Anku Upmanyu 
What happened in the world last week?
Some news was important but remained hidden due to other trending incidents that got hyped and took the mainstream media pages. This is followup of last week stories.
Let us check some news that happened last week which may or may not have any geographic impact, however interesting.
Destiny has Different Plans
We had two stories where destiny had different plans.
Firstly, the Midlands woman has destiny on her side when she wins $100 from a scratch-off ticket and uses $20 of her winnings to try her luck again with two more tickets. She ended up winning again and decided to buy two more tickets.
When she scratched the third time, she was surprised to see the winning prize, it was a whopping $300,000. She will save that money for her retirement.
Secondly, A Nebraska man stopped at the Baker’s store to buy a pre-made salad and suddenly, decided to buy a Mega Millions ticket at the store. Though he doesn’t play all that often.
A few days later, he requested the lady to check his ticket and she gave him this exciting news about winning a $1 million prize.
Miraculous Escape
The mariners were rescued from a tiny Pacific Ocean islet where they were stranded for more than a week after they got caught in swells during fishing and reached this uninhabited Pikolot. The trio spelled “HELP’ using a palm tree laid on a white-sand beach.
This was a miraculous escape for them as this islet is part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a Pacific nation between the Philippines and Hawaii that has more than 600 islands scattered across about 2.5 million square kilometers of ocean and for the rescue team to search these three guys is like finding a needle in a haystack.
The Coast Guard said a US Navy P-8A reconnaissance jet dispatched from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, spotted the “HELP” sign on the beach on April 7.
For a week, the men had only coconut to eat. This was just a miracle for them.
Parents Punished for Child Crime
This is the first time in the history of the United States that parents were convicted for their child’s crime. James and Jennifer Crumbley have received a prison sentence for a shooting rampage committed by their child. They were each sentenced to 10-15 years in prison on involuntary manslaughter charges.
Their son Ethan was 15 when he killed four students and injured seven others in his school. and also sentenced to life in prison.
Three Guinness World Records
Three Guinness World Records have been broken at the National Beard and Mustache Championships in Florida.
The first record was set by beard-sporting participants. They were able to demonstrate their facial hair length into an 86 -persons chain measuring 195 feet and 3 inches.
The second record was set with 27 participants achieving a mustache length of 20 feet and 4 inches.
The final record was for the longest partial beard chain, made up of 24 participants, measured 42 feet and 8 inches long.
All three record attempts were successful.
House floats through San Francisco Bay
For several days, a home floating in the San Francisco Bay became a mystery for locals.
The floating wooden house raised many speculations and similarities to the Pixar film Up — just on the water instead of the air.
Later, we found that this is the one of the last houseboat to leave the Redwood City marina.
The marina, city had more than 100 people living on the water, However, they lost the lawsuits from nearby residents and had to vacate the area in 2015.
The final destination of the house is the Commodore Marina in Sausalito
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