Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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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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