The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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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 man with locked-in syndrome, named Jean-Dominique Bauby, wrote an entire book by blinking his left eyelid.
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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 young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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