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Trivial test, without year detection (code is long)
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[edit]This is a record of material that was 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.
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Did you know...
[edit]6 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
Oceanic Steamship Company advertisement
- ... that the Oceanic Steamship Company (advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them to its own fleet?
- ... that the play Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman recreates the scent of a tree as part of the performance?
- ... that there were no sex acts in Thea Ehre's nude performance at the 2021 Porn Film Festival Vienna?
- ... that Gerta Hüttl-Folter became interested in Russian culture after staying with Maria Razumovsky's family while homeless?
- ... that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
- ... that a church in Colorado merged with another congregation, was sold, became a nightclub, and then was bought by an offshoot of the merged congregation?
- ... that volumes of one writer's journalism were variously described as "prattling pieces", delivering "a snigger a minute", and having a "soufflé touch"?
- ... that American football player Taco Dowler is the twin of a football player who was called "Burrito"?
- ... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively?
5 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Nemiah Wilson
- ... that Nemiah Wilson (pictured) ran a tailoring business while playing in the NFL?
- ... that Yun Jin's appearance in Genshin Impact draws inspiration from legendary Chinese figures like Hua Mulan?
- ... that Donald Rumsfeld helped develop a mobile game?
- ... that Gennady Trifonov was one of the few Soviet dissidents who argued for gay rights?
- ... that Christian missionaries in China translated and published an inflammatory anti-Christian treatise?
- ... that a judge acquitted Ben Obumselu of manslaughter due to his "promise as a scholar"?
- ... that the MPLA launched the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola in 1963 hoping to secure support from the Organisation of African Unity, but the move had the opposite effect?
- ... that Alberto Giacometti chose the dying photographer Eli Lotar as the subject of his last sculptures, but himself died before finishing them?
- ... that Cyril Karabus was convicted of manslaughter and forgery in 2004, a verdict he learned of only eight years later?
4 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
Jahangir with a Portrait of Akbar
- ... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) may depict the emperor Jahangir listening as a portrait of his dead father speaks to him?
- ... that Achmad Soebardjo said that he adopted a surname after hearing a voice while urinating in prison?
- ... that Munich's "Shirker's Alley" got its nickname in the 1930s because people used it to avoid giving the Hitler salute at a nearby Nazi memorial?
- ... that creation of wethers, castrated male sheep or goats, is recorded as far back as the Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age?
- ... that Allison Lanier traveled between New York and Los Angeles to film for her regular role on The Young and the Restless?
- ... that the writer of How to Survive from Nine to Five and Between the Covers was inspired by her 27 office jobs and her visit to a strip club, respectively?
- ... that the baritone Jubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominated Mass?
- ... that Fluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?
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[edit]This is a record of material that was 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 the article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box or the Article Milestones box.
Did you know...
[edit]6 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
Oceanic Steamship Company advertisement
- ... that the Oceanic Steamship Company (advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them to its own fleet?
- ... that the play Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman recreates the scent of a tree as part of the performance?
- ... that there were no sex acts in Thea Ehre's nude performance at the 2021 Porn Film Festival Vienna?
- ... that Gerta Hüttl-Folter became interested in Russian culture after staying with Maria Razumovsky's family while homeless?
- ... that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
- ... that a church in Colorado merged with another congregation, was sold, became a nightclub, and then was bought by an offshoot of the merged congregation?
- ... that volumes of one writer's journalism were variously described as "prattling pieces", delivering "a snigger a minute", and having a "soufflé touch"?
- ... that American football player Taco Dowler is the twin of a football player who was called "Burrito"?
- ... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively?
5 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Nemiah Wilson
- ... that Nemiah Wilson (pictured) ran a tailoring business while playing in the NFL?
- ... that Yun Jin's appearance in Genshin Impact draws inspiration from legendary Chinese figures like Hua Mulan?
- ... that Donald Rumsfeld helped develop a mobile game?
- ... that Gennady Trifonov was one of the few Soviet dissidents who argued for gay rights?
- ... that Christian missionaries in China translated and published an inflammatory anti-Christian treatise?
- ... that a judge acquitted Ben Obumselu of manslaughter due to his "promise as a scholar"?
- ... that the MPLA launched the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola in 1963 hoping to secure support from the Organisation of African Unity, but the move had the opposite effect?
- ... that Alberto Giacometti chose the dying photographer Eli Lotar as the subject of his last sculptures, but himself died before finishing them?
- ... that Cyril Karabus was convicted of manslaughter and forgery in 2004, a verdict he learned of only eight years later?
4 February 2026
[edit]- 00:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
Jahangir with a Portrait of Akbar
- ... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) may depict the emperor Jahangir listening as a portrait of his dead father speaks to him?
- ... that Achmad Soebardjo said that he adopted a surname after hearing a voice while urinating in prison?
- ... that Munich's "Shirker's Alley" got its nickname in the 1930s because people used it to avoid giving the Hitler salute at a nearby Nazi memorial?
- ... that creation of wethers, castrated male sheep or goats, is recorded as far back as the Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age?
- ... that Allison Lanier traveled between New York and Los Angeles to film for her regular role on The Young and the Restless?
- ... that the writer of How to Survive from Nine to Five and Between the Covers was inspired by her 27 office jobs and her visit to a strip club, respectively?
- ... that the baritone Jubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominated Mass?
- ... that Fluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?