VII Things We Learnt Last Week

• Dog bites have killed more people (429) in the past 20 years in Mumbai than the 1993 and 2008 terror attacks put together (421)

• Blankets supplied by the railways on trains are washed only once in one or two months
• The ‘Bhagwad Gita’ lists 39 key attributes of a siddh bhakt (accomplished devotee)

• Poke, pronounced poh-kay, is the new raw fish craze from Hawaii, but without the bother of sushi

• The iPhone’s battery life is not prolonged by closing unused apps (says CEO Tim Cook)

• A kilo of cocaine costs $385 (Rs 26,000) at the point of origin, but $122,000 (Rs 82 lakh) at the point of retail

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta