User:Cunard/DYK

My Did You Know...? contributions

This is a list WP:DYK hooks that appeared on the Main Page that I have created/expanded.

DYKs created or expanded

Did you know...

... that Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her feature documentary In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies?

... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?

... that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?

... that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug?

... that Jock Wilson, who died at the age of 105 in September 2008, was Great Britain's oldest D-Day veteran?

... that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?

... that Julia's House is the first and only hospice in Dorset, England, for children with life-limiting conditions?

... that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?

... that Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York?

... that John Heald, the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter?

... that at the age of seven, Zach Bonner founded the Little Red Wagon Foundation to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States?

... that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits?

... that Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia was written by a James Beard Award winner and her bulimic daughter?

... that Possibility Playground, a $450,000 playground for special needs children, was built through donations and volunteer work from thousands of people?

... that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder, in a twelve-month span?

... that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates complaint letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?

... that in May 2007 alone, 987,000 unique visitors tried Starfall, a free website that helps children learn to read?

... that in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba?

... that Jason Sadler, the founder of I Wear Your Shirt, earned US$83,000 in 2009 by being a "human billboard"?

... that after his father committed suicide, Harry Reid introduced a resolution to the United States Senate which led to the creation of the National Survivors of Suicide Day?

... that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?

... that World Chocolate Wonderland, the first chocolate theme park in China, showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China?

... that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?

... that Herculine Barbin, a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite, inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

... that the valediction "have a nice day", typically spoken by service employees, is considered a trite phrase that has been castrated by excessive usage and pretense?

... that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators?

... that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip, the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca, the first Trinidadian novel?

... that Yahoo! Kids, formerly known as Yahooligans!, is the oldest online search directory for children?

... that the phrase "more bang for the buck" was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons, rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?

... that Harry Neal Baum ghostwrote the 1917 novel Mary Louise Solves a Mystery when his ailing father, L. Frank Baum, could not fulfill his obligations to his publishers?

... that the inspiration for WePay originated when co-founder Rich Aberman had difficulty fundraising for his brother's bachelor party?

... that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?

... that Maud Gage Baum forced her husband to eat stale doughnuts because he did not consult with her before buying them?

... that in Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google Inc., if a Gmail user had viewed a particular email, Google was ordered to disclose to a bank the user's real name?

... that after publishing bestsellers Father Goose and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the George M. Hill Company was compelled in 1902 to declare bankruptcy?

... that the documentary To Whom It May Concern (poster pictured) tells the story of Nancy Kwan, one of the first Asian leads in a Hollywood film?

... that an English translation of the Hindi hymn "Jaya Ho" has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal?

... that for her memoir Opium Nation, Fariba Nawa placed her life in jeopardy to collect stories from women involved in opium production in Afghanistan?

... that Jeff Civillico simultaneously jogged 26.2 miles (42.2 km) and juggled three balls at the Walt Disney World Marathon to raise $5000 for a special needs non-profit organization?

... that in Ticketmaster v. Tickets.com a U.S. federal judge ruled that URLs were not copyrightable because they consisted of "functional and factual elements"?

... that Little Red Wagon Foundation founder Zach Bonner's story was selected from among a pool of 6,000 candidates and made into the 2012 docudrama Little Red Wagon?

... that hunter Steve Hindi stopped hunting and founded the animal rights group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) after witnessing a pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania in 1989?

... that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then-public editor of The New York Times, said that the 2012 creation of NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times?

... that Technology Education and Literacy in Schools founder Kevin Wang sold his Porsche 911 and considered quitting his job at Microsoft to manage the program full-time?

... that Greenhouse Software has provided recruiting software for technology companies such as Airbnb, Snapchat, and Uber?

... that America's Got Talent 2014 quarterfinalist One Voice Children's Choir had a waiting list of 250 children wanting to join as of January 2015?

... that Guinness World Records named Saugat Bista, the seven-year-old director of Love You Baba, the "youngest director of a professionally made feature length film"?

... that Meridian School alumnus Masa Fukuda, the founder of One Voice Children's Choir, writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?

... that because Bank of America customers who invest less than $250,000 usually do not receive counsel from Merrill Edge employees, the discount brokerage service plans to offer customers robo-advisors?

... that Sarah Charles Lewis played Winnie Foster in the musical Tuck Everlasting's 2015 world premiere and is reprising the role on Broadway in 2016?

... that a report around 2013 on American used goods outlets put Goodwill first with a 21% market share, Winmark second with nearly 6%, and The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?

... that Working with Lemons participated in an event in Provo, Utah, that broke the world record for most people participating in a live nativity scene re-enactment?

... that the 1991 music video for the Sesame Street song "Monster in the Mirror" featured 25 celebrities, including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and The Simpsons characters?

... that SAP SE, Aetna, Mrs. Fields Original Cookies, and Brooklyn Union Gas have all been managed by wire?

... that Ronald Read, whose last job was working 17 years as a J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to his local library and $4.8 million to the hospital where he died?

... that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple's "Bendgate" controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus?

... that the Hong Kong restaurant Shia Wong Hip stores hundreds of live and venomous snakes on-site for its cuisine, and serves a soup made from lizards, silkworms, and seahorses?

... that Keep was the most downloaded fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?

... that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe, the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?

... that Monita Rajpal, whose first job out of college was as a receptionist, has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Vicente Fox, Al Gore, Tom Ford, and I. M. Pei?

... that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency, the show became her first client?

... that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel, an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?

... that comedy group Pomato's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a sports bra and a bra, and an advertisement for the Hong Kong Police Force?

... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?

... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri?

... that Mat and Savanna Shaw's cover of "The Prayer" went viral at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, after which they released their debut album that was ranked 54th on the Billboard 200?

... that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow, PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?

... that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians, a live variety show, after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians?

... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis?

... that the FHProductionHK, a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?

... that Bob's Your Uncle, a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?

... that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?

... that Terence Lam, who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong's best new artist award?

... that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents, do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?

... that YouTuber Ghib Ojisan visited Yishun, a Singaporean town, expecting danger after reading of cats being slaughtered but instead found it "home to nice people and cute cats"?

... that Battlefield Vegas employees during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting drove several armored personnel carriers to Mandalay Bay to shield police officers at the request of a LVMPD sergeant?

... that one of Hong Kong YouTuber Mama Cheung's most viewed videos shows her using a rice cooker to bake a cake?

... that the Marsh Family's parody of Les Misérables's "One Day More" required pizza?

... that Dianxi Xiaoge, who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water, is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms?

... that impressionist Paul Boland has imitated over 100 voices during his performances including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles?

... that the Little Cleo fishing spoon lure previously featured a scantily dressed exotic dancer?

... that DBTel once took up 30 percent of the original equipment manufacturer market share for cordless phones in the United States?

... that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners?

... that "big mamas" caused China to become the biggest purchaser of gold?

... that on the day the Conrad Bangkok hotel opened in 2003, ten people climbed up its walls dressed as Spider-Man?

... that Matthew Tye uploaded a YouTube video about leaving China after hearing that members of the local public security bureau had shown his photograph in bars frequented by foreigners?

... that Super Mario has spent more than a million dollars on cruises?

... that Mama Lee lived for more than a decade on a cruise ship?

... that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities?

... that Beatrice Muller lived on Queen Elizabeth 2 for nine years?

... that Clara MacBeth lived on a cruise ship for over a decade?

... that Fortress of the Bear's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?

... that the Chinese-language forum 1Point3Acres created a COVID-19 tracker used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam?

... that when Zenni Optical released a Super Bowl LIV advertisement, its website told a number of customers that eyeglasses deliveries would be delayed for weeks?

... that Mira, a Hong Kong YouTuber, was asked by the Korea Tourism Organization to be a spokeswoman for Michelin-starred restaurants one year after she started her channel?

... that the Cantonese cooking channel Made With Lau began generating about US$50,000 per month in YouTube advertising revenue in under a year?

... that Hong Kong YouTuber Martin co-created a video showing himself using a washing machine to make soup?

... that Emi Wong, the Hong Kong YouTuber with the most subscribers, used a carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats?

... that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?

... that in Hyprov, off-Broadway audience members perform improv after undergoing stage hypnosis?

... that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes?

... that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?

... that swimmer Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the 2001 National Games of China, causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)?

... that the performers in the Thai drag show Calypso Cabaret impressed Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities?

... that DeeDo secured a license to feature characters from the manga series Doraemon on its products?

... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?

... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?

... that a firearm blank goes off during The Days of '98 Show shootout, startling the audience?

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