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Water park in japan, ocean dome: Largest indoor water park in the world

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The Seagaia Ocean Dome, located in Miyazaki, Japan, was the biggest indoor waterpark in the world. An “Ocean” six times the size of an Olympic pool, filled with 13,500 tons of unsalted, chlorinated water kept heated at 28 degrees Celsius and recognized as the largest simulated pool by the Guinness Book of World Records, measures 12,000 square meters of the sandy beach made from 600 tons of stone. […]

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Shizo Kanakuri’s 1912 Olympic Marathon Finished 54 Years

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At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, and 20.379 seconds. […]

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Nearest Green, America’s first known Black master distiller

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Nathan “Nearest” Green was an African-American head stiller who is now more frequently referred to as a master distiller. He was renowned for imparting his distilling knowledge to Jack Daniel, the creator of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey distiller, after Jack Daniel was freed from slavery following the American Civil War. […]

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Story of Kathrine Switzer: the first woman to run in Boston Marathon

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Before women were allowed to run in the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer participated. A race official attempted to forcefully remove her from the race in 1967, but her boyfriend pushed him down. She was the first female finisher who had a numbered entry in the race. […]

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Self-taught William Kamkwamba built a windmill for his town

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A Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library. […]

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Irena Sendler: woman who rescued Jews during holocaust

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Irene Sendler was the Zegota resistance group’s head of the children’s department. She risked her life to smuggle children out of the Warsaw ghetto, place them with Polish families or orphanages, give each child a new identity, and keep records so that they could be returned to their families. In 1943, the Gestapo arrested and sentenced her to death, but she was rescued by Zegota. […]

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This soon-to-be-closed train station in Japan only serves one passenger

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Japan keeps a defunc train station operational in 2015 for the sole purpose of allowing one girl to go to school every day. Only two stops are made by the train: once when an only one high school student departs for school and once when she returns. […]

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The fearless Annie Lee Cooper

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Annie Lee Cooper was fired in 1963 after attempting to register to vote. She attempted it once more in 1965, but the sheriff ordered her to leave after prodding her in the neck with a club. She then punched him, causing him to fall to the ground. She was imprisoned before ultimately registering to vote. Following the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the sheriff was ousted and subsequently imprisoned for collaborating to transport drugs, but Annie Lee Cooper lived to reach 100 years old and bears her name to this day. […]

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Thomas Baker’s heroic act that earned him the “Medal of Honor” was 8 bullets until death

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Thomas Baker instructed his team to leave him with a pistol and eight bullets propped up against a tree after he was injured. Later, American troops discovered the now-deceased Baker in the same location, lying next to eight dead Japanese soldiers and carrying an empty pistol. […]

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Lucy and Maria The Biracial Twin Sisters with Rare Black and White Skin Colours

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Lucy and Maria Aylmer are twins, but they have a hard time to convincing people. Even though they have mixed-raced parents, their mom was still shocked when the midwife handed her babies she’d expected to look alike, but were complete opposite. […]

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