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Introduction	WP:DYK
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Reviewer instructions	WP:DYKRI
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Prepper instructions	WP:DYKPBI
Admin instructions	WP:DYKAI
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Hooks

Sae Kitamura

• ... that Sae Kitamura (pictured) has had her university students contribute to the Japanese Wikipedia as part of their coursework?
• ... that the lead actress of The Grub-Stake brought her personal menagerie—which included bears and wolves—to the set for use as extras?
• ... that James Patrick Shea thought that an invitation to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the White House was a hoax?
• ... that Robby Krieger was unable to record his guitar solo for "You're Lost Little Girl" until he got stoned on hashish?
• ... that all three podium finishers at the 2024 Tour de France were members of cycling's Big Four?
• ... that the directors of Final Destination Bloodlines "debated the ethics" of a character being killed by an MRI machine?
• ... that one newspaper described the mansions of Riverside Drive as "glitter[ing] like a wedding cake"?
• ... that Galidor has been described as Lego's biggest failure?
• ... that the first review of Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel complained that its marriage plot focused too much on love?