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L ina Medina, a Peruvian girl, is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history. She gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days. Medina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Medina was pregnant.

A nnie Edson Taylor was an American school-teacher and adventurer. She was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel without dying. She felt her job as a schoolteacher in Bay City, Michigan was too insignificant, she decided she would be the first person to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and believed that going over the falls would bring her fame and fortune. Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure.

I t is so rare to find a 100-year-old person (we are not talking about Okinawa Island, Japan). However, there was a man in the modern history of the Earth (yeah he is not alien) lived more than two centuries. Li Ching-Yuen, an herbalist, and martial artist lived nearly two centuries and a half of time. He was born in 1677 (his true date of birth was never determined with certainty) and died in 1933 at the age of approximately 256 years. Some source said that during his lifetime, he married 24 women. His 24th wife was 60 years when he died, and he has 200 descendants during his life span.

A ugust 21, 1911, is a day that art historians never forget. That Monday, a humble decorator, Vincenzo Peruggia left the Louvre Museum by a staircase filled with workers, and guards, to the crowded streets of Paris, carrying nothing but the Mona Lisa; Yes! The famous "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci. Vincenzo Peruggia does not require high-tech equipment; he just takes time and patience. This theft made Mona Lisa what today is. This is the story of one of the most famous art theft of the century and its curious protagonist, Vincenzo Peruggia

C hing Shih (aka cheng i sao, zheng yi sao), the Chinese female pirate, considered as most powerful and fearsome pirate in history. She commanded as many as 80,000 pirates and had become a queen of the China Sea in the early 19th century. She was also one of the few pirate captains to retire from piracy.

E lizabeth Robinson, better known as Betty Robinson made history by becoming the first woman who won gold in athletics at the Olympics. It was in 1928 in Amsterdam for 100m. Instead of this, she is known as the girl who rises from the dead. I n 1931, she was presumed dead after a plane crash, but the mistake was discovered at the morgue. She woke up after seven months in a coma. She was completely broken, mentally, and physically, but she didn’t give up. Five years later, Robinson earned another Olympic gold medal in Berlin.

O nly Japanese are capable of such a crazy thing - continue fighting for thirty years after the end of the war because his superior did not come to relieve him from the mission. Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who fought in World War II and did not give up until the mid-1970s. He is well-known among the Japanese as a war hero and a symbol of "never give up."

T he similarities between identical twins are many: basically sharing the same genes, and if they grow together often influence each other's behavior. In some cases, they have markedly different tastes.  However, almost always they show the mutual understanding, that from the outside may seem extraordinary. The story of the Gibbons twins has a more visceral, inexplicable elements.

E arly on the morning of December 1, 1948, police were called to Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. There, they found a sharply dressed middle-aged man, his head resting against the short sea wall, a half-smoked cigarette resting on his collar. He had been dead for several hours.

P eople have always been interested about the secret of long life and what makes some people live for over 100 years. Believe it or not, the five oldest people in the world today were all born in the 1800s! And coincidentally, all of them are women!  Imagine all the milestones in their lifetime.  They have lived through world wars, sinking of the Titanic, development of the aeroplane, invention of television, the space race and eventually the Internet age. In the words of the five oldest people, the secret of their long life is simple, get enough sleep, stay active, exercise every day and eat things you love.

2 7-year-old  Hanuman Chaudhary,  from Nagpur district of Rajasthan, India, was working as a manager at a resort on the Gold Coast in Australia. He was earning 330000 USD a year in Australia.  One fine day, he received a phone call from his father, and that changed his life forever. 

H arold McCluskey was a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant. On August 30, 1976, McCluskey was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as the consequence of an explosion and embedding radioactive americium (Americium is an artificially produced element) in his skull, turning him into the Atomic Man. He was exposed to the largest amount of radioactive americium ever recorded.

L argest ransom ever paid was in 1532 when the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. Atahualpa was held for eight months during which Pizarro extracted the largest ransom in return for a promise to free the Inca emperor. A promise he did not keep as he executed the emperor after being paid the ransom, in a ridiculous trial. The ransom was enough gold & silver to fill a room 22 feet long by 17 feet wide to a height of over 8 feet. It is difficult to specify how much they paid. However, it is recognized as the highest ransom paid in the history of mankind.

M ike Merrill began to engage in his oddly brilliant idea when he was 30 years old back in 2008. At first, he put up for online auction 100,000 shares of himself at the price of $1 a share. The investors were also purchasing into the profits he made outside of his day job as a customer service representative. Initially, he was able to sell 929 shares to his companions. This began to catch the attention from social networks; he starts selling more shares via online auction. 

M ultiple gunshot suicides aren't conceivable, however, possible due to lack of lack of immediate incapacitation in rare case. This case is unbelievable. An Australian man committed suicide by shot in the chest with a shotgun, then in the head with a pistol, then in the throat with a shotgun and still hadn't died until a second shot to the chest with the shotgun.

E sref Armagan was born in 1953 in Turkey, a Painter, but blind. He is an inspiring self-taught man. He learned all on his own how to read and write. He started drawing, using pencil and paper from the age of six, developed a passion for painting without taking any courses. He needs an absolute quiet when working.  He has one goal, to discover, understand the world.