Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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 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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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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