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A fact from 55 Bar appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the first owner of the 55 Bar supposedly won the property in a card game?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/55 Bar.

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The result was: promoted by NightWolf1223 talk 02:35, 5 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that the first owner of the 55 Bar supposedly won it in a card game?

Source: The 55 Bar’s own saga stretches to 1919, shortly after its original owner is said to have won the property in a card game on a steamer coming home from World War I.

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/History of the National Hockey League (2017–present)

Created by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 32 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 20:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Good looking article with a helluva a hook. Look forward to seeing this on the front page soon. ThaesOfereode (talk) 13:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply