How much weight can a stray cat lift? This Japanese TV show investigates. It’s ten minutes long, but you may get a kick out of watching cats steal increasingly large fish with excited commentary in Japanese. The real winners are the cats! Push play or go to YouTube. -via the Presurfer
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How much weight can a stray cat lift? This Japanese TV show investigates. It’s ten minutes long, but you may get a kick out of watching cats steal increasingly large fish with excited commentary in Japanese. The real winners are the cats! Push play or go to YouTube. -via the Presurfer
You may remember the bottle dance sequence from the movie Fiddler on the Roof. Bottle Dancers USA is a professional troupe who will perform the bottle dance or other traditional Jewish, Hebrew, Yiddish, or Klezmer dances at your wedding, bar mitzvah, or other special occasion. They even have a routine where they carry the guest of honor in on their shoulders! Link -via J-Walk Blog
You’ll enjoy this mashup of graphics from Phoenix Wright with audio from a comedy routine by The Frantics, which is just as funny now as in 1986. -via Everlasting Blort
This is such a cool opportunity! If I weren’t already overextended, I would be tempted to keep this information to myself.
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Once again, we here at Damn Interesting are in search of proficient purveyors of intriguing information. But as a bit of a departure from our previous writer-replenishment efforts, we now hope to add a larger number of authors with a considerably smaller commitment per person. See the send-a-sample link for specifics.
If you are a talented writer in search of an outlet, we enjoin you to join us. Our fancies are yours to tickle.
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How many times has Superman’s secret identity been revealed? At least 20, according to this cover gallery. Not that it took much to out him, considering he doesn’t use much of a disguise in the first place. Link -via the Presurfer
Andy Lewis does a “squirrel backflipâ€. It’s part of a sport called Slacklining {wiki}, which is like walking a tightrope, but with more flex in the rope. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Gorilla Mask and Metafilter
A scarecrow competition in Great Torrington, England has imaginative scarecrows popping up all over -over 200 so far. It’s sponsored by the Torrington Cavaliers, who stage a huge bonfire each year in the town. Winners will be announced August 26th. Link to story. See a gallery of the entries at Flickr. -via Arbroath
Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta has given birth to four daughters, a rare instance of identical quadruplets. The babies were conceived without fertility drugs, and were delivered two months early. The odds of identical quadruplets are about one in 13 million. Less than 50 cases appear in medical records. The Jepps traveled to Great Falls, Montana for the Caesarian birth, making the four girls American citizens. Link -via Fark
What seems dreadful today was once considered clever recycling. In the 19th century, it was fashionable to not only display hunting trophies, but to also turn dead animals into useful home furnishings. Sometimes even deceased pets got the treatment. Link to part one. Link to part two. -via Metafilter
When you go to grab some of this salad, it will grab you back! It’s a robotic hand made of cucumbers. Push play or go to YouTube. From MAYA : Make. -via Engadget
Seven cases of not-quite-standard arenas, athletes who aren’t what they appear to be, shortcuts, and hitting below the belt. Some go the extra mile to win, even if that includes bending or even breaking the rules. This article at mental_floss looks at some of the more egregious cases of unsportsmanlike behavior. Pictured is Charles “Kid†McCoy, whose story you won’t forget. Link
in celebration of the 2008 Olympics, the city of Mudanjiang, China erected streetlamps shaped like athletes! Link
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