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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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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A fall of 30 feet can be survived by most cats.
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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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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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