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 Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.
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