Canadian Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, sold the rights to the University of Toronto for $1 so that it was available to everyone.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of 9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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