VII Things We Learnt Last Week

VII Things We Learnt Last Week
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  • India’s only pro sumo wrestler Hetal Dave is vegetarian
  • FB received 40,000 questions for Narendra Modi; Mark Zuckerberg asked three of them
  • A 20-year forecasting study at Wharton School of Business has found that the average expert is “roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee”
  • 1,200 farmers have committed suicide, 59,000 have attempted it, since the NDA came to power (says Tripura CM Manik Sarkar)
  • Over half the 12,500 acres of forests that covered Bangalore have given way to apartments, commercial complexes
  • Sir Ben Kingsley wasn’t Atten­borough’s first choice to play Gandhi. Offer had gone to Alb­ert Finney and Alec Guinness, both of whom turned it down
  • Ultimate Hollywood insider, author Jackie Collins, had  39” breasts, says The Economist
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