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Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds

The calculations were based on a monkey spending around 30 years typing one key a second at a keyboard with 30 keys

A couple fled in fear after encountering a lion during a night bike ride in Gujarat's Somnath. Screengrab: X/@Superoverr
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Watch: Indian couple on bike experiences a hair-raising encounter as they come face-to-face with lion

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World's second largest diamond found in Botswana

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Brazilian drug lord arrested after wife's Instagram post gives away location

Police carrying a body that they identify as US mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, 5 July, 2024. Photo: Collected
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Mummified body of missing US climber found after 22 years

Village secretary Iyang said Adiansa became suspicious after he noticed the python's "very large" belly. He called the villagers to help cut open its stomach, where they found her body. Photo: AFP
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Woman found dead swallowed by python in Indonesia

Aryan Anand got a full ride to Lehigh University by falsifying documents. Photo: Collected
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Indian student faked father's death for full scholarship to US. A Reddit post gave him away

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Aliens might be living among us disguised as humans, Harvard study claims

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US woman buys fake gold jewellery worth 300 rupees for 6 crore in India

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Rolex watch 'eaten' by cow found 50 years later

Kakarna Alkananda, a member of the Goud family, keeps a child's mouth open with the help of a pen as she prepares to insert a live fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste into the mouth, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, which keeps a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient's throat. Photo: AP /Mahesh Kumar A
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Asthma 'miracle cure'? People flock to India's Hyderabad to swallow live fish

105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop receiving her degree from Stanford University. Photo: Collected
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105-year-old great-grandmother gets her Stanford degree after 83 years

An Air India passenger finds a foreign object in a meal served on one of its flights last week (2nd week of June). Photo: X/@MathuresP
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Air India passenger finds metal blade in on-flight meal