Which are lesser known facts of Yuzi Chahal?

 Yuzvendra Chahal, who represents Haryana in Ranji Trophy, is the only player to represent India in chess and cricket. In fact, his name is listed in World Chess Federation’s official site.

He first played in the IPL for Mumbai Indians in 2011. Harbhajan Singh was the team’s main spinner then, but Chahal claimed 2 for 9 in Mumbai's Champions League T20 victory the same year

He was the second-highest wicket-taker in the 2016 IPL season, representing Royal Challengers Bangalore. He finished with a handsome haul of 21 wickets as RCB reached the final of the competition.

He was man of the match in his very second ODI, claiming three for 25 runs against Zimbabwe at Harare in June 2016 as India won by eight wickets. The game is remembered for Chahal bowling a seam-up delivery at 109 km/h.

In the third T20 against England on February 1, 2017, he became the first Indian bowler to claim a five-wicket haul in T20 internationals.

What are some lesser-known facts about movie stars?

 Here are some lesser-known facts about some of our beloved movie stars -

• Nicolas Cage received $20 million in 1998 for his role as Superman in Tim Burton's Superman Lives - but that film was never made.

• Jim Carrey was Disney's first choice for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow. Unfortunately, production on Pirates of the Caribbean and Bruce Almighty was taking place at the same time.

• Before playing Katniss in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence was the voice actress for Bella in Twilight.

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• Robert Downey Jr. was once arrested after driving naked in his Porsche and carrying cocaine, heroin and a .357 Magnum.

• At the age of 37, Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman he had always thought was his sister was actually his mother.

What are some lesser known facts about the Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit?

 Bollywood’s timeless beauty Madhuri Dixit celebrates her 47th birthday today, May 15. As we wish her a wonderful year ahead, we bring you some of the lesser-known facts about this extraordinary onscreen talent.

1) Madhuri Dixit was paid a salary of Rs. 27,535,729 for her role in ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ opposite Salman Khan.

2) Madhuri Dixit is said to be the only actress in Bollywood to have nominated 13 times for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

3) Madhuri Dixit had no interest in joining films initially. She received a degree in Microbiology and wanted to become a microbiologist or a pathologist.

4) Famous Indian painter M.F Husain was so mesmerized by Madhuri Dixit’s beauty that he watched her blockbuster ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ 67 times. He also booked an entire theatre for her comeback flick, ‘Aaja Nachle’.

5) In early 2011, Madhuri declined the lead role in a Bollywood remake of ‘Freaky Friday’ which was to be helmed by former co-star Anil Kapoor and starring his daughter Sonam Kapoor.

6) In the song ‘Kahe Chedd Mohe’, Madhuri Dixit’s costume weighed 30 kilograms. She had some problems with the dance choreography because of this, but she eventually completed it.

7) Madhuri Dixit has two elder sisters, Rupa and Bharati, and an elder brother, Ajit.

8) Madhuri Dixit is an accomplished Kathak dancer and is trained in the dance for eight years.

9) Madhuri is the only heroine of her era who got choreographed by Kathak guru, Pandit Birju Maharaj for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Devdas’. She was thrilled when Pandit Birju Maharaj said that she is the best Bollywood dancer.

10) It’s no secret that Madhuri undoubtedly has a lot of fans all over the world. One of her beloved fans from Jamshedpur has even launched a calendar where the year begins with Madhuri’s birthday. He has even appealed to the government to declare Madhuri’s birthday as a public holiday.

What are some lesser known facts about Indian cricketers?

 We all would remember the below incident that happened in 2013 during the RCB vs KKR match very well, but….

But, do you know once Gautam Gambhir gave his Man of the Match to Virat Kohli?

That was during the 4th match of 5 ODIs when Sri Lanka toured India in 2009. Sri Lanka posted a huge target of 316 to win after Indian stand-in captain Virender Sehwag lost the toss and was asked to bowl first.

The openers Sehwag and Sachin failed to make a hefty opening partnership and India was stuttering at 23 for 2 wickets in 4 overs. Then, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli steadied the ship by making a huge partnership of 224 runs from just 214 balls. I know you would relate this with WC 2011 final, didn’t you? But here MS Dhoni wasn’t needed to finish the match (and also was not available), as Gautam Gambhir finished the match in style with a boundary.

Virat Kohli got out after a well- deserved maiden century and Gautam Gambhir was unbeaten on 150 from 137 balls.

In the post match ceremony,

Ravi Shastri - “Gautam Gambhir is the man of the match and would receive ₹1 lakh from Sudhir Hasija, chairman of Karbonn mobiles limited”

Gautam Gambhir walks towards the chairman and says “I would like to give it to Virat Kohli”

Ravi Shastri - “Uhh? Ok. Well a gesture here by Gautam Gambhir…..He wants to give this award to Virat Kohli who’s got his first hundred in one day international. So Virat you…he can collect the phone from Sudhir Hasija, he gets the cheque, Karbonn mobile set and the MOM trophy”

If I’m right,this was his second MOM and Virat was lucky to be brought up among such selfless, encouraging cricketers like Gambhir, Sachin, Sehwag, Dhoni, Dravid, etc. We’ve seen many selfless players played/playing for our team, Gautam Gambhir is one such gem of a player. Hope this is one of the lesser known facts about Indian cricketers.

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What trivia (and/or little-known facts) do you find interesting about Brazil?

 I can think of some interesting facts about Brazil. I ended up settling on five such facts, though I know of plenty of others, too.

Brazil Fact #1: If you land on Brazil’s coastline (not counting the northern part where it runs almost east-to-west) and begin traveling inland, you won’t experience a broad coastal plain; rather, you’ll soon encounter cliffs and mountainsides. The elevation rises rapidly. It’s called the Great Escarpment.

Elevation map of Brazil. Notice how the highlands are so close to the coastline. The highlands’ eastern boundary is what they call the Great Escarpment.

Brazil Fact #2: Brazil has five different major cities named “São José” (Saint Joseph). I was using the convention that a “major city” means a city whose population exceeds 100,000. The catch is that for four of those five major cities, “São José” is only part of their name. For example, one of them is the city of São José de Ribamar. Only the one in the state of Santa Catarina is simply named “São José”.

São José dos Campos at night. It’s one of five “São José” major cities in Brazil, where “major city” means population > 100K.

Brazil Fact #3: The Amazon rainforest (most of which lies in Brazil) is home to a wealth of biodiversity. This includes a bunch of animals that I would describe as very - for lack of a better term - cool. Admittedly, this fact is already widely-known. But I can make it more specific and therefore a little more valuable. When I say “cool” animals of the Amazon, I’m thinking of scarlet macaws, jaguars, toucans, fer-de-lances, giant anteaters, harpy eagles, capybaras, spider monkeys, anacondas, tapirs, hoatzins……

Two scarlet macaws in a tree. The scarlet macaw is one of many “cool” animals that inhabit the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil Fact #4: One such Amazonian creature has a reputation that’s worse than it deserves to be. I mean the piranha, which inhabits the Amazon River in Brazil. Very few people have ever actually been killed by piranhas. If piranhas have devoured a human body, that was very likely a dead human body, such as a person who drowned. Piranhas are more like vultures and less like crocodiles. They’d rather wait until you’re dead before they start eating you.

Piranhas are far more likely to eat a human who’s already dead (e. g. drowning victims) than a human who’s still living.

Brazil Fact #5: Brazil’s national football team, a. k. a. soccer team [yeah, yeah, I know, sorry], is the only one in the world that has qualified for and participated in all 23 World Cup tournaments to date. That includes the upcoming one (2026). And apparently, part of the sport’s enormous popularity there is that it helped build a strong sense of national identity for a people who had previously been regarded as a disorganized “hodgepodge” of different peoples, with different skin colors and ethnicities. At least, that’s what I have read.

The Brazilian squad celebrates their triumph over Italy at the 1970 FIFA World Cup final. The shirtless guy being hoisted by his teammates is Brazil’s superstar player, Pelé.

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All five of the images in this answer were from Wikipedia.

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Yes, I am one of those annoying Americans who says “soccer”. Sorry. It’s just that the word “football” denotes an entirely different sport where I’m from.

I voted for Kamala Harris, okay? 😆 So at least I’m not one of those really obnoxious Americans, right? 😁

(I also voted for Joe Biden in 2020, for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and for Barack Obama in 2012. You sure won’t find me at any Trump rallies!)

What are some lesser known facts about south Indian actress Trisha?

• She stepped into the limelight early when she won the Miss Madras title at just 16 and was later a finalist in the Miss India pageant.

• She was the first South Indian actor to be named a UNICEF Celebrity Advocate for child rights

• Trisha also forayed into Hindi cinema with Khatta Meetha opposite Akshay Kumar. Her performance was well received, though the film did not do well commercially

• Her vocal stand on the jallikattu issue had once created a controversy and got her public attention and support from industry figures such as Kamal Haasan

• She also appeared in the music video of Falguni Pathak’s hit song Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye before she made her acting debut

• She’d once had a dream of being a criminal psychologist

• Often referred to as the "Queen of South India", she has received numerous accolades, including five Filmfare Awards South, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award and a Nandi .

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What are some little-known facts about JK Rowling?

 

• J.K. Rowling doesn't have a middle name. Her publishers thought the book would sell better if they didn't know the author was a woman, so they asked Joanne to use her first two initials and her last name.

So where does the K come from? Kathleen is Joanne's mother's name, so she uses that as her initial, JK, and Rowling is her maiden name.

• Another cool fact? Rowling's favorite book is the series between Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Deathly Hallows . Joanne struggled while writing Order of the Phoenix , which is the longest book.

Joanne Rowling's mother was diagnosed with MS when she was 35, and her mother died when she was just 45. Joanne Rowling loved her mother dearly and had this to say about her and her books

• You probably already know this, but I didn't know the ending. JK Rowling wanted Alan Rickman, the actor who played Severus Snape, to know the whole character (it also pushed Alan Rickman to get deeper into his character, because he didn't want to be just another cruel person, he wanted something more complex). Rowling told Rickman the meaning of the word, "Always," from the beginning.

The director himself didn't know what Snape looked like. Only the actor and Rowling did. So sometimes, when directing Rickman, the director would ask him something, and Rickman would say, "No, I can't I know what's going to happen, and you don't." Cool.

What are some little-known facts about the Titanic?

 

1. Just imagine, it took almost 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic. The image below shows the remaining debris from the Titanic wreck.

2. The Titanic was as tall as an eleven-story building and as long as almost four city blocks, making it one of the largest ships in the world.

3. Millvina Dean (1912–2009) was only a few months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family. She was the youngest victim of the accident.

4. The estimated age of the first snowflakes that formed the iceberg that the Titanic hit is 15,000 years old.

5. None of the 30 technicians on board survived. They remained on board to keep the power running as long as possible so the others could escape.

6. The Titanic carried 64 lifeboats, each capable of carrying 20 people. Most of the lifeboats were not even filled to capacity.

7. The richest passenger on the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV. His net worth was approximately $85 million, or two billion dollars today. Astor perished with the Titanic.

8. With a production cost of 200 million dollars , this film cost more than Titanic itself.

9. The Titanic's shipbuilding company, Harland and Wolff, insists that the Titanic was never touted as unsinkable as it was portrayed in the film. They claim that the 'unsinkable' myth is a result of people's interpretation of articles in The Irish News and The Shipbuilder magazine. They also claim that the myth arose after the disaster.

10. First class

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varied widely in price, ranging from $150 (about $1,700 today) for a simple bed, to $4,350 (about $50,000 today) for one of the two Parlor suites. Second class tickets were $60 (about $700), and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170-$460).

11. Hitting an iceberg wasn't the only reason the Titanic sank.

To further clarify, a 30-foot-long line mark is visible on the ship, directly in front of the coal bunker. The area where the mark is located is also the area where the ship struck the iceberg. This leads experts to believe that a fire must have damaged the area first, with the iceberg then causing further damage.

12. Jack and Rose are fictional characters, but their story was partly inspired by real Titanic passengers Henry Samuel Morley and Kate Florence Phillips.

What are some lesser-known things about Telugu actor Vijay Devarakonda?

 

• He gained massive stardom with Arjun Reddy, winning a Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu

• In 2020, Vijay channelled his passion for style into entrepreneurship by launching "Rowdy Wear," a clothing brand

• He earned a spot in the Forbes Celebrity 100 and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

• Expanding his footprint in the film industry, Vijay established 'King of the Hill Entertainment'.

• In 2019, he founded "The Deverakonda Foundation," a non-profit aimed at supporting young achievers.

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