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Pulled by humans who somehow defied the limits of physical endurance. Early rickshaw pullers regularly ran completely barefoot on boiling summer dirt and…
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Originating in nineteenth-century Japan, this involved a man running barefoot through the dirt dragging a cart with a seated aristocrat. It was brutally…
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Enclosed wooden coaches in the winter were essentially rolling freezers. To avoid losing toes to frostbite, miserable passengers would pre-heat large bricks…
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Tony Jannus piloted the world's very first scheduled commercial airline flight in 1914, transporting a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay in a trip that…
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Roller coasters were initially introduced to American society in the eighteen eighties as a morally upright distraction designed to keep people away from the…
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