A blind American man taught himself to navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include hiking and mountain-biking, and he has now trained over 500 students in his ‘tongue-click’ technique.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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In North Korea, you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.
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