Template:Did you know/Queue
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There are currently 3 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!
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Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.
This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.
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The next update will be produced from Queue 6. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.
Current number of hooks on the nominations page
Note: See WP:DYKROTATE for when we change between one and two sets per day.
Count of DYK Hooks | ||
Section | # of Hooks | # Verified |
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June 13 | 1 | |
June 14 | 1 | |
June 15 | 1 | |
June 17 | 1 | |
June 21 | 1 | |
June 23 | 3 | 1 |
June 24 | 2 | |
June 25 | 1 | |
June 26 | 3 | 1 |
June 28 | 3 | 1 |
June 30 | 1 | |
July 1 | 3 | 2 |
July 2 | 1 | |
July 3 | 3 | 2 |
July 4 | 4 | 1 |
July 5 | 4 | |
July 6 | 3 | 3 |
July 7 | 4 | 1 |
July 8 | 3 | 1 |
July 9 | 2 | |
July 10 | 5 | 4 |
July 11 | 1 | 1 |
July 12 | 5 | 4 |
July 13 | 6 | 2 |
July 14 | 5 | 2 |
July 15 | 6 | 3 |
July 16 | 6 | 5 |
July 17 | 7 | 4 |
July 18 | 5 | 3 |
July 19 | 13 | 10 |
July 20 | 4 | 4 |
July 21 | 9 | 5 |
July 22 | 7 | 5 |
July 23 | 7 | 5 |
July 24 | 9 | 2 |
July 25 | 17 | 3 |
July 26 | 7 | 3 |
July 27 | 9 | 6 |
July 28 | 17 | 7 |
July 29 | 11 | 4 |
July 30 | 7 | 4 |
July 31 | 8 | 6 |
August 1 | 9 | 3 |
August 2 | 6 | 3 |
August 3 | 8 | 3 |
August 4 | 6 | 5 |
August 5 | 13 | 1 |
August 6 | 8 | 3 |
August 7 | 6 | 2 |
August 8 | 8 | 4 |
August 9 | 4 | 3 |
August 10 | 8 | 2 |
August 11 | 1 | |
Total | 293 | 134 |
Last updated 21:38, 11 August 2024 UTC Current time is 23:46, 11 August 2024 UTC [refresh] |
DYK time
![]() | DYK queue status
Current time: 23:46, 11 August 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 23 hours ago() |
![]() | The next empty queue is 2. (update · from prep 2 · from prep 3 · clear) |
Local update times
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Queue 6 | 11 August 17:00 |
11 August 20:00 |
12 August 00:00 |
12 August 01:00 |
12 August 05:30 |
12 August 09:00 |
12 August 10:00 |
Queue 7 | 12 August 17:00 |
12 August 20:00 |
13 August 00:00 |
13 August 01:00 |
13 August 05:30 |
13 August 09:00 |
13 August 10:00 |
Queue 1 | 13 August 17:00 |
13 August 20:00 |
14 August 00:00 |
14 August 01:00 |
14 August 05:30 |
14 August 09:00 |
14 August 10:00 |
Queue 2 Prep 2 |
14 August 17:00 |
14 August 20:00 |
15 August 00:00 |
15 August 01:00 |
15 August 05:30 |
15 August 09:00 |
15 August 10:00 |
Queue 3 Prep 3 |
15 August 17:00 |
15 August 20:00 |
16 August 00:00 |
16 August 01:00 |
16 August 05:30 |
16 August 09:00 |
16 August 10:00 |
Queue 4 Prep 4 |
16 August 17:00 |
16 August 20:00 |
17 August 00:00 |
17 August 01:00 |
17 August 05:30 |
17 August 09:00 |
17 August 10:00 |
Queue 5 Prep 5 |
17 August 17:00 |
17 August 20:00 |
18 August 00:00 |
18 August 01:00 |
18 August 05:30 |
18 August 09:00 |
18 August 10:00 |
Prep 6 | 18 August 17:00 |
18 August 20:00 |
19 August 00:00 |
19 August 01:00 |
19 August 05:30 |
19 August 09:00 |
19 August 10:00 |
Prep 7 | 19 August 17:00 |
19 August 20:00 |
20 August 00:00 |
20 August 01:00 |
20 August 05:30 |
20 August 09:00 |
20 August 10:00 |
Prep 1 | 20 August 17:00 |
20 August 20:00 |
21 August 00:00 |
21 August 01:00 |
21 August 05:30 |
21 August 09:00 |
21 August 10:00 |
Queues
![]() | The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time. |
- ... that writer Fănuș Neagu (pictured) claimed to have spent the Romanian floods of May 1970 stranded with a feral wolf on the roof of a cannery?
- ... that Sierra Leone is the only country where a British law from 1861 still bans abortion?
- ... that Lewis Worthington Smith received royalties from his textbook The Mechanism of English Style for 20 years?
- ... that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
- ... that Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, an honor usually reserved for Nobel Prize winners?
- ... that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a United States regulatory agency, does not require workplaces to have employee break rooms?
- ... that a critic compared vocalist Riley Gale to a "rabid wolf"?
- ... that The Strip documents how the gangster Meyer Lansky would walk his Shih Tzu near the pool while visiting a casino?
- ... that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor when she "tickled" the breasts of The Motherland Calls?
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![Possible T. rex coprolite](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Tyrannosaurus_rex_Coprolite_Poozeum.jpg/171px-Tyrannosaurus_rex_Coprolite_Poozeum.jpg)
- ... that the Poozeum holds fossilized dinosaur feces (pictured) which may have come from a T. rex?
- ... that Suleiman of Germiyan allowed the Ottoman annexation of much of his territory to pay his daughter's dowry?
- ... that a £142 wine fridge was smuggled into Downing Street on 11 December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom?
- ... that voice teacher Verna Osborne retired at the age of 101?
- ... that researchers estimated that training the model for ChatGPT used the equivalent energy footprint of "driving 123 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles for a year"?
- ... that Felix Eberty was called "an original and ingenious person" by Albert Einstein?
- ... that the H. Wortman Pumping Station has four pumps, but is only used in exceptional circumstances?
- ... that frontier physician Isaac Coe is credited with saving Indianapolis from an 1821 outbreak of malaria?
- ... that an art collective released a dating simulator dedicated to preparing the player's income taxes?
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- ... that horse and sleigh racing once took place on Ocean Parkway (pictured)?
- ... that animals can colonize islands by riding tropical cyclones?
- ... that Ken Goldin has sold more than US$1.3 billion in collectibles?
- ... that one of the items on display at the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts was George Washington's shaving brush?
- ... that before Fred Thomas became an MP, he was the Royal Marines' light heavyweight boxing champion?
- ... that Fumika Baba had to learn how to draw for her role in the live-action drama adaptation of Hey Sensei, Don't You Know?
- ... that before becoming a commissioner of Indian affairs, William P. Dole was only known to have encountered Native Americans once in his life?
- ... that the pulse stops during the soliloquy of In C Mali?
- ... that Bolivian intelligence officer Roberto Quintanilla was responsible for cutting off Che Guevara's hands?
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Handy copy sources:
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To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
Prep areas
Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 2 [update count].
- ... that Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to contribute to the more than a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime?
- ... that President Ieremia Tabai of Kiribati was elected in 1978, 1982, 1983 and 1987, despite a term limit of three elections?
- ... that Chinese archaeologist Zou Heng was forced to work as a poultry farmer during the Cultural Revolution?
- ... that The American Pigeon Museum & Library keeps a flock of hundreds of pigeons for public viewing?
- ... that Major General Jarrett Robertson earned the nickname "Desert Fox" by having similar skills in battle to German field marshal Erwin Rommel, who held the same nickname?
- ... that despite being New Zealand's biggest earthquake in 78 years, the 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake caused only minor damage?
- ... that college football player Reggie Brown tore three knee ligaments but still made it to the NFL?
- ... that the Linda Lindas wrote No Obligation, their second album, during breaks from school?
- ... that the Historia Divae Monacellae, a medieval hagiography, tells of wild hares performing miracles?
- ... that the flowers of Pavonia praemorsa (pictured) bloom and die within the same day?
- ... that soprano Joan Ruth rejected a marriage proposal because her suitor wanted her to abandon ambitions of a singing career?
- ... that Tina and Milo are the "first openly Gen Z mascots"?
- ... that Bengisu Avcı had to abandon her 45-kilometre (28-mile) swim across the Kaiwi Channel after being stung by jellyfish twelve hours in?
- ... that some of the first likely Libotonius fossils collected are lost at the Smithsonian?
- ... that Argentine naval officer Barry Melbourne Hussey was known as El Ingles ('The Englishman') by his comrades?
- ... that the 2024 song "Tobey" features "three generations of Detroit"?
- ... that actor Scott Jarvis was angered when White House officials under Richard Nixon requested that portions of his role in the musical 1776 be cut due to its anti-war theme?
- ... that the area of Cultybraggan Camp has been a royal hunting ground, a prison for fervent Nazis and the site of an underground bunker intended for use in a nuclear war?
- ... that Japanese surgeon Hayari Miyake (pictured) cured Albert Einstein of a tropical fever?
- ... that after 1943, the Symphony for Strings by Georgy Sviridov was not played again until 2000?
- ... that non-white Samoan people were permitted to join the local branch of the Nazi Party in the 1930s?
- ... that a Philadelphia TV station shut down because of a family feud?
- ... that Ecco2K created a fashion brand when he was 16 years old by talking online to Chinese factory managers who did not know his age?
- ... that an 1814 British raid on a fort in Virginia was guided by an escaped slave of the American garrison commander?
- ... that the Mercer Art Gallery rediscovered little-known artist Eva Leigh and exhibited her work?
- ... that classical composer Carl Ludvig Lithander also worked as a teacher at a military academy?
- ... that South Korea has a day to celebrate North Koreans?
- ... that the 4,000-year-old Ravenswood standing stone (pictured) now lies in a cul-de-sac in a 1970s Scottish housing estate?
- ... that Dov Noy founded the Israel Folktale Archives, which have collected around 25,000 Jewish folk tales?
- ... that Choco Togo produces heat resistant chocolate bars that can withstand temperatures of up to 35 °C (95 °F)?
- ... that one newspaper expected mayor Sun Zhiyang to help turn Guangzhou into a "smart car city"?
- ... that Jennifer Brea directed an Academy Award-shortlisted documentary while bedbound from ME/CFS?
- ... that the DI MA-1 Mk. III rifle was made in Myanmar as a reverse engineered copy of the Chinese QBZ-97 rifle?
- ... that sport in Vatican City has included cricket, calcio fiorentino, and taekwondo?
- ... that a scrapped song from SZA's second album was supposed to be on her next one, but when the song was leaked she had to scrap it again?
- ... that Abraham Lincoln felt obliged to propose to Mary Owens – a woman he did not want to marry – but was rejected, not once but several times?
- ... that the two victims of the 1875 Zénith balloon incident are depicted on their tomb (pictured) holding hands, as described in testimonies from the day of their death?
- ... that Lionel Haward applied an early example of offender profiling to help identify high-ranking Nazis disguised as ordinary troops?
- ... that the adventure game Until Then has an in-universe version of Facebook, where the player can like and comment on other characters' posts?
- ... that Lisa M. Corrigan used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the black power movement?
- ... that a shipwreck in the eastern Mediterranean, dating from the Late Bronze Age, is the earliest deep-sea shipwreck to be discovered?
- ... that Johann Joseph Dömling suggested in 1803 that venous blood contained carbon monoxide?
- ... that Togo's abortion law was one of the first in Africa to allow abortion in the case of rape?
- ... that Dissolution Grip by KMRU uses recordings of the artist's shack being struck by strong winds?
- ... whether you just fell out of a coconut tree?
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- ... that those found guilty of cocoa smuggling in Ghana face a sentence of five to ten years in prison?
- ... that the character Dogpool was portrayed by "Britain's Ugliest Dog"?
- ... that a scholar argued that the 2021 German novel About People, which is about the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, encourages "sympathy with rightwing extremists"?
- ... that Alexander Langmuir created the Epidemic Intelligence Service?
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