About 150 people took part in the 65th German Finger Wrestling Championships in Pflugdorf-Stadl, Bavaria. Competitors used leather loops to link middle fingers and tried to pull opponents across a table, with Ferdinand Seitz winning the senior division.
David Rush and his 10-year-old son, Jeremy, have set a Guinness World Record by throwing and catching a water balloon across 141.07 feet without breaking it. The attempt required repeated tries and a carefully controlled throwing technique.
A severe hailstorm in the French Pyrenees brought the third stage of the Vuelta a España to an early end on Monday. Riders abandoned their bicycles and sought shelter as large hailstones covered the road near the mountainous finish.
A toddler wandered onto the field late in Minnesota United’s 5-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes at PayPal Park. Play was stopped while a stadium official carried the child off and handed them to a woman believed to be the toddler’s mother.
Astronomers have identified S301, an otherwise ordinary-looking star that reaches up to 8% of the speed of light while orbiting a black hole. The observation makes it the fastest star yet seen, according to Boing Boing.
A video shared on Facebook and WhatsApp appears to show large groups of women, children and older people taken during a mosque attack in Niger State. Residents identified some captives, but the footage’s location, filming date and total number of abductees remain unverified.
A boxer representing the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has secured the country’s first Commonwealth Games medal, despite not winning a bout, according to Sky News Strange News.
Two Mercedes-AMG drivers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz, alleging that the AMG logo on their driver’s seats caused burn injuries.
A thunderstorm interrupted lessons at Holy Trinity School in Lancashire on August 23, 1944. Minutes later, an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the building, killing 61 people, including 38 children in the school’s infants wing.
In 2012, an Ottawa repair-shop owner used an excavator to isolate a towed Volvo on a small peninsula, creating a one-car island. A planned guessing contest was abandoned, but the unusual roadside display remains a tourist attraction alongside other oddly positioned vehicles.
A New Jersey woman who accidentally flushed her wedding ring on an NJ Transit train was reunited with it after employees took the train out of service, dismantled part of the toilet and found the ring inside.
Dutch television host Klaas van Kruistum drove a clog-shaped vehicle to 70.05 mph at an airport in the Netherlands. The run earned a Guinness World Records title for the fastest motorized clog shoe.