A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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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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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In 2011, there were 3 known cases around the world of twins coming from different fathers.
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