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Did you know... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million-
peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?
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Not saying it's fake news, but I reckon it's a bunch of lazy journalists copying each other's work, who originally copied it from some guy's half remembered rendition.
Reporting on this is indeed quite muddled (in particular, there's a WaPo article that conflates the two
[1]), but the grenade attack in Manila on Feb 13, 1993 is contemporarily sourced to the Baltimore Sun
[2]. The Davao attack also happened in 1993
[3] so I'm not sure why Philstar says "recently". I'll tweak the wording a bit, please flag if there's anything specific you think is improperly sourced.
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08:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC)reply
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... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw on May 25, 1992 was supposed to have a single 1 million
peso winner, but more than 486,170 people found a winning bottle cap?
Source 1: Some 486,170 holders of the non-winning 349 crowns availed of this offer, costing PCPPI an aggregate amount of P240 million.Source 2: On May 25 last year, the nightly news announced that anyone holding a bottle cap marked 349 had won up to 1 million pesos, about $40,000, tax-free. ... Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000 bottle caps marked 349 had been printed.
I'm not usually a reviewer, but I'm not sure whether or not this meets the expansion criteria. Most of the changes on 13 June were citations and the addition of an infobox. Other than that potential issue, I don't see any problems. 5225C (
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23:11, 18 June 2020 (UTC)reply
My bad, I took seven days off the current date instead of the nomination date, so I only looked at edits after June 12. I should have been more careful when reading the nomination. There are no problems in that case and it's a very thorough article. 5225C (
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05:01, 19 June 2020 (UTC)reply
The article meets all criteria for inclusion: New: The article was
created 12 June and nominated the same day. Length: The article exceeds the 1500 character limit, it has about 2500. Cited hook: The hook is cited in-line in the article, in the second paragraph in the section entitled "Number 349". Policy: To the best of my knowledge, the article meets core policy such as notability and has no outstanding maintenance tags. QPQ: Done. 5225C (
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23:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)reply