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This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.

Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.

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11 December 2024

  • 00:00, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
Head of the God of Amiens
Head of the God of Amiens

10 December 2024

  • 00:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Lizzie Esau
Lizzie Esau

9 December 2024

  • 00:00, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Barquq Castle
Barquq Castle
  • ... that the 14th-century Barquq Castle (pictured) was damaged during the Israel–Hamas war?
  • ... that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states?
  • ... that Gutidara is played with balls made from water buffalo horns?
  • ... that the 1931 Barcelona rent strike resulted in 18 deaths, dozens of injuries and arrests, and an agreement on the reduction of rents?
  • ... that several local residents mistook the production set of Miss Shampoo for a real shop and entered during filming?
  • ... that a columnist described Bern Shanks as "the most open and accessible state wildlife chief in memory"?
  • ... that Ngiam Tong Dow negotiated Singapore's first and largest purchase of gold from South Africa in 1968 by comparing two halves of a United States one-dollar bill?
  • ... that Tiny Glade was developed by a two-person studio and was the fourth most-played demo on 2024's Steam Next Fest?
  • ... that Chen Qiyou, a would-be assassin, later became part of the Chinese Committee for World Peace?

8 December 2024

  • 00:00, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Regulus
Regulus

7 December 2024

  • 00:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Kang Ju-hyeok
Kang Ju-hyeok

6 December 2024

  • 00:00, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Jack Russell Terrier
Jack Russell Terrier
  • ... that dogs (example pictured) have much more sensitive noses and ears than humans, but have trouble distinguishing red from green?
  • ... that in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other?
  • ... that in his first year in the NFL, Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
  • ... that muthkwey was not harvested or walked over, because oral tradition held that it had grown from the droppings of a two-headed serpent?
  • ... that the Mongol princess Al-Altan was rumoured to have poisoned her brother Ögedei Khan?
  • ... that the Saybrook Colony was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds of equal quantities of wheat, peas, and either rye or barley?
  • ... that future Olympic weightlifter Chiu Yuh-chuan received a job offer in marketing after media coverage about his difficulty securing employment?
  • ... that out of 148 candidates in the 1957 Manipur Territorial Council election there was only one woman?
  • ... that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles?

5 December 2024

  • 00:00, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
Marie Denizard
Marie Denizard
  • ... that Marie Denizard (pictured) stood as a candidate in a French presidential election in 1913, thirty years before French women achieved suffrage?
  • ... that The Crystal was one of few publications in early-20th-century China that regularly covered same-sex intimacy?
  • ... that Hanif Kureshi transformed shadows cast by the Sun into street art?
  • ... that Gigarta, a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder, is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon, although its exact location remains under debate?
  • ... that Al LeBoeuf was diagnosed with a rare condition in 2012 from an injury that he suffered in 1985?
  • ... that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile, as a protest against the country's military dictatorship?
  • ... that the
    Polish manga and anime fandom
    arose in the 1990s and now numbers over 100,000 people?
  • ... that Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California, in exchange for thousands of acres of land?
  • ... that Aldous Huxley developed his "feelies" in response to the emergence of "talkies"?

4 December 2024

  • 00:00, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia
Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia

3 December 2024

  • 00:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy
Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy
  • ... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
  • ... that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
  • ... that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
  • ... that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
  • ... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
  • ... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
  • ... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting stairs?
  • ... that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
  • ... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?

2 December 2024

  • 00:00, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Carmen, canoe designed by Carl Smith in 1882
Carmen, canoe designed by Carl Smith in 1882

1 December 2024

  • 00:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Nayib Bukele
Nayib Bukele