Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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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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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.
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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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