“Arab guys, with great skills, ride on two wheels in the desert while changing the other two tires!” — mic21ha

“These incredible pictures show 2,496 gathering in Taiwan today to smash the world record for mass hula hooping. The huge crowd managed to spin their plastic rings simultaneously for an impressive three minutes twirling their way into the record books. The previous record of 2,290 people, which had stood since 2000, had been set in the nearby town of Kaohsiung. The event, organized by a local health food company, was held to celebrate the Republic of China’s centennial and to inspire people to get more exercise.” w/ photos

“Spinderella performed a headspin that lasted 13 minutes and 53.34 seconds.”

“Chuck Norris’s first orgasm.” — listenthinkspeak

“It hasn’t exactly been a blazing summer, but this sunflower doesn’t seem to have noticed. It has shot up to a height of 23ft despite a distinct lack of the sunshine on which its species famously thrives and without any special treatment. With no sign of it slowing down, the giant bloom could soon break the world record height for a sunflower of 26ft 4in. The sunflower towers over the back garden of Eve Fielding who expected it to grow no bigger than the 12ft her other efforts have tended to reach over the years. When it passed that mark and kept going the 48-year-old grandmother, who is herself only 5ft 2in, nicknamed it the Eiffel Flower.” w/ photos

“A Texas middle school has broken the world record for the most twins and triplets in one class. The seventh-grade at Indian Springs Middle School in Keller took the Guinness World Records title of most multiple births from another Texas school, which set the record last year. Indian Springs’ tally was 13 sets of twins, one set of triplets and one set of quadruplets. The previous record holders J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, had 10 sets of twins and one set of triplets.” w/ photo

“It’s not quite 101 dalmatians but it’s pretty close.”

“An alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy. The world in question is a giant the size of Jupiter known as TrES-2b. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft detected it lurking around the yellow sun-like star GSC 03549-02811 some 750 light years away in the direction of the constellation Draco. The researchers found this gas giant reflects less than 1 percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it darker than any planet or moon seen up to now. “It’s just ridiculous how dark this planet is, how alien it is compared to anything we have in our solar system,” study lead-author David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told SPACE.com. “It’s darker than the blackest lump of coal, than dark acrylic paint you might paint with. It’s bizarre how this huge planet became so absorbent of all the light that hits it.” Whereas Jupiter has clouds streaking it white and red, reflecting more than a third of the sunlight reaching it, TrES-2b apparently lacks reflective clouds, super-heated as its atmosphere is to more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (980 degrees Celsius) by a star just 3.1 million miles (5 million kilometers) away from it. “However, it’s not completely pitch black,” co-author David Spiegel of Princeton University said in a statement. “It’s so hot that it emits a faint red glow, much like a burning ember or the coils on an electric stove.” w/ photos

“This gave me goosebumps.” — heynicegets

“Bizarre footage taken of a cloud formation in Canada has emerged showing what appears to be a Roman god-like figure head drifting across the sky. Posted on YouTube, the footage was filmed as a storm rolled across the picturesque region of Grand Falls, New Brunswick. As the cameraman pans across his backyard the huge face (1min 45sec) can be seen forming a human-like side-profile with a nose, mouth, eyes and a beard all clearly discernible.” w/ photo + video