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Man uses billboards to ‘find a wife’
A UK-based bachelor took to advertising himself on huge billboards in his quest to find a wife.
Muhammad Malik had set up a website and bought several advertising hoardings across Birmingham to look for a prospective life partner, according to new reports.
The 29-year-old entrepreneur could be seen smiling as he jokingly asked to be “saved” from an arranged marriage in billboards that popped up across the city and in Manchester.
Mr Malik, who is from London but considers Birmingham his second home, said that he was not opposed to the idea of arranged marriage but wanted to “try and find someone on my own first.”
“I just haven’t found the right girl yet. It’s tough out there. I had to get a billboard to get seen!” he clarified on his website.
“My ideal partner would be a Muslim woman in her 20s, who’s striving to better.” He wrote. Since he put up the billboards, Mr Malik said he had received hundreds of messages.
Mr Malik said he tried a few other methods to find a future wife before plastering his face on billboards.
He said he tried dating apps and a few dating events, before a friend suggested that he should literally advertise himself. — ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
