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  2. Thomas J. Smrt - Wikipedia

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    Thomas J. Smrt was an American inventor, businessman and entrepreneur who is best known as the inventor of the upside-down aerosol spray paint can. He was previously the owner of Fox Valley Systems, a company that marketed his spray paint applicators, however he sold the company to his sons in 2006 (the company closed in 2013 after an industrial accident and was subsequently bought out by ...

  3. Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water Slides - Wikipedia

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    The park closed for good at the end of the 1989 season for undisclosed reasons. Neglected and abandoned since, the slides and wading pool have fallen into ruin. The site has become popular with urban explorers, and the mystery surrounding its closure has given rise to online speculation that park patrons had been injured or killed.

  4. Category:Parks in Illinois - Wikipedia

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  5. Urban exploration - Wikipedia

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    Another aspect of urban exploration is the practice of exploring active or in use buildings, which includes gaining access to secured or "member-only" areas, mechanical rooms, roofs, elevator rooms, abandoned floors, and other normally unseen parts of working buildings. The term "infiltration" is often associated with exploring active structures.

  6. Category:Defunct amusement parks in Illinois - Wikipedia

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  8. URBEX – Enter At Your Own Risk - Wikipedia

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    URBEX – Enter At Your Own Risk (abbreviated URBEX) is an eight-part original series that launched globally on Red Bull TV on August 1, 2016. [1] [2] [3] Urbex is a documentary series that chronicles the motivations, mindsets and adventures of today's new type of explorers, Urban Explorers, who explore areas above, around and below the world's most famous cities, climbing cranes and bridges ...

  9. Modern ruins - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, abandoned infrastructure is known as haikyo (廃墟) (literally "ruins"), but the term is synonymous with the practice of urban exploration. [2] Haikyo are particularly common in Japan because of its rapid industrialization (e.g., Hashima Island ), damage during World War II , the 1980s real estate bubble , and the 2011 Tōhoku ...