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A fact from Aram Piruzyan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 February 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan said the USSR's head of state asked for copies of his cookbook to give to Fidel Castro?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aram Piruzyan.

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The result was: promoted by Chipmunkdavis (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan also wrote a cookbook which someone asked for to give to Fidel Castro?

Source: p. 85, which says (according to Piruzyan) that Anastas Mikoyan asked for a copy to give to Castro

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Federated States of Micronesia–Russia relations
- Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 438 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:42, 24 December 2025 (UTC).Reply

I'd ask the nominator to remote the word "also", given that the cookbook was the first book he wrote from 1960 (based on the article). Otherwise, this is interesting when I first read it. Ominae (talk) 06:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
- @Ominae: Here's two ALT hooks based on your suggestion: ALT1 ... that Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan wrote a cookbook which someone asked for to give to Fidel Castro? / ALT2 ... that Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan wrote a cookbook which someone requested to give to Fidel Castro? BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:27, 25 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
ALT1 is good to go. Thanks BeanieFan11. 02:44, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

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