History

The last viceroy (and governor-general) of (British) India was Mountbatten. The first governor-general (but not viceroy) of (Union of) India was also Mountbatten while the last was C. Rajagopalachari.

Adam Lanza, the man who murdered 20 children and 7 adults in Sandy Hook, Newton, Connecticut, lived at 36, Yogananda Street.

天竺, pronounced Tianzhu in Chinese and Tenjiku in Japanese were the early names for India in China and Japan respectively. They both mean heavenly centre (or spiritual centre in reference to India being the birthplace of Buddhism).

The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British.

The longest speech ever given to the UN was delivered in 1957 by V.K. Krishna Menon, who filibustered for nearly eight hours while defending India's position on Kashmir.

W.C. Fields wrote the screenplay for the movie, "The Bank Dick" under the pseudonym, Mahatma Kane Jeeves ("My hat, my cane, Jeeves!").

The word stepney is still used to refer to a spare tyre only in our part of the world. Stepneys are named after a street of the same name in Llanelli, Wales where they were manufactured in the early 1900s.