The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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