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For a long time, which country received most of the income from the sale of postage stamps?

The Kingdom of Bhutan gained full independence from Great Britain in 1949, but did not have its own post office until 1962. When it appeared, the American businessman Bert Todd, who became an adviser to the king and greatly contributed to the modernization of this state, suggested betting on postage stamps. Bhutan was the first in the world to issue many unusual stamps - stereoscopic, wraparound, steel foil stamps, bas-relief stamps and even record stamps. They were printed in quantities far exceeding internal needs, and were intended for collectors around the world, with whom they enjoyed well-deserved popularity. In the 1970s, the sale of stamps was Bhutan's biggest source of income.

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Have you ever had the feeling that you knew about something even before it happened? Or maybe you were able to determine what the reversed card would be or what number would be called? There are many people who seem to have such abilities - and not rarely, but much more often than the average person. How do they do it? It is believed that they have the gift of clairvoyance, or have extrasensory abilities. This means that they are able to comprehend that which is beyond the ordinary senses.

For more than 25 years, Professor J. B. Rhine of Duke University has been conducting experiments to prove that extrasensory perception exists and to measure it in humans. These experiments included clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition. In experiments on clairvoyance, a special deck of cards was used. This deck consisted of five different cards with different symbols: a cross, a circle, a star, wavy lines, and a square.

The experiment was to get people who were supposed to have psychic powers to identify differently laid out cards without looking at them. If the number of correct guesses exceeded the achievement of the average person, then this was considered proof that the person had such abilities. In experiments on telepathy, a person tried to read the mind of someone who conducted an experiment with guessing cards.

In the future prediction experiment, an attempt was made to predict the sequence of events before their occurrence using the same cards and coins. There is a lot of controversy about whether these experiments really proved the existence of extrasensory perception. But there is also a strong belief that the results show something that is not happening just by chance.

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