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Going Down

Posted in Trivia by Greg Ross on June 29th, 2007

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Step off Canada’s Mount Thor and you’ll fall 4,100 feet — more than three-quarters of a mile — straight down.

It’s the world’s largest vertical drop.

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)