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My DYK entries

One of the Sonderkommando photographs
DJ Cassidy
Deepwater Horizon, 21 April 2010
St Edward's Passage, Cambridge


Ben Goldacre
One of Stanley Green's placards

Did you know ...

  • ... that DJ Cassidy's forthcoming album aims to "bring back the greatest and most universal dance music of all time"?
  • ... that, according to Meat Atlas, the world's biggest meat company JBS can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?
  • ... that Veganz, Europe's first vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
  • ... that a Hong Kong architect has designed a 344 sq ft (32.0 m2) microapartment with sliding walls that convert the space into 24 different rooms?
  • ... that the US GuLF Study is visiting 20,000 clean-up workers from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (pictured) to collect blood, hair, urine, toenail and domestic-dust samples, looking for health effects?
  • ... that the mysterious Glasgow effect refers to the low life expectancy of Glaswegians, which epidemiologists say deprivation alone does not explain?
  • ... that Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a Swedish feminist and anti-vivisectionist, broke a record in England in 1913 when she spoke 210,000 words during a libel trial, and asked 20,000 questions?
  • ... that in 1992 Black British civil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
  • ... that Dr. Ben Goldacre (pictured) argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry?
  • .. that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?
  • ... that the family of Ian Tomlinson thanked The Guardian for posting footage of an alleged assault on him?
  • ... that in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones?
  • ... that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
  • ... that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man," walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein – and sitting?