The Deadliest Sports on Earth: Ranked

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If you're going to go hang gliding, just make sure that you know what you're doing, or you go with a trained professional. We recommend you do both. Hang gliding-related deaths are not necessarily recorded as being connected to hang gliding as a sport, so it's hard to keep track of them. Let's just say, 1 in 560 people who attempt to hang glide will die. 

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The More You Know

  • Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd dusted off their Ghostbusters costumes to visit a terminally ill child who was a fan of the film and wanted to meet them.
  • Humans are the only animals with chins.
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  • Fleas can jump up to 100 times their body length.
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