PUBLICATION NEWSLETTER #88

Did You Know…Weekly Picks! #88

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My name is Jasmine and I’m one of the editors for the Did You Know? pub and I am excited for the opportunity to provide you with some fun, thought provoking and almost unbelievable facts via this week’s newsletter. 😀

Thank you so much for your support and I hope you learn something new!

Weekly Picks

We’ve had so many great submissions this week — keep it up! I’m learning so much and loving it! 😎

Here are some highlights from stories published last week!

📰 News

Louisa Light

[embed]Did You Know… Why Some Companies Prefer People Who Already Went Bankrupt This is why.medium.com

Dr Radha Narayanan

[embed]Did You Know… Doctors Found 24 Contact Lenses Hiding Inside A Woman’s Eye? A routine eye check turned into one of the strangest medical discoveries in recent memory.medium.com

Pen & Page

[embed]Did You Know…A Robot in Japan Was Fired for Telling the Truth? The world’s most honest employee worked at a hotel in Japan—until management realized honesty wasn’t enough.medium.com

🌌 Space

ShubhamAgrawal

[embed]Did You Know… Wood is the rarest material in the Universe! The most ordinary thing on Earth may be one of the most extraordinary things in space.medium.com

Sophia Chanu

[embed]Did You Know — A Young Manipuri Scientist Discovered a New Galaxy and Named It After Manipur’s… 12.6 billion-year-old city of galaxies discoveredmedium.com

Hooria Akbar

[embed]Did You Know… The Center of the Earth Is Only 19 Minutes Away? A journey that sounds impossible but is surprisingly short.medium.com

👥 People

Melviya

[embed]Did You Know … Your Brain Builds Sentences Before You Speak? Let’s find out how!medium.com

Dr. Deepika Bandaru

[embed]Did You Know …You Can’t Sneeze in Your Sleep? When Your Brain Puts Sneezing on Pausemedium.com

Calvin London

[embed]Did You Know…Everyone with Blue Eyes is Related Blame it on mutationsmedium.com

🌱 Nature

Calvin London

[embed]Did You Know…The World’s Largest Banana Grows in New Guinea Quite a mouthful!medium.com

@inspired.writer

[embed]Did You Know…Mount Everest Isn’t Actually The Tallest Mountain On Earth? An astonishingly important geography lesson your school textbook left out.medium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… Chimpanzees🐵Have Their Own “Rock Concerts”! Scientists still don’t know for sure! The chimps aren’t looking for food. They simply pick up rocks and hurl them at…medium.com

💡 Inventions

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… Cities Might Soon Have Self-Driving Beehives! 🐝 It looks a bit like a cute mini camper van, but instead of carrying tourists, it carries thousands of bees!medium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… This Tiny Robot Is Smaller Than a Peanut… But It Can Do Surgery! The most surprising part is that this robot has no battery, no wires, and no onboard electronics!medium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… our Pen Exists Because Someone Was Tired of Messy Writing! A small irritation… plus a curious mind… can create an invention used by billions of people!medium.com

🌍 Culture

Balaji Athimoolam

[embed]Did You Know…Tamil Has Unique Words for Seven Generations? A Punjabi taught me the wordsmedium.com

Smriti Pathak

[embed]Did You Know…Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket? A Small Pocket, A Big Historymedium.com

Manmeet Singh Bhatia

[embed]Did You Know … A Prison Full of Dangerous Criminals Was Transformed by 300 Stray Cats? In Santiago’s most overcrowded prison, felines quietly did what decades of punishment could not.medium.com

📖 Records

Calvin London

[embed]Did You Know … It Would Take 9 Years to Visit All of Australia’s Beaches? And a lot of walking!medium.com

Jasmine Aguilar

[embed]Did You Know … The Oldest Living Tree is Over 4,000 Years Old? Imagine the stories it would tell us!medium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… The Longest Continuous Vocal Note Is 2 Min 1.07 Sec Most of us run out of breath after blowing birthday candles 😂 but, he did this miracle!medium.com

🎬 Movies

Francis B.

[embed]Did You Know… One Of The Best Songs By A Punk-Rock Band Isn’t That Punk”? It ain't a British jig and reel, it’s Roots-Rock papa, papa-sanmedium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… Nicolas Cage Once Bought a Pet Octopus Because He Believed It Would Improve His… Nicolas even said he loved lying in bed and watching his aquariums because they helped him relax!medium.com

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know…“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Was Almost TOO Scary For The World! He narrated the opening lines of the movie and later revealed he was paid with marijuana instead of money!medium.com

P.S.: You may find stories from previous weeks if there haven’t been enough submissions for that topic in the current week.

Here’s the top five of the week 🥳🥳🥳

🏆 First place

Smriti Pathak

[embed]Did You Know…Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket? A Small Pocket, A Big Historymedium.com

🥈 Second place

Calvin London

[embed]Did You Know…Everyone with Blue Eyes is Related Blame it on mutationsmedium.com

🥉 Third place

Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… Cities Might Soon Have Self-Driving Beehives! 🐝 It looks a bit like a cute mini camper van, but instead of carrying tourists, it carries thousands of bees!medium.com

🏅 4th place

Balaji Athimoolam

[embed]Did You Know…Tamil Has Unique Words for Seven Generations? A Punjabi taught me the wordsmedium.com

🏅 Fifth place

Melviya

[embed]Did You Know … Your Brain Builds Sentences Before You Speak? Let’s find out how!medium.com

Weekly Featured Story 🏆

The article that will be featured this week is by ShubhamAgrawal 🥳🥳🥳

We think of gems like diamonds to be extremely valuable. We even put a high price on such gems. However, there is a material that is the rarest in our universe. Far rarer than diamonds and it’s all around us on our planet Earth!

[embed]Did You Know… Wood is the rarest material in the Universe! The most ordinary thing on Earth may be one of the most extraordinary things in space.medium.com

Congratulations ShubhamAgrawal!

This featured story, together with the top 5 will be sent directly via email to all our subscribers on Substack to increase the visibility of the authors and the publication.

Total Reads 🚀

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Tags Reminder

As we now have almost 300 writers (that’s amazing! 🥳), I’d like to remind everyone how the tags work.

The publication is divided into the following subtopics:

Space, Records, People, Culture, Inventions, Nature, Movies, News

Each of these topics is linked to a separate page, where I select the Weekly Picks for each category. If you don’t add the appropriate tag, your article won’t appear in the right section, and I won’t have visibility over it — meaning it won’t be considered for the Weekly Picks.

Although I usually add missing tags myself, it’s safer to include them before submitting your article.

You must use at least two tags, formatted as follows:

1. The name of the pub in short, “Did You know”
2. The topic you write about (Space, Records, People, Culture, Inventions, Nature, Movies, News).

For example:

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The other three tags are up to you. If you’re unsure what to include, I recommend choosing from these popular tags:

1. Short Stories: 248K
2. Science: 231K
3. Short Form: 26K

I typically suggest including Science, as most topics (except for Movies) are closely related to it.

New Members

A warm welcome to the newly added writers!

Turtie, Sudeshna Hajra

Welcome to the family! 🤗

A huge thank you goes to Rosario Licodia and all the editors

Without them and its writers, this publication wouldn’t be possible!

Smriti Pathak, Ravinimbus, Ajay Deewan, Jasmine Aguilar

What more can I say? Thank you so much for the amazing community we‘re building! 🤗

[embed]Write For Us! — Did You Know…Short Fun Facts Submission Guidelines!medium.com

[embed]List: Newsletter | Curated by Rosario Licodia | Medium Newsletter · Cash Writing Contests, Weekly Picks, Updates, and Stats for the Publication Did You Know... Short Fun…medium.com