User:Theleekycauldron/Favourites of DYK

Did you know...

The arts

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  • ... that the cast and crew of the zombie film Junk, which made use of real meat for its gore effects, were sometimes unable to stomach meat for dinner after spending hours filming?
  • ... that Monique Corzilius did not realize that she was the girl featured in the famous "Daisy" advertisement until the 2000s, when she searched for the commercial on the Internet?
  • ... that Sally Fox found a picture of a French sculptor and decided to create a picture collection of thousands of other women?
  • ... that experimental musician John Olson has been called a "sort of bizarro influencer" because of his habit of "chaotic shitposting"?
  • ... that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz", a Dakota woman they claimed was 120 years old?
  • ... that the Ming-dynasty novella The Jealous Wife might have been written by the "Master of the Doctrine of Subduing Women"?
  • ... that the director of the horror film Camera Obscura was inspired to write the screenplay after one of his co-workers was not allowed to take pictures in South America due to locals believing "it would steal their souls"?
  • ... that the now-closed Dinosaur Wildlife museum exhibited three fox squirrels posed to fight in a boxing ring?
  • ... that the vast majority of fiction, including science fiction, takes place on Earth?
  • ... that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman?
  • ... that "why" is the only lyric of "Why"?

Religion

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Politics, government, and law

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Crime

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Sports

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Objects

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  • ... that the Pompey stone was believed to date to the early 1500s for over 70 years before it was revealed to be a hoax in 1894?

Places

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  • ... that in 1908, you could "throw a cat through the cracks" of the dynamite shanties on Powder House Island?
  • ... that there is a monument of a photocopier in the Indonesian village of Atar, commemorating the involvement of migrants from the village in the trade?
  • ... that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0, it was reported that the school did not teach its students?
  • ... that the city of Dearborn forgot about the existence of Fordson Island for several decades?
  • ... that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?
  • ... that the owner of the Solow Building tried to evict the Bank of America under a law normally used for evicting drug dealers and prostitutes?
  • ... that the apartments and hotel rooms at Time Warner Center did not have internet from Time Warner because it was too expensive?

Nature and science

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History

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Other

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missed opportunity to use "Stonks guy"
possibly my favourite DYK hook ever
what's this list without a self-plug