The Week Junior - USA (2021-11-12)

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That’s unbelievable!

November 12, 2021 •The Week Junior

Big glitch for a gamer

A professional gamer named

Kolawole “Kola” Aideyan had an

unfortunate delay at the Super Smash

Con: Fall Fest gaming competition in

Virginia. Moments before competing

in a semi-fi nal against another pro

gamer, Enrique “Maister” Hernández

Solis, Aideyan went to the restroom—

and dropped his custom GameCube

controller into the toilet. After a short

delay, he competed with a diff erent

controller but did not win.

Riders sleep on bus

A Hong Kong bus company is helping

people get some much-needed rest

by driving around the city for fi ve

hours. The rides are ideal for people

who have trouble falling asleep but

can doze off on a bus. Riders get an

eye mask and earplugs, and some

bring their own blankets and slippers.

Tickets for the fi rst trip on the

“uninterrupted sleeping bus” sold out.

*Real! Briggs’s mom, Jess Darrington, is a travel blogger who writes Briggs’s social-

media posts about traveling as a baby. “It will be exciting when he is older...to show

him our photos, our trips, our videos, and the memories that we made,” she said.

Traveling toddler is a TikTok star

Briggs Darrington has tens of thousands of followers on social media, has

been on 45 fl ights in the past year or so, and gets a steady paycheck just for

seeing the world. But Darrington was born only last year. The 1-year-old

travels around the US (with his parents), seeing sights ranging from glaciers

in Alaska to wolves in Yellowstone Park. He has Instagram and TikTok

accounts and earns about $1,000 a month from sponsored posts and tourism

agencies. Is this story real, or is it a one-way ticket to a land of lies?*

A fl oating dream house

A Canadian couple was so fond of their 100-year-old home, which was set to

be torn down, that they moved it across a bay—by fl oating it. Kirk Lovell and

Daniele Penney’s home couldn’t be safely moved by land. So they raised the

house onto a frame with wheels to get it to the water, then fl oated it on 28

plastic barrels. Several small boats then steered it a little more than a half

mile. The house had to be dried out after the eight-hour trip, but the couple

was thrilled. “It’s just something about the house,” Penney said.

Soda can collection sets record

Gary Feng has set the Guinness World Record for owning the world’s largest

collection of the same brand of soft-drink cans. The Canadian man’s

collection of 11,308 Coca-Cola cans broke the previous record of 10,558, held

by Davide Andreani from Italy, and fi lls his house. Two of his favorites are

special editions designed for use in space. Feng says his dream now is “to

have a can with my picture on it. It would be great in my collection.”

Real

OR

fake?

The house makes its

way across the bay. The snooze bus

Did this baby

travel the world?

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Gary Feng with

his collection

The controller

made a splash.