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[edit] The rules
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[edit] Suggestions
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Did you know...
- ...that the Victoria Falls Bridge, which carries the only rail link between Zambia and Zimbabwe and passes the famous Victoria Falls, is today used not only to carry rail traffic but also for bungee jumping?
- Zzrbiker 01:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- ...that although Iraq shares borders with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Iran, the Iraqi Republic Railways' only international interchange is with the Chemin de Fer Syriana (Syrian Railways)?
- Zzrbiker 03:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- ...that the Rosstown Railway in Australia, a private railway built to service a sugar beet mill that never went into production, reportedly only ever carried one train (other than construction and ballast trains) between its construction in 1888 and dismantling in 1916?
- Maybe hold off on this one for a while - there's been quite a few Austarlian DYKs of late Zzrbiker 04:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- ...that
[edit] For a later date
The following suggestions may not be appropriate due to recent news events. Either the fact is noted in the news event or it is still too soon after the event occurred to list the fact in the DYK section as well.
- ...that the Laigh Milton Viaduct is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world?
- These two were in the main page DYK archive. Hellbus 02:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
