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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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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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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