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DYKs by Frzzl
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Streichmelodion
2022
12
5
1
20,398
849.9
... that the Streichmelodion (pictured) was once described as being "more like a frying pan than a musical instrument "?
Bohemian harp
2022
12
22
7
8,567
357.0
... that the Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of Přísečnice ?
Weltdeutsch
2023
4
29
3
5,403
450.2
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald , created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour?
Edgar de Wahl
2023
5
18
1
23,990
999.6
... that language creator Edgar de Wahl (pictured) escaped deportation by the NKVD by being placed in a psychiatric hospital ?
Wede
2023
7
14
2
8,742
728.5
... that Nazi Party member Adalbert Baumann created Oiropa'pitshn , a language based on Yiddish ?
Polnalyubvi
2023
7
18
2
5,638
469.9
... that Russian indie artist polnalyubvi bought her first guitar with money earned from busking with her violin?
Jews Don't Count
2023
9
27
7
9,942
414.2
... that according to David Baddiel 's book Jews Don't Count , antisemitism has become perceived as a "second-class racism"?
Georg Forchhammer
2023
10
10
4
3,880
161.6
... that in 1903, Georg Forchhammer invented a system to help his deaf students see the sounds of spoken Danish ?
Abram Kofman
2023
11
26
4
3,920
163.4
... that Abram Kofman was the first Ancient Greek–Esperanto translator, publishing translated sections of the Iliad in 1895?
Henriette Ith
2023
12
15
7
6,518
271.6
... that Swiss-born peace activist Henriette Ith chose to marry an anarchist to regain Swiss citizenship?
Jules Meysmans
2023
12
26
8
10,614
442.2
... that although Jules Meysmans invented an entire language, he is best known for his invention of one word ?
Hermann Alfred Tanner
2024
1
10
3
5,891
245.5
... that the Swiss mountaineer Hermann Alfred Tanner invented a compass to navigate colour harmony ?
Carl Segerståhl
2024
1
15
2
9,523
396.8
... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf , Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
Femboy
2024
1
25
8
7,952
662.6
... that the introduction of femboys to Myanmar was a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"?
Heinrich Nidecker
2024
2
11
5
2,513
104.7
... that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life ?
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2022
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2023
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2024
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^ Green: This was the hook I wanted
Red: This was not the hook I wanted.
· for Jews Don't Count , the original was deemed not suitable - I wasn't able to amend it before they chose this
· for Henriette Ith, the promoter simply took the worse hook from a choice of two