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Alain Robert, the 60-year-old real-life Spider-Man, climbing skyscrapers without ropes over a city skyline
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At 60, Alain Robert Still Scales Skyscrapers with Bare Hands as the Real-Life Spider-Man

Marcus Hutchins sitting in front of multiple monitors in his home office where he discovered the WannaCry kill switch
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Marcus Hutchins Found the Kill Switch That Saved the Internet, But Later Faced Jail for Creating Malware

Matt Stutzman, the armless archer, uses his foot to draw a compound bow during his gold medal match at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
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Meet the ‘Armless Archer’ Who Just Made Paralympic History and Came Close to Shooting a Perfect Game

Kairan Quazi standing outside Starlink headquarters and Elon Musk with Earth in the background
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Meet Kairan Quazi, the 16-year-old Elon Musk hired for Starlink who is now inspiring a new wave of geeks

Trevor Rainbolt playing GeoGuessr on TikTok while identifying locations on a map within seconds
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Meet Trevor Rainbolt, TikTok’s GeoGuessr Legend Who Can Guess Any Location on Earth in Seconds

Julian Brown explains his Plastoline machine that converts plastic waste into usable fuel in his backyard workshop.
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Julian Brown’s Plastoline Turned Trash Into Jet Fuel, But Now the Inventor Is Missing

Masako Wakamiya, 87-year-old Japanese woman, smiling while seated in her cozy home studio. She became the world’s oldest app developer after building an iPhone app at age 80.
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She Coded Her First App at 80, and Now Apple’s CEO Wants to Meet Her

Isao Machii prepares to draw his katana in a dramatic low-light scene, demoIsao Machii prepares to draw his katana in a dramatic low-light scene, demonstrating his world-record sword techniquenstrating his world-record sword technique
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The Real-Life Samurai Who Sliced a Bullet in Mid-Air

Kim Peek reading a book at the library, showcasing his photographic memory and savant abilities.
Geek Of The Day

Kim Peek Was the Real Rain Man Who Remembered 12,000 Books Like a Human Google

Scott Flansburg, the fastest human calculator, sitting at a poker table with math equations on a chalkboard behind him
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Meet the Fastest Human Calculator Who Shattered a Guinness World Record with His Mind in Just 15 Seconds

Stephen Wiltshire drawing a detailed London cityscape from memory after a 20-minute helicopter ride
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The ‘Human Camera’ Who Redrew London From Memory After Just a 20-Minute Helicopter Ride

A serious man in a dark, patterned shirt sits at a desk with a laptop and hacking tools, representing Kevin Mitnick, once the world’s most wanted hacker.
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Meet the World’s Most Wanted Hacker Who Once Broke Into Systems and Later Helped Secure Them

Ziad Fazah on Viva la Musica show where he was tested on 59 languages live
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This man speaks 59 languages and raises the question of whether he truly knows every major one on Earth

Ekow Nimako sculpting a detailed all-black LEGO model of a futuristic African city, Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE, on display in an art gallery.
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The Ghanaian Canadian LEGO Sculptor Building a Black Universe Using Only Black Bricks

Christian Günther-Hanssen, founder of Corvid Cleaning, holding a crow model next to the litter-collecting machine at Science Week in Södertälje, Sweden.
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Swedish Startup Trains Wild Crows to Pick Up Cigarette Butts in Exchange for Food

A man solving a Rubik’s Cube underwater surrounded by floating cubes, representing a Guinness World Record feat by Daryl Tan in 2023.
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Man Solves Rubik’s Cube Underwater in Just 9.29 Seconds

Yaniv Erlich and his research partner working in a lab on DNA data storage technology, wearing lab coats and using pipettes
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This Geek Just Stored Your Entire Digital Life, Including Netflix, Inside Synthetic DNA

Tiny working vacuum cleaner built by 23-year-old Indian student Tapala Nadamuni, shown in his hand next to a housefly for scale
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23-Year-Old Student Builds the World’s Smallest Vacuum Cleaner, and It’s Smaller Than a Shoelace

Ann Makosinski showcasing her battery-free flashlight and science fair project at age 15
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15-Year-Old Girl Builds Flashlight That Works Without Batteries

South Korean artist Tae-hyung Park stacking Jenga blocks into a gravity-defying tower and posing with four Guinness World Records.
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How “The Card Architect” Balanced 3,149 Jenga Blocks on One and Broke the Internet Doing It

This Man Rode 1,450 Feet on Fire as a Living Ghost Rider
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This Man Rode 1,450 Feet on Fire as a Living Ghost Rider

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