10 Things You Should Know - Episode VI

• ‘The Wicked Bible’
  of 1631 is so called because it dropped a ‘not’ from one of the
  prohibitions of the Ten Commandments: Thou
  shalt commit adultery (instead of ‘thou
  shalt not commit adultery’).

• During the Second
  World War, Russian strongman Stalin was code-named GLYPTIC, meaning ‘an
  image carved out of stone’. The name Stalin means ‘man of steel’.

• The Vatican City has no armed force of its
  own, the (Pontifical) Swiss Guard being a corps responsible for the security of
  the Pope. The Pontifical
  Swiss Guard was founded by Pope Julius II in 1506 as the personal
  bodyguard of the Pope and continues to fulfill that function. All recruits must be Catholic,
  unmarried males with Swiss citizenship who have completed their basic training with the Swiss Army with certificates of good
  conduct, be between the ages of 19 and 30, and be at least 175 cm
  (68.90 in) in height. Members are armed with small arms and the
  traditional halberd (a kind of
  pole weapon) and trained in bodyguarding tactics.

• In a speech broadcast by the Azad Hind Radio from Singapore in July 1944, Subhash
  Chandra Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the ‘Father of the Nation’ and asked
  for his blessings and good wishes for the war he was fighting. This was the
  first time that Mahatma Gandhi was referred to by this title.

• Goldman Sachs was
  founded by Marcus Goldman in New York in 1869. Thirteen years later, his son-in-law
  Samuel Sachs joined him. In 1885, the firm adopted the name, Goldman Sachs & Co.

• The population of
  Uttar Pradesh is a little over 20 crore (Census 2011). This means that if UP
  were a separate country, it would have been the fifth most populous nation in
  the world. To put this in perspective, UP’s population would put it ahead of Brazil,
  which with its area of over 85 lakh sq km, is 35 times larger than UP in area.

• The
  Aztecs used to describe gold as ‘the excrement of the gods’.

• The word cyberspace is a portmanteau
  of cybernetics and space.
  It was coined by William Gibson,
  the Canadian science fiction writer, in 1982 in his novelette ‘Burning Chrome’ in Omni magazine and was subsequently
  popularized in his novel Neuromancer. Cyberspace
  relates to virtual reality.

• ‘Meatspace’ is the opposite
  of ‘cyberspace’. In other words, meatspace relates to anything that is physical
  in nature.

• We all know that Rahul
  Dravid is nicknamed ‘The Wall’. There is another nickname he has got: Jammy. That is what his school teammates
  called him, because Rahul’s father worked for Kissan jams (a Unilever brand). 

Check out 10 Things - Episode I, Episode II, Episode III, Episode IV, and Episode V.