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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 article".
Proposed facts should
Suggested facts (also known as hooks) should be
Suggested pictures should be
Have in-line citations Interesting From Wikimedia Commons
Articles on living people must be carefully checked to make sure that no unsourced negative information is in the article Short (less than about 200 characters, including spaces) Small (100x100px)[1]
Articles with good references and citations are needed. Neutral Already in the article
  1. Formatting for pictures is: [[File:image name |right|100x100px]] 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.

Symbol Code Ready for DYK? Description
{{DYKyes}} Yes No problems, ready for DYK
{{DYKagf}} Yes, WP:AGF Hook 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}} Almost Article is on the way to being ready for DYK, but the reviewer has questions.
{{DYKno}} No Article 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'''.

Holly Cairns

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James Monroe

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Zachary Taylor

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James Buchanan

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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.

Sunflower

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James A. Garfield

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Antipope Felix V

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Paternalism

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Jair Bolsonaro

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Chihuahua (dog)

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Nancy Reagan

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  • ... 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

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  • ...that the famous picture, The Scream (pictured), is worth 55 million dollars?

Gotham City

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Theodore Edgar McCarrick

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Brigitte Macron

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René Henry Gracida

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Sarah Frey

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  • ... that Sarah Frey (pictured), who has been called "the Pumpkin Queen of America", started her farming company at the age of 16?

Choking game

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Harley Quinn

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Poison Ivy (character)

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  • ... that DC Comics villain Poison Ivy was created because there was a need for more female villains on the 1966 series Batman?

Catwoman

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Carmine Falcone

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Yassamin Ansari

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Jimmy Carter

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

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  • ...that there are 3,000 known kinds of pears (pictured) that are grown worldwide?

Pineapple

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  • ...that pineapples can take two or three years to grow?

Kemi Badenoch

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Popsicle

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  • ...that the popsicle was accidentally made by an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson in 1905?

Sarah McBride

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Tulsi Gabbard

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Miranda Hart

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Richard Feynman

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Aella (writer)

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Witch child

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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XXXTentacion

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Mayra Gómez Kemp

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  • ... 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

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D. B. Cooper

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  • ...that more than fifty years after he jumped from a plane he had hijacked, D. B Cooper's (pictured) identity is still unknown?

United Kingdom

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Annalisa

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  • ...that in 2024, Italian singer Annalisa (pictured) got an asteroid named after her?

Reagan (2024 movie)

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Herbert A. Simon

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Han Kang

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Ralph Steinman

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Vladimir Putin

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Xi Jinping

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Geoffrey Hinton

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Narendra Modi

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Donald Sutherland

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Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

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Dick Schoof

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Amazing Grace

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Sabrina Carpenter

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Sir William Ramsay

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Krypton

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Bernard Hill

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Teddy bear

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John Hickenlooper

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Dame Maggie Smith

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Al Capone

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  • ... 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?
  • ... that Manila was established as a Muslim settlement in the 13th century and later as a Spanish colonial city in 1571?

Shigeru Ishiba

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Moulin Rouge

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  • ... 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

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Ana Brnabić

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Lee Grant

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Droupadi Murmu

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Anna Kendrick

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Sophie Wells

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Anne Hathaway

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Otis Davis

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Margot Robbie

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  • ... that in 2024, Margot Robbie was named by Forbes as the world's highest-paid actress in 2023, with earnings of $78 million?

Nestor Makhno

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Audrey Hepburn

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Sir John Gielgud

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Rita Moreno

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The Crown (TV series)

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Clipperton Island

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Richard Rodgers

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Parasite (2019 movie)

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Galápagos Islands

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Alex Jennings

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James Earl Jones

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Jeffrey Titford

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Peter Dutton

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  • ... that the koala (pictured) sleeps up to 20 hours a day because its eucalyptus leaf diet provides little energy?

Mahathir Mohamad

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Statue of Liberty

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  • ... that sharks (pictured) have been around for over 400 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared?

Ny-Ålesund

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Po (river)

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Lightning

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George VI

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Lord Mountbatten

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Diana, Princess of Wales

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Slave breeding in the United States

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Traffic light

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  • ... that the country that is tea's biggest maker and drinker is India?

Concert

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Rodolfo Hernández Suárez

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Edward VIII

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Enceladus

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  • ...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

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  • ...that the planet Uranus (pictured) rotates 98 degrees on its side?

Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros

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Titan (moon)

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  • ...that Titan (pictured) may have forms of life in its subsurface oceans?

Ke Huy Quan

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Peggy Flanagan

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Chicago Water Tower

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Chicago Water Tower

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Sir Shridath Ramphal

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Broccoli

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Klein bottle

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  • ...that oranges (pictured) are one of the few English words that do not rhyme?

Advance-fee scam

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Taj Mahal

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Glasgow

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Mona Lisa

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Photograph (Ed Sheeran song)

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Cheetah

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  • ...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

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Jill Biden

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Doug Emhoff

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Kamala Harris

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Felipe VI

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Silvio Santos

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Bajrakitiyabha

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Daniela Bianchi

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Flamingo

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  • ...that a group of flamingos (pictured) is called a flamboyance?

Giant Panda

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Anglo-Zanzibar War

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Hummingbird

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India naming dispute

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Lettuce

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Royal Air Force

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Acid rain

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  • ... that acid rain was a term first used in 1872?

Lauren Underwood

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Michael Keaton

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  • ... 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

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra

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Kangaroo

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Speed dating

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  • ... 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?

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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Srettha Thavisin

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Africa (Toto song)

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Yingluck Shinawatra

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Octopus

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Spaghetti

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  • ...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

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Buenos Aires

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Susan Wojcicki

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Christopher Plummer

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Haumea (dwarf planet)

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Lavinia Fontana

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  • ...that Lavinia Fontana (self-portrait shown), a 16th century painter, may have been the first woman to paint female nudes?

Strawberry

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  • ...that there are traces of gold found in blood in the human body?

Kangaroo rat

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  • ... that Tokyo started as a small fishing village known as Edo in the 1400s?

Beijing

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  • ... that throughout its history, Beijing was the Chinese capital six times?

Michèle George

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Tim Walz

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Sir Lawrence Bragg

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Guinea pig

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  • ... that the term Guinea pig is slang for being the first to try something?

Taylor Swift

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Pete Buttigieg

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Janet Yellen

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Hakeem Jeffries

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Truman Show delusion

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Makemake (dwarf planet)

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Depression (mental illness)

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Charles Darwin

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  • ... that at 1,500 fountains, Rome has the most fountains of any city in the world?

Priti Patel

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Toronto

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  • ... 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?

Joe Biden

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Romance Scam

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Rachel Reeves

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Deb Haaland

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Amsterdam

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Rio de Janeiro

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Sexual slavery

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  • ...that estimates of the number of sex slaves in 2001 varied between 400,000 and 1.75 million?

Potsdam

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  • ... that Potsdam was intended as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its people of their relationship with nature and reason?

Myriam Spiteri Debono

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Cheng Pei-pei

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We Didn't Start the Fire (Fall Out Boy song)

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JD Vance

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Sir Keir Starmer

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Stanford prison experiment

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Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania

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Dennis Skinner

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Phoenix, Arizona

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Masoud Pezeshkian

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Enumclaw horse sex case

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Steven Chu

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Robert Pickton

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Blanche Lincoln

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  • ... 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

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Gregory Peck

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Dixy Lee Ray

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Claudia Sheinbaum

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Katherine Johnson

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Buzz Aldrin

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  • ... that when Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, he took communion and became the first and only person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon?

Françoise Hardy

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Mason–Dixon line

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Ronald Reagan

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Seven Nation Army

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John Quincy Adams

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Carl Sagan

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  • ... that Carl Sagan (pictured) said that smoking cannabis helped him in writing his books?

Vegetable

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Adolf Hitler

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Carlo Acutis

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Ebrahim Raisi

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Solovey (Go_A song)

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Anneliese Michel

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Jamie Lee Curtis

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Murder of Linda Andersen

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William Shockley

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Giorgia Meloni

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Marianne Wiggins

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  • ... that when Muslims were ordered to kill Salman Rushdie, his wife Marianne Wiggins also started hiding, even though she told him five days earlier that she did not want to be married to him anymore?

Dick Van Dyke

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Andrew Johnson

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Cynisca

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Nude recreation

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Dishwasher

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  • ...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?

Pete McCloskey

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Simon Harris

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Mary Peltola

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Ima Keithel

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Pubic hair

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Olaf Scholz

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Ursula von der Leyen

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Dance the Night

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Gottfried Böhm

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  • ... that in the last hundred years, the Sahara has grown by about ten percent because of desertification?

José Andrés

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Red Sea crisis

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Trina Robbins

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  • ... that in 1970, cartoonist Trina Robbins (pictured) helped create the first comic book entirely produced by women?

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

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Ostrich

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Names of Pakistan

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Akkadian Empire

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Houston

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Total Eclipse of the Heart

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Ancient Pakistan

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Charles Michel

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Jörn Donner

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Katie Britt

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Gandhara

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Olivia Rodrigo

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Lewis Strauss

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Kristi Noem

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Marianne Williamson

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Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Chicago River

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Functional illiteracy

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Kirby's Dream Course

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Harvard University

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Stan Lee

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Japanese spider crab

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Cillian Murphy

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Toby Fox

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Alexander Graham Bell

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The Godfather

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  • ... that The Godfather made over $100 million in the box office 18 weeks after its release in 1972, making it the fastest movie to reach that number?

Harold Washington

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Abortion in France

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  • ...that abortion in France was protected in the French constitution in March 2024, making France the only country to have abortion as a constitutional right?

O'Hare station train crash

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Bernardo Arévalo

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Lily Gladstone

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Paracetamol

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Mario Party 8

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Eswatini

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  • ... that Swaziland changed their name to Eswatini because the old name sounded too similar to Switzerland?

Alejandro Mayorkas

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Kuwaiti dinar

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Carnivorous plant

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Super Bowl LVIII

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Kaja Kallas

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Vitali Klitschko

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Asha Bhosle

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Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing

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Xiomara Castro

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Acoustic Kitty

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Jeanine Áñez

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Emmanuel Macron

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The Typewriter

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Pesse canoe

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  • ... that the Pesse canoe (pictured), a dugout dating back to between 7500 and 8000 BCE, may be one of the world's oldest boats?

Shireen Abu Akleh

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Medieval philosophy

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Poultry

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Lidia Gueiler

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Nikki Haley

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Kenneth Eugene Smith

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Daniel J. Evans

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In Guezzam

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Suriname

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  • ...that in Suriname most people who cannot read or write are women?

Masjid al-Haram

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Temple of Confucius, Qufu

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2024 Ecuadorian conflict

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Meat-Shaped Stone

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Margrethe II of Denmark

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Leopold and Loeb

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Gabriel Attal

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Bee hummingbird

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Indus Valley civilization

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Michael Myers

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Carmen Valero

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Borobudur

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25 or 6 to 4

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James Brady

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Arirang

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Postpartum depression

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Trump International Hotel and Tower

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875 North Michigan Avenue

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Estonia

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The Dark Knight (movie)

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Oppenheimer (movie)

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Barbie (movie)

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The Backrooms

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Doughnut

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  • ... that Canadians eat more doughnuts (pictured) per person than any other nation and Canada has more doughnut shops per person than any other nation?

1925 serum run to Nome

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Istanbul

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Anglo-Zanzibar War

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Tunguska event

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Gaza Strip

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  • ...that the Gaza Strip has one of the youngest populations in the world as 43% of the people are age 14 or younger?

Breastfeeding

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Sausage

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New York City

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  • ... that the first life on Earth appeared 3.6 billion years ago in the Archaean era?

Now and Then (Beatles song)

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Taung Child

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  • ...that for a long time, no one saw the importance of the Taung Child, because of the Piltdown Man discovered about 12 years earlier?

Hostile architecture

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Free-produce movement

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