The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour.

Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis and slight concussion.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.

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