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The World’s Most Interesting Characters

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Here’s how it all comes down. Watch.

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Famous Feet: What It Takes

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“I hit ​​the wall with forward running”

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Rise of the human machines @Jeremymayer

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Her Hobby Horse Hustle

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Meet the Cornhole World Champion @iplaycornhole @GNmattguy

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He quarrels w/ birds

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The Impermanent Art of Wearable Sculptures

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What’s a typewriter?

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This couple earned $100K/yr from sheep shearing

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An exposé on the Internet’s most famous meme. @painharold

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In 1982, a truck driver from North Hollywood ties 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and goes up.

Way up. 🧵

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Do they make it back up? Watch.

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Down there it’s dark, it stinks, and every plank is groaning.

Up top, people are already praying for them.

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Then Drebbel climbs in after them.

The crowd on the bank expects to watch them drown.

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Twelve oarsmen are sealed inside to row it.

Tubes run up to the surface so they can breathe.

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His design starts with an ordinary rowing boat.

He wraps it in leather and greases it to keep the river out.

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So he looks at the Thames and asks the obvious question.

Why not go under it?

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Drebbel is a Dutch inventor in London, and he builds wonders for King James of England.

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In 1620, an inventor takes a rowing boat under the River Thames, with a crew of oarsmen sealed inside.

This is Cornelis Drebbel’s story. 🧵

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Custom woodworking with skateboards @_Adrianmartinus