VII Things We Learnt Last Week

• In his four-decade-long career, Mohammed Rafi provided the playback to 5,063 songs in several languages

• In Muzaffarnagar, BJP’s voteshare rose from 26% in the 2012 assembly byelections to 62% in the 2014 general elections

• Narendra Modi spent Rs 77 crore on chartered flights abroad in his first six months in office

• During World War I, the British army tried to train seagulls to poo on the periscopes of enemy sub­marines

• The German automaker Audi first launched left-hand drive cars

• WhatsApp is used by more than a billion users across the world every month

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta,  Alka Gupta and Ashish Bagchi