Obama's India visit: 4 weird facts

Obama's much-scrutinized trip to South Asia has inspired some outlandish rumors — but these four details are both strange and true

A Bangalore artist holds one of his Obama-in-a-bottle creations as India prepares for the President's four-day visit.
(Image credit: Corbis)

Wild claims, initiated by the Indian press and spread by careless bloggers, have been circulating about President Obama's upcoming three-day visit to India. (Watch how students are preparing for Obama's visit.) You may have heard that Obama, guarded by 34 warships, will be renting out the entire 570-room Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai with an entourage of 3,000, and will somehow be spending $200 million tax-payer dollars a day. ("Note to self: Don't trust Indian media," says Hot Air's Allahpundit.) But just because those stories are bogus doesn't mean that every eyebrow-raising report is false. Here are four true tales:

1. Indian authorities are removing all the coconuts from one site

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