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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

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VII Things We Learnt Last Week
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  • News of Napoleon’s defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 took three days to reach London
  • Tata Motors has a cemetery for ‘canine staff’ in Jamshedpur, to keep alive the memory of dogs who died guarding its premises
  • 2,795: Greece’s per capita ann­ual ciggie consumption; for India: 97
  • 25% of the world’s poorest (440 mn) live in eight Indian states
  • Indian emigrants filed over 25,000 scientific/technical patents in a five-year period starting ’07; Chinese did about 35,000
  • Only 2.4% of those who bought the Kindle version of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century read it through to the end; Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: 6.6%

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  • The Swedish association for sexuality education has come up with a new word for female masturbation: Klittra
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