Desert paintbrush, Castilleja chromosa

• ... that the flowers of the desert paintbrush (pictured) are small, green, and unremarkable?
• ... that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar?
• ... that the 1925 Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in United States history?
• ... that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte?
• ... that an investigation by the NCAA found that, between 2006 and 2007, over 60 student athletes had been involved in an academic dishonesty scandal at Florida State University?
• ... that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales?
• ... that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union?
• ... that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island which, according to local belief, "went back to the gods themselves"?
• ... that a widespread violin performance scam was described as "one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us" by radio host Scott Simon?

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• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|13 January|2025|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add |small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|13 January|2025|Article name}}--~~~~
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• Don't forget to add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
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• Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1, 7, and 11.

1. Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
2. Update T:DYK from the current queue.
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4. Reset the DYK time.
5. Increment the next queue pointer.
6. Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
7. Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
8. On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add {{DYKfile|13 January|2025|type=image}} (occasionally replacing image with video where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK.
9. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
10. Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with {{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}.
11. If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} once the queue is loaded and ready.