A man named Mbah Gotho of Indonesia claims to be 146 years old, and there is a photo of his government ID card to prove it. The card shows his birth date as December 31, 1870. He has outlived all 10 of his siblings, four wives, and his children.
There’s a beaver dam located in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberto, Canada, that is so large it can be seen from outer space. It spans 2,789 feet across.
In 2013, Navy Veteran Lonnie Bedwell became the first completely blind kayaker to paddle the entire length of the Grand Canyon, 226 miles in a solo kayak. It took him16 days.
In 1979, a woman named Elvita Adams attempted suicide by jumping off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. She survived when a gust of wind blew her back onto a ledge on the 85th floor.
A boa constrictor has an innate ability to sense its prey’s heartbeat. If it senses a heartbeat, the snake will add more pressure until it feels no heartbeat.
There is a humpback whale that has been tracked by Green Peace since 2008 called Mr. Splashy Pants.
About half of Australia’s koalas have chlamydia. In fact, their strain of koala chlamydia can also infect humans.
Mathematician Katherine Johnson is known as the “computer.” Her obsession with counting allowed her to skip ahead in high school at the age of 10, and in 1961 she calculated the trajectory of NASA’s first manned trip into space and was correct.
Ann Hodges from Alabama is the only confirmed person in history that has ever been hit by a meteorite. On a clear day in November of 1954, she was having a nap on her couch when a soft-ball-sized hunk of black rock broke through her ceiling, bounced off a radio, and hit her in the thigh, leaving a pineapple-shaped bruise.
Back in 1994, a man named Tony Cicoria was struck by lightning while standing next to a public telephone and was resuscitated by a nurse who was waiting to use that phone. Not long after his recovery, he noticed that his head became flooded with music, so he went out and bought a piano, and is now a successful composer and performer.
