A fact from Skimmington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 January 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a skimmington, a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public procession, occurred in England as late as 1917?
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