A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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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 fall of 30 feet can be survived by most cats.
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