Wikipedia:Recent additions#January 24 2010

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=1 July 2025=

12:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

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... that in 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley (pictured), a former black slave, was elected as a deputy to the French National Convention?
... that "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean credits all four Beatles as songwriters?
... that the McKenzie & Willis Store was demolished after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, but its facade was kept and restored?
... that Suzy Knickerbocker called James Ross Mellon one of the world's most eligible bachelors?
... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
... that Alena Veselá, at age 101, was present at the cornerstone ceremony for a new concert hall in Brno, which she had promoted for decades?
... that residents of the Acres hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design their houses, but eventually lost patience with him over his approach to the project?
... that artist Agnes Gallus fled Hungary for Canada during the 1956 revolution?
... that a single horsehair helped solve the murder of Nancy Titterton?

00:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

{{main page image/DYK|image=Aerial view of CECOT.png|caption=Terrorism Confinement Center, El Salvador}}

... that the Terrorism Confinement Center (pictured) in El Salvador has a capacity of 40,000 inmates?
... that operatic tenor Vladyslav Gorai was a Merited Artist of Ukraine who died while on a volunteer mission during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
... that although abortion in Tunisia has been available for free at government clinics since 1965, it is estimated that most abortions take place at private facilities?
... that the Town Walls of Index, Washington, have 402 climbing routes?
... that Jonas I Losovičius{{`s}} relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries?
... that a Serbian columbine species might be luring some animals with mixtures of molecular compounds?
... that after playing in the NFL, Eddie Garcia became a salesman who "could sell ice to a penguin"?
... that a scene of a man eating a crab in the music video for "Dungka!" symbolised a crab mentality among Filipinos?
... that Giulio Basetti-Sani began as a missionary believing Muhammad to be a "prophet of Satan" and ended believing that the Quran was a prophecy of Christ?