World’s largest carrot

Christopher Qualley earned a spot in the Guinness World Record Book with a massive 22.44-pound carrot grown at his farm in Otsego.

Qualley intentionally set out to grow the world’s largest carrot and added that, “soil, seed, weather and a little luck” were the keys to his success.

“I am relatively new to this hobby and my strategy was to imitate what all of the experienced growers across the world were doing,” he said.

Qualley has now turned his sights toward growing a record-breaking pumpkin or tomato.

The gardener said he opted to replant the massive carrot instead of eating it, but his mother-in-law did manage to grab a bite.

Villagers spot ‘dragon skeleton’

Villagers in northern China believe they have discovered the 60ft skeleton of a dead dragon.

Traditional Chinese dragons have no wings, and are depicted ‘swimming’ through the air, rather than flapping their wings, as shown in Western mythology.

This depiction has convinced the residents of Zhangjiakou City, in China’s northern Hebei Province, that they had stumbled across a dragon. Footage taken by various witnesses at the scene shows a large skull, two tiny arms and then a skeletal body extend further along the grass.

Chinese social media said the ribby skeleton appeared to have been placed there intentionally, perhaps as a prop for a movie, but so far, no one has come forward to confirm these claims.

World’s largest collection of Zelda memorabilia

A woman in Norway earned a Guinness World Record with her massive collection of memorabilia from Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series.

Anne Martha Harnes record-breaking collection contains more than 1,816 individual items from the classic video game series, which began on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.

Harnes’ collection includes card games, life-size statues, costumes, stand-ins and life-size inflatables.

She began collecting memorabilia from the games in 2008. But her love for the series began in 1994 when she played The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Harnes added her collection is nearing 2,000 pieces, but she doesn’t feel it will ever be complete because new items are constantly being released.

Buzzing walls of a home!

Most people have heard some mystery scratching or clicking behind the sheetrock at one point or another, but the acoustics playing out for one Hillside, New Jersey, home were decidedly a bit more harmonic than that. There was buzzing, it was “really noisy” and “humming.”

Suspecting there were some bees, Mickey the Beekeeper (AKA Mickey Hegedus) was called to the rescue. Upon removing a section of wall, Hegedus found some 30,000 bees approximately, along with a whopping 40 pounds of honey.

Hegedus slowly cut out each piece of lath —and as he did it, it just exposed him to more bees, more honey and more comb. “These are Africanised — these are the most aggressive bees I think I’ve ever cut out of a hive.”

And because they were so aggressive, they stung him around 30 times, whereas usually he might only get a half dozen or so.

After five hours spent in removing the bees, the bees were moved to an isolated area in Mountainside, New Jersey, where, hopefully, they will take kindly to country life.

Published in Dawn, Young World, November 11th, 2017