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Snoop Dogg and Britney Spears on set of her 'outrageous' music video (2004). The video was never finished due to Britney's knee injury. https://t.co/FVA3f62Jfp

Ben Underwood became blind when he was 2 years old, but he soon learned how to "see" again through a technique called "echolocation." This method involves making clicking sounds with his mouth and listening to how the echoes bounce off objects in his environment. Dolphins and other aquatic mammals use a similar technique called sonar.

With this unique ability, Ben could walk and run around, climb trees, play basketball, ride bicycles, and engage in many other activities. His extraordinary skills earned him the nickname "the real-life Daredevil." To this day, there has not been another documented case similar to Ben's. He remains the only human in history to have developed the echolocation ability.

Tragically, Ben passed away in 2009 when he was 16 years old. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1796981680126763008/vid/avc1/720x888/sQb5nY5omSdtu3kO.mp4?tag=14

In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200 foot (61 meters) approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn't come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree & a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1796969623256002560/vid/avc1/1472x1080/jWyYLvMmvOfa51zC.mp4?tag=16

‘Under the Silver Lake’ is a film that is a mind-bending puzzle wrapped in a neo-noir mystery https://t.co/ea851m17Q3 https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1796644801833545728/pu/vid/avc1/1080x584/9NXd18lJiV7hcrt6.mp4?tag=12

‘Come and See’ is considered as one of the most disturbing and realistic war films ever made https://t.co/4hoU1l6jWu https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1796644165603741696/pu/vid/avc1/1080x704/pNJ1jQnpuu7MaOEt.mp4?tag=12