A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds throughout the world.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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