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Tsunami of 2004 and how did a 10 year old girl saved lives of hundreds from this disaster

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While yet another cyclon “Amphan” is about to hit coasts of India and Bangladesh, here is an interesting fact about Tsunami of year 2004 that claimed over 2 Million lives. Tilly smith, a 10 year old girl, was on vacation with her parents and sister in Phuket, Thailand. While playing with sea waves, she noticed waves were coming in but not going out. The sea was fizzing and there was froth on the waves. She immediately recalled a video which her geography teacher showed her just two weeks ago about a hawaiian tsunami. She alerted her parents but they thought that it is just a bad weather. On insisting, Tilly’s father alerted a japanese gaurd and he told them that she may be right because there is an earthquake in Indian ocean. After that, all the tourists present on the beach started running to the hotel in panic and that Phuket beach was one of very few beached which reported no casualties. Tilly was named “Child of the year” by French magazine. She was also named “miracle...

The story of missing 11 days

Hello folks, In England, the days from 3rd Sept 1752 to 13th Sept 1752 doesn't exist. These exactly 11 days. The people of England slept on 2nd Sept and woke up directly on 14th Sept.  These missing days simply never existed, meaning no births, no marriages, no deaths etc happened during these days. This created riots in England. People of England thought that they had lost 11 days of income as Government is cheating them by cutting number of days. To stop the riots, Government of England decided to provide the wages of those 11 missing days And from here the concept of "Paid leave" came which is followed in almost all the companies in today's world. Many people also thought that their lives had been shortened by 11 days hence they protested in the streets demanding "Give us back our 11 days". The Story : Till 2nd Sept 1752, England was following the Julian calendar. Julian calendar assumes a full year is 365.25 days whereas in actual it is 11 minute ...