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Tired of the same old houses? Check out these more creative approaches to living.

Women were vital to America's war effort during the 1940s, & the country's female pilots notched 60 million miles in the air proving it.

During the 9/11 attacks if it floated, it was needed. Half a million New Yorkers rescued by a Coast Guard-led fleet of tugboats and yachts.

You know their creations, but these inventors aren't proud of their handiwork.

Forget math and physical education, try these much more unique subjects.

Bored of soccer and hockey? Try out these more creative sports.

If you don't mind severe burns, animal cruelty, concussion-by-cheese-wheel or even death then these high-risk festivals might be for you.

Hair of the dog? Chugging raw eggs? Here's where cures for the dreaded hangover originated.

Watch out for these unusual medical conditions.

Japan's Glück Kingdom is an abandoned German-themed amusement park that mysteriously closed its gates 10 years ago.

Larry Brilliant is a rock 'n' roll doctor whose epic journeys have lead him from Grateful Dead tours all the way to helping cure smallpox.

Some call it the Well to Hell, others say it's just plain deep. There's nothing else like it on Earth, but now we want to go even deeper.

These objects might not be quite as powerful as a locomotive, but they might be faster than the average cheetah.

China has a plan, & it's a doozy. It only involves trillions of dollars in potential spending & more than half the planet's population.

No one is supposed to like Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. His family didn't, which is why his nephew joined the US Navy to fight against him.

It's astounding what life will do to adapt and survive, no matter the environmental extremes it's surrounded by.

They came, they saw, they kicked some serious Nazi ass. These amazing women all went beyond the call of duty in their fight for freedom.

Can we bring the nuclear fusion power of the sun & stars to Planet Earth? The new documentary Let There Be Light follows the scientists who think we can.

54 men beat & kick one another senseless on a dirt field while fighting for a ball. Sound like fun to you? Check out Calcio Storico.

Are you into football? What about extreme ironing? These sports are certainly unusual. Snowboarding is quite extreme, but have you ever heard of volcano boarding? It was a first for us before we came across this video! Riders that visit volcano slopes in Nicaragua use metal boards to slide down volcanoes. These brave daredevils go down the active volcano at up to 95 km per hour. Try not to get burnt while doing this, please! If that was not weird enough, what say you about a sport called “octopush”? This <a href="https://rumble.com/v4lsdf-kite-boarding-a-winter-sport-in-saskatchewan.html" target="_blank">sport</a> was invented in the 195s, as a winter sport for scuba divers. The rules of the game are the same as those for ice hockey, but players wear speedos and goggles instead of skates and pads. The Finnish love to carry their wives on their backs. The Wife Carrying Contest required a man to carry his female partner through a 250-meter obstacle course. But fear not mates, the standard prize for winning this odd contest is your partner’s weight in beer! Now we got it! There are brave people in this world who do their ironing by themselves. And this is not any ironing, it is called extreme ironing because this sport has players going to strange locations to iron a shirt. Competitors have ironed on top of a massive mountain, while skiing, and wherever else they can think of. They have no excuses, do you? Cheese Rolling in England. Since the 19th century, this event has seen players chase a wheel of cheese down a steep hill. The goal is to capture the cheese. Whoever wins keeps the cheese – along with several bumps and bruises. Bo-taoshi is a Japanese sport that features as many as 300 players. Teams try to take down their opponent’s pole. Everything and anything is allowed. Players can kick, punch, or do whatever it takes to win. Have you ever heard of chess boxing? Well, this sport can be won by checkmate or knockout. It is not strange, it is simply – French! It involves 11 four-minute rounds of boxing, with chess breaks in between. India is famous for yoga, but now there is a new sport that combines yoga and skating – it is limbo skating! Competitors use roller skates to limbo under poles at high speed. In 2017, the world record was set by an eight-year-old who traveled 145 meters while limbo skating. This list gets weirder and weirder and almost near the top is something called toe <a href="https://rumble.com/v4fsdd-dogs-molly-and-gracie-snow-wrestling.html" target="_blank">wrestling</a>. Of course, it comes from England! This sport has players going toe-to-toe, literally. It was invented at a bar in 1974 after UK athletes failed to win any world sporting championship. Wing walking is a US sport which dates back to the 1920s, and now has thrill-seekers standing on the wings of a plane during flight. You must remember those old black-and-white movies with the brave stunt people walking the wings mid-flight. Of course, you do! Do not worry about the wing walkers, they are strapped to the plane, so it is sort of safe.

New Yorkers are a hardy breed, & the amazing fact that their not-too-distant relatives used to eat raw oysters from the Hudson proves it.

Sure, bees may sting us on occasion but it's a small price to pay for all the great stuff we get to eat because of them. It's not just about the honey-if bees were to disappear our diets would never be the same.

Wrapped up in all the negativity that's on the news right now? Here's a friendly reminder of the awesome stuff that's also going on.

We all know we need to be doing more about global warming, but the question is how exactly do we do that? Here's 10 ways we can start.

There's a $110 billion nuclear clean-up waiting to happen in America. Welcome to the Hanford Nuclear Site, the most toxic place in America.