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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There's a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in such a way that when you drive over them at 55 MPH, they will play a part of Rossini's "The William Tell Overture."
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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