A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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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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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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