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Through the mountains on a unicycle

26-year-old Lutz Ayshholts and his girlfriend Stephanie Dietze – crazy extremals because they have chosen a very dangerous hobby. They go to great risk by riding through the mountains on a unicycle. Personally, I look at these pictures is scary not to mention the ensuring that scorcher on one wheel.

Unique and very dangerous tree

Watch out for falling cannonballs. What you are about to see is a cannonball tree. They only grow in the Caribbean and if you are hit by one of its falling cannon balls you can die. Couroupita guianensis, whose common names include Ayahuma and the Cannonball Tree, is an evergreen tree allied to the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa), and is native to tropical northern South America and to the southern Caribbean. In India it has been growing for the past two or three thousand years at least, as attested by textual records hence it is possible that it is native to India also. It’s rare, but also found in Bangladesh.

Global warming: How poverty supports the most dangerous kind of emissions

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The role of poverty in many aspects of life is a well-documented chronicle which stares the world in the face. Poverty has immense contribution to gender imbalance, abuse of rights, inability to access good food, water, healthcare amongst others.

This time, poverty has revealed that its tentacles are also in control of the transport and power systems in some of the third world countries especially experimenting ones of Africa. Nigeria is one or perhaps the only country in Africa housing over 15 million of various versions of 2-stroke engines.