A fact from Shyambazar appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar's five-point crossing?
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