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Hook number | Appeared on Main Page | Did you know... | Creator | Nominator | Image? |
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1 | July 7, 2010 | ... that Radio23, a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon, provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?" | Aspland11 | MC10 | No |
2 | July 16, 2010 | ... that Weidmann's Restaurant, established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi? | Dudemanfellabra | MC10 | Yes, not used File:Weidmanns.JPG |
3 | July 17, 2010 | ... that during Maurice W. Long's directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts? | Disavian | MC10 | No |
4 | July 20, 2010 | ... that Takayutpi, who reigned from 1526 to 1539, was the last sovereign king of Hanthawaddy Pegu? | Hybernator | MC10 | No |
5 | July 20, 2010 | ... that Hugh Main, an Australian politician, was a member of the Progressive Party's rural "True Blues" faction that evolved into the Country Party? | Rebecca | MC10 | No |
6 | July 23, 2010 | ... that the Laurel Run Dam, an earthen embankment dam that failed during the 1977 Johnstown flood, caused a total of US$5.3 million in damages? | NortyNort | MC10 | No |
7 | July 23, 2010 | ... that the 2007 Indy Japan 300, an IndyCar Series at Twin Ring Motegi, was the only race in that series held outside North America? | Giants2008 | MC10 | No |
8 | July 26, 2010 | ... that Ola's Kool Kitchen was conceived by DJ Ola as a reaction against mainstream radio's focus on playlists prescribed by major record labels? | Aspland11 | MC10 | No |
9 | August 8, 2010 | ... that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"? | Resident Mario | MC10 | No |
10 | August 15, 2010 | ... that the Champlain Hudson Power Express could lower SO 2 emissions by 6,800 tonnes, NO x emissions by 10,800 tonnes, and CO 2 emissions by nearly 37 million tonnes during the first decade of operation? |
Bouchecl | MC10 | No |
11 | September 12, 2010 | ... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet? | Cuprum17 | MC10 | No |
12 | October 13, 2010 | ... that a human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"? | Neufast | MC10 | No |
13 | November 23, 2010 | ... that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts? | Thewellman | MC10 | No |