VII Things We Learnt Last Week
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  • Britain’s PM hopeful Boris Johnson’s mother-in-law Dip Singh was Sikh
  • Building a Mumbai warehouse costs one-fourth of its value; it’s less than 2 per cent in rich countries
  • The length of the railway platform in UP’s Gorakhpur is 1,366.33 metres
  • “Google Stone” is the weight employees of the search-engine company gain by eating in their cafeterias
  • Two planes were needed to transport the world’s largest carpet (60,546 sq ft) to the Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi
  • According to the Russians, Netflix is a CIA plot
  • Misbah-ul-Haq played 19 matches for Khan Research Labs, founded by the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, A.Q. Khan

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta, Satyadeep and Alka Gupta

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