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BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS....
Jhumri Telaiya, a town in Koderna district of Jharkhand became famous owning to its connection with Vividh Bharathi.
The LARGEST number requests for film songs on Vividh Bharathi came from this town.
Radio listeners doubted the existence of this town and the name became associated with a fictional place
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When Marco Polo passed Sumatra, he saw an animal which he described as "it's a combo of Wild Boar, a Buffalo & an Elephant. I think this is an Unicorn"
He was actually describing a Rhinoceros !!
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The colour of REINDEER eyeballs are GOLDEN in Spring & Summer.
However, these Eyes turn BLUE in the winter !
This colour change help Reindeer see better during the Long Dark nights Winter in the Artic
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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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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 the phone operators even encourage you.
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Besides GOLDEN HOWDAH, Mysore is also famous for its *GRAND EXHIBITION*.
The 1st exhibition was held way back 133 years ago in 1888 with a huge expense of Rs.22,000
The highlight of 1st exhibiton was contest between Indian farmers and Europeans farmers with ploughs.
Indian farmers won the MEGA GRAND PRIZE OF RS.5 !!!!
#navratri
#dasara
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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!!!!!!!
Forwarded from Wealth of Wisdom - WOW
· SHARPEN YOUR WEAPONS:
Ancient days during the times of WAR, when the “ceasefire” period was on, people use to spend their time on sharpening their weapons.
Now, that we are in HOLIDAY SEASON

Sharpen your skills, acquire new skills and acquire knowledge by reading books and watching videos.
Read which can change your perspective

Read
DON'T RETIRE RICH
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This book changes your outlook towards Approach to Retirement
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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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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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In KANPUR (UP), on the occasion of #Dasara, 1000s of people queue up (sometimes extending upto 5kms) to workship RAVAN (Yes...Ravan ) chanting RAVANA NAMAH !

The Dashanan Temple in Kanpur is only opened on the day of Dussehra and after worshipping Ravana, the temple is closed for the entire year. Devotees offer ridged gourd (taroi), flowers and mustard oil lamp to Ravana for seeking the blessings and good luck.
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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!!!
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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 !
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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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Before the 20th century, ALUMINIUM was so hard to produce it was more valuable than even GOLD!!
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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