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• [Badass fact 1]  Metro Woman was a short-lived publicity stunt in 2005 intended to gather support for the Washington purple line metro project.

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• [Badass fact 2]  In 1941, the world’s largest seed bank (Created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, scientists inside the vault refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.

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• [Badass fact 3]  In 1968, big wave surfer Eddie Aikau was selected to be the first lifeguard at Waimea beach in Oahu. Not a single person died during his time as a lifeguard and he rescued over 500 people, often braving waves that reached 30 feet (9.1 m) high or more.

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• [Badass fact 4]  In 1960, a Russian terrorist armed with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia flight 408. Co-pilot Tom R. Bennett punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving 49 lives.

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• [Badass fact 5]  In 2006, a soldier named Ross A. McGinnis was manning the gunner's hatch of his unit's Humvee when an insurgent threw a grenade inside. Instead of leaping to safety, McGinnis shouted a warning, jumped inside and threw himself on the grenade. He was killed instantly, saving his team. He was 19.

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• [Badass fact 6]  British intelligence planners seriously considered secretly administering small doses of estrogen into the food of Adolf Hitler, in order “to make his character less aggressive” and to make his mustache to fall off.

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• [Badass fact 7]  Gordon Ramsay nearly died in 2008 after falling down an 85m cliff in Iceland to icy water below. In 2011, he was doused in gasoline at gunpoint while investigating shark fin trading in Costa Rica.

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• [Badass fact 8]  The plans to assassinate Adolf Hitler were canceled because it was feared his successor would be a more rational and effective leader.

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• [Badass fact 9]  Eugene Francois Vidocq deserted the French army twice, impersonated as an officer, a nobleman and a nun, escaped from prison several times (once assisting another convict) and was sentenced to death, all before he became the “father” of modern criminology.

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• [Badass fact 10]  An Indian flight attendant named Neerja Bhanot was aboard the Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan in 1986. She hid the passports of American passengers on board the flight to save them from the hijackers. She died while shielding three children from a hail of bullets.

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