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TIL of Benny Podda, a bodybuilder who once hanged himself with a noose from the rafters, only to open his eyes after 5 minutes of hanging to flip off the audience

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neyno TIL the numbers (1-10) that we use every single day were actually made by Indians and spread by Arabs who found it very easy to use and adopted it into mathematics and is actually called Arabic numerals, because Europeans discovered it via the Arabs during the 6th century. Is this common knowledge?
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