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Elderly Skydiver Almost Slips Out of Her Parachute While Plummeting
Laverne wanted to celebrate her 80th birthday by getting a video of her doing something death-defying. And that's exactly what she got.
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Oldest Woman to Scale Mount Everest Scales Mount Everest Again
You can't keep a good woman down. Apparently, neither can the mighty Mount Everest.
Tamae Watanabe, 73, of Japan broke the world record by becoming the oldest woman in history to climb the world's highest mountain. She decided that breaking the world record once wasn't good enough for her. So she climbed it again.
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Grandpa Opens His Drinks With a Chainsaw
Chainsaws are a beloved American power tool, mostly because they let us be utterly irresponsible with something sharp attached to a motor. But some of us push the chainsaw to its very limits. Like this surprisingly precise grandpa, who wants to open his beer.
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College Sweethearts Marry After 60 Years Apart
Peggy Marie Pence Schuster and Henry O. Freund first felt a spark between them back in 1950 when the pair attended Southwestern of Memphis (now Rhodes College).
They exercised their young love by sitting next to each other in class and attending school events together. But like many college sweethearts, their romance didn't make the jump into the real world. Soon after graduation, Marie married someone else, and Henry, who had joined the Air Force, did the same.
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These Two Old Best Friends Will Brighten Your Day
When NBC reporter Ben Aaron visited a senior center to do a segment on long-lasting love, he met two old guys - Harvey and Eddy - in their 80s who he instantly took a liking to. Interested to know more about them, Aaron did a segment on the duo and asked them a thing or two about modern-day society.
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Senior Citizens Take Back the Streets In Wild Crime PSA
In this anti-crime PSA from England, senior citizens act out anti-social teenager behavior such as playing loud music, getting drunk in public spaces and vandalism.
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Teenage Sweethearts Reunited After 70 Years Apart
There aren't going to be too many tales of long-lost love in the future, thanks to social media sites which make it just about impossible for folks to really lose touch with each other.
But there was obviously no Facebook when Betty Hove and John Grosch meet in the early 1940s. He was 17 and she was 16 and they quickly became sweethearts. But as their relationship began to blossom, Grosch joined the Navy and was shipped off to fight in World War II.
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Want to Feel Old? Try MIT’s Aging Suit
If you've ever wondered what being a senior citizen feels like, wonder no more. Thanks to researchers at MIT's AgeLab, you can don a suit that will mimic many of the physical effects of an average 70-year-old body. Well, not Betty White's. That woman is unstoppable.
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Senior Citizen Flash Mob Performing ‘Last Christmas’ Is Sweeter Than Gingerbread
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Two Adorable Senior Citizens Learn to Use a Webcam
Bruce Huffman, 86, and his 79-year-old wife Esther recently bought their first laptop computer, which came with a built-in webcam. As they try to figure out how to use the camera function, they inadvertently make a hilarious three-minute video of themselves. Check it out below