A fact from John Phillimore appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 March 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that when only given enough money to paint half his ship, John Phillimore protested by asking the Navy Board which half they wished him to paint?
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