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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

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VII Things We Learnt Last Week
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  • Edwin Aldrin filed a travel bill of $33.71 for the 21-day, 3,84,400-km trip to the moon
  • MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was a fast bowler in univers­ity cricket for Andhra Pradesh
  • Michael Caine, born Mau­rice Micklewhite, changed his name after seeing a poster of the Humphrey Bogart starrer Caine Mutiny
  • The Parsis have seen a 22 per cent fall in population since 2001 and now there are just 57,264 of them
  • Rahul Gandhi has spoken just nine times in the Lok Sabha in the past two years
  • Donald Trump says he trusts wife Melania to take birth control every day
  • The West Indian batsman Andy Ganteaume had an average of 112, which was higher than Sir Don Bradman’s 99.94, but he played only one Test

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Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta

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