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The hooks below have been approved by a human (SL93 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time. Click here for an example of what these hooks will look like on the main page – you may wish to remove this template for a more accurate example, if you do ensure to add it back.

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Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 19:28, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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Last updated: 7 months ago(

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Hooks

Medway Street footbridge

... that after the Medway Street footbridge had become twisted (pictured) in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, part of it was turned into a memorial?
... that the first defendants indicted for the crime of apartheid have not yet faced trial?
... that the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis has been used to explain burial practices in Greece, Australia, Madagascar and Peru?
... that surveyors in colonial Pennsylvania may have deliberately excluded fertile land from a tract granted to the Okehocking people in 1703?
... that the German explorer Gustav Conrau shot himself in 1899 to avoid recapture, according to a later report by his local interpreter?
... that the creator of what is considered the world's first escape room attributed his idea to playing the online Flash game Crimson Room?
... that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal and programming?
... that the music video for "The Kids from Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance was directed by a fan?
... that Scott Burnside received journalism awards for writing about shift work, murders, and ice hockey?

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Credits

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Medway Street footbridge – Panamitsu (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Cosas Four – Buidhe (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis – UndercoverClassicist (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Okehocking people – Lbal (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Gustav Conrau – Munfarid1 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Crimson Room – LewisMCYoutube (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
WFTY-DT – Sammi Brie (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
The Kids from Yesterday – NegativeMP1 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Scott Burnside – Flibirigit (give) (tag) – View nom subpage

Credit templates

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Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|21 January|2026|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add |small=yes parm)
Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|21 January|2026|Article name}}--~~~~
Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|21 January|2026|Article name}}--~~~~

Images

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Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons: {{DYKfile|21 January|2026}}

Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)

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Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
Update T:DYK from the current queue.
Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
Reset the DYK time.
Increment the next queue pointer.
Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add {{DYKfile|21 January|2026|type=image}} (occasionally replacing image with video where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK.
If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with {{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}.
If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} once the queue is loaded and ready.