Wikipedia:Today's second feature

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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006), a main page alternative that displays the style of the Main Page in February 2006, where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

This rotating section was originally implemented in July 2005 as a compromise after there were requests to add the POTD to the Main Page, combined with complaints that DYK was badly maintained at the time (see archived discussion). Today's second feature appeared on the Main Page until a new design was implemented in March 2006.

Current version of this section on the Classic 2006 Main Page:

Artist's interpretation of Uncus dzaugisi

... that Uncus dzaugisi (pictured) is the oldest ecdysozoan, a group that contains arthropods, tardigrades, and nematodes, ever found?
... that after Joe Matesic was revealed to have played at Arizona State under his brother's name, the football coach resigned and the school was nearly expelled from the Border Conference?
... that Herbert Jacobs and his wife paid off the architect's fee for their house by charging visitors admission?
... that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team?
... that around 400 people tried to flee from Francoist Spain to Andorra through Juberri in 1937?
... that Samir Flores Soberanes was killed the day after he challenged the accuracy of information about a Mexican federal project?
... that Gustavo Santaolalla travelled from northern to southern Argentina in four years to experience folk music from the country's past?
... that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
... that Thelma Adams protested milk quotas in the United Kingdom by sitting in a bathtub of milk, while dressed as Cleopatra?

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