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I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.
Explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
So in 1882 nobody went above 1.5 meters.
Something weird must’ve been going on for sure. Two years later Flatland was published.
Lol, immediately as the 2D book is published, boom, 3km in 3rdD!