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- ...that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games?
- ...that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
- ...that the Halegannada, literally Old Kannada, is an ancient form of the Kannada language?
- ...that houses in the Indian village Shani Shingnapur do not have doors?