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Bengaluru has an IIT, as well as an IIM.
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Bengaluru has an IIM but not an IIT.
Bandipur is the closest national park from Bengaluru.
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Bannerghatta is the closest national park from Bengaluru (22km).
Deepika Padukone was born in Bengaluru.
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Deepika Padukone was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family shifted to Bengaluru when she was all of 11 months.
Narayana Murthy started Infosys in Bengaluru.
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He started Infosys at his home in Pune.
Bengaluru calls its small vegetarian restaurants darshinis.
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They specialize in vegetarian South Indian dishes such as idli, vada, dosa and kaapi.
Narayana Murthy is Bengaluru’s richest person.
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Azim Premji tops Bengaluru’s rich lists, with his family’s fortune pegged at over ₹2 lakh crore in 2025. Murthy isn’t even close!
Bengaluru owes its Garden City status to a German horticulturist.
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Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel worked on Lalbagh and also planned a number of tree-lined avenues.
Winston Churchill owed ₹13 to the Bangalore Club.
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The debt was later considered irrecoverable and written off.
The Silk Board junction is notorious for its fake goods.
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It’s notorious for its traffic jams—so bad that the place is jokingly called India’s largest parking lot!
There is a weapon named after Bangalore.
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The Bangalore torpedo helps clear barbed wires and booby traps.
Brahmin’s Coffee Bar is Bengaluru’s first official darshini.
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Upahara Darshini, née Café Darshini, is Bengaluru’s first official darshini.
India’s first Pizza Hut opened in Bengaluru.
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It opened in June 1996 on Cunningham Road.
Chinnaswamy Stadium is powered by solar energy.
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It is the first cricket stadium in the world to be powered by solar energy.
Bangalore has a higher altitude than Dehradun.
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Bangalore is situated about 3,020 feet above mean sea level, while Dehradun is at about 2,100 feet.
Bangalore's international airport is located in Bommanahalli.
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The airport is located in Devanahalli- 40 kms from the heart of the city.
Coconut is the state tree of Karnataka.
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Sandalwood is Karnataka's state tree.
The Bangalore Palace was inspired by Windsor Castle in Britain.
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The Bangalore Palace was built in the Tudor style, modelled on Windsor Castle.
It took 4 years for the name change from Bangalore to Bengaluru to become official.
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It took 9 years. The proposal was submitted in 2005 and the name changed in 2014.
Bangalore's popular pub Pecos became India's first pub to list on the stock exchange.
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Pecos got listed on the BSE Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform in 2015.
Swiggy is a Bangalore based startup.
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The food delivery app started operations in August 2014 from Koramangala.
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