In 1915, a woman arrived late at her sister's funeral. When she arrived, she demanded that her sister's coffin be raised so that she could see her one last time.

When the coffin lid was opened, Essie sat up and smiled at her. She lived for 47 more vears.

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Mihailo Tolotos reportedly passed away at age 82 without ever seeing a woman.

Orphaned at birth, he spent his entire life as a monk in a monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, where women have been strictly forbidden for centuries.

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Until recently, steel for scientific and medical use had to come from sunken battleships, as all steel made after 1945 was tainted with radiation from nuclear testing.

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Japan has created over 250 square kilometers of new land by burning garbage and using the leftover ash for land reclamation.

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Soviets created a poison called c-2 that physically shrunk human subjects and killed them within 15 minutes from administration.

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In 2017, a 4-year-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving.

After speaking with her blind grandfather, she walked 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead, where she successfully found help for her grandmother.

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The strangers in our dreams are actually real people who have crossed our path at least once in our lifetime.

Our brain simply stores their faces, and our subconscious may end up casting them in our dreams during REM sleep.

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The Philippines consists of about 7,641 islands. If you spent one day on each, it would take you nearly 21 years to visit them all.

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A Syrian boy with a genetic condition causing extremely fragile skin spent most of his life covered in open wounds and wasn't expected to survive.

Doctors in Germany used gene therapy to repair his DNA and grew 9 square feet of healthy skin grafts from his modified cells, allowing him to now live a normal life.

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There are eight churches in Antarctica.

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Jonathan, a tortoise hatched around 1832, is the world's oldest known living land animal, aged 192 years.

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In 2013, a woman from Belgium intended to pick up a friend in Brussels, about 90 miles away.

Due to a GPS error, she drove over 900 miles across five countries, reaching Croatia after two days, unaware of her mistake.

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Astronauts on the ISS do not wash or dry their clothes. Instead, they wear each item until it's too dirty or smelly, then pack it into waste capsules that burn up in Earth's atmosphere during re-entry.

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Bats in the U.S.consume vast quantities of insects, providing natural pest control that saves farmers an estimated $23 billion annually in reduced crop damage and pesticide use.

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The Aquatic fern Azolla is extremely effective at pulling CO2 from the air Around 50 million years ago, massive Azolla blooms in the Arctic helped lower atmospheric CO2 and triggered global cooling.

Today, scientists are exploring its potential to fight climate change.

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If you lived in a basement your whole life, you would age a few nanoseconds longer than someone living in a second-story apartment.

This is due to stronger gravity closer to Earth slowing time more, so time literally passes slightly faster upstairs near a building's top.

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Millennials aged 18-34 are now more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner-the first time this has happened since record-keeping began in 1880.

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Indian women hold about 11% of the world's gold-more than the combined reserves of the USA, IMF, Switzerland, and Germany.

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There are more people in the Tokyo metropolitan area than in Canada.

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In 1875, an estimated 12 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts spread across 198,000 square miles of the Great Plains, weighing around 27.5 million tons.

They stripped all plant life--and even ate clothes off farmers who tried to shoo them away.

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