A fact from Castor and Pollux (elephants) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the elephants Castor and Pollux were shot for food during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and their trunks sold as a delicacy?
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We need new pages about Castor and Pollux in other Wikipedias: Italian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hebrew, Finnish, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Filipino, Persian, Urdu, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech and Afrikaans. --Funny Gardaland (talk) 09:46, 18 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
