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3 german students completed their bachelors and masters degree within 4 instead of usual 11 semesters.
They did this by attending different lectures and sharing notes.
Their alma mater, School of Economics & Management sued them claiming INCOME LOSS !
The Court ordered the students to PAY !
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The statue of George Washington in London at Trafalgar Square has American soil under his statue.
This is because George Washington had pledged he would never stand on English Soil !
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Sabharwal family in Delhi has 140 doctors!!
Every single member of this family is a doctor since past 5 generations.
Even marriages happen only with Doctors
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In 1978, DC Comics released a Book called SUPERMAN vs MUHAMMAD ALI. where Ali defeats Superman but later Superman helps Ali defeat Aliens.
The book ends with the two champions embracing and Ali proclaiming, "Superman, WE are the greatest!"
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In 2011, an entire village in Spain won the Christmas lottery jackpot of $940 million.
The top prize — dubbed "El Gordo" (The Fat One) — was split among the holders of tickets bearing the number 58268. The number appeared on 1,800 tickets, giving winners €400,000 for their €20 ticket
All the 1,800 tickets with that number were sold in the town of Granen
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7 year old Gillian Lynne did so badly in school teachers thought she had a learning disorder and her mom took her to a doctor. Lynne began dancing to his radio; the doctor said: "She’s not disordered, she’s a dancer; put her in dance school".
Lynne became a world-renowned dancer and music theater choreographer.
A foodie needs an excuse to eat.
A Gold lover does not even need an excuse to splurge on Gold and occasions like Akshaya Tritiya is the BIGGEST festival for any Gold lover!!.
But there are many WEALTH WISDOM we can get from Akshaya Tritiya.
What are those....
See this video to know the secret
https://youtu.be/WMqGnINyD8A
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John Francis, an American environmentalist, decided to stop speaking for 1 day to learn to LISTEN BETTER to others.
He like the new situation so much that he turned it into a 17 year vow of Silence!
During this time, he went to schoold and even earned a Ph.D
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There is a Catholic Saint of BEER !!!!
"Saint Arnold of Soissons" saved the lives of many by urging them to drink beer rather than water that was spreading the plague.
Boiling during the brewing process killed the pathogens.
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The website *www.relentless.com* was the website of a FAMOUS company and they STILL OWN IT
And you sure will be surprised by who owns it.
Well, check out yourself for the company 😉
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Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s. People back then would rent a pineapple and carry it around a party to show off their wealth. 🍍
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The Catholic Church unknowingly made Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) a saint after the Christianization of his life story in the14th century
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Ganapathi Bhat of Bantwal (Mangalore) invented TREE CLIMBING BIKE which is powered by a 2-stroke engine, using which the farmers can easily climb the areca nut tree to spray pesticides and also harvest the crop.
Through this "bike", one can easily scale the tree up and down !
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During the recent US racism riots, a crowd outside Phoenix Police HQ, when confronted by Riot police to move away before 8pm curfew, said they would leave peacefully, if 3 officers knelt with them.
3 officers actually took to knee..the crowd cheered and left PEACEFULLY.
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In the 1960s, late Malaysian billionaire Lee Shin Cheng applied for a job at Dunlop Estates, an English plantation company, but was rejected for his POOR ENGLISH.
In 1989, he bought Dunlop Estates.
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The difference between MIST and FOG is VISIBILITY (how far you can see through it).
If visibility is LESS than 1,000 metres we call it 'FOG'
and
if visibility is GREATER than 1,000 metres we call it 'MIST'.
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The growth of population in LONDON is so low that its 1939 population exceeded only in 2015 that too by just ONE number!!
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Tamil is official language of Tamil Nadu.
But it was also 2nd official language of Haryana for more than 40 years!!!
When Haryana was formed in 1969, then Chief Minister of state, Bansi Lal made Tamil as second official language of Haryana. It was made to avoid making Punjabi as official language.
It was only in 2010, Punjabi was made the 2nd Official Language
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In Gravesend, England, there is a whole FAKE town used by Police to simulate Dangerous Sitations.
Fake Streets, Fake Houses, Fake Parks, Fake Nightclubs, Fake trains, etc are used to stage Riots, Robberies, Hostage Situations and Terrorist Attacks so that the Police are trained to handle all types of situations
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Judge Brude Marrow instead of punishing a drug dealer Edward 20 year punishment a chance to redeem by offering 3 years of Probation and a challange to return to count next time with an achievement.
Edward came back completely changed and reformed with a graduate in LAW !
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An abandoned island off the Northern Italy POVEGLIA was used for more than 100 years as a QUARANTINE STATION for those suffering from Plague, etc.
It's estimated that more than 1,00,000 were quarantined between 1776 to 1876