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Article | Image | DYK views | DYK hook |
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East Base | 12,034 | ... that East Base (pictured) in Antarctica housed Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington, the first women to spend a winter on the continent? | |
Renault Trezor | 4,826 | ... that the Renault Trezor features a single-piece canopy roof that opens by hinging forward? | |
Nakatsu Castle | 3,694 | ... that the original Nakatsu Castle was destroyed in a fire in 1877, and the current structure was built in 1964? | |
Jane Maria Strachey | 3,197 | ... that suffragist Jane Maria Strachey was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840? | |
Trashigang Dzong | 7,482 | ... that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong, and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure? | |
List of Kolpak cricketers | 3,323 | ... that Claude Henderson was the first cricketer to sign a Kolpak contract? | |
Gauthier Destenay | 2,506 | ... that Xavier Bettel became the first European Union leader to marry someone of the same sex when he married Gauthier Destenay in 2015? | |
Sunil Babu Pant | 3,875 | ... that Sunil Babu Pant was the first openly gay federal level legislator in Asia? | |
Velipadinte Pusthakam | 910 | ... that the upcoming film Velipadinte Pusthakam will be the first collaboration between director Lal Jose and actor Mohanlal? | |
The Beast (book) | 1,157 | ... that The Beast is the first book written by CPJ International Press Freedom Award-winning journalist Óscar Martínez? | |
MINURCA | 1,136 | ... that MINURCA was established by the UN Security Council to replace another peacekeeping force called MISAB? | |
Lamborghini Asterion | 6,323 | ... that Lamborghini's first hybrid vehicle was its concept car Asterion (pictured)? | |
St. Cajetan Church | 1,387 | ... that St. Cajetan Church, part of the World Heritage Site Churches and convents of Goa, is modeled on St. Peter's Basilica? | |
Church of St. Augustine, Goa | 7,003 | ... that the supposed relics of Georgian saint Ketevan the Martyr were retrieved from the ruins of the Church of St. Augustine (pictured) in Goa? | |
Shekhar Naik | 657 | ... that Shekhar Naik is the first blind cricketer to be awarded the Padma Shri? | |
Jeff Bauman | 2,045 | ... that the upcoming movie Stronger is based on a memoir by Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman? | |
K. E. Mammen | 2,328 | ... that freedom fighter K. E. Mammen was expelled from Madras Christian College for participating in the Quit India Movement? | |
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace | 1,663 | ... that in his memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan asserts that internal African politics and leadership are largely responsible for Africa's problems? | |
Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple | 6,635 | ... that the Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple (pictured) was greatly expanded by Vikrama Chola after he was supposedly cured of vitiligo by praying to the presiding deity for 48 days? | |
Deepak Gupta | 1,864 | ... that Supreme Court of India judge Deepak Gupta once heard and disposed of 33 cases in a single day? | |
Djamaa el Djazaïr | 16,206 | ... that that the new Djamaa el Djazaïr mosque (pictured) is the tallest building in Africa? | |
Shrine of St. Paulina | 5,718 | ... that the Shrine of St. Paulina (pictured) is dedicated to the first female saint from Brazil? | |
Limete Tower | 10,816 | ... that the foundation stone for the Limete Tower (pictured) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laid by the then Tanzanian president, Julius Nyerere? |