Talk:Garland grenade

A fact from Garland grenade appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 06:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets? "A man named Garland from the Cairo arsenal made improvised bombs from food tins filled with bits of barbed wire and spent Turkish bullets, gunpowder or some kind of explosive detonator, and a fuse wire." from: "Bimbashi Garland". Priaulx Library. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cook Islands Local Defence Force

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 11:29, 2 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New article that was moved to mainspace on 2 February 2021 is 2,772 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected [1] and duplication detector [2][3][4] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF books and offline refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article are well-sourced. Hook is 132 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 2 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 03:40, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]