A fact from War of Canudos appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos, Brazil, that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
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