VII Things We Learnt Last Week

• India’s largest fish consuming state, Kerala, has a market worth Rs 12,000 crore per annum

• There was a 82 per cent rise in sexual offences against women in a 12-year period in Gujarat from 2002

• Assam BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma has filed defamation cases worth Rs 300 crore against chief minister Tarun Gogoi

• 41 people—19 from CPI(M) and 17 from RSS, have been killed in clashes in Kannur district in Kerala

• The Siddhivinayak temple has about 160 kilograms of gold in its reserves

• Engagement rings were rare before Cecil Rhodes took over DeB­eers and made a marketing success out of diamonds

• Adolf Hitler suffered from “right-side cryptorchidism” and had a micro-penis with an undescended testicle

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta, Alka Gupta and Meetu Jain