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There are heavyweights in wrestling, and then there’s the McGuire Twins.  Billy and Benny McCrary amassed 1,598 lbs. In the Guinness Book of World Records, that’s enough to make them the “world’s heaviest twins.” At their peak, Billy came in weighing 784 lbs while Benny was 814. The two men were born premature. Their weight

Judith Love Cohen was an aerospace engineer who worked on projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Apollo Space Program.  In popular culture, she’s better known as the mother of musician and actor Jack Black.  From Brooklyn to Los Angeles Judith Love Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933. Her father

The story of Karolina Olsson is one of the biggest mysteries that has perplexed doctors and people of all ages. How can a young girl fall asleep and not wake up for another 32 years? Or did she really sleep? Olsson was raised in Okno, Sweden. One day in 1876, she slipped on ice and

If there ever was a symbol of perseverance and determination, Huang Dafa is it.  When the people in his village lost the ability to access fresh water and irrigate rice because of a severe drought that hit in the 1950s, Dafa dedicated 36 years of his life to bringing that water back. He dug a

Billie Holiday was gifted with one of the most identifiable voices in the history of recorded music. It was a voice that throughout her 26-year career (and since her untimely death in 1959) has indisputably placed her among the all-time “greats.”  Songs like, “Them There Eyes” (1939), “Loverboy” (1941), “Good Morning, Heartache” (1946), and “T’ain’t