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From a collection of Wikipedia's articles: ... that the Japanese spider crab (pictured) can grow to be almost 4 metres in width? ... that Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier was the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan from 1997 until 2007? ... that before they were used as a contraceptive, condoms were used to protect against disease? ... that if Leonor, Princess of Asturias becomes the Queen of Spain, she will be Spain's first queen regnant since her 4th great-grandmother Isabella II? ... that in 1809, a slave cost about $40,000 USD, in today's money, but in the 21st century, getting a slave costs as little as $90-100 USD? ... that Harold Macmillan was the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be granted a hereditary peerage?

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Updating instructions

1. Update T:DYK from the current queue.
2. Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
3. Reset the DYK time.
4. Increment the next queue count.
5. 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 (should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update). Please include the picture/file.
6. Add the article talk page credits with {{dyktalk|2 July|2024}} ({{dyktalk}}) (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes param) to the article talk pages of the newly updated DYKs.
7. Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with Template:Did you know/Queue/Clear.