Diana Nyad just did something that no other person — not even a 28-year-old version of herself — has ever done. She swam from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, and she did it despite pain, weakness and nearly constant vomiting. She beat the odds. How? “It was not just about the physical, but […]
Charles Blondin was a world-class tightrope-walker who left his audiences gasping with suspense. He thought nothing of taking a death-defying walk with his manager on his shoulders! People would actually take bets on whether Blondin would fall to his doom. After one particularly spectacular performance, Blondin produced a wheelbarrow and asked the spectators a question. […]