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[edit]Wikimedia DYK
[edit]- ... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
- ... that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001?
- ... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
- ... that the Wikipedia hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis was cited in a judicial decision by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice?
- ... that in 2020, COVID-19–related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
- ... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?
- ... that Wikipedia editors wrote over 40,000 words arguing over a single letter?
- ... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?
- ... that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia?
- ... that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be "salted" so that they cannot be recreated?
- ... that in the browser game Neurocracy, players explore a fictional successor to Wikipedia launched in 2049?
- ... that Anne Wyllie, also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
- ... that you can search Wikipedia or a database of more than 37 billion compounds by substructure?
Food & drink DYK
[edit]- ... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
- ... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
- ... that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
- ... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
- ... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
- ... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?
- ... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
- ... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
- ... that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
- ... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
- ... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
- ... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
- ... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
- ... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
- ... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan?
- ... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
- ... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
- ... that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
- ... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
- ... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
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