The Deadliest Sports on Earth: Ranked

Downhill Mountain Biking

Evidently, riding uphill isn't much of a problem. Mountain bikers can travel up to 70 miles per hour straight down a mountainside. Roots, rocks, hikers, and other hard-to-miss obstacles could stand in their way, and they wouldn't know until it was too late. Every crash is life-threatening, or at least extremely painful.

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The More You Know

  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
  • Researchers have found that swearing when in pain may release pain-killing endorphins.
  • After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.
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