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Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
In what way did the infant Tiger King surprise the astrologer?
Solution
When Tiger King was born, the royal astrologer said that the prince would grow up to be a great fighter, but that one day he would die. When ten-day-old Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur heard this, he said that everyone must die someday, and he didn't need a prediction to know this. Then he asked how his father had died. Everyone, there was surprised to hear such wise words from a baby who was only ten days old.
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