The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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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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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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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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