The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had forced her to drop out of college.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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