Incredible Feats

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Incredible Feats episodes

September 03, 2021 The Chilean Miner Rescue
A mine collapse left 33 miners trapped a half-mile below the surface in an underground shelter. It would take an international team of rescuers 69 days to save them.

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8 min
September 02, 2021 Centenarian Runs Marathon
Doctors said Fauja Singh may never walk. So they’d be pretty surprised to learn that he became the first 100-year-old to run a marathon, and the oldest known person to run a marathon.

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7 min
September 01, 2021 Tarrare, The Man Who Could Eat Anything
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give Tarrare lizards, snakes, and a squirming eel, he’ll eat those too… along with rocks, bandages, and trash.

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8 min
August 31, 2021 Cyborg Musician Beats Drumming Record
Maybe robots will take over the world. Maybe they’ll just help us drum really, really well.

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7 min
August 30, 2021 Surviving Mt. Everest’s Deadliest Blizzard
Separated from his climbing group in a whiteout, no one thought Dr. Beck Weathers would make it back to camp. But he lived to tell his tale, and see it on the big screen with the 2015 film ‘Everest.’

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7 min
August 27, 2021 Spinning The World’s Biggest Hula-Hoop
Getti Kehayova decided that the best way to honor her late sister, a world record-breaking hula-hooper, was to set a record for spinning the World’s Biggest Hula-Hoop.

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7 min
August 26, 2021 Winning Olympic Gold To Get The Girl
Considered one of the most versatile athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe went to the 1912 Olympics and dominated. Not only did he win gold medals, he won the approval of his girlfriend’s parents.

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8 min
August 25, 2021 Setting Archery Records… With Her Feet
Gymnast Brittany Walsh wanted to do something different, so she trained herself to shoot arrows with her feet — and she didn’t stop there.

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8 min
August 24, 2021 Castaway On A Liferaft For 76 Days
On a solo journey across the Atlantic, Steve Callahan was forced into his inflatable liferaft. He spent the next two and half months adrift at sea, waiting to be rescued.

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8 min
August 23, 2021 Amputee Team Bikes Baja 1000
After years of chronic pain, pro motocross racer Chris Ridgway requested to have his left leg amputated. But that didn’t stop him from racing.

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7 min

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They’ve broken records, made history, and turned the impossible into the incredible. Every weekday, join comedian Dan Cummins as he profiles amazing achievements made by people from all over the…