Wild Commutes That Make Rush Hour Traffic Look Easy

Plane and Simple

While a lot of the people on this list choose to travel to their destinations by water, some brave souls opt for the air. In the Czech Republic, a pilot by the name of Frantisek Hadrava will travel 9.3 miles to work by plane. His driving commute would only be 14 minutes, but he hated those minutes so much that he built a plane for himself. Now he gets to work in just 7 minutes!

The More You Know

There's such a thing as a fear of buttons.
Humans are the only animals with chins.
Agatha Christie said she came up with many of her book plots while sitting in her bathtub while eating apples.
There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.