A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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In major cities like Brooklyn and London, there are fake townhouses that hide subterranean chimney vents, emergency subway exits, and more. Camouflaged in plain sight, they normally go unnoticed within their architectural surroundings.
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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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According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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