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This DYK STATS/Archive 2021 page is an archive of the monthly DYKSTATS leaders for each month in 2021, recognizing the DYK entries that have received the most page views while being featured on DYK.
Top hooks of 2021
editThis list presents the top hooks of 2021 based on the number of views generated per hour on the Main Page (minimum 1,500 views per hour)
| Article | Date | Image | views | vph | DYK hook |
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| United Airlines Flight 175 | 2021-09-12 |  |
125,881.5[a] | 5,245.1 | ... that after being hijacked, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had two mid-air collisions with other aircraft before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center (pictured)? |
| Chadwick Boseman | 2021-04-26 |  |
48,465[b] | 4,038.8 | ... that Chadwick Boseman (pictured) was the seventh actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination? |
| Mercy dog | 2021-01-09 |  |
43,554 | 3,629.5 | ... that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land? |
| 1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions | 2021-06-10 | 
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6,287.5 | 524.0 | ... that the 1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions included Death (modeled after the lynching of George Hughes), Necklace (by Aaron Goodelman), This Is Her First Lynching, and The Law Is Too Slow (pictured), and were intended to support anti-lynching legislation, while earlier similar proposed legislation was supported by the NAACP using the lynching of Henry Lowry? |
| Death (statue) | 5,879.5 | 490.0 | |||
| Lynching of George Hughes | 6,156.5 | 513.0 | |||
| Aaron Goodelman | 912.5 | 76.0 | |||
| This Is Her First Lynching | 8,246.5 | 687.2 | |||
| The Law Is Too Slow | 5,615 | 467.9 | |||
| Lynching of Henry Lowry | 4,248.5 | 354.0 | |||
| Total | 37,346 | 3,112.2 | |||
| Belle Delphine | 2021-11-20 |  |
37,017[c] | 3,084.8 | ... that Belle Delphine's online popularity surged after she mimicked the orgasm faces (example pictured) featured in some Japanese manga? |
| Kristoffer Domeij | 2021-03-10 |  |
36,697 | 3,058.1 | ... that Kristoffer Domeij (pictured) set a record when he died after 14 tours of duty in more than 10 years as a Special Operations Ranger? |
| Hit-to-kill | 2021-02-10 |  |
36,550 | 3,045.8 | ... that hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy per kilogram of TNT? |
| Megan Phelps-Roper | 2021-09-02 |  |
36,152 | 3,012.7 | ... that Megan Phelps-Roper (pictured) announced her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church when the church planned to protest at the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? |
| Horned helmet of Henry VIII | 2021-11-19 |  |
36,010 | 3,000.8 | ... that the 1514 horned helmet of Henry VIII (pictured) has spectacles and a toothy grimace? |
| State House (Zimbabwe) | 2021-03-03 | 
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5,010.5 | 417.5 | ... that the president of Zimbabwe has access to State House which has a "drunk" "Superman" statue of Robert Mugabe in the grounds, and to the former Rhodesian prime minister's house and Cecil Rhodes's Government House in Bulawayo (pictured), but not to Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion? |
| Statue of Robert Mugabe | 20,224 | 1,685.3 | |||
| Zimbabwe House, Harare | 2,358.5 | 196.5 | |||
| State House (Bulawayo) | 2,573.5 | 214.5 | |||
| Blue Roof | 5,677.5 | 473.1 | |||
| Total | 35,844 | 2,987.0 | |||
| Marcello Petacci | 2021-04-27 |  |
33,097 | 2,758.1 | ... that Marcello Petacci (pictured) was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into Lake Como? |
| Urine deflector | 2021-07-15 |  |
33,023 | 2,751.9 | ... that the Bank of England has a device to prevent unwanted deposits (pictured)? |
| Kid Canfield | 2021-06-01 |  |
29,426 | 2,452.2 | ... that Kid Canfield (pictured) is the first known person to die live on radio? |
| Gallagh Man | 2021-06-15 |  |
26,032 | 2,169.3 | ... that the Irish bog body Gallagh Man (pictured) preserves the remains of an Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a ritual killing or executed as a criminal? |
| Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols | 2021-02-07 | 
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3,826 | 318.8 | ... that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included a WASP pilot, a World War II Marine, a "Chickie", a Hall of Fame lacrosse player, a world-champion softball player, an All-College basketball player, the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States, a professor and a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and a resident of Atlantis (pictured)? |
| Betty Shellenberger | 2,504 | 208.7 | |||
| Chickie Geraci Poisson | 3,421 | 285.1 | |||
| Alice Putnam Willetts | 977.5 | 81.5 | |||
| Joan Moser | 923.5 | 77.0 | |||
| Anne McConaghie Volp | 706.5 | 58.9 | |||
| F. Elizabeth Richey | 805.5 | 67.1 | |||
| Adele Boyd | 743 | 61.9 | |||
| Ruth Heller Aucott | 847 | 70.6 | |||
| Phyllis Stadler Lyon | 11,138.5 | 928.2 | |||
| Total | 25,892.5 | 2,157.7 | |||
| Cthulhu for President | 2021-04-01 |  |
24,992 | 2,082.7 | ... that cosmic horror Cthulhu has run for President of the United States (2016 campaign pictured) in every election since 1996? |
| Viola Brand | 2021-04-28 |  |
23,807 | 1,983.9 | ... that German three-time artistic cycling World Championship runner-up Viola Brand (pictured) was invited to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, having previously watched the show to improve her English? |
| Economy coffin | 2021-08-03 |  |
23,701 | 1,975.1 | ... that Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, caused outrage in 1784 when he ordered that people be buried naked in reusable coffins (example pictured) from which the body fell into the grave via a trapdoor? |
| Revenge dress | 2021-03-03 | 19,088 | 1,590.7 | ... that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore her revenge dress on the night that her husband admitted to having been unfaithful in a televised interview? | |
| Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role | 4,578 | 381.5 | |||
| Total | 23,666 | 1,972.2 | |||
| Resolute desk | 2021-08-27 |  |
23,426 | 1,952.2 | ... that Jacqueline Kennedy found the Resolute desk (pictured) languishing in the White House basement and had it moved to the Oval Office? |
| Mary Custis Lee | 2021-06-13 |  |
22,920 | 1,910.0 | ... that Mary Custis Lee (pictured), a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar? |
| SS Birma | 2021-04-16 |  |
22,640 | 1,886.7 | ... that when SS Birma (pictured) responded to the sinking of the Titanic, RMS Carpathia told them to "shut up"? |
| Françoise Hardy | 2021-06-25 |  |
45,194[d] | 1,883.1 | ... that French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy (pictured) was admired by musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan during the 1960s? |
| Work No. 227: The lights going on and off | 2021-04-08 |  |
22,349 | 1,862.4 | ... that Martin Creed's installation Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (pictured) has been described as "the first truly great artwork of the twenty-first century"? |
| Spread (prison food) | 2021-08-10 |  |
22,283 | 1,856.9 | ... that in countries like the United States, prisoners supplement inadequate prison food by combining ingredients like instant ramen (pictured), mayonnaise and Kool-Aid into improvised meals called "spreads"? |
| Jimmy Carter | 2021-10-02 |  |
43,399.5[e] | 1,808.3 | ... that Jimmy Carter reported that he had seen a UFO? |
| Anne Wyllie | 2021-10-13 | 42,308 | 1,762.8 | ... that Anne Wyllie, also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was? | |
| Flat-roofed pub | 2021-04-05 |  |
20,926 | 1,743.8 | ... that a saying in Britain states that one should "never drink in a flat-roofed pub" (example pictured)? |
| Pencil tower | 2021-01-14 |  |
20,921 | 1,743.4 | ... that the new slender, super-tall skyscrapers in New York City are known as pencil towers (examples pictured)? |
| Rio de Flag | 2021-04-02 | 20,815 | 1,734.6 | ... that there has been a bottomless pit in East Flagstaff, Arizona, for more than 100 years? | |
| Marie Séraphique | 2021-09-14 |  |
41,575 | 1,732.3 | ... that "the most accurate contemporary picture of conditions" on slave ships is an illustration of the Marie Séraphique (pictured)? |
| Róża Maria Goździewska | 2021-05-06 |  |
20,432 | 1,702.7 | ... that eight-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska (pictured) was "the youngest child nurse" in the Warsaw Uprising? |
| Muang Thong Thani | 2021-10-15 |  |
40,800 | 1,700.0 | ... that Muang Thong Thani (street pictured), intended as a satellite city of Bangkok, has been called "one of the greatest planning disasters of the 20th century"? |
| Theodore Roosevelt desk | 2021-01-21 |  |
20,350 | 1,695.8 | ... that the Theodore Roosevelt desk (pictured) was the first desk used by a US president in the Oval Office? |
| Quinn (soccer) | 2021-08-22 |  |
20,208 | 1,684.0 | ... that Quinn (pictured) became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team? |
| Flag of Sark | 2021-08-06 |  |
20,075 | 1,672.9 | ... that the flag of Sark (pictured) represented the last feudal state in the Western world, and is flown over the British Ministry of Justice every 6 August to commemorate the granting of the fief? |
| Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive) | 2021-05-04 |  |
19,672 | 1,639.3 | ... that the Flying Dutchman (model pictured), a locomotive powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)? |
| Outstanding in the Field | 2021-12-09 |  |
19,620 | 1,635.0 | ... that on an average night, between 130 and 200 people can be found Outstanding in the Field (example pictured) for about five hours? |
| Lamprey pie | 2021-12-04 |  |
39,220 | 1,634.2 | ... that on special occasions, the city of Gloucester supplies a pie made from lampreys (lamprey pictured) to the British monarch? |
| Aeroflot Flight 593 | 2021-03-29 | 19,119 | 1,593.3 | ... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact? | |
| One57 | 2021-07-19 |  |
19,018 | 1,584.8 | ... that one apartment at New York City's One57 (pictured) was purchased for a two-year-old girl? |
| Albert shako | 2021-08-16 |  |
18,970 | 1,580.8 | ... that during the Crimean War, a colonel complained about his "abominable Albert [shako]" (example pictured), upon whose leather top "a man may fry his ration beef at mid-day in this climate"? |
| Napoleon's penis | 2021-01-26 | 18,960 | 1,580.0 | ... that Napoleon's penis, which was cut off after his death, has been described as comparable to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"? | |
| M42 (sub-basement) | 2021-01-11 |  |
18,696 | 1,558.0 | ... that the M42 sub-basement (pictured) was featured in a navy training film as the safest place in New York during a nuclear strike? |
| XYYY syndrome | 2021-04-13 | 18,678 | 1,556.5 | ... that XYYY syndrome, a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times? | |
| Julie Hayden (teacher) | 2021-09-01 |  |
18,641 | 1,553.4 | ... that seventeen-year-old Julie Hayden (pictured) was killed by members of the White Man's League days after starting a position teaching Black children, and became "the poster child of southern violence"? |
| Armenian Genocide denial | 2021-04-24 | 18,557.5[f] | 1,546.5 | ... that Turkish schoolchildren are taught that the Armenian Genocide never happened and instead, Armenians committed genocide against Turks? | |
| Fish kick | 2021-05-27 | 18,545 | 1,545.4 | ... that although some sources have cited the fish kick as potentially the fastest way for humans to swim, it has not been widely used in competitive swimming? | |
| Borromean rings | 2021-03-29 |  |
18,460 | 1,538.3 | ... that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles (pictured) is an impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular? |
| Flanderization | 2021-03-20 | 18,440 | 1,536.7 | ... that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization, after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons? | |
| Julie Wera | 2021-08-21 |  |
18,087 | 1,507.3 | ... that reports of Julie Wera's (pictured) death were greatly exaggerated? |