A fact from Windscale Piles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 September 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that while the filters added to the chimneys of the Windscale Piles(pictured) were mocked as "Cockcroft's Follies", they prevented what might have been a disastrous radioactive accident?
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