VII Things We Learnt Last Week

• Since 1992, “Evergreen” has been the Secret Service’s codename for Hillary Clinton

• 19 people have died while taking selfies in India since 2014, the highest casualty figure in the world

• Michelangelo painted all those classics despite arthritis in his hands

• R.K. Pachauri has taken 650 wickets in cricket; poor Anil Kumble only has 611

• It will take 320 years for all the pending court cases in India to be resolved

• Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was christened by Rabindranath Tagore

• The Egypian wrestler Nicantinous was involved in the first recorded incidence of match-fixing, in AD 267

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta