User:Doug Coldwell/Wikipedia:Did you know Statistics
- July 1, 2022
- 7,737 total views of 645 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Charlie H. Hogan was called "king of engineers" after
- he became the first to drive a train at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
- June 19, 2022
- 5,891 total views of 491 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that George Henry Daniels has been called the "Father of the Century"?
- May 28, 2022
- 5,428 total views of 452 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Thomas Seavey Hall banjo signals caused a judge
- to declare him the father of American automatic electric railroad signaling?
- May 22, 2022
- 6,161 total views of 513 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Thomas Hall made an electric train (pictured)
- that received power from the rails on which it traveled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
- April 27, 2022
- 9,720 total views of 810 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Daniel Davis was the first person in the United States to work with gold and silver electroplating (illustrated) as a business?
- June 2, 2020
- 7,262 total views of 605 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that the world's longest domestic flight, between Papeete, Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
- April 27, 2020
- 19,919 total views of 1660 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that the Language Integrator is a peep show intended only for inhabitants of the 82nd century to use?
- April 27, 2020
- 24,845 total views of 2070 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), Jakob Nacken (pictured) was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
- April 26, 2020
- 9,271 total views of 773 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that the world's oldest postcard (pictured), mailed in 1840, was designed as a practical joke to mock postal clerks?
- January 31, 2020
- Did you know that the Michigan Stove Company, started by Jeremiah Dwyer, made the World's Largest Stove (pictured), a 15-ton replica conceived by George H. Barbour and designed by William J. Keep?
- March 28, 2018
- 13,357 total views of 1113 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that the American-made schooner Meteor III (pictured) was the largest yacht in the world when built for German Emperor Wilhelm II?
- March 1, 2018
- 21,995 total views of 1832 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Kaiser Wilhelm II was so charmed with the American yacht Yampa (pictured) that he purchased her himself and had another larger yacht built in America based on her design?
- July 23, 2017
- 6,403 total views of 533 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that American Civil War Confederate surgeon Charles T. Pepper was the original inspiration for the Dr Pepper brand soft drink (1910 logo shown)?
- July 11, 2017
- 5,741 total views of 478 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that Italian immigrant Mario Peruzzi was the co-founder and president of Planters Peanut company (Mr. Peanut pictured)?
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- May 20, 2017
- 6,742 total views of 561 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know ... that Wawatam Lighthouse (pictured) started out as an architectural folly at a highway Welcome Center, was moved more than 300 miles (480 km), and is now an operating Coast Guard-approved aid to navigation?
- May 3, 2017
- 10,958 total views of 913 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- March 2, 2017
- 6,753 total views of 562 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
- January 31, 2017
- Did you know that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé Richard Henry Park ran off with a dancer?
- July 18, 2016
- Article had 10,469 views of 872 hits per hour for 12 hours.
- Did You Know that the George Washington Air Junction was designed to be the world's largest airport, larger than the New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, and Philadelphia airports combined?
- July 7, 2016
- Article had 7,783 total views of 648 hits per hour for 12 hours.
- Tiny Town listed as a Good Article of as January 11, 2017.
- Did You Know that Tiny Town was the first complete modern city built in miniature?
- June 30, 2016
- 7,229 total views of 602 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that at the age of 17, Dean Cullom Smith (pictured)
- was the youngest flight instructor in U.S. Army history?
- Dean Cullom Smith listed as a Good Article of as September 7, 2016.
- June 30, 2016
- 8,775 total views of 731 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that the House of Flavors' signature ice cream is the secret formula "Blue Moon" flavor (pictured),
- which they have been making available to their customers since 1935?
- Did You Know that Henry L. Haskell patented a game board (1900 vintage board shown) through the Carrom Company
- to keep young boys out of pool halls where they might develop bad habits?
- May 27, 2016
- 7880 total views of 657 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- May 27, 2016
- Did You Know that the one-piece Haskell canoe (pictured) was made from plywood glued together with slaughterhouse blood?
- April 13, 2016
- 6,434 total views of 536 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did you know that the Lord Baltimore penny (pictured) is the first copper coin issued for circulation in the Thirteen Colonies?
- March 14, 2016
- 7,353 total views of 613 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that Carl Edgar Myers invented an air-bicycle (illustrated) that navigated through the air like a bicycle?
- March 8, 2016
- 15,777 total views of 1,315 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that the first US Army hospital named for a woman or nurse
- was named after US Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner (pictured)?
- November 4, 2015
- 6,724 total views of 560 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that William Donald Scherzer invented the first rolling lift bridge (animation)?
- August 11, 2014
- 5,776 total views of 481 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that in 1907, the moose Älgen Stolta defeated horses in a harness race?
Heavy hitters
- December 10, 2010
- 32,200 total views of 2,683 hits per hour for twelve hours.
- Did You Know that a large waterbag (pictured) can bring water to California and,
- according to its inventor, peace to the Middle East?
- October 31, 2010
- Did You Know that Giovanni de Ventura, a plague doctor who may have worn a beak doctor costume (pictured),
- was restricted by a covenant to treat only infectious patients?
- January 8, 2008
- Did You Know that the Westinghouse Time Capsules (pictured) of the 1939 New York World's Fair
- and the 1964 New York World's Fair were made of special metal alloys to resist corrosion for 5000 years,
- the time span of all previous recorded human history?