- The world’s most expensive food item is rare albino white caviar, laced with 22-carat gold, which costs Rs 70 lakh per kilo
- A vegetarian ‘thali’ in the Parliament canteen costs Rs 29 (if you do not bother to tip the overworked waiters)
- It costs Rs 50,000 to be a Trinamool Congress life member; BJP charges nothing, Congress Rs 5, DMK and TDP Rs 100
- Most of the world’s fastest runners originate from a single tribe in Kenya called the Kalenjins
- Indian cuisine is complex because of “negative pairing” of dissimilar flavours like, say, tamarind and jaggery, unlike western food
- The Vatican has described cosmetic surgery as “a burqa made of flesh””
- It costs the UK £1,000 a day (Rs 94,000) to keep WikiLeaks head Julian Assange cooped up in the Ecuador embassy
