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We have been running quite a few threads of varying length. Since we tweet some standalone quiz questions or facts as well, we decided to club those threads together under another tweet. You will find all of them under this tweet.

#IndiaGyanKaBhandar

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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was born on this day in 1838. He served as an official observer during the American Civil War. Although zeppelins have been out of fashion, his surname shall live on, thanks to the British rock group Led Zeppelin who derives from his airship.

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The latest season of #StrangerThings is also #1 in as many as 91 countries. Have you watched it yet?

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The 2022 edition of the Tour de France actually started in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, on 1 July and will end with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris on 24 July.

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The colonial mingling of Lord Jagannath with a powerful force is possibly a result of oriental mysticism. In English, the word 'juggernaut' is often used in the negative. Mark Twain, who famously visited India, had something different to say.

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One fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid, a type of omega-3 fat is now a mandatory ingredient in the European Union.

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The most recent edition has 20 volumes.

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One of the most-loved music composers in Bollywood, RD Burman was born on this day in 1939.

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The greatest of all time was born on 24 June 1987. Have a good one, Leo.

#LionelMessi

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Perhaps the earliest instance of an Olympian making a name for himself in Hollywood, Norman Pritchard was born on this day in Calcutta.

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Amrish Puri was born on June 22nd, 1932.

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More than 20,000 foreigners travelled to North Korea for the event. KK performed many songs sung by another KK (Kishore Kumar) in North Korea.
Photo credit: Nikhil Alva/Indian Express

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Recently, Disney/Star won the TV rights and Reliance's Viacom18 won the digital rights to IPL for the next five years.

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On this day in 1967, Jürgen Norbert Klopp was born in Stuttgart, Germany. Here's wishing a very happy birthday to one of the finest managers of our time.

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The term 'black box' is a misnomer.

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On this day in 1892, Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and had his moment under the sun across the Atlantic.

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Peter Dinklage was born on this day in 1969. Although he appeared in multiple films, he received global acclaim for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones.

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Eugene Parker was born in the year Charles Lindbergh did his historic transatlantic flight. He lived long enough to see the James Webb Space Telescope launched to space. Today, i.e. June 10, is his birthday.

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#SantiagoBernabeu was born #onthisday in 1895.

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Orhan Pamuk, the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on this day in 1952.

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#OnThisDay in 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose sent his quantum formulations to Albert Einstein. The latter recognized it as a significant discovery in quantum mechanics. He translated Bose’s paper into German and published it in Zeitschrift fur Physik.