Amazing Facts
Regularly updated list of facts that are amazing, unbelievable, and true. Featuring amazing world records, miracles, tales of longevity, and more!
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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A young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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Twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.
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Craniopagus conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana can see through each other’s eyes.
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
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