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Bob Franke, owner of the Dairy Queen in Columbus, was my first sponsor. I’d bring him the trophy I won and he’d give me free ice cream. I won a TQ Midget race last Saturday and the tradition continued.

35 years 🥳

Lonnie Johnson, NASA engineer, invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun.

8 beaches of India got ‘Blue Flag’ tags. Foundation for Environmental Education, Denmark operates the Blue Flag programm. Those are; Shivrajpur (Gujarat), Ghoghla (Diu), Kasarkod & Padubidri (Karnataka), Kappad (Kerala), Rushikonda (Andhra), Golden (Odisha) & Radhanagar (A&N).

You’re either: - Finding a way to get it done - Finding a way to avoid it

“If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” Roald Dahl

Linear Regression (Jorge Pacheco Jara) x.com/jorge_pacheco/…

Delhi's roads mapped out.

Dear India Post The status of my mail RM148303286IN has not changed for more than 16 days. Can you please check and clarify

🚦 Mumbai's Worli Sea Face gets cool new LED traffic lights with pillars that light up for better visibility and safety. What do you think of it?

“When people are all in, normal benchmarks cease to apply.” —Peter Kaufman

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staircases designed by people who hate people who use staircases

Business is just an elaborate excuse to make friends with interesting people.

I have just discovered Orbis (orbis.stanford.edu), a free resource that estimates how long a journey might have taken in the Roman Empire. You can choose season, modes of transportation, priority (speed, economy etc); it also estimates costs & difficulty. I am SPEECHLESS.