The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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An African Baobab tree in South Africa, known as Big Baobab, has a circumference of 154 feet and even has a bar inside the trunk that can fit 60 people.
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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