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Riding Along With This Crop Duster As He Barely Misses A Tree Is Better Than Top Gun
Video: Top Gun undoubtedly had some of the best air-to-air combat scenes ever put on film, but watching crop duster pilot Butch Fisher skim this field and then barely pull up in time to miss a towering tree might be even more exhilarating.
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Mellow Out Your Day With This Snowboarder’s Peaceful Ride Down A Mountain
Video: The vast majority of snowboarding videos are packed with high-speed slalom runs, over-the-top jumps, and stunts intended to show off a rider’s extreme skills. But watching this video of Alex Pashley gently ploughing through fresh powder as he weaves through trees might be the most relaxing thing you’ll watch this week.
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Watch This Guy Sink A Record-Breaking 201-Metre Basketball Shot From Atop A Waterfall
Video: From the free-throw line – a distance of just 4.6m – I can maybe put the ball in the basket about 20 per cent of the time. I’m not NBA material, but the league might consider drafting the guys from YouTube’s How Ridiculous, who just nailed a seemingly impossible 201.422m basketball shot.
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The Fascinating History Of 10 Extra Letters The English Alphabet Used To Have
Video: At 26 letters long, the English alphabet isn’t the most complicated string of symbols and characters to master, even for a five-year-old. But that’s because it has been put on a strict diet over the years that helped it slim down and shed 10 additional letters that were either deemed superfluous, redundant or just…