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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrian pilot project in 1962. Opponents argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a huge success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

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Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Buffett and Munger on putting 75% to 100% of their Net Worth into one Company:

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All 10 Leagues Cup goals for Messi in case you didn’t watch them all.

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Happy #IndependenceDay, India 🇮🇳! This is #India’s year given its role in #G20, #BRICS, #QUAD, and many more international forums. #geopolitics #Velsig

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

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Teddy Roosevelt cheated death numerous times throughout his life, but he perhaps came closest to meeting the grim reaper on October 14, 1912, when he survived an assassination attempt in Milwaukee.

Roosevelt was campaigning for a third term as president of the United and he was climbing into his car to head to a campaign speech when John F. Schrank shot him in the chest from no more than five feet away.

The bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech which he was carrying in his jacket.

Roosevelt correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung; he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately, instead, he delivered his scheduled speech.

His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."

Afterwards, probes and an x-ray showed that the bullet had lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle. As doctors concluded that it would be less dangerous to leave it in place than to attempt to remove it, Roosevelt carried the bullet with him for the rest of his life.

Below are the shirt he was wearing, the copy of the speech and the steel eyeglass case that saved his life.

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In 1981, on Wednesday, May 13, Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II four times in the abdomen during a parade in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. Despite being critically wounded, the Pope recovered and forgave Ali Agca, saying, "Pray for my brother... whom I have sincerely forgiven." The Pope visited Agca's cell and they spoke for 21 minutes, starting with "Do you speak Italian?" to which Agca nodded. They spoke privately, and after the conversation, the Pope gave him a small white box containing a silver and mother-of-pearl rosary. In 2000, Agca was pardoned by the Pope's request to President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. While in prison in 2007, Agca converted to Christianity and left flowers on Pope John Paul II's tomb in 2014.

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