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Canadian Woman Gets Knocked Unconscious During Cheese Rolling Contest, Wins Anyway

Gotta love a competition where that’s possible… 🙂

The winner of the women’s cheese rolling race this year was Delaney Irving, a 19-year-old Canadian who was finishing up a six-week trip through Europe. When she happened to be in Gloucester on the day of the race, she decided that she’d enter the competition. “We didn’t really prepare for it at all,” she told CTV News earlier this week. “All we did to prepare was, my friend and I took turns jumping on our hotel bed and doing a roll as best as we could.”

Even England’s worst hotel beds can’t replicate the head-swimmingly steep incline of Cooper’s Hill: Irving told the outlet that videos she’d watched of previous races didn’t prepare her for how steep it actually was. She wasn’t put off though, and was among those who chased the rolling wheel of cheese down the hill… and that’s about all she remembers.

Irving was knocked unconscious as she rolled down the hill, and when she finally came to, she was in the medical tent. She also had a wheel of cheese on her lap because, despite being completely out of it, she won her race. “I remember running, then bumping my head, and then I woke up in the tent,” she said, according to the Associated Press. “I still don’t really believe it, but it feels great.”

She was taken for a CT scan after the race and it did not show any serious injuries — which surprised her mother. “[The scan is] clear and she’s good,” Krista Endrizzi told CTV. “I can’t believe that, because it looks like she shouldn’t be OK.”

UK: ‘World’s Shortest Cycle Lane’ Sends Bikes Onto Pavement, Locals Miffed

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The world’s shortest cycle lane is 8 ft long

Residents in the United Kingdom have criticised the government for spending heaps of money on the ‘world’s shortest cycle lane’ which takes almost a second to travel. 

This little stretch is just 8 feet long and features a lopsided rectangle with a bicycle and an arrow pointing left. This ends up directing riders onto a pedestrian pavement. The unusual-looking markings were painted on a newly tarmacked road in Birmingham city centre and intend to help cyclists navigate their way around the city during the Commonwealth games.

Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen’s bees that the Queen has died and King Charles is their new boss in bizarre tradition dating back centuries

No word on whether the bees said, “The Queen is dead! Long live the King!”

The royal beekeeper – in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries – has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.

The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.

He placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives, home to tens of thousands of bees, before informing them that their mistress had died and that a new master would be in charge from now on.

He then urged the bees to be good to their new master – himself once famed for talking to plants.

The strange ritual is underpinned by an old superstition that not to tell them of a change of owner would lead to the bees not producing honey, leaving the hive or even dying.

(Hat tip: EA)

Tyrannical big government in the form of municipal council can’t get homeowner to remove fake plastic shark from his roof, so instead, they do a 180 and declare it protected

This is what happens when government thinks it’s gotta do something, even if the opposite of what they wanted. Sheesh.

New fitness thing: napping together

Yeah.

Climbing into a bed and just dozing off for 45 minutes doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you’d expect to be doing in a gym, but one UK fitness club claims that its “napercise” classes can help exhausted parents better deal with their hectic daily lives by regenerating the mind, body and even burning a few calories. 

New research recently revealed that there is a dangerous “tiredness epidemic” currently sweeping the UK, with 86% of parents reporting that they suffer from fatigue and 26% saying that they get less than five hours of sleep per night. In an effort to promote the benefits of sleep and boost people’s mental and physical wellbeing, David Lloyd Club, which operates dozens of gyms and fitness clubs throughout Europe, recently launched a “napercise class” that invites people to get 45 minutes of shut-eye instead of instead of burning themselves out even more with traditional fitness exercises.

If napping is a fitness activity, sign me up! I’ll even organize a league of competitive napping teams! 😉