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Shipping companies in India have come up with an innovative idea that makes an otherwise useless news discovery seem pretty interesting. When German scientists discovered that grazing cows align themselves along the magnetic north-south when grazing, little did they know that their seemingless pointless discovery would affect a multi-billion dollar industry. Indian shipping companies have now made it mandatory to have a cow on board every ship to ensure that even if all the instruments were to fail, the crew would unfailingly be able to figure out where the magnetic poles lay, which would be of immense help to them and would save the companies millions of dollars in backup system investment.

Sabine Begall, one of the German scientists credited with this discovery said that she was immensely relieved that her discovery made sense to someone. “I was tired of all the jokes that I was hearing about my obsession with watching cows on Google Earth,” she said, “people forget that all great discoveries start with some amount of stupidity.” Begall said that she was not surprised that India was the first country to put her discovery to use. “Those guys are champs, I mean I started watching cows on Google Earth only a couple of years ago,” she said, “those guys have been doing it for centuries; I’m surprised actually that they didn’t make this discovery first.”

Begall has been invited to speak at the Shipping Association of India’s annual dinner. “I am extremely flattered that they would invite me as their chief guest and I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” she said. When asked whether she plans to prepare anything for the dinner, she said, “Of course! I would need to figure out which end of the cow faces north and which end south before they actually send out their ships.”

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