The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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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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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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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 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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