 ..

that although the yacare caiman (pictured) was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to
hunting, its current population in the Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?
 ... that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and
the gut?
 ... that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long
career—only three days before it was itself sunk?
 ... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the
2018 Time Person of the Year?
 ... that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art:
How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid
racial stereotypes?
 ... that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II, and written about
those of King Henry VIII?
 ... that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw
one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912
presidential campaign?
 ... that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster?