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The 9 de Julio Avenue is so ridiculously wide that crossing it as a pedestrian is essentially a multi-stage athletic event. City planners demolished entire…
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Plunging deep underground in a soot-filled metal tube with barely any internal lighting was somehow considered the absolute pinnacle of modern luxury.
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Someone's entire grueling job was fiercely staring at falling sand for months on end so the navigator wouldn't completely lose track of where they were.
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He paid an absolute fortune just to sit uncomfortably on a wicker chair in a tiny seaplane for twenty minutes, mostly out of sheer spite for taking a boat.
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The Katoomba Scenic Railway is the steepest passenger railway in the world, dropping at an absurd 52-degree angle. It essentially turns a simple sightseeing…
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Before this arbitrary system, catching a ride meant desperately guessing your town's localized high noon compared to the destination's wildly different noon.
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