Legend says, there lived a King in Kerala, the southernmost state of India, who surrendered his entire territory to a twice born kid.
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Employees born between 1980 and 1985 waste almost twice as much time as those born between 1960 and 1969. (Source: Under30CEO).
Ethnic Turks born in Germany are twice as likely to pass the Abitur as those born in Turkey itself, though still only half as likely as native Germans to do so.
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The Earl of Beaconsfield was prime minister twice, a Jewish-born Anglican convert of Portuguese origins with a predilection for writing romantic novels.
Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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They obtain patents at twice the rate of American-born people with the same educational credentials.
Brighton-born Virgo was selected twice by Scotland at B international level.
Per capita income there is 26 percent below the national average, and 27 percent of its residents are foreign-born, more than twice the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Mantel is the third author to win the prize twice, alongside South-African-born J.
All told, nearly five million Americans in 2010 were married to someone who was born in another country, twice as many as in 1960, according to the Minnesota Population Center.
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Babies who are delivered through Caesarean section are twice as likely to become obese than those born traditionally, US research suggests.
In 1925, Welsh stage and screen actor Richard Burton, twice married to and divorced from Elizabeth Taylor, born.
Babies born to working-class mothers were twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those with middle-class parents.
Immigrants are twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans, and statistics show that most job growth comes from small businesses.
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London-born Broster, 28, was capped twice on Wales' June 2005 tour to north America, as a replacement against Canada before starting against the United States.
Immigrants from countries with relatively small numbers in the overall population, such as Greece, are disproportionately more likely to own businesses, while immigrant women are twice as likely as U.S.-born women to be business owners.
The Brazil-born striker, who has represented Portugal twice, scored twice in the first half and then clinched victory with two minutes to go after Michael Dingsdag's free-kick looked to have earned the hosts a point.
And immigrants continue to be more than twice as likely to start new businesses as were native-born Americans.
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The result in 2012 is that immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start a business each month as are native-born individuals.
The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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