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Wikimedia DYK

... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?
... that the Wikipedia hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis was cited in a judicial decision by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice?
... that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001?
... that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be "salted" so that they cannot be recreated?
... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
... that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia?
... that in 2020, COVID-19–related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
... that Wikipedia editors wrote over 40,000 words arguing over a single letter?
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
... that you can search Wikipedia or a database of more than 37 billion compounds by substructure?
... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?

Food & drink DYK

... that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan?
... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?

Restaurant DYK

... that food critic Grace Dent reviewed a Liverpool restaurant that served her rice pudding flavoured with a substance that is banned in the United States for its lethality?
... that J. Elroy McCaw feigned losing his wallet to make women pay for meals at restaurants?
... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
... that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
... that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco, which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States?
... that after the original Stonewall Inn closed in 1969, its space was used by a bagel shop, a Chinese restaurant, and a clothing store?
... that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people?
... that guests to the Delmonico's restaurant at 56 Beaver Street touched a pair of columns at the entrance for good luck?
... that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
... that the 1866 barque Thoon Kramom has a replica serving as a floating restaurant?
... that the restaurant CosMc's is named after a character from McDonaldland?
... that when her local cafe was in lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
... that T-Pain said that he thought of the concept for the song "Good Life" while dining at a restaurant with Kanye West?
... that United States Army captain John L. Chapin's company once boycotted a burger restaurant in El Paso, Texas, for discrimination?
... that Kuappi in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
... that Colonel Sanders created a competing restaurant to KFC, and was sued by KFC?
... that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
... that in March 1991, hundreds of inmates rioted at the Eden Detention Center over a lack of vegetables on the cafeteria menu, causing an estimated US$250,000 in damages?
... that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
... that the Saikabo Korean restaurant chain in Japan suffered a 30% drop in sales after the South Korean president visited the disputed Liancourt Rocks?
... that Tropicana was reportedly the first building in Singapore to contain nightclubs, restaurants, and a theatre?
... that after Mary Gardiner Horsford died, her husband married her sister Phoebe?
... that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?

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