Dream Creation
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemistry professor and an avid player of solitaire, fell asleep and saw a dream in which "all elements fell in place as required".
Periodic table
What many Indian kitchens call 'chai' before they even boil water - Brooke Bond's classic
Red Label
Spoken in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of coastal Karnataka and northern Kasargod in Kerala. Aishwarya Rai, Shilpa Shetty, Rashmika Mandhana are all native speakers of this language.
Tulu
In 2013, a group of X customers filed a class-action lawsuit against the famous chain, claiming its footlong sandwiches didn't always measure up to 12 inches
Subway
Haider
Hamlet
At just 18 years old, Mary Shelly had a nightmare about a scientist who created life but was horrified by his creation. This sparked the idea for her 1818 classic X, which explored the ethical questions and the dangers of unchecked scientific advancement.
Frankenstein
Westeros RSVP - regrets only. The event where they forgot the band and brought crossbows
Red wedding
Native to northern Bihar and adjoining parts of Nepal. The language has produced famous literary figures such as medieval poet Vidyapati and comes from the region Raja Janak and Sita belonged to
Maithili
Following their walking directions onto a highway, Lauren Rosenberg, in 2009, chose to hold X liable for her injuries after she was hit by a car. X's app led her to walk on a busy road without sidewalks that was "not reasonably safe for pedestrians" according to the lawsuit file by her.
Maqbool
Macbeth
The scientist Friedrich August Kekule discovered the seemingly impossible chemical structure of X in 1836, when he had a dream of a group of snakes swallowing their tails
Benzene
The fedora-wearing open-source company that turned Linux into enterprise chic
Red hat
Spoken mainly in Duggar / Jammu region and also some parts of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. It is a scheduled Indian language and produced modern writers like Sahitya Akademi awardee Padma Sachdev
Dogri
In the mid-1990s, when X jokingly offered a Harrier Jet as a possible reward for collecting X points, John Leonard convinced five investors to help him buy the required points. When Leonard sent in his points to claim the Jet, X denied his request.
Pepsi
Kai Po Che
Three Mistakes Of My Life
Director James Cameron said that the titular character in X (1984) was inspired by his dream of "a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire". On waking up, he made some sketches on hotel stationery, that match the climax scene of the movie.
Terminator
The cutest Firefox brand mascot
Red panda
Spoken in northern Uttarakhand in districts such as Pauri, Uttarkashi, Dehradun's hill areas. It's a Central-Pahari Indo-Aryan language and counts notable personalities like India's most prominent mountaineer Bachendri Pal, as its speaker
Garhwali
Stella Liebeck, a 79 year old woman, suffered third-degree burns when she accidentally spilled hot coffee on her lap after purchasing it from X's drive-thru. She sued X, claiming that the coffee was excessively hot and dangerous. The jury awarded her $2.86 million.
McDonald's
Lootera
The Last Leaf
Paul McCartney claimed to have dreamed the melody to his song X (1965). After he woke up, rushed to a piano to play it before it faded from his memory. Danny Boyle's 2019 movie is named after this song.
Yesterday
Mao's quotable carry-on; the pocket anthology that was both syllabus and symbol.
The little red book
A Hindustani variety spoken largely across Hyderabad and other urban centres in Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh. It developed in the Southern Sultanates and produced courtly works Kitab-i-Nauras under rulers such as Ibrahim Adil Shah ll
Dakhni / Deccani
From 2007 to 2009, the makers of the X chips stood in front of three different levels of the British judiciary trying to defend the decision that X chips were not potato chips. Procter and Gamble claimed VAT exemption, arguing that X didn't "contain enough potato to have the quality of potatoes".
Pringles
7 Khoon Maaf
Susannah's Seven husbands