The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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A teen in Michigan built a working nuclear reactor. He taught himself how to build it as a weekend hobby project in his basement from ages 15-17 for $3500.
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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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