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[image] The Indian mathematician Ramanujan (1887-1920) gave several complex and accurate equations without proof. He said that they were revealed to him in dreams by a Hindu Goddess. It took 70 years for the world to work out proofs for his equations.

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[image] 🇮🇳 The Mahabharata is the longest poem ever written. With over 200,000 verses and roughly 1.8 million words, it is 10x longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined.

[image] Fidel Castro used to wear two Rolexes on the same wrist

[image] The footprints left on the Moon could stay there for millions of years because there is no wind or rain to erase them.

[image] Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov deciphered Mayan writing and published translation of Mayan manuscripts during Cold War era.

[image] In 1965, gas was about $0,31 and minimum wage was $1.25. And this is a copy of the menu of McDonalds.

[text] Countries (or territories) that have completely prohibited corporal punishment of children (smacking, slapping, spanking): Sweden 🇸🇪 (1979) Finland 🇫🇮 (1983) Austria 🇦🇹 (1989) Cyprus 🇨🇾 (1994) Denmark 🇩🇰 (1997) Poland 🇵🇱 (1997) Latvia 🇱🇻 (1998) Germany 🇩🇪 (1998) Croatia 🇭🇷

[text] Atoms are 99.99999% empty space. If you removed all that space from the atoms of every human on Earth, the entire world population would fit inside an apple.

[image] After Henry Kissinger accepted the Nobel Peace Prize of 1973, he later tried to return it, but the committee declined his offer

[image] The iconic hairstyle of Star Wars Princess Leia was inspired by the Mexican revolutionary Clara de la Rocha.

[image] A Turkish man reading new Turkish alphabet in front of book seller, 1929. The validity of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, which was based on the Arabic script, came to an end, and the modern Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script was introduced.

[image] The world's tallest Church - Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain has taken 144 years (begins from 19 March, 1882) to build it's full height of 172.5 metres designed by architect Antoni Gaudí (died on 10 June,1926)

[image] Dancing Mania was a historical phenomenon, where large groups of people, up to thousands at a time, danced uncontrollably for days, sometimes to death.

[text] Iconic and other notable car manufacturers: 🇦🇱 Albania: Tirana Automobili
🇦🇩 Andorra: Andorra Cars 
🇦🇹 Austria: Steyr 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: Pragoti
🇧🇴 Bolivia: Fábrica Boliviana de Motores
🇧🇾 Belarus: MAZ 
🇧🇪 Belgium: Minerva 
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina: TAM 
🇧🇬 Bulgaria:

[image] Two months before the Wright brothers' first flight, the NYT reported that powered flight was "one million to ten million years away"

[image] Each winner of the Masters golf tournament gets one green jacket, and for each subsequent victory, he gets the same jacket.

[image] Lucía Zárate was the lightest adult person in history. She weighed 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) at the age of 17.

[image] Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest spacecraft from our planet, currently exploring interstellar space