User:Bill william compton/DYK

... that Dear Friend Hitler, an Indian film, centres on letters written from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler?
... that Qatar sent only male athletes to the inaugural Asian Para Games?
... that India's national badminton team reached the quarterfinals at the 2011 Sudirman Cup despite winning just one match?
... that in the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, Mayookha Johny became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
... that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor (India), winning two awards?
... that East Timor made its debut in the Asian Games in 2002, just after four months of its declaration of independence?
... that England ranked first in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table?
... that Ifeany Otounye of the Turks and Caicos Islands set a new national record for long jump in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games?
... that Heamasi Sekona of Tonga won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight class of boxing in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games without winning a single bout?
... that Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban government in the midst of ongoing war?
... that a female taekwondo fighter, who wore a headscarf under her helmet, won the sole medal for Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games after the fall of the Taliban?
... that Malaysia won all but one gold medal at the badminton events of the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games?
... that Monmouth Town Council (town hall pictured) was created because of a monopoly on trade?
... that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games?

DYK hooks with more than one article

... that Dominica, Barbados, Solomon Islands, and Saint Kitts and Nevis were among ten nations that only won one bronze medal in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games?
... that Afghanistan, Burma, India, Pakistan, and Philippines were the first five members of the Asian Games Federation?
... that North Korea competed in an international sporting event hosted by South Korea for the first time in 2002?