“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident.”
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There's a real Milkshake Duck journey to that obit. Starts off as an inspirational dude, ends up buddying up to the far right.
Oh yuck, this is what I get for hastily reading a few paragraphs of something that I think I want to post but don't want to read all of because it's my day off (summer Fridays!) *sigh*
Heh, I figured. That skydive was an incredible thing though.
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