- Leonardo da Vinci delayed finishing the Mona Lisa for, wait for it, 16 long years
- Dog bites have killed more people (429) in the past 20 years in Mumbai than the 1993 and 2008 terror attacks put together (421)
- Blankets supplied by the railways on trains are washed only once in one or two months
- The ‘Bhagwad Gita’ lists 39 key attributes of a siddh bhakt (accomplished devotee)
- Poke, pronounced poh-kay, is the new raw fish craze from Hawaii, but without the bother of sushi
- The iPhone’s battery life is not prolonged by closing unused apps (says CEO Tim Cook)
- A kilo of cocaine costs $385 (Rs 26,000) at the point of origin, but $122,000 (Rs 82 lakh) at the point of retail
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Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta