Feast your eyes on these daring feats! Fire-eating, death-defying leaps, high-wire acts, and more.
Yasmin Trevanna gives a preview of her fire-eating act at the Magic Circle headquarters in London on Oct. 9, 1961.
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Eddie Kidd, English stunt motorcyclist, leaps an 80-foot broken span of a railway bridge for the film Heavy Metal in Essex, England, 1979.
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Waterskiing at Cypress Gardens in Florida, circa 1955.
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Stunt driver Keith "T-Bone" Bowen jumps 13 parked cars and breaks the world record at Thruxton Racecourse in England on Nov. 14, 1975.
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