Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At age 18 he measured 4 feet 8.3 inches. When he died at age 50 he measured 7 feet 8 inches.
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When the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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