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13 year-old Jordan Romero of Big Bear, California became the youngest person to scale the world's tallest peak this past weekend when he reached the top of Mount Everest. His is now just one peak short of his goal to climb the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents, with only Mt. Vinson in Antarctica remaining. Jordan plans on scaling Mt. Vinson this winter, which will make him the youngest person to climb the tallest peaks on all seven continents. The current record is 17 years-old.

Jordan's quest began when he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of 9. That's awesome.

NASA'S Terra Satellite captured ash plume images of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland this morning at 7:35 am EST. The volcano erupted Wednesday for the second time this month and is wreaking havoc by grounding flights all through Europe.

Four 10' X10'X4' platforms, dubbed "The Ledge," have been installed on the Sears Tower 1,353 feet above the ground to give visitors the feeling that they are floating above downtown Chicago. [thx, gregg]

Tomorrow, May 23rd, the biannual World Beard and Moustache Championships kick off in Anchorage, Alaska, marking on the second time in its 30-something year history that the United States has hosted the event. The event is broken into three categories: Moustache, Beard and Partial Beard, with each having its own subcategories. One could only imagine what takes place in the "Freestyle" event.

I suppose it was only a matter of time. But we have an unofficial sister site. (Actually, she's been running the site since 2007 - when we started!)

Check out: pupil-less newscaster; Cheney's "left behind" eyes and ears; Reagan the snitch; cowboy code: 10. The Cowboy is a patriot.

An interesting story and photo tour of a Topeka, Kansas nuclear missile bunker turned mansion.

Happy Friday! Enjoy! (via with leather)