Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.
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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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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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There's a regenerative candle that creates a new candle as it melts.
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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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