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The dog who never stopped waiting at the station
In 1924, a puppy named HachikÅ arrived in Tokyo to live with a university professor who doted on him completely, letting him sleep under his bed and greeting him at Shibuya Station every evening after work. Then one day in 1925, the professor didn't come home. HachikÅ didn't understand why, and what he did next, for the better part of a decade, turned a train station in Tokyo into one of the most visited memorials in Japan.
āTo HachikÅ the professor was his father, and Yaeko was his motherā
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A tortoise older than the telephone, the lightbulb, and the postage stamp
Jonathan is estimated to have been born around 1832, older than the telephone, the lightbulb, and the postage stamp. He has lived on the same small Atlantic island through 40 U.S. presidents and 31 island governors, outlasting nearly everyone and everything around him. He is also, by his own vet's account, still remarkably himself: partly blind, without a sense of smell, and still very much interested in his favorite things. What that looks like might surprise you.
āIn spite of losing his sense of smell and being virtually blind from cataracts, his appetite remains keenā
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The sled dog who got the statue, and the one who ran the hardest leg
In the winter of 1925, diphtheria threatened Nome, Alaska, and the only serum in reach was 674 miles away by dog sled, through a blizzard, in temperatures near 30 below zero. More than 20 mushers relayed it across the ice in under a week. Balto led the triumphant final leg into town and became a household name and a Central Park statue. His teammate Togo ran the longest, coldest, most dangerous stretch of all, and history barely remembers him.
āI gave Balto, my lead dog, his head and trusted to him. He never once falteredā
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