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Mahatma Gandhi, affectionately known as Bapu, never travelled by plane. He preferred to journey by train.
Despite being nominated five times for the Nobel Prize, Mahatma Gandhi never received it.
It was Subhash Chandra Bose who first referred to Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation' during a radio broadcast in 1944.
Gandhi lost his first case as a lawyer, but went on to become a leading figure in India’s struggle for independence.
In India, 53 major roads and 48 roads internationally are named after Mahatma Gandhi.
When Gandhi’s shoe fell off a train, he tossed the other one out as well, so that someone could have a matching pair.
Mahatma Gandhi's English teacher was an Irishman.