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1. On
23 February 2012: Did you know... that the tragic end of
Raj Kapoor's film
Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release? (
Nom,
stats check)
2. On
27 April 2012: Did you know... that the music of the film
Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by
Andhra Pradesh state
Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy? (
Nom,
stats check)
3. On
28 May 2012: Did you know... that
Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with
digital control and
simulated movements of trains? (
Nom,
stats check)
4. On
13 July 2012: Did you know... that the 1899 play
Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929
Child Marriage Restraint Act, called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
Nom,
stats check)
5. On
19 September 2012: Did you know... that 2009's
Marathi film
Gandha, written and directed by
Sachin Kundalkar, blends three different stories with a common factor of the human
sense of smell? (
Nom,
stats check)
6. On
8 October 2012: Did you know... that for portraying both
Rama and
Sita in the 1917 silent film
Lanka Dahan, Salunke (pictured) is credited with playing the first
double role in
Indian cinema? (
Nom,
stats check)
7. On
12 October 2012: Did you know... that the 2011
Bengali film
Abosheshey, about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in
Roopa Ganguly's own house, where she plays the role of the mother? (
Nom,
stats check)
8. On
21 October 2012: Did you know... that for the 1975
Bollywood classic film
Sholay,
M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)? (
Nom,
stats check)
9. On
24 October 2012: Did you know... that the 1955–56
Marathi radio programme
Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic
Ramayana (central characters pictured) has been translated to eight
Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in
Braille? (
Nom,
stats check)
10-11 On
26 January 2013: Did you know... that
Meenakshi Shirodkar stunned the traditional audience when she appeared in a swimsuit in the 1938
Marathi film
Brahmachari? (
Nom,
stats check B,
stats check M)
12. On
2 February 2013: Did you know?... that the
Marathi play Wada Chirebandi, directed by
Chandrakant Kulkarni, is an eight-hour-long
trilogy? (
Nom,
stats check)
13. On
11 February 2013: Did you know?... that at the age of 79, veteran playback singer
Asha Bhosle debuted as an actress in the 2013
Bollywood film
Mai playing the title role? (
Nom,
stats check)
14. On
28 March 2013:Did you know? ... that there are figures of many gods as well as, unusually, a
tortoise (pictured), on the steps to the
Saptashrungi temple, built in 1710 AD? (
Nom,
stats check)
15. On
15 April 2013:Did you know?... that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by
Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a
Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth? (
Nom,
stats check)
16-17. On
24 April 2013:Did you know?... that the
real life mother and daughter,
Jyoti and
Amruta Subhash, have played the same relationship in the 2009
Marathi film
Gandha? (
Nom,
stats check J,
stats check A)
18. On
28 April 2013:Did you know?... that in 1983,
Anita Pratap became the first journalist to interview
LTTE chief
V. Prabhakaran? (
Nom,
stats check)
19. On
12 May 2013:Did you know?... that Hindi film actress
Smita Patil's father
Shivajirao Girdhar Patil is a social activist and politician and was presented with the
Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India this year? (
Nom,
stats check)
20. On
10 July 2013:Did you know?... that upon
Swami Vivekananda's
arrival in South India in 1897, a 40-foot (12 m) high monument was built by the king of Ramnad to celebrate his
achievements at the West? (
Nom,
stats check)
21. On
1 August 2013:Did you know?... that produced by
Sudhakar Bokade, the incomplete
Bollywood film Kalinga was actor
Dilip Kumar's first directorial venture? (
Nom,
stats check)
22. On
14 August 2013:Did you know?... that
Shankarrao Salvi's birthday is observed as
Kabaddi Day in
Maharashtra for his lifetime of efforts in the sport? (
Nom,
stats check)
23. On
18 August 2013:Did you know?... that
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University has affiliations with more than 60 engineering colleges and 30 polytechnic colleges in
Chhattisgarh,
India? (
Nom,
stats check)
24. On
9 September 2013:Did you know?... that when the 1971
Bollywood song "
Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani" was remixed in 2003,
Mumbai Police received complaints from citizens for its obscene video? (
Nom,
stats check)
25. (Nom) On
20 September 2013:Did you know?... that
Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended by the
Uttar Pradesh government for demolishing an allegedly illegal wall of a mosque? (
Nom,
stats check)
26. On
12 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Jitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in as
Bihar's cabinet minister in 2005? (
Nom,
stats check)
27-30. On
19 June 2014:Did you know?... that Bollywood director
Rahul Rawail paid tribute to his father
H. S. Rawail's film
Sunghursh (1968) by titling one of his films as
Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)? (
Nom,
stats check RR,
stats check HSR,
stats check S,
stats check JES)
31. On
23 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony (pictured) was the first for an
Indian Prime Minister to which the head-of-government of every
SAARC country was invited? (
nom,
stats check)
32. (Nom) On
25 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Dusari Goshta, a
biopic on ex-
Home Affairs minister
Sushilkumar Shinde, was screened at the
residence of the President of India? (
Nom,
stats check)
33. On
26 August 2014:Did you know?... that in pursuit of
his foreign policy objectives, Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi made an official visit to Nepal and was the first foreign leader to address
that country's parliament? (
Nom,
stats check)
34. On
2 October 2014:Did you know?... that
Dattatraya Parchure, also called the "second
Savarkar", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the
assassination case of
Mahatma Gandhi? (
Nom,
stats check)
35. On
13 November 2014:Did you know?... that in the
Ganga puja festival, the
Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases? (
Nom,
stats check)
36. On
28 September 2015:Did you know?... that by popular demand
Lata Mangeshkar (pictured) was presented with the
Filmfare Special Award for the 1994 song "
Didi Tera Devar Deewana"? (
Nom,
stats check)
37. On
18 January 2016:Did you know?... that in 1573, Emperor
Akbar had set up his military base camp near
Gopi Talav during the siege of
Surat? (
Nom,
stats check)
38. On
20 January 2016:Did you know?... that
Marathi-film director
Raja Thakur holds the record of winning the
Maharashtra State Film Awards three times from 1970 to 1972 in the Best Film category? (
Nom,
stats check)
39. On
28 January 2016:Did you know?... that after the death of
Bajirao I, his first wife,
Kashibai made arrangements to train his son from another marriage in weaponry? (
Nom,
stats check)
40. On
7 February 2016:Did you know?... that the arrest of
Basanti Devi during the
non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation? (
Nom,
stats check)
41. On
12 April 2016:Did you know?... that
Dara Nusserwanji Khurody established the
Aarey Milk Colony and introduced the economical
toned milk in Mumbai? (
Nom,
stats check)
42. On
21 April 2016:Did you know?... that
Svetoslav Roerich, one of the
recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1960s, is the only artist whose three portraits are displayed at the
Central Hall of Indian Parliament? (
Nom,
stats check)
43. On
7 May 2016:Did you know?... that
IRNSS-1G, successfully launched by
ISRO in April, was the seventh and last satellite of the
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System? (
Nom,
stats check)
44. On
11 May 2016:Did you know?... that a Honey and Bee Museum has been established at
Ooty to promote
beekeeping in India? (
Nom,
stats check)
45. On
16 May 2016:Did you know?... that Indian
gender equality activist
Trupti Desai has successfully campaigned for women to be allowed entry to various religious places? (
Nom,
stats check)
46. On
23 May 2016:Did you know?... that the
2016 Uttarakhand forest fires affected about 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) in the Himalayan state of
Uttarakhand, claiming seven fatalities? (
Nom,
stats check)
47. On
24 May 2016:Did you know?... that
Mike Agostini was the first track and field athlete from
Trinidad and Tobago to win a
gold medal at the
Commonwealth Games? (
Nom,
stats check)
48. On
4 June 2016:Did you know?... that when poet
G. Sankara Kurup's (pictured) poem Odakkuzhal was nominated for the first
Jnanpith Award, the
Kerala Sahitya Akademi had opined that no Malayalam language work was worthy of this inaugural prize? (
Nom,
stats check)
49. On
16 June 2016:Did you know?... that Indian scientist
Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, one of the
recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1980s, returned it in 2015? (
Nom,
stats check)
50. On
24 June 2016:Did you know?... that when
Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of
Mysore University, the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"? (
Nom,
stats check)
51. On
2 July 2016:Did you know?... that the
Padma Bhushan, along with other
Indian civilian awards, was briefly suspended in
the 1990s? (
Nom,
stats check)
52. On 15 July 2016:Did you know? ... that historian
Romila Thapar refused to accept the
Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, but was still listed among
the recipients of the 2000s? (
Nom,
stats check)
53. On 19 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo won a 1984
Sahitya Akademi Award for his
Odia language short-story collection Abhisapta Gandharba? (
Nom,
stats check)
54. On 19 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Romesh Chandra, former leader of the
Communist Party of India, was the president of the
World Peace Council? (
Nom,
stats check)
55. On 27 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Adam Foulds' novel
The Quickening Maze, about poets
Clare and
Tennyson, was nominated for the
Man Booker and
Walter Scott prizes but lost both to
Hilary Mantel's
Wolf Hall? (
Nom,
stats check)
56. On 2 August 2016:Did you know?... that
Neelabh Ashk translated
Arundhati Roy,
Salman Rushdie,
William Shakespeare,
Bertolt Brecht, and
Mikhail Lermontov into Hindi? (
Nom,
stats check)
57. On 24 August 2016:Did you know?... that in
Hindu mythology, the demon
Kalanemi who was killed by
Vishnu, was reborn as
Kamsa to be eventually killed by Vishnu's reincarnation
Krishna? (
Nom,
stats check)
58. On 29 August 2016:Did you know?... that exhibits in the
Sudha Cars Museum have found their way onto
Ripley's Believe It or Not!? (
Nom,
stats check)
59. On 4 September 2016:Did you know?... that
Kalikho Pul, former Chief Minister of the Indian state of
Arunachal Pradesh, once earned a living selling
paans, making bamboo fences and
thatched houses, and working as a
watchman? (
Nom,
stats check)
60. On 5 September 2016:Did you know?... that as governor of
Ōita Prefecture,
Morihiko Hiramatsu initiated the
One Village One Product movement? (
Nom,
stats check)
61. On 9 September 2016:Did you know?... that
Kunwar Singh Negi, winner of both the
Padma Shri and
Padma Bhushan, has translated 300 books in various Indian languages into braille? (
Nom,
stats check)
62. On 27 September 2016:Did you know?... that the mercy plea of the couple sentenced to death in the
Poonia murder case was rejected by Indian President
Pranab Mukherjee? (
Nom,
stats check)
63. On 5 October 2016:Did you know?... that
Ravana had promised
Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed
Hanuman? (
Nom,
stats check))
64. On 4 December 2016:Did you know?... that
Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist
R. K. Laxman? (
Nom,
stats check)
65. On 16 January 2017:Did you know?... that the
Rifa-e-Aam Club in
Lucknow was open to everybody at a time when British clubs excluded Indians? (
Nom,
stats check)
66-68. On 7 February 2017:Did you know?... that the
Neurological Society of India was founded in 1951 by
Jacob Chandy,
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi,
S. T. Narasimhan, and
Baldev Singh, pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India? (
Nom,
stats check NSI,
stats check STN,
stats check BS)
69. On 11 February 2017:Did you know?... that following the tradition of Urdu poets,
Bollywood lyricist
Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from
his birthplace, and his family also adopted it? (
Nom,
stats check)
70-72. On 18 February 2017:Did you know?... that out of thirteen elections held in the
Gundlupet Vidhan Sabha constituency, in the south-Indian state of
Karnataka, seven have been won by
K. S. Nagarathanamma and five by
H. S. Mahadeva Prasad? (
Nom,
stats check Gundlupet,
stats check Prasad,
stats check Nagarathanamma)
73. On 23 February 2017:Did you know?... that author
Bano Qudsia has been conferred with the
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) and the
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the Government of Pakistan? (
Nom,
stats check)
74. On 19 March 2017:Did you know?... that the 2015 film
Ringan, set against the backdrop of
farmers' suicides in India, won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi? (
Nom,
stats check)
75-85. On 20 June 2017:Did you know?... that the
National Film Awards in various categories have been presented to the films
Doghi (
Other Social Issues),
Vastupurush (
Best Feature Film in Marathi),
Devrai (
Environment Conservation/Preservation),
Samhita (
Best Music Direction),
Astu (
Best Dialogue) and
Kaasav (
Best Feature Film), all by filmmaker duo
Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar? (
Nom)
86. On 16 July 2019:Did you know?... that during its
2019 election campaign, the
Indian National Congress promised to abolish the
sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013? (
Nom,
stats check)
87. On 31 July 2019:Did you know?... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the
Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the
Big Bull after the market crashed? (
Nom,
stats check)
88. On 1 August 2019:Did you know?... that
Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell
methanol as cooking fuel? (
Nom,
stats check)
89. On 19 August 2019:Did you know?... that
Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses
GPS to track its vehicles transporting
ammonium nitrate, as that chemical has been used by
naxalites to create the explosive
ANFO? (
Nom,
stats check)
90. On 14 September 2019:Did you know?... that the novel
Ducks, Newburyport by
Lucy Ellmann uses
stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages? (
Nom,
stats check)
91. On 15 September 2019:Did you know?... that
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians
Maneka Gandhi and
Santosh Gangwar, current members of the
17th Lok Sabha, have been elected to the
Indian lower house for the eighth time? (
Nom,
stats check)
92. On 1 October 2019:Did you know?... that the novel
The Ten Thousand Things, earlier rejected by 44 publishers, won the
Walter Scott Prize?? (
Nom,
stats check)
93. On 9 November 2019:Did you know?... that for his
narrative poetry novel
The Long Take,
Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the
Walter Scott Prize? (
Nom,
stats check)
94. On 12 April 2021:Did you know?... that
Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film
Salaam-e-Ishq? (
Nom,
stats check)
95. On 16 May 2021:Did you know?... that the creators of the Indian web series
His Storyy changed the ending because of
prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country? (
Nom,
stats check)
96. On 6 June 2021:Did you know?... that due to
COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors
Mrinal Dutt and
Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices? (
Nom,
stats check)
97. On 5 December 2022:Did you know?... that
Neha Pendse, the lead actress of the Marathi film
June, contributed some of her own money towards its production? (
Nom,
stats check)
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Aadesh Bandekar • Aditi Phadnis • Anand Abhyankar • Brahmachari (1938 film) • Gandha (film) • Gulzar • Local Body Tax • Mala Aai Vhhaychy! • Mohan Joshi • Prateeksha Lonkar • Sadhana Shivdasani • Sanjay Surkar • Sawaal Majha Aika! • Smita Talwalkar • Suhas Joshi • Sulekha Talwalkar • Sulochana Chavan • Vibhavari Deshpande • Vishwanathbuwa Jadhav • Tukaram (film) •
1. On
23 February 2012: Did you know... that the tragic end of
Raj Kapoor's film
Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release? (
Nom,
stats check)
2. On
27 April 2012: Did you know... that the music of the film
Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by
Andhra Pradesh state
Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy? (
Nom,
stats check)
3. On
28 May 2012: Did you know... that
Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with
digital control and
simulated movements of trains? (
Nom,
stats check)
4. On
13 July 2012: Did you know... that the 1899 play
Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929
Child Marriage Restraint Act, called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
Nom,
stats check)
5. On
19 September 2012: Did you know... that 2009's
Marathi film
Gandha, written and directed by
Sachin Kundalkar, blends three different stories with a common factor of the human
sense of smell? (
Nom,
stats check)
6. On
8 October 2012: Did you know... that for portraying both
Rama and
Sita in the 1917 silent film
Lanka Dahan, Salunke (pictured) is credited with playing the first
double role in
Indian cinema? (
Nom,
stats check)
7. On
12 October 2012: Did you know... that the 2011
Bengali film
Abosheshey, about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in
Roopa Ganguly's own house, where she plays the role of the mother? (
Nom,
stats check)
8. On
21 October 2012: Did you know... that for the 1975
Bollywood classic film
Sholay,
M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)? (
Nom,
stats check)
9. On
24 October 2012: Did you know... that the 1955–56
Marathi radio programme
Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic
Ramayana (central characters pictured) has been translated to eight
Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in
Braille? (
Nom,
stats check)
10-11 On
26 January 2013: Did you know... that
Meenakshi Shirodkar stunned the traditional audience when she appeared in a swimsuit in the 1938
Marathi film
Brahmachari? (
Nom,
stats check B,
stats check M)
12. On
2 February 2013: Did you know?... that the
Marathi play Wada Chirebandi, directed by
Chandrakant Kulkarni, is an eight-hour-long
trilogy? (
Nom,
stats check)
13. On
11 February 2013: Did you know?... that at the age of 79, veteran playback singer
Asha Bhosle debuted as an actress in the 2013
Bollywood film
Mai playing the title role? (
Nom,
stats check)
14. On
28 March 2013:Did you know? ... that there are figures of many gods as well as, unusually, a
tortoise (pictured), on the steps to the
Saptashrungi temple, built in 1710 AD? (
Nom,
stats check)
15. On
15 April 2013:Did you know?... that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by
Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a
Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth? (
Nom,
stats check)
16-17. On
24 April 2013:Did you know?... that the
real life mother and daughter,
Jyoti and
Amruta Subhash, have played the same relationship in the 2009
Marathi film
Gandha? (
Nom,
stats check J,
stats check A)
18. On
28 April 2013:Did you know?... that in 1983,
Anita Pratap became the first journalist to interview
LTTE chief
V. Prabhakaran? (
Nom,
stats check)
19. On
12 May 2013:Did you know?... that Hindi film actress
Smita Patil's father
Shivajirao Girdhar Patil is a social activist and politician and was presented with the
Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India this year? (
Nom,
stats check)
20. On
10 July 2013:Did you know?... that upon
Swami Vivekananda's
arrival in South India in 1897, a 40-foot (12 m) high monument was built by the king of Ramnad to celebrate his
achievements at the West? (
Nom,
stats check)
21. On
1 August 2013:Did you know?... that produced by
Sudhakar Bokade, the incomplete
Bollywood film Kalinga was actor
Dilip Kumar's first directorial venture? (
Nom,
stats check)
22. On
14 August 2013:Did you know?... that
Shankarrao Salvi's birthday is observed as
Kabaddi Day in
Maharashtra for his lifetime of efforts in the sport? (
Nom,
stats check)
23. On
18 August 2013:Did you know?... that
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University has affiliations with more than 60 engineering colleges and 30 polytechnic colleges in
Chhattisgarh,
India? (
Nom,
stats check)
24. On
9 September 2013:Did you know?... that when the 1971
Bollywood song "
Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani" was remixed in 2003,
Mumbai Police received complaints from citizens for its obscene video? (
Nom,
stats check)
25. (Nom) On
20 September 2013:Did you know?... that
Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended by the
Uttar Pradesh government for demolishing an allegedly illegal wall of a mosque? (
Nom,
stats check)
26. On
12 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Jitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in as
Bihar's cabinet minister in 2005? (
Nom,
stats check)
27-30. On
19 June 2014:Did you know?... that Bollywood director
Rahul Rawail paid tribute to his father
H. S. Rawail's film
Sunghursh (1968) by titling one of his films as
Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)? (
Nom,
stats check RR,
stats check HSR,
stats check S,
stats check JES)
31. On
23 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony (pictured) was the first for an
Indian Prime Minister to which the head-of-government of every
SAARC country was invited? (
nom,
stats check)
32. (Nom) On
25 June 2014:Did you know?... that
Dusari Goshta, a
biopic on ex-
Home Affairs minister
Sushilkumar Shinde, was screened at the
residence of the President of India? (
Nom,
stats check)
33. On
26 August 2014:Did you know?... that in pursuit of
his foreign policy objectives, Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi made an official visit to Nepal and was the first foreign leader to address
that country's parliament? (
Nom,
stats check)
34. On
2 October 2014:Did you know?... that
Dattatraya Parchure, also called the "second
Savarkar", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the
assassination case of
Mahatma Gandhi? (
Nom,
stats check)
35. On
13 November 2014:Did you know?... that in the
Ganga puja festival, the
Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases? (
Nom,
stats check)
36. On
28 September 2015:Did you know?... that by popular demand
Lata Mangeshkar (pictured) was presented with the
Filmfare Special Award for the 1994 song "
Didi Tera Devar Deewana"? (
Nom,
stats check)
37. On
18 January 2016:Did you know?... that in 1573, Emperor
Akbar had set up his military base camp near
Gopi Talav during the siege of
Surat? (
Nom,
stats check)
38. On
20 January 2016:Did you know?... that
Marathi-film director
Raja Thakur holds the record of winning the
Maharashtra State Film Awards three times from 1970 to 1972 in the Best Film category? (
Nom,
stats check)
39. On
28 January 2016:Did you know?... that after the death of
Bajirao I, his first wife,
Kashibai made arrangements to train his son from another marriage in weaponry? (
Nom,
stats check)
40. On
7 February 2016:Did you know?... that the arrest of
Basanti Devi during the
non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation? (
Nom,
stats check)
41. On
12 April 2016:Did you know?... that
Dara Nusserwanji Khurody established the
Aarey Milk Colony and introduced the economical
toned milk in Mumbai? (
Nom,
stats check)
42. On
21 April 2016:Did you know?... that
Svetoslav Roerich, one of the
recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1960s, is the only artist whose three portraits are displayed at the
Central Hall of Indian Parliament? (
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43. On
7 May 2016:Did you know?... that
IRNSS-1G, successfully launched by
ISRO in April, was the seventh and last satellite of the
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System? (
Nom,
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44. On
11 May 2016:Did you know?... that a Honey and Bee Museum has been established at
Ooty to promote
beekeeping in India? (
Nom,
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45. On
16 May 2016:Did you know?... that Indian
gender equality activist
Trupti Desai has successfully campaigned for women to be allowed entry to various religious places? (
Nom,
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46. On
23 May 2016:Did you know?... that the
2016 Uttarakhand forest fires affected about 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) in the Himalayan state of
Uttarakhand, claiming seven fatalities? (
Nom,
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47. On
24 May 2016:Did you know?... that
Mike Agostini was the first track and field athlete from
Trinidad and Tobago to win a
gold medal at the
Commonwealth Games? (
Nom,
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48. On
4 June 2016:Did you know?... that when poet
G. Sankara Kurup's (pictured) poem Odakkuzhal was nominated for the first
Jnanpith Award, the
Kerala Sahitya Akademi had opined that no Malayalam language work was worthy of this inaugural prize? (
Nom,
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49. On
16 June 2016:Did you know?... that Indian scientist
Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, one of the
recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1980s, returned it in 2015? (
Nom,
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50. On
24 June 2016:Did you know?... that when
Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of
Mysore University, the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"? (
Nom,
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51. On
2 July 2016:Did you know?... that the
Padma Bhushan, along with other
Indian civilian awards, was briefly suspended in
the 1990s? (
Nom,
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52. On 15 July 2016:Did you know? ... that historian
Romila Thapar refused to accept the
Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, but was still listed among
the recipients of the 2000s? (
Nom,
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53. On 19 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo won a 1984
Sahitya Akademi Award for his
Odia language short-story collection Abhisapta Gandharba? (
Nom,
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54. On 19 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Romesh Chandra, former leader of the
Communist Party of India, was the president of the
World Peace Council? (
Nom,
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55. On 27 July 2016:Did you know?... that
Adam Foulds' novel
The Quickening Maze, about poets
Clare and
Tennyson, was nominated for the
Man Booker and
Walter Scott prizes but lost both to
Hilary Mantel's
Wolf Hall? (
Nom,
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56. On 2 August 2016:Did you know?... that
Neelabh Ashk translated
Arundhati Roy,
Salman Rushdie,
William Shakespeare,
Bertolt Brecht, and
Mikhail Lermontov into Hindi? (
Nom,
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57. On 24 August 2016:Did you know?... that in
Hindu mythology, the demon
Kalanemi who was killed by
Vishnu, was reborn as
Kamsa to be eventually killed by Vishnu's reincarnation
Krishna? (
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58. On 29 August 2016:Did you know?... that exhibits in the
Sudha Cars Museum have found their way onto
Ripley's Believe It or Not!? (
Nom,
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59. On 4 September 2016:Did you know?... that
Kalikho Pul, former Chief Minister of the Indian state of
Arunachal Pradesh, once earned a living selling
paans, making bamboo fences and
thatched houses, and working as a
watchman? (
Nom,
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60. On 5 September 2016:Did you know?... that as governor of
Ōita Prefecture,
Morihiko Hiramatsu initiated the
One Village One Product movement? (
Nom,
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61. On 9 September 2016:Did you know?... that
Kunwar Singh Negi, winner of both the
Padma Shri and
Padma Bhushan, has translated 300 books in various Indian languages into braille? (
Nom,
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62. On 27 September 2016:Did you know?... that the mercy plea of the couple sentenced to death in the
Poonia murder case was rejected by Indian President
Pranab Mukherjee? (
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63. On 5 October 2016:Did you know?... that
Ravana had promised
Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed
Hanuman? (
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64. On 4 December 2016:Did you know?... that
Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist
R. K. Laxman? (
Nom,
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65. On 16 January 2017:Did you know?... that the
Rifa-e-Aam Club in
Lucknow was open to everybody at a time when British clubs excluded Indians? (
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66-68. On 7 February 2017:Did you know?... that the
Neurological Society of India was founded in 1951 by
Jacob Chandy,
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi,
S. T. Narasimhan, and
Baldev Singh, pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India? (
Nom,
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stats check STN,
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69. On 11 February 2017:Did you know?... that following the tradition of Urdu poets,
Bollywood lyricist
Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from
his birthplace, and his family also adopted it? (
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70-72. On 18 February 2017:Did you know?... that out of thirteen elections held in the
Gundlupet Vidhan Sabha constituency, in the south-Indian state of
Karnataka, seven have been won by
K. S. Nagarathanamma and five by
H. S. Mahadeva Prasad? (
Nom,
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73. On 23 February 2017:Did you know?... that author
Bano Qudsia has been conferred with the
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) and the
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the Government of Pakistan? (
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74. On 19 March 2017:Did you know?... that the 2015 film
Ringan, set against the backdrop of
farmers' suicides in India, won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi? (
Nom,
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75-85. On 20 June 2017:Did you know?... that the
National Film Awards in various categories have been presented to the films
Doghi (
Other Social Issues),
Vastupurush (
Best Feature Film in Marathi),
Devrai (
Environment Conservation/Preservation),
Samhita (
Best Music Direction),
Astu (
Best Dialogue) and
Kaasav (
Best Feature Film), all by filmmaker duo
Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar? (
Nom)
86. On 16 July 2019:Did you know?... that during its
2019 election campaign, the
Indian National Congress promised to abolish the
sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013? (
Nom,
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87. On 31 July 2019:Did you know?... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the
Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the
Big Bull after the market crashed? (
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88. On 1 August 2019:Did you know?... that
Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell
methanol as cooking fuel? (
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89. On 19 August 2019:Did you know?... that
Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses
GPS to track its vehicles transporting
ammonium nitrate, as that chemical has been used by
naxalites to create the explosive
ANFO? (
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90. On 14 September 2019:Did you know?... that the novel
Ducks, Newburyport by
Lucy Ellmann uses
stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages? (
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91. On 15 September 2019:Did you know?... that
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians
Maneka Gandhi and
Santosh Gangwar, current members of the
17th Lok Sabha, have been elected to the
Indian lower house for the eighth time? (
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92. On 1 October 2019:Did you know?... that the novel
The Ten Thousand Things, earlier rejected by 44 publishers, won the
Walter Scott Prize?? (
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93. On 9 November 2019:Did you know?... that for his
narrative poetry novel
The Long Take,
Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the
Walter Scott Prize? (
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94. On 12 April 2021:Did you know?... that
Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film
Salaam-e-Ishq? (
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95. On 16 May 2021:Did you know?... that the creators of the Indian web series
His Storyy changed the ending because of
prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country? (
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96. On 6 June 2021:Did you know?... that due to
COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors
Mrinal Dutt and
Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices? (
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97. On 5 December 2022:Did you know?... that
Neha Pendse, the lead actress of the Marathi film
June, contributed some of her own money towards its production? (
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