In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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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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The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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A blind American man taught himself to navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include hiking and mountain-biking, and he has now trained over 500 students in his ‘tongue-click’ technique.
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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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The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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