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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

  • Michael Phelps at the Rio Olympics has broken the 2,000-year-old record of Leonidas of Rhodes, who bagged 13 gold medals in four Olympic Games
  • Ninety per cent of Indians do not own any vehicle, and yet public transport buses are just one per cent of the total number of registered vehicles
  • The monsoon session of Parliament passed 15 bills, leaving 55 pending when it was prorogued, only one less than the last session
  • UP police caught three identical dogs for former Union minister Ram Shankar Katheriya’s family to identify their missing pet dog, Kaloo.
  • Extrovert CEOs make their companies less money
  • Dog people have on average 26 more Facebook friends than cat people
  • British website ‘Illicit Enc­ounters’ claims most extramarital affairs begin at 39

Compiled By Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta

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