The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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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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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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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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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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An African Baobab tree in South Africa, known as Big Baobab, has a circumference of 154 feet and even has a bar inside the trunk that can fit 60 people.
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