Wikipedia:Recent additions
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3 June 2017
- 00:00, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
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A ramen shop in Tokyo
- ... that in Japan, television shows devoted to ramen shops (example pictured) are popular?
- ... that Ranganathan Shashidhar developed a family of 256-greyscale electroclinic liquid crystals with a response time of less than 100 microseconds?
- ... that The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis is the only 15th-century chronicle that says that James I of Scotland was killed in the privy?
- ... that drag boat racing driver Tyler Speer's boat uses parts from his ARCA Racing Series stock car?
- ... that the Joint Typhoon Warning Center accurately predicted that Typhoon Vera would strike Okinawa 66 hours in advance?
- ... that the early Buddhist wall paintings at the Tiantishan Caves were detached due to construction of a reservoir?
- ... that Junius Kaʻae was implicated in an opium bribery scandal involving the Hawaiian king Kalākaua and a Chinese rice planter?
- ... that LSD and psychotherapy were used to treat alcoholics during the Spring Grove Experiment?
2 June 2017
- 00:15, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
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Alma L. Hayden
- ... that Krebiozen, an expensive cancer treatment scam, was unmasked in 1963 by chemist Alma Levant Hayden (pictured)?
- ... that Missa aulica is a Missa brevis in C with trumpets and violins by František Xaver Brixi, who was director of the choir at St. Vitus Cathedral from age 27?
- ... that the role of Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
- ... that according to the 2009 book Pinoy Capital, a significant number of Filipino Americans in Daly City, California, preferred to be identified as Filipinos?
- ... that Ivy Josiah led opposition to domestic violence against women and children in Malaysia?
- ... that America's current laws on cadaver acquisitions followed 19th-century riots over medical grave-robbing?
- ... that it was initially claimed by newspapers that "King Kong" Kirk died after being splashed by Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree in a wrestling match?
- ... that after a long official debate, Puddletown stopped being Piddletown?
1 June 2017
- 00:30, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Aruncus sawfly larva
- ... that all aruncus sawflies (larva pictured) are female?
- ... that actress Charlotte Salt likened her Casualty character Sam Nicholls to Lara Croft?
- ... that freight derailments occurred at both of Wachusett's predecessor stations?
- ... that mezzo-soprano Eva Randová was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House?
- ... that the cyberpunk science-fiction genre was named after the 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke?
- ... that anchovy paste has been used for centuries to provide flavor for foods and as a source of nutrition?
- ... that Mary Florence Potts patented various styles of cold-handle clothes irons that were the most popular irons ever used?
- ... that in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, the actor Alec Guinness plays nine members of the same family?
