A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.
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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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