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A fact from Mehmed Skender appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team?

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 03:43, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that when weightlifter Mehmed Skender was contacted to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team, he was in a trench manning a machine gun?

Source: Daily Oklahoman

- ALT1: ... that when contacted to join his country's Olympic team, weightlifter Mehmed Skender was in a trench manning a machine gun? Source: same
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Food House
- Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 331 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC).Reply

Or maybe just ALT2 ... that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team? BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:09, 18 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

New enough and large enough expansion. QPQ present. Hook fact checks out to article and is quite interesting. ALT2 I think is the best of the three options of basically the same hook. No textual issues. Good to go. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 16:59, 21 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

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