When the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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