Wikipedia:DYKSTATS

... that for over 20 years after his posthumous execution in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's head (pictured) stood on a spike outside Westminster Hall?

... that after Wild West outlaw Big Nose George (pictured) was hanged by a lynch mob, he was made into a pair of shoes?

... that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova?

... that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova?

... that so many Chinese actresses have gained recognition from starring with Stephen "Sing Yeh" Chow (pictured), they are collectively known as Sing girls?

... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?

... that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome?

... that the ruined Craigie Castle (keep pictured) contained one of Scotland's best vaulted halls?

... that interbreeding with dingoes (pictured) can even occur with dogs that were acquired by their owners to specifically kill dingoes?

... that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell (pictured) will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska?

... that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States?

... that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003?

... that Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya?

... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?

... that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial?

... that the Stannard Rock Light (pictured), known as the "Loneliest Place in the World", is the furthest lighthouse from land and described as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States?

... that the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich (pictured) would be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for his last meal and is sometimes referred to as an "Elvis sandwich"?

... that after Winston Churchill handed Joseph Stalin the Sword of Stalingrad (pictured) at the Tehran Conference, a clumsy Soviet general let it slip out of its scabbard?

... that egg and chips (pictured) was John Lennon's favourite food?

...that "Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897?

...that Laura M. Cobb (pictured) of the US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese POW in World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses?

... that a car cooler (pictured) is an early type of automobile "air conditioner" that has been around since 1930?

... that Albert Bridge (pictured) in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?

... that members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing?

... that a Mitch Morgan (pictured), bourbon with a slice of bacon as a garnish, served as the inspiration for Bacon Salt?

... that Edward Riou (pictured) sailed with Cook, survived his ship hitting an iceberg, but died by being nearly cut in two aboard HMS Amazon at Copenhagen?

... that Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine (pictured)?

... that because of the specific social structure of Japanese society there are many more homeless men (pictured) than homeless women in Japan?

... that University of Chicago football star Laurens "Spike" Shull died of wounds suffered rushing a machine gun nest at the Battle of Château-Thierry (pictured)?

... that Hurricane Irene–Olivia (track pictured) was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone that moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin?

... that Beatriz Enriquez de Arana was the mistress of Christopher Columbus (pictured)?

... that a version of the maple bacon donut (pictured) served up in an Omaha, Nebraska, bakery is based on a simple concept: breakfast combined into one item that you put in your mouth?

... that the current head of the House of Lorraine (pictured) has been for the last 87 years heir to one imperial and six royal titles?

... that Jayco, the largest privately held manufacturer of recreational vehicles (collapsible model pictured) in North America, has mostly Amish and Mennonite employees?

... that had she been completed, the German aircraft carrier I would have been the largest German carrier of World War II, longer even than the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers?

... that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar?

... that Thrill the World is an international event in which participants (example pictured) simultaneously emulate the zombie dance from the music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?

... that Medieval runic inscriptions were discovered on the old portal of Melhus church (pictured)?

... that all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser (pictured), designed in 1895–96?

... that carrier pigeons, known as the Bavarian Pigeon Corps, were fitted with chest-mounted cameras and sent behind enemy lines for aerial reconnaissance by the Bavarian Army in the early 1900s?

... that the whitish powder found on the spore sac of the beaked earthstar (pictured) is made of crystalline calcium oxalate?

... that The Virgin of the Navigators (pictured) is the earliest known painting about the discovery of the Americas?

... that in 1984, Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on) Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling Mars?

... that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines' sexiest women of 2006?

... that lutetium tantalate (LuTaO₄) (crystal structure pictured) is the densest known stable white material and is therefore an ideal material for X-ray phosphors?

... that Albert Bridge in London (pictured) is the only significant surviving example of a bridge built using the 1858 Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle design?

... that the Neher-Elseffer House (pictured) is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary frame houses near Rhinebeck, New York?

... that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail, from ships of the line down to brigs?

... that according to legend, the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero (pictured) were demolished by a jealous husband after they were given to his wife by the viceroy of New Spain?

... that WW1 stopped production of AJS Model D motorcycles but a 1917 order to supply Russia with 1,100 military motorcycles enabled them to continue development?

... that the 6th-century Church of St. Polyeuctus (remains pictured) in Constantinople was deliberately planned to imitate the Temple of Solomon?

... that the "wrinkled peach" mushroom (pictured) requires light from the red end of the visible spectrum to induce fruiting?

...... that Jackson Browne and Pat MacDonald headlined a 2005 benefit concert to restore Wisconsin's historic Sturgeon Bay Bridge (pictured)?

... that the Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?

... that her controversial publishing of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the woman suffrage movement?

... that the Nazi concentration camp Grini was built as a women's prison?

... that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens (pictured) have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?

... that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats (example pictured)?

... that optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians?

... that Chitradurga Fort (pictured) in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water?

... that Dustbot (pictured), the cleaning robot, responds to text messages and uses GPS to find homes and collect trash?

...... that the perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting had self-published a book praising Adolf Hitler in 1999?

... that a Franco-Persian alliance (artist's impression pictured) was concluded by Napoleon in 1807 as a step to help him accomplish his objective of attacking British India?

... that during World War II, Richard Andvord conducted illegal resistance work through the company Rich. Andvord, founded in 1865 by his ancestor of the same name?

... that Wing Commander John Lerew (pictured), ordered to defend Rabaul against Japanese invasion in 1942, signalled headquarters the legendary gladiatorial phrase "We who are about to die salute you"?

... that Sergeant Len Siffleet was the subject of a famous photograph (pictured) depicting an execution by the Japanese in World War II?

... that an air well (pictured) collects water by promoting the condensation of moisture from air?

... that Disappearing Model, a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not!?

... that for over 20 years after his posthumous execution in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's head (pictured) stood on a spike outside Westminster Hall?

... that the history of the underwire bra (patent pictured) dates back to 1893 when Marie Tucek patented a "breast supporter" that used a metal or cardboard support under the breasts?

... that 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso (pictured) is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history?

... that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees (pictured)?

... that The Torment of Saint Anthony (pictured) has recently been identified as the earliest known painting by Michelangelo?

... that William H. Lewis (pictured) became the first African-American college football player in 1888 and the first African-American to serve as U.S. Assistant Attorney General in 1911?

... that Lance Corporal William Windsor (pictured, on left) of The Royal Welsh, who retired on 20 May 2009, is a Cashmere goat?

... that the CQC-6 knife (pictured) by Ernest Emerson was first developed for a US Navy SEAL Team, and went on to popularize the concept of the "tactical folding knife"?

... that the Frot-Laffly landship (pictured) was an early tank design based on a compactor, and built by France in early 1915?

... that at least 37 cities of the ancient world placed an image of the Gorgon's head on their coins (example pictured)?

... that 14-year-old Raymond Steed (pictured) was the youngest person in the British services to die in battle during the Second World War, when his ship SS Empire Morn was damaged by a mine?

... that Humbug Mountain (pictured) is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean?

... that bacon vodka (bottle pictured) is vodka infused with bacon flavor, created based on the concept of a "meat and potatoes" pairing?

... that the road over the Wilmot Pass (pictured) is not connected to any other road on the New Zealand network?

... that the epaulette shark (pictured) can survive for an hour without oxygen?

... that the objective of the Nazi board game Juden Raus! (Jews Out) was to move figurines representing Jews across a map to "collection points" outside the city walls for deportation?

... that with a voyage of 59 days, the SS American (pictured) set a 1901 record for the fastest New York – San Francisco ocean passage?

... that contrary to popular myth, Robert E. Lee's face is not carved on the back of the 1920 statue of Abraham Lincoln (pictured) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.?

... that spark testing (pictured) is a quick and inexpensive way to determine the general classification of ferrous materials using only a grinding wheel?

... that in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (pictured) is said to have the power to make viewers lose their faith?

... that the Royal Navy has tended to name its fireships (examples pictured) after subjects related to volcanoes or fire?

... that the heroic Greek marble Gaddi Torso (pictured) in the Uffizi, Florence, was so admired in the Italian Renaissance that it was never "restored" by completing it?

... that Air Vice Marshal Frank Bladin (pictured) was nicknamed "Dad" for the concern he showed for the welfare of his personnel?

... that the blacktip shark (pictured) can reproduce asexually?

... that Tsar Alexander III is said to have held the collapsed roof of the royal car on his shoulders while his family escaped the Borki train crash site (pictured) uninjured?

... that in the early history of Chianti (bottle pictured), the wine was white and not red?

... that The Wall Street Journal purchased computers belonging to al-Qaeda leaders found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's (pictured) house?

... that the plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane of the Earth as it orbits the Sun?

... that the Osaka Maritime Museum (pictured) is a geodesic dome that sits out in Osaka Bay and is accessed by an underwater tunnel?

... that according to legend, the foundation for the Siri Fort (pictured) in Delhi was laid on the severed heads ("Siri" in Urdu: "head") of about 8,000 Mongol soldiers?

... that the Panzer Battle Badge (pictured) was designed by Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus, a designer of five other Wehrmacht badges?

... that the 1905 film The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (screenshot pictured) is one of the oldest surviving Dutch fictional films?

... that a population bottleneck among Finns about 4000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today?

... that the site of Riddle Ranch (pictured) in eastern Oregon was a Native American settlement for over 1,000 years?

... that Atlantic herrings form immense fish schools (pictured) containing up to three billion fish?

... that Zen master Línjì Yìxuán (pictured) once jumped up, grabbed a monk, shouted at him, and then called him a "shit stick" in an episode of Dharma combat?

... that the zebra shark (pictured) is striped when young and spotted when mature?

... that in 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house (pictured) was being used as a cider store?

... that the image of Hindu deity Hanuman (pictured) reportedly came alive and moved when installed at the Hanuman temple in Sarangpur?

... that the Sea Cloud (pictured), the first fully racially integrated United States warship in World War II, later served as a private yacht to racist Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo?

... that the French Breton-Pretot machine (pictured) was an armoured wire-cutting tractor developed in early 1915, and a predecessor to the tank?

... that the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo (pictured) were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?

... that the blue runner is easily attracted to a variety of floating and underwater structures such as oil platforms (example pictured) and aquaculture structures?

... that the Worthington–Simpson triple expansion steam engine at Brede Waterworks (pictured) can pump 3,500,000 imperial gallons (15,900,000 l) of water per day to a height of 515 feet (157 m)?

... ... that according to medieval French legend, guivres were dragon-like creatures with venomous breath, known to prowl the French countryside?

... that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur (Ring-tailed Lemur pictured) were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99?

... that during the summer the finetooth shark (pictured) is found exclusively in water less than 10 m (30 ft) deep?

... that the erotic-philosophical film I + People = ? was created by Leonid Konovalov, a homeless Russian who has not properly showered in 19 years?

... that the definition of monumental sculpture (example pictured) may vary depending on the period being discussed?

... that the site of the Zagreb synagogue (model pictured), demolished in World War II, has been used as a volleyball court and a parking lot?

... that Piero di Cosimo's painting The Death of Procris (pictured) may contain allusions to the practice of alchemy?

... that former United States President George H.W. Bush is a member of the invitation-only Alibi Club in Washington, D.C.?

... that a 1631 Bible (frontispiece pictured) commanded readers to commit adultery?

... that traumatic insemination (pictured) is a practice in invertebrates where the male pierces the female's abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm into the wound?

... that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China?

... that Adam de Stratton was arrested for the possession of toenail clippings (example pictured)?

... that after Wild West outlaw Big Nose George (pictured) was hanged by a lynch mob, he was made into a pair of shoes?

... that the Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 (pictured) drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight?

... that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation, the flow is snow white?

... that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts by hobbits illegal and void in England?

... that Chinese citizen Ma Cheng has encountered difficulties with the naming laws in China because the character for her given name, Cheng (pictured), is so rare?

... that angels wielding firearms (example pictured) are typical of early Latin American art?

... that New England used to be part of the Roman Empire ...?

... that a huge Khmer Rouge airfield (pictured) still lies in Rolea B'ier District, Cambodia?

... that in his book The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, author Steven A. Grasse argues that the United Kingdom was responsible for the Vietnam War?

... that Sparkie Williams is still singing from his grave 47 years after his death?

... that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?

... that most families celebrate Gotcha Day on a day other than April 1st?

... that Alexa Thatcher decided to become a professional wrestler after meeting her boyfriend, wrestler Corvis Fear, when she was sixteen?

... that the recently discovered Cobbe portrait (pictured) may be one of only two portraits of William Shakespeare done from life?

... that anethole, cause of the ouzo effect (pictured) in anise-flavored alcoholic beverages, yields a derivative drug that may be used in novel self-microemulsifying drug delivery systems?

...that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only because Manny Pacquiao's friend drank three bottles of beer?

... that the viral video Saturday Morning Watchmen portrays Watchmen character Rorschach as a friend to the animals?

... that in the English plural, the letter -s is pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule?

... that Tanna japonensis, the Japanese cicada, makes a melancholy sound (example right) after sunset, when the temperature has dropped, or when it becomes cloudy?

that turkey bowling, protested by animal rights activists, was invented as a pastime in the aisles of a grocery store (pictured)?

... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the New Testament are responses to the Homeric Epics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?