Fountain, Rollerball, Gel.
Pen
We pitched it as a platform for
humblebrags, filters, and food-but mostly, for scrolling past your ex.
This American seismologist developed a scale in 1935 that shook up the way we measure earthquakes.
Charles Richter
The English name of this participant of Sambar and Chaats, comes from Arabic phrase "Tamar-al-hind", meanings "Date of India"
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Tamarind
Radcliff Line
Drawn in a rush by a British lawyer, this line sparked a massive migration and birthed two nuclear neighbours.
India Pakistan
SG, Dukes, Kookaburra.
Cricket Balls
It's like a bulletin board for your ideas, but prettier-and without actual tacks or string.
Investors didn't get it until their partners started moodboarding weddings.
This British physicist proposed a particle that gives mass to other particles - decades before its discovery at CERN.
Peter Higgs
This purified big crystalline substance, is used widely as offerings for gods; gets its hindi name from the place it originated from
- Egypt.
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Misri
This line still divides a tech titan to the South and a communist dictatorship to the north.
South and North Korea
Anthracite, Bituminous, Lignite.
Coal
Our beta let people disappear after messaging-but only emotionally unstable ghosts like it
Snapchat
His improvements to the steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution - and a unit of power still bears his name.
James watt
Named after its pungent, fetid smell, this spice wasn't native to India-it journeyed here from the mountains of Iran and Afghanistan.
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Asofoetida
McMahon Line
This disputed boundary, drawn during the British Raj, is seen as legitimate by one nation but rejected by its powerful northern neighbor.
India China
Kangaroos, Koalas, Opossums.
Marsupials
We flipped the script: now women make the first move-so men can finally experience the existential dread of being left on read.
Bumble
This everyday temperature scale used in weather forecasts is named after a German physicist who originally based it on a brine solution.
Fahrenheit
Said to have originated in the 1950s in Delhi. A chef named Kundan Lal Gujral reportedly repurposed leftover tandoori chicken by simmering it in a creamy tomato sauce with butter and spices.
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Butter Chicken
17th Parallel
This Cold War line split a noodle-loving nation into North and South until the 1970s.
Vietnam
Oxaca, Brie, Gouda.
Cheese
Our innovation? Turning centuries of courtship rituals into a binary decision you make while pooping.
Tinder
A German chemist known for his work in gas analysis and flame testing, his name now ignites every chemistry lab, with this lab equipment, used to heat substances.
Bunsen burner
While to western India, this tuber was introduced by the Portuguese, to the rest of India, it was popularized by the British.
In Kolkata, however, it was made essential thanks to an exiled Nawab, making it a distinctive feature of the city's culinary tradition.
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Also/Potato
49th Parallel
Established through treaties in 1818 and 1846, this 5,525 miles border is the longest undefended international boundary in the world.
USA Canada