In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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There's a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in such a way that when you drive over them at 55 MPH, they will play a part of Rossini's "The William Tell Overture."
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According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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