7 Facts about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

7 Facts about the one and only, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1. Gandhi got his start as an activist in South Africa, not India
2. Gandhi was a man of peace but never won the Nobel Peace Prize.
3. He was thinking of dissolving the Congress a day before he died
4. Gandhiji had a set of false teeth, which he carried in a fold of his loincloth
5. Great Britain, the country against whom he fought for independence, released a stamp honoring him, 21 years after his death.
6. Most relics of Gandhiji including the clothes he wore when he was shot are still preserved in Gandhi Museum, Madurai
7. There are 53 major roads (excluding the smaller ones) in India and 48 roads outside India that are named after him