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BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS...
In the Netherlands, workers can be absent for up to two years (yes, 2 full years) while receiving 70% of their salary as sick pay!!!

Netherlands.......here I come!!!
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People in Italy actually find the number 13 lucky. For them the unlucky day is Friday the 17th!!

And it's Tuesday the 13th in Chile
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Germany has a hotline where you can call and scold freely to get rid of anger...
and even the phone operators encourage you.
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There's a Golf Club on the border of Sweden and Finland:
half the holes are in one country and half in the other
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The World's Largest Toy Distributor with over 1.5 million toys distributed every year is ..
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.'McDONALD'S!!!!!!!
Give me a moment.

How much is a moment in time?

A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 1.5 minutes or 1/40 of an hour. This reckoning is derived from the work of Bartholomeus Anglicus, writing in 1240 that each hour was divided into four points, each point into ten moments, each moment into twelve ounces, and each ounce into 47 atoms.
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Recent study reconfirmed that GAMBLING continued to generate MORE REVENUE than
Movies, Sports, Theme Parks, Cruise Ships and Music COMBINED !
Yes Combined !
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All the top 15 universites in the world are in either Britain or the US.
Cambridge,
Oxford,University collage London and
Imperial collage London represents Uk;
The rest are American.

India's BEST is the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore ranked 251
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Peru is the World's No.1 Producer of Counterfeit US Dollars.
The Forged Dollars are finished by Hand, giving them an exceptional quality which even experts find difficult to tell apart from the Original Dollars
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Greek Mathematician Hero invented the 1st Vending Machine which dispensed Holy Water after you put a coin.
This was 2000 years before the Industrial Revolution!!!
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Conman "Mr.Natwarlal" sold the Taj Mahal thrice, Red Fort twice and was wanted by 8 States police.
He was sentenced to 117years in prison only to escape 9 times, the last of which when he was 84 years old!!!
BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS....
Even if you zero climbing Experience, you can still go to the top of MOUNT EVEREST.
For a payment, you will hand held to the Everest top.
Need to pay just $80,000 (Rs.60 lakhs) Only !

So how about a SIP for this?
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Dr.Sanduk Ruit of NEPAL has restored the sight of over 1,30,000 people across Nepal, North Korea, Africa using small-incision cataract surgery.
All his operations are completed within 5 minutes !!!
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Ethiopia is the only country in the world with 13 months. It is also 7 years behind the western calender.
They are still in 2010.
For them today's date is October 16th 2010
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The HURRICANE TURN is a Passenger Train operated by the ALASKA Railroad in Alaska.
The Train does not have any Scheduled stops.
It stops only when any passenger WAVES a White Clote anywhere along the route!!
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The Yakuza is the Largest Organised Crime Syndicate in Japan.
It has provided food, water, blankets FASTER than the Japanese Government during the 2011 Earthquake
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Before the 20th century, aluminum was so hard to produce it was more valuable than gold.
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On 24 August 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 LOST ALL OF ITS FUEL in mid-air,
the captain(a glider pilot) then proceeded to glide the Airbus A330,
with 306 occupants,
without any power,
for 19 minutes,
covering some 120 km (!!!).....
until landing hard at Lajes Air Base.
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There were zero casualties !
BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS.....
The entire Grand Mysore Palace is dazzlingly illuminated with lights during the #DASARA #NAVARATRI festival.
The number of BULBS used for this grand decoration is over 1,00,000 !!!!
It's illuminated daily between 7pm to 10pm during the entire festival.

Awesome feast to the eyes.
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The LARGEST PYRAMID in the World is NOT IN EGYPT.
Hidden in a mountain with a base 4 times LARGER than Giza's, and nearly TWICE the VOLUME.

Named the GREAT PYRAMID OF CHOLULA, it's located in Puebla, MEXICO !!