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Cowtail stingray

سانچہ:*mp... that the tough skin of the cowtail stingray (pictured) is used to polish wood? سانچہ:*mp... that the Showtime television series Dexter has won two Primetime Emmy Awards? سانچہ:*mp... that bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India, circa 300 CE? سانچہ:*mp... that the underwater volcano Loihi, which rises 969 metres (3,179 ft) from the seabed, is taller then Mount St. Helens ever was? سانچہ:*mp... that Boris Eikhenbaum was a key member of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOJAZ)? سانچہ:*mp... that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio? سانچہ:*mp... that the Peninsular Gneiss rock exposure in the Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bangalore, India is a National Geological Monument? سانچہ:*mp... that Robert Bruce, a former wrestler, played a small role in A Clockwork Orange? سانچہ:*mp... that doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland, Oregon, installed at his drug store?

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Credits

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Credit templates

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Article talk page: ({{dyktalk}}) {{dyktalk|4 مئی|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|4 مئی|2025|Article name}} --~~~~
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Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) - ({{UpdatedDYKportal}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name}} --~~~~

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Images

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After posting the new update

Note: This is the old manual method. For updates copied to the bot queue, the bot currently automates all of the following except steps 3 and 5.

After copying DYK entries to Template:Did you know, please do the following:

Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear;
Reset the DYK time;
Delete the previous image (if c-uploaded from commons) or unprotect and remove the tag (if m-protected);
Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to Wikipedia:Recent additions. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update).
If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).