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First: put on your headphones or turn up the volume, otherwise the beauty of this clip might be lost. Sounds of Paragliding is a new video from director Shams (previously), and sound engineer Thibaut Darscotte who took special equipment into the skies above France to record the sounds of Théo de Blic’s aerobatic paragliding. Instead of amping up the music and intensity like so many high-speed stunt/wingsuit/skydiving videos these days, Shams instead slows everything down to focus on only the sounds created by Blic’s parasail whipping through the air at incredible speed. It doesn’t really get going until after 2:00, but is completely worth it.

The 2015 Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon are injecting much-needed excitement into the mid-sized truck segment. Here's how they measure up, down, and sideways against the 2014 Toyota Tacoma , 2014 Nissan Frontier , and your forbidden love: 2014 Ford Ranger.

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These are the $16 DC Comics Batman Batmobile Slippers available from Hot Topic. They look like the Batmobile from the 1989 Batman movie. But for your feet. You know what would make them even cooler? If the wheels were actual rollerskate wheels. Still, I give them 4 out of 5 Bat-Signals and will be wearing them to every casual Friday from now until I'm fired, which, oh shit, what's this pink slip on my desk?! *reading* Whew, just a promo flyer for lady's night at the strip club. Thanks to Kendall, who agrees the coolest slippers aren't slippers at all, they're aqua socks.

There are 12 million millionaires in the world, but only 2,325 billionaires.

That's an exclusive club, of which the likes of Warren Buffett, Jack Ma, and Oprah Winfrey are members. 

Digging into research firm Wealth-X's new Billionaire Census, we found that billionaires have some commonalities. 

Such as:

• If there is an average billionaire, he or she is worth around $3 billion. Or roughly one Snapchat.

• Billionaires have a combined wealth of $7.3 trillion, a 12% increase from last year. That's higher than the market capitalization of all the Dow Jones companies put together. Put another way, if all the world's billionaires decided to join forces and become a country, their combined wealth would be greater than the GDP than Japan. 

• The 2,325 billionaires control 4% of the wealth in the world. The more inclusive 1% of the world's population controls 40% of the wealth. 

• For every three million people on earth there's a single billionaire. Lonely, right? 

• Europe has more billionaires than any other region. The Old World has 775 of them.

• The US has more than any other country. America has 571 billionaires, with 57 newly minted members since last year. 

• 60% of billionaires made their wealth themselves, like Jack Ma and Larry Ellison. Meanwhile, 26.9% became billionaires from re-investing inherited wealth, and 13% of them inherited their billionaire status straight out. 

• Getting to billionaire status takes a while. Your average billionaire is 63 years old, and 93% of the world's billionaire population is over 45.  

• Billionaires invest a lot in real estate, at about $160 million per person. They tend to have four properties — it supports "the billionaire lifestyle," the report says. 

• Billionaires tend to have "non-real estate luxury assets." They sound really fun. "For example, one in 30 billionaires owns a sports team or a racehorse," the report says. "Other significant luxury assets include yachts, planes, cars, and art." 

• Billionaires are into matrimony. 65% of them are married.

• Billionaires love the Ivy League. While billionaires went to over 700 different universities, the Ivies have the most grads: 25 went to the University of Pennsylvania, 22 went to Harvard, and 20 went to Yale. 

• But a surprising number of billionaires don't have a college degree. 35% never finished undergrad.

• Billionaires tend to work in finance. Almost 20% of billionaires made their careers on Wall Street or its equivalents. 

And they're most likely living in New York. 

SEE ALSO: 14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing — Including Jack Ma And Larry Ellison

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Wu-Tang Clan's new album (no, not that one) is set to arrive on Black Friday and there's a rather unique way to grab a copy. The hip-hop group's A Better Tomorrow will come preloaded on a limited-edition Bluetooth speaker from Boombotix. The Boombot...

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As the New York Times reminds us today, the Health Ministry of Zaire named the Ebola virus after the Ebola River back in 1976. That river is a tributary of the Congo River. Zaire is, of course, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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