 Mr Bungle
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
 22812 Posts
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Monday, September 06, 2004 9:17:41 AM
age 3: Christian Friedrich Heinecken could read German, French and Latin (though not English) and was a student of history and geography. A year later, he correctly predicted his imminent demise.Holy hell...this is just nuts.
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Brazilian Formula One race-car driver Ayrton Senna da Silva began driving go-karts at age 4. He stopped driving at 34. Wow glad whoever put that one in thought it was funny that he died racing.  |
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Mr Bungle
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
22812 Posts
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Monday, September 06, 2004 9:14:48 AM
By eight weeks of age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken was speaking intelligible German. Many children can't even speak English at that age.Holy sh*t. |
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Mr Bungle
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
22812 Posts
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Monday, September 06, 2004 9:13:16 AM
age 1: By this age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken had read the Pentateuch.Holy crap. |
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 puzzle
Female, 13-17, Canada
5421 Posts
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Monday, September 06, 2004 6:14:42 AM
Michael Tan started studying at Canturbury University for a Bachelors of Science degree in mathematics.(age 7)
Wow...imagine...that's so amazing. |
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 water_proof
Female, 18-29, Western US
18699 Posts
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Monday, September 06, 2004 12:20:07 AM
Yeah...because I'm so jealous of a Nigerian girl who became a mother at 8 and a grandmother at 17. |
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 greenandbLue
Female, 18-29, Western US
33539 Posts
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Sunday, September 05, 2004 3:06:42 AM
It's not too bad.. I wouldn't pride myself on much of this other then the many accomplishments of composers.. Oh well, I thought it would've been worse.. |
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 Cheese King
Male, 18-29, Western US
71952 Posts
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Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:00:33 AM
What a depressing link. |
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 mc80a
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
6177 Posts
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:41:47 PM
Christian Friedrich Heinecken...who is this guy who was reading by age 1? |
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 RaynDrop
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
11029 Posts
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:09:39 PM
(How I compare)At age 19: Writer Jean Cocteau published his first volume of poetry.
(Ok so I had a poem published--in my HS literary mag. Does that count? Maybe?  ) Gore Vidal, who never bothered with college, completed his first novel.
(Umm... I'm bothering with college. Maybe that's my problem...) Henry David Thoreau delivered a Harvard commencement address. Expanding on Emerson's 1836 essay on "Nature", he proposed that man should work one day a week and leave six free for the "sublime revelations of nature."
(I delivered a commencement address--to my graduating eighth grade class... Hmm, Harvard vs. Jr. High...) Horticulturist Luther Burbank read Charles Darwin's book, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Inspired by this, he went on to create hundreds of new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
(I eat fruits and vegetables.)
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 aert
Male, 13-17, Western US
243 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 5:41:25 PM
Baker's apprentice Hanson Crockett Gregory invented the first ring doughnuts by knocking the center out of a fried doughnut. |
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 QwErTyGiRl
Female, 18-29, Europe
10873 Posts
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:10:56 AM
*Gasps* I've been on this planet 15 years and I've accomplished NOTHING!! NOTHING!!!A heck of a lot of people dropped outta school when they were my age. Even Einstein!!  |
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 Malletman
Male, 18-29, Southern US
17281 Posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:52:22 PM
I'm sure the giving birth to her own grandchildren was a surrogate deal, not incest... I hope... |
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 Sleepygean
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
246 Posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:33:09 PM
Well that sure makes me feel good p-ball! I dont feel so alone ne more. |
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 Akito
Female, 18-29, Canada
350 Posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:49:14 AM
[Arlette Rafferty Schweitzer became the first woman to give birth to her own grandchildren.]What the -hell-? ... Oh. Oooh. Ew. Incest. -.- |
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 lapislazuli
Female, 40-49, Western US
49205 Posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:41:32 AM
At age 42:Arlette Rafferty Schweitzer became the first woman to give birth to her own grandchildren. I'll pass, thanks. |
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 MrAwesome
Male, 18-29, Canada
35 Posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:24:07 AM
I think i'm gonna just wait and climb Mt. Fuji when i'm 100. |
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 EMPTYmisty
Female, 18-29, Southern US
29213 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:51:23 PM
"By 18, Billy the Kid was charged with twelve murders."I really ough to catch up... |
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 DaWeirdo
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
42011 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:10:56 PM
Anne Frank wrote the final entry in her diary.Albert Einstein, with poor grades in geography, history and languages, dropped out of school.
Those are some of mine, are those really accomplishments?
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 eastsiderepp
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
7318 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:11:27 PM
Interesting, but otherwise useless. |
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 ACR91276
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
65 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:10:05 PM
i put in 1 year old and got this
By this age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken had read the Pentateuch.the first 5 books of the bible |
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 wildcat07070
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
2164 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:34:14 PM
At age 99:Harold Mark Foster of Owensboro, KY, began learning to read. Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji. Wow. Only 2 people did stuff when they were 99. No one did anything that interesting at my age so I typed in 99. Lol! |
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 wildHUNT
Female, 18-29, Western US
44951 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:02:22 PM
Inventor Samuel Colt patented the Colt six-shooter revolver. (age 22) |
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wildHUNT
Female, 18-29, Western US
44951 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:01:39 PM
"Caresse Crosby became the first person to patent a brassiere, which was made of two handkerchiefs and ribbon sewn together." (at age 22)Damn. |
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 Lady
Female, 13-17, Midwest US
1164 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:29:59 PM
wow. i'm going to have to put myself on that list. well, i could either get really good at piano, singing, writing, or star in a ground breaking film...oh decisions, decisions. |
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 frenchfryz
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
118 Posts
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:29:56 PM
I believe it's an old legend of some sort. |
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