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00:01What you're about to see could be disturbing to some viewers.
00:06Viewer discretion is advised.
00:14What if I told you there's a fearless man who tugs heavy machinery with a rather delicate appendage?
00:21This man is going to pull this 8-ton semi-truck, but not with his body, not with his legs.
00:27What he's actually going to do is a lot stranger.
00:31Or that a drunken double dare turned a city street into a landing strip.
00:36He has no lights on, no radio contact with air traffic control.
00:40This landing would be impossible for a sober pilot, but this guy has been pounding drinks.
00:47How about an elderly lion who loves his way into the record books?
00:52He's arthritic, he's so toothless that his tongue just hangs out of his mouth.
00:56When Frasier limps his way over, suddenly the lionesses all perk up.
01:03Before you know it, there's lion cubs everywhere.
01:06These are the feats so astonishing, they are truly unbelievable.
01:12Some war stories are hard to believe, but this one's impossible to forget.
01:28It's a tale of one man, one mission, and one of the most impressive achievements in military history.
01:36It's April of 1945. A 24-year-old Canadian recon sniper by the name of Leo Major, along with his buddy, Corporal Willie Arsenault, are crawling on their bellies on the outskirts of Zwolle, Netherlands, in an attempt to gain information about Nazi troops in the area, with the hopes that a larger force will then liberate the town from Nazi control.
01:59Major is a war-hardened vet. Just after D-Day, he took a phosphorous grenade to the face and actually lost an eye.
02:09An injury like that could have gotten a soldier a ticket home, but Major insists he only needs one eye to shoot as many Germans as he can.
02:17This is supposed to be exclusively a recon mission. Identify where the Germans are, how many there are of them, and that is that. It's not supposed to be an active combat situation.
02:31But the Germans spot them, and in an instant, the recon mission explodes into a firefight.
02:38Major and Arsenault begin shooting.
02:42Now, pretty quickly, Arsenault gets shot twice. Major takes out two more Germans before turning his full attention to his buddy, Arsenault, who is dead.
02:53Major has lost people in combat before, but now he's lost his best friend. This is personal.
03:04Major decides to take revenge and demolish the entire German garrison all by himself.
03:12Major has done some shockingly brave stuff before, but to attempt to liberate a town entirely by yourself, that has suicide mission written all over it.
03:22Instead of going in guns blazing, Major takes a different approach.
03:28He spots a German officer's adagent, the attendant, outside of a tavern.
03:34He sneaks up behind him with his pistol, disarms him, and says, take me to your boss.
03:41When he comes face to face with this senior German officer, Major acts like he's doing the guy a favor.
03:48He tells him that the Canadian forces are ready to pummel this town, and he says if he wants to save German lives, they need to leave now.
04:01Major doesn't really know if he is dealing with somebody that is going to take his warning to heart, or is he just going to stand firm and follow the orders of the Fuhrer.
04:10This is a spectacularly crazy move, but this officer doesn't understand why anybody would just give up this information.
04:19So he presumes this guy must have some very serious backup nearby.
04:25As a final power move, Major hands the sidearm back to the driver, and then disappears into the night.
04:32With the seeds of fear planted, one man embarks on a daring deception to make the Germans believe an entire army is closing in.
04:39Major spends the night creating chaos.
04:43He tosses grenades here, moves to a new position, fires his machine gun there.
04:49To the Germans, it sounds like an onslaught of a battalion, a regiment.
04:54Who knows how many Canadians have surrounded the town?
04:58Any German forces that he does encounter in the streets, he mows them down with his machine gun.
05:03So now, you've got bodies in the streets.
05:08And the coup de grace, when Major finds the Gestapo headquarters, he sets it on fire.
05:15The Germans are freaking out at this point, and as these Nazis start fleeing, he starts picking them off one at a time.
05:24By 4 o'clock in the morning, there is not a single Nazi left in Zwolle.
05:30Leo Major has managed to liberate an entire town by himself.
05:38Leo cements his status as a brilliant war hero.
05:42He is awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
05:45He even goes on to serve in the Korean War, where he's awarded yet another Distinguished Service Medal.
05:54To this day, Dutch kids still learn all about Leo Major in school.
05:57But not every incredible feat makes the history books.
06:01Take, for example, the remarkable tale of an ambitious seafaring monk.
06:06So kids get taught in school that Columbus discovered America in 1492.
06:12But there are other theories that have gotten legs over the years, like the Vikings discovering Newfoundland in the 10th century,
06:20or even the Chinese, shortly before Columbus landing on the west coast.
06:26But long before any of them, one Irish monk may have gotten there first.
06:30A 6th century Irish monk, St. Brendan, supposedly embarked on a westward journey seeking the Garden of Eden.
06:44The account of which appears in his book, The Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot.
06:49Most scholars read this as an allegory, the story of a religious passion.
06:57But some read into it as an actual literal travelogue.
07:02The story of a voyage from Ireland all the way to Canada.
07:06Allegedly, Brendan travels this 4,500-mile trek, not in a wood-timbered ship like the Nina Pinta in Santa Maria of Columbus,
07:18but in a leather-hulled tiny little ship called a Couric.
07:23Now, if this were true, it would rewrite history.
07:26But how can you prove that a small, ancient leather boat could cross the North Atlantic?
07:32In 1976, a historian named Tim Severin sets out to do just that.
07:39Follow the voyage of St. Brendan.
07:43With a team of boat builders, scholars, and drinking buddies,
07:47Tim painstakingly makes an authentic courash,
07:50using only methods and materials available at the time of the initial voyage.
07:55Instead of wood planking, the hull is covered with ox hides
08:01that are stretched and stitched together to cover the frame.
08:07Tim sets sail from Ireland in May of 1976.
08:12Next to this boat, an auto sail in it.
08:15He heads north and takes Brendan's voyage,
08:19in which he sails in a stepping-stone route,
08:22from Ireland to Scotland to the Faroe Islands to Iceland to Greenland
08:26Newfoundland and then to Newfoundland and North America.
08:30The North Atlantic is perpetually inhospitable.
08:35The waves and swells are enormous.
08:39But the waves end up being the least of their problems.
08:43A large piece of ice tears a hole in the hull below the waterline,
08:48and they start to flood.
08:50This is basically their worst nightmare.
08:53To make a repair in the hull while you're sinking in frigid water seems next to impossible.
09:01Miraculously, they are able to stitch a patch over the tear while they bail the boat out.
09:09They survive, but they still have thousands of miles to go.
09:13This is not a pleasure cruise.
09:16They are near hypothermic, their clothes are sopping,
09:19and their food supply is constantly wet,
09:23which means they have to rely on catching seagulls to eat.
09:28Not that it does any help because they're constantly seasick and unable to keep anything down.
09:35Incredibly, Tim and his crew push through for another 13 brutal months.
09:40And in June of 1977, the shores of North America are in sight.
09:45To the world's amazement, Severin and his ragtag crew actually arrive in Newfoundland.
09:52They're wet, they're bearded, they're emaciated, but they've made the point.
09:57Saint Brendan could have made this voyage.
10:00Saint Brendan.
10:04Thirteen grueling months dodging icebergs in a leather boat.
10:09At least they knew which saint to pray to.
10:10When it comes to record-breaking feats, there's no shortage of unusual accomplishments,
10:15like our next overachiever who pulls his way to the top with a surprising body part.
10:23In the city of Tbilisi in Georgia, an excited crowd gathers around.
10:29In the center of this large crowd, you have an eight-ton semi-truck.
10:33Standing in front of the semi-truck is this large, imposing man by the name of Lasha Padaraya.
10:40At first glance, you might think this guy's gonna attach a harness to him and he's gonna pull this eight-ton semi-truck.
10:45Not the case here.
10:47What he's actually gonna do is a lot stranger.
10:50You see, Lasha uses his ears, specifically his left ear, to pull heavy equipment in front of adoring crowds.
10:59He's already done it with a seven-ton aircraft, but today he's raising the stakes and hopefully earning a new world record.
11:05If eight tons of raw industrial mite against one delicate ear doesn't sound like a fair fight, that's because it isn't.
11:13The human ear is remarkably fragile.
11:16It has three small ligaments, three small muscles, and that's all that's keeping it attached.
11:22It only takes between 20 and 50 pounds of pressure to tear those ear ligaments and even pull the ear wide open.
11:29So what on earth drives Lasha to attempt something so impossible?
11:33Or, dare I say, inadvisable?
11:36One day when Lasha is working out in the gym, he sees another wrestler, as a joke, lifting these five-pound weights using his ear.
11:44Now, while everybody's having a good laugh, Lasha looks at it and says, I could do that with even heavier weight.
11:50He decides in that moment, I am going to have the strongest ears on the planet.
11:55And so he starts training.
11:56Lifting heavier and heavier things, hunks of metal, parts of cars, whatever is necessary to build up the strength in that left ear.
12:05All this daily training gets Lasha to the point where, as far as he's concerned, his ear is superhuman.
12:13And he decides he has to demonstrate this power that he has acquired from this practice.
12:18He kicks off these public displays with a 5.5-ton tow truck, then a helicopter, each success pushing the boundaries of human engineering and medical science.
12:28Now, Lasha's ready to take on his most daring challenge yet, the 8-ton semi-truck.
12:35With the crowd gathered around him in the truck, Lasha attaches this white strap to his ear, and he starts to roll with all of his might.
12:42And to the crowd's amazement, the truck moves, and eventually starts to roll.
12:49Lasha is ecstatic, but the real miracle here is that his ear stays attached to his head.
12:59If you think that's wild, this next feat is a little harder to stomach.
13:09Every year, thousands of parents rush their kids to emergency rooms, panicking because they've swallowed something they're not supposed to.
13:17Marbles, metal toys, coins, batteries, you name it.
13:20And they should be worried. Small objects can lacerate their throat or their gut.
13:27They can block the intestines. Batteries can burn the lining of the digestive tract.
13:33There are a whole host of problems that could arise.
13:36Thankfully, most kids grow out of this. But there's one who doesn't.
13:41In 1959, in Grenoble, France, a 9-year-old boy, Michel Letito, develops an unusual eating habit.
13:48He has this insatiable appetite for really strange things.
13:54Tires, TV knobs, glass, metal.
13:57There is a word for this compulsion. It's called pica.
14:01And it's a psychological condition where the sufferer has this compulsion to eat things that have no nutritional value.
14:07But incredibly, Michel is able to live through it and grows up as a healthy kid who just likes eating crazy stuff.
14:15By the time he reaches 16, though, Michel realizes this is not quite the curse his doctors have been telling him.
14:24This is actually a skill he can turn into an act.
14:27So Michel begins demonstrating this amazing feat for crowds.
14:31He dazzles audiences by gobbling down chunks of rubber, bits of glass and metal.
14:38Nothing is too big, too sharp or too dangerous for Michel.
14:42We're talking 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, 7 TV sets, 6 chandeliers, 2 beds, a pair of skis and a computer.
14:52But his biggest conquest of all? An entire Cessna light aircraft.
14:58You can't eat an entire plane in one big lump.
15:02You have to break it up into little pieces, which is what Michel does.
15:06I mean, he's eating the propellers, the rudders, the wheels, all of it.
15:11Of course, the most amazing thing is probably not that he ate the entire plane, but that he actually suffers fairly few ill effects.
15:18Obviously, doctors are wondering how he's not managed to kill himself.
15:24And some are wondering, is there some kind of trickery or sleight of hand that's involved?
15:29So to check, they take x-rays in real time to see what's happening.
15:33And they can actually see that metal and glass are going down through the digestive tract as he's eating.
15:41Of course, these chunks of metal and slabs of rubber, he's not actually able to digest those things.
15:46Those are just passing through.
15:49Surprisingly, the one thing he can't eat are bananas.
15:53As crazy as this sounds, he claims that it reacts with all the metal and gives him indigestion.
16:00Michel's feats of outrageous eating are beyond impressive.
16:04But one thing's for certain, if you have him over for dinner, don't use the good silverware.
16:09We've all seen bar bets go a little too far.
16:15Someone ends up with a dart in their shoulder or learns what a urinal cake tastes like.
16:21But they usually don't end up making the morning papers.
16:23September 30th, 1956, 3 o'clock in the morning, we see one Thomas Fitzpatrick, former Air Force pilot, drunkenly stumbling onto the tarmac of the Teterboro Airport School of Aeronautics.
16:38Thomas is there because he's going to try to steal a plane.
16:44Thomas is a drinker.
16:46And this whole thing started in his local Manhattan bar where he is talking about how he was the fastest pilot in his Air Force squadron.
16:56And he's telling them all the details of his many accomplishments.
17:00But he's also pounding drinks.
17:03Then one of Thomas's drunken friends makes him the bet that he can't make it out to Teterboro and back before the bar closes.
17:12And Thomas is not going to turn down this bet. His honor is at stake.
17:16With the clock ticking, Thomas heads to Teterboro Airport, eyes the lineup and zeroes in on the perfect plane.
17:23A single engine Cessna.
17:27He then gets it started and takes off completely undetected.
17:33He has no lights on, no radio contact or air traffic control.
17:38He proceeds to fly to New York and the entire time no one has figured out that he has stolen an airplane.
17:45Thomas is attempting now to land the single engine Cessna on St. Nicholas Avenue and 191st Street directly in front of the bar.
17:53That he was drinking in as per the bet.
17:56This is the kind of landing that would be impossible for a stone cold sober pilot.
18:02For one thing, there are wind gusts through Manhattan that wreak havoc.
18:06And these buildings are pretty close together.
18:08There are cars in the street.
18:10It's just not a safe place to put a plane down.
18:13But somehow, Thomas Fitzpatrick sticks the landing.
18:20Once people realize he has parked a plane outside, the bar erupts in cheers.
18:26Except probably for the people that had bet against this and have now lost all of their paycheck.
18:30Everybody is so impressed with this.
18:34And the New York Times calls it a great feat of aerognautics and a fine landing.
18:39And while he's fined about $100, which is roughly $1,200 today, the owner does not even want to press charges for stealing the plane.
18:47Thomas continues to boast about this achievement for years, but people in the bar are not as enthused to hear this story.
18:57And the regulars have cycled out and new ones are there.
19:00And they don't all believe this happened because they did not see it with their own eyes.
19:04And so they kind of start to goad him and be like, yeah, yeah, that's great. Bet you can't do it again.
19:11Not one to back down, Thomas sets out to do the unthinkable again.
19:16On October 4, 1958, just a little bit before 1 a.m., Thomas, intoxicated, goes to the same airfield as before, steals a single-engine Cessna, and does it again.
19:27This time, he puts the plane down on 187th Street, right in front of a Yeshiva University building.
19:35But the reception is not as good as the first time around.
19:39For his second stolen flight, a New York judge sentences him to six months in prison,
19:45with the judge stating that had you been properly jolted the first time, this likely would never have happened again.
19:50In response, Thomas blames it on, quote, the lousy drink, a.k.a. don't blame me, blame it on the alcohol.
19:59Our next go-getter doesn't need liquid courage. He's smashing records sober. And there are hundreds on his hit list.
20:09It's a lovely day in Brooklyn, New York. The sun is shining, birds are chirping.
20:13And because this is New York, a wild-eyed crazy man starts running through the streets with a bottle of milk balanced on his head.
20:20The guy's name is Ashrita Furman, and he's training to beat a world record to run a mile the fastest while balancing a bottle of milk on your head.
20:29And the really funny part is that this is not the only wacky record that he's training for.
20:34In fact, Ashrita holds the most meta record of all time. He has the Guinness World Record for most Guinness World Records held by one person.
20:46These records include poem recited in the most languages, world's largest incense stick, fastest 5k in swimming fins, world's largest crayon, heaviest shoes ever walked in, and most pumpkins smashed in a minute.
21:00The previous record was 15 pumpkins smashed in one minute, and we did 31 just now.
21:08Just where does this insatiable quest to be the best of the weirdest come from?
21:13Long before he's Ashrita, Keith Furman is a kid determined to find his way.
21:17Back in the 1960s, a young Keith Furman becomes obsessed with the Guinness Book of World Records, but he's really not blessed with incredible athletic skill or ability to actually become a traditional record holder himself.
21:33But when he hits his 20s, he immerses himself in Eastern spirituality, in particular the teachings of a guru by the name of Sri Chinmoy.
21:43And what Chinmoy convinces him of is that it's all mind over matter.
21:47It doesn't matter that he's not the strongest man in the world or particularly athletic.
21:53All he has to do is set his mind to it.
21:56And what Chinmoy does is enter him in a 24-hour bike marathon.
22:02And shockingly, using his meditation techniques that he's learned from Chinmoy, Furman places third.
22:09Shocked by his own accomplishment and inspired by Chinmoy, Furman changes his name from Keith to Ashrita, which means protected by God.
22:18And he takes aim at his beloved Guinness World Record book.
22:22He starts with a pretty straightforward goal.
22:24He wants to hold the Guinness World Record for the most jumping jacks.
22:28And in 1979, he actually achieves that world record by doing 27,000 of them.
22:34Then comes a game-changing epiphany.
22:38The weirder the record, the better Ashrita's chances are of claiming it.
22:43Why would you participate in these normal activities when you could instead pioneer underwater pogo sticking?
22:50Why would you bother with a marathon when instead you could push an orange with your nose farther than anybody else ever has?
22:57His greatest hits include underwater juggling, mountain climbing on stilts, pogo stick basketball dribbling, most candles lit in one minute.
23:08The list of things he's done just goes on and on and on.
23:11He shows no signs of slowing down.
23:14Maybe the best part of it all, as weird as it is, is that he seems to be having an absolute blast doing it.
23:21Sure, everybody's good at something, but it turns out only one man is the best at 700 of them.
23:28History has its share of silver-haired seducers. Casanova, Ben Franklin, Hugh Hefner, but one lion gives them all a run for their money and proves age really is just a number.
23:43In the early 1970s, a revolutionary idea takes hold in zoos. Rather than cages, why not a place where the animals can roam free? Thus, in California, we have lion country safari.
24:02The general public is invited to drive past big predators like lions and tigers within the supposed safety of the family car.
24:16If you tip the attendants well enough, they will throw meat onto the car itself so that the lions climb up for a meal.
24:25In addition to being an attraction, these wildlife parks also have another mission, which is to breed captive lions for selling to other parks and zoos.
24:39The problem is, in this California park, the lions aren't breeding.
24:44What they fail to realize is that these lions and lionesses, they grew up together.
24:49They were in the same packs and groups, so they behave as if they were siblings. There's almost a genetic taboo from them mating. In essence, the lionesses friend-zone the male lions.
25:05Around the same time, there's a circus in Tijuana that's going bankrupt, and they have this very old lion named Frazier.
25:13Lion country safari agrees to take him in so he can retire there.
25:16This lion is 19, and that's like 80 in human years.
25:21He's arthritic, he's so toothless that his tongue just hangs out of his mouth, and he's got this patchy mane that looks like some kind of sad lion comb-over.
25:31He may not have the looks, but what this lion does have is plenty of mojo.
25:36When Frazier limps his way over to where the pride is sunning themselves, suddenly the lionesses all perk up, like he is the lion that they've been dreaming of.
25:50Soon, Frazier has a whole harem of lionesses.
25:53They go with him everywhere.
25:56They bring him food.
25:58They pillow his head when he lies down.
26:02They walk beside him holding him up because he's so unsteady.
26:07They also breed with him.
26:10A lot.
26:11Before you know it, there's lion cubs everywhere, and not like four or five.
26:24Frazier fathers 35 lion cubs.
26:28This is with 11 lionesses in just 18 months.
26:34No zookeeper has ever seen anything like this.
26:37And of course, this isn't happening behind closed doors.
26:41This is all on display for the public, and in the freewheeling 70s, Frazier becomes a sensation.
26:49The zookeepers know that they've struck gold, and so they make him their mascot.
26:55Naming him Frazier the sensuous lion.
26:59He becomes mainstream famous.
27:01A low-budget movie is made about him.
27:04Sarah Vaughn records a song about him.
27:07People start producing Frazier for President bumper stickers.
27:11According to some accounts, Frazier receives upwards of 1,500 fan letters a month,
27:17many of which are from fellow older men asking,
27:21what exactly is the zoo feeding him?
27:23Sadly, in July of 1972, Frazier the sensuous lion, who brought unrelenting joy to countless fans,
27:31and at least 11 female lions, passes away.
27:35What was the cause of death?
27:37Basically, he died of old age.
27:39He was, after all, near the human equivalent of 100 years old.
27:45Frazier ruled the pride.
27:46But the next animals you'll meet are mastering something totally different.
27:51The highway.
27:53Anyone who has ever had a dog in their life knows that nothing gets them more excited than saying,
28:00who wants to go for a ride?
28:02We've all seen dogs sticking their heads out of car windows and enjoying the wind in their face.
28:07But what we don't usually see is a dog actually driving the car.
28:122012 in New Zealand, some dog trainers decide they want to up the game for the rescue dogs that aren't being adopted quickly enough.
28:23And they're going to train them to do an amazing stunt.
28:26And so, drive a car.
28:29Of course, you can't just throw your dog into the car and expect it to take the wheel.
28:35So, they build a simulator that they can tow and the dogs can get used to how they have to control this moving vehicle.
28:43Meanwhile, the tech crew is also modifying a Mini Cooper with all of the same stuff so that the dogs could actually drive a real-life car instead of just a simulator.
28:54And after just eight weeks, Moni, a dog with a scruffy gray coat, is ready to give it a whirl.
29:03It's not just one dog. They teach a terrier mix named Porter to drive two.
29:09This is the real deal. There's no CGI here.
29:13And so, of course, these videos go viral.
29:17The shelters are besieged by adoption requests.
29:21And so, in addition to getting to teach dogs how to drive cars, they fulfill the real goal, which is to find these dogs loving homes.
29:33Would I adopt such an unbelievable pup? Yes.
29:38Would I also hide my keys? Yes.
29:41There's nothing heroic about being a criminal unless you're so incredibly great at it that the whole world has to applaud your genius.
29:54It's a quiet Friday morning in the upscale Banco Rio branch in Buenos Aires when a group of men in costume come running in and announce this is a hold-up.
30:07This is a very organized crew. They immediately round up bankers and security and customers and secure them as hostages. However, despite their meticulous planning, an alarm has gone off.
30:20And within minutes, the entire bank is surrounded by police.
30:26One of the robbers is wearing a finely tailored gray suit and a yarmulke.
30:32He seems to be the ringleader and he points his weapon at the security guard, confiscates the guard's gun and removes the bullets.
30:44He takes the guard's cell phone and then goes to the window and shows the phone to the police outside, letting them know that if they call them on the guard's phone, they'll be able to negotiate.
30:54What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse, all playing out in front of news cameras as the country watches.
31:02The robbers release two hostages and demand pizza to feed everybody.
31:09And they say that after everyone is fed, they will then safely let the hostages go.
31:16Police, assuming that this might be a peaceful resolution, readily agree.
31:20They can even hear them singing happy birthday to one of the hostages.
31:25And then things go eerily quiet.
31:29Hours pass and finally the police make the decision to storm the bank.
31:35They're expecting a firefight.
31:39But when they get in there, all they can find are hostages finishing off the pizza.
31:45No bank robbers anywhere in sight.
31:49What they do find?
31:51Discarded costumes.
31:53Discarded toy guns.
31:55Now they're worried the bank robbers may be posing as hostages.
32:00And they sift through everybody.
32:02But they all seem to be legit.
32:03It turns out that by the time the police storm the bank, the robbers are already back home, counting their loot and watching with the rest of the nation on television.
32:17The police start scouring the bank.
32:20They make their way to the vault where all the safety deposit boxes are.
32:23And they notice this giant hole in the wall that runs into the sewer system.
32:30What the police find is shocking.
32:33But that's just the beginning.
32:35On the other side of that hole is one of the most elaborate getaway plans ever conceived.
32:39To escape via the sewers, they use inflatable motorboats.
32:45And to ensure there is enough water, they create a series of dams in the sewers to raise the water level.
32:54As crimes go, this is a masterpiece.
32:57Another critical part of this plan is to target the safe deposit boxes in the vault.
33:02Because Argentina had been rocked by a banking crisis, many wealthy patrons keep cash, bonds, American dollars, jewelry, and safety deposit boxes.
33:18The best part?
33:20Much of the cash stored in these boxes is unreported and therefore untraceable.
33:24The crew has taken anywhere between $8 and $80 million in cash and loot.
33:32Before they left, they doused the entire scene in chlorine.
33:37And then they spread hair shavings that they've gotten from local barbers to confuse police if they're looking for DNA traces.
33:46Designed to take them down a thousand rabbit holes.
33:50But in the end, even the most perfect crimes have their weak spots.
33:54One of the masterminds, Beto de la Torre, is supposedly caught by his wife with another woman.
34:01She tries to extort money, not just from her husband, but from every person that was involved in the heist.
34:09Because she doesn't get what she feels she deserves, she ends up going to the police and turning him in.
34:15And that leads to the police capturing other members of the gang.
34:19The Banco-Rio gang does do jail time, but because they use toy guns, they don't get very harsh sentences.
34:30And in the end, they'll all be known for accomplishing maybe the greatest bank heist in history.
34:39Something that no court can take away.
34:44Perhaps the most unusual thing about this criminal feat is its inspiration.
34:48Supposedly the mastermind, Fernando Araujo, got the idea while watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
34:53Which explains using both the sewer and the pizza during the robbery.
35:00Watching someone reach a lifelong goal is usually inspiring.
35:04But every now and then, a feat is so strange, you're not sure whether to cheer or call for help.
35:09Here is a fellow named Gao Bingguo, calmly sitting in his underpants, voluntarily being covered in thousands and thousands of bees.
35:21This is an activity called bee wearing, in which you just sit there as people cover you with bees and you see how many bees you can handle before you tap out.
35:33Gao Bingguo's mission is to get the world record for the heaviest mantle of living bees worn by a human being.
35:44Gao might seem like the only one crazy enough to try this, but the tradition goes way back.
35:50Bee wearing is a bizarre pastime, but it does have quite a history to it. It goes back 200 years.
35:54One of the earliest bee wears is a Ukrainian beekeeper named Petro Pokopovich.
36:01Petro is basically your Michael Jordan of beekeeping. He invents artificial hives.
36:05He's the one who first really starts to commercialize, gathering and selling honey.
36:09He is the man that creates this industry.
36:12In 1830, in an ingenious marketing campaign for his bee products, he starts putting on these demonstrations, showing people how many bees he can wear on his face.
36:24Not only does it drum up business, it launches an entire sport of competitive bee wearing.
36:31And Gao is trying to outdo them all.
36:34The key to wearing thousands of bees is to start with a single bee, a queen.
36:40Queen honeybees communicate to the workers in their hive through pheromones, chemical signals that can draw them towards her in a swarming behavior.
36:50When Gao Bingguo goes for the record, he attaches dozens of queens in little cages all over his body.
37:01An estimated 1.1 million bees swarm over him in a full bee bodysuit.
37:09Gao is a professional beekeeper, so he knows a few things to try and make this a little bit safer.
37:13For one thing, he knows to shower before going through this process.
37:18He's getting any sort of body odor off of him.
37:21He's also smoking because the odor with his every breath is going to drive the bees away, so he doesn't end up getting some in his mouth.
37:28He's got a strategy, sure, but 240 pounds of bees don't exactly play by the rules.
37:33After two and a half hours, his external body temperature, though, his skin is piping hot because he has over 2,000 bee stings.
37:44So they then take him to a big old bucket of ice water and slowly submerge him in that to bring down that temperature.
37:51He survives. He's got his world record. He calls it a win.
37:55Think wearing bees for hours takes focus? Try holding on to a vision for decades.
38:03It's mid-20th century in Colorado, and Jim Bishop is a teenager with a real love for ironworking.
38:12Jim had a hard time focusing in school. He's not what you would call conventional.
38:18One day, his English teacher loses it and screams, Jim Bishop, you will never amount to anything.
38:25And he really took it to heart, and he dropped out at 15.
38:28Jim is directionless, mowing lawns, doing odd jobs.
38:33One day, he's biking with his buddies, and in the midst of the Colorado wilderness,
38:39he finds this pristine plot of land, but it's got a price tag.
38:44His life savings, $450.
38:46At first, he thinks he is going to build a cottage.
38:51But as he gets to work, his vision starts to get a little grander.
38:56And he sees himself building, not a home, but a castle.
39:01He's supposedly struck with a purpose.
39:04The only thing holding him back now, he has no more money or formal architectural training.
39:08He gets a day job working iron, but by night, he's hauling three tons of rock to his personal job site.
39:19And Jim's philosophy is that if it's not nailed down, it's fair game.
39:25So there's bits of highway rubble, scrap from the local junkyard, even protected rocks from state parks.
39:32He gets by with what he can.
39:35No cranes, no heavy equipment.
39:38Every single rock, every single beam is hand-placed by Jim.
39:42This incredible feat of engineering and stubbornness goes on for 40 years.
39:52This is Bishop Castle.
39:53By the late 90s, it's got a soaring tower, a grand ballroom, stained glass windows.
40:03There's even a giant fire-breathing steel dragon powered by an old hot air balloon.
40:11So at one point, the government decides that this thing might not be up to code.
40:19But Jim decides to fight them in court and just drive them crazy.
40:24And eventually, the government just gives up.
40:29Jim's castle becomes the destination.
40:34There are raves. There are parties.
40:36Some people even book it for a wedding.
40:38Tourists still swamp this place day and night, and it's all free.
40:44Jim loves that people are actually getting to enjoy this thing that he made.
40:49Sadly, Jim passes away from Parkinson's on November 21st, 2024.
40:56His son keeps the dream alive.
40:59But as of now, the castle still is not finished.
41:02Probably just the way that Jim wanted.
41:04From a man who wears his weight in bees to metal-eating Frenchmen.
41:10From super heists to super fertile lions.
41:13These are the stories of feats so astonishing, they are truly unbelievable.
41:17But it's truly unbelievable.
41:18Yet.
41:19But it's truly unbelievable.
41:20Hopefully even if it's truly unbelievable.
41:21And it's truly unbelievable.
41:23And it's truly unbelievable.
41:25I'm sorry, I was truly unbelievable.
41:27I will see the love of years.
41:29But I'll see you next time, I'm pretty.
41:30And it's really unbelievable.
41:32Thought you needed to go.
41:34I'm pretty sure to go.
41:36I'm pretty sure it's very far.
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