Every year dozens of refrigerator-shaped men from the four corners of the globe lift heavy stone orbs and punch logs into dust to be crowned “The World’s Strongest Man”. Which seems a little odd when you realise that according to obscure court ruling from the 80’s, anyone can legally claim to be the world’s strongest man without having to prove it.
That time reporters dared a blind man to walk into traffic
Nowadays seeing eye dogs are largely able to go almost anywhere their human master is without restriction. A fact that is largely credited to the tireless work of a guy called Morris Frank, a man whom reporters dared to walk into traffic on literally the first day he owned a guide dog.
Shipwreck Kelly, the Gigolo Daredevil
Back in the 1920 Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly managed to become one of the most famous men in the United States by sitting atop large poles and then charging people to watch him sit and do nothing. Not content with making money doing what we do for free only 300 feet in the air, Alvin then went on to become a gigolo, which is apparently a perfectly normal career path for a daredevil in the 20’s.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger made the Terminator terrifying (with his eyes)
As we’ve discussed before Arnold Schwarzenegger basically stumbled ass-backwards into the role of the Terminator. However just because the actor never actually wanted to be a time travelling murder-skeleton, it doesn’t mean he didn’t put a shit ton of effort into playing what would become his most famous role.
The Awesome Reason Paul Walker Appeared in Eight Below
With the recent release of Furious 7, we now live in a post Paul Walker movie world, so we thought we’d share one of the more adorable stories from Walker’s filmography, more specifically the brilliant reason he decided to appear in Eight Below, a movie about a man who who goes to Antarctica to save a bunch of dogs who’d previously saved his life to pay back the life debt he clearly owed to them.
