What do you do to celebrate a birthday? If you're like this Midwestern man, you float down the Missouri River in a hollowed-out pumpkin to set a world record.
If you're gonna do something, go large. It's the American way. That includes the largest aerial firework ever exploded in American history that you can see here.
I think there's some compensating going on here, but in this case that's not a bad thing. There is a teeny tiny Illinois town that is known for having some of the world's largest things.