Canadian Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, sold the rights to the University of Toronto for $1 so that it was available to everyone.
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A man called Dean Karnazes ran 350 miles in 80 hours with no sleep, ran a marathon in the South Pole in -25 °C temperatures without snowshoes, and ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.
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Scientists lit a cave of natural gas on fire in 1971 expecting it to only burn for a few days; it still burns to this day. It has been nicknamed "The Door to Hell".
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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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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