Purin the beagle holds the world record for
catching the most balls with her paws—
catches in one minute. “People ask me why
soccer teams aren’t scouting her yet,”
owner Makoto Kumagai says. Purin, whose
name is the Japanese word for “pudding,”
practices her soccer moves for 15 minutes a
day at her home in Tokyo, Japan. In addition
to fielding goals, the four-pawed sports star
can do about a hundred other tricks, includ-
ing jumping rope and skateboarding. This is
one dog that’s real
on the ball.k about going around in
rcles. Zooming across
an airfield at more than
61 miles an hour, engi-
neer Kevin Scott set
the record for fastest
monowheel motorcycle.
The monowheel, which
Scott helped build, is a
motorized wheel that has
a metal rim with a seat
attached at the bottom
so the driver can sit in
the wheel’s center. The big-
est challenge was to avoid
ing “gerbils”— that’s when
driver spins upside down
e the wheel instead of
at the bottom. Yikes!Got a lot of earwax? Maybe
thiswill help! The world’s
largest cotton bud measures
18 feet 8.3 inches long. To
build the swab, Russell Lowe
used a giant tube for the
stick and bags of cotton
wrapped around Styrofoam
for the tips. “Once it was done,
it didn’t fit into my elevator,”
Lowe says. “So I had to carry it
down 14 flights of stairs.” He
managed to walk the object
17 blocks to the middle of
New York City, where it was
measured beneath a statue
of Christopher Columbus.
“People thought we were
there to clean his ears!”
Lowe says.SUPER
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