All the weirdness you can handle in one spot
There’s plenty of weirdness in the news today and rather than clog my feed (and yours) up with separate posts, I’m going to put it on one plate for you
University of Maryland’s newest sponsored sports team is…..(drum roll please….) Eating. Competitive eating.
A crew of big eaters at the University of Maryland have put their stomachs on the line, founding what could be the nation’s first collegiate competitive eating club.
“The University of Maryland motto is ‘Fear the Turtle,’” said Keith Solomon, club founder and president of the competitive eating club team at the University of Maryland. “Our motto is ‘Feed the Turtle.’”
The latest Guiness Book world record holder? This horse:
A 17-year-old thoroughbred gelding in Chino Hills, Calif., is going into the record books, not for the speed of his feet but for the quickness of his mind.
The horse in question is Lukas, who is touted as the smartest horse in the world for the many amazing feats he’s been able to master: 35 in all.
According to Karen Murdock, Lukas’ owner and trainer, he is able to count and discern different shapes, spell his name and recognize the difference between objects that are the same and those that are different, those that are bigger or smaller than others and a concept called “absentness.”
Proof that Hitchcock got it right about the birds:
Spiderman’s crotch is a ornery beast:
ANDREW Garfield has been been put through a rigorous dress rehearsal to ensure he doesn’t show too much “bulge” when he’s filming the new Spider-Man movie. The British actor — who will wear a skin-tight suit for his role as the superhero — is keen not to expose his crotch area. “Andrew has been through numerous fittings for the suit which is a very high-tech design,” reveals a movie insider. “One whole day was devoted to make sure there was nothing inappropriate showing in the crotch area of the suit. Andrew should be flattered that it took so long to get that part right!”
News: man saves guy who fell on the tracks in NYC. Questionable motives: because if the guy got hit, then the trains would stop and he couldn’t make it to work and get that time and a half.
The heroic feat unfolded about 8 a.m. as Flores was waiting for a downtown No. 6 train at a crowded E. 103rd St. station. Flores, a produce clerk at a NoHo grocery store, was thinking about the $19-an-hour shift ahead of him when an elderly man yelled for help, pointing to a man dazed and sprawled on the tracks.
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