Famous More Audacity Than Cranial Capacity

• Berry, Albert

  The first man to parachute out of an airplane

• Ham the Chimp

  America's first chimpanzee in space

• Kelly, Alvin 'Shipwreck'

  World-champion flagpole sitter of the 1920s

• Knievel, Evel

  The motorcyclist who tried to jump the Snake River Canyon

• Kobayashi, Takeru

  The six-time winner of the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating championship

• Patch, Sam

  The daredevil who jumped off Niagara Falls in 1829

• Scott, Robert Falcon

  The second man to reach the South Pole

• Wallendas, The Flying

  The most famous high-wire act of the 20th century

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