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.

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Did you know...

1 January 2025

• 12:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

1991 Andover tornado

• ... that the 1991 Andover tornado (pictured) narrowly avoided hitting two warplanes equipped with nuclear warheads?
• ... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees?
• ... that insurers paid out about NZ$171 million in damages caused by a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand?
• ... that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction-industry blacklist?
• ... that the dragonfly Antiquiala was described from a single wing found in the state of Washington?
• ... that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War?
• ... that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
• ... that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew?
• ... that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?

• 00:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Zeng Laishun

• ... that Qing-dynasty official Zeng Laishun (pictured) attended the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant?
• ... that the male standard-winged nightjar grows a wing ornament more than twice the length of its body during breeding season?
• ... that John Green was UCLA's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden's 12 Final Four teams?
• ... that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
• ... that a fighter-bomber group under the command of Walter G. Benz Jr. during the Korean War became the first United States Air Force unit to complete 50,000 combat sorties?
• ... that because of the cultural impact of Dragon Ball in Mexico, Goku has been described as "a Latino icon"?
• ... that Chrystal read law before beginning a music career?
• ... that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever?
• ... that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T?