Wikipedia:Recent additions

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This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.

Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to the article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.

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Did you know...

3 February 2025

• 00:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Rose barnacles in Royal National Park

• ... that the rose barnacle (examples pictured) eats only when the current is strong?
• ... that Doris Tulifau, after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person?
• ... that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game?
• ... that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career?
• ... that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion hall, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building?
• ... that Ernesius, a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea, was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt?
• ... that Olde Raleigh Distillery is not located within its namesake city?
• ... that archaeologists found evidence at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC?
• ... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?

2 February 2025

• 00:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Li Minghui

• ... that Li Minghui (pictured) faced accusations of lewdness at the age of 12 after challenging Chinese stage conventions?
• ... that the Chauburji might have been the Mughal emperor Babur's original burial place?
• ... that the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle changed its name to just Chronicle two decades after its launch, to avoid being confused with the San Francisco Chronicle?
• ... that football manager Darren Moore led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion even after they lost the first leg of their play-off semi-final 4–0?
• ... that some locals have criticised the flag of Kagoshima Prefecture, which is supposed to depict the prefecture's topography but omits its outlying islands?
• ... that Richard Davis made the earliest known continuous land-based weather recordings in New Zealand?
• ... that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar?
• ... that the first minister of the Hopewell Baptist Church is presumed to be buried under the building?
• ... that a 2001 book shares the history of a small Tudor community through a 54-year-long "running commentary" by "a somewhat unamiable busybody"?

1 February 2025

• 00:00, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Lilium nobilissimum

• ... that the common Japanese name of Lilium nobilissimum (pictured) may refer to the sleeves used to carry it from the cliffs on which it grows?
• ... that the parked vehicle of one candidate in a 2024 Mexico City borough election was shot five times to "give her a scare"?
• ... that "The Man in the Yellow Tie", an episode of The Flash, concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series?
• ... that college football player Chad Brinker continued his career after undergoing brain surgery and eventually signed into the NFL?
• ... that Their Highest Potential shows the positive side of segregated schools, as written by a student who was taught in one?
• ... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse?
• ... that an Iowa TV station, in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
• ... that Henry A. Henry brought an extensive library of Jewish literature when he emigrated to the United States in 1849?
• ... that King Philip refused to give up Champagne?