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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

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VII Things We Learnt Last Week
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  • Subramanian Swamy helped secure ‘Veer Bhoomi’ for Rajiv Gandhi’s cremation and memorial in Delhi
  • The Panchayati Raj ministry’s budget allocation is down from Rs 7,000 crore per annum to Rs 96 crore
  • India and Sri Lanka may be big on tea, but it’s the Pakistan national emblem that has a tea plant
  • There is gold in the urine of Gir cows, says a Junagadh Agricultural University paper
  • Jacob Richter was Lenin’s pseudonym at the British Museum, where Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital
  • Gwyneth Palt­row lets her kids watch TV only in French or Spa­nish
  • Scarlett Johan­sson, 31, is the highest grossing Hollywood actress of all time

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Compiled by Uttam Sengupta, Alka Gupta and Satyadeep

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