- Suresh Raina played 143 IPL matches in all nine seasons without a break till fatherhood gave him a break
- Ahmed Patel earned his first rupees by selling vegetables he carried from his village to the market in Ankleshwar
- Google India chief Rajan Anandan’s father Kumaran has swum the 53-km Palk Strait dividing India and Sri Lanka
- V.S. Achuthanandan is the only one of the 32 who split from the CPI to form the CPI(M) still alive
- Before he got on to natural history, Sir David Attenborough was the brain behind televising snooker
- The GDP of Philippines in 1960 was higher than that of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand
- Lady Gaga has 19 species of an entire genus of ferns named after her
Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta
