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Today's featured article {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 6, 2026}} Did you know... Sky lanterns during the Yi Peng festival Sky lanterns during the Yi Peng festival ... that sky lanterns released during the Yi Peng festival (pictured) cause Chiang Mai International Airport to cancel and reschedule flights every year? ... that Paper Girl concluded that the super-rich are removing the "ladder of upward mobility" from the lower class? ... that Gholdengo has been jokingly described as looking like a "walking Ponzi scheme"? ... that the orchid species Archivea kewensis is known only from an 1823 watercolour painting? ... that the US Army Air Corps ordered the Sperry S-1 bombsight because supplies of the Norden bombsight were controlled by the US Navy? ... that Khachaturian's Violin Concerto incorporates several themes from Armenian folk songs? ... that American trucking company Prime Inc. sued Amazon over its use of the Amazon Prime logo? ... that Daaga was freed from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, but executed by the British Army less than a year later? ... that the single "Doot Doot (6 7)" inspired a viral meme phrase that was named Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year?

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