In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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A teen in Michigan built a working nuclear reactor. He taught himself how to build it as a weekend hobby project in his basement from ages 15-17 for $3500.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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A man with locked-in syndrome, named Jean-Dominique Bauby, wrote an entire book by blinking his left eyelid.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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