="List of awards and nominations received by Amy Winehouse">the most</a> <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Awards</a> won by a <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> female act?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_Alberta" title="Premier of Alberta">Premier of Alberta</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Brownlee" title="John Edward Brownlee">John Edward Brownlee</a> was forced to resign in 1934 <a href="/wiki/John_Brownlee_sex_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="John Brownlee sex scandal">due to a sex scandal</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaican</a> <a href="/wiki/Gun_Court" title="Gun Court">Gun Court Act</a> of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with <a href="/wiki/Hard_labor" class="mw-redirect" title="Hard labor">hard labor</a> for all <a href="/wiki/Firearm" title="Firearm">firearms</a> offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?</li> <li>... that only after the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> was it publicly revealed that the <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> ships <a href="/wiki/SS_Irma_(1905)" title="SS Irma (1905)">SS Irma</a> and <a href="/wiki/SS_Henry" title="SS Henry">SS Henry</a> had been sunk by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Norwegian_Navy" title="Royal Norwegian Navy">Royal Norwegian Navy</a>?</li> <li>... that then-President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s selection to give the 2000 <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Lecture" title="Jefferson Lecture">Jefferson Lecture</a>, the U.S.'s highest <a href="/wiki/Humanities" title="Humanities">humanities</a> honor, was criticized as a politicization of the <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities" title="National Endowment for the Humanities">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>'s largest <a href="/wiki/Container_terminal" class="mw-redirect" title="Container terminal">container terminal</a>, handling more than 3.5 million <a href="/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit" title="Twenty-foot equivalent unit">TEU</a>'s of freight in 2007, is in the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Jakarta" class="mw-redirect" title="Port of Jakarta">Port of Jakarta</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Dutch" class="mw-disambig" title="Dutch">Dutch</a> <a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">architect</a> <a href="/wiki/Kees_Christiaanse" title="Kees Christiaanse">Kees Christiaanse</a>, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?</li> <li>... that the television series <a href="/w/index.php?title=Use_It_or_Lose_It&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Use It or Lose It (page does not exist)">Use It or Lose It</a> documented the return of former <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association footballers</a> <a href="/wiki/Niall_Quinn" title="Niall Quinn">Niall Quinn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Whelan" title="Ronnie Whelan">Ronnie Whelan</a> to their respective youth teams?</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1_February_2009" data-mw-thread-id="h-1_February_2009-Did_you_know...">1 February 2009</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2009/February&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 1 February 2009">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>19:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Museo Barracco - Giove Ammone"><img alt="Museo Barracco - Giove Ammone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG/75px-Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG/112px-Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG/150px-Museo_Barracco_-_Giove_Ammone_1010637.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the largest <a href="/wiki/Kiln" title="Kiln">kilns</a> for <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_pottery" title="Ancient Roman pottery">Ancient Roman pottery</a> (example pictured) fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?</li> <li>... that the first <a href="/wiki/List_of_Atlanta_Hawks_head_coaches" title="List of Atlanta Hawks head coaches">head coach</a> of the NBA club now known as the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">Atlanta Hawks</a> was <a href="/wiki/Roger_Potter" title="Roger Potter">Roger Potter</a>, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?</li> <li>... that six prehistoric <a href="/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="List of impact craters in Canada">meteorite impacts</a> have created large <a href="/wiki/Astrobleme" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrobleme">astroblemes</a> affecting the <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Saskatchewan" title="Geology of Saskatchewan">geology of Saskatchewan</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">New York Assembly</a> passed a 1970 <a href="/wiki/Abortion_law" title="Abortion law">abortion rights law</a> sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Constance_Cook" class="mw-redirect" title="Constance Cook">Constance Cook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Franz_Leichter" class="mw-redirect" title="Franz Leichter">Franz Leichter</a> after <a href="/wiki/George_Michaels" class="mw-redirect" title="George Michaels">George Michaels</a> broke a 74–74 deadlock by switching his vote?</li> <li>... that of the ten <a href="/wiki/Brough_Superior_Austin_Four" title="Brough Superior Austin Four">Brough Superior Austin Four</a> motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?</li> <li>... that according to US and <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkish</a> officials, the <a href="/wiki/K%C4%B1smetim-1_incident" title="Kısmetim-1 incident">MV Kısmetim-1</a> was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the <a href="/wiki/Drug_trade" class="mw-disambig" title="Drug trade">illicit drug</a> load?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/James_Brady_(columnist)" title="James Brady (columnist)">James Brady</a>, who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in <a href="/wiki/Parade_(magazine)" title="Parade (magazine)">Parade</a> magazine, won the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal">Bronze Star Medal</a> for his <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> service and wrote a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>-finalist book about his war experiences?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Landscape_architecture" title="Landscape architecture">landscape architecture</a> firm <a href="/wiki/West_8" title="West 8">West 8</a> designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between <a href="/wiki/Leidsche_Rijn" title="Leidsche Rijn">Leidsche Rijn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Utrecht_(province)" title="Utrecht (province)">Utrecht</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>14:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png" class="mw-file-description" title="TRPV1"><img alt="TRPV1" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png/98px-Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png" decoding="async" width="98" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png/148px-Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png/197px-Trpv1_pip2_bilayer_cropped.png 2x" data-file-width="2188" data-file-height="2224"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the burning sensation caused by red hot <a href="/wiki/Chili_pepper" title="Chili pepper">chili peppers</a> or the warmth caused by <a href="/wiki/Camphor" title="Camphor">camphor</a> are due to the activation of different <a href="/wiki/TRPV" title="TRPV">TRPV</a> <a href="/wiki/Ion_channels" class="mw-redirect" title="Ion channels">ion channels</a> (<a href="/wiki/TRPV1" title="TRPV1">TRPV1</a> pictured), which are also <a href="/wiki/Thermoreceptor" title="Thermoreceptor">thermosensitive</a>?</li> <li>... that two members of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Golden_Outfield" title="Golden Outfield">Golden Outfield</a> have been elected to the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a>?</li> <li>... that ruins from <a href="/wiki/Bradenstoke_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradenstoke Abbey">Bradenstoke Abbey</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, were bought by <a href="/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst" title="William Randolph Hearst">William Randolph Hearst</a> and used in alterations to <a href="/wiki/St_Donat%27s_Castle" title="St Donat's Castle">St Donat's Castle</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Ming_dynasty" title="Economy of the Ming dynasty">GDP of the Ming Dynasty</a> was 31 percent of the world's <a href="/wiki/GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="GDP">GDP</a>, a percentage which is relatively higher than the <a href="/wiki/GDP_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="GDP of the United States">GDP of the United States</a> in 1997?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Old_L_%26_N_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Old L & N Station">Old L & N Station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky" title="Bardstown, Kentucky">Bardstown, Kentucky</a>, was <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">the state's</a> only <a href="/wiki/Dry_stone" title="Dry stone">dry stone</a> <a href="/wiki/Railroad_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad station">railroad station</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/British" class="mw-disambig" title="British">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Economist" title="Economist">economist</a> <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Slater" title="Gilbert Slater">Gilbert Slater</a> suggested in the <a href="/wiki/Madras_Legislative_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras Legislative Council">Madras Legislative Council</a> that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the <a href="/wiki/Madras_Presidency" title="Madras Presidency">Madras Presidency</a>?</li> <li>... that in <a href="/wiki/Cheney_v._United_States_District_Court" title="Cheney v. United States District Court">Cheney v. United States District Court</a>, <a href="/wiki/SCOTUS" class="mw-redirect" title="SCOTUS">Supreme Court</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court Justice">Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Scalia</a> was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a>, a party to the case?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Neill" title="Stephen Neill">Stephen Neill</a>, former bishop of <a href="/wiki/Tirunelveli" title="Tirunelveli">Tirunelveli</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, suffered from <a href="/wiki/Insomnia" title="Insomnia">insomnia</a> which helped him to author his <a href="/wiki/Magnum_opus" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnum opus">magnum opus</a>, History of Christianity in India?</li></ul> <ul><li>08:16, 1 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Greek sage (Salvia fruticosa)"><img alt="Greek sage (Salvia fruticosa)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG/75px-SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG" decoding="async" width="75" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG/112px-SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG/150px-SalviaFruticosa1_ST_06.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that <a href="/wiki/Salvia_fruticosa" title="Salvia fruticosa">Salvia fruticosa</a> or Greek sage (pictured) was depicted on a 1400-BCE <a href="/wiki/Minoan_civilization" title="Minoan civilization">Minoan</a> <a href="/wiki/Fresco" title="Fresco">fresco</a> on the island of <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, and is still grown and used widely today?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Tolan" title="Eddie Tolan">Eddie Tolan</a>, the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the <a href="/wiki/1932_Summer_Olympics" title="1932 Summer Olympics">1932 Olympics</a>, returned home jobless and appeared in <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Robinson" title="Bill Robinson">Bill "Bojangles" Robinson</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a>'s pioneering <a href="/wiki/Computer_aided_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer aided design">CAD</a> system, <a href="/wiki/DAC-1" title="DAC-1">DAC-1</a>, could <a href="/wiki/Digitize" class="mw-redirect" title="Digitize">digitize</a> hand-drawn <a href="/wiki/Diagram" title="Diagram">diagrams</a>, turn them into <a href="/wiki/3D_model" class="mw-redirect" title="3D model">3D models</a>, and then build models of them on <a href="/wiki/Milling_machine" class="mw-redirect" title="Milling machine">milling machines</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Ballerina" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballerina">ballerina</a> <a href="/wiki/Nora_Kovach" title="Nora Kovach">Nora Kovach</a>'s 1953 <a href="/wiki/Defection" title="Defection">defection</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">West</a> was the first highly publicized <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?</li> <li>... that the controversial 1982 <a href="/wiki/Anti-racism" title="Anti-racism">anti-racism</a> film <a href="/wiki/White_Dog" class="mw-disambig" title="White Dog">White Dog</a> was director <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Fuller" title="Samuel Fuller">Samuel Fuller</a>'s last American film due to his disgust with <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>' refusal to release the film?</li> <li>... that the small <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatian</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Jastrebarsko" title="Jastrebarsko">Jastrebarsko</a> was home to two <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">cardinals</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>, who were also both <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Zagreb" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb">archbishops</a> of the country's capital <a href="/wiki/Zagreb" title="Zagreb">Zagreb</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Wrestling_Hall_of_Fame" title="St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame">St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame</a> is the only <a href="/wiki/Professional_wrestling" title="Professional wrestling">professional wrestling</a> hall of fame that lets fans select the inductees?</li> <li>... that in addition to his academic work, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> <a href="/wiki/Professor" title="Professor">professor</a> <a href="/wiki/%C3%98ystein_S%C3%B8rensen" title="Øystein Sørensen">Øystein Sørensen</a> is considered an expert on the <a href="/wiki/Donald_Duck" title="Donald Duck">Donald Duck universe</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li>02:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/wiki/File:Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Appomattox Court House Historical Park"><img alt="Appomattox Court House Historical Park" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg/100px-Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg/150px-Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg/200px-Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="1224"/></a> </div> <ul><li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Appomattox_Court_House_National_Historical_Park" title="Appomattox Court House National Historical Park">Appomattox Park</a> (pictured) has a <a href="/wiki/Old_Appomattox_Court_House" title="Old Appomattox Court House">Court-house</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clover_Hill_Tavern" title="Clover Hill Tavern">Tavern</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_County_Jail" title="New County Jail">Jail</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Plunkett-Meeks_Store&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plunkett-Meeks Store (page does not exist)">Store</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sweeney_Prizery" title="Sweeney Prizery">Prizery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bocock-Isbell_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Bocock-Isbell House">Bocock-Isbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/McLean_house" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="McLean house">McLean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peers_House" title="Peers House">Peers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mariah_Wright_House" title="Mariah Wright House">Wright</a> houses, the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sweeney_Cabin" title="Charles Sweeney Cabin">Sweeney</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweeney-Conner_Cabin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sweeney-Conner Cabin (page does not exist)">Sweeney-Conner</a> cabins, the <a href="/wiki/Jones_Law_Office" title="Jones Law Office">Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Woodson_Law_Office" title="Woodson Law Office">Woodson</a> law offices, <a href="/wiki/Appomattox_Court_House_National_Historical_Park_ruins" title="Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ruins">ruins</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Appomattox_Court_House_National_Historical_Park_cemeteries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Appomattox Court House National Historical Park cemeteries (page does not exist)">cemeteries</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Callianassa_subterranea" title="Callianassa subterranea">Callianassa subterranea</a> is a burrowing <a href="/wiki/Shrimp" title="Shrimp">shrimp</a> that ingests <a href="/wiki/Sediment" title="Sediment">sediment</a> particles and <a href="/wiki/Digestion" title="Digestion">digests</a> their <a href="/wiki/Biofilm" title="Biofilm">organic coating</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a> threatened legal action and physical violence against <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a> after he did not cast Maeterlinck's lover, <a href="/wiki/Georgette_Leblanc" title="Georgette Leblanc">Georgette Leblanc</a>, in the title role of their <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> <a href="/wiki/Pell%C3%A9as_et_M%C3%A9lisande_(opera)" title="Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)">Pelléas et Mélisande</a>?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/wiki/Willow_Creek/Southwest_185th_Avenue_Transit_Center" title="Willow Creek/Southwest 185th Avenue Transit Center">Willow Creek Transit Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?</li> <li>... that celebrated <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijani people">Azerbaijani</a> activist of the <a href="/wiki/French_Resistance" title="French Resistance">French Resistance</a> <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_Jabrayilov" title="Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov">Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov</a> was persecuted by the <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a> upon his return to the <a href="/wiki/USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR">USSR</a>?</li> <li>... that <a href="/wiki/Bob_Foster" class="mw-disambig" title="Bob Foster">Bob Foster</a>’s win on a <a href="/wiki/New_Imperial_Model_76" title="New Imperial Model 76">New Imperial</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1936_Isle_of_Man_TT" title="1936 Isle of Man TT">1936 Isle of Man TT</a> was the last time that <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> won a Lightweight TT?</li> <li>... that despite its acrid taste, <a href="/wiki/Lactarius_vietus" title="Lactarius vietus">Lactarius vietus</a> is edible after boiling?</li> <li>... that during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, President <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Knight_Lane" title="Franklin Knight Lane">Franklin Knight Lane</a>?</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img 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