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The present Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe won the Lottery (in 2000, he was the President at that time too) organised by State owned Zimbabwe Banking Corporation.
The Prize was open to all clients who had kept Z$5000 & above.
The prize Money was Z$1,00,000!!
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The Russian city Norilsk, famous for its mining,
is so polluted that the Snow that falls is BLACK in colour and the Air tastes of Sulphur!!
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Octopuses don't actually have eight arms, they have only six while the remaining two are legs.
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German Midfielder soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his entire BONUS of €300,000 received for winning the Football World Cup (2014) to pay for SURGERIES for 23 CHILDREN in Brazil.

Salute !
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Italian Dictator Mussolini suffered from SLEEPLESSNESS.
He overcame this disease by listening to Bharatiya Classical singer Pandit Omkarnath Thakur.

After making MUSSOLINI have a PURE VEGETARIAN meal, Panditji sang raga *PURIYA*
Within 15 minutes of listening to this Mussolini fell asleep.
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Elephants are very good swimmers. Once, an elephant was rescued from the ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast -
it got caught in a current off the cost near Kokkilai but it was still swimming!
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The Statues of Michelangelo's David and the Statue of Liberty have a GREEK FOOT wherein the 2nd TOE is longer than the Big Toe as this was considered a Standard of Beauty in Ancient Greece.
Observe it when you visit these places next time!
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Saturn's moon, Titan, has an atmosphere so thick and gravity so low
that you can fly through it by flapping any sort of wings attached to your Body
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Summer on Neptune lasts for 40 years.
And guess what?..... the temperature in the Summer is minus 328°F.!
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Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland has such rare books that those who are interested to read those books will be PUT IN CAGES to prevent them from walking off with those rare books !!!
The library is still open to the public with over 25,000 books dating back to the 15th century
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Samsung has more employees than Google, Apple, and Microsoft combined.
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175 year old Fan
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The Covid created zero pollution in Kedarnath Wildlife Santuary has resulted in off-season blooming of the famous BRAHMAKAMAL flower 👏

Normally seen only in July, but this year due to good Snowfall and late melting of the Snow meant the rare flower blooming even in October
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Even I had difficulty in believing this...
FIFA (the International Football Federation) has more member countries than even the United Nations!!!
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A phychology study of more than 4000 MILLIONAIRES found
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that people who EARNED their wealth were MORE happier with life

than

people who INHERITED the Wealth !!
Not exactly surprising...isnt it?
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During the Mughal period, RUMALI ROTI was used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil rich food laden with meat and fat!
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The LONGEST WAR in History lasted 335 years between Dutch and Isles of Scillly.
The Dutch had completely forgotten about the conflict & signed the treaty to sign a Declaration of Closure of War only in 1986 (War started in 1651)
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Dolphins can tolerate and recover from Extreme injuries like Shark Bites!
The Healing process is very rapid – even very deep wounds wont cause a Dolphin to bleed to Death!
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In Australia, one JOE, a convict escpaed from so many times that a SPECIAL MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON was built specially for him.
The superconfident Governor said "If you escape again....I'l forgive you"
And, of course, he escaped from there too
And Governor kept his word and set him FREE
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TUG-OF-WAR used to be an Olympic sport.

In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold.
Great Britain took silver.

No one won bronze because only two teams showed up!!
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There are a total of 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible. SUDOKU solutions, yet when mathematicians took away rotations, reflections, permutations and relabeling, which takes away the same puzzle in just a different form, the number of solutions was 5,472,730,538.
Still huge....right??