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    The Dream Ice Cream-Eating Job with 1-Million-Dollar Tastebuds
    A man named John Harrison has a job tasting ice cream. He has tasted samples of over 200 million gallons of ice cream and his taste buds are insured for $1 million.
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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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    In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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    There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
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    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    In 2011, a penguin covered in oil and starving on a beach near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was rescued by a pensioner. Ever since then, Dindim the penguin travels 5,000 miles every year to visit him.
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    Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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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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    Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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