A fact from Shirleya appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 February 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the extinct crape myrtle relative Shirleya was first described from fossils out of a "Hi hole"?
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