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Dubai citizen Mohammed Basheer bought a Lottery Ticket before boarding an Emirate flight.

The flight crashed, but Basheer not only escaped the crash but even won the lottery!!
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Jonty Rhodes is the only player who was awarded 'Man of the Match' when he was not in the playing XI.
In a secondary level match in South Africa, he came out as a substitute fielder and took 7 catches to win the award.
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Tushar Vishwakarma of Creative Convent college(Lucknow) scored 70% in Board results.
Whats great in that?
Well..his both hands does NOT function and he wrote the exams with his TOES.
He used 2 different pens - Black and Blue to make his answer sheets beautiful.
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In 4 of the 5 largest cities in the U.S., it's CHEAPER to rely on UBER than to OWN a car!!!, a 2018 report found.

It could well be the same case in many Indian cities especially Mumbai, Bangalore
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Rakesh having only 1 arm runs a 2nd Hand book Stall in Andheri, Mumbai.
Inspite of being extremly poor himself, he charges only Rs.10 per book as rent
He says this is his way of helping poor!
To help poor...you dont need big money...you need BIG HEART.
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Treadmills were created to punish English prisoners in 1818.
It's no wonder why I hate that exercise!!!
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Red Fort (Delhi) is actually WHITE in colour.
Red Fort is made of Lime Stones and when these White stones started chipping off, the Britishers painted it with RED PAINT. Red Fort's original name was not LAL QILA (RED FORT) but actually QUILA-E-MUBARAK (THE BLESSED FORT)
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The fat and round "Laughing Buddha" isn't a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called "Budai".
Photo from SRIKANTH MATRUBAI
DOLPHINS CAN OVERCOME SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND REMAIN CONSTANTLY VIGILANT FOR DAYS
THEY DO THIS BY RESTING ONE HALF OF THEIR BRAIN
WHILE THE OTHER HALF REMAINS CONSCIOUS.
Portland, Oregon, is home to the annual QUIET Music Festival, which features only soothing music!!
In fact, the organisers even provide RUGS & PILLOWS to the audience to truly enjoy the Quiet Music!!!!
Manchineel Tree is considered as world’s most dangerous tree.
Its trunk sap gives you blisters, eating its apples can kill you & the smoke from the burning tree can blind you!!
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K Rajitha is the daughter of a daily wage labourer. Her village has no electricity. She helps her mother COLLECT FIREWOOD to earn a living.

She now wants to collect medals instead and will get a shot as she is representing India at the Nairobi World Juniors athletic meet this month.

She is inspired by NeerajChopra's achievement at Tokyo2020 and wants to emulate him.

Wishing her all the very best
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There are only 2 HORIZONTAL waterfalls(yes, you read it right... indeed Horizontal) in the world, and bothof this unique natural phenomenon are located in Western Australia.
https://youtu.be/pbkO9y6iGNA
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In 1987 when a 737 taking off it hit ..... something.
The takeoff was aborted.
The crew checked the runway but we're shocked to find not a bird but a .... FISH
Yes the plane was hit by a FISH
The conclusion was the fish may have fall from a bird's mouth
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Laurence Kim Peek (the Real RAIN MAN) was the Only savant known to Science who could read 2 pages of a book simultaneously - EACH WITH 1 EYE!!!
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Kodinhi town in Malappurm,
Kerala has 350 pairs of Identical Twins in a population of 2000!!!,
earning the title of TWIN TOWN.