- PM Modi used the “Team India” phrase 35 times in his 86-minute Independence Day address
- The flagship store of the Nalli silk and sari brand in Chennai is spread over 1.5 acres
- French emperor Louis XIV introduced little tickets (like ‘stay off the grass’) to be planted around his palace at Versailles to ensure discipline
- The Tirupati ‘laddoo’, 250 crore pieces of which are sold every year, is now 300 years old
- Besides being a much-reviled investigator of ‘the birds and the bees’, Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist who catalogued America’s butterflies
- 5.48 am is the best time for sex, as testosterone levels in men and women are at the highest then (say Italian scientists)
- Number of phone booths in India plunged from 50 lakh to just 5.7 lakh in the last six years
