- Canada’s new PM Justin Trudeau once did a strip tease to raise money for research for liver disease
- The village of Pakistan, 35 km from Purnea in Bihar, has no Muslim residents
- Modi addressed 30 rallies, Nitish 220 and Laloo 242 during Bihar’s electioneering
- A brisk 30-minute walk five days a week is the most effective exercise to keep weight down, says research
- Hi-tech company Tesla got its name from a unit for measuring density of magnetic flux
- The middle finger, as a gesture of insult, went up first in 4th century Athens when philosopher Diogenes was asked his opinion of orator Demosthenes
- FB’s Mark Zuckerberg wears the same clothes (T-shirt, jeans) combo every day to avoid wasting time
Compiled by Uttam sengupta, Alka Gupta and Ashish Bagchi
