A fact from Adriaan de Bruin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 June 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Adriaan de Bruin was enslaved in Africa but ended up in Hoorn in the Dutch Republic, where he married a local woman and ran a tobacco shop?
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