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...that the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?

On December 23, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alexander Kronrod, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 13:57, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mhym created the article Alexander Kronrod. Thanks to you both! -Susanlesch 17:16, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?

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Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 12:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD (pictured) software?

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 02:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 22:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-American mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota?

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 22:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that W. Harry Davis, who helped desegregate Minneapolis, overcame childhood polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of US Olympics boxing teams?

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 15:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek?

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 15:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth (pictured) was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan?

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--Mgm|^(talk) 09:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?

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--howcheng {chat} 06:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?

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--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 05:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis, where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?

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--howcheng {chat} 16:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that before the Great Depression, the oligopoly of Pillsbury - Northwestern Consolidated (pictured) and General Mills in Minneapolis - was the world's largest flour miller?

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--ALoan (Talk) 12:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that the main Post Office (pictured) for Minneapolis, Minnesota contained peepholes to protect the mail, and recreation rooms, a rifle range and a hospital unit for employees?

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--Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand?

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--Daniel 01:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo?

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--Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 21:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?

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--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 09:54, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing Company, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company?

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--chaser - t 16:13, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker?

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Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...that Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken, the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?

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--Archtransit (talk) 22:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...that cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
Second choice of hook but thank you.

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Cheers, Bobet 15:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies?

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--BorgQueen (talk) 03:15, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords, each by an expert in the field of information security?

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--BorgQueen (talk) 13:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?

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--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:41, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...that at age 14, Jack Dorsey (pictured) developed software that is still used to dispatch taxicabs and inspired him to create Twitter?

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good subject! Victuallers (talk) 23:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?

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BorgQueen (talk) 13:03, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The 25 DYK Medal
		Took you a while, but you got there! Congratulations, Gatoclass (talk) 10:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... that Jeffrey Zients, the new United States Chief Performance Officer, was in a club that tried to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team?

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Dravecky (talk) 18:39, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

... that Marcia McNutt, nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey, studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team?

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Wikiproject: Did you know? 20:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

O'Neill speaking at a lectern outside in 2005 amongst lots of signs, NOW logo visible behind her

... that Terry O'Neill (pictured), new president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), campaigned for grassroots feminists across the United States?

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King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

... that Stewart Brand wrote Whole Earth Discipline knowing that many environmentalists would disagree with him?

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Materialscientist (talk) 23:15, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

... that in her 1875 book The Sexes Throughout Nature, Antoinette Brown Blackwell (pictured) critiqued the androcentricity expressed by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer?

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Orlady (talk) 02:56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

T. B. Walker in 1888

... that the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

... that designer Vladimir Kagan, whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?

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-- Cirt (talk) 22:11, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

... that, although doctors give it only a 10% success rate, smoking cessation educator Joel Spitzer encourages people to quit smoking cold turkey?

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The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

... that the first two cookbooks by Deborah Madison won James Beard Foundation awards as well as Julia Child Cookbook of the Year?

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-- Cirt (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

... that Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?

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The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

... that the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?

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The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Epidemic in the age of Prozac

... that in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker asks why the number of Americans disabled by mental illness nearly doubled since 1987 (chart pictured)?

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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

... that Mad in America was a 2002 critique of psychiatry written by American journalist Robert Whitaker?

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The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

... that a reviewer wrote that Mound of Butter (pictured) by Antoine Vollon looks so real that it might have been painted with butter itself?

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... 10 years ago there was no DYK. Luckily that's changed, so thanks Victuallers (talk) 23:55, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

... that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?

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Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

... that the Confucian teaching hara hachi bu instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full?

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The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

... that Thich Nhat Hanh, who has been described as the second most famous Buddhist after the Dalai Lama, founded a sangha in San Diego County?

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The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

... that The Relaxation Response describes two steps as essential: a passive attitude and a mental device to keep the mind from wandering?

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Orlady (talk) 00:02, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

... that Têtes Noires (pictured) was the first all-female rock band from Minneapolis?

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Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that Budai, The Laughing Buddha is often confused with Gautama Buddha?'

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Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:40, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that Keizan, Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, founded Sōji-ji?'

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The DYK project (nominate) 08:32, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Long wooden stairway from the front gate up to the Buddha hall, surrounded by 700-year-old cedar trees

... that Steve Jobs wanted to study Zen in Japan at Eihei-ji (pictured)?

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Orlady (talk) 16:02, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that Edward Espe Brown, author of The Tassajara Bread Book, was inspired as a child by his aunt's baking of homemade bread?

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Orlady (talk) 16:02, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that the Journal of Japanese Studies called a book by William Bodiford "the most important English work on Sōtō Zen to date"?

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The Bushranger _{One ping only} 08:44, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that a bamboo grove (pictured) marks the spot in Hōkoku-ji where the Zen master Butsujo wrote poetry?

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Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

... that Siri Engberg curated Lifelike, an "uncannily realistic" show that originated at the Walker Art Center (pictured) in Minneapolis?

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

... that the artistic heroes of illustrator Thomas Fluharty are Rembrandt and Bouguereau?

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:03, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

... that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?

On 30 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alice H. Lichtenstein, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alice H. Lichtenstein. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

.... that William Hood Dunwoody (pictured) was a silent partner in what was to become General Mills?

On 15 September 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Hood Dunwoody, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Hood Dunwoody (pictured) was a silent partner in what was to become General Mills? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Hood Dunwoody. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

.... ... that Elmer McCollum (pictured) and Marguerite Davis discovered vitamin A three weeks before Osborne and Mendel?

On 24 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elmer McCollum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elmer McCollum (pictured) and Marguerite Davis discovered vitamin A three weeks before Osborne and Mendel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elmer McCollum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Elmer McCollum), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:16, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

.. that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?

On 14 October 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Henri Laborit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Laborit. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Henri Laborit), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

... that Marjorie Husted, as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker, interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?

On 22 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marjorie Husted, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marjorie Husted, as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker, interviewed Joan Crawford in her home? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marjorie Husted. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marjorie Husted), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... that former ballerina Miranda Esmonde-White claims that people can practice "aging backwards" through eccentric exercise?

On 16 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Miranda Esmonde-White, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that former ballerina Miranda Esmonde-White claims that people can practice "aging backwards" through eccentric exercise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Miranda Esmonde-White. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Miranda Esmonde-White), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... that Minneapolis surgeon George G. Eitel (pictured) was falsely rumored to have been shot at sunrise at Fort Snelling?

On 26 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article George G. Eitel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Minneapolis surgeon George G. Eitel (pictured) was falsely rumored to have been shot at sunrise at Fort Snelling? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/George G. Eitel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, George G. Eitel), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?

On 15 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Solar storm of August 1972, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Solar storm of August 1972. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Solar storm of August 1972), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 12:01, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... that Kathleen Hall Jamieson (pictured), author of Cyberwar, thinks it "highly probable" that Russia changed the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election?

On 19 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kathleen Hall Jamieson (pictured), author of Cyberwar, thinks it "highly probable" that Russia changed the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

...that Ida Dorsey built the last standing bordello (pictured) from Minneapolis' three red-light districts?

On 7 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ida Dorsey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ...that Ida Dorsey built the last standing bordello (pictured) from Minneapolis' three red-light districts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ida Dorsey. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ida Dorsey), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

... that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard?

On 9 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Crystal Dangerfield, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Crystal Dangerfield. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Crystal Dangerfield), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]