The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.
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All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.
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