Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.
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In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
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A man with locked-in syndrome, named Jean-Dominique Bauby, wrote an entire book by blinking his left eyelid.
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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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