A fact from George R. Proctor appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that botanist George R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?
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