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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

This 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
United Airlines Flight 175	2021-09-12		125,881.5	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	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		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	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		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		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	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	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	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?

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