that Sri Lanka's ancient tank cascade system of irrigation reservoirs creates habitats for the island's elephants (examples pictured) ? that after Billie Eilish wrote the song " Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay? that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death? that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead? that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"? that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match? that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive, authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers? that Sir John Anderson (pictured) was described as the "world's most-shot-at-man" in 1935, after surviving three assassination attempts? that an early version of the turn-based game Legends could take three to ten years to complete? that Assyrian Christian couples drink dust from the tombs of martyrs and are crowned during their weddings? that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses? that In Win Development designed a computer case that can be opened with a smartphone app? that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947? that Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency tumbler, was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury? that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies? that since 1976 there have been no additions to, but two removals from, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (pictured)? that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church? that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11? National Firefighter Registry will match state cancer data with voluntarily collected work history data from firefighters? that Royston Brooks was the last European to serve as the Commanding Officer of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1988 to 1990? that the Piedmont Hotel hosted a former, a current, and a future U.S. that Iraqi poet Kazim al-Samawi spent more than half his life in political exile and was called "The Sheikh of the Exiles"? that birders in New York City have recorded over 400 species? that George Balanchine said Allegro Brillante (dancers pictured) "contains everything I knew about classical ballet – in thirteen minutes"? Kansas City Ballet dancers in Allegro Brillante
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