Wikipedia:Did you know/Monthly wrap/July 2022

DYK Wrapped July 2022
"No one knows if a bird in flight has an egg in its stomach." African proverb I have always loved that proverb and I am sure it has many meanings. I hope it has some meaning for you.

Hello, and welcome to the July DYK wrap up. Our DYK warrior Leeky, has taken some personal R&R so it falls on others to pick up slack. It fell on me to do the wrap! Thank you all for being good to one another and for encouraging participants... and for tweaking, reviewing, proposing, discussing, fussing ...well - you get the idea.

I went back and looked at all number one hooks of each month this year. The sum total of all views on every number one hook from January to June 2022 was 252,306. July's hook got an eye popping 287,463 views! Our best performing hooks of July:

Did you know...
 * ... that according to Bohr's law, (no image) the person who draws first in a gunfight loses? 287,463 views in 24 hours by editors and  reviewed by
 * ... that Amund Dietzel (pictured), sometimes called the "Rembrandt of the rind", learned to tattoo after he went to sea at the age of 14? 21,343 views in 12 hours by  reviewed by Bruxton
 * ... that Nero's divorce of Claudia Octavia (pictured) caused public outcry – so he had her executed instead? 31,877 views in 24 hours by and  reviewed by
 * ... that touch-screen technology, pay-at-the-pump, car phones, and Coca-Cola Cherry were shown at the 1982 World's Fair (pictured)? by  reviewed by Bruxton  14,504 views in 12 hours
 * ... that The Great Wave off Kanagawa (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"? by  reviewed by  28,640 views in 24 hours
 * ... that Margaret Abbott (pictured) was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, but never realized it? by 27,801 views in 24 hours by  and reviewed by
 * ... that Eileen Collins (pictured) was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission? 26,472 in 24 hours by  and reviewed by

Special Mention hooks


I just like this West Bank Wall graffiti art article for the hopeful beautiful image.
 * ... that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art (example pictured), telling Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"? by  and reviewed by   18,583 views in 24 hours


 * And, a shout out... on only their second hook, ArcticSeeress had a July top 10 hook!
 * ... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com? by  and reviewed by  12,802 views in 12 hours

Quirky hooks that were appreciated

 * ... that Stig Millehaugen, who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return? by  and reviewed by  14,315 views
 * ... that mathematics professor Ari Nagel has fathered more than a hundred children? by and reviewed by  11,462 views in 12 hours
 * ... that people with woolly hair may also have tooth decay? by   and reviewed by  10,232 views
 * ... that the ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine? by and reviewed by  9,798 views
 * ... that George Allsopp was arrested three times for not carrying a lantern? expanded by and reviewed by  9,627 views

Quirky hooks that went underappreciated
Here are some of our July quirky hooks that went under-appreciated. Did you know...
 * ... that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population? by and reviewed by  2,659 views
 * ... that Dan Jones discovered that he was talented at taking throw-ins after having been a javelin thrower at school? by and reviewed by  and  2,577 views
 * ... that William Forsythe's ballet The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude is so difficult to dance that a ballerina said she would rather give birth again? by and reviewed by   2,697 views
 * ... that a pontiff in pontificals may pontificate with a pontifical at a Pontifical during his pontificate? by and reviewed by  1,894 views
 * ... that the motto of the Clayton Herald was "Independent in Everything; Neutral in Nothing"? by and reviewed by  2,510 views

And special mention to the triples

 * ... that Brooklyn West Street Foundry, owned by Wilson Small, built the engine for  Daniel Webster (pictured), which on debut in 1853 was the largest and fastest steamboat in Maine coastal service? by and reviewed by
 * ... that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three "pederastic erotic classics"? by and reveiwed by
 * ... that a statue of Serenidus, the brother of Serenicus, is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré? by and  and reviewed by

Thank you for helping us find the hooks that need attention. You are also on point at all times. all kept our little corner of the front page working. We all missed Leeky for a few weeks and I thought of them when I saw some hand wringing over the lack of prep builders. Luckily was available to help! Thanks to for providing helpful guidance in these endeavors. I have been proud to work with this fine group of editors, and I am energized by the thought of us helping one another and making learning fun! In DYK we forgive mistakes easily and we pitch in when work backs up. DYK may be the most accessible section of the front page and it is because of you.

Thank you all so much for your hard work and attention to detail! And of course, I need Leeky to show me how to add this to the wrapped section. Grrr. "You're killin' me, Smalls!" Bruxton (talk) 03:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC) Bruxton (talk) 03:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)