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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Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
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It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
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Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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