A fact from Van Alen Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?
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