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My DYK entries

One of the Sonderkommando photographs

DJ Cassidy

Deepwater Horizon, 21 April 2010

St Edward's Passage, Cambridge

Ben Goldacre

One of Stanley Green's placards

Did you know ...

• ... that the Sonderkommando photographs (example pictured) of events around the Auschwitz gas chambers in 1944 were smuggled out of the camp in a toothpaste tube?
  

• ... that DJ Cassidy's forthcoming album aims to "bring back the greatest and most universal dance music of all time"?
  

• ... that Lemmons became the "most brilliantly creative household in Britain" in the spring of 1972, when it was home to the families of Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Cecil Day-Lewis?
  

• ... that, according to Meat Atlas, the world's biggest meat company JBS can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?

• ... that Veganz, Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?

• ... that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?

• ... that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution?

• ... that Black Twitter has been compared to signifyin' and the dozens?

• ... that a Hong Kong architect has designed a 344 sq ft (32.0 m²) microapartment with sliding walls that convert the space into 24 different rooms?

• ... that the US GuLF Study is visiting 20,000 clean-up workers from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (pictured) to collect blood, hair, urine, toenail and domestic-dust samples, looking for health effects?

• ... that the mysterious Glasgow effect refers to the low life expectancy of Glaswegians, which epidemiologists say deprivation alone does not explain?

• ... that Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a Swedish feminist and anti-vivisectionist, broke a record in England in 1913 when she spoke 210,000 words during a libel trial, and asked 20,000 questions?

• ... that the sermon regarded as the "first set-piece confrontation of the English Reformation" was preached on Christmas Eve 1525 at St Edward King and Martyr on St Edward's Passage (pictured), Cambridge?

• ... that, according to specialist midwife Comfort Momoh, 74,000 women living in the UK in 2000 had undergone female genital mutilation?

• ... that in 1992 Black British civil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?

• ... that Dr. Ben Goldacre (pictured) argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry?

• ... that the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London, attracted a clientele that included Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, and Bob Marley?

• .. that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?

• ... that after the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, the village's houses were turned into the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, an Israeli psychiatric hospital known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome?

• ... that in the Haidbauer incident of April 1926 the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein knocked an 11-year-old boy unconscious during class?

• ... that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?

• ... that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber?

• ... that the family of Ian Tomlinson thanked The Guardian for posting footage of an alleged assault on him?

• ... that in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones?

• ... that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?

• ... that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man," walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein – and sitting?