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 article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.

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Did you know...

2 October 2023

• 00:00, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Selene Mahri

• ... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri (pictured) married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"?
• ... that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island?
• ... that John A. Kennedy was placed near the top of the 1964 Illinois House election ballot because of his name?
• ... that Annalee Newitz chose to set their debut novel Autonomous in the Canadian prairies because it was "the kind of place that often gets forgotten"?
• ... that the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount used aerial photography to monitor the removal of antiquities during construction at Solomon's Stables?
• ... that the Siberian columbine has been crossed with another species in the genus Aquilegia to determine the gene behind the genus's nectar spurs?
• ... that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille's music career?
• ... that MI-5 had trouble finding people to interview?

1 October 2023

• 00:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Swiss Cottage Library

• ... that disputes in the acclaimed re­fur­bishment of Swiss Cottage Library (pictured) in London prompted the library's operators to sue its developers?
• ... that Olga Onuch is believed to be the first professor of Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world?
• ... that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver started a podcast to support their employees during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike?
• ... that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news?
• ... that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university?
• ... that Stan Lee modeled Tony Stark after 20th-century business magnate Howard Hughes?
• ... that in his 2000 book, Michael Cook argues that the West prefers to "rescue" people after wrongdoing has occurred, while Muslims prefer to "forbid wrong"?
• ... that the Ninja of Heisei, who robbed places in Japan while wearing a ninja costume, was caught at the age of 74?