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Ox Hunting Ranch in Uvalde, Texas (about two hours from San Antonio) has a tank! Tank Model: 1944 M4A2E8 Sherman Price: $5,500 What You Can Do: The above price includes an hour of driving around as well as 100 rounds each from the tank’s three different machine guns. The ranch also throws in some other non-tank related bits like free ...

The Championship of Extreme Ironing The first Championship on extreme ironing was held in 1997 in Leicester, Great Britain. The participants of this extreme action had to iron a couple of things in the most dangerous places – on the mountain, on the ice or in the water. The winner should not only possess skills of rock-climbing or a scuba ...

Interestingly, the only character from The Usual Suspects to make it onto the list is one who may not even exist. There’s no conclusive proof, for example, that Kevin Spacey’s Verbal Kint is actually Keyser Soze and not, say, a Soze goon. Still, that’s the genius of Bryan Singer’s film – that a character who remains unseen for at least ...

Noise Cancelling headphones (or earplugs) Airplanes are loud. Good noise cancelling headphones can cut the engine noise down significantly, making the whole flight a lot more relaxing. They won’t help with the crying baby, or talkative neighbors, nor are all noise cancelling headphones the same. Check out Why Headphone Specs are Worthless and Noise Cancelling vs Noise Isolating Headphones.

In the Elamite times Shushtar was known as Adamdun. In the Achaemenian times its name was Šurkutir. The modern name,Shushtar, is connected with the name of another ancient city, Susa (or Shush, in Persian pronunciation), and means “greater (or better) than Shush.” During the Sassanian era, it was an island city on the Karun river and selected to become the ...