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Instructions

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Did you know? (DYK) entries are interesting facts that many people may not know. On this page possible entries are listed and members of the DYK project assess the nominations for the DYK section. DYKs are listed on the Main Page.

How to enter a DYK

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List articles on this page under the Nominations area, below. The newest nominations go at the top. If you would like to make a nomination, you should read the rules below.

If there is a picture that you would like to see used with your nomination, please add it with your nomination as shown below. Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion.

  • Only one article can be nominated for a Did You Know hook.
    • This does not mean there can only be one link in the hook. It means the hook is to feature one article.
    • This main article is the link which is in bold. This article must meet the DYK rules.
    • Any other links in the hook are minor links.
  • Information presented in any article nominated for DYK should be verifiable and unbiased. There must be a citation of a credible source to support the fact contained in the hook.
    • Articles that are tagged for bias with {{NPOV}} or for lack of accuracy with {{Disputed}} are not suitable for DYK.
    • Articles where facts are questioned with {{fact}} tags may not be suitable.
  • The article linked should be easy to read.
  • Articles nominated for DYK should not be too short.
    • Three-sentence stubs are not suitable.
    • The text of the article must be at least 800 characters. The number of characters can be measured with this tool.
  • The hook used to encourage people to read the article should be interesting to read. Information mentioned in the hook should be in the article text (not in a footnote, or in a linked reference, or in an infobox).
    • Whether a hook is not interesting should not be a matter for only one reviewer to decide. The first reviewer marks as {{DYKalmost}} if they feel the hook is not sufficiently interesting, with wording like "Is there a more interesting hook?". If 2 assessors (including the initial one) agree that the hook is uninteresting and no alternative has been put forward, the nomination is rejected with {{DYKno}} and advice to the nominator that "2 reviewers feel that this hook is not interesting, please suggest an alternative hook."
    • Articles may be re-nominated, but a different hook must be chosen. Also, two different hooks of the same article should not be added to the same update or updates that follow each other.
  • DYKs should not be very good articles (VGA) already as VGAs already get their own spotlight on the Main Page as the "Selected very good article".
Proposed facts should Suggested facts (also known as hooks) should be Suggested pictures should be
Have in-line citationsInterestingFrom Wikimedia Commons
Articles on living people must be carefully checked to make sure that no unsourced negative information is in the articleShort (less than about 200 characters, including spaces)Small (110x110px)[1]
Articles with good references and citations are needed.NeutralAlready in the article
  1. Formatting for pictures is: [[File:image name |right|110x110px]] and placed above the suggested fact.
  • Editors may only nominate up to four hooks at any one time. If more nominations are desired, existing nominations must either be removed, promoted to one of the DYK queues or placed in the holding area.
  • Hooks cannot be moved to a queue or removed from the nominations page until they have been there for a minimum of three days from the date they were originally posted. The only exception to this are hooks that can be "snowed". Hooks can also be removed if there has been no input from the nominator after five days from the last review. Unreviewed hooks however cannot be removed until there has been a review.

Please use one of the following templates when reviewing nominations.

SymbolCodeReady for DYK?Description
{{DYKyes}}YesNo problems, ready for DYK
{{DYKagf}}Yes, WP:AGFHook cited to a source not on the Internet, but to a reliable publication.
{{DYKfixed}}Yes, issue fixed.The issue preventing DYK, or the request for improvement has now been fixed.
{{DYKalmost}}AlmostArticle is on the way to being ready for DYK, but the reviewer has questions.
{{DYKno}}NoArticle is unable to be used on DYK, the time limit has passed, or there are larger reservations.


Nominations

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Please add new nominations below with newer nominations at the top. Nominations should be headed with a ===Level Three=== header containing a link to the article that the hook is from. If possible, all hooks should contain a relevant file from Wikimedia Commons – this can be a picture or a sound. The subject article should be '''bolded'''.

Bears–Packers rivalry

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Chicago Bears

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George Halas

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Jimmy Carter

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Leg shaving

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Holding area

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Hooks that are ready to be moved to a queue for update may be held in this area until a space in a queue becomes available. To be eligible to move into this area, a hook must meet all of the promotion guidelines as outlined above. Hooks in this area do not count towards a user's nomination limit. If you change or re-review a hook in this area, it must be moved back to the main nominations section for discussion to continue. The only changes permitted here are formatting or spelling changes, or adding an associated file.

Approved DYK Hooks
Ilhan Omar
Uljana Semjonova
Hugh Johnson
Cotard's syndrome
R'Bonney Gabriel
Candace Owens
Winemaking
  • ... that there is evidence that shows that winemaking began around 6000 to 5000 B.C in present-day Georgia and Iran?
Foreign accent syndrome
2026 United States strikes in Venezuela
End of Beginning
Christian Chukwu
HTC Dream
Eiffel Tower
Victor Lustig
Aswan
Nasry Asfura
Nasry Asfura
Stubbs (cat)
Red wine
Victoria Kjær Theilvig
White wine
Eratosthenes
Sheynnis Palacios
Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
Killing of Dipu Chandra Das
Zohran Mamdani
Bob Iger
Rob Reiner
Fátima Bosch
Avatar (franchise)
Ethel Caterham
Wikipedia Monument
Condom
Milonia Caesonia
  • ..that Roman emperor Caligula showed his wife Milonia Caesonia to his friends completely naked, and that she also had to perform before his troops?
Nexus 6P
United Arab Emirates
Platypus
Tom Steyer
Kacey Musgraves
Charlotte, North Carolina
Jared Isaacman
Dancing plague of 1518
Sleep apnea
  • ... that sleep apnea is common, affecting about one in ten people and up to 30% of the elderly?
55 Cancri Ae
  • ... that the planet 55 Cancri Ae (pictured) is sometimes known as the "diamond planet" because scientists believe a good part of its mass is carbon, likely in the form of diamond?
Russell B. Long
Saudi Arabia
José Antonio Kast
My Way
Mug shot of Donald Trump
Elliot Page
Persecution of Wikipedians in Belarus
Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
Tyla
Rod Paige
Cristiano Ronaldo
Rodrigo Duterte
Chaim Topol
Stanislav Shushkevich
1994 San Marino Grand Prix
Rodrigo Paz
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
2025 Enderlin tornado
Huajiang Canyon Bridge
  • ... that at 625 metres (2,051 ft) from the ground, the Huajiang Canyon Bridge (pictured) is the world's highest bridge?
Adelita Grijalva
Struwwelpeter
José María Muñagorri
LG Optimus 2X
Jakarta
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
Dick Cheney
Helena Moreno
Catherine Connolly
Curaçao national football team
Dallin H. Oaks
Sanae Takaichi
Christine Jorgensen
Pennsylvania
Ed Gein
Jane Goodall
Fumio Kishida
Tom Lehrer
Tilly Norwood
Sarah Mullally
Sushila Karki
Charlie Kirk
Auckland
Maya Angelou
Sexual fetishism
Giorgio Armani
Alice Munro
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Stanley Matthews
Adriano Espaillat
Real Madrid CF's 1927 tour of the Americas
Stan Mikita
North Carolina
Laura Chinchilla
Azerbaijan
Roy Cooper
Age and health concerns about Joe Biden
Kirsty Coventry
Laurie Hernandez
Ozzy Osbourne
Nashville Sounds
Connie Francis
Blue Peter
Josh Shapiro
William H. Webster
Lego
San Diego
Jim Lovell
Dog
  • ... that dogs started to have many breeds during the Victorian era when humans began controlling which dogs were bred?
Cat
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
Massachusetts
Earthquake
McDonald's
Samsung Galaxy S5
Chicago Tylenol murders
Violeta Chamorro
Sir Billy Boston
Toni Morrison
Greg Abbott
Amazon River
Ron DeSantis
Egypt
Colour of the day (police)
Kathy Hochul
Mikie Sherrill
Abigail Spanberger
Gavin Newsom
Cambodian genocide
Joan Didion
  • ... that Joan Didion (pictured) wrote her first novel, which was about a woman dying in the Sahara Desert, when she was five years old?
South Korea
  • ... that 70% of South Korea is covered by hills and mountains?
Louise Glück
Boston
Audrey Hepburn
Beagle
Lilo & Stitch
Susan Brownmiller
Mike Schaefer
Pig
Catholic Church
Chuck Grassley
Lee Zeldin
Sara Duterte
Cori Bush
Sussan Ley
Pope Leo XIV
Wesley Bell
Peter Dutton
JB Pritzker
Toni Breidinger
Rashida Tlaib
Anthony Albanese
Friedrich Merz
Nicușor Dan
1755 Cape Ann earthquake
Richard Pryor
  • ... that in 1980, comedian Richard Pryor (pictured) became the first black actor to earn a million dollars for a single movie when he starred in Stir Crazy?
Mike Waltz
Dick Durbin
Ali France
Hydrogen
  • ... that hydrogen fires (pictured), while being extremely hot, are almost invisible to humans, leading to accidental burns?
Water
  • ... that 12 billion light years away around a quasar there is a giant cloud of water with 140 trillion times more water than all the water on Earth?
Michael Bloomberg
Tammy Duckworth
False memory
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
False memory
Juliana Stratton
Tony Evers
Sean Baker
Philippe of Belgium
Conclave (movie)
Karoline Leavitt
John Ratcliffe
Salem Witch Trials
Susie Wiles
Paper Mario
Color Splash
Austria
Cory Booker
  • ... that in 2025, at 25 hours and five minutes long, Cory Booker (pictured) made the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate?
Super Mario Bros. theme
Doug Collins (politician)
Air Force One (movie)
Elise Stefanik
Malta
Patty Murray
Mike Johnson
Fernanda Torres
Greece
Linda McMahon
Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Liechtenstein
9 Songs
Mark Carney
SpongeBob SquarePants
Muhsin Hendricks
Brooke Rollins
Hurricane (dog)
Kash Patel
Emperor Penguins
Stockholm
  • ... that Stockholm is built on fourteen islands and is connected by fifty-seven bridges?
Scott Turner (politician)
Mikey Madison
R. Budd Dwyer
Sean Duffy
Miss Meyers
  • ... that racehorse Miss Meyers only started racing well after she turned four years old, then won what would be $156,000 today in the same year?
Drug cartel
Frankétienne
Doughtnuts
European Union
  • ... that the European Union is the world's largest single-market and would be the third largest country in the world if it were independent?
Howard Lutnick
Souleymane Cissé
Alice Weidel
Pete Hegseth
Klaus Iohannis
Athens
Saturday Night Live
Friedrich Merz
Luxembourg
Ed Broadbent
Gisèle Pelicot
Roberta Metsola
Texas
Manneken Pis
Caroline Chew
Peru
Dora Bakoyannis
New York (state)
Donn Moomaw
Bart De Wever
Joe Lieberman
Aga Khan IV
Fernanda Montenegro
Ralph Lauren
Nicaragua
Pam Bondi
Kelly Loeffler
Chappell Roan
  • ... that singer-songwriter Chappell Roan (pictured) got her stage name from her grandfather Dennis Chappell and his favorite song, "The Strawberry Roan"?
Dick Button
Usha Vance
Chris Wright
Algeria
Marco Rubio
Ahmed al-Sharaa
Richard Williamson (bishop)
Charli D'Amelio
  • ... that in 2020, Charli D'Amelio (pictured) became the first TikTok celebrity to have a both 50 million followers and 100 million followers?
January 20–22, 2025 Gulf Coast blizzard
Scott Bessent
Lynn Ban
Valerie André
Lluvia de Peces
Belly dance
Second inauguration of Donald Trump
Cormac McCarthy
Wendell Berry
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
William Shatner
António Guterres
Mark Rutte
Benjamin Netanyahu
Minnesota
Jane Fonda
Valdas Adamkus
Olivia Rodrigo
iPhone 14 Pro
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Wolfgang Schäuble
PewDiePie
  • ... that in 2016, PewDiePie (pictured) became the first Youtuber to have 50 million subscribers?
iPhone 8
  • ... that in 2017, the iPhone 8 became the first iPhone to have a wireless charger?
MrBeast
iPhone 12 Pro
Pope Clement X
  • ... that at the age of 79, Pope Clement X (pictured) was the oldest person to be elected pope?
Ebenezer Scrooge
Morris Dees
iPhone 15
Nude calendar
Kristrún Frostadóttir
Superman (2025 movie)
Manmohan Singh
Chris Hoy
António Costa
Dragonfruit
Pierre Poilievre
Gracie Abrams
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Pink elephant
Franklin Pierce
William McKinley
Michel Barnier
Harry S. Truman
Occupation of the Hainburger Au
Charles Dickens
Compulsory sterilization
William Henry Harrison
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
James Buchanan
Holly Cairns
James Monroe
Sunflower
James A. Garfield
Antipope Felix V
Paternalism

Jair Bolsonaro

Chihuahua (dog)
Nancy Reagan
Pig
  • ... that pigs have the longest orgasm in mammals, with an average of 30 minutes, but it can last for as long as 90 minutes?
The Scream
  • ...that the famous picture, The Scream (pictured), is worth 55 million dollars?
Gotham City
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Brigitte Macron
René Henry Gracida
Sarah Frey
  • ... that Sarah Frey (pictured), who has been called "the Pumpkin Queen of America", started her farming company at the age of 16?
Choking game
Harley Quinn
Poison Ivy (character)
  • ... that DC Comics villain Poison Ivy was created because there was a need for more female villains on the 1966 series Batman?
Catwoman
Carmine Falcone
Yassamin Ansari
Jimmy Carter
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Pear

  • ...that there are 3,000 known kinds of pears (pictured) that are grown worldwide?
Kemi Badenoch
Popsicle
  • ...that the popsicle was accidentally made by an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson in 1905?
Sarah McBride
Tulsi Gabbard
Miranda Hart
Aella (writer)
Witch child
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
XXXTentacion
Mayra Gómez Kemp
  • ... that Cuban-Spanish entertainer Mayra Gómez Kemp is believed to be the first woman to host a television quiz show?
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō
D. B. Cooper
  • ...that more than fifty years after he jumped from a plane he had hijacked, D. B Cooper's (pictured) identity is still unknown?
Annalisa
  • ...that in 2024, Italian singer Annalisa (pictured) got an asteroid named after her?
Reagan (2024 movie)
Herbert A. Simon
Han Kang
Ralph Steinman
Xi Jinping
Narendra Modi
Donald Sutherland
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Dick Schoof
Amazing Grace
Sabrina Carpenter
Sir William Ramsay
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Krypton
Bernard Hill
Teddy bear
John Hickenlooper
Al Capone
  • ... that a few years after he was released from prison, Al Capone (pictured) had the mental capacity of a 12-year-old even though he was over 40 years old?
Denver
Manila
  • ... that Manila was established as a Muslim settlement in the 13th century and later as a Spanish colonial city in 1571?
Shigeru Ishiba
Moulin Rouge
  • ... that about 800 bottles of champagne are consumed during a typical day at the Moulin Rouge, likely making it the largest single consumer of champagne in the world?
Kesaria Abramidze
Ana Brnabić
Lee Grant
Droupadi Murmu
Anna Kendrick
Sophie Wells
Anne Hathaway
Otis Davis
Nestor Makhno
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sir John Gielgud
Rita Moreno
The Crown (TV series)
Clipperton Island
Richard Rodgers
Parasite (2019 movie)
Galápagos Islands
Alex Jennings
James Earl Jones
Jeffrey Titford
Peter Dutton
Koala
  • ... that the koala (pictured) sleeps up to 20 hours a day because its eucalyptus leaf diet provides little energy?
Mahathir Mohamad
Statue of Liberty
Shark
  • ... that sharks (pictured) have been around for over 400 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared?
Ny-Ålesund
Po (river)
Lightning
George VI
Lord Mountbatten
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Diana, Princess of Wales
Slave breeding in the United States
Pope
Traffic light
Tea
  • ... that the country that is tea's biggest maker and drinker is India?
Concert
Rodolfo Hernández Suárez
Edward VIII
Enceladus
  • ...that Saturn's moon Enceladus (pictured) reflects almost all the sunlight it gets, making it the most reflective moon in the Solar System?
Kendall Jenner
Uranus
  • ...that the planet Uranus (pictured) rotates 98 degrees on its side?
Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros
Titan (moon)
  • ...that Titan (pictured) may have forms of life in its subsurface oceans?
Ke Huy Quan
Peggy Flanagan
Chicago Water Tower
Sir Shridath Ramphal
Broccoli
Klein bottle
Orange
  • ...that oranges (pictured) are one of the few English words that do not rhyme?
Advance-fee scam
Apple
Glasgow
Mona Lisa
Photograph (Ed Sheeran song)
Cheetah
  • ...that the cheetah (pictured) is the fastest land animal, capable of running at speeds up to 75 miles per hour in less than 3 seconds?
L'Origine du monde
Jill Biden
Doug Emhoff
Kamala Harris
Felipe VI
Silvio Santos
Bajrakitiyabha
Daniela Bianchi
Flamingo
  • ...that a group of flamingos (pictured) is called a flamboyance?
Shrimp
Giant Panda
Anglo-Zanzibar War
Hummingbird
India naming dispute
Lettuce
Royal Air Force
Acid rain
  • ... that acid rain was a term first used in 1872?
Lauren Underwood
Michael Keaton
  • ... that because of SAG rules, Michael John Douglas had to change his name by searching a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided to pick it as his surname?
Jesse Jackson
Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Kangaroo
Speed dating
  • ... that almost half of the women, and about a quarter of the men participating in speed dating make their choice within 30 seconds of meeting the other person?
Srettha Thavisin
Yingluck Shinawatra
Octopus
Spaghetti
Eraser
Number
Pluto
  • ...that the ratio between the masses of Pluto and its moon Charon is so great that it is sometimes called a binary system?
Maho Beach
Buenos Aires
Susan Wojcicki
Christopher Plummer
Haumea (dwarf planet)
Titan
Venus
Lavinia Fontana
  • ...that Lavinia Fontana (self-portrait shown), a 16th century painter, may have been the first woman to paint female nudes?
Strawberry
Blood
  • ...that there are traces of gold found in blood in the human body?
Tokyo
  • ... that Tokyo started as a small fishing village known as Edo in the 1400s?
Beijing
  • ... that throughout its history, Beijing was the Chinese capital six times?
Michèle George
Tim Walz
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Guinea pig
  • ... that the term Guinea pig is slang for being the first to try something?
Taylor Swift
Pete Buttigieg
Berlin
Janet Yellen
Hakeem Jeffries
Truman Show delusion
Makemake (dwarf planet)
Depression (mental illness)
Charles Darwin
Rome
  • ... that at 1,500 fountains, Rome has the most fountains of any city in the world?
Priti Patel
Toronto
  • ... that in 2021, 51% of Toronto residents were born outside Canada with 45% of the city's residents speaking a first language other than French or English?
Madrid
Joe Biden
Romance Scam
Rachel Reeves
Deb Haaland
Amsterdam
Rio de Janeiro
Sexual slavery
  • ...that estimates of the number of sex slaves in 2001 varied between 400,000 and 1.75 million?
Potsdam
  • ... that Potsdam was intended as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its people of their relationship with nature and reason?
Myriam Spiteri Debono
Cheng Pei-pei
We Didn't Start the Fire (Fall Out Boy song)
JD Vance
Sir Keir Starmer
Stanford prison experiment
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
Phoenix, Arizona
Masoud Pezeshkian
Enumclaw horse sex case
Steven Chu
Blanche Lincoln
Devil
  • ... that in the Koran, the Devil often appears as an animal and tries to get people to do the wrong thing?
Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
Gregory Peck
Gabriel García Márquez
Dixy Lee Ray
India
Claudia Sheinbaum
Katherine Johnson
Françoise Hardy
Mason–Dixon line
Ronald Reagan
Seven Nation Army
John Quincy Adams
Carl Sagan
  • ... that Carl Sagan (pictured) said that smoking cannabis helped him in writing his books?
Vegetable
Adolf Hitler
Solovey (Go_A song)
Murder of Linda Andersen
Giorgia Meloni
Andrew Johnson
Russia
Cynisca
Nude recreation
Dishwasher
  • ...that a socialite who was worried that her dishes would break while they were being washed came up with a successful design of a dishwasher in the late 19th century?
Mary Peltola
Ima Keithel
Pubic hair
Dance the Night
Sahara
  • ... that in the last hundred years, the Sahara has grown by about ten percent because of desertification?
Red Sea crisis
Ostrich
Names of Pakistan
Houston
Lyndon B. Johnson