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    LifeStraw: Makes Dirty Water Safe
    LifeStraw: Makes Dirty Water Safe
    The LifeStraw is a simple and compact, yet powerful water filtration system which may be the solution to the world's water emergency.
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    Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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    Most Children
    Most Children
    The most children birthed by ONE mother was 69 children over 27 pregnancies: 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. This was in Russia, in the 1700s.
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    Ioannis Ikonomou
    Ioannis Ikonomou
    The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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    Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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    For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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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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    Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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