The world’s most expensive food item is rare albino white caviar, laced with 22-carat gold, which costs Rs 70 lakh per kilo A vegetarian ‘thali’ in the Parliament canteen costs Rs 29 (if you do not bother to tip the overworked waiters) It costs Rs 50,000 to be a Trinamool Congress life member; BJP charges nothing, Congress Rs 5, DMK and TDP Rs 100 Most of the world’s fastest runners originate from a single tribe in Kenya called the Kalenjins Indian cuisine is complex because of “negative pairing” of dissimilar flavours like, say, tamarind and jaggery, unlike western food The Vatican has described cosmetic surgery as “a burqa made of flesh”” It costs the UK £1,000 a day (Rs 94,000) to keep WikiLeaks head Julian Assange cooped up in the Ecuador embassy