A fact from Sands of Samar appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 October 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Sands of Samar, the last remaining sand dunes in Israel's Arava region, are being threatened by sand mining?
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