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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. On18 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)