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Escaped in air balloon

September 15, 2020Weirdo

In 1979, two families escaped East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. They flew for 28 minutes at −8 °C (18 °F) with no shelter as the gondola was just a clothesline railing. They landed just 10km (6.2 mi) from the border. The escape was planned out over 1 and 1/2 years and took 3 attempts.

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The owner and only resident

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020Weirdo

The owner and only resident of this ghost town Lucin, Utah is a former Prague University engineering student who at 24 escaped the Iron Curtain in 1984 using his DIY glider powered with a 600cc Trabant engine, and landed undetected at Vienna International Airport.

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Svalbard, a Norwegian…

April 2, 2020Weirdo

Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago with a population of 3 000, is the only visa-free zone in the world meaning that anybody may live and work there indefinitely regardless of country of citizenship.

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A Dutch church performed services…

January 20, 2020Weirdo

A Dutch church performed services continuously for 96 days, to stop the government from expelling an Armenian family. They relied on a medieval law that says authorities can’t enter a church while a religious service is being performed. The government let the family stay.

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The Norwegian archipelago…

October 7, 2019Weirdo

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which is roughly the size of Ireland is an entirely visa-free zone, meaning anyone may live and work on Svalbard indefinitely regardless of country of citizenship.

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Orestes Lorenzo, a Cuban fighter…

April 12, 2019April 12, 2019Weirdo

Orestes Lorenzo, a Cuban fighter pilot, defected to the US. He flew to Florida in a MiG-23 and requested his family join him, when his family were banned from leaving Cuba he raised money to buy a plane. He then flew back to Cuba, landed on a highway an bought his family back himself.

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Melania Trump secured a ‘genius visa’…

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019Weirdo

Melania Trump secured a ‘genius visa’ for ‘extraordinary ability’ while dating Donald Trump.

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the only…

November 21, 2018Weirdo

Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the only region in the US where Finnish Americans make up a plurality of the population. Even the local English dialect is influenced by Finnish.

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In Hidalgo, Mexico, there’s an…

November 4, 2018Weirdo

In Hidalgo, Mexico, there’s an amusement park attraction that offers visitors a fake illegal border crossing experience.

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Between 1907 and 1922, American…

August 28, 2018Weirdo

Between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as ‘enemy aliens’.

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