VII Things We Learnt Last Week

Updated on: 7 February 2024 5:29 pm

The southern film actress, Deeksha Seth, wanted to be a marine biologist till the Miss India team spotted her at a beauty pageant
Facebook has three times more users in India than the most-watched TV show
A Japanese collector of scribbles made by customers in stationery stores says Indian buyers prefer mathematical formulas while testing out pens. The art’s called ‘tameshigaki’.
Delhi was briefly the world’s most populous city, back in the 17th century
Mexicans shout “goooooooal” (6.63 letters) the loudest on Facebook posts. Iranians are at the bottom taking just 0.18 letters. Indians don’t figure.
In The Last Magazine, the novel on Newsweek’s demise by war correspondent Michael Hastings who died last year, Fareed Zakaria is called Nishant Patel
India is playing a five-Test match series against England, in England, after a gap of 55 years