In Japan, there are professional line-standers called 'daikō' who wait in queues for busy people for up to $40 per hour

A police helmet became the most famous fig leaf in sports history 🎩

He shot a fishing line between the Twin Towers with a bow and arrow. 🎯

The Woman Who Quit Money

The Math Genius Mugging

The Boathouse Victims

Benjamin Franklin had 1,200 human bones buried under his London house. 💀

Fauja Singh, a British-Indian marathon runner born on April 1, 1911 in Punjab, completed the 2011 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8 hours and 11 minutes at the age of 100, becoming the first centenarian reported to finish a marathon distance, though Guinness did not ratify the record due to the lack of a birth certificate.

The Men Who Broke the Rules and Lived

A parrot in Manhattan learned 950 English words. 🦜

Astronauts use a 25-mile eye in the desert to check their bearings. 👁️

The reactor was melting. They sent men in with rags. ☢️

Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.