- The Netherlands are closing 8 prisons across their country because of the lack of criminals
- In Spain, beer is sold at 1 Euros in food courts while Coke costs 2 Euros
- China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the entire world
- In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that motor vehicles were seen as the green alternative
- In the 1950s, people laughed an average of 18 minutes a day. Today we laugh an average of 4 to 6 minutes a day
- Some restaurants in Japan use monkeys as waiters
- Singapore has the world's highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every 6 households having at least US$1 million in net worth
- In Korea, there is a cat cafe that you can hang out with cats for hours
- The top 4 most popular blogs in Japan are about cats
- Your results for 2016 will be double that of 2015, if you learn and work hard
It was 2007 when we discovered his secret. While moving my father’s mattress, we found them: heaps and heaps of Singapore Pools 4D tickets. They were stacked in layers, a paper trail of lost hopes. What shocked us most wasn’t just the volume, but the stakes. He wasn’t betting a few dollars for fun. He was punting hundreds of dollars per draw—nearly ten times a month. At the time, my siblings and I were furious. Our father was a 79-year-old retiree. We wondered, with a mix of anger and confusion, why a man at his stage of life would need to win such "big money." What was he going to do with the money? We saw it as a reckless habit, a sign of poor judgment in his final years. Some of us would say, "If I were to give him money to buy 4D, why don't I use the money and buy 4D myself? At least I have better discipline". It has taken me two decades, and the experience of raising my own three grown-up children, to finally see the truth that was hidden under that matt...

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