In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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