If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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There's a swing on the edge of a cliff in Ecuador. It has no safety measures and is called the 'Swing at the End of the World'.
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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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