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This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.
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Did you know...
1 February 2022
- 10:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Franzisca Baruch
- ... that Franzisca Baruch (pictured) designed several Hebrew fonts, the cover of the first Israeli passport, the emblem of Jerusalem, and the logo of the Ha'aretz newspaper, all while barely knowing Hebrew?
- ... that the song "Come Back Home" by Seo Taiji and Boys made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
- ... that Italian actress Linda Albertini used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films?
- ... that Joice Island was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017?
- ... that under college president Arthur Bronwell in 1959, Worcester Polytechnic Institute built one of the first nuclear research reactors at an American university?
- ... that a YouTuber predicted the crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Rick and Morty long before it aired?
- ... that baseball statistician Bob Ferguson claimed that he became the owner of the London Majors "by accident"?
- ... that Zzzzzz had the busiest residential telephone number in the United States in the 1970s?
- 00:00, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Randell Cottage
- ... that Randell Cottage (pictured), home to a residency for French and New Zealand writers, is a listed heritage building?
- ... that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium?
- ... that guitarists playing a duet together have been shown to be in neural synchrony?
- ... that a new species of ant was named to honor artist Jeremy Ayers and the non-binary community?
- ... that a recent cyberattack on Ukrainian websites was disguised as ransomware?
- ... that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about Spinoza?
- ... that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169, Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
- ...that Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own blood pressure voluntarily?