Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
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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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Korean Okhwan Yoon left behind a profitable business to cycle the world in aid of world peace. For over 9 years, he has biked across 192 countries on six continents, and has survived 6 car accidents, malaria, extreme temperatures, robbery, and kidnapping.
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