PUBLICATION NEWSLETTER #89

Did You Know…Weekly Picks! #89

Updates, stories highlights, Stats, and More!

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Hello there! Happy Monday! 👋

I hope you’re doing great and enjoying learning and sharing fun facts.

Welcome to another edition of the Did You Know… newsletter!

Glad and grateful once again to have the opportunity to write today’s newsletter for the wonderful **Did You Know…** publication as an editor.

It is always a pleasure to read your stories, appreciate your creativity, publish and share your valuable work. Keep it up! 👏🏻👏🏻

A big thank you to **Rosario Licodia **the owner of this amazing publication, for giving us a space to learn, share, smile and discover something new every day. 😆

Okay… without any further delay, let’s begin —

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

📰 News

***Dr Radha Narayanan***

[embed]Did You Know… A Police Complaint Was Filed Over Being Removed From A WhatsApp Group Oh, the agonies of being a police officer. The problems they have to deal with these days.medium.com

***Louisa Light***

[embed]Did You Know… Zinc Works Like a Miracle Master Key? It opens 300 doors — and 3000 functionsmedium.com

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… Jonathan is Older Than Your Great-Great-Great-Grandparents! His age is estimated to be 193 as of 2026, making him the oldest known living land animal!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

***Hooria Akbar***

[embed]Did You Know… There’s a word for wanting to stay in bed all day? A cozy little word that’s surprisingly relatable—but not quite what most people think.medium.com

***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

🌱 Nature

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… Sometimes Snow Turns Pink Like Watermelon! 🍉 See it. Photograph it. Brag about it. But don’t eat it! Let’s Learn…medium.com

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… This Fish Has Been Saying, “No Thanks!” to Males for 100,000 Years! No fathers. No brothers. Not even a fishy boyfriend hanging around!medium.com

***Nextgen Pest Solutions***

[embed]Did You Know… Your Brain Is Programmed to Notice Snakes Faster Than Flowers? Picture this: you’re walking a trail and your eyes snap to a curved shape on the ground before your brain has even…medium.com

***Santhoshivalli G S***

[embed]Did You Know… There’s a Metal that Melts When You Touch It Gallium Looks Solid — Until Your Hand Warms Itmedium.com

***Calvin London***

[embed]Did You Know…Koalas Have the Same Fingerprints as Humans The Koala did it, not me!medium.com

💡 Inventions

***Jasmine Aguilar***

[embed]Did You Know … The First Computer Bug was a Real Moth? This wasn’t your typical computer bug!medium.com

***Jasmine Aguilar***

[embed]Did You Know … Samsung Once Started as a Grocery Store? From a humble grocery store to one of the most recognizable tech industries todaymedium.com

***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

***FutureLens***

[embed]Did You Know…You Can Build a REST API Without Writing Most of the Code? I Built a REST API Without Writing Most of the Codemedium.com

***Pen & Page***

[embed]Did You Know … The Internet Is Obsessed With Bread That Changes Color Like Magic? The Most Viral Food of 2026 Is “Cloud Bread” That Changes Color With Your Moodmedium.com

🌍 Culture

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… A Funeral Where Nature Is the Guest of Honor! Instead of burying or cremating the body, it is carefully placed on a mountain. There, vultures eat the body. Let’s…medium.com

***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

📖 Records

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… The World’s Tiniest Cow Was Smaller Than Many Dogs! She stood only 20 inches (51 cm) tall and weighed about 57 pounds (26 kg).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

***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

🎬 Movies

***Ravinimbus***

[embed]Did You Know… India’s New Movie Money King! His earnings from just one movie is enough to buy several luxury mansions, a small private jet, or enough popcorn to…medium.com

***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

P.S.: Older stories may also be considered when the current week has fewer submissions on that topic.

Here are this week’s Top 5! 👏🏻👏🏻

🥇 First place Pen & Page 🏆

[embed]Did You Know … The Internet Is Obsessed With Bread That Changes Color Like Magic? The Most Viral Food of 2026 Is “Cloud Bread” That Changes Color With Your Moodmedium.com

🥈 Second place Ravinimbus

[embed]Did You Know… India’s New Movie Money King! His earnings from just one movie is enough to buy several luxury mansions, a small private jet, or enough popcorn to…medium.com

🥉 Third place Jasmine Aguilar

[embed]Did You Know … Samsung Once Started as a Grocery Store? From a humble grocery store to one of the most recognizable tech industries todaymedium.com

🏅 4th place Dr Radha Narayanan

[embed]Did You Know… A Police Complaint Was Filed Over Being Removed From A WhatsApp Group Oh, the agonies of being a police officer. The problems they have to deal with these days.medium.com

🏅 Fifth place FutureLens

[embed]Did You Know…You Can Build a REST API Without Writing Most of the Code? I Built a REST API Without Writing Most of the Codemedium.com

Weekly Featured Story 🎖️🏆

The article that will be featured this week is by Nextgen Pest Solutions

It’s fascinating how our brain notices snakes faster than many other things because of evolution, our quick fear response is not always panic, sometimes it’s an old survival system still protecting us.

Nature has shaped our vision and instincts in such interesting ways.

[embed]Did You Know… Your Brain Is Programmed to Notice Snakes Faster Than Flowers? Picture this: you’re walking a trail and your eyes snap to a curved shape on the ground before your brain has even…medium.com

Congratulations Nextgen Pest Solutions 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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 more than 300 writers, which is amazing! 🥳

I’d like to remind everyone how 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 we 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 we won’t be able to see it, meaning it won’t be considered for the Weekly Picks.

Although we usually add missing tags to your stories, it’s safer to include them before submitting your article, as we have many submissions to publish.

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, you can write like this —

Screenshot by the Author showing the tag page

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

New Members

A warm welcome to the newly added writers!

Tibetan Exploration and Word Bloom 🌷

Welcome to the family! 🤗

A special thank you goes to Rosario Licodia and our amazing editorial team ❤️

***Ravinimbus, Ajay Deewan, Jasmine Aguilar, Smriti Pathak 😁***

What more can we say…?

Thank you so much for the amazing community we’re building together! 🤗

Keep writing amazing facts and keep sharing your curiosity…😆

Feel free to join us 🔽

[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