stackyFACTSBecause human legs are apparently boring, some 19th-century showmen decided to cross enormous distances entirely inverted. Walking on your hands flips your blood flow, exhausts your shoulders instantly, and guarantees you step in awful things, but the applause from deeply confused bystanders was supposedly worth it.
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