Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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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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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work “Principia Mathematica”.
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