The Weirdest and Most Controversial Fashion Statements to Date

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• A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
• Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
• The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
• The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.