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Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.

1 April 2011

• 16:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the Australian government requires high-risk sex workers to wear full-face respirators (example pictured)?

• ... that Ntrepid was paid $2.76 million by the U.S. military to create sock puppets?

• ... that Batman is half female?

• ... that nesting is not used by breeding Mute Swans but they do use this thing?

• ... that Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of a crime for releasing a worm?

• ... that Dr. Who's parents are Brazilians from a family known for pineapples?

• ... that even small amounts of dead cat can explode when heated?

• ... that Europe was ruled by a child during the American Revolutionary War?

• ... that a typical Labia minor is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and equipped with pincers?

• 08:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

• ... that there is a desk full of candy (pictured) on the floor of the US Senate?

• ... that Rudyard Kipling's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Ireland?

• ... that recent quantum chemical calculations have established that arsoles are only moderately aromatic?

• ... that St. Joseph has been in Egypt since 1852?

• ... that in 2010, three survivors of the Titanic were rescued by the USCGC Chincoteague?

• ... that a real Bastard commanded Africa in the nineteenth century?

• ... that a species of crab, Tumidotheres maculatus, has been found living on an asteroid?

• ... that ice cream grows in Florida?

• 00:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the 2011 Honda CBR250R sport bike (pictured), styled after the VFR1200F, shows design influence from the Chrysler 300 car?

• ... that Matt Howard is the first player named to the Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament All-Tournament team four times?

• ... that the Munich Biennale is an opera festival created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze, focused on opera premieres of young composers?

• ... that the stoning murder of two Israeli boys on the outskirts of their settlement in the Judean desert in 2001 led to U.S. legislation cracking down on killers of Americans overseas?

• ... that La Nueva Viga Market in Mexico City is the second-largest seafood market, after the Tsukiji fish market?

• ... that during Operation Kita in February 1945, six Imperial Japanese Navy warships, sailing from Singapore to Japan, evaded the 26 Allied submarines which were positioned to attack them?

• ... that the Glee cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird", included on an upcoming album, marked the first time the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100?