The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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