Interesting Facts About Mohandas Gandhi

Hello buddy myself Rohit can you tell me which are the interesting facts about mohandas gandhi?

Hello Rohit, we all know Mahatma Gandhi as the man who led our country to freedom. But we know little about some smaller and more astonishing facts about his life.

Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize 5 times

M. K. Gandhi was responsible for the Civil Rights movement in 4 continents and 12 countries

The funeral procession of Mahatma Gandhi was 8 kilometers long

Great Britain, the country against whom he fought for independence, released a stamp honouring him, 21 years after his death

Mahatma Gandhi walked/traveled almost 18 kilometers a day throughout his lifetime which is enough to walk around the world twice over

Gandhiji served in the army during the Boer war – he crusaded against violence since the time he realized the horrors of war

Mahatma Gandhi corresponded with a lot of people – Tolstoy, Einstein and Hitler were among the many

Gandhiji was not present during Nehru’s tryst of destiny speech to celebrate independence

Most relics of Gandhiji including the clothes he wore when he was shot are still preserved in Gandhi Museum, Madurai

He never held an official position in any political body during the final years of his life

He was thinking of dissolving the Congress a day before he died

Steve Jobs was a fan of Mahatma Gandhi – his round glasses are not only similar but also a tribute

Gandhiji had a set of false teeth, which he carried in a fold of his loin cloth

Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of his first teachers was an Irishman

There are 53 major roads (excluding the smaller ones) in India, and 48 roads outside India that are named after him

Gandhiji helped establish 3 football clubs in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg all of which were given the same name: Passive Resisters Soccer Club

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