A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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A couple from Bristol who had trouble selling their house, found out they had an original Banksy on their wall, and received twice the asking price by selling the painting with a house attached.
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A couple that were out walking on their property in Sierra Nevada discovered a canister containing $10 million in gold coins.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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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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