that Lars Andreas Oftedahl, member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, was also a renowned speaker? that Halloween in the Castro, San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002? that Holton Windmill did not have a fantail when it was a working mill? that Abandon's music was first discovered when a record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door? that in Mesoamerican folklore, it is believed that a dog (mythical dog pictured) carries the newly deceased across a body of water into the afterlife? (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box. Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible you can submit them for consideration.Īrchives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK).