A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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