“A 182ft headed goal… world’s longest headed effort in soccer history, scored by Jone Samuelsen in a Norwegian league match.” — dinktyke

“A Da Vinci surgical robot was on show at an open event to raise awareness of men’s cancers for Blue September at Southmead Hospital… Members of the public, former patients, prospective patients, staff and GPs all attended the event to try their hand at robotic surgery. Here, urology fellow Ramesh Thurairaja peels a grape. Southmead Hospital was among the first in the country to have a surgical robot for urology.”

“Pretty rad. Wish there was a slow-mo shot tho!” — pizzaforeveryone

“They’re nothing to look at. They’re not colorful. They seem so ordinary, in mottled brown, black and gray, if you noticed them at all, you’d think, ‘ah, just another shore bird, pecking at something in the water.’ But you’d be so wrong. Bar-tailed Godwits are special. So special, they deserve special attention. They are the only birds known to fly more than 7,000 miles nonstop, that means no food breaks, no water breaks, no sleep breaks, no pausing, just pushing through cyclones, storms, headwinds, flappity flap, flap for days and nights — and this is their championship season. In September and October, they leave Alaska, head straight for the ocean. Though they are land birds, and cannot fish or rest on the sea, they will cross most of the Pacific Ocean, and fly all the way to New Zealand. Many of them are young, and have never done this before. No other bird can do what they do, and they’re doing it right now.” w/ photos

“A woman that has been missing for two days has been finally located by the help of a Search and Rescue dog named Lassie. After two days of searching by air and by land, Search and Rescue teams have found 62 year old Felisa Lizada and she is alive. Your Central Coast News was at the scene when Lizada was spotted in a remote area. Members of the San Luis Obispo County Search and Rescue Team who found Felisa Lizada just after 4 p.m. Lizada was hunched over, sitting in a creek, that is surrounded by dense brush. The creek was in an area of Los Osos Valley Road, near Larrette, probably a couple miles from her home. Ultimately, Your Central Coast News learned Lassie is to thank for this rescue. Lassie is a member of the Search and Rescue team. Paramedics rushed to the scene to begin checking her out and treating her for what appears to be moderate injuries. “It was difficult getting into the stream and we worked for about a half hour… Lassie went around the corner in the creek bed and found our subject down there in the creekbed.” said Dave Smee with the San Luis Obispo County Search and Rescue Team.” w/ photos + video

“OMFG… my boner has a boner.” — hellinvador

“Obedient dog is obedient.” — sayhitotom

“Nothing marks the presence of humans better than a massive hole in the ground. Boring deep into the Earth for the love of riches and resources, we humans dig deep and often. In the town of Mirny in Eastern Siberia, lies the largest open pit diamond mine in the world. It’s also the second largest excavated hole in the world, second only to the Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Check out the incredible images below with facts littered throughout. Mir Mine, also called Mirny Mine, is the second largest excavated hole in the world. It is 1,722 ft deep and 3,900 ft wide. The hole is so big that even the airspace above the mine was closed to helicopters as there were several incidents of them being sucked in by the downward air flow.” w/ photos

“We are in Peru and we saw this machine of a man rollin’ cigs. Pretty crazy.” — michaelt456

“Residents of a care home will have a near lifetime’s supply of vegetable soup with this cabbage weighing nearly 28lbs. Great-grandfather Tony Southall, 74, grew the monstrous vegetable which was on display at his allotments open day in Dudley, West Midlands. A visitor on Saturday guessed the Cornish Giant cabbage, which has a diameter of 5ft, weighed 25lb. He was only 2oz out and won a bottle of whisky. The cabbage was later donated to be eaten by residents of a care home.” w/ photos