Today's featured article
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/16 July, 2024
Re-writing the date
Just had to make your date right, everyone knows that it should be day before month
Except for the Americans?
Selected anniversaries
July 16
Impact site on Jupiter of a Shoemaker–Levy 9 fragment
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Did you know...
H. J. Lovink Pumping Station
- ... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
- ... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
- ... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
- ... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
- ... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
- ... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
- ... that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
- ... that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
- ... that a video accompanying ML Buch's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
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