VII Things We Learnt Last Week

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VII Things We Learnt Last Week
  • In the years leading up to his death, Nelson Mandela couldn’t identify Brad Pitt and asked him what he did for a living
  • The district of Rewari in Haryana has the country’s lowest gender ratio, with 674 females for every 1,000 males, drastically down from 797 per 1,000 three years ago
  • Outgoing Infosys CEO Shibulal is now a realty man. His family owns 700 flats in the Seattle area and are making new buys in Berlin and Frankfurt.
  • Wat Pho was the name of the monastery where the Buddha lived in India
  • By the year 2029, web surfers will be able to flirt and joke with their search engines, according to Google’s director of engineering
  • Dadi Balsara, whose mineral water company was acquired by the Tatas and turned into Himalayan, stayed at the Taj Mansingh Hotel in Delhi for 36 years in Room 901
  • 7.3 is the number people most cite, on a scale of 0-10, when asked how happy they were the day before

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