The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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A man named Ziona Chana lives in a 100 room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram and has the world's biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
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Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At age 18 he measured 4 feet 8.3 inches. When he died at age 50 he measured 7 feet 8 inches.
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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