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Graça Machel is the only woman in the world to have been First Lady of two different countries, serving as the First Lady of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 and the First Lady of South Africa from 1998 to 1999.

She married Samora Machel President of Mozambique in the year 1975.Samora Machel died in a plane crash over South Africa in 1986.She married South African President Nelson Mandela on 18 July 1998, his 80th birthday.Machel currently serves as the chair of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) Eminent Advisory Board.

The Netherlands is closing 8 prisons due to a lack of prisoners!

Right now, the Netherlands prisons can hold 14,000 prisoners, but they only have 12,000. So, they’re going to shut down 8 prisons. They have a decreasing amount of crime in the country.

In contrast, the UK has 94,000 prisoners with a population of 62 million people while the Netherlands has a population of 16.2 million. Many of the UK’s prisoners are there related to marijuana. They have twice as many prisoners in regards to percentage.

The U.S. has the highest crime rate in the world. They estimate that 40% of the population could be in jail for small-time drug crimes. It’s costing taxpayers billions of dollars. It also causes severe overcrowding in jails and prisons.

The U.S, in stark contrast to the Netherlands, has to open more prisons often. An argument is that if Proposition 19 were to pass, the U.S. could have the chance to be like the Netherlands and begin shutting down some prisons. At the very least, it would save billions of taxpayer dollars and maybe even give more attention to bigger crimes and manpower to handle them.

A man saved 669 kids during the WWII, and lived almost his life without letting people know.

Sir Nicholas Winton. In 1939, Winton and a friend, Martin Blake, were supposed to take a skiing vacation. Instead, Blake, who worked with refugees, told Winton, at the time a 29-year-old stockbroker, that he should visit him in Prague and help with the refugees fleeing Hitler’s advancing armies.

Nicholas Winton did go to Prague, and he was deeply affected by what he saw: thousands of refugees driven out of Sudetenland, a Czechoslovakian area recently under Nazi control (Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to annex a large part of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to avoid a World War and the Nazis had started to take control of the country.) There was no plan to save the refugees from the looming danger of the Nazis.

So Winton decided to act.Winton contacted multiple governments for help, but only England and Sweden agreed. The British government approved his bringing children to the UK if he could find them homes and make a deposit of 50 pounds for each child.

From March to August 1939, Winton worked as a stockbroker by day and a rescue worker at night to get the kids to the UK. Winton advertised in British newspapers and in churches and temples to find families. He raised money for transportation and managed logistics—even forging entry permits when the government was moving too slowly.

Winton saved 669 children, working until war broke out and kids could no longer leave Czechoslovakia.In fact, Winton kept his heroic deeds to himself for almost 50 years. His wife, Grete, didn’t even know about his rescue efforts until 1988, when she found his scrapbook in the attic, with records, photos, names and documents from his efforts.

The rescued children, many of them now grandparents, still refer to themselves as “Winton’s children.” And Winton said that hardly a week goes by when he isn’t in touch with one of the children or their relatives.

A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day the donor did!

69-year-old Sonny Graham received a life saving heart transplant after another man named Terry Cottle committed suicide. Cottle’s shot himself, leaving behind a widow, four children, and a perfectly good heart that was sent to Graham. Graham was so thankful for having his life saved that he wrote a letter to Cottle’s family thanking them for his generous donation.
Eventually Graham met Cottle’s widow and claimed it was love at first sight. "I felt like I had known her for years. I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I just stared." They began dating and were eventually married. Strange? It gets weirder.
After a total of twelve years had passed since Graham received the heart, his widow received a call that her second husband had just shot himself in the exact same circumstances as her first! Get ready, because the story gets just downright creepy.
Graham had Cottle’s heart inside of him, shot himself in the same way, in the same circumstances, and also committed suicide on the exact same day! Friends of Graham said he had never shown signs of being depressed and this was completely out of the blue. While the story is extremely sad, the coincides are just eerie.

A man survived three hanging attempts.

Joseph Samuel was an Englishman who was deported to Australia in 1801 after committing a robbery. Samuel continued his immoral ways down under, joining a local gang and subsequently burglarizing a rich woman's home. A policeman guarding the home was murdered in the process, and Samuel was sentenced to death by hanging though he denied committing the murder.
In 1803, he was to be hung with another criminal, but the rope snapped! The executioner tried to repeat the process, but this time the rope slipped and Samuel's feet touched the ground. A third attempt at hanging Joseph resulted in yet another snapped rope! The governor concluded that the failed hangings were a sign from God, so Joseph Samuel was instead sentenced to life in prison.

Shah Jahan had planned to construct another Taj Mahal in black marble on the other side of the river, but the war with his sons interrupted his plans.

Shah Jahan had planned to build mirror image of the Taj Mahal he built for Mumtaz, albeit in black, on the other side of the river and connect the two by a bridge. This Black Taj was to be dedicated to Shah Jahan himself. A European traveler by the name of Jean Baptiste Tavernier who visited Agra in 1665 first mentioned the idea of Black Taj in his fanciful writings. And considering Shah Jahan's obsession with symmetry, the idea certainly seems plausible. More credibility to the story is added by an observation made by archeologists in 2006, when they reconstructed part of the pool in the moonlit garden and it reflected a dark reflection of the white mausoleum. The writings of Tavernier mention that Shah Jahan began to build his own tomb on the other side of the river but could not complete it as he was deposed by his own son Aurangzeb.
Fuel to the fire is further added as some scholar suggests that the blackened marbles in Mehtab Bagh that lie on the other side of the river are actually grim remains and foundations of an abandoned plan.