A couple that were out walking on their property in Sierra Nevada discovered a canister containing $10 million in gold coins.
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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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