A fact from Poet Laureate of Washington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 May 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that when the office of Poet Laureate of Washington was established in 2007, it was proposed to pay the incumbent with a firkin of beer?
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