In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they gave him).
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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There's a regenerative candle that creates a new candle as it melts.
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A woman from Michigan named Barbara Soper gave birth on 10/10/10, 09/09/09 and 08/08/08 — the odds of which are 50 million to one.
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