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At five minutes to midnight, I took the train on the outskirts of Tokyo. There were only me and a few other people in the carriage when a man entered. He looked around the carriage and as soon as the doors closed, his face was convulsed with horror.
He approached a girl.
– Excuse me, ma’am, are you 28 years old?
– Yes! – she replied – How did you guess?
He ignored her question and moved on to the man sitting next to him.
– And you... are you 45?
– Yes, right!
He looked at me.
– And you’re 35.
– That’s right, but how do you know?
– And you, miss, are you 50?
– Yes, exactly, but tomorrow I’ll be 51... or rather, in 5 minutes.
When she said that, the man’s face turned white as a sheet. Why?
On first day, nothing in Mary’s behavior surprised John.
On the second day, John was extremely surprised.
On the third day, John got it and switched his opinion about women for the better.
Many people were surprised when a famous town merchant named Bill rolled out a barrel of honey to the square and offered everyone a treat.
But people were even more surprised when they asked about the reason for such a gift and heard Bill reply that it wasn’t a gift at all.
A professor didn’t want to accept a student’s paper.
Student: “Do you know who I am?”
Professor: “I neither know nor care. And don’t try to frighten me!”
But the professor still accepted the paper. Why?
A man is driving his car while listening to the radio when suddenly the radio goes silent. He then decides to leave the road and throw himself off the top of a cliff.
The German police was totally confused. Over the course of 15 years, the same person had been stealing, killing, and driving away. By 2008, they had spent 14 thousand working hours and over 15 million euros to find the criminal but failed. How did it happen?
This is a true story.
A man had lunch at the restaurant, and the waiter brought him his bill. He wrote out a check for the required amount but suddenly turned it over and wrote a few words on the reverse side of the check as congratulations to the restaurant owner. What for?
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