Rare white tigers carry a gene that is only present in around 1 in every 10000 tigers.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

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