An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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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 world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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