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TIL in 1997, Pradyumna K. Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4months and 3weeks from india to Gothenburg Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin. He rode his bicycle because he couldn't afford an airplane ticket. They are married now with two kids

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