PM Modi used the “Team India” phrase 35 times in his 86-minute Independence Day address The flagship store of the Nalli silk and sari brand in Chennai is spread over 1.5 acres French emperor Louis XIV introduced little tickets (like ‘stay off the grass’) to be planted around his palace at Versailles to ensure discipline The Tirupati ‘laddoo’, 250 crore pieces of which are sold every year, is now 300 years old Besides being a much-reviled investigator of ‘the birds and the bees’, Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist who catalogued America’s butterflies 5.48 am is the best time for sex, as testosterone levels in men and women are at the highest then (say Italian scientists) Number of phone booths in India plunged from 50 lakh to just 5.7 lakh in the last six years