Our parents always threatened to send us away to Timbuktu when we were naughty as youngsters, so it took us a long time to accept this African town as a genuine tourism destination. But we're still not sure if we can believe that two British men recently drove from England to Timbuktu in a truck powered by chocolate.
Yet apparently it's true. Two Brits in their 30s recently drove the 2,600 mile trip to Mali in a Ford truck and a Land Cruiser, vehicles which they would then donate to a charity in Africa. They used a special form of biodiesel that was made from waste chocolate.
Waste chocolate? We thought all chocolate was good, but if it can be used to power cars, it's probably not what we want to eat. The two crazy Brits who made the chocolate-powered Timbuktu trip calculated they saved 15 tons of carbon emissions, and they've set themselves a new challenge: flying to China in an airplane fueled by garbage. When are these intrepid travelers going to get a real job?
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