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In 1974, Michèle Mouton’s father gave her an Alpine A110 car with a condition to prove herself or quit; she had entered a man’s world of rallying but 11 years later, she was the ‘fastest woman alive’

Mouton initially worked as a co-driver, accompanying her friend Jean Taibi on the 1972 Tour de Corse. For years, rallying was seen as a man’s sport. The cars were brutally fast, the roads unpredictable and the margin for error tiny. Then came Michèle Mouton. She did not enter motorsport trying to become the fastest woman….

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Why are hotel shampoo, soap, and lotion bottles always so tiny? Here’s the real reason

The miniature format creates more individual packaging, which has made traditional hotel toiletries part of the wider conversation around plastic and waste. That is why some hotels have switched to refillable dispensers or larger containers that remain in the bathroom. These systems reduce the need to provide a separate miniature bottle for every guest. So,…

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Nepali family had begun funeral rituals for 64-year-old Chandrika Shrestha thinking she has died in the devastating floods; then she was found buried under mud but alive on the 11th day

Chandrika was found alive, partly trapped in mud on the fourth floor of a house that had been buried by the August 26 floods. For eight days, Chandrika Shrestha’s family searched for her after a devastating flood swept through Nepal’s Bhotekoshi river basin. There was no sign of the 64-year-old woman. Her house had been…

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In this 600-year-old Rajasthan temple, a Muslim family that came from Sindh has been serving a Hindu goddess for 14 generations: The story of Jodhpur’s Bagoria Mataji Mandir

The temple is located on a hill and visitors have to climb around 500 steps to reach the shrine. In Rajasthan’s Bhopalgarh, there is a temple where the person performing the rituals is not a Hindu priest. For generations, a Muslim family has been serving Bagoria Mata (a local deity), performing the temple’s rituals while…

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