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TIL about the dangerous Onbashira Festival, which involves participants to ride on sixteen enormous 50-foot/15-meter, 10-ton/9,000-kg logs down steep mountains among other difficult terrains in a ceremony known as Kiotoshi, that takes place in Nagano, Japan. Injury and fatal incidents are frequent.

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