Wikipedia:Today's second feature

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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006), a main page alternative that displays the style of the Main Page in February 2006, where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

This rotating section was originally implemented in July 2005 as a compromise after there were requests to add the POTD to the Main Page, combined with complaints that DYK was badly maintained at the time (see archived discussion). Today's second feature appeared on the Main Page until a new design was implemented in March 2006.

Current version of this section on the Classic 2006 Main Page:

Jorts

... that jorts (example pictured), despite being worn by uncool dads, are also associated with 1960s counterculture, punks, rappers, skaters, and "Brat summer"?
... that the Okinawan king Shō Taikyū was reportedly protected by an all-female bodyguard?
... that the browser extension AdNauseam blocks and clicks on advertisements at the same time?
... that a key part of Alexis Harding's abstract art is the chemical incompatibility of the different paints he uses?
... that neither of the two athletes who represented Togo at the 2014 Winter Olympics grew up or trained in the country?
... that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police's legal bill of about A$250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
... that St. Peter's Catholic Church is the oldest church in continuous use in the state of Minnesota?
... that the music of Camila Cabello inspired Taylor Swift to work on the song "I Forgot That You Existed" with the producers Louis Bell and Frank Dukes?
... that the Biblical Magi dispense mysterious vision-inducing foods in the Revelation of the Magi, which a scholar proposed to be an account of ritual hallucinogen intake?

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