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A fact from Pyotr Potemkin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin(pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
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