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I had a surprisingly rad chemistry teacher back in our high-school equivalent. To look at him, he was a bit of a stereotypical nerd: Always in button-down shirts, tight-laced, rather strict, very competent in his field but not too personable. Pretty much the opposite of the stereotypical "cool" kind of teacher. Or so we thought, until the first time we reached the old "gently caress around during the last week before summer break" stage. At that time most teachers just let us watch random movies or go on fun excursions or whatever, and our chemistry teacher suggested we watch a movie he himself made. We were of course a bit dubious, thinking it was some dumb home video stuff, but we had no idea what we were in for. It turned out to be a pseudo-documentary of himself driving out on the Amazon river, getting out at a random spot, and walking back to civilization through the depths of the rainforest all by himself, documenting his progress all the while. That took him more than a week, entirely alone the whole time, including run-ins with wild animals and indigenous people. And that wasn't the only one of his adventures. He'd done the rainforest thing twice, and on another occasion he crossed the entirety of the African wilderness via bicycle, also all on his own. Basically this motherfucker was Bear Grylls before Bear Grylls was a thing, except actually authentic without a crew to help him out if something went wrong. It was really weird trying to reconcile that badass guy from the videos with the really rather ordinary teacher we'd come to know. I actually looked him up again a while back, and from the looks of it he quit his teaching job and is now busy documenting active volcanos from the air with an ultralight airplane. You do you, man. 
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