Wow, this kind of father, everybody also wants lah! He promised his daughter a brand new car if she clocked full attendance in school and he saw it through by giving her a spanking new Pontiac G6 with a personalized number plate, all worth US$17,000.

Let’s say we go to school 250 days a year and from Standard One right up to Form Five, that’s eleven years of school, our parents saved US$6.20 per school day, they would have saved US$17,000. In this case, it was about US$5 per day only.

Gosh, this girl, Andria Baker, from Constantine, Michigan, must have been an only child!

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If you have always wanted your name in the Guinness Book of World Records, here is a record that you could probably break. Get a friend and just shake hands for as long as possible. Well, as long as your hands are held and moved up and down in a handshaking motion, you’re set.

Also, remember, you’d probably have to go to the toilet together. In this oddball news report, Kevin Whittaker and Cory Jens did nothing but shake hands for a record breaking 9.5 hours. Hey, I probably could top that. Who wants to shake hands with me now?

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